skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I love the new features, it only took them three years to add, 20-30 years after those features were developed. How innovative!

You can't evaluate LINQ statements in the debugger, because that would require incremental compilation, which Microsoft's stack is nowhere close to supporting right now.
The “Newspaper” Industry Will Die, The News Industry Will Not
Instapaper brings beautifully simple bookmarking to the iPhone
Are you kidding me? I think it is more important than ever.
I would think the middle would be safer, since I would guess the fuselage is reinforced to account for the plane wings.
So, in other words, you do SRP, but you don't want to call it that.

Suggesting that people invent new cryptographic protocols to solve the password storage problem, which has been solved adequately tens of times over now --- whether or not the person you're addressing knows the difference between MD5 and SHA1 --- is just about the worst conceivable advice you could give.
congrats to arn for one of the best mac sites ever :)

he's also a regular on HN!
Techmeme: Now Gadgets, Page A1. Watch Out Engadget
Shouldn't be surprising, systems is a mature subfield at this point. There's still useful work happening for sure, but it won't be as sexy or as (regularly) revolutionary as it used to be. The discoveries with the biggest impact in any field happen early on, even if later research is equally novel or intellectually rewarding.
Again, spoken like someone who hasn't lost someone. You may become progressively less likely to let any given person become that important to you over time, but losing someone truly important really doesn't get easier.
One should be wary of anyone making predictions (those in ties are just especially annoying because they take themselves so seriously). Mr. Simmons says he doesn't believe we will discover any other energy sources that will deliver sufficient energy. Then he claims only to base his predictions on data. The past can tell us nothing about future invention.

That said, it's about time for the world to turn the Black Swan of peak oil into a Grey Swan (to use Mr. Taleb's expression). We really ought to start preparing to soften the blow. The current alarm is also inspiring bright folks to research alternative energy sources and that can only be good for us in the long term.
Jason Calacanis’ First New Email Post
We exist.
The Indie Issue: The Visionaries
Time to read the 1993 Michael Crichton essay, "Mediasaurus". See http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/mediasaurus_pr.html
GUI Gallery
Great collection of UI blogs and resources
Microsoft is not the only sinner, they are just the most publicized one. The profit made by Microsoft and the others in the Software Top 100 - http://www.softwaretop100.org/list.php?page=1 is probably several times higher than it would be if not for lock-in and other anti-competitive practices. Those unfair profits are effectively a hardware tax which transfer wealth away from the consumers and businesses who would have presumably spent it on their own interests.
Actually, that is a good collection
Assuming all the fuel in the wings doesn't explode.
Linux may fall into the Macintosh trap: smug isolation leading to (near) obsolescence.

Heh. Predictions of the future are always amusing... especially when you live in that predicted future :)

(I hear nobody is using that old "Linux" thing these days. And Macs; they're totally dead.)
The odds of being killed on a single trip in an airliner accident is 52.6 million to 1.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_chances_of_dying_in_a...

I think I'll take my chances sitting in the front.
Gilbert and Sullivan have a line: If everybody's somebody, then noone's anybody. I think this applies to online journelism. There are so many news outlets, blogs, etc. to be found online (such as huffingtonpost, politicalwire, thedrudgereport, to name a few for politics). This is so saturated that little distiungishes these, unless they are tied to "big names". So, for example, I always go to cnn.com if there is a big news story. It is about TRUST. I know I will never be misled by CNN. Good, honest, journelism that cares about "TRUTH, JUSTICE, and THE AMERICAN WAY" to coin a phrase, like "The Daily Planet" will never be outdated. So today we have a proliferation of online blogs and so on that more or less cancel each other out. When it comes to "hard news", news when it matters, such as the site I went to at around 8:45 AM EST on Sept. 11, 2001, that was CNN.com, not "thedrudgereport". True, trustworthy news organizations will have to have an online presence, streams to mobile phones, etc. but gadfly news blogs will never replace "The Daily Planet". Or won't until Lex Luther becomes CEO of google, that is, lol!
Ask YC: A Hacker News Vote Icon?
Is there a digg-like vote icon that I can embed on my sites to have people vote on an article / page? Or submit if it hasn't been submitted already?

I know there is a bookmarklet... as that's what I currently use.
Some newspapers are completely free. Most charge a tiny amount to avoid the stigma of being a free paper (or, gain the credibility of a for-pay paper). The majority of the paper's revenue comes from advertising -- which also works online (setting aside the ad-block arms race).

As for investigative journalism, I suppose it's just a matter of finding someone willing to pay for it. There's the BBC approach of having everyone pay a little bit for relatively NPOV news, since that's worth a little bit to everyone. Alternately, there's what this article discusses: many small groups are willing to pay more for investigation that may support their own agendas -- or do the investigation themselves, and blog it.
Great video clip with Simmons http://www.bit.ly/peakoil
This link to the actual article goes to a flicker photo. Is this strange link-bait?
Funny how airplane safety is discussed all the time whereas I see no similar posts for automobile safety.

40,000 people die each year in car accidents in US alone, which is a heck of a lot more than in airplanes. Unlike air safety, individual road safety can be increased by any individual; even the safest dirvers can improve thier chance of survival by expending extra effort.

Yet somehow it's a lot more exciting to worry about things you can't control and hardly know anything about. Humans are fascinating. One day I'll figure out what makes them tick.
What you just said is exactly what Atwood is saying, and what Raganwald is arguing against.

If you freeze any moment in time then elitism always seems like the most rational choice. But if you take into account the passage of time then elitism is a losing proposition.
Isn't the front the most dangerous simply because of gravity: if the plane crashes the nose hits first?
Advice on startup Execution [ppt]
First of all, the proper link to the original source:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4219452.ht...

I do not agree with the conclusion. They used a small sample size (20) and they did not correct for any differences in plane type, accident type, phase of flight, etc. You simply cannot draw any conclusions with their data set and methodology.

The probability of death is going to be overwhelmingly driven by the speed and orientation of the aircraft at impact, which is going to be determined by the cause of the accident, the skill of the pilot(s), and just plain luck.

You'll be much better off just picking the seat that you will be most comfortable in.
An exit row?
Strangely, I find myself nodding in agreement with both of you. I simply must get back on my meds.

Thinking...

I don't know what Atwood really meant, it's just a blog post, but I do think there is a real distinction between "Hey you! Don't do that, it's dangerous!" and "You shouldn't be allowed to do that, you're not qualified."

After all, I wrote this:

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/04/is-strictly-equivalent-t...

Which is definitely a kind of "Don't do such and such" article. But while I actually write code to make things I like easier, I have no interest in sitting down and writing code to make the things I don't like harder or impossible.
10 Richest People of All Time and How They Made Their Fortunes
Please don't. While I want more high-quality content on HN, I don't want an increase in the number of visitors, votes or stories just for quantities' sake.
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One step beyond gold standard debates, I think, is when the 9/11 Truthers start showing up. At that point the site becomes useless to pretty much everybody.

This is the big problem: it only takes six people with some ahem fringe interest in order to spoil it for everybody.
"First it is necessary to thoroughly understand the properties and limitations of the materials to be used (for turbine blades, for example), and tests are begun in experimental rigs to determine those."

I love this approach to engineering. Feynman always manages to remind me what I like about science and engineering.
Interface design and the iPhone
"Salted" hashes aren't enough either, and the problem has little to do with the algorithm --- MD5, SHA1, and SHA256 are all problematic. Here's everything you need to know:

http://www.matasano.com/log/958/enough-with-the-rainbow-tabl...
A History of the GUI
Protocol Buffers == Leaky RPC
http://www.fastcompany.com/node/923003/print
I don't know why this bugs me but have you considered updating the newscred blog's permalink structure so that the urls are indicative of the date and or post title and not just an entry number?
wp admin panel --> settings --> permalinks
Ready for Funding? Prove it.
Developers furious over App Store “Line Cutting”
New Social Networking Website
Mass sites like Digg use those icons as a form of advertising. I'd rather have readers who hear about us from friends.
To the Class of ‘08
Just about 2,000 members and growing...
MS in Computer Science from the University of South Africa: ridiculous?
What would people think of a distance learning degree earned from the University of South Africa?

There are many proper universities in the United States that offer distance learning Computer Science degrees (like Illinois and Washington). But, they are pretty expensive. The tuition for two years at the University of South Africa is only a few grand (it is a pretty poor country).

As far as I can tell, the University of South Africa is a proper university unlike the University of Phoenix or DeVry.

What do people think of distance learning degrees in general? Would the location of the university compound concerns? Are those concerns justified?
Ask HN:Do you believe Natural Language Search will become bigger than Keyword Search?
Ask HN:Do you believe Natural Language Search will become bigger than Keyword Search
Question is what do you really want out of life.

Is it good enough to be the basis of a company?
Are you daring enough to start a company?
These are some questions you have to answer.

I think the best way is to demo this by starting a free service. If its good enough and meets people's needs you people will go to you with offers.
I had a script like this at Google. Every day it would email me all the changes to the employee db. I could see who was quitting, getting hired, changing titles, etc. It was very interesting, though I eventually had to filter out the people that I didn't care about. Now I think there's a popular internal webapp that does something similar.
Most web frameworks are broken
New Human-Powered Search Engine
Accessing Internet at 640 Gb/s
George Orwell: New Words
I'd sink them to the bottom of the list, no less. As well as fixing the problem, of course.
Bush offers plan to save Freddie and Fannie
No. The way search works nowadays is basically natural language search. You just leave out the articles and keep things concise.

Why would I want to type "What is the temperature in Boston?" when I can just type "boston temperature"?
That's not entirely fair; Apple's comeback has been almost miraculous. I wouldn't bet on most companies making that kind of recovery.
Can you provide a link?
So they trim non-alphanumeric chars - how long before we see AAAJirbo Break. They should disable alphanumeric sorting and instead sort by date (newest), rating (popular) etc. Good faceted navigation would likely remove the desire to sort by name.
Thinking About Blackberry Apps
appName.trim() or equivalent.
It's time for Apple to exercise their proprietary software/benevolent dictator/gatekeeper abilities and drop all this shit like a bad habit.
Pretty shady company... no about us page, no corporate info, no address on the contact page, no privacy policy, no terms of service and their WHOIS entry is anonymized by Domains by Proxy.
Idle speculation -- now in your inbox! Wow!
Stay with us DenisM, the lure of an article/research like this is that we might bale to control (even if only slight;y) something we deemed "out of our" hands previously.

The idea that you can possibly save your own life in a plane crash contradicts what most people believe, which is usually "instant unavoidable death". Unlike ..oh car accidents.
Here's the catch tho'. Governments and corporations don't like decentralization, because this means a loss of control. So this will be a problem with what some will propose for electricity generation, which is a localized and decentralized effort. Centralization has usually meant better economy of scale. Electricity generation is the prime example, as well illustrated in Carr's book "The Big Switch." But new technology may trump this -- you may be able to generate all the electricity you need for normal day to day driving with your own equipment, be it via solar or wind.

I watched a piece on alternative energy the other day. One of the solar detractors suggested that you'd need to cover half the houses in Cali to generate enough electricity for the whole state -- Ok, I'll cover my house, you cover yours. The first case of "viral" power generation in history.
Engine Yard takes $15m Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark
Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch
Usability analysis of 23 enterprise portals. The Result.
So his email got picked up and syndicated. How is that not like a blog post?

This sounds like a ploy to get some fraction of his readers to cross-post for him.
Apple will fix this.
Why release Alpha (or Beta) software?
Theory of Spencerian Penmanship - writing that trains you how to think
The web design guru web designers love to hate.
+1, correct use of quotes.
Stephen Fry on a World Without God.
I can sum this entire posting up into six words:

Dynamic languages hard; static typing good!

And I'm pretty sure I can squeeze the rebuttal into six words as well:

Static typing stifling; dynamic languages liberating!

(Please excuse the caveman grammar; six words seemed like a nice number to shoot for.)
> Unlike air safety, individual road safety can be increased by any individual...

I think that's a big part of the reason. I know I'd feel a lot safer (if I was qualified) flying an airplane than having someone else do it. Having a large measure of control over a potentially dangerous situation is reassuring.

The other thing is that airplane crashes are very often catastrophic. A whole lot more people survive car accidents than die in them.
It might be, I am not THAT knowledgeable about gametheory and poker-AI, I was just straightening out the concepts.

From what I understand 3-player poker is much more like 9-player poker than HU and NL is much more complicated than limit.
this is what i did:

I have a form that:
user can upload as many as s/he wants
user clicks submit
the browser then sends a stream of data one time

on the server:
regex find .multipart/form-data;.boundary=.* from CONTENT_TYPE to make sure it's the right stream
save the stream into temp-file, read the temp-file

split file-stream based on .filename=\"(.)\".* into chunks
afterward, "calibrate" the chunk (determine start & end write positions)
then loop and write the chunks into specific filenames provided in the stream

so there are 1 upload stream and 1 load n+1 write operations

I wonder if it helps since I don't use php (hint: newlisp)
People bash Guy and Alltop a lot, but I've actually found it to be pretty useful.
Related: http://www.rubyinside.com/engine-yard-takes-15-mill-951.html
Earlier this week I was thinking about what type of iPhone app I could write to solve one of my own problems and this is basically it. Instapaper will make my commute (subway = no internet connection) much more bearable.

Did I miss something or is the registration system not at all secure? You don't set a password when you register and then you can sign in just by entering your username - or anyone else's that hasn't set a password. What is stopping someone from trying a bunch of email addresses or their friends' favorite usernames?

I understand that might be a user experience decision (especially when someone is on an iPhone), but I wouldn't mind a warning to the effect of 'hey - if you don't set a password, anyone can sign into your account by simply guessing your username'.
China’s Video Site Back Online After More Than a Month
The article starts with the following: " A FEW years ago, a self-described “militant liberal” named Val Curtis decided that it was time to save millions of children from death and disease."
Google, Cloud economics, BigTable + GFS vs. EU privacy laws
Awesome. My company is in the process of moving one of our apps over to EY now.
A cool quote: "Gentlemen: you have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. Yours truly, Cornelius Vanderbilt."

Reminds me of the advice to not rely too much on patents but on the business.
Ruby's Open Classes - Or: How Not To Patch Like A Monkey
http://engineyard.com/hosting

Monthly cost per slice	$399.00
Setup cost per slice	$299.00

Prices are for a single application deployed on a slice. Each additional application installed on your slice is an additional $50 per month per slice with a $100 setup fee

Pricey. Is it that hard to administer RoR apps?
The NFL is Worth More than NBA and MLB Combined
On one hand, this looks very cool... On the other, there isn't much more frustrating on the net than trying to read a book that has been scanned into images.
I read all the new posts on UseIt.

I see it as the base that keeps me, as a designer, grounded to what really matters. I value usability above almost everything because it allows your users to get from point A to B in the most effective way possible.

At the end of the day thats all that really matters, especially when 90% of internet users couldn't tell a bad design (graphically) from a good design.

One of the best ways I found to approach this is to design with HTML in mind at every step. Photoshop really makes you lose focus and end up perfecting the layout and not the presentation of the content.
What EY does can't compare to your average VPS hosting and is absolutely not even close to shared hosting.

If you poke around their site (looking at more than the price), you'll find a lot of information about the depth of their offering. They have a couple great graphics that really fill in some of the blanks.

But, more than all of the great tech, you have a team of people that are passionate about what they do, which is to keep your app up and running while you're on the beach.

Alright so maybe you're not on the beach but the point is that if you have a complex, mission-critical app, you can outsource your hosting and support to them. If you compare how much EY charges to what you'd pay for your own employees to do the same, not to mention the hardware, you'll find the cost of EY is pretty darn cheap.

$.02 from a longtime EY watcher and future customer.
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They exist, unless I got the last one (which I doubt).
By the way, can I sign up and make an iPhone app now, or is there still a waiting list and approval process?
After We Ship
It could really use some more details on how they're coming up with these numbers. I can imagine how they might infer the wealth in current dollars of, say, Carnegie or Ford. But Crassus?
As much as the guy annoys me, he knows how to generate publicity.
The price premium reflects market perception that yes, it is.
It's cool how you can argue whether that's true or not, but the market has spoken.
How to Write with Style (Kurt Vonnegut)
I have always liked his stuff, and I read and liked Designing Web Usability, but the enterprise-ish pricing on the real meat of his research annoys me immensely.

E.g.

"Usability of Intranet Portals
A Report from the Trenches: Experiences From Real-Life Portal Projects
3rd Edition
343 pages PDF format

$348 for a single report,
$698 for the report and a site license to make copies within your organization and place on your intranet. (No shipping/handling fees will be added: it's a download.)"

The parenthetical statement is hilarious. Site Licenses for books are hilarious.
I think the idea of a “minimum valid test” is really what you should be aiming for.

There should be a private phase for usability and to see whether that question can accurately be tested. Your goal is to make sure that your terrible site design or code or whatever does not get in the way of the test.

Then there should be a scaling phase, some call beta. You can create scarcity by doing beta password signups to make sure that your servers aren't causing users to not enjoy the site (why is it so slow?!).

Then, I think it's the public phase, where you let anyone come to your site.

Really, if you have courage and trust in your abilities. going straight to public is the best option because it causes you to iterate quickly.
this is a complete fabrication. facebook's thrift was inspired by pillar, an rpc library written in ml by former cto adam d'angelo.
This low probability of an accident actually happening suggests that the condition probabilities presented in the article have huge standard errors. This may make the differences between sections of the plane insignificant. Then again, there aren't standard errors per se because we should have the population of all accidents rather than a sample. Interesting....
girls that do lots of sports understand the weekends. I spent most of my weekends in the spring at college at bike races. I tended to date girls who were athletic also.
Thanks for the suggestion. So I would basically write the pointer information (that would have been written to the database) to a temporary file instead? Do you think this improves performance significantly?
there's still an approval process for most steps, but it seems now most people who've applied are getting acceptance into the program itself.

now, getting your app into the app store and upgrading your apps is a slightly different process, and it looks like there's a huge backlog there :(
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I'd prefer to sit on the part of the plane that is quietest, most comfortable, and has the most free/cheap food/drinks.
Also, when I was there, it seemed like mostly tourists using the free bikes. Most residents have their own bikes they use. usually a few from what i hear.
Not to be mean, but yeah... you guys missed this boat a long time ago.

Unless you can tell me how you're better than Facebook or MySpace or offer something different from them, then I don't think you'll get past the high barriers to sign-up.
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Does anyone know if this was a problem for Facebook when the apps were released, or did it not matter because everything was recommended by your friends anyway?
Digg Acquisition
How'd this get on Hacker News?

I've worked with open-source and proprietary enterprise portals and I can safely say this: they all suck. They're a pain to install, customize, develop for, maintain, intergrate, and scale. If there ever was a software idea that reeked of enterprisey-ness, this is one of them.