skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one thing that I'm very glad Unity does - it removes those menubars and has a global menu like OS X. Saves so much screen space.
i just wanted to comment and offer to buy the dude's laptop
2010 is becoming a good year in shutting down big botnets.
A Different Threat To Net Neutrality
On an X200? The link given listed it as 4.4 hours as standard.

Fair enough if you have but that's not the standard configuration that was linked.
Great, thanks for the feedback.
I have no opinion on PG-worship one way or the other (probably because I'm new here) but I agree about the general "problem" that involves people who seem to downvote (or even flag) thoughtful comments just because they disagree. Sometimes, they not only downvote a comment they dislike, they apparently go to your profile and downvote everything(!) you wrote recently. Maybe it's a weakness of the implementation, or maybe I just didn't understand the purpose of the moderation system correctly and this is actually the way it is supposed to work?

I tend to upvote anything that seems coherent and interesting, not just the stuff I agree with. If I ever get to the point where I'm allowed to downvote, I'll exercise that privilege only to mod down trolls, spammers, or very bad style. Everything else can much better be handled by replying to an entry and having an actual discussion.

So am I mistaken? What is the mod system for, officially? Quality control or consensus building?
Mutt: a low-memory mail client (under OS X)
As soon as employers made college a necessity for jobs of any significant income (and even some of shockingly low income, such as “receptionist”) back in the 80s or 90s, college started increasing tuition costs into the stratosphere. The cost for a four year degree at even a modest state school is now, in technical economic terms, fucking ridiculous.

Other way around, bro. Big federal aid started ~1980, THEN everyone went to college, THEN since everyone has a degree, you may as well hire up overqualified recent grads, THEN it becomes a semi-requirement you have a degree to be a receptionist.

C'mon, man. Whole nations worth of individuals don't just up and decide everyone needs a degree for no reason. That wouldn't make any sense.
None, unless you enter "911" for some reason. If you type "###" it just says "Emergency calls only."
Depends on what you use it for. I have 8GB in my MBP, but that's mainly because of VMware.
Alternatively, money is a pretty good thing to bring to the table.
Why did you want to port your code to PHP (Or anything) in the first place? To familiarize yourself with the language, or to solve a real problem? Thanks!
When James Gosling was moaning about Apple deprecating their JVM he mentioned that Apple's WebObjects stuff was actually running on Sun hardware.

http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/steve_jobs_comments_o...
Lessons learnt while saving my Pet (projects) : Hint - "Fake it"
I agree. These things have become the most important thing about a computer for most people... C2D vs i5 = I couldn't care less.

Happily, the reviews I've read of the Air have universally said that fan noise and heat are both minimal.
On my netbook I set the menu bar to hide and set it up to have the same height as the window title bar. This solves both problems (at least for me): a) no vertical screen clutter, b) no unfamilar menubar on the right screen border.

I used to run gentoo w/ ratpoison which had an even better solution and dispersed with the panel altogether...
Show HN: What can you do in 8 hours? FSTR.net
So a couple of days ago I bought FSTR.net. I saw that the name was 'free' and grabbed it up before I knew what I was going to do with it.

Last night, in a short burst of creativity, I put together this ahem games aggregator. (despite only having scripts to read from one place at the moment, I've got three more sites that allow embedding their games to work on).

I must admit the list of things to do is a mile long. I spent more time writing pixel level placement for adsense then anything else. (using the official "adsense heatmap" http://myblog-log.blogspot.com/2007/05/maximize-your-google-adsense.html)

I really respect the HN community and am often inspired by the things I see people do. I'd love to hear what you think and maybe get some suggestions for where to go next.

As a first time project poster, I'm a little worried about maybe committing some faux pas - but - what the hell :) If there is any, I'll take the yelling too.

So far on my TODO list:
- figure out the CSS3 selector that will allow me to make the DIV containing the game tiles expand when I hover over the IMG inside it.
- add about 5px space between the "scyscraper" on the game page and the actual game. if the scraper floats over the edge of the content-wrapper, that's acceptable ... but "pushing the footer" is not.
- round the IMG tiles in firefox
- add a glassy-gloss overlay to the tiles in CSS
- grab more feed content
- the games are a random list on each refresh, I need a way to make sure that good games easily accessible & for people to find the games they like in a non-random order (so they can return to their favorites)
- add a title to the page with the games
- add credit & backlinks to the places I'm feeding from (addictinggames.com so far)
- like button per game & for the overall site.
- "popular games" row
- game category tags
- game ranking / game hit couter
- some gradients in the background, drop-shadow round the content div
- clean the horrendously messy code in the background. (move all google link units out of the main code and into "include" files)

Maybe I should get a more "gamey" domain. FSTR (faster) is nice cause it's short and "actiony" but maybe there's a better use for it... like a computer networking company, or a car engine, or sports or...

I'm a bit scattered in the head at the moment... I started at about 6pm and worked through till 3am. Am now back at the office on next to no sleep and wishing I could work through my list :)

I'd love to hear some HN style feedback, as it'll help focus my thoughts into making something a little more viable.

Please don't throw rocks!

:D

- Alex.
Going synthetic in an older vehicle isn't always good. a small leak into the piston woudln't be a problem with regular oil, but with synthetics you have an issue.
Arithmetic coding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding#Encoding_and_...

The entire message is coded into a single number and it approaches the theoretical maximum for compression.

Too bad about software patents!
Deeply Held Beliefs
> Windows 7 actually solves this problem best; I can move the task bar over to the right and have the full screen height for applications.

IIRC, Windows 95 allowed you to drag the taskbar anywhere you wanted it.

On Windows, every app has a menu, so you still have some screen real estate devoted to a menu, negating the advantage of not having a top menu bar.
i use http://www.bongous.com cause english no good and me no understand good. i use bongo like their website in espanish..
I know someone who recently bought the 11"...and it's fast. I haven't played Call of Duty 4 or anything on it, but it flies.

EDIT: Full comment is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834157
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Done, but I read only one article.
I'm not particularly an Apple guy (if anything a bit against them), but these Airs are exactly what I think a laptop should be.

I want my laptop to be small, lightweight and have a long (3-4 hour) battery life, with performance as a low priority. Netbooks are a good compromise but their limited screen size/smaller keyboard are a bit of a hassle.

They're still too pricey for my blood though. The previous Air I saw was listed at ~$1800 (USD), and even though $999 is significantly better, I can't see myself spending that much on (what would be for me) a secondary machine.

That being said - tax season is coming up. =) Is it a pain to get linux running on these things?
It's not a Network Neutrality violation. The discrimination is happening at one of the endpoints, not in the network.

We can argue whether this behaviour is a good thing or not, just as we can argue whether network non-neutrality is a good thing or not. But they are different things: it does not help to confuse them.
There are times where I wish HN had a one-time-daily-use +10 vote button, because I would use it here.

The post was obviously satire, and I personally thought it well-written and hilarious. Fundamentally, a technical startup needs to eventually master business and engineering. The "which comes first" and "which is more important" are strawman arguments where specifics matter much more than generalizations.
Let's ignore the site in question for a moment, and ask the more general question: is this approach legally defensible?

While it seems reasonable to presume that non-password protected files can be freely accessed until one learns otherwise, it's doesn't seem reasonable to continue presuming this after reading an explicit prohibition. Is there a legal requirement that says one must attempt to physically restrict access if one wants to assert usage restrictions?

I presume if I had an unattended roadside vegetable stand with a cash-box, that I'd be able to prosecute someone who took vegetables without paying, certainly if they also made off with the cash-box. Why is this different on the web? And if a written prohibition has no legal standing, why do so many companies pay lawyers to write click-through "terms of service" agreements?
All very nice suggestions below, but I found suffix trees missing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_tree

And the reasons why it blows my mind:

(1) Knuth called it "Algorithm of the year 1973" (possibly because it beat an intuitive lower bound that he had for a problem I can't remember).

(2) It's relatively new for a "core", first-principles algorithm. Ukkonen's algorithm is from 1995, although there are earlier versions.

(3) This BOOK is largely devoted to the many, many applications of suffix trees: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Strings-Trees-Sequences-Com... It should be required reading for anyone interested in advanced algorithms.

(4) Longest common substring in linear time.

(5) Lempel-Ziv decomposition in linear time.

(6) Longest repeated substrings in linear time.

And too many more to list.
I think the global menu would be a huge nuisance on a multihead setting.
Fox News editorial: WikiLeaks employees should be declared ‘enemy combatants’
I think I stopped using fvwm after they switch to their 2.x branch. I still use twm occasionally, though. (Don't care a lot about virtual desktops and pseudo-3D window frames anymore)

I wonder whether you could still compile bowman, the fvwm fork that "begat" the slew of NeXt-like window manager that followed…
My mind is blown by the algorithm for matching with mismatches which I present in the first chapter of my thesis. It shouldn't be, given that I discovered this algorithm -- but somehow "I take the Fourier Transfer of the FreeBSD kernel" sounds more like the punch line to a joke than the first step in an algorithm.
Almost unrelatedly, any idea if there's a strong push for a more current, well-maintained .NET/mono version of Clojure, now that the JVM is going down in flames?
That was a merely an amusing-in-hindsight observation, I even telegraphed it with the introduction of "just for fun".

Maybe the tipsters were right and there was a skunkworks project working on the iPhone even then (Jobs says the iPhone grew out of iPad work that must have been going on for years before we saw the iPhone, never mind the iPad) or alternatively maybe Apple picked up the name for their product from the rumours. Either way I find it interesting, and it underscores the old adage that making predictions is a mug's game.
Did the developer who implemented that know how cock-assed it was, and deliberately used comic sans as a tell?
They would have to link it using data that is NOT publicly available, and that is what seems to be their issue is that they can only use publicly available to machine link stuff together, data I've put out there for everyone to see under specific names/email addresses on purpose in a controlled manner.

While yes I agree the possibility is there, it is really remote.
Have you actually looked at or used the array stuff in postgres? It's pretty horrible syntactically and worse, very explicit in it's recommended use.

"Tip: Arrays are not sets; searching for specific array elements can be a sign of database misdesign. Consider using a separate table with a row for each item that would be an array element. This will be easier to search, and is likely to scale better for a large number of elements."

Searching an array is a pretty common task, Mongo does really well in its ability to search into objects in a document.

I had to laugh a little at one of the sample queries:

SELECT f1[1][-2][3] AS e1, f1[1][-1][5] AS e2
FROM (SELECT '[1:1][-2:-1][3:5]={{{1,2,3},{4,5,6}}}'::int[] AS f1) AS ss;

Seriously?
I think this clarifies things:
"There is going to be some questions about this decision in relation to GNOME. I want to make something crystal clear: Ubuntu is a GNOME distribution, we ship the GNOME stack, we will continue to ship GNOME apps, and we optimize Ubuntu for GNOME. The only difference is that Unity is a different shell for GNOME, but we continue to support the latest GNOME Shell development work in the Ubuntu archives"
From: http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/10/25/ubuntu-11-04-to-ship-uni...
Ask HN: Search Engine Rank Checking API?
I'm looking for a service that will allow me to check Google/Yahoo/Bing rankings instantly via an API. I use Authority Labs to measure ranking trends for my most important keywords, but I'm looking for a tool that will provide one-time instant rankings for 15-30 keywords at a time. We're constantly running these searches by hand, and automating it would save hours each month.

Does such a service exist?
Just because a government can possibly turn ugly, it doesn't mean that no government is better.

The argument is akin to "beef can give you food poisoning, so we should eradicate all cows".

Everyone hates paying taxes... But anarchy? Come on. The fabric of the society that has advanced so far in the last 300 years is built on, at the very least, property rights and stability
His Becoming a Technical Leader (http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/btl.html) is directly addressed at this issue.

I think its good, but it's been so long since I was at this stage and read it (late '80s) I'm not 100% sure.

That said, I've not regretted one bit reading every apropos book Weinberg had written through the '90s (which is about when I stopped reading these sorts of books).
Mobile Phone Vector Tutorial
There was no developer. This isn't even a real newspaper, it's just one woman's blog.
Speaking of incredibly cool algorithms based on Fourier transforms, the Schoenage-Strassen algorithm for multiplying integers is also amazing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nhage%E2%80%93Strassen...

At least to me, it seems hard to imagine that multiplying two N-bit integers could be done with less than O(N^2) operations. Schoenage-Strassen lets you do it using O(N log N log log N) operations!
Want to know what the space shuttle is programmed in?
Except now instead of just disabling Flash, you'd have to disable... what?

This is an understandable concern, but at the risk of stating the obvious, HTML5 is HTML. Any HTML5 elements that irk you are available for your inspection and manipulation through the DOM. This means that sites that abuse HTML5 can be easily "patched" with Greasemonkey scripts, Safari extensions, Chrome extensions, etc.
My money is on Ubuntu 12.10 defaulting to xmonad and triggering the apocalypse.
If that was the case, digg would have banned those accounts.

The accounts were not banned, just the digging of stories stopped.
Agreed on the X201. The Vaio Z? Well, I looked into it over the weekend, and:

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryD...

If people are questioning the Air's price, they'll absolutely hate the Z's price. The cheapest Z has an i7, an optical drive, and a $500 premium over the base 13" Air.
A physical equivalent is a parking lot with two entrances on different roads, such that going in one entrance and out the other forms a substantial shortcut. In my neck of the woods (MI), you will find the owners have a way of blocking off one entrance temporarily, and that blockage is done periodically (once a year?), so that the parking lot does not become a road by fiat.

In this physical case, in order to assert usage restrictions (i.e. this is not a road), one must physically restrict access even if temporarily and infrequently.
If you jailbreak (don't do it without researching it), there's an app called SBSettings that adds a bunch of quick toggles, including brightness, in a snappy drop down menu accessible from inside any app.
Some Thoughts On Geography
I agree completely.

Installing Ubuntu server or desktop on Virtualbox/Windows was a 2-day nightmare the first time I did it (3 months ago), and reminds me of why I moved to Macs. Clearly this configuration is not being tested.

If I can't install Ubuntu on Virtualbox, there is no way in hell I am going to buy a Thinkpad for Linux instead of a Mac and hope everything will 'simply work'.
Because the problem is trivially solvable if the companies in question bump all traffic to SSL, which they hopefully will do en masse now.
Current semester's offering: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3214/fall2010/gback/
From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1721105

"Conservative, I know, but we're serving 800k pages a day off one server"
Are you aware how much the US spends on military? 0.7 trillion per year. I think these things could be paid for pretty easily.
The optical drive on Mac's is region locked, which means I use it even less than never.

Handbrake FTW
I'd be interested to hear thoughts on HTTP digest auth as an alternative to full end-to-end encryption for avoiding these attacks.

Personally I'm hopeful that Firesheep will be what it takes to persuade browser vendors (and the HTML5 crowd) that real usable support for HTML login forms based on HTTP digest authentication is a necessity.

There are some pretty significant issues involved in rolling out full-on SSL which while not insurmountable do lead one to wonder if a more lightweight solution like HTTP digest auth might be sufficient for most non-security-critical cases.

On this topic http://www.cgisecurity.com/2010/01/weaning-the-web-off-of-se...

is worth a read.
http://isshort.com
The ultimate test: How long does it take to do a full Fink rebuild on it?
Gee thanks, who is rapleaf and why would I want to opt out of something I've never joined or even read about up until this very moment?

I'm assuming, from reading their page, they are some kind of person-tracking outfit for advertisers. Pretty much the same thing that Google, Microsoft, and any other advertiser does on the internet. How are they more different or more evil?
IPhone Security Hole Lets You Make Calls When The Phone Is Locked
I really liked the flat-screen monitor up in the YC offices to track the site. I want one for my site. It seemed the site wasn't getting much traffic, but then I realized most of the users were in the room at the time.
Why bother with the warning? If the site wants to monetize through subscriptions, put up a pay-wall. If it wants to distribute content freely and monetize through other means (ads, a paid premium section, etc), then do so. Threatening or attempting to guilt potential customers to subscribe is just childish.

How can a publication afford to charge its customers for online news content? Provide something people actually want. Case in point: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/07/the-news...
Two terabyte drives are $100 or less now. Optical media is growing more irrelevant every day for most of us.
Reprimanded by Mom after a Bad Review in the New York Times: Back to Basics
Can you expand on what you mean? I can't imagine that either test scores or economic status is correlated with jack-assery, although I guess it's possible. If I were forming an experiment, in fact, my hypothesis would be that the latter is positively correlated (but I doubt it would pan out).
I presume if I had an unattended roadside vegetable stand with a cash-box, that I'd be able to prosecute someone who took vegetables without paying, certainly if they also made off with the cash-box. Why is this different on the web?

I think it's mostly based on society's expectations. It is generally understood that the merchandise at a roadside stand belongs to somebody and another person should not take possession of it, while it is generally understood that something posted online where everyone can see it was posted with the intent of letting everyone see it. Given that, it would make sense that posting something everyone can see implies a grant of permission for everyone to see it.

And if a written prohibition has no legal standing, why do so many companies pay lawyers to write click-through "terms of service" agreements?

IANAL, but I would expect the "click-through" part makes a difference. A visitor to the site may not see a simple written prohibition, whereas accepting the click-though agreement at least indicates acknowledgment that those rules are there (even if they turn out not to be enforceable).
Purchase sharing 
Do you think companies based around the sharing of purchase information like Swipley will do well or is their is the privacy hurdle to large to overcome?
This article has some info from the job postings for the center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/07/21/the-t...

"data center environment consists of MacOS X, IBM/AIX, Linux and SUN/Solaris systems." and more details on the infrastructure and networking parts.
This is the referenced review by the Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/dining/13rest.html
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Gowalla Expands into Yelp’s Turf with City Pages and Verified Businesses
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The fact that it's Nokia's best touch screen phone is what makes me reluctant to believe they are on the verge of winning anything when it comes to smart phones.

From http://events.nokia.com/NokiaN8/:
Take amazing photos and videos, connect to your favourite social networks and be entertained with the latest Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps.

They market this as a phone with a good camera (HD video recording) and integrated with social networks. Yet, the only way to send an image or a video is "via messaging" or "via Bluetooth". "Messaging" in this case, is MMS.

Googling for a way to get the HD videos off the phone some other way than mounting it over USB, I find PixelPipe: http://pixelpipe.com/

The only thing that's outstanding with PixelPipe is that it's UI is even worse than the one on Nokia N8.

If I want to connect my new N8 with my Facebook profile, I have to register for the Ovi Store first. This is a process which takes me through three dialogs: I have to enter my e-mail address, my phone number, pick a username and a password, and enter a CAPTCHA.

Below the CAPTCHA is a text input field. When I click the input field, the text input widget and the keyboard appears, covering the CAPTCHA I'm supposed to read.

This is one of a long list of similar experiences from using the phone for one hour. Nobody used this phone before it went to market.
The Digital Disruption
Stories of homosexuals (including Turing) help cut gay bullying in school
Ipad security app
So I just got an Ipad and thought to myself, I just spent $600 on this thing! What if someone steals it from me. Anyone interested in creating a security app for the ipad which sends you an alert if your ipad has been stolen and tracks it down for you?
Dancing out of time: Thoughts on asynchronous communication