skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lurked for over 6 months on News.YC before I started posting. I think some anonymous online discussions are more interesting because they are niche and anonymous.

Like UrbanBaby and maybe News.YC:

http://www.urbanbaby.com/talk/posts

If joining the conversation requires linking an identity to my opinion, I might be too shy or scared to say something. Who are the top Yelp reviewers anyway?
Excellent! I've been waiting a long while for something like this :)

Some suggestions:
- When adding a feed, include feed detection code, so that I can type in a URL and have the feed auto-detected, instead of having to find the exact feed URL
- Allow a threshold for downmodding like HN... only submitters with X or more karma can downmod.

This looks great and I look forward to seeing it evolve and get better!
Wow why didn't I find out about last.fm before. Friggin awesome service. Have hopelessly been trying to find some good onlineradiostations but having it all in one like this is superb.
spaceship?
Feature request: Ability to turn off voting when submitting a comment
Sometimes I'd like to submit a comment that might be unpopular. While I'm not overly concerned about my (minuscule) Karma score, I do cringe on the rare occasion I receive negative votes.

I'd like the ability to turn off voting when submitting a comment. To balance, perhaps a user could optionally filter non-votable comments.
"In fact, treating Java as a garbage-collected C is often a very reasonable thing to do."

That's exactly what I like about Objective-C. It _IS_ C with garbage collection. And with a little bit of Smalltalk thrown in.
Yes, that is essentially what GTO's email said. I was reading between the lines that subscriptions were also a lost cause.

GTO did have crippled free memberships, and the limitations were annoying. However, you got a free trial that was unrestricted, and at one point they offered me what was basically a free membership if I would just play games for a minimum # of hours per month. It sounds like they are desperate for a critical mass of players that they aren't getting.
You disagree with what? I thought I was quite clear that the appropriate meaning of SFTP is SSH File Transfer Protocol and has been for years. I certainly didn't think I was arguing that people ought to use it to mean anything else.

Many users (and a few clients and servers) do use the term incorrectly. I don't like it, and clearly you don't either...I don't see what you're disagreeing with.

And, of course FTP over SSL is not extremely rare...not even close to rare. All of the major FTP servers, and many FTP clients, support it quite easily, and many, many end users insist on it. ProFTPd, possibly the most popular FTP server, can be configured to use it with just a few configuration directives.

I'm not encouraging anyone to use the terms incorrectly or to use the FTPS protocol instead of SFTP. In fact, I've been recommending SSH FTP for years (one could probably dig up mailing lists posts that include me scolding people for using FTP from ten years ago).

I guess I've not been very clear. I apologize for misleading anyone into thinking I intended to praise the misuse of terms. I just wanted to point out that people use the terms incorrectly extremely often, and it's wise to be explicit about the protocol you mean.
You can do that with WebDAV and Digest authentication. I don't actually know that it's comparable in speed, though.

I'd also question the speed argument...for large files, SSH can perform compression and make the transfer faster than FTP.
Simply not true.

The openssh family of tools have had LFS support for many years. I've used scp several times to copy huge files...and our products have scp as a filesystem backup target, which means it deals with archives that are dozens or hundreds of GBs in size on a daily basis.
This is awesome. Leave it to a band like radiohead to continue to push the envelope into ground breaking music video ventures like this.
On the other hand, 37signals remains, for the most part, the story of one success. YC has the chance to participate in and collect experience from many.
Not sure if you're intentionally proposing something different, or if I wasn't clear, but I didn't mean you should have to list the vars you intended to later refer to -- I think the serialize operator should automatically serialize all values in the local environment that are of the allowed set of types.
Someone please explain to me how your personal reddit, hosted or not, is different from any other forum software such as, say, phpBB2, just as an example. Maybe other forums aren't quite as focused on the voting aspect (though it does exist). Some people see that as an advantage, though. I guess the whole point of having your own social news a.k.a. forum site is so you can dictate what can be posted and what not, to keep the quality and focus on a special subject of your interest.
Google Bucket Testing New Digg-Like Search Interface
Opening up the FreeRunner (along with the debug kit, spares, and some advice for US users)
News that won't be missed. It only makes me a little bit sad that Kodak is working on such useless products (don't know about the camera, but the HD player thing - who wants something like that in 2008?).
One has a fairly stable SDK and excellent hardware and millions of loyal and satisfied users and other has a mediocre SDK and hardware is still vaporware. What do you think would, currently, be a better choice? :)
no, there's something called ad hoc distribution that lets you run your app on up to 100 phones on the standard program...I think more if you purchase enterprise.

It doesn't have to be on the store for you to install it on your phone. But you do indeed need to be part of the program.
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Anywhere to play GO in Flash or SVG against a computer in different levels?

The only one I found is Yahoo Games but that one sucks and it doesn't have single player.
As for now I am considering only remote interns, since I am traveling a lot this year. He or she should be "young" in terms of creativity/brains/etc.

I don't have any _local_ university :) But anyway that's a good idea.
What's the point of the arrows? If I like it, I'll click and not come back. If not, I won't click, or I'll come right back if I do. Voila.

facebook tried a similar voting mechanism in their News Feed, and withdrew it pretty soon. Again, if I like the story, I'll click on it. I wouldn't have expected this from Google, especially after they so vehemently opposed using human judges in the search process.
The only qualification I really need is being smart person and have some preliminary experience withanything funny like Ruby, or Lisp, or Io, whatever :) Gender and age are not THAT important (see comment above)
Did you just get lucky with the one T-Mobile sim or did you try multiple t-mobile sims too?
Thanks for the compression tip! My extremely informal testing produced the following results taken by copying a random binary file I had to another computer:

SSH: 2.0MB/s

SSH w/ compression: 2.5MB/s

FTP: 2.8MB/s

While SSH does not approach the speed of FTP it does come close, perhaps close enough to finally ditch FTP altogether in most situations.
It means the concept is no longer 'novel' (USPTO) or has an 'innovative step' (IP Australia).
p.s. One of those has a storefront that will handle transactions for you and provide the end user with a convenient location to find and download your products.
I've said it once here already and I will say it again. I have not come across many Mac|iPhone developers who were unhappy with what they got out of WWDC, unless all they were doing all week long was getting plastered.

It seems like a complete waste of money to some, but when you consider what you can get out of it: the sessions, the seeds, the _signing up to talk to an apple engineer about your app to get help with virtually everything_, the session videos, the people you meet...it can and is well worth the money to attend.

There are some conferences I have been to that were mostly along the lines of "what the hell is this *&#$" where I've fallen asleep and skipped entire days, and WWDC is not one of them. It's definitely an experience I recommend to developers should they be able to afford the time/money it costs to attend. I'd even know of some that would say WWDC's cost is nothing compared to what it's saved them in terms of all the things they got out of it that they used.
You asked what I specifically disagreed with. Your original post:

> the most common meaning of SFTP has come to be "FTP encrypted with SSL"

I disagree with that. We both think people should use 'SFTP' to correctly mean as implemented by an SSH server, but you think the term has lost meaning. I am disagreeing with that.
I don't really understand how this impacts the ISPs any differently than the current options to watch Netflix movies on-demand.
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What about the OpenMoko?
I mean you might not have nearly as large an user base, but shiney? :)
Right, but the current situation is silly. For example right now if I want to connect into work, I fire up the Cisco VPN client, then I ssh from my Mac to whatever Unix box I want to work on there. I'm not sure that "double encryption" really buys us anything here. Unless someone's actually in our datacentre tapping the wire coming out of the VPN host, in which case we've bigger problems...
IBM's eight-core Power7 chip to clock in at 4.0GHz
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Realistically the compute-density of anything but made-for-purpose kit at the moment makes clustering desktop PCs at any scale economically infeasible. We think in units of computational power per kilowatt (including cooling) and per tonne of floor loading nowadays.

The only play in the desktop space is hoovering up unused cycles on desktops that an organization happens to own anyway, primarily for interactive use.

Also, that FORTRAN is a strong presence in numerical computing is very, very common knowledge. Someone who learnt that yesterday is unlikely to have much experience with large-scale computation... Certainly not enough to pull off the democratization of supercomputing by himself.
Teach a man to fish...
I'd be most interested to know. Also, if it works on T-Mobile does that mean it would work on Tuyo mobile?
Event thought it's a game of complete information I find it hard to foresee the moves of better players that kill my stones and capture more territory. And I can't console myself that he got the right card or had a good die roll. There is clearly a place for games of chance but the level of complexity in the go game tree makes it very interesting.
Threaded comments? That's a big deal though you could add that to forum software...
Yep, that's a popular response I get from OSX people: if Apple can't do something, that's because "you don't need it".
Didn't they get the memo? You're supposed to add more cores now instead of clockspeed.
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Compared to the dual-core 5 GHz Power6, yes, I think they got the memo.
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"the story of one success" - only if you consider the company succeeding as their sole success. But another metric is to compare the number of successful products 37signals has put out. They've made a bunch of apps and most (all?) of them do very well in their respective areas (lots of paying customers!) because of the common development philosophy they share.

In other words, when it comes to their ideas on how to build stuff well (a mix of agile programming and user-centered design they call Getting Real) they put their money where their mouths are.

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
How about the time you spent not making $100+ per hour working on consulting projects. I'm guessing iPhone dev is probably $150+
If he just wants to make money from old computers he could install MythTV on it, add tuner cards, and sell a subscription to a remote MythTV box. People overseas might pay for it.

Or break the machines up and sell each part on ebay?
timing is strategic - everybody is/was busy discussing iphones.
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I hope I'll need to deploy this in a couple of years. :)
Some users are engaged enough to contribute and the info they gave is invaluable. The point of this isn't to test a new Google interface, it's to gather data. You don't want to spoil the experience for millions of people, hence the bucket testing.

We use it for our search quality and it's a great way to get some more info about what people like which has more info than click data.
I've only been to the Android Developer day, and my impression was that I don't like the Android API at all. I am tired of XML and Java, and I don't see why it has to be enforced. It used to be that you could use all sorts of languages on an operating system. And if Java, why give us yet another API? There are enough Graphics APIs for Java already, I am not motivated to learn another one without any visible benefits over the existing ones.
One of empirical data mining law in action: quantity of information beats quality.
hugh, you're right.

VCs claim to hate pitches where the founders don't know their market. I never understood why -- until i read this post. Not a single link to prior art, no explanation of why his solution will be better than anything else. no compelling problem to solve.

The author's blog would be better if the author focused on problem 2: "I require a lot of number crunching now and then. time is a premium." Tell us more! He might be onto something, but I can't figure it out.
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"who would want a sumpercomputer you might ask?"

I want a sumpercomputer!
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Lets use the laymens sniff test to figure out the level of WTF present in our system, using IndyMAC as an example.

You have all your money in an IndyMac account. They hold your mortage. IndyMAC collapses prompting the FDIC to take them over and bail them out. What happens:

You lose at least half (probably more) of all the money you have in the bank over $100k. They get a fat bailout, so long and thanks for all the cash. You are still expected to repay your mortgage in full.

I know there's probably some logical explanation in financialese showing that this is the right outcome... But, come on, they lose your money and still demand to be repaid... WTF?!
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My feeling is that they're really talking about static typing not about compilation.
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I'm surprised the more logical combination of adding a "Print with Lulu" button to iPaper hasn't been added with commission for each sale going to Scribd (and possibly, in the future, the original author of the document so the platform could be used for previewing books from small-time authors).

The ability to instantly get a PDF printed and mailed to you via paper would be a nice feature.
Congrats, Brett! remember not to break the chain, ok?

keep up the good work!
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This is partially true--those who actually spend a lot of time coding often do blog, but rarely about "their experience coding"--rather, they blog about actual issues related directly to what they're doing. The various blogs hosted on the ffmpeg website (multimedia.cx) are great examples of this. Though I do find that in periods of time when I actually have a lot of work, I don't have time to post much in terms of updates--or at least I justify it that way.
Hopefully that "results you removed" is not permanent, although from the looks of it, it is. Sometimes you use the same keyword, when searching for 2 different things.
Just because it’s “simple” doesn’t mean it won’t take work.
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nice work guys. can I browse the slinksets that have been created? I saw typehype.slinkset.com on the homepage and thought it was cool -- I wonder what other ones have been created?
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thanks! Great collection of links.
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I cannot read this. It requires subscription.
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Or, you could just, like... print it on your own printer. You know, just sayin'.

I guess it would be useful if you don't have a printer, but then shipping, etc. would make it kind of pointless, with the obvious exception of books (or other documents) on Scribd that have a certain production specificity.
"... Man, why can't people let me take 10 minutes of their life to explain trivialities for me to grasp in 60 seconds ..."

If this is not an ironic comment: RTFM is good for you and it's not a good habit to encourage people to ask for "pre-digested" knowledge just because "you" see no value in looking something up.
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2P3s and 1 P4 is not a supercomputer.

I bought a Quadcore PC with 4GB Ram for 600€ from Dell recently. A price tag that makes the time to glue your own rotting hardware together a very questionable investment.

If really interested in "Supercomputing", I suppose Cell processor (PS3) or GPUs are the way to go...

Also, energy consumption might be important. Probably the old CPUs don't really look so good in that respect.
Looking for more information on this project, I come across this Wiki entry:

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

I thought this was somewhat amusing considering some of the conspiracy theories surrounding FaceBook.
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I actually thought it was closer to 2000.

I have a friend that works there, and her department of 300, fired about 75 people. Pretty crappy situation, as some were in tight situation (one had just became a father, and another one almost at the end of the green card process) etc.

I think they got about 2 months of severance package, + some weeks of pay for every year they worked there. Not bad.

Larger companies are really not as safe as people think. In a case of recession, you want to be in a small-medium/lean company, and whatever you doing is their life-hood, aka core businness. Some software companies just can't afford to fire engineers, as their businness will suffer.

Large companies like Sun, accumulate enough fat, that as soon as some bad times come, it is the best time to trim some of it.
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So will I, of course, but at times I wish I could see a full, third party analysis of them and their success. "Get rich in just 10 hours a week" sure sounds seductive, but, for example, just how important was Rails in making them profitable? Without Rails, would they be able to work 4 day work weeks? In most companies I've ever worked for, the competition has been way too fierce to do stuff like that.
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Lulu on an merger spree ? I hear some more rumors.
Really freakin cool. They give you the raw data to visualize on your own, and some sample code written in Processing.

I couldn't get the Processing code to work correctly, so I ported it an OpenGL app on the iPhone...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZx-h4SbfdQ
Fair enough. If users click it, then it can't hurt I suppose. Live Search uses similar "Is this helpful?" prompts that just annoy me, but presumably some people must be voting.

As for me, I'll tell you what I like by what I click.
Sleepless vs sleepers, are we approaching the world of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain ?
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I first heard of Go when the film Pi came out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0_(film)#The_game_of_Go

It has conjured up visions of crazy hackers ever since.
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