skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two ways to do it: the first is to consider the "longest shortest path", as makmanalp said, and find the longest path among the set of shortest paths from an article to Hitler. The second is to not travel to any node twice in a given path.
Absolutley. When I set up caching and a cdn on one of my sites, I saw a 25% increase In visits literally overnight. When I asked the developer of the caching plugin, he said that many people report the same thing.
Birds of a Feather sessions post Startup School on Sunday at Stanford
I'm not getting no results for "Debug port", which should be no more than 3 (since it links to Xbox, which is 2).

Same for "Index of Estonia-related articles".
well, you may not be able to live on oil alone, but the oil funded norwegian sovereign fund already owns 1% of the global equity markets and are heading for 2% of the european stock markets (with the oil still being pumped out).

Moreover, an embargo is only effective if it can be enforced, there is nothing stopping chinese goods going from other european countries, they would only have a bit higher overhead.
> All you genius hackers with backgrounds in machine learning, AI, social networking, (god knows what else might be applicable). Don't like the way teacher performance is being quantified?

You don't understand. The measurement problem is relatively minor compared to the problem of getting measurements used.

Teacher's advocates (lobbyists and the like) will say that teachers support evaluation in the abstract but they oppose any actual implementation. When asked to provide one that is acceptable to them, they duck and start namecalling.
I'm pretty sure he meant the article with the longest optimal path.
http://www.prximity.com

Thought it'd be a cool way to build a location based city guide -- but clearly this had to be mobile and we didn't have the right dev team to build the rest...we were manually entering information (we figured the best content would be curated, rather than aggregated) Deadpooled in feb 10..
There is no defined longest path, since the graph has a ton of loops.

Finding the longest shortest path (that is finding the minimum number of nodes from each wikipedia entry to the entry for Hitler) and then finding the longest is, however, rather easy.
I'm sending you an email.
How to Rotate Wallpaper in Windows for a More Interesting Desktop - How-To Geek
Know n' Show - knownshow.com was a startup weekend prototype that myself and a ColdFusion developer built in 2 days at the Microsoft campus during SW Redmond. It was a HR management web app that wasn't really going to be much better than any given wiki platform. The other problem was that our group was too big. The cool thing was that it was my fist attempt to build something so quickly and got to meet some really cool people. Just about everything else (the product, the name, the team, the technology) was bad though.
True, I simply based this off of the addicts that I have known. It is totally anecdotal, but from the time I spent with them the consensus was that powdered coke was no longer desirable to snort after long periods of time and so they would move onto smoking it. It wasn't very long before many of them switched directly to crack. I suppose if I ran in different circles I would have seen people switch to injecting instead.
I used Lua, myself. I briefly considered using a more featureful language like Ruby, but I'm happy to say that Lua did the job just fine. I made good use of coroutines for the second and third problems.
This is awesome. Our family business (before moving to the US) was a bakery (actually a chain of bakeries, but some problems occured and our aunt is in the process of doing a hostile takeover, but I digress). I still remember the smell of flour and dough while running around the production area playing with rolling pins and dough mixers when I was a kid. The bakery was also named after me (I was teased as our class' "Pillsbury Dough Boy"). Nostalgia.
Five: APPL -> Area Police/Private_Security_Liaison -> Police science -> Jurisprudence -> 1940 -> Adolf Hitler.
I agree that it can be a competitive advantage but it is rarely because of the technology itself, it is because of the change in business it enables.

But there a lot of software used in an enterprise that is not a competitive advantage. You could argue that it could become an advantage but often the advantage would be marginal so you're better off working on where you can get significant gains or advantages. To see these opportunity, you need to know your business extremely well, you have to be passionate about the business too, not just technology.
uhhhh .. I think the majority of the people don't know what version of android is on their phone, don't know why it matters, and don't care. The branding for the various android phones so far is tied to the carrier and the phone manufacturer, not the phone. There is no AndroidPhone. There is the HTC EVO, Samsung Galaxy, Motorola Droid.

People just want a phone that's fun and easy to use. If they don't like the phone they have, they will buy a new one when the contract is up, which likely will have a new version (the number of which they won't know or care about) and will work better.

Fragmentation is a big pain for developers and so on, but users don't care and shouldn't need to care.
I've generally done well on job-interview programming challenges and gotten interviews afterwards. But looking on these quiz things, I'm still frustrated by them.

You see, all the "ordinary" question involved in job-fitting still have to be asked and answered so sometimes I've done great in ability part only to have really basic "culture" or requirements issue hit later when they could have been caught immediate.

And so, even though I've enjoyed and learned something on these quizzes, the employer who begins a relationship with a quiz seems to be saying they can demand some piece of my time without any investment on their part and this isn't setting a tone reciprocity, something I'd look for in a future employer.
Get a VPS.

Depending on your bandwidth vs. cpu requirements, the following should all be interesting to you: linode.com ; vpslink.com ; rackspace cloud .

prgmr.com has good reputation and is run by an HN regular. However, every time I wanted to get a VPS there, they had no room left at the time ..
reminds me of MoviePeg (which does not have an iPhone 4 version available yet, but they do have an iPad version): http://www.movie-peg.com/
Did you forget the 1 before the area code? I did.
I guess I have also built about a half dozen html/CSS frameworks for different large scale projects but never bothered to put them out into the public. Also, I've built a couple wordpress plugins and hacks that I use extensively personally but never put out there as well.
31ms from Thailand to SF? That's mindblowing. Speedtest gives me slightly higher to my local POP :-) I get 3.3/0.5 and 183ms to that San Fran point and I have an above average connection here in the UK. Very impressive.
Cool, but I think your API is too complicated ;)
That was fun, good waste of time while my code was compiling. I just used C++ and hacked up a prime seive for #2 and for #3 used a combination generator I had previously used before - http://photon.poly.edu/~hbr/boost/combinations.html
The cost goes up because rent in Dhaka is relatively higher. The other thing that kicks up the cost is the internet and backup electricity fees ($100 - $200/month). Other parts of Bangladesh are much more affordable but then the internet is not so great there.
Yes, more than $200K, less than $500K if you are valuing it as 1 year revenue plus hardware value (not hardware cost)

This is something I have certainly thought a lot about. in fact in 2007, i did begin to walk, then I changed my mind,[1] in part due to new market realities, and in part due to the recognition that I was doing it wrong, and that there were much more reliable and economical ways to set up my system. In 2007, by the same metrics, the place was worth probably not that much more than five grand, which is really sad, considering that I personally dumped way more than that into the company in 2007.

My main mistake in the first three years was to use 'enterprise grade' hardware... used hardware, obviously, I couldn't afford the new stuff. The thing is, 'enterprise' is great if you can afford to pay the support tax, otherwise it's horrible. If you are relying on free support, use stuff that other people use.

but the point is, irrational or not, I'm not walking away from this at this point. Selling for one years revenue plus the value of a bunch of servers and a reasonable job (all the acquisition offers I have gotten sounded like HR acquisitions.) seems kinda silly when we grow by between 10 and 20% every month that we have available hardware.

But you make a good point; it may be irrational to expect other people to value equity in the company.

[1]http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/12/7/3649/26418
It exists?

I've seen standing desks but not motorized standing desks.
Yup, I have it. Did a bit of tinkering for some other project and Arduino is a good starting point for a controller indeed.
Its a biography but a biography I derived a lot of philosophy from - The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro. Here is a blurb that wikipedia lists as the theme:

Throughout his books, Caro examines the acquisition and use of political power in American democracy, from the perspective both of those who wield it and those who are at its mercy. In an interview with Kurt Vonnegut, he once said: "I was never interested in writing biography just to show the life of a great man," saying he wanted instead "to use biography as a means of illuminating the times and the great forces that shape the times particularly political power."

I agree with that theme and enjoyed the description of how power is wielded in democracies and all the gory details of getting elected, how issues help/hurt a candidate and just how nimble a fish you must be as a presidential wannabe in Americas 1950s democracy.
2002 - LootMail - Audio (phone) based interface to your email. Built on top of TellMe (back when they had a service pretty similar to Twilio today, based on VoiceXML. Died when TellMe killed off their "Extensions" program.

2004 - http://openpodcast.org - At the dawn of podcasting, I thought a podcast feed anyone could fill with audio content would be cool. The system was email-based: you sent an attached mp3 to submit@opencast.org and it would show up in the feed (there was also a phone number you could call to leave a recording). It was pretty popular as podcasting was getting off the ground. Adam Curry helped promote it.

2008 - http://quotably.com - Got the idea that a threaded view of twitter would be useful. Built it in a weekend, posted about it here on HN Sunday night, Arrington wrote a TC post, Scoble tweeted it, and next thing I knew there were upwards of 250K uniques Monday. I ended up killing it 6 months later because twitter turned off the firehose.
Pills relieve the symptom, but a standup desk avoids the injury altogether. Get a motorized desk and split your time between sitting & standing.
Ask HN: Cloud-Based Webops System Admin Questions
Currently working in the web operations department of a media company hosting all infrastructure in the cloud (Amazon). Looking to hire a systems administrator but very few candidates have real hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.

In light of this we decided to ask candidates to create a few scripts in their language of choice that performs a few tasks such as drop files in S3 or creates a Puppet manifest. The idea is to discuss this in the face/face much like many coders do when applying.

The question: If you were to ask a candidate for a SA position for a cloud-based company, what would you ask them to prove their excellence?
1. The revenue from petrochemicals is not going to NIC.ly.

2. You contested jacquesm's argument that NIC.ly can be "called out" when the sell the domain. You said that, NIC.ly will probably ignore that because the domain registering revenue is a pittance. If that is true, then NIC.ly won't try to confiscate and then sell a domain. Why go to all that trouble when they can sit back and enjoy petrochemical dollars.

a: So if NIC.ly thinks domain registration revenues are a pittance, then they won't sell the domain.

b: If it is not a pittance they can be called out because they have to listen to valid complaints. Otherwise no one will register .ly domains
Lets make November "Launch an App Month", who's with me?
The past week or so has seen a number of inspirational HN threads on single founder/small group/side/part-time projects that have become successful and in some cases are supporting those people (and some have gone on to become huge).

So, with that in mind, I'm suggesting we all take the month of November and work on that side project or idea or whatever it is, with the goal of having a working application out in the wild by the end of the month.

Personally I am going through a transition right now (independent to full-time), but have 3-4 ideas that I want to implement. I'm going to pick ONE project and pledge to finish it by the end of November in whatever hours I can find. Who's with me?

Update: Some have suggested that you also get at least one Paying customer by the end of the month. I think its a great point if your goal is to have an app that helps support you. I am updating my pledge to include it.
Yeah, no fads roll on for more than a few days here despite people believing they will. Even around the iPad keynote and launch, it blew past after a few days (ended by a flood of Erlang related posts, I recall).
He was probably outraged to discover that you don't know the legend that is Jason Fried (37 Signals).
would be very helpful actually... especially since the data is very old and you sometimes have to look at the revision history.
Yeah, I was confused by this as well at first.
I was thinking about building a version you could play offline using HTML5 local storage, which should also work on mobile browsers. Upvote this if you'd pay a buck for that feature.
www.geekdesk.com, http://www.thehumansolution.com/wosiadhecode.html, etc

If you are in europe, I think IKEA still sells their motorized desk.
I don't think anyone gets taught security in CS (seems relegated to informatics or computer engineering programs). Outside of a handful of security researchers and those directly working on security products, I don't even know very many senior software engineers that really understand security outside the trivial rules of thumbs.

Two books largely on the MS way: "Writing Secure Code: Practical Strategies and Proven Techniques for Building Secure Applications in a Networked World" and "Threat Modeling (Microsoft Professional)"

I read both of them years ago when I thought I might take a job in security products at MS, and didn't think much of them.

Every developer should have to go back to some of the original IT security papers like Saltzer and Schroeder and think about every way their current framework or design probably compromises a basic principle and whether it is a good thing: http://emergentchaos.com/the-security-principles-of-saltzer-... Looking at open source software designed for security like postfix can also be quite enlightening.
So do you think this holds true forever? Surely it can be done in a respectful way. Whats the harm in holding up a sign saying "Hey _why, if you ever decide you want to tell your story, we would love to hear it." No one is suggesting hiring a private investigator or some other intrusive method. Notice the wording of the question: "...please ask him..."
No, the credit-card company pays them within roughly a day, after giving more immediate confirmation whether the payment will go through.
Never used GOOG-411, I've always found the GOOGLE text service more convenient, but its strange to see them shut it down. I guess not that many users?
jason,

Not at all. I feel Miami is empty in terms of investors for startups. I may be wrong, but thats what I've felt.
The Cure -> April 22 -> Adolf Hitler

It's not clear how to me The Cure are associated with the 22Apr. The best I can find is mentions of April, and footnote #22.
Spoiler alert.

Here is my Part 1 implemented in Ruby.
http://gist.github.com/617566
Good reminder to line up decisions against hard dollars.
What kind of girl do you think I am?
I think this would've been a better filter for hiring if the magnitude were larger (e.g. huge string, more numbers for the combination, etc) or if there was a strict time limit. As it is right now, I don't think the hardcore hackers you're looking for will be that enticed.
Oldie but a goodie: EEE PC Internal Upgrades
Digitally Masking Corporate Logos in Your Home Videos
Yes, I believe so. I think that if _why ever decides to come out of hiding it should be entirely on his terms and up to him when where and how he does it.
At work, I rotate between a swopper chair, regular chair, and exercise ball. I try to get up and go for a walk around the block every couple of hours.

At home I have a tall workbench instead of a desk. In the near future I am going to buy a motorized desk and do my work in a home office / workshop.
"prove that I'm the one that 'illegally disposed' of your or someone else's property that you attached surreptitiously to my car."

Ok then I misunderstood your remark, I thought you meant I had to prove "he is legally liable for those damages". But yeah if you turn it into a matter of evidence, anything goes, it becomes purely based on the specific circumstances. I was arguing the theoretical fundamentals.

"ownership is a pretty murky business from a legal point of view"

Eh no it's not. Transferring ownership is very widely studied, specified and understood. There is no discussion that the tracked subject doesn't get ownership. He does get possession, obviously. Nobody would argue otherwise. Again, if you bend this into an evidence case, all bets are off. In the concrete case the guy posted a picture of himself holding the device on the web. All the armchair lawyers saying 'oh he shouldn't give it back! it's now his!' don't know what they're talking about. I was in my original comment merely pointing out that this guy has no leg to stand on - he should just return the thing to the feds (well, he did) and save himself a lot of trouble.

"Cite a case please, and name the defendants lawyer,"

http://www.rechtspraak.nl/ljn.asp?ljn=BH9929
http://www.rechtspraak.nl/ljn.asp?ljn=BM1166
http://www.rechtspraak.nl/ljn.asp?ljn=BM1192

You can find the names of the lawyers in the various instances in the history of judgments.

These are just the cases where the judgments have been published, and where they were explicitly mentioned in the case. Also cases are only published when they have legal relevance, routine cases are not (they're not even written up if there's no appeal). Obviously most of these cases are handled 'behind the scenes'. Nobody ever knows that not everything went 100% 'by the book'. One case where (part of the) evidence was thrown out was when the police picked a guy up from work, threatened him, bullied him into silence after he repeatedly asked for a warrant, entered his house (without a warrant) through the neighbor's balcony, cuffed the suspect and threatened him and his mom to arrest him until he gave permission to search the house. This is about how bad it needs to get before evidence is excluded. I have no reason to believe these policemen were sanctioned.

"the police is not in a habit of going across the street phoning in illegally obtained evidence in order to 'launder' it."

Well it's all hearsay from here on, so we can go 'yes!' 'no!' for hours. I do think though you remember the IRT case; that's only 15 years ago! Also read accounts like http://www.koudbloed.nl/content/docs/robzijlstra.pdf.

Like I said, from here on it's no longer based on verifiable facts, not worth the trouble. I do think you have a too rosy picture of the practical workings of the justice system, though (note that I'm not making a moral judgment; I think overall it works pretty well. I'm just saying that it ain't like on Law and Order).
Agreed. This is similar to the iPhone antenna problem: bloggers and developers making a shitstorm out of something almost nobody feels the effects of.
> Makes me want a smartphone a little more

That’s part of the point isn’t it? Google extends the service for free (for a limited time) and people without smartphones grow to like it (glad that 1800FREE411 is still there) and then when the free service is withdrawn that iota more of dump-phone users are more inclined to buy a smartphone.

Smartphones may be growing like crazy, but there are still vastly more dumb-phones actually in peoples’ hands. Big market, right?
Someone seemed to have a different view, what is it?
Apparently the Onion satirical newspaper was way ahead of its time with their 1997 article, "Stephen Hawking Builds Robotic Exoskeleton" - from ridiculous far-out joke to physical reality (sort of) in 13 years ... http://www.theonion.com/articles/stephen-hawking-builds-robo...
What You Need and Want With Windows Azure Part II
One of the most useful tools to use in Windows Azure Development is the Windows Azure MMC. The Microsoft Management Console, or MMC, is the management console that many of the Windows Server Management interfaces can plug into. The Windows Azure ...
As a user, I care about what OS version I have because that determines the features my phone has, its performance, its compatibility, and its stability. What you describe is the ideal for the manufacturers and the carriers -- they want to keep people in the dark about the software. But the reality is that everyone knows, every phone review includes it, and it's critically important to the end user.

Every Android user I've talked to knows exactly what version their phone runs. Many are patiently waiting for upgrades. Every single phone review tells me exactly what OS version the HTC EVO, Samsung Galaxy, Motorola Droid run and I doubt anyone here wouldn't consider that piece of information extremely important in their purchasing decision.
This was planned from day one, Google only wanted the massive data set that they collected to improve voice recognition in other areas. Rather than buy it via another channel they acquired this data set with this service.
Quite true. I suppose in my post I really was assuming starting off from brass tacks, cross compiling from a larger system. You are, of course, correct: if the system must be able to bootstrap itself a more expansive base is needed.

I also neglected to mention any sort of shell. Dash, I believe, is POSIX compliant and rather tiny.
Messaging Patterns in node.js
I built a url shortening service called vb.ly because my girlfriend, Violet Blue, was using url shorteners all the time for her blog.

She's an author and adds to her book income by linking people to her 30+ books on Amazon using her affiliate code. I was concerned that the various url shorteners she was using might swap out her affiliate code for theirs as a revenue mechanism, so I wanted to take it "in house".

I discovered that this .ly domain registry had "vb.ly" available (her initials) and thought it might be cool engineering challenge to get that going for her and open it up for others to use.

500k+ shortened urls later, the rest is history. Literally
An out of pocket maximum of $1k ($2.5k for families) is still a very good deal.

Bottom line - If you're generally healthy it won't make that much of a difference. If you or a family member require expensive care, or you're unfortunate enough to be in a serious accident, you'll still be very glad you're covered by MSFT.
Am I correct that Kullback–Leibler_divergence has no path to Hitler?
Oh... That is not what I had imagined as "motorized". I was dreaming of a desk that follows you around.