skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vim-latex tools
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_per_capita... speaks a different language even if you factor in taxes.

I am always a fan of a safety net but in the case of kreci the upside of continuing his path surely beats dedicating his resources to a full-time day job.
This book really resonated with me as well. The part I found most amazing was the story about the man (I forgot his name) who claimed he could "make a chess grand master," put out a classified ad saying the same, found a woman who agreed and then proceeded to have children and groomed them into chess champions. Anecdotal, but it's definitely food for thought.
Privacy certified Internet access
The rise of a mobile audience means the end of the page view
_The Art of Prolog_'s chapter on meta-interpreters* includes an interpreter with uncertainty thresholds. It's about a quarter-page of code - It's on page 318, in the first edition (what I have on hand). Extending it to support statistical significance rather than just a 0-1.0 confidence interval shouldn't be too hard. Combining that with constraint programming would probably suffice.

* Rather like chapter 4 of SICP, on making metacircular evaluator Prologs.
Code Prion -

n. a really bad idea dressed-up as a good idea thereby becoming contagious in a way that never seems to die out.

n. memes adopted as a religion by the clueless because "it seems like a great idea" while drowning-out the opposition because the arguments against are subtle.

* "Our object model makes it hard to implement NaNs" -- famous last words before adding hundreds of if_special() checks to your code and transforming your object model into something that defeats your ability to reason about programs by undermining common notions of equality as being reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. If you doubt that identity-implies-equality, then you're infected.

* Most ideas for pre-commit hooks are code prions. If your process depends on crippling a developer's ability to make a check-in, then you're infected.

* "Our dynamic language doesn't implement static language feature X". If you think Ruby and Python need Enums and Interfaces, then you're infected. Those features cost nothing in compiled languages and often only serve to overcome the limitations of those languages.

* "We're making everything clean and pure by deprecating everything we don't like anymore." Hey, it only takes you ten minutes to add the deprecation, who cares if it consumes hundreds of hours of user-time to update their programs or if they stick with an old version just to avoid your deprecation hassles. Better to just document it as obsolete than to inflict pain on a large user base. (By the way, authors of books will hate you too -- it makes their books go out-of-date prematurely). If you think of published APIs as mutable, then you're infected.

* If you think self.assertLessEqual(x, y) is the right way to spell, "assert x<y", then you're infected. Get nose.py or py.test and live free.

* "Everybody knows eval() is an egregious security hole, so you should never use it." Learn to differentiate between trusted and untrusted code; otherwise, your fear will keep you from using your most basic and powerful tools. This code prion is chonic and progressive -- eventually you'll find yourself unable to write "import collections" because someone might have stolen you ssh key, logged into your machine and added their own collections.pyc file which would appear to run normally but actually emails your mother's secret porridge recipe to wikileaks. If you think eval() is evil, you're infected.
Swype may still be running their general beta, so there are APKs floating about that let you install it. I'm a SwiftKey guy myself, though.
Maybe you are. I'm not.
I thought the same thing when I moved from my G1 to my Nexus One. I don't miss the hardware keyboard at all actually.
Supposedly the display itself is subtly curved. http://www.google.com/nexus/#!/features
@jeremyjarvis What are you talking about??
That's the point. A supervillain would want the research to remain secret, at least until the world domination plans are well under way. What better place to hide a top-notch science facility than a remote island nobody would suspect?

Preferably one with a volcano, because geothermal is so hot these days.
More or less like Israel. And i'm not comparing them. I think we can not trust Iran (the government) but is not the only country spreading FUD and probably not even the biggest liar.
We, in the first world, are very spoiled. Maybe 50 to 60 years ago, for many people this was just the way it worked. Maybe not with the intention to create fertilizer or to be green, but just because that the way it was. We are very spoiled nowadays and by looking at this I can only begin to imagine how much energy we waste on everyday luxuries such as flushing the toilet thats connected to a sewage. However, although I find it intriguing, I'm not sure if I'm ready for this myself...
I was enthralled with Anathem and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I tried to read Cryptonomicum after Anathem but could not get into it.
I understand your point mostly, but I think you're wrong nonetheless.

They did get that functionality for free (mostly) with their web client optimized for mobile: which works and behaves just fine. But even so, they rolled their native client anyway, because the web client doesn't feel and behave like a native iPhone app.

A native iPhone app is property optimized for the screen width, it does local caching (which a web app used on a desktop doesn't need to do), it behaves differently in regards to the control used (which respond to different events), and in many cases it is desirable to get rid of the page metaphor, no request/response cycle, etc...

The business logic may be the same, but the UI logic is very different and you don't want something autogenerated because the UI itself is usually a competitive advantage; and assembling it is not the hard part, a lot harder is to come up with a good design or to make your backend stable (I don't know how it happens but when I go to Foursquare 6 times out of 10 their service is down).

For instance ... I'm using Twitter a whole lot more on my iPhone because the native client kicks ass. In contrast I use Facebook more on my desktop because the Twitter's web interface sucks (yeah, I'm weird like that).

What I'm trying to say is ... companies that want cheap transition to new platforms like the mobile, already have the right tools: the web and its related protocols; which are more ubiquitous than ever. If you want more than that (say, to differentiate yourself from the competition, or just to keep up), autogenerating the UI won't help; you'll have to get down and dirty because the beauty of a good design lies in the details.

There's no free launch or silver bullet.
"Google eBooks is all about choice, so you can use just about any device you own to read any book, anywhere."
Aslong as you buy the book from google and use googles software. Isnt that the oposite of choice?
It is not low. My salary as expert in financial institution is waaay below this.
The authors of this article apparently haven't heard of Pirates of Silicon Valley, which is unfortunate because considering their opinion on The Social Network they would probably love it.
It is the whole paragraph as far as I can tell (I haven't seen the internals, just the output.)
With alots of the big KeyValue store like cassandra you can make your data very save. You just have to traid of other stuff.
Where you at the Dallas Kiln event? (I can't tell from your profile if you are who I met)
You are lucky to find that person once or twice in a career.

Its like video gaming - either you can run circles around them, or they around you. Its really rare to find a good match.

Now compare with programming - its wellknown that skills in this arena range from 1 to 1,000,000. The chances of a good match nearly disappear.
egads... mashable is putting out more and more fluff. i guess it generates page views and ad dollars, so more power to then... i guess.
I would also highly recommend "Digital Typography" by Knuth. It contains a more detailed description of the algorithm as well as many interesting historical and technical chapters on TeX, MetaFont and computer typesetting in general.
I asked because it wasn't clear form the website. The tagline says file sync, what details there were said distributed filesystem.

So, for example, the total data stored and accessible in the system can exceed the local storage size of any individual participating node?

What's the performance like? (A sync service will be as fast, or slow, as local storage, but a distributed system can be a lot faster, or slower.)

How are you handling it when nodes which were previously added to the system are unavailable? For example, a user with a desktop and a laptop who stores a pile of data on the system, what happens when the desktop is off? Do you have control over what data is available on the laptop, and what happens when you try and access data which is currently unavailable?
They say that you can download ePub or PDF to read "offline" or on an ereader.

http://books.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
Try SwiftKey - it blows away every other soft keyboard I've ever used elsewhere.
"Whale Fail" - Google Books' Error Page
Milk contains a gluten-like protein called Cesin which is gut-inflammatory. The liquid part of Milk also contains a bunch of dissolved cow hormones.

Other Diary like cheese, yougout & cream MIGHT be okay for you (depends on your tolerance) but Milk should be avoided forever. The advice I've read is to avoid all diary for a month (giving the gut time to heal) and then reintroduce it and watch the results (feelings of bloating, energy levels, etc). In that way you can figure out how sensitive you are.
Electronic banking systems are far from ACID (think ATM operations, check and credit card transfer processes). Stock exchanges aren't ACID. Amazon.com isn't ACID. Logistics systems (FedEx, UPS, etc) aren't ACID. In fact, if you look at the information systems of Fortune 100 corporations, you'll find that almost every single one of them is non-ACID at the core.
AMEN!

You built a ton of value into your product and should not sell it for peanuts. Real businesses pay real money for products and tend to be better customers than those who want it for a "few bucks a month".
HTC tends to bundle undersize batteries with their phones. It's possible the Euro Desire has a larger capacity battery.
I checked the FAQ briefly and didn't see this mentioned -- what happens in regards to the design rights of something I submit? I see that I get a royalty payment and a one-time lump sum, but do I retain the rights to my own design? Can I post it on your site and then sell it on my own site or another (Cafepress, etc). Or is part of the agreement that I am transferring ownership over to you guys?
I use it mostly to store player-created levels and leaderboards which allows developers to efficiently + effortlessly include and filter by custom fields and data.

I also use it for some smaller tasks like storing filenames/hashes for distributing content across my 5 servers (doesn't really need to be mongo for this), and some configuration information for games using me.

I do it via MongoHQ, I did have it running and replicated across 2 of my servers but I'm just not familiar enough to keep it running and that bit me in the ass early on. With MongoHQ all I have to worry about is making sure my indexes are right.

Next up I'll be using it for some non-aggregated analytics stuff, which won't be as big as Facebook's requirements but will still be in the billions-a-month range.
>> "but (digital) CDs now only allow us quantum leaps from one chapter to another"

They say to write what you know about ...
The keyboard is only on the Sprint version called the "Epic 4G". It's not on the other variants of the Galaxy S such as the Vibrant, Fascinate and Captivate.
If you want to do Python web dev with something that's reasonably close to PHP (that is, not a lot of handwavey magic stuff or wiring), I heartily recommend Flask, http://flask.pocoo.org
MIMM FaceMashesThis what happens when you watch'The Social Network' movie
This looks great. Nice work, Patrick, and congrats on the launch. I just sent my mom an email about it, and suggested she try your demo. Hopefully she'll sign up. She's a private tutor, and very frustrated by having students not show up to appointments. This definitely solves a significant problem for her.

Any plans on integrating more tightly with Google Calendar? That's where she currently keeps her appointments, and being able to suck appointment info out of there would be really useful for her. That being said, I have no idea how structured her data in there is (probably not very), so it may not be a super easy problem in the general case.
Nope, no ADHD. Caffeine did affect me only at first when I started to drink coffee and the effect just disappeared with no apparent reason. And I drunk only moderate amount of rather weak coffee. Go figure.
How would this even work? Would every browser need to have a "don't track me" mechanism that the server would have to obey?
Trust, but Remind
Ok, you're correct. What I'm trying to say is that it doesn't reflect real salaries. For example, "web developer" in NYC gives us this:

Level 1 Wage:	$20.69 hour - $43,035 year

Level 2 Wage:	$28.12 hour - $58,490 year

Level 3 Wage:	$35.56 hour - $73,965 year

Level 4 Wage:	$42.99 hour - $89,419 year

These are way lower than the real NYC salaries. Right out of the college, I made more than their Level 3. H1B workers however seem to make salaries like that.
Manifesto for Object-Oriented Philosophy Part I
The confusion about the use case of NoSQL probably stems from the term "NoSQL" being so vaguely defined. All you can say for sure about one is that it's not relational. But other than that there's not much in common between (for example) key-value stores, graph databases and object databases.

Result: The author has to qualify all statements with "only applies to some NoSQL databases".
What will your TOS be - what if something like a Wikileaks mirror is done across your system?
Also living in Germany... I ordered it a couple of months ago from Cafepress (http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch.58024175).

It was a reasonable price and shipping was actually very fast and not too expensive. Give it a shot, it's worth it.
The phone looks great and is everything I want in a smart phone - especially the up-to-date OS that is unencumbered by a custom UI. However, the timing of this announcement is terrible.

If google really wanted to win over people who feel trapped in the walled garden of iOS, they should have made some sort of announcement about this phone back in June/July when millions of people were exiting their 2 year iphone 3g contracts. I know I certainly would have waited for it if I had known, but as it is now I'm stuck with AT&T for another cycle.
How is this different from Wuala?
The weekly read eval podcast loop
Dropping grains will decrease gut inflammation. That has all sorts of benefits. Your friend had obvious symptoms which you don't, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't benefit, perhaps greatly. Give it a go for a month. See what happens.
I agree, especially since a commute is a regular trip of a nearly constant length and everyone should know about how long their trip will take without the O&D info. As an added bonus it would also allow me to use it in Chicago/Milwaukee.
Switching to WordPress from Tumblr
An Academic Wanders into Washington D.C.
I think it helps to have a core group of people with whom you can freely discuss new ideas. Open discussion often helps highlight any inherent flaws with your plan or potential difficulties you may encounter in execution.

It probably doesn't make sense to share an easily-executed idea with an untrustworthy individual who has sufficient resources, but that's common sense. More often than not, discussion will only help improve your idea. Start with your core group and branch out from there.

Social networking existed before Facebook, group buying before Groupon, and gaming before Zynga, but proper execution allowed these companies succeed.
Greplin (YC W10) expands team and office
WePay tickets revamped
Gammu to Web Based SMS Management
Just a "tongue-in-cheek" play on words :)
To me, the cloud server is the biggest feature. I'm one of your alpha users and while I am impressed with the potential of the project, Ubuntu is not really a server OS. I would love to be able to throw it on a Red Hat box I have in the data center and have my own private cloud.
All countries lie, it's part and parcel of diplomacy. Expecting otherwise is to naively anthropomorphise states.

And while Israel does have a covert nuclear program that's more or less an open secret these days, it's not directly comparable to Iran. That's because Israel is considered by its neighbours, despite the rhetoric, to be a rational and stable nuclear power that does not have regional ambitions. Israel's nuclear doctrine is explicitly understood by those in the region to be defensive doctrine, intended to ensure Israel's survival rather than to exert influence and control over the entire region.

Iran, on the other hand, does have regional power ambitions and both the intensity of the religious beliefs held by many of those in power combined with its opaque civil and military governing structures mean that its neighbours are not convinced that the country would be a rational nuclear power. Sunni states like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt are incredibly concerned about what Iran could do if protected by a nuclear umbrella and free to use its affiliated groups like Hezbollah to destabilise the traditional Arab powerhouses of the Middle East. That's why the Wikileaks cables have shown Arab leaders to be even more strident than the Israelis in wanting US action against Iran.

So in the end, it's not about who is the biggest liar or who is spreading FUD. It's about the fact that Iran is a country which has potentially dangerous motives, a stated desire to regain 'lost' influence over the Middle East and a covert nuclear weapons program. Any one of these would be cause for concern; the presence of all three combined is the reason so many countries are worried enough to regard military action as a viable option.
Seems to me that the industry is basically bimodal. Either you get a hugely successful outcome, or you end up owning Bebo (I realize that YC is probably a large counterexample). So why shouldn't commentary match that bimodalism, to coin a word.
A particular pet peeve of mine is the use of "really", which is often extraneous and just as often dulls the writing.

Consider: "It's not another suggestion, since it is the essential point of..."
WikiLeaks reveals sites critical to US security
As far as I know, none of the documents were actually "Top Secret" status, a security designation reserved for much more delicate documents. The idea that these papers are the "most secret secrets" is a huge overstatement, along with the idea that a hacker has compromised the security of a nation.

The fact that Top Secret documents haven't been unearthed is both assuring and scary.
erp -- thought I read that somewhere, but that indeed would be a bit much to expect.

I love all the stuff about Afghanistan, the VP with $50MM in walking around money. There's abstract corruption, but the detail is what really stirs the pot.
I love the top image. Check out the file "How to earn HN karma"

I think you found out :)
Please don't use URL shorteners here. You still have time to change it.

Edit: Thanks for changing it!
Point taken. I'll see about getting it changed.
Grains injure and inflame the gut walls OF EVERONE. A cascade of negative effects follow.

And, yes, those with celiac disease are particularly obviously effected.
Grooveshark’s Drag and Drop: A Case for Color Transparency
<meta name="description" content="Quickly and easily send phone appointment reminders, SMS appointment reminders, and email appointment reminders to your clients. No software, no hardware, no contacts. Start your free 30 day trial today" />

I think you meant "no contracts".
But you can just share your contact card as a QR code, which is easily recognized by even the cheapest Japanese phone.

It's Contacts -> <Contact> -> Menu -> Share -> Barcode Scanner.
Real Estate Investor Answers "What do you look for in a new employees?"
..I thought his answer was pretty insightful. I wish more of the (tech) companies for which I've worked had taken this approach instead of the "algorithm Jeopardy" that engineers seem to lean toward when hiring.
If that's what he's saying then he should just stop talking until he knows more about the subject matter, but I don't think that's what he's saying.
hmmm. 1999 2.0?
> The algorithm isn't that expensive.

It's quadratic in length of the paragraph, no? Not a problem for most reasonable text chunks, but browsers have to deal with unreasonable text too. In particular, O(N^2) algorithms in browser layout are generally unacceptable...
Especially when you're a passenger and you can't influence all those things. Wearing the right gear is all you can do.
We use TokyoTyrant to store lots (TBs) of tiny (<100bytes), constantly updating bits of data. The record overhead on Mysql and Postgresql was huge, and the continual updates were leaving lots of dead tuples that had to be cleaned, and killed performance.

I use MongoDB for greenfield app development and experiments, so I can quickly alter "tables" and "attributes", without having to bother with first thinking about schema, or having to write migrations.
The Car Crash Theorem and why theorems are important
Extending EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension
Google announces GingerBread, the fastest Android version to date
Manifesto for Object-Oriented Philosophy Part II
I was. (I gave the DVCSU talk.)
Please excuse my ignorance, but can someone tell me why this is being voted up so quickly?

Lucene already has range queries, is this just enumerating all of the values within a range for the fields? It looks like they don't index these values either in the examples.

Edit: Not that this should take away from adding to Lucene, for that I thank you :)
You're right...I meant CPM
When it says "Three-axis gyroscope" does it actually mean "Three-axis accelerometer"? Or can I really use my phone to stabilize myself in space?
"Founders retaining control after a series A is clearly heard-of. And barring financial catastrophe, I think in the coming year it will become the norm."

Would a financial catastrophe simply stop new series A rounds, or would it rather change their terms? Are there any examples of changes related to the adventures in 2007--2008?
Kick Ass Conversions and Traffic: Lessons from Marketing Verify
So sad that I missed this phase of invites, as this is something I've been looking for. A dropbox replacement, in filesystem, that has unlimited size. What could be better?
NYTimes Hack Day Wrap-Up
Or NFC! ;)
Really? If my original Palm Pre has a curved screen, it's basically imperceptible. (And if anything, looks to be convex, not concave.)
http://www.aerofs.com/tos.html

they are certainly covered if they wanted to prevent it.
On the submission page, there is a large font link to the Submission Release form which answers any questions like that. (http://www.invincibilitee.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=125) As long as it's just a submitted design (as in we have not accepted to use the design), you give us a 60 day window of not offering it to other sites or vendors. If we don't ask to use it within that 60 days, you can do whatever you'd like with it again. If we reach an agreement with you to use the design, you retain ownership of the design, but transfer exclusive rights to use it to us. So, basically, you can't let anyone else use it, but we can't take it and sell it either.

The Submission Release form explains it in a more "legalese" way. We use LegalZoom for our legal documents such as the Submission Release form.