skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC Lua (http://www.lua.org) was developed in part because of Brazil's protectionist policies.
If you want to learn Lisp, I guess Emacs is a good idea.

If you want to transform text in your editor in a Unix-like environment use the appropriate tool - Acme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_%28text_editor%29

Then you can program your text transforms in any language you like
Why do you require a Google account to sign up?
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You can get someone fairly professional to do a voice over here:
http://voice123.com/

I've used the service before and the quality of people I got was very good. For a 30s clip you can get someone pretty good for about $100-$200
OK, so work the other way. What's the MPR (Monthly Percentage Rate)? If I'm using their lowest rate option and borrowing $250 for 6 months, I get an MPR of about 20% If I count the origination fee of $75, I get just under 25%. In contrast, my moderately high credit card which also lets me take short-term loans charges about 1.5% MPR. Is ZestCash really worth 13 times more? Are they taking on 13 times the risk?

You can play with the terms as much as you like. ZestCash is a rip-off compared to any other option.
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These are good common sense tips. I think that my project Any New Books? (http://anynewbooks.com) scores pretty well on most of these points. What do you guys think? The question mark pisses me off at times, for example when it comes to using the site name in possessive form (e.g., Any New Books?' Blog), but overall I think its inclusion adds something to the name of the site.
Actually this is the real world adblock: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1770950

;)
If left side applies to you -> choose this language:

YOUR CAPS LOCK IS STUCK -> BASIC

u r l33t -> Ruby

Not afraid of significant whitespace ->
Python

Not afraid of significant whitespace and wear a pocket protector ->
Fortran

You love getting messages <- Smalltalk

You have an impressive, full beard -> Lisp

You want a job -> Javascript

You want a well-paying job -> Java/C#
Why did the Canadians send the trucks in the first place? I assume it was when the Taleban were fighting the Soviets for us.
SOAP is the worst thing ever!

That is all...
Which Unix kernel is the analog of this truck? i.e., keeps chugging under extreme CPU/memory/IO/interrupts/multithreading load?
40k? I'm still mad I spent £40 on a domain in a moment of whimsy. Let me know if anyone wants to buy knommerce.com
(as in knowledge and commerce... what was i thinking?)
The fav feature is the like button. You can see your most popular tweets at http://favstar.fm/users/<yourtwittername>;

From there click on the recent button to see what tweets of yours were recently faved, or the given button to see what you have faved.

I've recently started integrating RT tracking too, as tech tweeters do tend to use RT more than likes.

If you log into http://favstar.fm once, it will start collecting favs and RTs you give and receive almost instantly. Otherwise it collects them more slowly using twitter's REST api.
talkto.me
I am primarily a Java developer too, but I have very rarely seen any hobby projects being done in Java/Jsp. I wonder if there is a reason why you did it in Java? What framework do you use? Does Java needing a lot of memory have to do with the slowness of the site?
I have to deal with SOAP APIs at work (Google, I'm looking at you) and they are seriously the bane of my existence. SOAP and the people behind it need to die a slow, painful and lonely death.
I suspect that this sort of device could be removed by the power company should they discover it.The homeowner/tenant does not, in most cases, own the meter and some power companies could consider this a modification of the meter and have it removed. Heck, they might even bill you for the removal.

I'm speculating, of course, but it seems like a real risk to me.
Hummm, I think "preventative" for me means focusing on causes. Such drugs may act on symptoms (I don't know how effective they are, wouldn't surprise me in light of this article if they are not, esp. considering side-effects), but would not IMO be in the same class of preventative measures as exercising regularly, sleeping well, eating well, socializing regularly, de-stressing, etc. - all of which act "upstream" on our overall health levels.

In other words, if you eat fast food, watch TV for hours each day, don't exercise, work too much and sleep too little, then develop bad numbers on your blood tests, taking a drug to improve those numbers a bit shouldn't be considered preventative.
A few of us have been interested in providing this feature on Twitter as part of more general effort in social sentiment (it's just a "is this anything?" project at this point). We see the similarity between 'Retweet' and 'Like' - however, we think the presence of a 'Dislike' would somewhat segregate what a 'Retweet' vs. a 'Like' is for.

You can see the most recent result of efforts in this 30 second YouTube video. It demonstrates where we are with a browser plugin to add 'Like' and 'Dislike' to every tweet viewed on Twitter.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlZVBCSXsK8

Would love to hear your thoughts on it.

The more underlying sentiment "gathering and storing" system can be found at: http://upprdwnr.com
I've been watching this come together for awhile now - Aerostat's a pretty cool little service for managing a cluster.

Rather than relying on a custom internal DNS implementation, Aerostat automatically names servers as they are added to a cluster based on the service they provide, then replicates these names across all nodes in the cluster. This process ensures that all nodes are aware of a new service in under a minute. It also solves the "swiss cheese" problem of instances named cass-00, cass-01, cass-02 and so on by filling in gaps as nodes are added and removed.

For those in the Portland area who are interested, Gavin will probably be giving a talk on this at PDXDevops sometime soon.
Thoughtful content moderation is the key to a successful platform for public debate, and very difficult to achieve.
Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser
To everyone complaining about the Google account login on wattvision.com: this looks like a major Google bug, not a WattVision problem. Even if they were evil, this should not be possible.
It's too late for me to edit or delete the comment, but I see you've removed the link now so it may not matter. I am however curious about your maze. What do you believe it accomplishes?
Interested in the aff names and to learn more about your app if you ever made any progress with it. :)
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Video: China shaping the future?
Ha. If only we were that good. ;) We try to figure out the city you're from using Geo IP (maxmind.com, for example) and then draw a Google Map. Down the line, we want to use the city you're from to compare use with other users from the same city/region. We're not interested in your exact street address.
By that reasoning we should expect higher traffic to thirtysevensignals.com than 37signals.com. Having a numeral in your domain seems unwise but for a location oriented company "20" is a winner. It is not worth $70k though IMHO.

Aday.com is worth thousands. I've been looking at hundreds of potential domains for a daily deal site and it's been frustrating. If I had found aday.com for $10 I would have shouted so loud all my neighbors would be deaf.
Ask HN: Anyone else doing a non-software startup?
My wife and I recently kicked off http://wickhamhousebrand.com to sell men's accessories. Throughout the setup, business development, and so on I've used tons of stuff I've learned from HN in one way or another: culled marketing and business tips from the popular blogs here, developed software for running it using stuff I found out about from HN users, etc.

I'm always interested in people's software startup stories, but I can't help but wonder: is anyone else doing something similar?

Have other resources to share? Interested in some sort of "Getting Real in Other Markets" group or something? I know there have to be others who aren't necessarily doing "The Next Big Social Network 4.0™" but still hang around here for advice and ideas. :)
Of course you can also use the same reasoning to buy the cheapest-available option regardless of quality in everything you do. Live in a tiny studio apartment. Wear ten-dollar Walmart jeans and whatever t-shirts you can obtain for free. But if you're earning a decent income the only result of this is that you wind up dead with millions of dollars in cash in the bank. What's the point?

Unless you're at the poverty line, it's rational to pay a bit more to get stuff that's more enjoyable. (And if you are at the poverty line, you shouldn't be buying vodka at all). Whether it's worth paying 50% more for Grey Goose rather than Smirnoff is an entirely personal decision and depends whether you actually like it better... personally I don't like vodka much anyway.

My point: there's a lot of stupid overconsumption going on out there, but Grey Goose Vodka, being a probably-better product at a modestly higher price, isn't really a good symbol of it.
Insert oops reply here.
App for the poet, please.
One of the lessons I've learned in life is that there are some people that will impress you very much when you first meet them. They will talk a lot about how much they're doing and what's going on for them and it will sound very impressive.

After knowing them for a while I start to see that they are just full of it. This has happened multiple times that I find there is a strong inverse correlation between the amount of talk someone does and the amount they actually get done.
Back when I was in college for CE, one of my professors was very concerned that testing CPUs would eventually be the bottleneck. That verifying that it was actually working correctly would be such a burden once the number of transistors reached a high enough level.

Of course, I never heard about this again. Ring a bell with anyone?
Awesome tech, Will be very interesting to put on my folks house which has historically had really odd utilities spikes. I can finally debug :).
Pretty neat. It will be possible to determine if a house is occupied, by looking at the current and historical power usage data. You've still got to find the address though.
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No.

Networking with the YC gang isn't my goal so for me the benefits provided by the indirection outweigh the costs.
mrb, thanks for the optimized node.js code. I re-ran the benchmark and the queries per second increased to 23,224 queries per second... so I agree with the 30% faster but not your queries per second estimate (which math did you do? ~ 18k * 130% = ~ 23k or?). I will update the blog later to reflect this.
mrb, please note that the connections per second and queries per second are handled individually in the benchmark. So the connect handler should make no difference to the queries per second.
No, a googol is a number. A googolplex is also another number.
Redis as an LRU cache (and the mystery of port 6379)
(I didn't even know grabbing a visitor's google account
name was possible)

I didn't either, but it seems you can simply use Google's API to allow a user to sign in, where the user name of the user that signs in (or is already signed in!), is reported to the user of the API via a callback. The request after you sign in has a 'continue' HTTP header that says something like:

continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wattvision.com%2F_ah%2Flogin%3Fcontinue%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2F
www.wattvision.com%2Fhouse&service=ah&dsh=2844188452075813479&timeStmp=&secTok=&GALX=
DTEVMCX16p4&Email=<your gmail address>&Passwd=<your_password>
I will bet money that most of these "RESTful" APIs are nothing of the sort. In almost all cases, when somebody says they're using REST, they're actually using ad-hoc XML-RPC -- fixed URLs, non-descriptive content, etc. Ignorant programmers have fixated on trivial aspects of some REST applications (use of PUT/DELETE, "pretty" URLs) and ignored all the important aspects.

This sort of thing happens a lot in software culture -- see people claiming Java or C# are object-oriented, that C++ is functional, that Python or LISP are "scripting languages". It's cargo-cult nomenclature, and it disrupts technical conversation to the point of uselessness.

Roy T. Fielding, who described the REST style, has an excellent blog post titled REST APIs must be hypertext-driven < http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte... >, where he lays out some ground rules for calling any given interface a REST API.
What a great writeup! I LOL-ed at the code name - "GAND-OS" ... can't stop laughing! :D

When I read the original Inquirer post, I immediately checked the date just to make sure this isn't some old April 1st joke.
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It looks like a nice interface to something like Web Archive: http://archive.org. It should be there for every website!
Yes, we hear you, please see my comments above.
Not ytue in West Africa. If you want to show status/money, get an Escalade or a Land Cruiser.

I used a Hilux in West Cameroon on the muddy/mountain side roads in the rainy season. It is very reliable.

Its predecessor - Toyota Stout, has no "Four-Wheel", yet on First Gear, it is more stable climbing muddy hills in bad weather than an F350 or any Chevy its size
Given that the much simpler problem of autotune can't be solved without giving the voice an artificial sound, I doubt that auto-removal of wrinkles is going to work very well.

Of course you can also just remove wrinkles with a blur. I guess this gets more and more difficult in the age of HDTV.

Also: I'm less concerned about the fact that I can't trust live video to be uncensored, and more concerned about the fact that conspiracy theorists now can't trust live video to be uncensored. Now that they've been given the idea, I look forward to the next round of conspiracy theories, in which pixels are analyzed to prove that [favourite boogeyman] was really behind [next major event].
Requiring reliable-payment reporting to outside agencies strikes me as a good, fair idea.

But even that reform is double-edged: by cleaving away the clearly reliable it raises the effective rates for all those left behind at the worst categorization.

And the repayment odds are unlikely to be binary, or stable: someone who repays one loan (but still looks like a defaulter in other respects) may be nearly as likely to default on a subsequent loan. A borrower may at some point even consider a default their 'due', if they look at all the fees they've paid. So the idea that one agency would just specialize in the 'hardest' cases, and never reclassify someone, may make good business sense without being irrational or malicious. The proper 'escape' is then going to another lender (or even better to stop borrowing), rather than renegotiating with a bottom-predator.
mrb, thanks for the optimized version of the 'node.js+net' script. But what is difference with the original script? I copy and pasted your script and the queries per second result remains unchanged... so where does the 47% faster come from?
It seems like if you haven't been on Twitter since 2007, you don't know what the hell you are talking about.

Favorite == Like
We're investigating, its certainly not our intention. See my comments above.
Forget the clever domain tricks, even just naming your company "craply" in the first place makes me get a little stabby. -ly, -ify, and any other clever lingual arrangements are going to be out of fashion in short order and you'll be the oh-so-trendy company with the lame name. My only consolation is that these companies will burn out as quickly as they arrive.

OK, that was quite bitter. For some reason I have a perhaps unusual emotional response to certain patterns of syllables, like a useless sort of synesthesia.
Gee, I'm a 40+ Perl programmer. But Amsterdam is a few time zones away...
Edison had that problem? That's curious because Humphrey Davy deomstrated the filmament lamp to the Royal Society 75 years before Edison was born.
This wasn't a great article, but the topic fascinates me. I'm surprised the shift from faster-clocks to multi-core went so smoothly. No one seems to really mind. I really like my quad core, 4 processors is a lot nicer than one.

But I wonder about hundreds or thousands of cores, if we'll see that and if people will start to worry that single threaded software uses ever smaller amounts of their shiny new hardware. Will there every be some magic layer that can run single threaded software on many cores?

I wrote about the end of faster clocks and start of multi-core recently:
http://www.kmeme.com/2010/09/clock-speed-wall.html
I started and ran an import company for 7 years up in Canada, importconcern.ca, and we imported cars and parts from Japan. All of the cars were typically quite cheap at auction, except for one specific model of the Hilux - the Pick-up model. The regular Hilux Surf would cost anywhere from $4,000-$6,000 in total (very cheap), but the Hilux Pick-ups would run $10,000+ for one in somewhat decent condition.

We could never pinpoint exactly the reason for the higher Pick-up prices but we long suspected it was likely due to their possible use in war environments. And this article was interesting to read because it somewhat confirms our suspicion. Thanks for the post!
Los Angeles public school ?
I had a Toyota Tacoma before the FJ that had over 250,000 miles on when I sold it. So far I like the mechanical engineering more on this vehicle. There is even more room around the engine so its easier to work on and because of how the oil filter is placed, I can run full synthetic and change filters without losing much oil.

With Toyota vehicles, the biggest thing to keep them running for a long time is doing maintenance. If done properly, they will last for longer than you want them.

Also the off-road capabilities are awesome. It has done well in the sand, gravel, inclines, declines, snow, mud and water very well. Its exhilarating to easily get through conditions where others got stuck.
The winning bot's strategy seems a bit one-sided (mutalisk-heavy). I guess no bots were good enough to build real counters to that? Looking at the videos, everyone is trying to kill mutalisk with Goliaths, which is not exactly the strongest tactic.
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I was about to buy your scarf until I got to the 'paypal' point :/

Could you add some more payment options? (It may also be worth tracking the number of people who get to the checkout page and then leave)

Please also make the 'more pictures' larger (or have thumbnails of all the photos), as it wasnt too clear at first that there were more. I like how BR does it:

http://bananarepublic.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=35356...

(thumbnails with mouseover)

Other than that, bravo!
Be sure not to check some photo if you're at you're office.
The problem is that the interconnected web of services are emphatically REST. This is the next generation of enterprise systems and it is growing quickly. One you adopt salesforce.com as your CRM strategy the next thing you want to do is integrate that system of record into the larger enterprise system. While Salesforce.com does offer SOAP services they in the end had to offer REST based services due to overwhelming demand and while they support both my observation is the the REST services are getting more attention (I don't work for or represent Salseforce.com, so take that statement for what it is worth, an opinion). If demand drops off it makes logical sense that the SOAP services will be deprecated. Further there are some SaaS systems that do not offer SOAP at all and that number is growing daily.

The enterprise of the future looks like an ESB that brokers data to and fro an assortment of SaaS, with some core in-house systems in the mix. It makes sense for companies whose bread and butter is not technology and places economies of scale on the SaaS providers. Many of those SaaS are opting for REST only implementations.

In a way it makes sense, for alot of the integrations you are wanting to pull data from the system for analytics, trending and reporting along side an aggregate of other data sources. REST make sense because it (loosely) acts like SQL which despite it's problems is a good data manipulating language.

The thing about REST is that someone needs to come up with a uniform and simple authentication and authorization mechanism that is seamless across the board.
same here.. Are you using appengine? There is a recommended way to get the login implemented from appengine.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/users/overview....

I am not sure if you wanna do federated login on appengine.
That's a fair point.

But, there are reasons other than twitter for shorter being better.
The thing about REST is that executing on it involves understanding REST. The thing about SOAP is that you can practically push a button in your IDE and get a SOAP interface. No, the enterprise world is not about to transition to REST.
With its vertical design and standard supported blocks stacked on each other it looks like overgrown construction from the slums. Would be interesting to see interior design.
It's very hard to believe in $1B budget, you have to try really hard to waste that much money.
What if we looked at it as a competitive advantage?

Teamwork is a competitive advantage because a good team can develop more complex systems than a single programmer.

Clean and simple code with good architecture is a competitive advantage, because using simpler more appropriate constructs, we can develop more complex systems (or our systems run faster, or take less resources)

If we are able to go into super brain mode we are able to deal with and build more complex systems.

I like clean code as a competitive advantage, or force multiplier, but I also like the ability to use super brain mode to be able to handle more complex systems.

The double edged sword is that you've made a more complex system requiring the focus of super brain mode to work with, but if you use it carefully, sparingly, and wisely, perhaps your system can do things that a constant interruption brain mode system just can't do. It's a dangerous but powerful tool in my opinion.

Perhaps working in that space is what separates the good or amazing developers from the code monkeys? Or is it always too much of a liability to have such a system?
+1 just for the title of the article.
Absolute.ly :)
I wonder if that name has some serious potential marketing for Sprint/AT&T/Verizon or whatever when their networks advance further. Already Sprint pushes "4G", and while it may be meaningless (or at least poorly representative), they might still be interested in that particular domain?
silentbicycle, thanks, I updated the name as suggested.

So do you have any ideas for a more interesting benchmark program? Ideally it should be something which needs to keep state as you suggest and makes use of some kind of simple business logic, and is only a few hundred lines of code at the very most. What about a simple chat server which handles people and rooms? The benchmark might handle, say, max. 10k people chatting in max. 1k rooms. What do you think? Any better ideas?