skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please allow me to pickle simple generators. Otherwise, I have to go through all sorts of contortions:

http://metaoptimize.com/blog/2009/12/22/why-cant-you-pickle-generators-in-python-workaround-pattern-for-saving-training-state/
IPv6 addresses are already free or nearly free. I think there's an important difference between scarcity naturally driving up IPv4 prices which encourages IPv6 adoption and artificially raising IPv4 prices to strong-arm people to switch to IPv6 because it's "good for them".
This seems tailor-made for an Ig Nobel Prize...
Entire metrostation of Budapest created in Counter Strike
You're overstating this quite a bit. I work for a startup that was an early launch partner for Pages back in mid 2007, and have built and maintained our Facebook application from that time. We have numerous contacts inside Facebook, and they can be of help occasionally, but they can just as easily turn around and screw us. They stole hundreds of extremely popular pages from us that we built up over years, and they did it basically on the same freakin day that our CEO was having high level meetings on unrelated partnership deals with Facebook brass.

The reason is very closely tied to Facebook's engineering success: there is no top-down control over anything. All the engineers are encouraged to break things and to keep the pace of progress rapid. For developers on their API this is a nightmare scenario. However your claim that this is not sustainable may just be wishful thinking. Facebook craps all over its developers, but it's not clear at all that that price is too high to pay for the continued agility that Facebook exhibits. It's hard to argue with that kind of market dominance. Plus, Facebook is so nimble that if API stability does become a problem they can easily switch gears and focus on it.

In other words, I wouldn't hold your breath for any change at Facebook.
It may yet happen.
omfg - your comment resonated so well, I couldnt stop laughing. These are the very same things I used to do with the cd's.
I'm really rooting for the guy, but it's hard to be optimistic after they let the API be so awful for so long.
He basically says: Do not let fear overwhelm you. Just do it. Listen to paying customers. Then just do it. And drugs.
I linked this elsewhere, but you can see here: http://twitter.com/ipv4countdown from the history how fast they are being used up - a million every couple of days, or thereabouts.
Obscure clause on Page 47 of the M & A documents:

"This deal becomes null and void if any internal AOL documents end up on Techcrunch.com before the end of the due diligence period."

</just kidding>
The link provided by ascuttlefish is only to a portion of the test. The full list of questions can be found at [0].

Overall, I found the survey questions to be unsatisfying. Most of them are what I would categorize as religious trivia rather than true religious content. The questions were along the lines of "what is an atheist", "what religion was Mother Teresa", or "what's the name of Islam's holy book". These are the sort of questions I would expect any college-educated person to nail, regardless of religious affiliation.

Only two of the questions required any religion-specific depth of understanding: the questions on Catholic communion and on salvation by faith alone. There were no deep or doctrinally interesting questions about Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, or Buddhism. The test is presented as "questions about the core teachings [and other stuff] of major world religions" but there's really very little here about core teachings.

Atheists, Agnostics, and Jews performed very well on the "religion and public life" and "world religions" questions, by about 2.5 points over any Christian subgroup. Mormons and white evangelicals scored highest on the "Christianity and the Bible" sections, by about a point over Atheists/agnostics and Jews [1]. The headline is technically correct, but I've seen people draw some far-reaching and mistaken conclusions from it.

[0] PDF file: http://pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Belief_and_Practice... - note that demographic and general knowledge questions are interspersed with religious questions.

[1] http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religiou...
They have bus drivers. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_Wo...

Interesting documentary.

I've always wanted to go down there. There's even a few couchsurfers down there
At 8 times longer to compress, this reminds of Iterated Systems FIF, but article claiming based on WebM suggests it's still DCT compression.

Adoption by just Flickr and Facebook could push a new image format fast.

Google has much to gain since they archive a copy of indexed images. Hence their interest in "recompression".
He's absolutely, screamingly right. They're an advertising company. Big bang changes to the website exist to sell more advertising. Everything else they do is window dressing to make people forget that they are an advertising company.
New Browser Hijacking?
Recently I've been plagued by sites that hijack Javascript to not allow me to navigate away from the page (puts you in and endless loop of JS popup question boxes). Killing the browser doesnt work, nor does purging the chache. I run No Script in Firefox (on linux to boot) but it doesn't help. Sadly many of these links are from reddit et al.

Does anyone know what the technique is and of any good browser plugins to stop this?
Wow great info, I did not even know that this was going on, I have one of the affected models, thanks for the info.
"For organisms that rarely urinate, masturbation may serve a similar function to postcopulatory urination, as a more thorough mechanism to clean vital reproductive tracts after mating than just external genital grooming. Consuming the ejaculate may prevent moisture loss."
One of the things that was drilled into me in the cadets was that you can delegate responsibility for a task, but not accountability. Ultimately, when things go wrong it's your fault not theirs. Perhaps they didn't have the skills, resources or experience required. Perhaps something unexpected came up. Ultimately, their failure is your failure as a manager and that's what you need to remember. Rarely was a bit of shouting required and when it was it was more about motivation than discipline.

"Praise people publicly, but discipline people privately"
This goes doubly if you need to criticise someone who has to manage others
You obviously have more experience with this than me, but in the UK we had no trouble getting BGP advertising with two ISPs for incoming connections (though we're not default-free, just using HSRP between ISPs for outbound).
You're not alone. I thought this claim to be a victim was ridiculous, too. After all, "stopping at a red light" is standard driver's manual material, along with notes on being cautious about taking a right there, considering in this situation, you are the last to have the right of way.

I have noticed that Internet threads about driving are generally useless, full of ignorance and pride. Folks think they know how to drive, and they do not want to be told they are wrong.
Moral of the story: If you're a CEO or drug lord, too many meetings will kill your business.
Liked the idea. Just subscribed.
Levitating graphene is fastest-spinning object ever
Can you cite a source for this? Why would it say "searches" if it counts AdSense impressions?
The more likely point is that the number 1 ad or search result doesn't get 100% of search clicks, they are distributed among all results on the first page.
Help me understand how making it technically simpler for people to have persistant portable allocations is going to decrease RIB sizes. It's been over a decade since I had to write a BGP regex, but to my uneducated eyes, it looks like the exact opposite is true.

It really feels to me like nobody wants to acknowledge that IP addresses are just the license plate numbers that ISPs issue; that, or they hope that IPv6 is going to magically change that.
Nexus is prob best (for Android hacking, not Linux). Gave up on linux mobile device search a while back:

http://www.google.com/phone/detail/nexus-one

or ebay:

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=google+nexus+-case+-battery...
Ask HN: How can I build web apps without knowing how to code them?
Does anyone know of a resource which allows a person to build web apps without knowing how to code them? Like Google's App Inventor allows people to build (somewhat basic) Android apps with knowing the code, I'd like to find something I can use to build a web app I would like to have for my personal use.

It would be great if it was WYSIWYG or close to that.

I assume it may be somewhat limited, that's fine.

It would be great if I could edit the output with my own code down the line when I learn how to do so.

Hiring someone to do this for me would defeat the purpose. Half the reason I want this is to have something to play with and experiment with.

I have been learning to code on the side. I'd like to learn how to build web apps and am learning how to make Android apps. It is going to take a while and I am fine with that. However I am impatient and would like to find something that allows me to take a bit of a short cut in a way and allow me to play with web app creation in a basic way while I simultaneously learn how to do it the right way.

Thanks!
Is this fast enough to generate enough acceleration to get general relativistic effects?
New physics equation to explain "impossible" soccer kick
Turn your iPod into an iPhone
That's because #4 is wrong. Looking at my own campaigns, I get WAY more impressions from the content network than Google estimates in the keyword tool.

Also, evaluating your target market based on a single keyword seems pretty silly and meaningless. What about related or synonymous keywords? What about other traffic sources like banner ad media buys?
here's the details on the equation for those especially interested in the physics:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/12/9/093004/fulltext#nj3...
TechCrunch Game - (similar to guitar hero)
I'm guessing that they're not going to find out what they're working on until they start. Perhaps its something like ranking all the employees.
It will most likely be default for everything other than monospace and document fonts.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-artwork/+bu...
I'm incredibly impressed with the streetview coverage including the classic Irish one-track, grass-down-the-middle roads like this one near my house: http://bit.ly/8XLSfU
Should you go to an Ivy League school?
Suspend/resume has been broken in various ways on various hardware for years. This makes me wonder whether they're bugs in Linux or bugs in hardware for which each one requires a different workaround. In case of the latter I can imagine why things stay broken for such a long time.
Why do firewalls suddenly go away when IPv6 is introduced? If NAT is the only thing stopping packets from coming into your network then that is bad. Set up appropriate firewall rules.
"New shit has come to light! .. I mean, there has been a new development pertaining to our expected level of professional conduct .."
There are plenty of people who have done this more recently than 1998, which is the last time I had to register an ARIN allocation. That was for a fairly large regional ISP in Chicago, for the sole purposes of multihoming, and it was a nightmare; I ended up having to call in a favor from a friend close to ARIN.

Surely someone who runs a multihomed hosted app (maybe a YC company) can chime in on how easy it is for a startup to get a BGP advertisement in 2010.
Fisher Price Recall
No more big wheels :(
If you have an ark ship that can handle on the order of hundreds of years of space travel, you'll have an ark ship that can handle essentially indefinite space travel.

At that point: why land?
Seriously, I'm in love with this after just a few minutes of use. This is something I have always wanted in my gmail, but never saw a proper solution floating around. Great job.
Is it possible to quit a startup with a friend and maintain a friendship?
A little over a year ago, I started a company with a friend. He'd do CEO/sales/biz dev (and has a large network) and I would build the product, leading a small team (elance type stuff) as necessary. He quit his job and put in about $75k. I put in sweat and money for incidentals.

I built a quick and shoddy prototype in about a month of evenings and weekends, and we figured it would take about six months to flesh out, QA, beta, and market prior to "launch."

Not all of the money was used wisely. He opened an office in his home country (Romania) because "I can get developers who will work for $2/hr part time!" However, the cost of running the office is now about $15k/month. At this point, I'll need to invest to keep the company going in its current form.

He's moved more into a "product manager" mode, and driven the Romanian team to pivot and add functionality that various VCs, angels, or CIOs told him "would really make this sell." We're now building four products in a suite and we no longer have a "vision".

We're good friends, and have worked together before in an enterprise environment. He's still stuck in that mindset, and I never really absorbed that mindset. My wife has not been very supportive of the endeavor, and even less so now that money is coming into the picture with no product launch in the near term.

A "come to Jesus" meeting is my next step. If that fails, I'm tired and want to walk away. I'll have some equity (about 15% of the company vested so far), but that's not really a big concern for me. I'd be happy to sell them back to him at a reasonable valuation.

Have any of you "thrown away" a year of work with a friend on a startup, and were you able to maintain an amicable relationship thereafter? If so, any tips?
I'm not discounting the article's assertions, but we're doing fine with a ~7,000 node IPv4/IPv6 network.

Each node is running a reasonably modern client OS (80/20 Mac OS X/Windows 7, mostly). Most of our servers are Windows Server 2008 and some 2003. We do have several Linux servers, as well. Pretty much all the service they run seamlessly translate to IPv6 (Exchange, IIS, SMB, AFP, Apache [and its modules])

Each node and server get an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address. Mac OS X and Windows prefer IPv6 transport over IPv4 and most users have no clue when they go to Google, they're doing so over IPv6. nearly all of our internal web, email, and file sharing traffic is over IPv6. Nobody knows any different. There has been small, interesting issues, but we're able to resolve them pretty quickly and haven't run into anything even marginally major.

From the looks of things, the transition will be like the fader control on an audio mixer. Nodes will have dual stacks, and IPv4 will fade out gradually and IPv6 will, at the same time, fade in gradually, and nobody will be the wiser (other than the poor network programmers who have to get their network code IPv6 ready, which frankly, they should've begun years ago).

Implementing a large-ish scale IPv6 network (dual stacked, of course) has been relatively pain-free (in our experience).
Not so much in Dublin perhaps, but rural Ireland is all about favours and bartering, it's not even really a "black market" since cash isn't the currency.

I dunno, it's cool, it makes it feel much more like a connected community, but you can't trade mackerel for fenceposts (this is a real deal in which I was involved) in the global economy without going via actual cash...
Most of their buyouts are private because the founder wants to retire or the heirs don't want the hassle of running the company. In either case the people in Arrington's role don't stick around because they already have professional management in place.
Tony Curtis Tribute: His 5 Must See Movies
RIP Tony C.
The problem with IPv4 addresses TODAY is that they're artificially priced. People deliberately do stupid things with their addresses (like, assigning permanent routable /32's to every computer in a dorm resnet) so they can avoid having to justify and possibly lose their vanity /16's.
this is something you gotta upvote before even reading it
We are probably in a similar program, but our developer contact was basically of no use whatsoever. Probably not his fault - it seems to be a cultural thing as observed above.

Even after last week's developer meeting and subsequent rollout of changes, my request for documentation was met with - not paraphrasing - "We'll get back to you."
"Jumping off the gw bridge sorry." FB Status Before Suicide.
Ask HN: How to promote a B2B StartUp?
If you had a B2B StartUp (Service) what are some of the ways you use to promote your service?

So far I am using conventional methods

- Google Ads
- Facebook Ads

I have a couple of other ideas such as conventional print (trade magazines) etc but I want to understand what your experience has been (hopefully one I can learn from)? Please share your experiences. We might be able to ping some ideas back and forth.

Thanks in advance
Why Terrorists Are Often Engineers: Implications For Nanotechnology.
It's true that the Apple ][ was double-buffered, but as another commenter mentioned, it wasn't a game console :)

But the Apple ][ is actually a good illustration of my point. Due to the cost of memory back then, Wozniak had to make many compromises in the hardware design, which resulted in a number of very odd visual artifacts. For example, if you tried to move a colored sprite around on screen, the colors of pixels in odd and even columns would flicker between two different four-color palettes.

The retro-engineered video subsystem in the article is essentially the same resolution as the Apple ][, but with greater color depth and none of the compromises, all because the cost tradeoffs have changed so much in the last 30-odd years.
Next Gen Digital Sight Could Cure Blindness
Binary Replication Tops Five Best Enterprise Features in PostgreSQL 9
"He loved music," Mr. Jung said. "He was very dedicated. I couldn’t tell if anything was wrong."
Why the downvote? You don't like traffic circles?
That's a good question... I can definitely see where your coming from and the position you in. I don't have any great advice except for LOOK OUT FOR NUMBER 1 lol
If I understand your point correctly, it can be summarized as "Applications are probably doing whatever the heck they want on iOS too, we just don't know about it." If that's not your general idea, please correct me. There are at least two problems with this statement:

1) You are contending that Apple is in an equally powerless position to prevent apps from deviating from stated purposes. Yet even the app in the anecdote you brought as an illustrative example has been removed by Apple. If any other iOS app was found to be in violation by anyone, and Apple found out about it, it could be removed immediately. In contrast, the apps tested in this research paper will likely still be in the Android marketplace one year from now, and because people don't read the news, they will likely be as popular.

2) I don't think it's really that difficult to do similar analysis on the iOS market at all. Just connect to the internet via a router with some kind of packet sniffing. Obviously, until someone actually does it, we're just guessing- you're guessing that apps on iOS are just as bad, and I'm guessing otherwise- but to blame the lack of information on iOS not being transparent enough for researchers doesn't seem accurate.
The cost of upgrading to IPv6 is dominated by the cost of making any change, so I don't see why upgrading to IPv4++ would be any cheaper than upgrading to IPv6. In both cases you have a lot of pain and people will still put it off until after the last minute.

I also disagree about IPv6 readiness; according to the ISPs, they are very close to being ready (if they don't already have it deployed). Unfortunately, they're using a strategy of doing most of the preparation behind the scenes and — voila! — turning it on at the last minute; from the outside this plan is mostly indistinguishable from doing nothing.
I think the subtext of this article is that schemes like this appear to work because you're really relying on IPv4 for guaranteed network access; the true migration to IPv6 (the "magic moment" as DJB would call it) hasn't happened until people can feasibly not depend on IPv4 for a production network.

If everyone has to be dual-stacked, then we're committed indefinitely to making IPv4 workable.

Which is fine! But it rather lessens the urgency of converting people to IPv6.
Well we have been trading them fiat dollars for tangible assets. So those existing rare earth purchases are now in the US. In some ways it seems, like there was an orchestrated effort to use the consumables of others while the dollar was still strong knowing full well that we could always fall back on our own reserves. So we traded paper for real goods until the rest of the world caught on, that we where doing so. I think China woke up to the fact that they where exporting their riches for a fiat. Now they are in a precarious position where they have to stop giving away their true riches while not calling it for what it is. Not until they can divest themselves of the dollar or they will implode the system while they are holding the bag. Export restrictions on raw materials would be one way to do so. At least that way these elements cant be bought in bulk and stockpiled.
How much of humanity? 10%? 40? 99?

I doubt you will get much more than about 20% of humanity to agree to anything at any given time. Extraterrestrial invasion? Nope, a bunch will just see them as gods and their own death as a journey to heaven? Another bunch will try to negotiate, another bunch will try to blast them into nonexistence?

Global catastrophe? See above.

And then there's the problem of who you're talking about. You can't e.g., reach everyone in every little town in India, Central Africa and South America. So if their "leaders" agree, does that mean that they agree? Look at all the disagreement that happens with people and their elected officials in the US all the time.

Sorry dude, we're doomed to all die alone.
Well - have they?

I got interviewed by her the last time I was in the bay area. Nice person, and she has certainly spent a lot of time learning about different groups of hackers.
Remembering the right things is very important. I know the code base far better now with an IDE than I ever did without one. Because it lets me focus on what is really important in the code.

I get to focus on code structure, algorithms, I can quickly drill into the code and back out. I can in a few seconds see all uses or all definitions.

The thing that makes IDEs great IMO, is when I'm looking at code that isn't mine. The ability to abstract structure from other peoples code quickly is a godsend.
Not so sure about that. Think about how much energy would be necessary to operate that many devices: http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/128_bit_storage_are_you
It's a really minor thing but on this page:
http://www.activeinboxhq.com/install.html

In Chrome the dialog box on the page says:
"This extension can access: Your data on gmail.com, google.com and 3 other websites". But when it popped up in my chrome it said "4 other websites".

It's not a big deal, but it briefly weirded me out when I don't know what those sites are, and when it's different to what I was expecting.

Will let you know what I think of the actual app once I have had a play.
AOL Mkt cap is currently 2.66B. Putting aside its annual income over the years and the capital invested in it.

If you look at the acquisition list you will see around $10B have been spent on acquisitions.

Say, a company that buys so many companies for so much money and ends up with such low market capital, then the company if a failure, indeed!