skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Memoization is top-down dynamic programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming

http://xw2k.nist.gov/dads//HTML/dynamicprog.html

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/451f09/lectures/lect1001.pdf

http://www.algorithmist.com/index.php/Dynamic_Programming
Wow, that sucks.

It was fractals that managed to re-ignite my interest in math after having it de-constructed by highschool teachers.

Amazing images embedded in suspiciously simple formulas. Irresistible.

I owe the man a lot, this is really not a good thing to go to sleep with.
Have you consulted with a lawyer about your liability as far as harassment / social engineering?
Smart combo! Ok, it's available.
Which IDE are you using under Unix/Linux for visual debugging?
I usually build the application in windows and test /port the application in UNIX using VI
But what is I need to build the application from scratch in unix/linux in shell what option do I have to
Visually debug (break point and such .. ) or syntax helpers? ( c/c++)
2nd section here: http://psyco.sourceforge.net/psycoguide/bugs.html
But was it called a Hilux or not?
Learning about the fractional dimension of the coast of Britain was one of the most interesting discoveries I've had.
:(
It started off as just two domains, I'm actually a bit overwhelmed by the response, but that's nice as well.

For now what will happen is that I will set up DNS entries for all the A records and CNAMES, I don't feel like spying on anybodies traffic.

The two people that have asked for redirects to paths I'll have to handle in a different way, so I will have to make an exception for those two. The temptation to handle everybody with a db table in ww.com is definitely there but I think that it is better to handle things at the DNS level.

More reliable, better privacy.
[How] Should I hire my brother-in-law?
My brother-in-law graduated this past May with a CS degree from a middle-tier private university. After an honest shot at finding a job with nothing to show for it, he's begun to hit a wall. He's not alone, as evidenced in a slew of recent articles:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124181970915002009.html

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/06/25/70788/recessions-toll-most-recent-college.html

I'm beginning to get worried that his hot & steamin' degree is about to get cold and soggy if he doesn't get some work experience to keep his resume moving. He isn't as motivated as the typical entrepreneur-type on HN so I don't think he'd start his own venture by himself.

So here's where my question for HN comes in... I've had a couple of ideas up my sleeve but no time to implement them (my day job writing HFT software has me pretty tied-up). Do you think it's a good idea to hire my brother-in-law to kick off a venture that I otherwise wouldn't have the focus for?

If the answer is yes, how should he be paid? Here are my concerns:

* Paid in equity - He needs some immediate pay for his efforts. If the project fizzles out because I don't help him execute, he never gets any compensation for this.

* Paid per hour - He is very inexperienced, especially with high performance and/or web development. Most of his hours will be spent learning. I don't necessarily want to throw money out the window to train him on things that I would be doing for fun in his position.

* Paid per deliverable - This seems like the best bet, almost like hiring a consultant. Am I wrong on this?

* Some hybrid of equity & hourly or deliverable - This would provide a vested interested in the venture plus offer some immediate cash.

I've specifically avoided including "experience and training" in the compensation list because I know this has a stigma on HN. Although I do think he will be gaining some very valuable programming knowledge in this pursuit.

So, what are you thoughts?
Heroes and Mentors
Nodaphone — library to control your webapp with your phone
Thanks for being open and sharing this. I agree with the author of this article that more openness with regards to sales people are getting as iOS developers is only a good thing. If people had more open discussions about this sort of thing, perhaps it will quell some fears newcomers may have before joining the Apple dev program.
My first real OSS project, feedback appreciated :)

Some backstory:

Last weekend at HackNY my friends and I built a worms / scorched earth style game that you can control with your phone (even dumb phones and landlines).

I then ripped out the twilio and node.js bits so others can make phone-controlled apps.

Enjoy!

PS My friends and I will be presenting the game we made in NYC on November 2nd at NYTM, make sure to come if you're in the area.
All it needs is a voice to text translator. This is pretty cool.
Yes of these strategies "work" for a while by taking advantage of pricing anomalies and multiplying the difference a million times over. The problem is in order to make a decent return with this approach you have to be heavily leveraged, and eventually when the tail outcome on the bad side occurs, you lose your ass, as in LTCM.
When you take it like that I think he got off light :)
I can feel the iSheeps feeding in the dark.
Don't forget to use django-nonrel so that you can move apps b/w App Engine and any normal ISP supporting Django apps. You only need to change your database in settings.py! http://allbuttonspressed.com
Federal EV Subsidies Likely Doomed by Politics
Because it's a kleptocracy. The bad guys won there a long time ago. EVERYONE is on the take. The fix is in and the scam is everywhere.

Need honest people to run capitalism, it actually is a high moral calling, we forget that lately.
Tell HN: Seeking iPhone App Developer
I have an idea for an iPhone app. I will supply all of the content but I would like to partner with a developer. 50/50 split or what ever you want. I'm pretty open but as a college student, I have no budget.

App has to do with party pics.
My email is in my profile.
I'm working on a very early stage hobby startup based around preexisting open source hardware / software.

It's going very slowly due to my lack of knowledge with regards to hardware development and manufacturing.

The only YC company I know of that does hardware is WakeMate and they have been plagues by numerous manufacturing and licensing problems.
Thank's so much for your generosity Jacques!

I'd like frank.ww.com CNAME theharpers.biz. If frank isn't good then frankh or fharper.
Do people actually buy these or similarly upperclassed phones?
What's wrong with my font display?
Fantastic idea! I'm so glad you did this, and I'm quite glad it involves linking with HN accounts.

I'd like to, maybe, see a karma barrier of 50 to 200, too, and maybe have karma on the site, as well?

Thanks so much! I just posted a book.

EDIT: Perhaps a way to facilitate trades and/or purchases? Or at least some recommended ways to go about it, perhaps?
Last minute carpools to Startup School (from SF)
I'm taking the CalTrain down. But, I'd rather chat with other attendees on the way down.

So, let's carpool.

Anyone:
1. have a car
2. not have a car, but willing to contribute for gas.

If you want to carpool, email me at joseph dot walla at gmail or post here.
These google-docs-spinoffs are fun, except for one part: you lost me on the authentication.

Please please do not make me create another username/password combination; maintaining systematic password diversity is a high-cognitive task which imposes a barrier of entry to your app that's simply not worth it for me.

(I'm actually very agnostic of what drop-ins you use -openid, google auth, hell even facebook auth -just as long as it's something I can just click through (granted I'm logged in to those sites))
So Steve Jobs walked into a Mac team meeting with an iPad
Apparently it's not only for hobbyists... it's the leading favorite amongst enterprise CIOs too, as seen in this Morgan Stanley survey which just came out last week: http://goo.gl/LcbS
I read

> ... if you want a subdomain of ww.com...

and naturally understood "subdomain" to mean "subdomain".

Perhaps what you meant to write was

"... if you want a hostname in ww.com..."

ww.com is a nice 2nd level domain. A 3rd level domain zyx.ww.com would be pretty nice too, in which one could create several hostnames, such as blog.zyx.ww.com, hg.zyx.ww.com, etc.

Yes, if you delegated the DNS for the subdomain, it would not be as easy for you to see what hostnames are in that subdomain.
RMM (Richardson Maturity Model) provides a good set of criteria for evaluating adherence of a web service to the Representational State Transfer Architectural Style.

http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...

My guess is that 80% of those "REST" APIs are RMM-0.
Do a search on how to turn on Cleartype for whatever you're using.
Any chance I could get box.ww.com -> inthatbox.com? Looks like maybe it was in use at one time, but I couldn't tell if it still is.

This is great and extremely generous, thank you so much (whether or not it's available)!
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bro.ww.com -> CNAME bro.chrisbroadfoot.id.au please!
Gmail is free. Storage costs money to maintain. 25mb limit per email + 7.5gig free 'storage' ain't bad.
I am guessing Misra-C
http://www.misra.org.uk/Activities/MISRAC/tabid/160/Default....
This is only a temporary hack. I only added "new" detection after it had been going several hours but once enough time has passed, I'll remove the hack based on hours under 2.
Do you have the same problem on http://www.ossfyd.com/

It only happens on Windows and I thought it worked on Windows 7 but I was either mistaken or there is an obscure option that needs to be toggled (something other than cleartype; this is a more serious aliasing problem).
Allright, I tossed in the animation. Check it out. :)

http://github.com/blaines/hackerslide

Quicksand + CSS3
I agree. Over here we do 70m (high write ratio) pages per month on 1 server handling all apache/php/mysql. Hardware is really fast these days if you tune it to any degree.

Heck, if we're showing off, here is how we do it...pretty graphs and all.
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/pinkbike-speed-efficiency.html
I am using Windows XP and I have Cleartype on: http://i.imgur.com/1pacl.png

I see the same issue with other sites like: http://i.imgur.com/sbzmy.png
How about scotty.ww.com -> www.scottyallen.com? Looks like scotty.ww.com is probably abandoned. Thanks - it's cool that you're doing this.
Yeah something wrong here as well ::: http://i.imgur.com/T3YiT.png
The other site btw is androlib.com
It is, that was last active in '03, so you're welcome to have it.
It's a vote of confidence, yes, but insurgents look at more than just reliability when making their purchasing decisions. They also like the fact that Hilux-specific spare parts and expertise are relatively common in Afghanistan. And they like that they can add machine-gun turrets to it. Presumably you don't care about a truck's performance on those dimensions.
Yes, that's fine. And you're welcome :)
Ok. it's yours!
Boy, you said it. I tried to upvote, but I guess commenting kills my upvote.

Fing "Enterprise". Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life here.

IBM and Microsoft drop the SOAP, and we get stuck picking it up. I hate* implementing SOAP clients for random SOAP server implementation of the day..

I'm sorry, Rob will be back shortly. We apologize for the outburst :-)
...

Boy, you NAILED it exactly, though.

REST sure seems simpler: define the document/content types, or schema, and just use links to GET things. Save POST for the few things that actually change state, then document carefully how the content is to be sent back up.

It turns out a good deal of services really are READ-ONLY anyway.

Making the simple things simple: give me my damn document! Let's keep it encrypted, and I'll prove I'm authorized to see it:

https:/acme.com/service?acct=xxx&pass=yyy&item_key=123
...
Content: binary/what-you-wanted
blah blah blah...

Painfully easy vs just freaking painful tweaking of SOAP nonsense. Die, SOAP, die!
There's a ~3 year old bug in WebKit[1]. It just doesn't happen because rewriting the rich editing handling code doesn't sound fun or sexy.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15256
My problem is not you specifically, my problem is some joker that would abuse this to set up a gazillion spam hosts under ww.com as a tld and do un-repairable harm before I would clue in to it.

It's already a bit of a risk as it is (hence the 20 karma cap, I'm not too strict in looking at that if an account wasn't made 20 minutes ago), but I don't want to get burned.

I agree that the formal interpretation of 'subdomain' is one with delegation, but when someone says they put their usernames on 'subdomains' it is commonly understood to be a 3rd level host name, and not one with full delegation.

You could have surmised that from the bit that asks for 'the ip to go with it' and not for 'the ips of the name servers to go with it'.
I didn't get it - nothing really happened for me after I pressed buttons.
It obviously worked out fine. IBM isn't catering towards the consumer market with the POWER line.
Cx: A bash function for comfortable extraction of *.tar/*.tar.gz/*.tar.bz2
Cheers, I'll check it out.
"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth ..."

-Benoit Mandelbrot
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x86 is to[o] complex

If you're going to criticize CISC architectures I would have done it before Intel moved to optimized RISC microcode in implementation. Arguably the greatest advancement in CPU technologies in the past couple years was the addition of hardware virtualization extensions to fulfill the Goldberg requirements. That said, I am biased because I wrote the Intel hardware virtualization layer for an HPC VMM.
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I'd second that, and request Twitter addition, lots don't like it, but I do!
And who the fuck cares iSheep?
Can someone explain "A Greek among Romans" from Taleb's homepage?

Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010
A Greek among Romans
Mozilla has finally appointed a new CEO - Gary Kovacs
A man shaves every day he will go his entire life without a beard, is that not permanent?
I use ddd.
OMG, finally a billionaire with brains.
48 hours to build 300 web apps. Rails Rumble Starts
No one gives a shit, move away iSheeps.
Ask HN: What would you do to help?
Thanks to the media(as sarcastic as thanks could get), the meaning of the work hacker seems to have changed everywhere. In a society where most people have varying notions about programming and network security, it is easy to con people and make money by giving them false promises and hopes of becoming a "hacker".
The people who are conned can hardly be blamed(which is not normally, always the case), as not everyone can be expected to understand the art of programming. It is this weakness that is being exploited by security courses which promise to teach "Ethical Hacking in 30 days". Ankit Fadia and his course AFCEH, India's most famous (fake) hacker, is yet another example.

As a programmer, what do you think is the right way to give people a realistic, if not accurate picture of the current state of networking security around them? How can we help prevent self-proclaimed hackers from monetizing their ignorance?
If they had done only third-party auth I bet the top comment would be complaining that there's no site-specific credentials
An App for maintaining a "Wanna Watch" movie list
I'm in the process of building this social web app that lets you maintain "Wanna Watch" movie list and discover new movies via friends.

Kindly help me by sparing a minute to take this survey : http://polldaddy.com/s/DB8919ED6D08FEA4
Here's my tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot (text from Wikipedia):

http://i.imgur.com/RoZ1j.jpg

Interactive version: http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/87f79fa9bb6340be

I was fascinated by fractals when I was very young, and in retrospect, and I owe a lifetime interest in Mathematics and computer science to him.
nice, correctly incentivising, performance management system - if you shown yourself a bad soldier then you don't get to go to dangerous mission(s). I bet you'd be a respected 4-star general ...
He's not dead, he's just transformed into a similar form at a different level of zoom.
And how many internet startups are using VisualStudio.NET? (non-0, to be sure, but they are the outliers)

And pay attention to the cross-stack arguments, to say nothing of the cross version differences.

You remind me of this guy on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/76337/john-saunders -- M.S. kool-aid, yummie!

I am still waiting for any feedback (not from John, just in general) on this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2194316/good-book-for-wri...

I guess anybody who know how to do these would be out pillaging and plundering corporate "america", not writing books :-)
That looks a lot like my list. In additional to the clamps you list, a set of saw horses make one-man jobs possible that would be very difficult otherwise. Ladders are essential as well. The longer you own a home, the longer the list grows.

Lastly, I gotta say, I love my Sawzall.
I use the optical drive mainly for reinstalling OS. An old habit carried over from the Windows time. Later I discovered that OS X is probably the easiest OS to install from alternative media. (It is probably also the easiest to run from alternative media too. Tried portable hard drive and USB stick. Works flawlessly.)

I did three clean installation of OS X 10.6. I tried both installing from DVD, and installing from an image of the DVD residing on a partition of a portable hard drive (created with the system default Disk Utility tool) via USB. The hard drive option is much faster, quieter, and cooler (pun intended).

I am always wondering if Apple will ship an OS on a tiny USB stick instead of a stupid DVD disc some day.

I hate optical discs and drives. Mechanical and fragile. I want to go all solid state.
In their defense, I really don't see how my MBP is any slower at waking up than my iPad. And you really only have to cold boot them when there are updates to the OS...
I was fascinated by fractals when I was young, I even attended a Mandelbrot conference when I was 14. I could not understand any of the mathematical fundamentals, but there was something intuitively beautiful and irresistible about fractals.

Great man, great contribution to humanity.
I don't get it. The iPad does not turn on instantaneously from being turned off. It does turn on instantaneously from sleep, as does my MacBook Pro (aside from some significant caveats, such as the time it takes to re-join a wireless network). The trick with the iPad is that sleep is the state you get when pressing the button that looks suspiciously like a power button. The iPad also does not have a Safe Sleep or Hibernate state like the MacBook does, so it will drain battery until turning itself completely off.

Is the solution to design a laptop that you never turn completely off except in rare circumstances?
I think this is one of those things people really underestimated as just 'being nice to have' (aka instant on). It's a feature of the iPhone that I think is easy to overlook and is really one of many consumer focused touches that set device apart.

If they can pull this off (really pull it off, not some sleep mode bs), I think this would be a huge selling point for Apple.
http://github.com/grosser/smusher

There's a bunch of others on Github but this is the only one I've personally used.
COngrats.... Wishing u a grant success !
It has to do with platonicity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy#Relation_to_Plato...
Efficient use of capital doesn't entail a jobs program for a billion of the worlds poor or providing them with education and healthcare for nothing in return.

The goal of capital is to create capital. Diverting capital for the purpose of job creation is charity (when done by individuals) or welfare (when done by governments).

Sims approach helps some of the unemployed, but few of the unemployable people in the world.
maintaining systematic password diversity is a high-cognitive task which imposes a barrier of entry to your app that's simply not worth it for me

You should really give 1Password a try.
The MacBook Air is an alternative to the MacBook Pro not another device being wedged between the iPad and MackBook Pro. I carry both an iPad and MBA sometimes. Together they have a pretty nice mix of functionality and weigh less than the MacBook Pro. I actually use the iPad as kind of a secondary display sometimes while using the MBA. I suppose my point is there's no reason light/ultra-portable has to be the exclusive domain of the iPad. Lots of people who have zero interest in the iPad want a light/ultra-portable laptop instead.
SMTP is pretty inefficient, especially with binary files, so a 25MB file could be quite a bit bigger during transmission. Add to that being able to send to many email addresses and GMail could end up sending out e.g. 1GB for a single mail, even though the stored value is 25MB.

Frankly, I'd be a bit irritated if people started sending me 100MB files via email. Put it up on a server and let people download it.
In my experience (as an MBA owner) people who buy it don't really carry around a backpack full of USB devices to plugin. Kind of defeats the purpose of buying an ultra-portable. Sometimes I dock it to a USB hub at home though.
The solution is to enforce the same "save everything, all the time, because someone might hit Home on that shit at any moment" philosophy that gets rid of the difference between close, quit, sleep, hibernate, and power-off for iPhone and iPad apps.
Thanks for the example. You can do another 1KB better than Smush did for you:

A mirror of your logo:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/tmp/logo.16c7e567.png

A smaller file:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/tmp/logo.squish.png

My notes on squishing images:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/compnotes/squish_imag...
A productive guide to Uninstall and Update your ATI Xpress Drivers
Getting technical in life is quite risky and it becomes more speculative if your beloved gadgets are involved in. You always try to buy new computers rather than trying to fix the old ones but this is not as risky as we consider it to be.
Here are the Gates Foundation guiding principles:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/Pages/guiding-principle...

I don't see anything capitalist in them.

Nor in "All Lives have equal value."
Linux is a lot easier to fix than physics.
Fear: the solution will be proprietary memory DIMMS where each one comes with a flash backing store.
WikiLeaks and 9/11: What if?
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This is a petty cool idea.

Although you're supposed to already package things like this, I think everyone's been through the "oh damn, now there is 20 new files and directories, which is what" before.
I'd like to request grid.ww.com (if it is no longer in use).

I am about a month away from my project's initial release, but if it's available, I can go ahead and set up the target site and domain. Regardless of the outcome, thank you.
I think this is related to Mandelbrot's different perspective to the world and seeing the fractal set as a kind of "chaos" geometry (kind of contradicting).

The expression "A Greek among Romans" is used maybe because Mandelbrot perspective to geometry was a bit different than the common scientific community in 1975-1985. There were many mentions about the "fractal set" just being "fancy" maths. He learned from the community while remaining unique in the community. But now there are many relationship with other model like "diffusion-limited aggregation" (DLA) and the fractal set is now one of the many models to describe our environment.
Cloud computing for traditional dev/test