skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And before you complain that your library doesn't have many good CS books, look into inter-library loan. Libraries can often ship from other branch and regional libraries, and sometimes from both public and academic libraries throughout the US* (generally for a small fee, and be patient). I've borrowed rare books (including the Codex Seraphinianus!) for several weeks through my library, for $5.

Of course, if you have access to an academic library, particularly at a university with a decent CS program, start there. Particularly if you're looking for research papers, rather than books - it's what they do.

(I worked in a library for several years. <3.)

* I'm assuming you're in the US - I don't know about public libraries elsewhere.
For $200 per month you can get a quad core X3220 with 8
GB RAM and 2x 500GB disk with a large amount of bandwidth included: http://www.100tb.com/ .

I don't fully understand the love for large VPSes (that aren't even all that large) compared to dedicated hardware that have a better chance of having higher memory bandwidth, more RAM, and faster disk access; though I do understand that many are very happy with Linode as a business.
The ability to grow with a vps is much easier than with dedicated hardware.

Also on a semi related note, I (like you) suggested 100tb.com but we tried them out (just to test speeds) and they're pretty poor...
First the Iphone is supposed to be for on the go, then the Ipad is supposed to be in between the Iphone and the Mac Book Pro, now he wants something in between the Ipad and the Mac Book Pro. Kudos to Apple for convincing people they need all this.
Ask HN: Any engineers interested in HFT?
I currently work for an exchange and starting an algorithmic trading company has always intrigued me. Is anyone else in a similar situation?

For example, are you in an adjacent market working for somebody else and thought about going off on your own?
No question is dumbass.

Most of the concerns you've got were addressed in the text above I believe.

As for me having 'good intentions' or not, time will be the judge of that, but let's just say that I spent a lot of time trying to be useful to HN and it would be a really dumb move to piss of a large portion of what has slowly become my network.

That said I can't offer guarantees hence the caveat.

Second, I think that most people here are more than smart enough to factor that in to their thinking and in to their use of the domain. But for those that do not, please take melvinram's warning to heart. So you've got my upvote.
You can have it, np, it's free.
I'll take sjs.ww.com off your hands :) Really cool of you. Thanks!

ip: 69.30.200.94
I would love to read this. I sent you an e-mail.
I don't have a dedicated domain for redirection. Is it possible to make:
lucasboppre.ww.com -> http://www.inf.ufsc.br/~lucasboppre/

Or do I have to own the IP? It's my personal page on the uni server, by the way.

Using this url for hosted code, papers and possibly a resume would be perfect.

On a side note, redirecting anythingunregistered.ww.com to www.anythingunregistered.com would make an interesting (and geeky) party trick.
That's yours.
This is soo true. I wonder if we could have a discussion of the social consciousness level of consumer software product managers at MS. Windows is stuffed with features that I sometimes think are more there for selling hardware and third party applications that to really improve people's lives. Then again, people should vote with their dollars for what they need most.
Hm, that's a bit harder. Let me think about how I could do that for you.
Purchases have only ever been via Google in the US, even for those using a T-Mobile subsidy. The big was basically a TMO reseller similar to Amazon or Wirefly.
- edit distance for various projects (OCR post-correction, spelling correction, word alignment of bilingual text)
- Viterbi algorithm in text part-of-speech disambiguation
- Viterbi algorithm in speech recognition decoder

(That's admittedly not a lot of DP since the days I've started to code for $$ as a student in 1994.)
possible good sir? tea.ww.com -> teaapp.com
Ok, you've got it.
Tell HN: hntrades.com
In response to the domain-swap thread today (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794289), I created this simple app in a few hours' time:

http://hntrades.com/

You can list domain names that you have for sale/trade, and send messages within the site to other users. I'll be adding email notifications and some other basic functionality shortly.

I kept the domain name generic thinking it might be nice to list books or computer equipment available for trade as well.
I like that idea... makes having a dedicated SSD and a dedicated HDD a real possibility with a laptop.

If I had the money for it, I'd go with that setup in an instant - I use my optical drive roughly weekly, all but once or twice a year where it can easily wait a day for access. Or I can just borrow someone else's system, and install stuff over the network (done that a few times).
clickable: http://hntrades.com/
Forgot
- Feedback. Users need to know when they have performed an action correctly.
Sure, that one is fine.
Suprising Patterns in the Square Numbers
Thank you. I would be perfectly happy with a Javascript redirection in the index file, a 301 via htaccess or PHP, or whatever is easiest for you.
I almost clicked back because the summary at the top wasn't so interesting, but glad I scrolled down. There's a list of anti-patterns there that is interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern#Known_anti-pattern...
Hi! Please link igor.ww.com to 207.210.106.8 - this is my personal website. Thanks!
Sorry, but silas already took nyc (see below).

So nycme is yours.
I feel the exact same way, but I don't want to give up any specs. I like my Core i7, 8gb, and 250+ GB SSD. Time will solve it but waiting can be hard when you can see the future on the horizon.
Hi as well, Igor, ok that's yours now.
These statistical arbitrage trading strategies dont work. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Focus on creating value, and not just swaping it around.
A smaller Air would be awesome, and I think would be a better sale than the current one. It's not quite comparable, but I still miss my 12" Powerbook because I could take it frickin' everywhere. It was even smaller than almost any book I carried (textbooks).

If they shrank it a bit more, they could start to compete more directly with both ultralight laptops and netbooks, but with more power than either, rather than being just a smaller, lighter, slower, and more expensive laptop. Though yes, part of the appeal of netbooks is how cheap they are.

My 15" I have now is nicer for work... but then again I can always attach an external monitor if I really want size. But in the vast majority of cases where size matters, I'd prefer my laptop to be smaller so I can always have it with me, and not use up most (or 110%) of the available space.
Mexico has virtually no safety net, a fraction of redistribution of wealth for social good such as infrastructure and education, etc

Using taxes for laying a foundation that provides greater opportunity for society in general is very similar to doing it with charity. Not doing it is very similar to saying, "leave it to the private sector"
I don't think I move among bad developers, per se, but when I consulted I generally worked at places that weren't software companies. HN is filled with developers who plan to build companies (or work for companies) whose core business is to build software and either sell or have that software be the key part of a service. A lot of the places I did consulting for, if all of their in-house software stopped working, they could probably still do business, but a lot less efficiently. Most companies are not "about" the software just like they're not about the desks in the office.

And actually... quite often I wasn't brought in to second guess the architect. Many times I was brought in at the request of the architect. But yes, most of the time you're brought in because they lose faith in the architect or team. If you see me stop by to do a simple audit of your code, you should probably get your resume ready -- well not really, as I don't do any consulting any more.
Read my reply to the above commenter
This really needs a persistent website of some kind somewhere. Otherwise this is practically doomed to obscurity in a week or so.

Unless this sort of thing is better suited to being highly temporary, with new ones spawning whenever someone gets the itch? I don't see how, but I may not be thinking of something.
I have the optibay with a ssd. Good stuff but I had to drill holes in the tabs to mount all the screws(the hole was just off an 1/8") The bummer is that my late-2009 15" MBP cannot handle the raw speed that 3.0Gbps can give so it would over saturate the bus and lose connection. downgrading the firmware to force a 1.5Gbps bus speed made it rock solid but a bit slower. Still so much faster than the 500GB 7200RPM Seagate though.

I also have the external cd drive that I have used a sum total of 5 times since the conversion.
may I have wwo.ww.com. The IP is 67.207.128.166

Thanks!
Yeah, I agree. POSIXLY_CORRECT is lamer than POSIX_ME_HARDER.

* goes back to reading *

I'm only following about 1/3 of this, sadly. Anyone care to explain a bit?
As a Facebook employee not involved with Platform, I'll say that I've seen (from afar) a lot of people realizing this needs lots of fixing and working to improve things.
Initial reports seem to point to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's website, www.fooledbyrandomness.com. If better sources are found, please provide.
Note the latest PR attempt by HFCS manufacturers to re-brand it as Corn Sugar. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100914/ap_on_bi_ge/us_corn_syru...
Clever, since if it reads 'sugar' on the label it's easier to be overlooked.
Private individuals shouldn't be depended on to do anything but further their own interests

Except for politicians, they'll be noble.

If he created a lot of good jobs for people with fair wages, and charged fair prices, that's a massive good and can't be denied. He won't, though, because when things are done fairly, there's not a lot of profit to be made.

Utterly unfounded. Counterexamples that come immediately to mind are Steve Jobs and Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Bootstrapping an MMO with its by-products
I absolutely loathe MS Project, but for large projects it does one thing well that I haven't found in other desktop packages: it does a passable job of supporting effort-based planning. There are lots of good enterprise-class planning projects like HP PPM and whatever Oracle renamed Primavera to. But they're very expensive.

Since I went Mac, I began running MS Project under Crossover Office. It's un-Macish and still just as awful, but it works.
There's a lot of talk about wealth inequality these days but when the stuff that ordinary people can just go buy at the mall is so awesome that the only thing rich people can think of to do to improve it is to glue diamonds all over it, this says something good about the way things are going.
That one is free, so you're welcome to it.
The only thing dynamic going on there is the type system, unless myfunc is recursive. Dynamic programing uses memoization to achieve lower computational complexity, but memoization != dynamic programming.
Yes, of course. "Embedded" covers a wide range, though - one person says embedded with a wifi access point / router* or cell phone in mind, another thinks of a garage door opener or microwave. They have very different restrictions. I can see Erlang on the former.

* Sometimes it boggles my mind that my WRT54GL router has more memory, etc. than all the computers I had growing up. Then I ssh into it (running openwrt)...and my cell phone has more than all of them combined.
It exists but is dormant so that's ok.
Interesting. Simple as it is, I feel like I learn something new about HN's system every day.
Aww, how cute, recommendations for people with new houses.

I note they don't include the tuck-pointing trowel or a plaster skim, but you people in houses built last century probably don't need those. (Mine was built century before last, and I can't live without my trowels and many, many bags of mortar and plaster.)

Also: no paintbrushes?
It seems the author of this article doesn't have netflix.
I would be happy to have flashcards.ww.com => flashcarddb.com

Thank you if or if not possible!
If they enabled gzip compression on their CSS/Javascript files could cut down their page weight by several hundred kb.

Even just running their pngs through a lossless compression tool like Smush.it would probably be worth it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796101

PageSpeed and YSlow yielded many other fruit-bearing ideas.

Update: Added link to Autosmush HN item.
As I remember it, people were mostly annoyed that it only had one usb port. I got my x61 2 years ago and never worried about the lack of optical drive, but it has 3 usb ports I certainly could not do without.

In fact, the lack of an optical drive doesn't even make it on this list: http://apcmag.com/macbook_air_top_10_things_wrong_with_it.ht...
You can get a six-core 980x with 24GB of RAM and 4x1.5TB of HDD for $200 per month at http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq10/

Not 100TB bandwidth though.
Hah, that's the exact drive I've got now, loving the space over the stock drive. Speed difference is a bit noticeable, more-so on Windows, overall probably worth the extra cost.
I buy the cheapest type because I lose them constantly. I subscribe to the "saturation" model of losing things - keep buying the item until it saturates your environment and you starting finding hammers as fast as you lose them.

(In my defense, I have a big house and it's still mostly uninhabited - I just found a hammer in the master bathroom that I'd left there three months ago. I hadn't been there for three months; there's no working plumbing yet.)
A corded drill is also useful when you go to make an Afghan lathe.
There's actually a straightforward workaround, but it still probably works well enough to slow down people furiously responding.
From the comments:

Ten days to implement the [Javascript] lexer, parser, bytecode emitter (which I folded into the parser; required some code buffering to reorder things like the for(;;) loop head parts and body), interpreter, built-in classes, and decompiler... Ten days without much sleep to build JS from scratch, "make it look like Java" (I made it look like C), and smuggle in its saving graces: first class functions (closures came later but were part of the plan), Self-ish prototypes (one per instance, not many as in Self).

That's from Brendan Eich, the guy who created Javascript. Guess you never know when your 10 day project might go big and become something like the assembly for the web. Release early and iterate often seems to hold up quite well here....
There's already bookmooch, bookcrossing, etc. Unfortunately, when bookmooch released an open search API, people strip-mined collections for anything they could re-sell for profit on amazon. It needs to be handled very carefully.
Negotiation and Trade in Online Games
in response to this, i spent a few hours creating this app:

http://hntrades.com/

you can post domains for sale/trade and send messages to other users to negotiate trades.

i made it a bit generic so you can also post books or computer equipment that you might have for trade.
The comments were more interesting than the article. I had no idea it was created in ten days (if I understood Brendan correctly). I also had a good laugh at jwz's comment:

Brendan's house and my nightclub thank us for selling out early and often.
If anyone wants a copy of The Design of Everyday Things, it’s yours. Covering shipping from Canada would be much appreciated.
gee.ww.com -> 64.21.98.56

I think its taken, but if abandoned, I'd love to have it for my blog, thanks!!
I already have my own copy, but the Date - Introduction to Database Systems book is quite good. I hope somebody trades you something worthwhile. :)
I think this article is about what you don't need. Apple has a long tradition of omitting "features", which is applauded in hindsight but cause quite a stir at the release.

(Examples: floppy and optical disc drives, modems, firewire and ethernet ports, expansion slots, physical buttons, ...)
I have a little hobby swap site that I could quickly convert into an unofficial HN book/thing swap. I would be glad to release the source if necessary so others could improve upon it, seeing that there are a few things I haven't had time to finish. Let me know HN, this seems to be a common enough thing for a dedicated solution.
While it's not exactly the same as _Pragmatic Version Control Using Git_, _Pro Git_ (http://progit.org/book/) is available free online.
I am interested in code complete. I have "The Rails Way" by Fernandez and/or "Rails Recipes" by Fowler.
Not sure what makes this news. The N1 has been available for developers for several months.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/08/nexus-one-dev...
Or perhaps he watches Netflix Instant?
The first thing I see when I go to netflix.com is "Unlimited TV episodes & Movies instantly over the internet"
Could I get the House of Leaves off you? :) I've got a lot of old Lisp etc. books, I could probably find something worth a trade. Contact info in my profile, and I'm in Michigan.
The last (and only) use I've had for the optical drive was to install the operating system. Which makes me think that there's no use for the optical drive at all once you'll be able to upgrade to Lion through the App store.
Of course, why would they want to clearly state that Instant only includes a fraction of the titles available on DVD?
I am inferring from your post that you are a lawyer which would give you a vested interest in against anything reducing the number of court cases. Next your anecdote rests on the loser paying an unreasonable fee for their situation ($400k). Surely the fine would be based on someone's income and act as a deterrent rather than cause bankruptcy.
Well--for one I use optical drive to install linux and do recovery with a live disk, but besides that, he's absolutely right. I think one USB optical spare would be critical for a lot of geeks
Sounds good. How about an AI introductory book, if you have any?
Yes, that's a free one.
awesome. thanks.
I have heard that is a good design book - also located in Canada.
Abandoned since '03, so it's yours.
Are you offering this because you will indirectly benefit from the PageRank from subdomains and presumably most HN'ers will have active sites that will experience good PageRank?
As long as Yujuan Bao is the one charged with writing the docs for the iOS Facebook Connect, I don't believe you. He may be a great guy, but his English, frankly, sucks and he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a README commit bit.
The point about investment is that incentive to invest results in money being available for people who have the drive, energy and motivation to change the world to realize their dreams, even if they have not done it yet. If money is not available for investment those people's dreams get shattered before they change the world. This is a Bad Thing. (And generally results in a stagnant economy and persistently high unemployment.)

In the first place, the bitcoin economy is experiencing a phrase of deflationary growth. There were little services and goods before the slashdotting. Now, there are more. The bitcoin economy is not stagnating.

The current experience of bitcoin should not be deflation for the simple reasons that bitcoins continue to be issued, and should be issued for very good reasons.

I assure you, my observation of the bitcoin economy is accurate. There are 7200 bitcoins being created each day, but the price of bitcoins aren't crashing. Demand for bitcoins are growing faster or keeping up with monetary inflation.

Mt. Gox, before the dollars become essentially worthless(thus invalidating Mt. Gox usefulness on indication of demand for bitcoin), reach a record high of 0.12 cents per bitcoin, with enormous amount of volume. 200,000 bitcoins were exchanged. Same thing for bitcoin market, though on a much lower scale.
I really don't know why this is being downvoted so harshly.

Kevin J. Anderson's writing is horrific. He's an absolute hack. Brian Herbert should be ashamed at what he's doing to his father's good name, allowing this incompetent fuckwit to befoul his legacy.

I bought the first of the Butlerian Jihad books, even knowing how horrible a writer KJA is, because the topic interested me so. I couldn't make it more than about 15 pages.

It's a minor literary tragedy.
>"It turns out the client at the end of the long pipeline of invoices sold a diet pill, and young women were complaining on MySpace and forums that the pill sometimes caused leakage from their..."

So you thought cause you were a consultant that it didn't matter that you were aggregating people's personal posts from MySpace for the purposes of Big Pharma? Surely, we must draw the ethical line somewhere.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Empire Strikes Back
Where can I stay posted with your findings?
Just read the article and the comments and at the risk of sounding wishy washy, I just think that Carlos Slim probably didn't get good at what he does by excelling at generosity. So, frankly, I think he is the last person I will listen to when giving advice on how to practice charity. Charity and for profit economic development are not mutually exclusive, like all things, they have to be practiced with the right purpose in mind. Some people need charity to become self-reliant later. Some people need an investor.
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portman.ww.com CNAME www.portmanwills.com

Not sure what I would want to do with it yet, but very cool and generous idea!
Great idea.

benjoffe.ww.com -> www.benjoffe.com

Thanks.
Well, it was aggregating complaints of side-effects, which is a good thing for the pharma company to keep track of if they're going to sell such a drug. But yeah, that's why I felt uncomfortable about working with them, didn't continue and now joke about it publicly. Plus it's odd.
So this is where I groan over MG groaning about having to carry a couple extra pounds in his purse.

And perhaps I'm missing some greater MG-context, but using the first person singular pronoun that often in a speculative review of a device (or whatever) is a bit off putting. Which is to say, whiny hyper-personalized reviews don't really cut it for me.
Jacques, thanks so much for your generosity. Would it be possible to have matt.ww.com -> http://users.crhc.illinois.edu/johnso87/ ? Similar circumstances to BoppreH, if I'm reading correctly. matt.ww.com exists, but doesn't look particularly current.

If not, I don't currently have a public IP that I own. Anyone know the cheapest way to get one, other than a static IP from your ISP (I can't get one because mine doesn't give them out)? I'm imagining a small Linode instance or something of that nature, but I'm pretty green. Suggestions welcome. I could also snag a domain name and figure this all out later.
It's not really fair to say such a general statement, because clearly some of them do, sometimes the market won't stay irrational (or it will work irrationally in your favor) for too long, etc.

However, focusing on creating value is a much more sure bet and more rewarding in the end. I don't want to go off in a long tangent in what will likely be a dead thread, but years of playing poker for a living really taught me this lesson.

The truly happy people I know all create tremendous amounts of value. While most of them aren't 'rich' they definitely live lives of abundance.
The Android IM App That Brought T-Mobile's Network to Its Knees
care to talk about the development platform? (just curious)
anyone knows of something equivalent to Dapper out there? I really wish there was since I need this for a project. Thanks!
"good" :)
Electric sander, or a good sanding block. But really, $25 for a decent planer is worth not having a sticking door!