skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's insane,

I've spent 5 years on my PhD and still haven't finished it working on it mostly full time to such such a degree of dedication that my girlfriend of 6 or so years packed it all in and left.

PhD and Startup and marriage+kids on one income? (Yet, one of you is doing a PhD and one is doing the mothering - who is actually earning money?) And building a family on top of the shaky foundations that startup life provides?

How? Stranger that the tips included with dealing with such an insane choice of lifestyle seem to consist entirely of very thin dating/relationship suggestions. I mean - there is a world of potential insanity involved in doing just a PhD alone - but with kids/wife/startup? I'm gonna need a whole lot more than just palliative cliches to help me deal.
Great application!

Small feature request: link to particular image with #
I'm an intern with near zero experience... Anyone hiring? ;-)

(Well, I have more than zero experience... maybe I'm overqualified)
Hang on, Apple also did the same with firewire and it died even though it was a technically better solution. Its error was it was expensive to manufacture a firewire device as it needed a hardware layer on the device side. USB didn't, so USB devices were cheaper and they won the war once USB 2 came out and the speed difference was negligible.

So not all Apple decisions work, like PC's over Macs. Apple lost that war as the open standard won.

And then sometimes it is the better design, like iPods and iPhones over their competition that wins.

My point is I'm not sure your argument holds in general, sometimes its this, sometimes its the other thing that works.
In regards to #1, I think you read the article wrong.

These are tough times for peddlers of e-sex. Craigslist, a huge online marketplace, closed the “adult services” area of its website last week, under pressure from the attorney-general of Connecticut, a crusader against prostitution. That will mildly inconvenience internet pimps, but they will soon move to new websites. Pornographers are in bigger trouble, thanks to technology
David Bolinsky animates a cell - TED Video of the most amazing machine
I think a little more security is needed for this to be any sort of "viable"... So I suppose I'd argue that this definitely is not MVP.

OTOH, they themselves seemed to have said it's not MVP either, so I think that's okay.

I'm still concerned about the longer-term viability using the reasoning of "This many basic mistakes doesn't bode well", but time will tell.

I wish them the best of luck.
Intel confirms that hdcp has been cracked - The Inquirer
I would love to (assuming it was any good, and the price reasonable) but I don't want my credit company to this.

So no, I won't be paying for porn.
I suspect this will enhance the speed of the uptake of CSS3...
It's not built in, but there's an application called ViewFrame[1] that lets you view and modify the system as it's running.

[1] http://pobox.com/~JasonHarper
I'm back in the UK for 2 weeks out of the last year and I miss this. D'Oh.
Obviously this is just an examples of _the_ classical trade off, but still...
Fair enough. Craigslist posters aren't pornographers either (even according to the article they're engaged in prostitution, not pornography).

The writer shouldn't have spent 87 out of 312 words talking about an only tangentially related topic (do we really think that Pornographers No Longer Love The Web because craigslist stopped letting local prostitutes post ads?)
if it's symmetric then I'd be my own rich media host, maybe dumping a full lifeblog of my life everyday, maybe just ensuring that I get was my own personal cloud when I was out and about.

but really most of my web use only needs a 1mb line; read blobs, check news, look at pics, very little video.
Maybe not exactly, but you can get pretty damn close. The digital audio guys are the ones who are really into this. It's the only way to get the exact feel of old audio gear.

http://www.simulanalog.org/

An amp is much simpler than a microchip but the ideas are there:

http://dafx.labri.fr/main/papers/p169.pdf
I'm sure their shareholders will be mightily pleased.

Have they found any works of Shakespeare yet in the digits of PI?
Pitfalls in Random Number Generation
Scaling to a million page views or so a day is not difficult. With the technologies available at hand there is less need for big hardware to do it. For instance you could grab a few Amazon EC2 nodes, use one as a balancer to the others. Grab nginx for the web server, proxy to your application, varnish for static caching. Alot is going to be determined by the way you access the database, there is no need to go to nosql when mysql can scale beyond your needs. Limit your queries, only select the data you need instead, use indexes, be smart about table structures.

If you ever do get to facebook/twitter like traffic, you'll probably have money and entire ops team to deal with it.
Don't ever talk to the police under any circumstance
Well, a part of it (the comp.* hierarchy), perhaps. In fact, this seems to be a pattern—Facebook is really just a new soc.*, etc.

I wonder if there's a good pointer to potentially-profitable market gaps here: pick some part of Usenet, and turn it into a website that tries to centralize all discussion on that topic to itself.
A jpeg image is already compressed. Unfortunately, you won't be able to go much smaller without choosing to lose data.
Change the handwritten font. It's barely legible and feels kind of unprofessional. The top of the "F" of Friendpods seems cut off. And maybe provide some use cases for your app.
Also you may want to check out Modernizr if you are going to be bleeding edge:

http://www.modernizr.com/
It took me far longer than it should have to get started. After clicking on the oscillator circuit I kept trying to flip the switch like your instructions say but what I didn't realise was that I had to be in simulate mode to do this. The button that makes this obvious is tucked away in the bottom left had corner - the last place I ended up looking.

Once I figured that out though I enjoyed using it.
It is big news, but there is a gigantic caveat here - most people will still be running ancient browsers which can't do this.

But flash is universal.
IANAL, But this doesn't sound entirely correct.

Youtube is operating as an OSP under the DMCA safe-habor laws, and this has been upheld in court. Youtbue must therefore act neutrally in each case -- that is, they have obligations both to the uploader and the alleged owner. If they don't fulfill these obligations, such as reinstating a video that doesn't actually violate copyright law (given the existent of fair use,) then they can lose their protection under the DMCA.

Granted, Youtube could opt to not seek protection under the DMCA, but it seems like this isn't their best strategy.
Do you need investors? I know it is always nice to have the money but it seems like you may be better off without. Are you actively looking or just making contacts, etc.?
yep, back when i had a job coding under windows, i used to use gvim for text file editing, but visual studio for compiling, debugging and the really good search utilities.
Dijkstra would disapprove (:
> Maybe not exactly, but you can get pretty damn close.

Pretty different things those two, if you consider chaos theory.

Still, computers are by design created in a way which can be easily modeled.
vf is the easiest-to-type two-letter sequence i could find that doesn't appear in any english word. other languages' mileages may, of course, vary. (and if some chavfucker wants to object, well...)
Any good examples of boobs in flash?
Yahoo's search api is about to go premium. It's been free to date, but they have always said they'll start charging for it at some point.
It has a client side memory/resource leak. After viewing some pictures, the browser takes several hundred megs.

Its listed under GPU Process in Chromium. I guess it is a Chromium problem.
I have a weird sleeping time, i find out that from 12am to 8am i'm more productive coder, maybe because all the people are sleeping and i'm not get distracted easily.
I can't see how such data is important in any way in regards to finances or trades

Well, umm, it is. If you phone your broker and just chat about your cat, that will be taped too, and the tapes kept for 7 years.
or just make accessible their crawl data
Homemade Gift Series #1: Vanilla Extract
These days you can call a premium rate number, send a premium SMS message, etc (So I'm told)...
Startup weekend coming to Amsterdam next weekend
They call her "Toxie" (Planet Money Podcast - http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289 )
Howdy,
10 years ago, I was a happy user of Microsoft products and could not see any reason to use anything else. I never minded paying for software. I still don't mind, although now, all of the software I use is free(legally free). I don't even allow Microsoft software on my network, because I don't trust it. What drove me away from Microsoft was a steady history of the company lying to me and treating it's customers with contempt. Sometimes I hear that Microsoft has gotten better, but many things, including recently the behavior concerning Microsoft Office XML shows me otherwise. I disliked Linux when I started with it, but I did not appreciate paying money to be treated like dirt and I forced myself to convert. I think I understand the economic forces that drove Microsoft, but I think you were too short sighted. You looked on consumers as people who had little choice but to knuckle under to you. No consumer wants the DRM you crippled Windows Vista and 7 with. No sensible company wants an unreliable OS, which is all you offer now. I have discussed the unreliable nature of Windows with several senior MS engineers and they almost all agree about my points. One senior designer did not, although he could never find and deliver to me the evidence he though he had to the contrary.
I am more productive now with Linux than I ever was with Microsoft products, and I feel much better about it, too.
It seems to me that Microsoft is on it's way to irrelevance and I think there is very little chance you will reform. You think the actions you take are defensible. Most of them are, but that is not the only standard that matters. I feel dirty when I have to use Microsoft products now and that is 100 percent driven by your choices. I convert people to Linux every month. I still have an open mind, but I would need to see a real difference at Microsoft to change my mind.
Thank you for asking.
Oh come on. Intel, you're no fun anymore.
Also, your opcodes are complete shit. In case someone's actually reading.
For the same reason that Craigslist is still king despite its tragic UI. Solving the chicken-and-egg problems of a large, active community and brand-name recognition is orders of magnitude harder than just making a new auction website.
Not quite true (well, for most advertisers; I obviously can't speak for you directly). Total return is also important. Especially when you consider that there are non-zero time costs to running advertising on yet another platform.

Would you rather make $ 1 from a $.1 investment or $ 10 k from a $ 2k investment (assuming the former isn't scalable because there are no more users to advertise to)? If there is a non trivial time cost in setting up management, billing etc, you might not even bother with the former.
I used to work at a large porn company, and the porn industry has been hurting for a long time. They're completely reliant on affiliate traffic (usually paying 60-70% revenue share), because the online porn industry is so competitive that it's extremely difficult or impossible to generate your own traffic.

It's gotten so bad that porn sites are now giving content to the tube sites with affiliate links, in hopes of mitigating losses.

When I worked at that company, I made an "iTunes Store for porn" that did very well on launch, selling full non-DRM scenes for $1.99 each [1]. We even had companies like Hustler, Vivid, and Playboy desperately wanting to get their content into it (they're great at selling DVDs but never quite got the hang of online porn). Unfortunately, I never got the marketing support or budget I needed to keep it going, and the management wanted to keep it exclusive to our brand, so it died off pretty quickly.

It's a shame, I think it could have completely revitalized a struggling industry ("The only way to control your content is to be the best provider of it"). I would love to build something like it again, but unfortunately it would be pretty difficult without the resources or industry connections I had while working there.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/08/come-and-get-it-naughty-ame...
There's a solution here:

http://hintsforums.macworld.com/archive/index.php/t-82501.ht...

'stty -iexten' fixed it for me on my Mac.
Would appreciate if the title was changed to something a bit more descriptive.

Tl;dr - site called Gigapie(.com) allows you to buy and sell companies, but only on their site, you can earn real money if you do well.

"Gigapie lets you virtually trade hottest web companies & make real money. It is fun, safe and lucrative"
I'd develop a transparent clustering mechanism using Amazon EC2 to provide 1Gbps interconnect-based offloaded processing. For many tasks this would be near real time (think media encoding, password cracking, rainbow table generation) but having it scale transparently based on monthly budget would be awesome.
* googles "flash boobs"
I think the problem is that it's too difficult to pay for the porn compared to torrenting it. Nobody wants their credit card company to know they're looking at porn (as though they care), and nobody wants to deal with the shady auto-renew-every-month business model.

99c-per-video paid for with some generic account (paypal or google checkout -like) would make everyone's lives much easier. No strange charges for your bank to see, no remembering-to-cancel hassle, and cheap enough that you don't worry too much about the price. (And, nobody will pay the $30 for a one-month subscription, rip all 10 years of archives from your site, and post it to Usenet. If you want all 8000 back episodes, you pay $8000.)

They're still doing a lot better than Hollywood, though; at least there is no DRM.
Here you go.

http://www.shockabsorber.co.uk/bounceometer/shock.html
Ask HN: Will Python grow some Rails?
Just an unconstrained opinion from someone who has used neither.

Python needs a rails, one that appears polished (nice website design, nice graphics) and has enough resources for learning it (learn jetpython the hard way) - because as an outsider looking to go into programming web apps, rails seems much nicer with the appealing sites being made in its ecosystem. It should be like rails in the sense that for newbs, all the default config is done and will have the best options for new users, like rails does.

Right now, based on my perceptions as a non-user (which is an important crowd), python appears nicer to use but given there is no killer web framework agreed upon to the extent of rails, I am more likely to start learning ruby instead.

Will it happen for python? Posts like this seem a step in the right direction: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37113340/Why-Django-Sucks-and-How-we-Can-Fix-it
Hi. I took two scripts and combined wich give fill-in words and to get direct results (still just 5) on the page with google instant. What do you guys think of the results?
url = www.googled.eu
4chan DDoS Takes Down MPAA and Anti-Piracy Websites
That analogy doesn't hold up. If you learn mechanics you can repair and maintain your car, and even build a new one. But you'll never get your car to drive your kids to school without you sitting behind the wheel.

But you can do the equivalent of that if you're programming literate. We're moving to a digital culture, and if you don't know how to program you'll increasingly only become a consumer of other people's solutions, without the ability to solve your own problems.

Some people are calling this "procedural literacy".

As an aside I'd argue that computer interfaces have actually gotten somewhat worse while getting more friendly to newcomers. I think the last major leap in computer interfaces was cron(1). Unlike most modern interfaces being produced today you can use it to tell your computer to produce periodic reports and things like that.

That's where we should be headed with UI's, not aiming to have a monkey banging at the terminal at all times, but giving the monkey the ability to dictate things to the computer so he doesn't have to bang at the terminal.

Real computing power is being able to say: "Computer, I'm feeling under the weather today and I think I'll sleep in. At 9am please start playing 'Daddy's sick, get up and go to school!' on a loop in the kid's bedroom at 75 dB, and continue producing noise until they get out the door, engage!".

You can implement those sorts of things if you're a programmer.
You're just seeing the actual outcome.

The investors paid for the full probabilistic model, where in 10% of the cases Cuil would have succeeded in beating Google and would have made tens of billions of dollars. That alone is worth 10% * tens of billions = billions. 33M for that doesn't seem much in that perspective.

Your statement about "I am certainly sure" and "10 times more" ignores the probability distribution of your potential success, and how big is your success in each one of the cases.
> However, if I want to use the Microsoft-provided free MS Virtual Machine images, I have to run them on Virtual PC despite the fact that I have a perfectly good VMWare installation. On my Mac, this means running windows on VMWare, and then Virtual PC inside that virtual machine. This is insanity. I'm trying to support your product, you should be making it as easy as possible for me. Even Apple ported Safari to Windows.

To be honest, Apple is much much worse in this sense. I can buy Windows X and install it in a VM of my choice. Try this with OS X. And the only reason I need it is to port my app to their platform, potentially enhancing their ecosystem.
"Dear investors. Please don't pull your money out of our company, because even though we couldn't afford to hire a clueful cryptographer, we can still sue everyone uh huh yeah. That will protect our customers' content as well as HDCP protected it."

Of course, every HD movie ever released was already ripped and on TPB before HDCP was broken, so I really fail to see how this crack impacts Intel in any way. HDCP's weak link was the software anyway:

Blu-Ray Player: OH HAI, video card. Encrypt the video signal, kthx.
Video Card: Yeah, OK, that's turned on now.
Blu-Ray Player: Excellent. Here's the unencrypted HD video stream that I trust you to keep secure.
Video Card: *uploads to The Pirate Bay*
Too many and it's still not enough
man, they just don't look that good ...
Capturing The Atom Bomb
Because simply "the point of a video sharing site is so you don't have to worry about the overhead of transcoding, building a player, and distributing/debugging your videos". Video formats on the web aren't as standardized as images, at least till html5 catches on, and then there is again a controversy bt. webm and h264.
Yes it will. But it will have no power and will eventually take half of the car with it when it finally dies (draw your own parallels with life). Trust me, happened to me twice :(
Like it because of simplicity, I like this more than flickr slideshow.
How about Django? I thought it is the python's rails.
Ghostwriters in the sky
I don't know the real answer, but I always thought that the star indicates something pointing to, hence pointer. For &, I have an even sillier explanation, ANDdress. For references, & is overloaded to distinguish those who claim to know C++ by simply knowing C, since they are the same(!)
I know that, I'm afraid I was making a joke.
The Principals of 'Pataphysical Programming
The Sergey Spot
1)
Piracy is a very difficult problem to solve and like always, porn is on the forefront of this emerging technology. If there is a solution to it, the internet porn folks are going to find it soon. If they don't find the solution, there is going to be a major change to the way that media is distributed online.

2)
The online porn industry is cannibalizing itself. Those tube sites must cost a lot of money (in bandwidth costs) to run. Other online porn companies are buying ads on those sites and some content companies are paying to have their content featured. Why? Seriously? Why would advertisers pay for something they know will continue to degrade the industry as a whole? I understand that organizing something like this would be tough, but if all of the people stopped buying ads on the tube sites, they would be gone in a month.

3)
Advertising income is down all over the web and no one (porn or not) is breaking new ground. We're looking at the same ads at the same times in the same places. Traditionally, advertising has evolved and changed so that people don't become desensitized to it. I don't think that we're being creative enough with the way we create and place our advertising online. Naked or not, refining the way that we present and consume ads will be an important evolution of the web.
Blogging Money: The Pros and Cons of Starting a Video Blog - @ Blogging Geeks
There sure is some truth in that procedural awareness should be higher. But I think the analogy holds. You should not teach mechanics, but you should teach natural sciences in a way that principles are transferable to mechanics, and to building, and to a lot of other things.

I think it's deeply wrong to try and raise procedural awareness by forcing the technicalities of state of the art programming on the common man. You should find a way to teach algorithmic principles so that they are generally applicable.
Two things:

1) In Outlook, please stop turning email addresses into annoying underlined names that can't be edited.

2) If history is any guide the trend will swing back towards client-side apps at some point. If you want to make the OS relevant again you need to show us some awesomeness that simply can't be reproduced in a browser.
YalerTunnel - generic HTTP tunneling via the Yaler relay infrastructure
Heh,

I have been watching (listening) Toxie since the day she was born. It's, by far, my favorite anthropomorphized menace since the Woodland Christmas Critters:

http://www.southpark.nl/clips/sp_vid_154748/
Somehow the first application that comes to mind is a fashion model. Could end anorexia, perhaps.
a "hacker" is closer to a programmer that think "out of the box"

than to a "cracker" that "breaks into other people computers"

the media has given this defintion to the word "hacker" and I always rejected it!
it would be great if you could let users select these symbols: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logikgatter#Typen_von_Logikgatt...
The superstar effect.
Ok, so the problem they were solving was more difficult... but they are going after similar markets (or at least segments of the same market).

Technical achievements are great; but Gabriel is much better placed. He is self funded, he is building on existing tools (always good advice), he leveraged us, the hacker crowd, who can be very loyal, he clearly listens to his customers etc.

Cuil, on the other hand, produced some very confusing (if technically interesting) things and then ranted about those who criticised them. They had a lot of big bucks VC money (always a warning sign) and didn't appear to be leveraging loyalty from any user base.

Even if the problems these two startups are facing are different; there is a lesson here. One is how not to build a product, and one is :)