skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the challenge was to solve everything with "grep" because of the "Greplin" title.
I'm trying to find the article that was going around a month or two ago saying that vertical farms were a sham and the numbers don't make any sense when you study them. Can anyone remember the source?
Or you can just download an RDF dump of wikipedia and make your queries using sparql http://dbpedia.org/
Wow, that was all they needed. Goodbye Facebook! I'm reactivating my Myspace account today!
-29 days to write an app that can write novels in less than a day.

-1 day to write the novel.

-done.
Now I know what to do if I ever need to test my super-anonymity shield.

I am going to kill ..
Google Says of Windows Phone 7, 'the world doesn't need another platform'
please email me: j@jasonlbaptiste.com .
This is an astonishingly effective technique. I feel a bit of an ass talking to a duck (in my case, a stress ball with a smiley face on it) but much less of an ass than coming to a co-worker with a stupid problem.

NB: silently looking over the code is not the same. Something about having to explain it to a third party makes you question your assumptions in a way that is helpful.
So old, but I do tell all my student assistants to do this. Unfortunately, they usually opt for the in a pinch ask a co-worker option. Hmm, I think I am going to buy rubber ducks...
"Der Fuehrers Face" is a fascinating watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iumEGAUceDg
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Have you seen https://mozillalabs.com/ubiquity/ and http://vimperator.org/ ?

Or maybe... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29 :)
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but that was, I think, what those who criticized MySQL missed. 95% of the use I saw MySQL being put to in the late 90s and early 00s would today be done in some distributed key/value store. Most people using MySQL didn't care that it wasn't a very good RDBMS because they didn't need a very good RDBMS. they needed a fast key/value store that could handle basic locking most of the time, and that worked out of box without a lot of setup.
You can use the Sieve of Eratosthenes to generate primes with pen and paper very easily. Or, you could find a roll of paper and evaluate any computable function (assuming unbounded paper). ;)
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This idea that everyone is an idiot and nothing matters is somewhat depressing. There is no point in designing anything for intelligent people -- there aren't enough of them to matter. People, in general, aren't discriminating at all. It sounds like if you put two items in identical shiny cases, they'll just pick them at random. Putting any effort into making one item better (rather than shinier) is simply wasted.

I can't argue with your evidence -- the fact that Nokia still manages to sell smartphones at all proves nobody is looking too deeply.
What part of this strikes you as shady? Is there more to the story than this? Start here: where did you get your market research info from? Your numbers are very specific.
Wait. Didn't your domain name get taken away by the the Libyan .ly registrar or was that another shortener service?

Edit: Nevermind, found the discussion here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772071
Ok, I get it. But I'm not amped by it. 2 reasons:

1) Hitler is associated with way too many entries, I mean for 10 years he controlled most of europe, there isn't a topic in 20th century history he doesn't touch at some point. Its too easy to get to hitler through wikipedia. I'd like to see it with someone less obvious (and funnier) - like Ted Nugent

2) I'm kind of disturbed by the cutesy drawings of Hitler. I dunno, I normally have a thick skin and a good sense of humor, but having been raised jewish its hard for me to look at cuddly hitler and not cringe a little
Reading your ideas, I was thinking about number 2, and those demos of the Microsoft Surface awhile back, and I had this idea. What if insead of an "app" you had a web app where where resteraunts can upload photos/prices/descriptions of menu items, and get a QR code they can paste up in their resteraunt. Might be slighly less of an enterance barrier for customers.
Totally in on this.
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Google shares web page metrics
You shouldn't have to play "Concentration" to figure out what a logo means and how it represents a business.
Thanks for the advice I will change that.
That's not correct. That's buying on the secondary markets. To get into the IPO you have to have an account and an allocation from a brokerage that is participating in the initial distribution.
of course yes! I work for one among the top companies. I studied in a village from a low grade universities(it doesn't matter where you study, it all about how and what you study). Though I couldn't get into top companies right out of college, In 2 years I ended up in top companies. Most(not all there are some smart guys out there too) of the IIT and NIT i have seen are jerks or n00bs. You got the passion and attitude to learn? then you got the world out there. Forget what your relatives are doing its all about you and what you wanted to do. Contribute to Free Software become a rock star hacker. All the best :)
Help me understand this math? We've had 2. They're expensive (and ours were both complicated births), but 2x?
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Over-react much?

Also, what is the point of this statement: "I put in Dalai Lama and there's a separation of 3." Are you complaining that it's a short connection? I mean, obviously, this is simply demonstrating the small world effect, which is a pretty amoral concept as far as concepts go.
Brewin, thanks for enlightening me on InkMesh.com. That is exactly what I was looking for. I am definitely putting down that idea. How about my other idea?
Right, and now they have millions of Android devices out in the wild with voice input collecting for them.
At my middle school, some of us used to play Wikiracing. Pick an arbitrary starting point and an endpoint and try to get there by clicking links as quickly as possible. The constraint was time used, not number of links clicked.
Sorry, let me clarify.

Let's say you started investing/saving at the age of 18 up until 65, and lets say the amount you put in per month over that period of time was $800 per month - this is pretty low, given how much your income should increase over time.

At a conservative rate of return of 5%, at age 65, it would be worth around $1.8 million, $1.35 million of that being the compound 5%, and only roughly $450,000 being what you put in.

Essentially, the earlier you start saving, the bigger your runway, and the more comfortable you'll be later in life, without having to compromise on your lifestyle right there and then.

The later you start, the more you have to put in each month to get the same outcome at the end.

Something I wish my parents had taught me :)

Of course, if you start your own business, and are successful enough, the numbers look way, way, better. This is essentially just your fallback position.
Remember that PostgreSQL isn't run by a commercial enterprise, it's written by volunteers who as a general group couldn't care less about marketing, market share or what your business wants.

For an rather more extreme example of this see OpenBSD, who basically say "if you want to use it go right ahead, but we build OpenBSD for our own use, not for your use."
What does yc give these days, like 25K?
They automated it by creating a script that pushed job requests to Amazon Mechanical Turk, which were then carried out by other "developers" in China, etc.
Bahhhhhhhhhh I'll do it

Couple sites on the to-do list and I want to get one done.

Boo now I'm on the hook
yep. because 1A might yield "FU money!". If not, you have to do 2 because it might not come til 2A. Or 3A.
> I dunno, I normally have a thick skin and a good sense of humor, but having been raised jewish its hard for me to look at cuddly hitler and not cringe a little

Maybe you should grow a thicker skin? The British Empire was arguably more evil than the German Reich (and did evil for quite a few centuries). Yet the Union Jack is displayed everywhere (even on shirts) and the same hateful institutions are still there (e.g. the royal family).
1 is really good, 2 is a solution looking for a problem and i doubt it will scale. Idea 1 could be huge, because right now, there is no central gift certificate web site. It's a really good idea, but absolutely requires a good quality domain name, one you'd probably have to pay for.
Kevin Bacon -> Great Depression -> Adolf Hitler

Nice.
Got this by searching Pokemon as well
I can help you translate it to spanish if you want.
Yeah, but it's kind of cheating because it goes through "louse" which is the singular of lice.
Do whatever it takes to program every day. Either build a few apps for yourself, work on a new app/business you plan to launch, or try to extend open source projects. The important thing is trying.

Like an writer or a painter, the best way to learn programming is to learn by doing.

It does help to work with others, so find a friend and work on a project with them and try to learn as much as possible if you can.

Regardless of how you do it, you will be blown away by how much your skills improve after 270 days.
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I've looked into this as well and never found something that was exactly what I wanted. Most programs focus on computer science/software programming and have web dev classes available, but don't focus on them.
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Agree on #2 - it's an interesting idea, but cuddly Hitler is in poor taste.

I'm originally from Europe, and with family members lost during the war, I don't consider it something that's already lost in the fog of history.

<soapbox>
I think Americans generally have a different sense of what the war felt like afterwards. There are many American vets who suffered great trauma, and I don't mean to detract from that in any way. They made real sacrifices that we should be aware of and respect.

That said - when the war was over, Americans came home to a country that was largely intact. In much of Europe, everything had been completely destroyed (by bombs or otherwise). So it's taken longer for those memories to fade.
</soapbox>

Anyway, that's not to say that the effort put into this wasn't worthwhile! Good job on the wikipedia searching - cool idea. : )
That's the thing: Nokia's smartphones are smartPHONEs, not PDAs with a cellular modem. The current smartphone obsession is being largely driven by American-style smartphones, which are mostly terrible at being phones.

Nokia screw up when they try to copy this style of device and forget that their strength is excellent telephony devices. Which, despite the trendiness of mobile browsing and 'apps', is what most people want from their mobile phone.

That's why Nokia still own the market, because their devices appeal to people who primarily want to make phone calls from their phone. iOS, Android, WebOS, and Windows Mobile will never crack that market.
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Ignoring the cost of setting up the farm, water, and creating a market for (most likely) more expensive produce, this would work great.

I love the concept of vertical farming, but the only way it is going to reach commercial success is through small scale trials that pave the path for full scale deployments.
And then there's 1-800-BING-411 (1-800-246-4411) which used to be called something like 1-800-Tell-Me. I prefer ggle's sms-based service. I've also tried ChaCha.com (txt 242-242) where humans respond instead of software but the service has declined from my experience over the passed couple years.
Sucks. I don't think in game ads can be as terrible as they have been (speaking as a gamer) and in moderation would be a good income source for games, provided they were also sold cheaper.

Games like TF2 are cheap but also have (fake) posters etc in the game... naturally it wouldn't go over well with an existing game but I think if you stylized the ads to fit in with the theme, and didn't make them too overt, it would be accepted a bit easier.

Obviously a crystal-clear ad for KFC in Call of Duty wouldn't work too well.
I suppose I did over-react. My apologies. Perhaps I am in the wrong since I seem to be the only voice that opposes this application. Before coming to the web development world, I was a counselor for troubled youth and adults with mental disabilities (2 separate jobs); our words were important in those positions and I think I'm carrying that over into this current space.

And, I wasn't complaining about the short connection. Everything's inter-related. But I feel that instead of using Hitler as the constant, some other object/person might have been more considerate; I still believe in the power of words. We have those little 'karma' points next to our usernames on this list, don't we? Is the karma just meant to indicate that what we say jives with the collective whole? Like I said, that was my second post; I may have misunderstood what the community 'rules' are.
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Maybe I have not expressed my self clearly. I was thinking if there is a full feature browser(not a command line browser like lynx) where at the same time will be having command line capabilities. I guess it can be something like kernel on the cloud.
looking forward to this
Is there any purpose in having a sign-up? If you're already linked to the user's Facebook account, isn't this enough?

Is it not a one-to-one relationship between Portrit and FB account?

The UI for 'likes' is confusing. The icon seemed very foreign, and the whole idea of putting profile pictures of people who have liked the post on the right isn't intuitive either.
All of my 'favourite topics' are hashtags I've only used once (and in jest).
Yes, I expected at least a separation of 5 for the Dalai Lama / Hitler pairing; just goes to show you everyone is tainted in this world....
You should use the HTML5 email field:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
Ask HN: Web app where hourly employees can "clock in"?
There's got to be a sweet web app to replace the old clock card machine. Any suggestions?
http://www.clockspot.com/ kinda
Subzero, Raiden, and a few others.
I'd originally thought that the project was to remove those faded 'station id' logos that TV channels put on videos. It would be great if there were some kind of functionality in ffmpeg to remove those semitransparent logos either when the video is first being encoded, or when it's being decoded later to be displayed.
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/08/16/towering-lunacy/
Time Force has some browser and mobile-based time clocks available at the bottom of the page:

http://www.mytimeforce.com/time-clocks/time-clocks-by-type.p...
The login is it limit the amount of users. This is what the key is for. When we officially launch this will be removed.

I agree that the like icon could use some work. The idea behind showing profile pictures of likes instead of names is one of the main ideas of Portrit. We are trying to limit the amount of text and promote discovery that may not have happened if the name was shown. We will look into making this action more intuitive.

Thanks for the feedback.
Valve did do this with cs 1.6, I don't know if it is still up or not, but they started off advertising the orange box and other things steam related (I believe they added the advertising spots to the maps after the fact however).
I agree this is an awesome story. It is nice to have a small community of people who help each other out.

After some of the other tech focused user submitted news sites outgrew their roots, I wandered around for years not feeling compelled to join another community. HN is different, it is the reason I joined and this story highlights why.
Don't spend all of your money on toys… Great advice, but be sure to spend some of it on toys!

Also, pick toys which have utility, make you work out, teach you something, and are different than the past toys you've bought. Try to learn from play too.
I was thinking something with flavor chrome+bash full capability of playing video for example and at the same time be used as text editor if you want, list your offline files etc
I am not sure that uzbl is that. But I am sorry if I missed the point of uzbl-browser
I actually brainstormed a similiar idea about 6 months ago.
I think what you are asking for is a browser that also acts as a terminal.

It would have to do both really well to fit into that niche, but I haven't looked too much into uzbl-browser but it may be able to perform such tasks through its extensibility.
You can't loudly proclaim that education is a complicated problem that defies simple solutions while at the same time oversimplifying the entirety of the nation's problems in false dichotomies, saying things like: The film has other flaws. It insists all of America’s problems would be solved if only poor kids would memorize more: Pittsburgh is falling apart not because of deindustrialization, but because its schools are filled with bad teachers. American inequality isn’t caused by decades of Reaganite tax cuts and deregulation, but because of too many failing schools.

Well, I suppose you can. But you can't if you want me to take your rhetoric seriously.
hm, so vanilla Finer doesn't have tabs, doesn't have dual panes, and can't sort folders on top!!

wow.

On Gnome, it's quite the opposite story: all these features are included in vanilla Nautilus, but it just looks ugly! people make plugins to beautify it (elementary nautilus).
Well, if it hadn't been for this app, I would have never learned about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Kretschmar whose name was only released in 2007.

I wouldn't have known his name, or that he died at 6 months. Or that his own parents directly petitioned to Hitler to have him killed and called him "The Monster."

Or that merely 3 weeks after his death, when Hitler realized no one would stop him, he started systematically compiling lists of children with severe disabilities to euthanize.

And that it was this systematic killing of children that led to the systematic killing of disabled adults, and then the systematic killing of entire ethnic groups.

(Insect diuretic hormones -> Evolution -> Action T4 -> Adolf Hitler, and then I read Action T4 and went to Gerhard Kretschmar)
I'm sure the game will be compelling.
ah, nice to finally find you :)

I was wondering how bitkeeper was doing, good to know it's doing alright :)
When I was in middle school, someone had a TI calculator that was programmed with a rudimentary choose your own adventure style game. It was really cool!
Exactly that "a browser that also acts as a terminal" :). I am not a programmer. I am talking from the perspective of someone that likes the comfort and the goods of a fully featured browser(multimedia, filling forms easily, ..) and the flexibility and the simplicity of a terminal.
Could you elaborate on the technology you used and why?
Take ten smart kids and stick them under an oak tree and you'll have a better school than a 100 million dollar facility full of idiots. That's the real problem, and there's no solving it.
I am much humbler than Science herself but I second that :)
I wrote it, but back in 2007 (look at the timestamp on scribd). A long time ago, and I had other priorities. Post has already been discussed and dissected and emailed about back then.
So if a company (or state government in your example) wants to provide health care benefits to be competitive in the marketplace, they should be penalized for that?

Additionally, your statement about "well-paid employees" doesn't seem to fit with the article you quoted. Secretaries and van drivers aren't generally highly paid positions.
And another one: flyers, posters, t-shirts and souvenirs
http://www.clicktime.com

I wrote the industry's first Ajax-powered punch clock for them many years ago and it's since been improved quite a bit.
An online reputation/credibility aggregator. Do the same for credibility that TransUnion, Experian and Equifax have done for financial credit. Aggregate the reputation of one user across many sites. Here are some examples of sites and reputation metrics to use:

-- Hacker News upvotes/downvotes

-- Quora upvotes/downvotes/followers/Endorsements

-- Twitter followers/retweets

-- Disqus Likes

-- Facebook Likes

-- LinkedIn Connections and Endorsements

-- GitHub Followers

-- Forrst Followers/Likes

-- Dribbble Likes

-- Etc.

All the pieces are falling into place to establish an online credibility rating. Possibly even multiple credit ratings for difference dimensions like coding, graphic design, business advice, life advice, career advice, etc.

Here's a possible use case of such data:

Imagine a debate erupts between two users who claim to be authority. Maybe they are arguing on climate change. Each argues his side of the issue and makes claims. One has a high credibility rating of 720 and the other has a low credibility rating of 590. Others watching the debate can then take the credibility rating into account when considering which side to trust/support.

That may not be the best example, but I honestly think such a credibility rating would have value and that we really won't understand the value of such a system until you put it out there and start seeing what others do with it.
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This is really good, though I don't know what will stay with me. It's probably just good for people to see such a strong communicator talk about why statistics matters.
I use it at my dayjob, and love it!

It's kinda hard to work with visual studio once you get used to vim :)

Oh, and your "why oh why" vim intro really motivated me to learn vim, so thanks for that too!!
It doesn't seem to make it especially easy: you still have the same problem of having to eliminate the multiples of 61, 79, 89, etc. which are not obvious. Yes, you can count, but it looks very time-consuming.

The problem still stands that one needs to go in the 500,000s for that problem (thus 700s for the square root). That's still a long way to go…

I'm really curious about how cperciva did it. You're supposed to find the first Fibonacci prime over 227,000. The first Fibonacci number over that is obviously not prime (multiple of 3), but the one after that is not obvious even if you have the list of primes obtained with that method.
Why would you want a graduate degree in building web development exactly?

Graduate programs in cs are geared either towards research or higher level subjects. Basic web apps are well basic as far as a subject goes. Its easier to just learn that from a book. Now if you want to learn about databases or security or analytics or something like that. Which tends to be higher level. You should be able to find programs geared around them.
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So many companies use big names like ADP or Paychex for processing that it just makes sense to use their systems to clock hours. I'm familiar with clocking in at ADP. It works, but its not pretty. It might make sense to have a small scale app for smaller companies that don't use big guys in the room.
The teacher is oddly missing in your scenario.