skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few months back I realized one main aspect of travel, I tremendously enjoy: the lack of stuff. Traveling around with just one suitcase of clothes and my laptop opened my eyes: Of all the stuff I own, everything I really needed for my every day life was right there with me. And it is so easily replaceable...

I never was a big gatherer, but since then I really cut down on buying things. In addition to that I'm getting rid of my things, some are easier to lose some are harder to give away or sell, but in the end it feels great. I actually find it liberating to stand in a store and _not_ buy the fancy item which would inevitably be degraded to be clutter on the shelf in a few weeks. The money I spend goes into the few things I really use all the time, like my iPhone. I also eat better. All in all I'd say it made me a happier person.
Awesome site! Well done
Beyond the script from derferman, you can download a copy of all of your photos (and videos, wall posts, etc) as a zip file directly off of Facebook from the bottom of your Account Settings page.
"HDD bound" here means that not all data fits into the cache.

Given the average RAM size on even an entry-level server (some 16 or maybe even 8 GB) and the average size of a database (same 8GB on http://musicbrainz.org/, the largest online music database), I wouldn't claim that it's "most workloads".
There doesn't appear to be a way to prevent these attacks without locking out legitimate users

There is, but I've never seen it implemented. Throttle login attempts by requiring a cryptographic proof-of-work to accompany each attempt. Send the credentials and proof-of-work over UDP so that there's no connection state to hold open. Scale the required amount of work up and down based on the total number of incorrect attempts in the past minute. After a successful login, issue systems a long-lived cookie that exempts them from future proof-of-work requirements. That way, during attacks, legitimate users may experience a longer delay when trying to log in, but only if they've never logged in from that system before, and they can never be locked out completely.
I really wish google would provide me with the option to revert to the old style homepage. I would be 5% happier if google just stopped being not-strict about what I search.

OTOH I think showing in which part of the page the match is is kind of an interesting feature, but I wish we could do that via some kind of xpath-based urls.
Skip Lists are pretty awesome
I encounter a variant of this all the time in modeling projects at my day job, due to the fear of beginning an unknown process (in my case modeling).

Our clients often say things like, "We are not going to start modeling until "x" is completed."

To which I respond: "I'm not leaving my driveway, until all the lights are green."

It usually produces a chuckle, and helps everyone realize that we won't get anywhere sitting around waiting for the stars to align.
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There was a similar post on the 500 Startups blog last week: http://blog.500startups.com/2010/11/03/livin-la-vida-startup...
Does anyone know what the precision of these missiles are? I don't suppose they could be used for precision strikes in e.g. Afghanistan, or could they?
There is a missing piece from Fred's post, as I often find the case to be. I know Fred's smart, so I'm not sure why he omits key pieces of the discussion.

In this case, he is leaving out his views on participation rights. What this means is that if you have a 1x liquidation preference (you get your money back) do you ALSO then convert to common stock and participate pro rata in the distribution of remaining proceeds? If yes, that is unfair to the entrepreneur and you are double dipping. If no, then a 1x liquidation preference is entirely reasonable.

Here's an example: Let's say someone invests 1mm with a 1mm pre and a 2mm post. So they own 50% of the company. Now let's say that the company has an offer to be purchased for $3mm. With participation rights and a 1x liquidation preference the exit looks like: 1mm money returned to investor, 2mm remaining. Then the investor converts to common and the remaining 2mm is split 50/50 since the investor owns 50% of the company. That gives the investor 2mm and the entrepreneur 1mm. Is that fair? I don't think so.

Once you know that converting to common will net you a positive return above and beyond your original investment, you should convert. If that were the case here, the return would be 3mm split 50/50, so 1.5mm to the investor and 1.5mm to the entrepreneur. To me, this is fair. Everyone had an exit. Nothing amazing, but it accurately reflects the cap table of the company.

Finally, while I am comfortable with a 1x liquidation preference in any company I start, there are a lot of strong arguments about why a 1x pref is not appropriate. The most common reason is that "we're all in the same boat. You bring the money and I bring the idea and execution and if we win, we all win, and if we lose, we all lose, all equally."

I don't buy that argument, but that's the one people try to make.
Why isn't there a search on HN? 
I would really like to search for whatever I am looking for before asking people and waiting for reply.. is there a way I can search on HN?
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The AIT machines are 100% about politics. This is not science.
Well, sure. Erlang processes aren't threads. They're more like pre-empted coroutines, with a scheduler that factors in when they're blocking and waiting to receive a message (among many other things).
What is lacking in social networking now? - Quora
I believe Redis makes use of these for sorted sets.
I'm sorry to hear that this happened to you. I'm sure I'd feel the same way but I must reiterate something I mentioned in another comment, never help even one person who acts in such a way.

Information that a particular person is helpful spreads fast within organizations (and with the web across organizations). So a barrage of request might happen.

I'd actually recommend turning this situation to your advantage. Create a template mail that quotes your consulting charges. Whenever somebody makes such a request, send them your template mail.

Some outsourcing shops would actually gladly pay you top dollars for your services.
Notice to access_denied, your comments are DOA
http://searchyc.com fills that need; and Google seems to index new threads on here that are minutes old...
Go to google. Type into the search box:

site:news.ycombinator.com <whatever-your-query-is>
You need to look closely at your target audience. What are you writing? A Ruby book? A book for geeks in general? A book for sysadmins? All of these would yield different lines of enquiry.
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Although I use Lisp+Ruby+Java for just about everything I do, I do keep an eye on Squeak and Pharo (hoping for JIT performance someday getting fast like the commercial VisualWorks product).

I periodically run through a Seaside tutorial - really neat stuff, and very easy to deploy on Linux servers (I blogged about how to do this several years ago).

One thing that attracts me to Seaside is that (unfortunately) most of the web apps I write are low volume sites so I would not have to worry too much about scaling. I make this same argument for using Rails rather than Java.
This is not a tech problem. It is a design problem.

Good design can't just be "resized". You essentially have to redesign it from the ground up. It takes a significant amount of work. I would rather just use 1024 and have it work on tablets + notebooks + desktops, and then do something separate for mobile. Mobile is such a radically different experience compared to a typical computer you almost have to do it.
I had the same issue. After installing reCAPTCHA (it's a WordPress blog) the problem disappeared immediately, which proves it was spam.
Im sorry if this was a joke and I didn't get it, but Windows 7 does exactly that
It may be very alluring but it's not going to work on Java since the model is different, and if you try to emulate Erlang on Java you're in for at least one surprise. This doesn't mean it's underspecified, in fact Java has arguably the most completely specified concurrency and memory model around. You just have to understand how it works to get the most out of it, like anything.
Ask HN: What do you think of the D language?
I'm toying with the idea of giving a chance to a statically typed language after 6-7 years of working happily for fun and profit with dynamic languages (mostly Python with a bit of Javascript lately). I recently (re)discovered the D language after reading an interview of Andrei Alexandrescu, a long time C++ guru that has moved to D. Despite that the language has many and powerful features (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/comparison.html), it doesn't seem to get much airtime compared to other hip languages du jour (Clojure, Scala, Go, Erlang, ...). One barrier for adoption is that it doesn't piggyback on the JVM or .NET for getting free access to the gazillion libraries already out there for these platforms. Do you think this is the main reason it is less well-known and considered for new projects or there are more serious issues ? Do you have first-hand experience with it and if yes, do you think it is it worth spending time to learn compared to other statically typed languages ?
ICBMs are reasonably accurate - a couple dozen meters - but there are far, far better options.

There are already plenty of airborne/seaborne cruise missiles and guided bombs in the region, with nearly pinpoint accuracy and much faster time-on-target. Much cheaper and less likely to start a nuclear war with Russia, too.

I don't think anyone knows the accuracy of this particular missile because no one seems to know whose missile it was.
Somebody has to own the stuff you're renting. If I'm a renter I'm just passing along the responsibility to someone else. If the vast majority of us are renters rather than owners, who has incentive to do any maintenance or improvement? The landlord and her employees will do the minimum cosmetic fixes to keep rents increasing. The residents have no reason to keep the place nice--they can just move on. This article is not an indictment of our disposable culture. It's an amplification of that culture to encompass our whole lives.

Look, I think we fill our lives with too much stuff, but refusing to take an ownership stake in housing, transportation, etc. will lead to worse outcomes, not better.
Well, that's funny, because I'm using vanilla OS X 10.3.4 right now, and I just quit the Finder in the way that I said.

Screenshots:

http://www.alexmaslin.org/quit-finder.jpg

http://www.alexmaslin.org/no-finder.jpg

It doesn't relaunch automatically. You either have to click on the Finder icon in the Dock, or otherwise it relaunches itself if you quit all other open applications.
Peter Thiel interview - the un-scholarship (starts at 1:35 of podcast)
Build this HN: paper "subscription" to Facebook photos
This idea has been eating at me for awhile, but since I'm busy with another project, and really would like to have this service, I figured I'd share it with the community.

Do you ever miss having paper photos? I do. Every once in awhile, I'll motivate myself enough to actually collect a few family and friend photos and print them out through Walgreens.com

I want a service that automatically sends me a bunch of photos every month.

You could select which people you want photos of, select a photo package, and every month, the service would grab the photos from your Facebook friends - of your friends - print them out, and send them to you in the mail. You can then keep your photo frames, refrigerator, etc. up-to-date.

If you build it, I'll be your first customer.
I've read just as many books relevant to running a startup as those that aren't. Books on the finer details of giant corporations probably aren't going to help, but stories of developing small business' will.

And while I believe that the best teacher is experience, books on business allow you to develop the insight necessary to see where you went wrong and how to do things differently.
Epic Games shows off best looking iPhone game EVAR
Because when people (sheeple?) start missing their flights, they will lose their shit. Lots of rabble rabble (i.e. South Park) will follow, and TSA & the Feds absolutely will bend, as they have before.
in usability studies, most adults - even educated adults - are just unable to get the metaphor of a directory tree. They can and do learn to do sequences of actions with them by rote, but don't understand them.

Non-technical users don't "get" the directory tree because it is a leaky abstraction that fails to consistently deliver on the assurances offered to users. It helps when deterministically planning a Unix filesystem but over time the system destabilizes due to inevitable mismatches between the expectations of OS maintainers, package authors, and end users.

- Underinformed users make best-guess choices (that contradict the intentions of the system designers) as to where to put new files

- Software authors publish conflicting install guides e.g. "sudo make install" vs. "extract to ~/bin/ and add it to your path"

- Symlinks - which are fabulously useful by the way - undermine the promise of a canonical location for each file.
There's a good documentary on Hatsune Miku here - it's in Japanese but with English subtitles (click the 'CC' logo in the bottom right of the YouTube player to turn them on):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBZOlipfjkQ

I find the Hatsune Miku phenomenon somewhat amusing at the moment, given the trend of overt Autotuning in pop music - while virtual singers' voices are getting more realistic, real singers' voices are being manipulated to sound impossibly accurate and digital.

It's also an interesting study in image and marketing: Crypton really pushed the concept of associating a character with the voice, as if Vocaloids were virtual pop stars whose services you could buy, rather than just another virtual instrument.
Much of what I read under game mechanics (but not what I read about game design) treats users as basically moronic conditional-reflex slaves. Conditioning users to trivial games is not the only possible usage of game mechanics for function and design.

I think this is a profound observation. I think a part of the attraction of P2P is that it can introduce real complexity into a game. I dislike being treated like a patron of a resort casino.
But you are even further away. So actions like this might be more than what you would accomplish otherwise. If enough "executors" are annoyed and unhappy, maybe they will raise the issue to the next level. And so on.
>It's easy to spread FUD, but these devices are likely safe.

We have two facts here:

* These machines should not be in use as they do nothing to help security and they are ripe for abuse (and have already been abused in their short time of being used)

* The public is not ever going to be bothered enough by privacy concerns to actually do something about it. They would, however, do a great deal if they felt their lives depended on it.

Taking these two facts into account, if a leading scientist says these things may be dangerous I would tend to take his word for it without digging into it. That sounds bad but how else can one deal with people who value convenience over what is right?
I have, in fact, met a surgeon who is willing to give pretty generous discounts for patients who have trouble paying. I'm sure a big part of her motivation is wanting to help people in need. (Mathematically, there's not much difference between billing half your rate and billing your full rate but working twice as many hours, which is what makes this example relevant.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon#Galactic_alignm...

Couldn't resist.
You couldn't make it up
Pics or it didn't happen ;)
Pitfalls of Capital Efficiency: The Sine Wave
We will know if it was successful when seL4 is used by someone and actually shows that it doesn't have bugs.
17% leave their job due to insufficient recognition
Suggested motto for the USA:

"We don't understand sarcasm and we carry guns"
Life imitates anime - anyone else get a Macross Plus flashback about the concept?
I'm pretty sure those are automated test posts by link spammers. Approve one comment like that and I'll bet you'll be flooded with comments that actually point somewhere.
Is there a current hotbed of Squeak/Pharo/Seaside development? I'm wondering where I should move in the US?
clojure.contrib.dataflow uses refs and works with side-effects on node cells. dgraph is (mostly) purely functional and its dependency graphs are persistent data structures, just like Clojure maps and vectors. I wrote dgraph specifically because I wanted those semantics.
Thanks! Let me know if you have any suggestions for the site. It's a project I've been bootstrapping for about a year, and I'm always looking for ways to improve it.
Another shining example of our justice system that uses competition to arrive at an equilibrium. Of course most encounters match up an opponent with unlimited resources (the state) versus someone with limited means (in this case a student).

The prosecution seeks the max, in this case 15 years, to persuade the defendant to plea the case out. His options are to try and defend himself with no resources (a public defender is worth next to nothing) or make a deal. The prosecutor and judge get to look "tough on computer crime" which will help their resume when looking to advance their careers, and the kid gets to have the end of his 20's. All that is left out is "justice", and by that I mean let the punishment fit the crime. And now society must carry the debt, both economically (housing the kid) and socially - will our streets be safer over the course of his lifetime once he gets churned out of prison.
Any hackers on HN from Charlotte, NC?
I am in charlotte and will like to connect with local entrepreneurs..
A great story about the kinds payoffs when you actually take the time to learn very unfamiliar tools. This drive to learn rich and deep and unfamiliar systems is the source of any real counterforce to the pop culture CS that Alan Kay talks about.
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That's extremely funny, but I'm almost completely certain that's not as "vanilla" as you think it is. Perhaps it was enabled on the command line? It looks like

defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES

will do the trick. So perhaps you're operating from a custom com.apple.finder preferences file.
Five password-security myths dispelled
I agree about Jim "Business Guru" Collins: his books seem a bit like "empty calories" to me. I was left without much of a sense of any practical takeaways.

My favorite business book, I think, is "Growing a Business" by Paul Hawken. Pretty down to earth and he says a lot of things you'll see by people like 37 signals, except he said them back in the 80ies: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671671642?tag=dedasys-20
I just use BeautifulSoup for my own personal HN/Proggit aggregator. It's not that hard to do and I don't have to rely on someone else to keep it up. Relying on someone else scraping for you means that you're dealing with your own whimsical interests as well as someone else's.

FWIW, my personal aggregator is here: http://progscrape.com. It's not really intended for public use, though a handful of people use it. I mainly use it to output Atom feeds that I can use for sharing via Google Reader.
You could even click on the 'search' item in the footer.
When are video cards going to come with their own external power supplies? It's crazy to buy 800+ watt power supplies for a few hundred dollars when the video card manufacturers could include their own power transformer in the box.
Wow! This reminds me of the book Idoru by Willam Gibson.

Idoru on Wikipedia:
"In the post Tokyo/San Francisco earthquake world of the early 21st century, Colin Laney is referred to agents of the aging mega-rock star Rez (of the musical group Lo/Rez, and seemingly very much styled after former The Smiths frontman, Morrissey) for a job using his peculiar talent of sifting through vast amounts of mundane data to find "nodal points" of particular relevance. Rez has claimed to want to marry a synthetic personality named Rei Toei, the Idoru (Japanese Idol) of the title, which is apparently impossible and therefore questioned by his loyal staff, particularly by his head of security, Blackwell.[...]"
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru
I think this news item from yesterday is related:

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/11/ny-fed-continued-d...
"Since its peak in the third quarter of 2008, nearly $1 trillion has been shaved from outstanding consumer debts." "So are consumers becoming more frugal? Yes. Holding aside defaults, they are indeed reducing their debts at a pace not seen over the last ten years."

Looks like we're moving from a loan-and-own economy to an age of access, where you only pay for access to stuff (aka "rent").

I can only go as far as to my self.

I don't buy CDs anymore, I pay for access to Spotify.

I don't buy books anymore, I pay for access to an ebook on my Kindle (although it's a one time fee).

I don't buy DVDs, I pay to get access to an online stream.

And so forth.
I want a t-shirt that says 'Gibson FTW!'

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

EDIT: Looks like BjornW and I had the same idea
Another (frankly more likely) possibility is that people think they deserve more recognition than they actually do. This post is based on the premise that it is the employer's fault and that doesn't necessarily follow.
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VB (5.5, not .NET) was my first language. I took it in high school as well, when I was 16 (4 years ago) Contrary to Dijkstra's claims, it won't kill your brain or make it impossible to learn any other language.

And honestly? VB is great for beginners. Button.OnClick? That's dead simple to use. Even non-programmers will pick it up. It let's your teacher focus on the fundamentals; "what is an if statement?" or on a simpler level, what is a variable and how do you use them?" and so on.

Keep in mind: this is a high school class. You and your friends may care about it, but the other 20 people in the class probably don't. And you can't realistically expect your teacher to change the syllabus mid-year for you.
Very precise indeed, the reentry vehicles need to be able to change targets in midflight and evade anti-ballistic missile systems. Accuracy is crucial, as you need a much larger nuke to blow something up if your warhead is far way from the target

If you had an unlimited budget you could use space rockets to drop tiny bombs from the other side of the world, but it doesn't really make sense (like killing mosquitos with shotguns). Anyway, the payload is coming down at several kilometers a second, so that 'precise' strike will still destroy a large area from its kinetic energy alone.
Slow news day?

This is not that unusual of an occurrence, and they're not always announced.
Or you could just move the window to the left or right side and it will do just that, no keys involved.
use Quicklisp[1] for installing/management of libraries, it works across platforms and implementations.

[1] http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/
It could also be a test of the missile shield. Like this one http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Japan_says_succeeds_in_mis...
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