skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot can happen in the next 4 years...there may be something nobody sees coming that knocks iOS and Android down a few notches. Back in 2005, I bet few predicted that Apple would be a mobile powerhouse (or even have a mobile device, though there were rumors). Same with Google (they bought Android in 2005). Who knows...we may all be using Facebook and Twitter phones in 2014.
I second SQLite. They even have the entire source concatenated into a single file, which means you don't have to use ctags (or equivalent) for jumping around the project.
You could tie the bonuses to profits. Problem is, your employees might game the system by making the company more profitable!
The thing with the UK system is we specialize a lot earlier. A 16 when you choose your A-levels you are already making choices, then you go to university to focus on one subject, there's no "choosing your major" after a year or two. And it's not even the case that the US system produces noticeably better generalists; UK people just pick that up as they go.
If you visit that infrequently make sure you visit the 'best' list (http://news.ycombinator.com/best) and the archive http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ .
Just show me the grades.
K-12 schools use 3rd party sw to link to parents. Why do they consistently suck?
Some UK courses now are 4 year MEng vs 3 year BEng + optional 1 year MSc (FWIW I started on the former and ended up doing the latter for various reasons).
I check HN for five minutes 0-5 times daily, open tabs that look relevant to my interest, and read as I have time.

I come to HN to look for articles that describe how to do things better/optimize tasks (generally that thing is/task relates to hacking/start-ups). I then think of the broader applications of these ideas.
Well, it doesn't seem to have hurt this process (note that a large fraction of Corexit is light petroleum distillates, i.e. more chow for these bugs) and at least one source speculated it helped by breaking the oil into small droplets. The more you increase the surface area the more access bacteria can get to it and to the extent its application was effect it likely made a big difference.
I am sorry for my ignorance but can you tell who is Thomas? (probably a user here on hacker news)
That's true, but as you say UK students aren't necessarily that tied down. I moved (in the UK) from a physics undergrad to research in machine learning and statistics. This sort of move is common.
In India you stand to make between USD10k to USD12k annually if you go to work for a sweatshop (HCL, Infosys, TCS) straight out of college. This, I believe, is the lower limit. No idea about the upper limit.
Well, cool but... first place? I wonder how many other "clones" we'll see in the next days

edit: don't want to be mean
Yep I'm right there with you. I agree with everything you say.

So instead of filtering, I'm starting with Bayesian ranking. I agree about the pop-back-over thing too, but I wonder why? I'm really curious to see why I would pop back over to the regular site. As I identify these reasons, I can decide whether or not these are good reasons or not.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
People have been doing this for a long time. They are called volume bars and most decent charting packages already support it.
Are the map pins ever cleared? As I continue typing a long place name, I can see the 'shadow' behind the pin getting darker and darker with each keystroke.

It's 'neat' but I don't think it's useful, per se. Possibly no more or less useful than YouTube Instant though.
Thanks!

We haven't quite mastered the behaviour around round trips but we'll keep working at it. Part of it is educating people and adapting to cultural differences. Australians, Europeans and Asians are more accustomed to unbundled one-way low-cost segments than US travellers, I think.
Or Java (I know Java's getting a bad rap these days, but for non JNI code, Java hasn't been half bad at developing code for multiple operating systems --- admittedly, Java doesn't go as far as the iPhone :/ and the jdk isn't exactly the same for Android)

edit: s/interfaces/operating systems. I don't know why I said the former...
I believe you can find plenty of PHP programmers out there. Your average PHP programmer is no better or no worse than your average Java or .NET programmer.

Also, us Python folk like to have fun too :)
An interactive map of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth
ahem. thanks - adds a lot of value.
It's early days but so far it's been great. We know them quite well and have chatted about our ideas and helped each other out a bit. Time will tell how we each progress but hopefully we'll carry on focusing on different markets and use-cases but supporting and helping each other out where appropriate. The online travel search space is most certainly big enough for different companies solving different problems.

P.S., Thanks!
* Generating rule sets for classifying politicians by party, based on voting data - this was for a class project. IIRC my results were a little better than the standard GrowRule (or whatever it was called) algorithm that most of the class used.

* Generating iterated prisoner's dilemma strategies. It's not that this is an intractable problem...but I wanted to see what would happen in a large population of different strategies. This actually resulted in support for some theoretical results I'd read, which was nice. This was for a class paper.

* The Mona Lisa polygon thing that Roger Alsing came up with - wrote this just to test a new GA lib I'd written to learn Python.

* Optimizing a nano-scale emitter for a new scanning electron microscope - I didn't actually solve this problem, as I had to leave the job where I was working on it before the project finished...but I'd like to think that the project will get somewhere one day.

* "Translating" English prose to English verse; that is, trying to increase the metricality of text while minimizing semantic drift. Very, uh, mixed results (I blame Wordnet!). This was also a class project.

I feel like I might be forgetting something, but that's at least most of it.
You should give it a short time lag. Instead of it immediately trying to find out my location, make it find my location after I stop typing for 2 seconds.
I'm blogging about the entire thing. Hope to post a new article on HN later today. (EDIT: post is up now: http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/09/google-chrome...)

Basically I'd like to eventually have a stand-alone app. No point in making a web app if people can just like on another tab. So I've picked what I'm most comfortable with in stand-alone apps: Microsoft stack with F#. I'm using Webkit as a browser and doing some persistence in a MS Access database for now, although that will probably change.

I think I'm pretty far along for just a solo effort. It pulls all the main articles from HackerNews, Digg, Reddit, and a couple more places. You can view the target article and vote them up or down, all without leaving the app. Of course, like any project, still a long ways to go.

Would love to hear how things go for you.
Many thanks for the comments, great to see you're liking it so far.

We certainly hope to be able to offer apples-with-apples comparisons on luggage and other charges - it's a growing problem in the industry, particularly with low-cost airlines.

One thing that's really hard to do with our current architecture is exclude an airine; we'll be able to allow you to limit to a specific airline, and we'll implement that soon, but all-except-one is for much later :)
In Scotland there used to be 5 year MEng courses - very popular starting points for PhDs.
Simplify, and Savor Life
I don't exercise for one simple reason - its a temporary solution to a permanent problem and as a geek I hate, hate, hate those with a passion.

Breathing, eating - also a temporary solution to a permanent problem. It just takes more time for the problem of "not exercising" to reveal itself compared to the problem of "not eating".
Countdown to HTML/JS reversi on 5 screens in 3... 2...

Update: its already done (works for me on Chrome, ipad and iphone at least).
http://davidbau.com/reversi/
Django seems to be a pretty active project, so I'm not sure what gave you the impression that it wasn't developed:

http://code.djangoproject.com/timeline

Looks like the 1.2.2 security release they did earlier this week was a bit rushed, partially because the security issue was reported via the public bug tracker instead of the security contact address.
Real life tractor beam closer to reality.
I'm trying to evolve a bot for the current Google's AI challenge using genetic algorithms. The results so far: a mediocre bot that doesn't even win on all maps against the samples bots, and a laptop that is about to die every minute now from exhaustion.
Hi, I'm the creator of YouTube Instant. This is pretty awesome. Congrats!
I know a few people doing Flash on embedded devices. They tend to steer away from vector graphics and lean toward bitmaps because there's a performance hit.
This is generally a pretty bad article. Learn databases, then decide whether or not you ever need to know databases? Moreover, databases are put on the same fundamental level as logic?

Also, placing "learn paradigms" at a time before the student knows any language is going to be useless rote memorization that the student will have no idea how to implement when the time comes.

Why does the article start off extremely specific and then just dump into "3. then learn programming"?

Finally, the categories of programmers aren't really an accurate reflection of the software industry. You will have to span multiple of those groups, and you'll never be dedicated to any one of them.
Not necessarily for any particular person. So much depends on your personality and that of your adviser, coworkers, and other prominent folks in the field.

But all the bad things happen to someone, often one of your friends. For a Ph.D. holder reading PhD Comics is an exercise in nodding with recognition.

And I haven't read all that much PhD Comics so I don't know if it plumbs the real depths. Do characters in the comic become suicidally depressed? Do professors drive talented eighth-year students to drop out by making crazy demands on their time? Do students find themselves drafted as poorly paid, no-equity employees at their adviser's startup company? I saw all of that happen to one friend or another in the real world.
the shots on your flickr pool link are reminiscent of demoscene releases. Kind of makes sense though, since I presume much of the more abstract features of a compo are stored/drawn in the same [similar] way.
I'm not really sure why the OP says that the Master's has more coursework than the PhD. At least in my Master's program at UMD, the PhDs have to take the same amount of classes as the Master's students. The only difference is that in the Master's, after you're done with your classes, you either write a thesis or a scholarly paper (for non-thesis based), and you're done. If you're a PhD student, you finish your classes, then you spend the next few years working on research towards your dissertation.

He might be referring to more work for an MS Comps, which is the non-thesis Master's. Instead of writing a thesis (which counts as 6 credit hours) you have to take 30 credit hours worth of classes, and half of those classes must be "MS Comps," where at least 50% of your grade in a class (at least here at UMD) must come from exams. I am doing a thesis-based Master's, so I guess you could say I am able to take all my classes just as a PhD student would - in that in most classes there is a research project due at the end of the semester on a topic of your choosing. This allows you to shape the course to your liking and interests.

For me, being a Master's student has afforded me just as many research opportunities as a PhD student; I just won't be here as long.
Eminent Domains: The First Time I Changed History
I think it is like this pretty much everywhere but the US. At least it is in France, UK, and Japan, and the US are the only country I have heard so far where you don't have to get a master before a PhD.
I love SS. I combine it with Sunflow too. I made these a while ago when playing with both:

http://chir.ag/stuff/virtue.png

http://chir.ag/stuff/synth.png

http://chir.ag/stuff/strand.png

I just woke up and I think I should spend the rest of today rendering. It is so much fun and relaxing.
Ask HN: Anyone from HN attending startup bootcamp @ MIT?
Would like to say hi to others here. I am sitting in the last row...
Am I the only one who finds this instantization stuff distracting and slightly annoying?
Hi, I'm the creator of http://ihackernews.com. I believe the site works pretty well for the iPad, but I don't have access to one so I'm unable to verify it. Can you test it out and let me know what you think and if anything is broken? I'd love a screenshot if you can and I'll address any issues right away.
Ninth Circuit Sides with Industry in Stopping Software Resales
Probably using Tynt - http://www.tynt.com/ .
Hi guys. Ever heard of Google Instant, Youtube Instant and Google Maps Instant?

Well, I made Google Picasa Instant. By the way, I'm looking for a job too!

...
Okay, Actually I didn't but it could be possible.
I almost always start with the comments. If the discussion is interesting, I'll follow the link.

That said, I usually start with the link on PG essays and YC write-ups.
Despite the down votes from others, I appreciate the correction. I didn't know that it's anyway, not anyways. I appreciate the help. Thanks.
Sorry, what I mean is that google is doing worse at protecting itself from being gamed by the clever SEOs who got to the front page without meriting it.
I'm pretty sure people in the UK used to say exactly the same thing about US PhDs!
It can be, and the end is certainly very stressful. But the amount of things you can learn during a PhD, and the pleasure of working/meeting very smart people is rewarding. Your mileage may vary, obviously.

Also, in my case, even though I left academia afterwards, the PhD's freedom enabled me to become involved in several open source communities which have opened a lot of opportunities. If you like freedom, and you like research, I think PhD are a good experience, even if you don't end up in academia - after all, most PhD graduates do no become tenured professors.
I'd be curious how long it would take you to port the python stack to run that code -vs- how loing it would take for someone to implement FORTH on a brand-new platform with a new instruction set (and remember, if you want to use a C compiler, you'll have to write or port that too.)
I think waiting for a space to be typed so you know the newest typed chunk is a usable discrete piece of data along with a small delay for when no space is typed would make this work better.

In thinking about how this compares to youtube instant, I'm not sure an autocomplete would work well at the global level without more thought and refinement.
I don't know many people that aren't going to be put off programming by that 1/2 to 1 year preparation on only theory.

A redeeming part of that page is that for each programming career, there is a decent list of useful pointers.
I did find the lavish praise for Adobe near the end to be a bit much. Every product that was listed was an acquisition by Adobe, the vast majority of which originally came from Macromedia! (Photoshop I'll give them credit for, since they acquired it so long ago that they've had more to do with its success by now.)
I needed to have a lot of hacking fun: stack based genetic programming provided me with tons of wonderful hacking days a few years ago. See your computer understanding how to create programs like: "DUP * 1 +" actually doing symbolic regression by discovering a program that has the best fitness for the set if inputs is something you'll hardly forget in your life.

Btw other than to have fun I also tried to use this approach to create a few hash functions with good distributions.
Ask HN: Adsense earning dissapearing?
Now, I am starting to doubt myself, and perhaps that two has always been a two rather than a three, but has anyone else noticed any discrepancies in their earnings since last payment?
I enjoy reading HN so much that I ended up creating two sites[1][2] just to make reading it more accessible on my mobile phone.

I read HN first thing when I wake up, right before sleeping, and all through the day... often in little one or two minute bursts, saving links for items I want to read later. I start out on the home page, move to /ask then finally /new.

It's a great way to be motivated by reading about people who are creating amazing products. I find myself being pushed to do more when I see others talking about what they are creating.

[1] http://ihackernews.com

[2] http://viewtext.org
Twice a day, start of morning & end of day. Read headlines, and sometimes new.
I follow newsyc20 on twitter.
The funny thing about the "instant" search is around the time of AJAX exploding four or five years ago, this type of "real-time" search was all the rage. Over time it disappeared, most likely because it both wastes resources and a lot of users found it annoying. From that, auto-complete suggestions was the next evolution. Now we seem to have gone full circle. As impressive as it is that they're handling way more searches than before with lightning speed, the whole thing seems really naff. The marketing video for Google Instant in particular is hilarious - "I don't even have to press Enter!"

I work for Nokia and we used to have "real-time search" on Ovi Maps and this was removed around a year ago, again due to a confusing and poor user experience. After all this buzz I saw some people on the internal communication tools ask if we have the technology internally to do instance geosearch.

Marketing is everything.
Downvoted, of course. I hope for my trouble a few more people get it.
Google Chrome and .NET - Almost, But Not Quite
I used to say it too. Roommate in college broke my habit. As a former addict I notice people saying it all the time. :-)
Soldiers tear apart and rebuild a jeep in four minutes
It was screwed for me until I realized I was using different font sizes in my browser for proportional (13) and mono-spaced (12). Changing the size of the mono-spaced font to 13 solved it for me.
Worldpay.com part of royal bank of scotland. it's not great, but it is a decent alternative.
Bing's answer to Google's instant search: HTML5
You know, this makes sense. Bubbles of oil have risen from the ocean bottom before, (no I cannot find a reference, I am disappointed by this, but if humans can cause it then nature can do worse more often) and we have not found any big dead spots in the ocean floor. It makes since either it happens incredibly rarely or the ocean's ecosystem had a natural defense to the problem.
Changes are Inevitable, But Don’t Lose Your Focus
I check once or twice a day, mostly using http://hckrnews.com/ to minimize the timesink.

I use it as metanews as often as news - if there's a big piece of news, I don't have anywhere else to pick someone's brain about it than HN.

Sometimes I just browse the general index serendipitously - often with great success.
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Thank you for making these. I now read HN more often from my phone when I have a few minutes spare.

I usually scan the comments before reading an article and if nothing's changed since my last visit I then scan through the new submissions.
Study: High Frequency Trading reduces volatility, enhances price discovery
Scan the whole frontpage once a day (takes about 30minutes) and then come back to check new submissions whenever procrastinating/taking a break. I scan the frontpage and occasionally older submissions, open tabs for submissions which seem interesting (and comment tabs for submissions which lead to discussion [claims/opinions/etc.]) and instapaper big articles for later reading.
I know what you mean having suffered the same issue multiple times.
But if I'm going to spend quality time with a book, I still think it worthwhile to purchase the physical version.

The digital version is good for archival and portability, but the first time through a good book feels like it should be with its most authentic representation.
Apple wants to be a niche player - where they can control the margins. Android's strength and weakness is that it's a commodity OS, which means phone manufacturers are falling over themselves to do their own model because it's easy and profitable. Yet many, are also continuing to work on their own high end proprietary alternatives for the long term.
He says so right under the input box. :)
So what you're saying is that the statement in the linked article, that:

"Jobs claimed that Flash is not fit for smart phones. He claimed that flash drains battery and performance is really bad. He might have been correct, but not anymore."

is an outright lie?

I've been recommending against Flash since the beginning, just because I know blind people and others with accessibility needs for whom Flash made certain parts of the web unusable.
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How to play Crash Team racing on PC
I've always been skeptical, and at times downright angry, of the vaccine-causes-autism group as frankly it's been nothing but conjecture and sky-is-falling. This case, though, seems to have been able to actually make a connection between the two (though the article makes it very clear, the vaccines did not cause autism, they aggravated an existing condition that brought about the autism).

I know people will use this case as a "I'll never vaccinate my child!" issue, but that won't last once a kid dies of mumps or is paralyzed from polio for the first time in decades. Overall I think this is a good decision. We really don't know that vaccines are 100% safe, and especially in infants, and especially all of that at once. We do want vaccinations, but we need to be more careful about to whom and how we administer them, and this case will hopefully bring about a new realm of research into this and it's relationship with autism.
Perfect recent example. Plex v9 doesn't allow one to delete a file after you watch it. v8 had the feature and LOTS of us used it. The forums are abuzz with people complaining, and the devs are just now coming around that they might implement it (though when is anyone's guess). In the mean time, the lot of us has gone back to v8.
I know someone well who went through the process recently
I would suggest wordpress(http://wordpress.org/) and it definitely has all the features that you are looking for.

Very easy to hack, good theme options(both free and paid), good documentation and many venues to ask doubts if you have any.
First DjangoCon videos are up
11TB can be reliably stored on a 2U server with 8x2TB drives. Figure $150 per drive = $1200 plus cost of the server.
FYI: It links to a PDF.

EDIT:

Google Docs Viewer URL: http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futuresind...

Front page:

HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING AND ITS
IMPACT ON MARKET QUALITY

Jonathan A. Brogaard ∗
Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University School of Law

July 16, 2010
wordpress.stackexchange.com is a great (new) WordPress resource.
Yes and I hate marketing. It is not the true way a true innovation or innovator can get credit. It is just a bunch of fat men, sucking on the wet end of their cigars, choosing to show what they want with the power of their money.
<-- I do apps fulltime

Objective-C isn't bad, as I like both C and Smalltalk, it seemed quite normal to me.

I will say the lack of a persistent ORM that isn't as complicated as removing an internal organ is a bit of a liability (simple, core data is not).

And yeah yeah, persistent object graph blah blah.
The Social Network:Movie
I think it varies a lot. In my PhD program I am not required to take a single class. Suggested to. You'll fail your quals if you don't, suggested to. But not required at all.
Here in Bolivia - South America, Software Engineers make between 10,000 and 12,000 $us. annually
My version of youtube instant
The Thesis Repulsor Field
Django is awesome and is really active. Go look at some records Sir.