skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arabic: jaari(m)/jaarati(f)

Somali: ninka dariskeenaa (m)/naagta dariskeenaa(f). Literally, "the man who is our neighbor", "the woman who is our neighbor".

The somali is complicated because "neighbor" is never a singular person, always plural. The concept of a person living alone is unheard of, and people are usually suspicious of bachelors.
Well, they're difficult books to read to begin with. Knuth himself would be surprised if someone has read and understood them all. At the same time, I find they're hyped up a bit (like SICP). There are plenty of other really good algorithms books IMHO.
Well, this will have the opposite effect. It seems Conde Nast doesn't understand their product very well.
(a) Long time no hear!

(b) Yes.

Continued: the green trains are older, they have no airflow, they're slower, they're consistently much more crowded, and they're rowdier.

The #91 bus down Austin is so much better than the green that it's a no brainer just to bus down to the blue line station. It helps that the train stops right outside our office, though.
Particularly followed up with a pitch for the book to teach you how not to do these things that didn't happen. I agree that interviewers forget that an interview is a two-way street; you're pitching yourself as a fit for the interviewee as much as they're pitching themselves as a fit for your company. But it's such a good point, I was sad to have the fun anecdote turn out to be a marketing pitch for a book instead.
Yeah dude, I gotta say that it could have been pulled off better in that respect. It's not that I was offended--I curse all the time, depending on context. It's just that the stutters and "shits" didn't really add anything, and made it all harder to follow. I say, if you can drop the f-bomb and get an honest chuckle out of your audience, then by all means, go for it. But if it's just usual "filler" crap, avoid it.
The crash database can be trawled after the hostile code is found in the wild.
Don't Tell the Creative Department, but Software Can Produce Ads, Too
Classic Arabic has few words for "no", each expressing refusal/denial/rejection of a different sort: la, kalaa, balaa, lam, laysa, lan, etc.

la no

kalaa definitely not

balaa but not

lam did not

laysa is not

lan will not

However, colloquial arabic just uses the ma- prefix and collapses all those different words into one: maa/mish/mush/makoo, depending on the dialect. E.g. "I will not try":

mish hagarrab (Egyptian)

maa `amjarab (Levantian)

makoo nijarib (Iraqi/Kuwaiti)

maabaa nijarib/nigarib (Yemeni, North/South)
It seems you haven’t noticed that there is a Command key both to the left and to the right of the keyboard, so Command-[ and -] are pretty easy to do one-handed if you use the Command key on the right. I think Ctrl-Tab is just there for compatibility with Windows browsers that use that as their main tab-switching shortcut.
What are the best practices to follow for executing on a new idea?
Maybe there is no language which will immediately replace Java, but as noodle pointed out, its going to stagnate. Like what happened to C. C is being used in many companies, because they have so much stuff already written in it and cannot afford a re-write. But the community will slowly shift to other languages. We can already see that in terms of Scala/Clojure - both very promising languages.
Google Acquires Angstro, a Social Networking Start-Up
I saw pg give a talk a couple of weeks ago at a YC event for Cornell alumni (I'm May '10 and still on campus doing research + my own projects), and asked what he thought the reasons were that Cornell didn't have a larger startup community. The response he gave was that few VCs, if any, are ever going to go up to Cornell, which I think validates your first point. Here there's no prestige associated with starting something, and being a typical status-obsessed Ivy League, it figures that creating a startup doesn't even occur to most people. Contrast this with Stanford, which has produced many successful startups, and where not working at a startup is a conscious decision that people make (or so I've heard).

That being said, another reason for the lack is partly that the hacker culture isn't as visible at Cornell, given its many schools and diverse set of students. I've met people with interesting projects that few, if any, ever catch wind of.

I think moving forward, there is reason for hope. Firstly, Cornell has a large student population, which provides rich soil for fomenting and validating ideas. Next, the CS department is fairly highly ranked, so one hopes that there is a good amount of talent out there. Finally, there have been some startups founded by Cornellians in recent years, both while in school (e.g. Wiggio) and after (Opzi, YC funded, I think). You have to look a bit harder, but the signs are there. A friend of mine developed jitouch, a multitouch extension for the mac in his free time, and is now working on an ios game.

People are interested. Especially with the Gates building coming up in a few years and serving as a nexus for all things computer, the time is near when all the disparate threads will be woven together. The seeds are already being planted. I met a sophomore at the talk I alluded to above who's excited about bringing a startup weekend type event to campus this year. Clubs also help, and I think to be useful to hackers, you want to provide at least:

1. Opportunities to network to find co-founders - i.e. startup weekend, demo day, meetings/weekly brunch (or other meal)

2. Opportunities to share and develop ideas - i.e. startup weekend, demo day, hosting resources (maybe)

3. Guidance on what comes after - speakers (though it is admittedly hard to convince people to come up to Ithaca), maybe networking with some angel investors once in a while, perhaps curate a biweekly/monthly newsletter of startup related news (for visibility).

The best is yet to be. Expect great things.
I read and understood volumes 1 to 3 front-to-back.
I do not think it is that hard to understand, compared to e.g. complex analysis or number theory. Didn't work hard enough on some the exercises, but certainly understood all the simpler ones. I would not recommend reading this to every (would-be) programmer or computer scientist, though. Especially for those wanting to program on 1GHz+ CPUs with 1GB+ RAM, there are things that are more immediately useful. Also, even for the low-level stuff the content of the books is getting seriously dated (e.g. due to the absence of multi-threaded algorithms)
"As a corporation, Conde Nast does not want to benefit financially from this particular issue"

I think that's fair. I can't fault them for that.
The reason it took longer for chrome is that they are trying to sandbox everything, including what goes through the GPU which according to the chrome devs is very difficult and painful. They could have gotten the whole thing to render on the GPU a long time ago if it wasn't for the sandboxing.
Who cares? It sounds big and scary and really bad... especially to us start-up types but I'd bet that there is nothing that hasn't been patented or could be deemed to be covered by a patent that's been put out on the web.

Seriously, start looking through the patents filed on Google (I started with one of these Paul Allen ones, then moved on to others filed by others but which were cited) and came to the conclusion that this is all ridiculous.

Here we see that Apple could possibly sue anyone for invoking the "mouseover" or "hover" events: http://www.google.com/patents?id=mPYiAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...

While I wholeheartedly agree with protecting IP, to me that is more of a copyright issue (not ripping off code) rather than ideas.

Ultimately what it means for us is: Go forth and code. Create whatever you want and ignore the patents out there. If you are successful, and a patent troll sues you, you can come to an agreement (license or otherwise). Really, no worries here.
$7 a month for how much of your time? $7 for me is less than 10 minutes of time a month and I graduated school in May, it's not like I'm making an outrageous salary. $7 is the difference between going out to Subway for lunch or making a sandwhich in the morning, which is a decision I base every single day solely on how I feel when I wake up in the morning.
Kansas City's First Managed CyberWarfare Exercise
And assuming that a 5-month delay wouldn't cost 10s-of-millions.
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." -Margaret Thatcher
One Sign That You've Made It: Money Looks for You
Oh yeah, so sad. Those that agree with you are intelligent and speak the truth, those that not, are "yes men".

Forget me, I don't want to pop the bubble you live in.
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Endorses Startup Visa
I know, I know, it's Information Security. Red Team (the attack side) has 14 spots open. I'm going to be participating and I have paid for my entry but otherwise have no real obligation to this thing. Just wondering if anyone from HN lives near flyover country and feels like joining in on the fun.
This is so offbase, that I'm not sure where to begin. Every iPod ad. The FaceTime ads, at the end of all recent Steve Jobs keynote. Apple is trying to promote their philosophy and vision constantly.
Community Sourced Funding & Inspiration
Gentlemen, if you disable you ad blockers and visit Reddit you will see that the Prop 19 advert is now visible.

Ahh, green; the color of money.
Public or not the officers still have a fiduciary responsibility to those shareholders. Not that there's any concrete way to argue that this issue has anything to do with fiduciary responsibility.
PG claims all variations of his name are taken on Twitter, but I have one...
As someone who doesn't tweet, I can understand if it's just an excuse, but if not, I have "thepaulgraham" I'm sure others could come up with alternatives.
In this case, the "reader" being the compiler?
As someone who doesn't tweet, I can understand if it's just an excuse, but if not, I have "thepaulgraham" I'm sure others could come up with alternatives.
This does a great job of demonstrating some of the curious effects of premature rounding. The non-transitivity is only possible because after generating a pair of random numbers, the outcome is rounded to one of two values ("Win for Player A" or "Win for Player B"). If there was a notion of "Player A won by two", then the dice could be ranked by expected value.

This is one reason why (for example) counting the number of studies that confirm vs. reject a hypothesis is not going to give the best indication of its validity. It's also why we don't track changes in market indices by counting how many items increased against how many decreased.
> Google didn't want to spend the money and now has to deal with that decision.

It's not that they didn't want to pay, they wanted to make a fully open source mobile OS. Going with OpenJDK would have forced them to make Android GPL which would have been a no-no for carriers and going with Sun's licensed JVM would have made Android not open source. So Google had to go with their own VM if they wanted to have an open source mobile OS based on Java.
I'm curious about the YC event for Cornell alumni (link?) and meeting up/hearing about your research/projects. Check my profile for gmail.
no, that's a mantra:

http://academicearth.org/lectures/dont-write-mission-stateme...
They're running the ads for free.

"Since we're not allowed to benefit financially, reddit is now running the ads for free."
But in fairness, in Gandhi's and Martin Luther King's time, the app store policies were even more restrictive - all apps were rejected, since there was no app store at all! I don't understand it myself, but somehow they were able to change the world despite not being able to create these apps. I totally agree that Gandhi's plan A was to make a Farmville-style game that let's you make illegal virtual salt, and MLK was going to make a SimCity game where you could control a character who refuses to sit at the back of the bus. This is historically documented. Obviously supporting mass protest and civil disobedience in such a safe, efficient, convenient way, so that people could do it whenever they had a spare moment, like waiting in line at the movies or the grocery store, is very threatening to the status quo. And the authorities refused to allow those kinds of apps (or any apps, or smart phones of any kind) because they were correctly seen as too powerful at creating widespread social change, too upsetting to the status quo.

Now, I know what you're going to say: "Yes, but we only are allowed to have smart phones because the authorities have found ways of neutralizing their subversive potential! The apps that are truly threatening will be rejected!" I admit this is true - powerful corporate lobbyists have sabotaged my own app where you earn points and badges for turning off lights and composting your trash because of how devastating this would be in their attempts to keep people mindlessly consuming.

I guess what I'm saying is, keep hope alive. Yes, Apple's authoritarian iron fist thwarts our attempts at changing the world, but remember that Gandhi faced similar struggles against the violent British colonial regime, and Martin Luther King faced death-threats, even finally being assassinated. Yes, we mourn all our fallen apps that have been "assassinated" or "lynched" by Apple's arbitrary app store policies, but we must not lose hope, we must continue the struggle and endure these heavy losses. History is on our side!
As cjoh also mentioned, Divvy (http://www.mizage.com/divvy/) is a more customizable alternative to SizeUp.
It's been awhile since I've done iPhone development, but it seems this is available starting in iOS4: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Grap...

It's hard to find engineers who can work on products like iOS, so I think it's understandable if they can't get every nook and cranny of the API into v1.
Ask HN: What should I do about my technical cofounder
All he does it works for 1 to 2 hours a day, then he rolls up and goes home to play SC2.

I can't criticize his work because it all just works.

Is this a problem? what should I do; I'm working my ass tail off trying to make us a success and he just goes home!?!
I keep them around as a reminder that Computer Science is math. Being able to reason and think mathematically is an important skill for any programmer.

A person can go pretty far doing web work and using scripting languages, but when you get into serious programming (heavily concurrent, resource-critical, real-time, etc) you need to understand the fundamentals.

Having Knuth up on the shelf reminds me to take a second and say, "Hey, think this through some more. Knuth probably figured it out already."
As long as they have the files in plaintext, I prefer the 'ridiculous' method for the speed benefits. If you upload data unencrypted and expect perfect privacy on it you're fooling yourself.
Have him study marketing and/or sales? There are many ways he can help if you let him; does he have any ambition to learn the business stuff?
You deserve more credit for this.
The new Campaign Monitor office
Not trying to detract from IE9 here, but Opera already has a similar ability:

http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega

The interesting parts of the article are the implementation details about the sandbox.
someone should patent being a litigious prick
If he is coding, are you designing? From my experience the coding takes longer anyways.
> Does my new program have the same patent protection?

I would say it does to the same extent all the other GPL constraints stay in force. I think that the GPL stays in force down to the smallest unit of copyrightable code - it has to, or you would be legally unable to distribute 1% of the project on its own which makes no sense.

However this would be a big leap: Android is Apache Licensed. Bringing GPL code in to Dalvik will make it (and any other components that are linked to it) GPL licensed, which in turn force all the carriers and handset makers to distribute their own customizations. I'm not sure how far that would extend through Android's code base but it could remove one of the most attractive features of Android for vendors - the fact they can put their own proprietary technology into it and customize it how they like.
Come to think of it, perhaps it's more like a "lean back" production device.

Actually, I think it's more a slab of touchscreen with a minimalistic app manager. What you do with it is up to you ;)
I have both FLUD and Pulse. They are very similar and I believe Pulse came out first (correct?). I always reach for Pulse and FLUD goes unused on my iPad. Just a personal preference and a different point of view. But, I believe both products are better than Flipbook for keeping abreast of news.
He designs and codes.
But in Arabic and Somali is it possible to talk about people who live nearby while obscuring whether they're male or female?
Preaching to the choir is a great way to solicit contributions.
Moving Image Archive > Silent Films

http://www.archive.org/details/silent_films
We don't have sales yet, and our marketing is done by a friend who is completely crazy.
To be fair, most readers aren't even listening to the arguments, so it doesn't matter if the graph is right or wrong.

They've settled on a conclusion before they even looked at the data, let alone read the article. Given how difficult it is to collect all the necessary data for actual objective analysis and how little that ultimately influences any party policy, I'm not even sure you can blame the readers.

You can rest assured that each party-line talking head is going to present skewed justifications that inevitably support their own preconceived conclusion. So what does anyone gain by reading through it? It's not like you can change the mind of a talking head by pointing out oversights, contradictions, or flat-out errors in their argument.

I mean, does anyone honestly expect a party politician might sit down to analyze some data and come away with a policy that goes against the party philosophy? Any Californian politician knows whether they should solve the budget crisis with cuts or taxes long before they even knew how big the problem was or where the money went.

Anymore, I'm fairly certain the only data involved in policy decisions are poll numbers.
Union contracts are not negotiated in good faith. That's the problem. Our politicians do not get into negotiations with the union, driving as hard a bargain as possible and looking out for the taxpayers. Our politicians are in league with the unions hoping to get their support in the next election.

In any case, no one wants unions to supply labor for free - all anyone is advocating is that the government pay it's suppliers market rates or below. I.e., the politicians should look out for the taxpayers, not government suppliers.

As I've pointed out to you before, most liberals get strongly outraged when there is even a hint that a military contractor might have gotten a sweetheart deal. And yet, there is a strong defense of Big Labor when they get a similar sweetheart deal. Why is that?
It's an important way to maintain voter awareness and actually motivate them to vote when they get the chance. In politics, it's often more important to advertise directly to your base than anywhere else.
So what are you doing that is taking hours a day?
btw, i'd negotiate it to 7 digit, or make it working business and sell for 8-9 digit!

ps/ i have no experience just dreams
It sounds like you have confused "tough" with "asshole". Common mistake.
You might like dtach -- it's a program that just lets you detach/attach sessions. It's simpler than screen, so if that's all you use screen for you might like it.

http://dtach.sourceforge.net/
Is there some other realistic thing he could be doing with his time?
Haliburton tried:

http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/11/junk-patents.html
Other turn-offs:

1. Pull out an inconsequential suboptimally worded sentence in my CV and ask questions about it while wearing a half-smirk.

2. React negatively to anything about my CV or manner that is considered general practice among other interviewers. Is it silly and unnecessary of me attach a cover letter as PDF? Of course it is, but some companies' HR screenings require it, and I don't know your company's screening process.
It's actually really interesting. I've read a lot of articles about the perils of Gen-Y in the workplace, what about when Gen-Y runs your portfolio company?
The ones I'm familiar with are the New Yorker (respectable, and I was a subscriber when I lived in the US) and Wired (not so much, and no effin way), but I have a hard time imagining typical readers of either getting bent out of shape by marijuana use. (I mean, the New Yorker isn't the Atlantic!)

Less sure about their other rags, though.
Where have I misrepresented him? He's used a frame that i think is not useful at all. It's not false -- but then again, which of his sentences are actually facts?

For example:
"I don’t think there is anything particularly new here. PG says that the definitive description of good founders is “relentlessly resourceful.” I’m pretty sure that “toughness” is a big part of that. Can you take care of yourself and get (sh)it done, or are you a wimp?"

I'm pretty sure that "relentlessly resourceful" and "tough" are largely disjoint. Likewise, taking care of yourself & getting shit done, and folding in the face of adversity, are not as related. Why did he choose those things as either/or? It's a strange choice. So it's not wrong, really, but it's not really right, either.

Being "tough" can help founders be successful, but i don't think it's causal, just highly correlated with what are actually the good predictors. So the author banging his chest and talking about how he can just hear you describing his company as so damn tough is -- while not false -- not very useful.

or how about this:
"Tough people choose decisiveness over diligence."
That's just terrifying that he would present this as a choice, and i would run away from having him as an operator. First, it's a false dichotomy, but more problematic is that it doesn't matter how decisively tough you are -- if you're shooting from the hip, you'll miss. Is he trying to address analysis paralysis? Because if so, that's a very strange choice in language he's used.

Put another way: In the post above by jiu-jitsu practitioner where he is describing grit, i think he's absolutely right to say that grit is something incredibly useful in non-physical arenas. As a boxer, i've watched a lot of people get through some really brutal places. However, that 'grit' emerges from some very different internal motivations, such as a) raw ambition to be the best, b) a deep fear of the shame of failure, c) for the sheer hell of it, d) because a girl is watching, and even it looked like e) from a sublime appreciation of the present moment. (Zen boxer, totally weird) -- but they all were able to push through places where I watch a lot of people quit, stop working, stop pushing themselves, etc.

When Mr. Godin is talking about the importance of actually shipping software, and the difference between people who ship, and people who don't -- he's not framing that in terms of tough vs. wimp. Those words are pretty loaded with anthropological baggage.

Actually, i'm finding myself repeating what api is saying upthread, so i'll join in up there :) My real contribution is that if 'grit' is the observed behavior, i think 'toughness' is the wrong trait to look for that produces it.
How I Use 'screen' (the Terminal Multiplexer)
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Close_Encounters_of_t...

(Knuth denies this ever happened.)
I fail to see a logical connection between "you joined a union" and "you lose the right to have contracts you signed upheld". Perhaps you could elaborate?
One quick, small tip about Vim's panes(/windows) that most people don't notice right away: not only can you view two parts of the same file at the same time, but you can fold/unfold the code in them independently.
Looking forward to this - I frequently scale web pages (my vision isn't great) and it bugs me this common activity still isn't smooth in 2010.