skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've understood, Sun didn't license everything to IBM (or for that matter, to others as you stated). Charles Nutter had a great post (and it has been updated) on the Oracle suit against Google where he talks about some of the wild claims that Oracle was making:

http://blog.headius.com/2010/08/my-thoughts-on-oracle-v-goog...

My point is that no rational company would attack its own base. Oracle had some wild claims. These will be toned down and they will come to an agreement. Things will move on.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't pay attention to Oracle's antics (even though I just consider Oracle a whining child at this point), but I think this whole thing is overblown.
Our local TV station has done this and has promoted it heavily via on air commercials. It looks like it has given a good boost to their floundering local craigslist knock-off.

http://www.wcax.com/
De facto, if Oracle/Sun refuses to TCK any independent implementation of Java SE, while tolerating their implementation under open source license, then there is ground for anti-trust action.

The argument being that 3rd parties have no means to validate their implementation. Hence, there is no practical way to implement Java SE independently.

Considering the dominant position of Oracle/Sun, we can't exclude the possibility that the European Commission will start a new anti-trust investigation against Oracle/Sun.
See also: "Slow Languages Battle Across Time" (http://prog21.dadgum.com/52.html)
Survey Reveals How Stupid People are With Passwords
Back then Haskell was mired in "avoid success at all costs" - AFAIK D isn't a research language, it was always targeted towards production use.
I saw several netbooks (which are not famous for horsepower) upgraded to win7 without a single problem.
I loved the punchline to the story. Someone decides to write an algorithm to compute a few tables, works a while on an algorithm to compute them efficiently, in the end gives up and brute-forces it very inefficiently, then discovers that it takes only 2 seconds to run.

And the punchline: there's an article on Wikipedia with all of the values pre-computed!
Probably poor reading comprehension. 100 questions in and it's easy to pick the wrong answer.

They need Google-style auto-correction ;)
I want the italian type L plugs, except it uses flat pins vs. rounded pins (rounded pins always seem to fall out at the slightest force, it's extremely frustrating) and have a plastic covering for part of the live wires like the british plugs do. Outlets would have 4 to 6 plugs standard instead of one or two. The Schuko plugs are huge monstrosities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Type...
anyone else stopped watching mixergy ever since it stopped being live? Before I'd use to watch every day, but now it's much faster to just read the transcript of the few stories that actually catch my attention.
surely OKCupid has some selection bias?

"People who like other people"?
I'd assume clickthrough to the article.
unfortunately if I may add :)
I would like to briefly add to this excellent point. It is very valuable to highlight a time when you have actually built something (include a link to the project if possible). Demonstrate that you will be able to deliver software, not just think about it (as the case may be).
Twitter Crushing Facebook's Click-Through Rate
In general from a lower value activity to a higher value activity. eg. from a reader of the paper to someone who clicks on an ad
Is There a Bubble in Web 2.0 Startups?
oh, no I wasn't :(

but if you give me a couple of weeks, I'll see if I can find time to start
Not what I meant to convey. I said that if you're ok with $35,000 a year, why not get a job that pays $200,000 a year and donate $160,000? That cash is going to make a lot more difference than your PHP web app for contesting parking tickets ever will.
Congratulations and thanks for all your work!
This is awesome. When I was growing up, in Saudi Arabia, I never once saw a Saudi woman at a desk. I've read that King Abdul Aziz University actively recruits women professors and students, and that's such a wonderful thing to hear.
Looks good. Direct investment is a nice growing space.
It seems to me that that demographic won't soon be found on a site like OkCupid ;) I'd attribute it to miscomprehension and misclicks.
This is a working implementation of a variant of Gentry's fully homomorphic encryption scheme. It is still not close to being practical, but the efficiency improvements are encouraging.
Here's a brilliant article from several years ago that crops up on HN from time to time -- an undercover report on car dealerships. It's long, but it's recommended reading if you are planning to buy a car, or if you have any interest in sales psychology:

http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/article....

According to this article, there are two kinds of dealerships -- high-pressure and low-pressure -- and the reporter spends some time working at each. The high-pressure Japanese dealership had an elaborate buying process with many additional costs, delays, and psychological tricks to greatly inflate the final price. "Let me talk with my manager" is used as a weapon.

But online research is a good idea. Some lines from the article:

"Three hundred below invoice," he smugly answered.

I asked how he did it. He said he checked prices on the Internet. He then called the fleet manager and made the deal over the phone.

I had a schizophrenic reaction to this. Part of me admired the fact that he had outfoxed the dealer. But the car salesman side of me was angry that I never "got a shot at him." It seemed like just a matter of time before people who, in the past, walked onto our car lot, would be on the Internet making deals.
> If they don't know that the Earth is smaller than the Sun, then how can they understand that the Earth is a satellite of the Sun?

These facts are independent.
The link to checkout a sample screencast doesn't seem to work--it just redirects me to a sample of the first chapter.

Otherwise, thanks for creating this! I've really enjoyed the book.
My dentists keep changing because they keep leaving the practice I go to. That might be a sign to look elsewhere. Although my first dentist told me that at some time I would need a crown put on a tooth, and as soon as he left and the new dentist looked at my tooth, he said we should get this done now even though nothing had changed. One could have been complacent, while the other was proactive - who knows. There probably should be more of a standard than a gut feeling when it comes to medical procedures.
Intuitively, this makes sense. If your company has walled itself off from hiring 1/2 of the population, of course you will be passing over some highly skilled applicants who are in the sector you've walled yourself off from. By broadening your search, you will get a larger pool of talented applicants.
I think it's generally agreed that the U.S. was the world's foremost economy and the home of many of the major innovations of the 20th century. I'm contending that our public education system was a major enabler of that creativity and productivity.
Keeping Bits Safe: How Hard Can It Be?
I'd change the message a bit: "Lend. Buy. Create." should be something like "Patonize. Create." and patronize would contain both elements. The person who wishes to invest in art sees himself as a noble figure and "Loan. Buy." is a bit prosaic.

I'd also change the text under Create to not say "We know you are the next big thing." If I were interested in participating in the patronage program, that text would scare me off. I'd want an expert guiding my investment into truly promising, well-vetted artists, not just any schlub who wants to paint his cat. The selection process should be difficult and not all-inclusive.

Are you coming to Miami for Art Basel? Meetup?
The Huffingpost a/b tests their titles: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/10/how-the-huffington-post-use...
Speaking Dutch is not necessary at Booking.com.
Bug Discovered in Condè Nast iPad Apps Lets You Download Issues for Free
Get more embedded with adding value related to experiencing the local community. Let the barrier between online and offline fade.
Do you do this for a living?
You're not wrong, but swombat has, like myself, seen this at least four times on HN already. So, we're not interested in it anymore until it's a product.
Ask HN: Redmine-like bug tracker, but PHP?
I'm looking for a redmine-esque bug tracker, but with a PHP / MySQL base, rather than RoR. Suggestions?
Enable your local audience to become part of your news-gathering operation, perhaps even hosting citizen journalism pieces (clearly marked) that help bring hyper-local news that the newspaper wouldn't carry/couldn't resource.

Depends on your Metro, but take San Francisco - I rely on local blogs to tell me what is really going on in SoMa because the San Francisco Chronicle does such a poor job. I'd love to see those blogs get some distribution on SFGate.com (SF Chron's website).
You can do it a bit cheaper if you're willing to live more like a Japanese salaryman than I do. (i.e. smaller apartment, more cooked meals.) Still, Japan is a rich country with rich country prices, even in semi-rural areas like Gifu.

If you do come to Gifu, look me up. I enjoy giving tours.
The question of whether FB as it exists now would abuse such a system (yes, of course they would, they're awful) is separate from the question of whether or not said system would make business sense for a gigantic social network.

If FB were the kind of company that could figure out how to make money without ads or taxing 3rd party devs, maybe they'd also be the kind of company that would treat its users as customers rather than products. Hypotheticals all around.
I somewhat agree, but don't forget that a large portion of that will get taxed, which would limit the amount that you could donate.
Well... actually I'm surprised no one has questioned this conclusion from the OP. They say this:

"Gay people are not sexually interested in straights"

but in fact, what their data indicates is better stated as:

"Gay people will not attempt to date people they know to be straight"

which is something different.
How do these compare to the PeepCode screencasts? I realize they're updated for Rails 3, but if you compared the Rails 2 screencasts to each other, how do they compare?
Don't just sell ad-space, resell white-labeled products to your advertisers. Give them tools to improve the conversion from leads generated by your newspaper. I have ideas here. Sent you an email if you're interested in chatting.
Rich vs thin client 2.0? Native app or mobile web app for your business?
Homepage is too busy. Simplify it a bit.
> "I think that being suspicious of a cohort bias on OKCupid is totally legitimate."

Absolutely, but that's not what DirtyAndy was getting at - he's assigning his own stereotype of an OKCupid user, which he has little data to back up.

It's perfectly valid to be suspicious of population bias in a website - any website for that matter - but to extrapolate and pretend to know just how that bias is tilted (without data) is doing yourself a disservice.
Call me sexist, but I firmly believe there are three areas women should not generally be part of: military, cooking and teaching.

All the best chefs are men, best professors I know are men too. And military requires more endurance that women normally have.
'They certainly require more effort from developer to be as reliable as programs on statically typed languages. Compare theoretical absence of certain errors (typos, for example) with probable absence of them.'

Just because some JavaScript implementations don't provide compile-time reference checking and type inference, doesn't mean it's not possible, or even particularly hard. See for example the kinds of warnings SBCL provides at compile time (they are not far off from the stuff you'd see from a Java compiler). People have been writing very large, reliable programs in Lisp for 40 years now.

Java's type system is completely broken (what else do you think the implication of having every type be "or null" is?) - in practice this means the difference in number of errors stemming from bad types between Java and programs written in dynamically typed languages is much less than you think. The way forward is languages with a logically sound type system that supports inference and polymorphism (and today this means Haskell or ML and derivatives).
Obviously I mean in the sense of a complement. And it is an accurate use of the word in that sense. WePay is the other half of online payments: PayPal is for businesses, and WePay is for people who need to collect money but aren't businesses.
newspaper readers is a natural social network. please build tools to allow them to easily communicate and expressing their views with each other. For example, letters to editors should also be a topic that others can contribute also. Ads should be voted and/or comments upon. News items can be submitted and voted on. etc...Good luck, I'm cheering for you.
Finishing Touches (H&FJ Fonts)
And the whole point of Mono is to be able to run the windows stack on Unix environments. Hence my comment that "it could be running on Ubuntu using mono" :-)
I think this is more "the rational way dentists interact with insurance companies". Insurance companies pay well under the usual market rate for treatment, so it makes sense for a dentist that accepts insurance to find a lot of problems that can be fixed in a short amount of time. "Yeah, that's probably a cavity" for 3 teeth on the same side of the mouth requires about as much time-in-chair as 1 cavity, but he gets to bill 3x. And since the insurance company is paying for it, there is no risk of not being paid. (It's bad for the patient, of course, because the fillings have to be redone in 10 years. But that ticking time bomb keeps the insurance payments coming in, and so it's good for everyone. Except the patient.)

My dentist doesn't take insurance and so he probably doesn't do this.
I live in the Bay Area. If you email me I can let you know my current dentist.
Newspapers have a huge amount of unrealized value. They are probably one of the most trusted sources of relevant local content available, even today. But if newspapers maintain business as usual and don't fully leverage this advantage, this power will continue to slowly erode with ocassional landslides when revolutionary tech companies emerge.

But I'm not here to bash newspaper, we're here to talk about how to fix it.

One of the hardest things about getting any business up and running is getting early users and visibility. Newspapers by default have the distribution platform built in. My recommendation is that newspapers move away (not completely) from relying exclusively on classified to make others money. And use their INCREDIBLY VALUABLE distribution platform to promote locally relevant services which they have equity in.

Andrew Mason from Groupon stated that the only real competition he'd really have is from newspapers or local radio stations. And he's right. But I haven't seen newspaper really doing this. (I believe Boston Globe did a deal with BuyWithMe but I haven't been in boston in a while).

The failure to really innovate on approaches like this is partly a function of the expertise of people who work for newspapers. You've got reporters, who know their city inside out, ad managers that know the local businesses and sell ad space, web devs who do layout for stories and awesome infographics, but you don't really have a "product development" team. Folks who's responsibility it is to create marketable products FOR the newspaper. I guess this is where you come in, but from your post, it looks like this is a side project for you.

I've thought about this some, and really think this is the way forward for them. There needs to be a big structural change in how revenue is generated and how the business is run. Classified alone won't cut it.

I've got one largely developed project and several early stage plans that I think would work well with a newspaper partnership, so if you'd like to talk, drop me a note (email in profile).
Nope, but I'm building this system into a site I'm creating for PE investments to help users of the system improve their pitch.

Want to leverage it?
Yes, sorry, decimal placement error in my calculation.
8. Perfict speling and grammer.

This was probably intentional, but perfect is misspelled.
Donations are pre-tax.
15 hours of Ruby tutorials? I hate to be a killjoy, but I recall there being a screencast that showed you (with, granted, a whole lot of magic pixie dust) how to build a blog in 15 minutes.

I'm not entirely sure that "More is good" in this context. But then, I know Rails already so I'm not part of your target market, I suppose.

Still, I would feel somewhat daunted by 15 hours of tutorials and 1000 pages of documentation. Sounds more like .NET than Rails.
Looking for somebody to hangout in California
Hey guys.

My name is Pavel, I run a web development company here in Russia. Our key knowledge is Ruby on Rails.

At the end of October I'm visiting California and Seattle, Washington and would like to meet some local guys, who work on the Internet, develop various stuff and does web-related business. It'd be great to make the acquaintance and share experience.

Please, ping me, if you have couple of hours between October, 30 and November, 7 and you want to hangout together. My mail is pavel@golubeff.ru and my skype is pavel.golubev. Here's my CV if you want to know more about me: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1111338/cv.pdf
He was at the prototype stage last time, and the time before, and the time before... I don't think there has actually been any progress...
It wasn't obvious to me how to delete icons. A permanent "trash" icon rather than a context sensitive "trash" icon might help. Also, you could add a note to the Dashler menu letting users know they can drag icons to reorder them.

Annotated screenshots might be more useful than a video. I think most HN users want to jump right in and use a tool rather than watch a video. Screenshots can be absorbed more quickly.

By the way, I like the pulsating "Get Dashler" button.
Engage them in one of the following ways
1 a. Urge them to become citizen journalists sending you video's etc on stuff which they observe or come across.
1 b. Run a column showcasing some of the work done by such citizen journalists. e.g. NDTV (Indian channel) runs a similar thing.

2. Call for people interested in helping local community building.

3. Ask for feedback on what can be done to improve the paper. for e.g. if Toronto Star would ask me this I would urge them to slim their Saturday paper from 200 pages to 10 pages so that I do not feel bad about not being able to read it even when its free
Just FYI that local deals engine is supported by http://secondstreetmedia.com/ which does white label deals sites - very cheap and easy way to test.
Interesting errors might be a better gage of intelligence than the things a learner gets right.

Surely we have all experienced young kids getting something wrong in a way that showed how bright they are?
people looking for a date != "people who like other people"

first thing I thought there are much more high school kids than anyone else. Then I found this:
http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/older_lover/Age-Distribution-With...

and this:
http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/09/selection_bias_everywhe...
Does anyone actually go to dealerships anymore to 'look' for cars? With websites like Autotrader, you basically have all of your choices listed for you. The last car I bought, I found online, went to the dealership, and it wasn't that bad of a situation. Just like any other major purchase you should do your homework before confronting anyone in sales.
I've tried 6 dentists recently, 2 were local; 2 were referred by people I knew; 2 were referred by health-care professionals who were trustworthy and gave me truly excellent results in their own field. I'm in Melbourne, Australia, and I have no reason to believe that our dentists are particularly bad.

All 6 were either dishonest or incompetent. Including: preventing my front teeth from meeting; modifying opposing teeth for a fit; key equipment not working; charging me for work not done (I was informed that they'd checked the invoice too); going back on an agreement (to give me the xrays); going ahead with work without asking me (I found it impossible to get out of the chair to stop him); and of course being overcharged (my accountant remarked on it.)

However, all 6 were excellent at minimizing pain, and that seems to be what most people notice. I'm more concerned about getting my teeth fixed.

The 2 previous to these 6 were not very good. I would have thought 6 more would be enough to find a good one. I have given up on the dental profession as institutionally corrupt. I do not believe there is even any facility to complain about them, as that would also be run by dentists.

Because it's difficult for a layman to check a professional's work, especially when that work is also difficult to inspect, I used secondary signals in the above. However, I also bought a small mirror, and a direct inspection also revealed a misplaced shallow drill hole (with no filling). I remember years ago one of the previous dentists had slipped, but I didn't think it had actually resulted in any drilling. None of the dentists mentioned this very obvious rogue drill hole.

I think most people are happy to get out of there, and if any pain stops. I just wish I could DIY my own dental work.

Can anyone suggest how I can find a competent dentist?
In all seriousness, if you've got a local-business section you think might benefit from statistics, we need to talk. (No, I'm not trying to sell you anything.) Email me: andrew@timetric.com.
Jailbreak Greenpois0n and limera1n offer new options for iOS 4
True, but if you criticize the 'Sex in the City' immaturity, you are lambasted. If you criticize the immature male behavior, you are celebrated. [in popular culture]
I wasted most of the early 90s doing that.

We need 64 transputers to run this in real time, 1 year of PCB layout later = hey we can do this in 16 transputers and a Sparc.

Cue another year of redesign - now it would only take 4 transputers and a Sparc5.

Then a sales guy turns up promising to put the 16 transputers into an FPGA card.

Just before that works we get an i860 board for the Sparc.

Then finally we can do it in software on a Pentium...
I would start crowd-sourcing articles and pay the authors a small amount when they get published.
I must admit I didn't know the big domains disabled ssh. Naive/beginner's question: how do programmers work remotely at these companies (if it's allowed at all)? Do they ssh into other (safe) servers, from which a safe transfer is eventually made into the production servers?
Yes, men's versus women's opportunities are complex in the US. Whether they are exactly equal doesn't matter. They are close enough that the most competent, skill women have good opportunities - which means that there's less of a reserve of the cheap and competent women's labor out there.

This is might be a explanation for the decline of women in computing fields. What could be happening that there are now more other fields where the most competent can go and not get any hassle at all or even experience preferential treatment. Thus the only reserve of the cheap and competent labor in the field would be those who are drawn to computing from early age. For whatever cultural, biological or other reason, these are mostly men and so this would explain why programming field has become more and more male over the last twenty years.

I know that the proportion of blacks who teaching in inner city schools declined tremendously from, say 1965 to 1985 because the barriers to those black who attended college dropped down and many more went into industry instead of teaching.
Interestingly it actually is fairly common for gay men to have a fantasy about converting a straight man to becoming gay. (I learned this tidbit from reading Randy Savage.)
I just had to do arithmetic. A 3 GHz processor would clock about 10.006671 cycles in the time it takes for light to travel 1 meter.