skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it is insurmountable. I would love to see Flash play against AI bots a la Kasparov.
Yeah, it's not too bad -- just need to be really careful before you bite the bullet. I wrote about the steps I took here: http://www.resultsjunkies.com/blog/how-to-buy-a-small-busine...
>hundreds of employees
Thousands, even. 1400+, according to Wikipedia.
The same one that had the jailbreakme.com exploit for so long?

I have an iPhone, too, but to be fair, exploits don't discriminate all that much.
I hate sourceforge with a passion because the experience is so bad. In many ways, GitHub's success is sourceforge's failure. If GitHub starts to suck (doesnt look like it will any time soon) then we'll all shift to the NBT in networked source control.
oh man, i would love to have httpw.ww.com CNAME doig.me
I have the first three volumes of "The Art Of Computer Programming" Hard bound, some scuffs on the covers but no other damage.

I also have some new RoR books that I bought and never used as well as a number books on operating system design..

I also have a lot of C++ books and a lot of UNIX books.

Anyone have any really awesome Apple books for trade?
I liked this because he explains really well on how employees may be misjudging a manager's negative attitude on them because they don't understand the requirements of the business (or productization, for that matter).

It often happens that you need to do something negative such as giving bad review, not approving some large piece of code which the employee thinks is beautifully written. Or even just fire someone.

I've been on both sides, and now on the management side I see that employees usually don't realize the truth, and consequently have hard time getting a lesson out of the incident.
Yeah. Because it's not as if there are different kinds of radiation, or anything.
Great tips! I definitely agree that domain registration is a flawed system and cyber squatting is annoying.

I believe that a name is very important. It is how people identify with your business. If it is difficult to remember your business will have a hard time capturing that very valuable "word of mouth".

I would always suggest putting the money into trademarking your name because then you have a leg to stand on if you want to go after someone sitting on your useful domain.
I have Hillegass's "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (2nd ed)" if you're interested and can ship. What OS books do you have?
This is really cool, and seems like it will be even more fun once you've collected a bit more data.

One minor usability tweak: having the slider "snap" to the hour doesn't quite feel right. The end result is that the ball is never actually under my cursor, which feels broken. Might be more usable if the mall always stayed with your cursor, but snapped back to the nearest hour when you let go.

Nice stuff though - it will be cool to see how you evolve this.
REWORK would be great. I am in San Jose. E-Mail me? E-Mail in profile.
tasker is better than plugin/money hungry locale
hm
that's a bit fishy though

Intended purpose ?
AOL's $1m of solid state storage
I can offer up REWORK by the 37 signals guys and/or Rules For Revolutionaries by Guy Kawasaki

Just cover shipping from NYC
I have the Hillegass book (he is a friend of mine).

I have:
- Modern Operating Systems
- Operating Systems Concepts
- Operating Systems (Design and Implementation)
- Solaris Internals
- Design of the FreeBSD Operating System

Sorry for being vague. I just dont have them in front of me right this second...but I cab get more specific if you want.
No email in your profile
There is a difference between being singled out for being different on a regular basis, and someone bringing up basic facts of life.

One situation where I might quit - an overly religious environment. I would not like constant references to Jesus and religious judgement around me, however it's not my choice whether my co-workers want that. I can ignore it, fight it, or quit. If I am not a good fit for the company culture, I need to figure out how to deal with it. Same if the company is obsessed with sports betting, video games, soap operas, or any of the other things I prefer not to be around me.
I don't have 20 rep, but i'm begging for belize.ww.com
More detail on the winning bot Overmind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWtpTu9gB20&feature=playe...

They had a team of 13 Berkeley AI researchers working on this bot.
This reminded me of an actual OS with the security as its main goal. Architecture document posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796384
Calling weirdnesses and idiocy "privileges" is exactly that: asserting that females are disprivileged and putting the blame on males as a whole. This may be feminist (for some value of feminist), but it's hardly egalitarian -- if you wanted that, you'd need a list of female privileges.

The grandparent poster was making the point that XYZ-ism (including sexism) frequently occurs as a byproduct of someone being in a rare minority (including males in a primarily female domain). And it should be everyone's
duty to put an end to the behavior that leads to this,
instead of standing on a cloud of feminist delusions
of superiority.

FWIW, Aimonetti (deservedly) got called out by both
male and female colleagues, as well as the conference
organizers, because his slides were just oozing bad
taste and douchebaggery. If there's anything
to be learned here, it would be Renae Bair's
example on how to get the inclusive mood that
he tried to get, without being exclusive
against anyone.
http://www.renaebair.com/2009/04/27/perform-like-a-frag-star...
(Because, not only is Bair's proposal much cooler, but
also, for some reason, pacifists can look
at a BFG9000 - especially a BFG9000-wielding Tux -
without getting worked up about it and
delivering the standard speech about all
weapons being tools of killing and mutilation.
I object to weapons being seen as anything else
but killing and mutilation tools, and have strong
contempt if Elsevier as a scientific publisher
has a subsidiary that organizes arms fairs, but
I can walk around without forcing the topic on
anyone).
To what extent do the non-technical masses spend a lot of time writing formulas? That seems to be a big gating factor on the audience for this.

Is there an unmet need (other than formulas) that is solved by writing documents in latex? obviously, a lot of the tags in HTML 1.x/2.x are derivedish from LaTeX so this has worked out well for at least one person previously. On the other hand, as Yan points out, DEK and company are smart people who have given this a lot of thought.
You put 1200 hours into this. If that is really true, that is 6-8 months worth of your time and investment. It's going to hard to just throw that out, and to be honest you shouldn't.

It sounds like your co-founder is extremely strong willed. This can make for a good trait if used well. On the flip side these people are not fun to work with.

Who do you think would be more successful with the code?

How can you generate value from your work?

Can you opensource the code?

And then both of you can use it, and fork it? Most likely if you are a coder, having a well developed opensource project will do wonders for you being able to find your next role. And if you decide to start a company from the code via a fork, you could actually sell it because you are the original author, and you could dual license it. Since the code was not work for hire and there were no legal contracts as to the nature of the code you could probably do this. Get a lawyers advice.

Also since you are the developer behind the code base you can probably fork the code faster than your friend.

If your friend wants to buy the code from you, maybe you can do a rev share deal with your code and his business. There would be terms to transfer the IP, but I am sure you can figure that out if you need. In this case the code would stay private, and you would still have authorship rights to it, but he would have a rev share license to use and to derive from it.

I strongly thing that anyone that has asked you to throw out 6 months worth of work is giving bad advice, but this is a difficult situation and you can't expect maximum value out of this.

Your goal should be

- get something for your time
- part ways with this founder
- leverage this experience and code base to find a new oppertunity

http://books.google.com/books?id=l3GD2EgazCkC&q=retreat+...

page 48
Sun Tzu - Without a way to retreat, an army fights with double or triple the spirit it would have on open terrain, because death is viscerally present.

If you offer your enemy a retreat they may take it.
Win Your Ex Back by Gaining Her Trust
Trust is very important in any relationship. In fact, without trust, love will not prosper. If trust is present, however, the relationship will prosper and weather most difficult storms and problems.
I looked at my Profile and it does show my e-mail for sure...Yours does not have one though..am I missing something obvious?
Wait a second... my reading of the story is not that we're giving rice to Haiti for free, but that the rice we're selling to Haiti is cheap because we're subsidizing US farmers.

I just don't want us confusing charity to Haiti (which apparently isn't happening from the US government yet) and subsidizing US farmers who can then underbid foreign farmers. Two very different stories.
A lot of that is exaggerated lore of course. Blacksmith would not be able to make any substantial replacement part for AK.. maybe fix a rivet or two, replace a spring, but that's about it.

Stamped receiver is not really an issue if you can attain stamping with required precision - which most manufacturers can't do economically, at least not when batches are in ballpark of mere tens of thousands. The earliest attempt at stamping it for original AK failed, so they had to do with milled part for a few years, until the engineers managed to set up reliable stamping. Anyway, the receiver is not that critical part in the weapon, compared to the quality of chamber, barrel and other gas-operated parts. The tolerances there are unattainable by an average machinist shop.

The bad rep for accuracy you mention is probably a mix of many factors. The vast majority of it's operators are incompetent shooters. The accuracy gets much worse as the weapon wears through: it might still function perfect after 50 years of use, but it is long past its prime and could have been never properly serviced. Add to that that majority of AKs out there are not really AKs but Chinese-produced Type-56, or Bulgarian, or Iranian etc. clones, and it's no wonder.
Permanent tattoos in general because one is unnecessarily making a permanent change to their body for the purpose of beautification. And in general, that's forbidden. More info: http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/20283
Awesome, thanks :)

api.ww.com CNAME kyleconroy.com
To be clear, Afghanistan has a long history of people changing alliances very quickly, depending on circumstance. Although groups may present themselves as Islamist, that doesn't necessarily mean that their membership have a strong ideological allegiance, and are simply involved as a matter of convenience.

This happens in a lot of conflicts, where people often side up based much more on pragmatic concerns (protection, for instance) than ideology. Also evidenced that when conflicts end, many move towards other political ideals, since the advantages of operating under a particular umbrella no longer apply.

This may be why individuals within Islamist groups get tattoos of Canadian flags: It's not really about establishing a Caliphate or enacting strict Islamic rule for them.
Weird hit me up on twitter @ctravisfd
that is changing... cloud/hosted SQL announced in May 2010:

http://code.google.com/appengine/business/#features

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-app...
I have my own trading algos, but I do not trade my own funds.

I have a single investor, so you could imagine that he's the web startup equivalent of an angel or venture capitalist. He's extremely knowledgeable about markets, and we keep open lines of communication about what I'm doing. He trusts that I'm a good founder and that I'm doing my best to capitalize on market opportunities, but he never tells me what to do. However, if I want his advice or access to his resources, he's happy to share.

It isn't HFT in the traditional sense (or maybe not any sense), but I do tend to prefer opportunities that are quantitative in nature and spend a lot of time programming.

Right now I'm making laughably small amounts of money (non-negative, but insufficient to support me), but I'm hoping that that will change soon. Again, very much like a startup -- I take a hit on the salary and stability because I want increased exposure to the success upside. And like a startup, my investor(s) win if I win.

However, I've recently seen an opportunity to join another such "startup" (currently 2 guys) and I'm considering that, which might be the death of my own little trading startup.
No, the Taliban, as an organization, are Islamist. However, the ideology of the membership of any insurgent organization within an active conflict is always much more complicated than the professed beliefs of their parent organization.
I liked this answer enough to upvote it, but my honest question (the parent) has been downvoted. Could someone share some insight why? I switched from Reddit to HN because I thought this community was less prone to stuff like that, but maybe I'm being too sensitive?
Hm I have Modern Operating Systems and Solaris Internals somewhere here I'd be willing to put up also. (Hard to part with McKusick's fbsd book..) I'm definitely going to add a bunch tonight.
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The hidden assumption of "Idiocracy" is that survival of the fittest is the only selection mechanism. Even if survival and breeding become trivial, sexual selection will continue, and many intelligent people will only want to mate with others of their kind, even if they become overwhelmed numbers-wise.

And how will this help?

I suppose you could model this in a simple way. First you could assume that the IQ of a child is the average of the IQs of its parents (don't bother telling me that's a false assumption, of course it is, but we're making a simple model here). Then, you could put in certain assumptions about the likelihood of two people meeting, and the likelihood of them mating if they do (lots of adjustable parameters here including the unwillingness to mate with somebody too much smarter or dumber than yourself). Throw in additional "dumb people breed more" parameters and see what happens to the simulation.

Under certain values of the parameters, you'll just see a slide into idiocracy. But if you make people pickier about their mating partners you might wind up seeing a split into two entirely separate breeding populations -- one smart, one dumb. It would be an interesting set of simulations to do.
False dichotomy ($1B vs zero).

Actually, in my experience, developers understand the business quite well. It's the other business functions which doesn't understand development.

You WILL drive out (and keep out) good developers if you fail to treat developers as professionals whose inputs of how to develop software should be respected.
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The world's best countries [Infographic]
I'm a CS student in East Sussex, England. Having paid so, so much money to buy Uni books, I would absolutely love anything to do with C++ and Python. Anything at all.
ok I will in a bot Twitter has been "Over Capacity" for me all day or e-mail me slackmoehrle -AT- <Google's e-mail domain.com>
He can't simply use the code he wrote, because his partner will have a claim on it.

Similarly, his cofounder probably can't simply pursue the business by having the code rewritten.

The best he can say is that he has something his former cofounder wants: a free and clear path to pursuing the business independently. Likewise, his former partner has something he wants.

It's worth talking that out, but if things gridlock, he's better off just doing something else.
David Schrigley: 'You are so beautiful.'
I could offer up the Thinking in C++ series by Bruce Eckel unless that is to beginning for you. Just pay shipping.
"\usepackage{listings}" should do the trick for you.
http://www.usq.edu.au/users/leis/notes/latex/code.html
hirc.ww.com -> 109.74.204.109 please.
Ok, that one is yours.
He has whatever insight he claims he's informed the development with, along with whatever marketing awareness or lead gen work he claims to have done, along with any design or copy writing assets he can claim to have added to the project.

In other words, he has enough to take the issue to court. That he's unlikely to win in court is completely irrelevant; court cases can take years (the last case I was involved in didn't get an initial hearing for 7 months after we filed) and are ludicrously expensive.
Also, SOAP libraries (e.g. Soap4r) are problematic (doesn't talk to Micro$soft's version of SOAP properly).

I feel this point never quite lands home with people who've never tried to use SOAP across ecosystems (ie not .NET-.NET, Glassfish-Glassfish, etc).

Put in plain terms: It just doesn't fucking work.
This is in a way similar to what Omniture does with the ClickMap plugin.

http://blogs.commerce360.com/archives/omniture_sitecatalyst/...
It would take less effort, and offer far greater chances of eventual success, for him to simply pick something else to work on and execute on that.

It's just business.

This is why partners should incorporate and come up with a mechanism for handling acrimonious departure before getting to work. A classic response to this problem is the shotgun clause.
Ask HN: Easiest cloud solution to deploy a Tomcat/Mysql/Java app
Folks
Although I have worked on amazon ec2 before, it was with an already set up account. I am trying to find the quickest way to deploy a prototype by this weekend. I do not want to use Google App Engine since I would like to use MySQL. I am looking at EC2 and was wondering if someone can tell me what option I should go for. I was considering a shared public AMI (such as http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1725).
I am quite comfortable with doing this on my laptop and I think it should be fairly easy to do so but wanted to see if someone tells me something here at HN that I may not think of.

Thank you!
EDIT: I have a very small data (since it is just a prototype) so scalability, performance etc are not important.
wwww.ww.com CNAME m70.no? :)
I was a little disappointed (though not surprised) that this only supports the older AGI games and not the later SCI games (SQ4+). Still, very cool. Space Quest is easily one of the most entertaining game series ever developed.
http://www.fzort.org/mpr/junk/greplin-3.pl.txt

Perl, 7s. Looks like I arrived at the same recurrence that madars used, but I swear I didn't look at his solution...

Memoize magically turns it from exponential to polynomial.
I fully agree with you. Sci-fi isn't about predicting the future; to me, it's about accentuating a particular aspect of our current world, magnifying its significance, and letting the consequences play out, thus revealing something about ourselves that probably wasn't obvious before.

Philip K. Dick put it another way: in sci-fi, the main character isn't a person, but an idea. But an idea as a main character is only interesting if it's relevant to us, today, right now.
So "piracy"* is okay so long as the money ends up in the hands of the producers? Maybe you're not saying that, but it's the implication I picked up. That's such a strange scenario. Instead of paying the theatre $11.00, I instead pay a third party $5.00, who (ostensibly) takes a cut, and then gives the theatre the remainder?

I really like the idea behind Kachingle, but I don't support them subverting paywalls, no matter if I personally agree that information should be free and open.

*I really don't like the word "piracy" in this context; I'm using it as shorthand.
How's it working out for you? Any experiences you can share?
Anyone in Norway want to trade/get some books on design?
Apparently they already are:
http://www.wattvision.com/browse/by_location
ampere.co.uk
Ask HN: How do you backup?
Is it automatic, how quickly can you recover and what service(s) do you use (or is it all done in-house) ... or not at all? What thought-process prompted your chosen solution?

Personally, I keep all of my important stuff in git, mirrored to GitHub and augmented with cperciva's Tarsnap, into which the majority of my home directory goes, excepting large files but including my Firefox history & sessions.

This post was prompted by the fact that I've taken a hard look at my budget and cannot justify paying GitHub a bunch of money to do something I can do on my own* -- that is, archive my git repos with a degree of assurance that the data is secure.

I am, as I type, pulling all my data out of GitHub and throwing it onto tarsnap to guard against the chance that my laptop's disk will die in the next week. However, removing my data from GitHub as produced a lot of anxiety -- I feel like I can't live without a distributed, redundant backup solution.

So, how do you backup?

* I will probably keep the cheapest GitHub plan because GitHub is useful for active development, but very overpriced for what I mostly use it for -- keeping my data safe, backed-up and distributed (but it worked for a while, long enough to show that I like this system).

(Yes, I know this has been addressed before:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=786225 and
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99194
etc.)
hm
that's tricky, we are planning to put an api on to ww.com in the next couple of months for widgets and stuff like that, I'm really sorry.

The same goes for:

maint, dbmaster, www (obviously), video, upload, postcards, dev, mobile, index, eliteindex, chat, files, pics, mob, signup, www, counters and secure (I think that's all of them).
Thank you for answering, rcfox! For a moment I thought nobody would reply.

I guess that, if people put their email addresses in the clear, serious spam flooding must not be an issue. By the way, I do not publish my email address and we are not even an order of magnitude apart! (~2.01 for me.)
Hehe, creative. Ok, I'm ok with that conditional on a check to see how much type-in traffic that costs me, cool ?
George Lucas never made any sci-fi after THX-1138, and that itself was pretty derivative. Star Wars is a medieval swords and sorcery fantasy, only set in space.
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Hahah! Thanks Peter. And thanks for the escalation to your google contact, they totally fixed the issue. ;)
That's my cofounder!
Thanks everybody! I'm going to start with Python. Will post my progress on HN after a while :)
app.ww.com to appoftheday.com
SO is kind of unwelcoming to that sort of thing, but the format of SO is just not well-suited to open-ended questions, or anything requiring more than a few words of discussion. The limits on replies and unpredictable order of answers make it frustrating.
exactly. Where is no glory in getting star performance from star performers. The glory is in getting it from bad performers.
Ah, another one of those country rankings designed to provoke flamewars, chest-thumping, brow-beating and teeth-gnashing.

The error bars on these sorts of things are big enough, though, that any country in the top twenty or thirty is a pretty damn good place to live, so if you live in one of those you should be happy.

If you live in the bottom twenty or thirty... well, sorry, your country sucks, you should move to a better one.
Oh believe me I'm not knocking you for having NOT done it, as I can't imagine how much work it would take to write a valid WebP parser in javascript.
No way. Hyphenated domains are generally not a good idea since people forget them easily and have to turn to google to find your site.