skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of which: a long time ago, I worked at an office supply company and had the privilege of attending a lecture by a guy who had made selling paper his life's work. I send maybe two or three paper letters a year, and if they're designed to go to a human being I always write them on paper which screams I Am The King Of Papers. (I didn't believe such a thing existed, but try putting one sheet of it on a table with 40 sheets of assorted office paper. Anybody can pick it out, instantly, from several feet away.)

It costs about $15 for less than a ream and is usually sold as something like "resume paper" (300 sheets -- a ream is 500, a carton is 10 reams, and a carton of generic office paper should cost around $30 ~ $40). One pack will last you about a decade. For those of us in the Internet generation, if you have a call to send someone paper, that probably means you are doing Serious Business. The ROI on influencing Serious Business is just astounding.
> what's the interface on the iPad going to be? A bunch of sliders.

or a picture of google earth that plays local sounds wherever you touch. you're not thinking of the big picture, the interface can be anything you can fit on the screen.
Well. I opened my account on Nov 1st. Guess what? I am being charged for it!! So is this service really "free"?? I haven't yet crossed the tier usage limits and I am being charged already!! Support has not replied yet...
I don't know. There's a background process that runs every 45 seconds and picks a random loaded user to update the average of. Empirically, not more than every couple days, at best.
yeah.... the second and third thing I searched for were sex and porn :)
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Why constrain ourselves to the proportions of physical paper if we're not using physical paper as our medium? The current suite of technologies is much more suited towards all viewing devices. Just in general, web technology has come a very, very long way in the past 5 years in terms of CSS, JS, and even Flash. We've nearly reached a point where web developers have agreed a standard method of development. PDF was not developed for interactive web development and all of their form features are noticeably afterthoughts. The list goes on and on, switching from HTML to PDF just doesn't make sense.
computer music has been alive and well since the 50's and 60's =)
Anyone want to take a bet? My money says he either follows Stephen Elop to Nokia or competes with him at another core mobile company.
Node.js + Riak = Full JS stack
Hey breno! Whom did you contact for this information? Are you being charged for the "free" tier?
Because the existence or nonexistence of god has nothing whatsoever to do with evolution?
Gentle introduction to making interactive, re-sizable shapes on HTML5 Canvas
Thousands of words are worth a picture
This piracy inspired piece is made from words and phrases cut from free magazines to form a picture of Abraham Lincoln being assassinated at Ford's theater.
Him giving the appearance of leaving would not be a bad thing.
Like a rat deserting a sinking ship?
the thing is the border between costa rica and nicaragua is a river (hence a natural boundary instead of an imaginary line somewhere) and part of the conflict is that they are working on changing the course of the river so it can increase their territory... and come one which serious commander will use google maps to back up and strategy when every other single map on earth calls the territory costarrican?
It's more complicated than that- the driver has to support the new KMS driver architecture, where the kernel is in charge of setting up the display and doing draw operations, which the X server used to handle. (Which was why before, you could only have 1 instance of X11 and OpenGL, and switching between virtual terminals took so long)

So Wayland won't run on nVidia's (fast) drivers, because they still use the old model where X was in charge of the graphics card.
Matter of amount and the interest of the party donating. If I'm cutting a $50 check to a candidate, I can't really expect anything back. If I'm cutting a $500,000 check, you're damn right I do (this also counts for bundling 100 couples for 460k under the current regime, it's just harder).

Unions and political parties are collections of individuals who've organized for an expressly political purpose. Corporations aren't, and for everything they've accomplished, they have terrible incentives as regards the political sphere. The ROI is huge if, for a measly few million, you can swing a vote of congress.

RE: Republicans and Democrats, my information was that Democrats had done better in the small-donor game since 2006, but I could be wrong. Regardless, my opinion is out of small-d democratic principles, I'd feel the same way about it if it hurt the democrats -- that would just mean we had to do a better job of appealing to ordinary people and spend less time appealing to the big money people.
It's easy to find a good business or life coach. Ask them to provide references of at lest 3 past clients. Ask the references what their lives were like before and what their lives are like now. If there is a significant difference, then go for it.
Ok, some of you dont like Gmail, but i guess lots of people would be happy to hear and try a good alternative, with same features or more (custom filters, labels, powerful search, beautiful clever spam filter, accessible from any computer, phone sync, contacts manager, chat, etc).

Really, I cant see me working with another email provider, and being enclosed to one is not usually a good choice, it would be nice to try other alternatives
Actually, it's a great thing! Since you hate schmoozing (I do too), this is good news - there are other people out there that will do some of it for you (or, more accurately, give you access to the fruits of years of schmoozing). Every investor/mentor/lawyer you add to your team means more network that you didn't have to schmooze to earn.
There are two aspects of the problem that I consider particularly interesting: a) defining the problem, because being able to define the prob­lem and jus­tify your answer is half the puzzle in a lot of NLP work. b) scaling to a corpus of this size (vocabulary of 1M), because this scale is tricky but useful in many web problems.

Semioticians typically distinguish between paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes of semantic relatedness. Paradigmatic means that two words occur with similar other words, e.g. these two words typically have the same word immediately to their left, like "blue" and "azure". Syntagmatic means that the words typically co-occur in usage, like "blue" and "sky". Check out the image on this page for another illustration of these axes: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem03.html

Regardless of whether you choose to do a paradigmatic or syntagmatic analysis, it's interesting to see how you motivate your approach and if you can scale it to 1M different vocabulary words.
and here is google's official take on the issue

http://googleamericalatinablog.blogspot.com/2010/11/aclaraci...

basically what every body knows, the SLA for Google Maps doesn't cover military actions and no country in the world should use it as the basics for a military conflict.

yes, we made a mistake and we are fixing it.
Where are the results? Please post successful name finds if there are any. I'm calling foul. I've written a few months ago that domain name generators are dead.

http://www.dotsauce.com/2010/09/07/domain-finder-tools-do-no...

I will admit your app functions well and has good intentions. But, the vast majority of good word combinations have been claimed already.
Sure, there's another side to this, but it's not a valid side. Your side merely capitalizes on the present legal murkiness of the software/copyright issue. Console manufacturers, phone manufacturers, and a legion of other device manufacturers have spent three decades capitalizing on abuses of patent and copyright law.

Patents exist not to lock out competition or allow total control over an invention, but as a method for making sure your work isn't stolen (for a limited time) and thus give you a commercial incentive to innovate. It is outright abuse to say that it gives anyone the right to dictate how devices are used, but is sadly an abuse that has become the status quo.
Don't see a bad quarter, they just had record profits, but I do see the stock market losing confidence in Microsoft's ability to grow.
The Brain for Entrepreneurs
The title is a bit misleading. This is an implementation of the canvas 2d API that cairo for everything (the same graphics library that Firefox uses). It's not a pure JS implementation of all of the rasterization logic.
Back to the Basics -- LAMP + Clean Code
"Extractiv lets you transform unstructured web content into highly-structured semantic data."

Suggestion: Can you put sample output on your homepage, so we can see what sort of semantic analysis you perform?

p.s. this tool doesn't have anything to do with the task.
Cute and useful, but I'm feeling really dumb about the UI---where do I go to get a "Just buy this one" recommendation for something other than the six items on the homepage? I can't even find the button I'm supposed to click to go somewhere else (although I did discover the recyclables). I feel like I've fallen into a bad flash game, which is unfortunate because I really like the idea.
Ilya, this is a great article. There is just some tiny style issue on the landing page of insight.io in Chrome.:)
Gameboy Emulation in Javascript and HTML5
I'm reading it right now, and it's definitely fun. He doesn't glamorize Common Lisp (instead pointing out some design quirks) but his enthusiasm is still totally infectious. I think the video on the book's site captures the spirit of the book wonderfully.
> What is a semantically related word?

Right, I was going to say, just get a dump of wordnet and build a thesaurus graph...
www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
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Where by "humans" I assume you mean "Americans"? I've lived in three countries, none of which use gallons, and only one of which used miles...
no i dont really see how drugs are responsible, it was government ruled by a dictator that did/does/will do the killing.

anyway maybe you will find this interesting http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/11/02/3052373...

peace
It would have been more meaningful if rue had normalized it to 3.38 m/l. Those are human visualizable units.
Not so much so. Still takes me about 10 seconds to login via the web on a fast connection. I rarely use the web interface so I don't really care but I can see how this is an issue for some people. Google Notifier is probably the best solution for now.
The tragedy with democracy is it is devoid of objectivity.
I made it halfway through Meisner training in acting before life got in the way.

One thing I got out of it is this trick of overlaying my avatar in the virtual world with an image of somebody else, often a cartoon character.

It may sound crazy, but I gain the ability to do all kinds of things that I wouldn't do otherwise: for instance, my most powerful character greatly increases my animal charm and also my functional (physical) flexibility. (mostly because she can play through the pain) Unfortunately she's not a very nice person in she's got high blood pressure.
There's faults on both sides. The guy is clearly in the wrong by failing to follow the copyright restrictions, but it was probably an honest mistake. Since he's spending to much time on the book, he's probably a fan of Zed's work. And he may be thinking he's adding value to the book. On the other side, Zed was completely within his rights to ask the guy to take repository down, but didn't need to make any assumptions about the guy's intentions or "class".
I know this is about the lunch, but does anyone have any kids that have gone to Bing? Is it worthwhile?
Google TV, Apple TV, and Roku XDS Comparison
Google TV is nice but I guess the best deal is not Google TV.
I think this metaphor is not suitable and scalable in globalized world.
scaling to a corpus of this size ... it's interesting to see how you motivate your approach and if you can scale it to 1M different vocabulary words

It looks like the sparsity of the matrix is going to be a much bigger challenge than the scale.

I understand about the focus being primarily on the approach, that makes sense; how are you intending to evaluate the results files?
There's a lot of speculation going on, and that's fair, I suppose, but isn't it possible that he just saw a record quarter, and realized that if he were going to cash out some shares, now is a good time?
No, he bumped into Shaw. Nothing points towards malice at all. In most parts of modern society, the honest response would be along the lines of, "Dude, what were you thinking?"
Thanks for the props. It's nowhere close to being finished either. I still have tons of half-implemented features.
Exactly what I was thinking, I can't even count the number of times I've been working with a softsynth and wanted to just reach into my screen (or have a configurable multi-touch interface down on my desk) I could touch and work with. The mouse is entirely inadequate...and the number of soft synth interfaces seems to be near endless.
Great article! Some asides on MVP, inspired by this line:

[Marketing is] everything- product, price, placement, and promotion. Start thinking about these things before you launch, learn from them, and iterate quickly before wasting a lot of time and money.

Since "product" is part of "marketing", it would be nice to include it in the iterative cycle. Instead of working it out before launch, launch prematurely, and work out the product simultaneously with the rest of the marketing. That is, "release early, release often", and iterate the whole thing. This helps for those products that you didn't know you needed until you saw it. It worked for me for a software library; I haven't tried it with an application.

Reflection: the idea of "assessing the market first" is waterfall-style, even though it is agile-style within that stage. The idea of "pivoting" attempts to incorporate an iteration, but at a much longer time-scale. It would seem better to be even more agile, by assessing the market with the product within each iteration, and pivoting within each iteration. This would need instant prototyping; and rapid feature changes (for pivots). One obstacle is that software takes too long to build, and too long to adapt. Consider: if you could make a prototype as easily and as quickly as a webpage to gather email addresses, wouldn't it be better to do that? If you could create different feature sets that would appeal to different markets as quickly and easily as making different landing pages, wouldn't that be better? Like "A/B testing for products".

Sounds like a hacker-philosopher's stone? While we can't eliminate essential complexity, only accidental complexity (by Brooks) and so it's hard to make much progress in this for general programming, for the subset of programming which is SaaS websites, we have already made great progress, with frameworks, RoR, AppEngine etc. It could be made much easier, if we focussed on the goal of an initial prototype, where bugs and lack of features don't matter, provided you get feedback on them (eg: have a "search for help" facility, and store the searches). Then, you can iterate and change direction quickly. The task is to seek traction. You don't need to hit it perfectly (like the iPhone), but just to get a nibble, and then you adjust. At first, you just want to know where the fish are.

Of course, product features are only part of marketing, and you also need to iterate quickly on graphic design, copywriting, adwords and so on. And pivoting may be intrinsically slow, because it takes time for your message to diffuse, be trialled, be adopted, word of mouth etc - though twitter, facebook etc may also speed this up too.
Insiders sell for all sorts of reasons, it's when they buy that you need to pay attention.
No, but the "Hey I write stuff using your software, I never meant to mistreat you." is.
If all you want to do is limit memory usage, process control groups can do that with less overhead than a VM.

kernel/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt circa line 255
Anonymous DDoS Takes Down The United States Copyright Office
I just touched Test and test on mac and I see both of them just fine.
Typical iPhone/Android/Blackberry user
Problem with references is that they're not accurate. People who seek out a life-coach are already working to improve themselves. Along with seeing the life-coach they will make other changes to their life that might improve things, and they will blindly attribute the positive changes to that paid experience.

You can see this in people who were criminals then become deeply religious. Their lives "improve" after becoming devout in their faith because they stop abusing substance, smoking, gambling and associating with other criminals. What the dogma gave them is just some codified rules, no one else needs to join the religion to reap the benefits of discipline, but to the practitioners, their faith is the end all be all and they have evidence to prove "it works".
Wow, this is... well both unbelievable and sadly believable at the same time. It is pretty amazing the alleged culprit has also been named, It makes me wonder what, if any, sort of resulting fallout will follow this.
I'm not defending Martin, by any stretch. I'll agree with your assessment there.

On the other hand, I don't think Zed should be particularly surprised by his reaction. Nor do I think he's ignorant to its cause.
This kind of shit happens to women often. They just normally don't talk about it in public.
If they go into the cove and is killed, how would the others know that going into the cove is dangerous?

There are plenty of examples of human beings dying in their home and no one noticing because they aren't missed by anyone. The same would happen if an entire social group of dolphins just disappeared. I think you're being a bit unfair to the dolphins here.
I generally have structured based on some average of "how many hours will you need me if everything goes terribly wrong" and "one or two small things a month" multiplied by my a slightly higher than normal hourly rate.

In cases where clients don't want to pay a retainer so to speak, I'll usually give them the option to pay as they go, but at generally 2-2.5x my normal rate.
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they also use different connectors, midi uses DIN and DMX uses XLR. they look like they'll fit, but they won't. however you can get cheap USB convertors for either.
I believe it. I hate that I do, but...I do.

Also, site seems to have been hit pretty hard, but google cache to the rescue http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Seems to be down, anyone got a cache?
music makers post your sounds
everyone's got something to say -- if you say it with music post a link here.
Adobe Considers Possibilities for iPhone and iPad Integration With Photoshop
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I really really really want an app that will sync time tracking against tickets in GoPlan (http://goplannapp.com) with FreshBooks... that is, I something where I can send time entries in GoPlan to FreshBooks and then generate an invoice.

I even started writing a ruby wrapper for the GoPlan API, but have gotten sidetracked by other stuff :-(
You mean Ballmer voluntarily leaving MS to go somewhere else? no way on earth
Both these books walk you through creating various interesting applications in Lisp, from servers and databases to games:

http://gigamonkeys.com/book/

http://landoflisp.com/
Geologists And Tech Industry Leaders Fear Mineral Trade Wars Imminent
Ask HN: Is it worth it to build a PPC skillset?
PPC marketing is an important skillset. Should I invest my time learning PPC? Or would it be more efficient to develop my leadership skills, and find someone already talented at PPC to work for me?
While I realise this is a sensitive issue and I hope the author is ok, one thing I noticed is the implication that this is a thing that happens at tech conferences. I would just like to make sure we are not dissuading women from coming to tech conferences by gaining some sort of reputation here.

Most people in the world are good but unfortunately this kind of thing happens and when it does we have to show it will not be tolerated and will be properly dealt with.
Cache: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:http://blog.nerdchic.ne...
Not to give that dude an excuse for his behaviour, but consider this:

This happened at a private after-party in a private hotel room where a small crowd got all cozy with apparently too many drinks involved.

This did not happen at the conference.

The difference is important. Context is everything in these cases.
Jumping between platforms and languages is good. People who spend ten years working only on one platform and one language get boxed in that platform and they can't think or do anything outside it.
Linux inspired ESR's literary output the same way the invention of plastic inspired the proliferation of lawn-ornaments.

The influence is there and non-negligible, but I can think of a billion other things, far more useful and creative, that benefited the same.
What in the hell? How is this believable and usual? I have been living under a rock.

Is this seriously what typically goes on at drinking parties?
He's still 88% on the ship; he sold only a fraction of his Microsoft stock.
I suspect there's a lot of people selling shares, just because of the possibility of the tax rate on long term capital gains going up at the end of the year.
The article seems to be down, so I can't read it right now. But I went to DefCon when I was 17, and it was the most sexually threatened I've ever felt. Some things were benign, a lot of strange looks and stupid things like guys dropping stuff and asking me to pick it up. Someone followed me in a parking lot and then ducked out of sight twice. Someone grabbed my ass on the way out of a talk.

I otherwise had a great time there, but I didn't go back for 10 years. I had none of the same issues later, but I'm not sure if the crowd has changed or if they're just less interested in 27 year olds.
http://www.railsmentors.org/
I guess if I don't know the acronym, I shouldn't be answering. But just in case you mean the PowerPC architecture, then no. It's pretty much dead.
Did you read the book, because it entirely boils down to Occam's Razor, that the universe is simpler without a god because god has to be so incredibly complex that it's more rational that god doesn't exist.

However, that shows the whole naivety of his argument. We're perceiving the universe from 14 billion years. It's unbelievable in scale and complexity and we've not even moved enough dust to even have started scratching the surface of understanding our universe as a whole. Yet this is the preferable choice under Occam's Razor? Why? Because of a reliance on an as-of-yet unproved hypothesis of a multiverse.

So multiple (by multiple I mean more than a googolplex of universes) universes is the preferable simpler scientific resolution to how we ended up in this universe, at this point in time capable of asking these questions?

So my choice is God vs A universe for every I/O binary action that has ever taken place in the universe.

Dawkin's method and argument is exceptionally simplistic and wholly biased by his perspective, which is exactly why he is hindering the teaching of evolution. If he wasn't making this huge crusade against God, he might have been able to spread evolution. However he's alienating himself from receptive Religious people and he's also alienating those religious people's children.
Thanks.
I've got already the ANSI common LISP to have as first reference and after seeing some posts here I am considering getting the landoflisp some time soon.