skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're approved for both. And if you think they should be a single slashtag give a shout, I'm not that familiar with the Ruby community.
Added bonus that they have bruised egos from not getting a date with the hot guy, probably a rare occurance for an attractive woman on a dating site.
AppRats Hacks Facebook to Give YouTube Celebrities a Presence
We are currently looking at the smartphone app approach. The phone approach was easier prototype which is why we started there.
New iTunes Features Aim To Outdo DVD
It will be fantastic if it can read my Instapaper articles. I think it can be totally possible since Marco Arment is launching his full-access API this month.
Reversible Computation
> There's nothing intrinsic here which prevents a sale [of kragen's marriage or breathing] from happening. It's just vanishingly improbable that I could offer terms you'd accept.

I think you just failed the Turing Test. No actual human could seriously think that a marriage or breathing could be transferred intact from one person to another. Still, you're clearly an impressive feat of engineering!
Bidu - Chinese google.
I'm supposed to take this guy seriously with a lead-in like that? I can't wait for his article on common misconceptions of social propriety among the technically proficient.
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I wonder what areas are outside of that sweet spot. Hardware and enterprise software are a couple that immediately come to mind.
They're trying to use more of the uranium in the fuel, by extracting left-over U-235 and bred Pu-239 to use as fuel again. The U-238 can also be used in breeder reactors, once we get those going. It's recycling! Sort of.
I was just about to post on 37 Signals job board; we're looking for both freelance and full time rails developers. Our company makes CMS tools for entertainment markets. We've been around for 7 years, are stable and profitable. If you're still in the market, email me!
Wow, that version is FAR more informative than the nytimes version!
It will give you maximum profit if you charge both a base price for each month and certain amount for each user.
Can you point out the way in which the "Google Wave Bots & Gadgets" had meaningful elements of AI?
South Korea has very advanced wireless infrastructure. Yet, most people access internet through cable.
It's all custom. The thought has crossed my mind, that if the site doesn't work out I could try selling the job board software.
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Anon is DDOSing Tunisian government sites over censorship of riots
This is similar to the Sybil attack in peer-to-peer networking. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack: "A Sybil attack is one in which an attacker subverts the reputation system of a peer-to-peer network by creating a large number of pseudonymous entities, using them to gain a disproportionately large influence."
It sounds more like Elijah Wood's character in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
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Citation? I'd love to hear more about that.
I'm working on email subscriptions now. Hopefully they will be ready before the official launch. Either way, soon.

BTW, would you prefer daily digest, weekly digest, or other?
Ever read "Just So Stories"? :-)
If you get any false positives, then it isn't anywhere near right.
The whole 'Reverse Engineering the 6502' talk Michael Steil gave at CCC congress is on YouTube. I posted this earlier in a separate topic, but it didn't pick up.

Clickable links to the 6 parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW9AWBFH1sA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBE4KHKzhKc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRBo7O_blVo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_15RtVbqGU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9DYmlprCKA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZOUuqc4pk8
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Well, it looks awesome. I just spent a few minutes checking out "job board software" and there seems to be a few competitors in this space (which is a good thing, imo).

Good luck on the venture -- there seems to be a positive response on HN. I've had an idea brewing in my head for a similar venture and certainly would be interested in licensing your app for the right price ;)
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Thanks for the positive feedback! I'm really interested in giving all functional programming languages as much exposure as I can.
Three Good Things
First of all. What are your goals?

Is this play money or is this real money that you'll need down the road?

If it's play money, then invest in whatever you want. I've had really good luck by buying stocks of consumer goods that for some reason or another I feel a weird attraction too. Coach, Ford, Verizon, etc.

If it's real money. Put it in a low-fee mutual fund like something vanguard has with a target date fund.
I did miss the requirement that GS would have to sell their position immediately to be a textbook moneymaker. And that does confirm Josh's frustration that there's people here with a rather casual understanding of the financial lingua. ;-)

Still, my assumption was that GS thinks it can make enough from potential deals to cover whatever risk there is that FB is not worth $50 billion.
FWIW - I would prefer a weekly digest of jobs. I'm not specifically interested in functional programming jobs (although my interest is piqued) but that would be my preference in general.
Well you're only making 10% using YC as your filter.
I realize it's a bit off topic, but could you give a quick run-down on your experience with Q and J -- and particularly your perception on the potential job market?
Intel Releases Sandy Bridge Early
The lazy programmer way would be to recognize there's already one up there, it's just been deliberately buried. Kickstarter a digging project in the Clavius area.
Thanks. I'll keep you in mind :)
A good email blacklist (such as the Spamhaus Zen list) will detect 90% of spam with no false positives and negligible load.

There is a lot of evidence that there are not many botnets and each one has little diversity of control. This observation does not generalize to other kinds of spam such as 419s.
That shows a huge spike in traffic in late August and Sept, right around the launch of the digg redesign, unlike Quantcast and Compete ;-)
Same. Given that HN was originally supposed to be part of Reddit, that's not surprising.
Says some boring internet goblin that has almost certainly never touched an Android device, much less in any real world situation. You're another bore with your tired talking points pushing forward the iPhone religion.

Get a grip.
I feel your pain, that was me a couple of years ago ... moving on was one of the best things I've ever done.
Groupon messed up, with all the Groupon clones popping up, I really think they will be kicking themselves in the ass a few years down the road.
I've tweeted over APRS, and vice versa, you can find some such tweets with the tag #aprs
I think this is an extremely intelligent concern, and I agree with you that we should be moving away from cars.

I'm not sure what the repercussions of the self driving car will be though. SDC's, along with robotics, will eliminate the need to drive to the grocery store, or any store at all. And telecommunications surely will be pushing back against the need for central offices.

My hope is that SDCs will allow us to form more human-scale communities outside of the city, where we can live largely on foot, with local necessities (restaurants, bars, parks) within walking distance. All the crap that clogs up our cities and forces us to drive (stores, mostly) will be distributed to a network of warehouses that we will never visit.

We may take cabs more often from place to place, but I think overall SDCs could help us drive less.

It's all wild speculation at this point, but I think it's very interesting to see what will happen.
Isn't Kuhn's theory just part of an outdated meta-scientific paradigm?
This is my go-to answer to anyone who complains about pun threads and whatnot. If you're running into that stuff, you're on the wrong subreddits. My discussions there are perfectly enjoyable since removing r/atheism, r/pics, r/reddit.com, etc.
Even as my sarcasm meter is ringing: Kuhn got there first, so he'll linger. Everyone else is stuck trying to determine what it all means.
Ask HN: Does Y Combinator participate in A and beyond rounds?
I have always been curious if YCombinator participates in Series A rounds to keep their pro-rata, or do they eat the dilution? Any YC founders willing to say?
The Sumerians had the abacus (2700BC), the Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, etc, etc, etc. Why credit it to this Gerbert guy?

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
Forums, message boards, IRC, etc. ;)
Please be aware that this is blatantly false. The bank can only loan out less than the amount they have on hand (after subtracting the reserve percentage).

What happens is that you loan the money, it gets spent, and ends up in your deposits again. THEN, you are effectively counting a dollar as: "Owe $ to original depositor, Get $ from person taking the loan, Owe $ to new depositor". Adding up to 1 dollar. Except when reporting dollars on deposit, you say 2.

Individual banks don't "create" money. But as a quirk of lending and taking deposits, the banking system creates money, at least on the books.
This comment makes an obvious point, in furtherance of the "vampire squid" narrative about GS, that has already been made more eloquently by HN commenters. What's so special about it? Is this someone famous commenting about it?
Android is also an acquisition, FWIW.
That statement might mean, "The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended," because laws are often named by their original date of enactment, but amended subsequently.
I am that "CDDB guy" you refer to. Note that there were a number of us involved, and I can't tell you how far from our minds any of this was. Think what you like, but perhaps a little reading first:

http://link.moonsoft.com/wired.html

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listenin...

And yes, most lawyers are sociopaths :), but they are a necessary evil sometimes.
"[...] if you’re an entrepreneur, generally you don’t like working with a lot of people. That’s what an entrepreneur is." - Robert Greene on Mixergy
You should also read "Overcoming the Two Cultures" by Lee & Wallerstein, if you liked this. Kuhn's work is mentioned in the context of the broader conflict between the arts and sciences.
How low do you think its possible to go in terms of investing? As an experiment, lets say I decided to save up $1000 and try my hand as a venture capitalist. Do you think it could work out, or its pointless to even try because other costs, like administration time etc. would get in the way?
Can you say which changes?

What about something that seems too radical for the model, like energy sources or medical devices? Those lessons could take 3-5 years to become obvious.
Also, the Game Gear played Master System games with a cartridge adaptor (not strictly "backwards compatibility" but cool nonetheless)
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Absolutely. Cars will be the LPs of the 2050's
The Surprising Usefulness of Sloppy Arithmetic
All said and done you need your "bad" employee more than they need you. Brilliance usually comes at a cost. If you were really a good leader you would have been able to get Rodger some help with his drug problem. And if it had worked he would have repayed you with some amazing work.

Stop fucking complaining about "bad" employees who make you more money than everyone else on the team. Your job IS to deal with them - so deal with it.

Else be happy with the 9-to-5 lifers on you team and shut the fuck up. You'll find that you aren't going to be able todo jack shit with them.

I hate people who post shit like this.
By mainstream do you mean television and billboards? Maybe it's just a fluke but I seem to get tons of Google Chrome ads on the internet on youtube, pandora, etc.
irrespective of anything, the real question is, is facebook overvalued at 50 billion with revenues at 2 billion (and perhaps around 0-100mn profitability)?
I believe it's Baidu actually.
They still only have 4 engineers, and their lead engineer left. So, that's like 3 engineers and a trainee. To run a massive site with 120 servers and 830M pageviews/month.

Raldi commented on it here: http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/efpn0/reddit_...

Basically, they don't have the human resources right now to go in and fix the code that worked for 100M pageviews and broke at 830M. They're working on fixing it, but it's a slow process. Keep in mind, even after its layoffs, Digg still has 10 times as many engineers, with far fewer users.
That is a very good point.

How anybody still thinks GS is both 1) brilliant at making money and 2) willing to share the spoils with their sucker clients, I don't know.
> since a single lane is all you need since accidents will
> become exceedingly rare.

So you've got a single-lane highway, packed with cars going 200mph? Accidents will be exceedingly rare? No matter how rare that accidents end up being, they will be national (if not international) news stories just due to the amount of cars/injuries/deaths involved. How many people are willing to hop right back onto a theme-park roller coaster right after one of the cars flew off and killed everyone riding in it? Terrorist attacks on the level of 9/11 are exceedingly rare, but that doesn't stop all kinds of silliness from spawning from it.

> Future cars will be much more efficient, and will be electric so
> the delivery mechanism will be more efficient as well.

This is like the assumption that there is no need to spend all kinds of time worrying about alternative fuel sources, because as the price of oil goes up people will just auto-magically develop new and more efficient fuel sources. It's a law of nature, don't-ya-know! Housing prices will always keep rising. The economy will always keep growing. Trends are always positive, never negative. Inflection points are a thing of the past! We've optimized them out of the system. They now only exist in history books.
As they say, all's fair in love and war. I've been thinking about what part of it, exactly, is dishonorable, and I'm really not sure.
You know, I'm inclined to agree that one needs to be able to deal with a bit more to get talent. But no amount of leadership can deal with a drug problem. That requires action on Roger's part.

Besides that, this doesn't sound like the typical "Employees aren't good unless they follow my every order to the letter and get along great with every single person in the company" meme that I'm used to hearing. At least there's an acknowledgement that companies might have to deal with these issues in certain cases.
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Guys, if you do this, just remember that when they use their best friend to hit on you to see if you'll cheat, and how upset that makes you when you find out.

Turn-about is fair play if you aren't going to be straight-up about things.
Ask HN: What are web traffic details for hacker news?
So my biggest complaint is sorta like the other users. I just don't know what your offering and why it is worth my time to read further, and I am not sure how to find what your offering. Here is what I would recommend from a user perspective.

1. A long word for example maybe "photosensitive", and break the word in half. The first part being untextured, and the 2nd half being textured with your new layers that come in such handy time saving abilities. Then id put a video (link) right beside it that says, Click here to see how you can do this in 60 seconds. Then on the video landing page, after the video id briefly explain how much detail went into every "layer/texture" what ever they are called. And compare how much time it would take for a user to do this himself. Then I would show top sellers(fav products or what ever), and some testimonials from people who have bought from you (who loved the time it saved, and maybe even show of their work with the layers you showed them. Then a browse all products button.

I think your product is great, but I find your site is really hard to even tell where to start shopping. I thought the page was about blog post. I kept looking for a shopping button or a place to view all products. Even harder is your add to cart button being in the sidebar and not listed again down at the bottom(or top) of the page. This is a big no no imo. Again these are just my honest thoughts from a UI perspective. Hope this helps. (first post on HN).
I initially though it to be some where between 200,000 and 500,000, but I was surprised to see hacker news as one of the top 10 referrers to stack exchange.
IPhone Alarms Still Not Working Despite Apple's Words
If I remember correctly, Mixergy primarily takes a look back on successful products and companies.

I'd like to read/learn about products and companies that are just becoming "real". Ones that have just shipped.
It's not the size, it's the maturity. As you correctly criticize, Superphenix was non-functional much of the time: there were major engineering issues which hadn't been solved beforehand. This is the character of a prototype.

>Thorium-based reactors are more mature than FBR as far as I understand

Thorium reactors are even less mature than FBRs. Although that's a very loose category, you should distinguish between the extremely different reactor types which burn thorium, such as high temperature gas-cooled reactors (including pebble beds), which were the only commercial thorium reactors (for a short time); and the theoretical molten salt reactors, which unlike HTGRs are breeder reactors. For added confusion, some commercial (both LWR and HWR) reactors can run partially on thorium, but are not self-sufficient without uranium or plutonium fuel.
Is it really black and white as that? Would you still hire a genius if his actions were unethical on purpose just on the off streak that he might (or even has) produced 10x the wealth/value/code/output as an average engineer?
I'm surprised that nowadays this trick is considered so fresh. I've done it back in the day in the 90s on chatrooms. But then I was a stupid teenager, nowadays I wonder why these guys do this nonsense. I'm not into online dating right now, but couldn't they gather the same information by simply talking? Isn't this hack a trick reserved for socially awkward people who can't make up a decent conversation on the spot?
Even if keeping difficult employees is the right move, classifying them (as this post attempts to do) can still be useful. In fact I'd guess it's even more useful.
lispjobs.wordpress.com lists (for free) Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure jobs. Just FYI.
Ask HN: What coding blogs/mailing lists/sites do you read?
Translation. Voice recognition.
I recently started using it and so far I like it. 1 feature I'd like to add to it is a calendar like interface a la Streaks app on iPhone.
So they created fake accounts and pretended to be attractive women, just to get with a random girl? If that's not the definition of creepy, I don't know what is. The fact that he doesn't want the girl to find out should make this obvious -- any woman who found out you were doing this would be put off immediately, as they should be.

Instead of spending so much time with some weird scheme in an attempt to put down the "hunks," how about just becoming a more attractive and more interesting person on your own? Newsflash, guys: women are attracted to confidence and a sense of self-worth, among other things, not complex mechanisms to distract the other guys.

There are two ways to be the biggest building. One is to tear down the other buildings. Or two, just build the biggest building.
- Gary V

Sorry, but this is just really strange, and the lack of ANY negative feedback on here or Reddit is even more disconcerting.
I'm not sure I understand your object to Descartes, "I think therefore I am" is about how much one can be ultimately be deceived - senses can betray you, memory can betray you, but no matter what if someone is a thinking thing - then by the very nature that their thought exists, they must in some way exist.
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i don't see how this would work since most guys use the shotgun approach, so none of the women would stop receiving messages.

+ most women get something like 200 messages a week..so even if the numbers went down, they'd still have plenty of messages.

Granted it might work somewhere in the middle of Montana with 20,000 people within 200 miles.
You can see how this thread can go on forever, I think GP was making that point.
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I have a bit of a problem with people, like you, who will call someone a liar.

lie, noun, an intentionally false statement.

To insinuate that someone is a liar used to be a considerable personal slight and writing it here makes it libelous. Have you proven intention? Would it not be more polite to say that the OP was simply mistaken. I would kindly ask the OP to rewrite the offending sentence, perhaps like so "In the past it has been difficult to serve SSL requests for multiple domains from the same IP address."

That this comment has received a number of up votes is disconcerting. Where is the decorum oft afforded the HN community?
The aftermath from this bubble bursting is going to be very very painful. We're going to have high unemployment for programmers again just like after the dot-com, except this time it will coincide with global economic recession and software market maturation/saturation (thanks to all the free webapps/mobile apps)
I've been in the company of really smart (and likable!) Heretics and they tend to go out not with a bang but with a whimper. It's sad to watch.

They may be even be right but their persistent negativity and challenging of the status quo (even in minor matters) ends up wearing people down. Then eyes start rolling when they talk and their rants are met with sighs rather than attention or acknowledgment. Then they start getting left out of meetings and email conversations as it is easier to get things done without them no matter how smart they are.

All of this feeds the Heretic's perception of being the only sane person in the asylum turning them even more cynical and negative.
This may be a little picky, but this statement just doesn't make sense: :He is fundamentally a rebel—She will not be happy unless"

Where did the she come from?
Since I've written this gigantic post, I've learned a few more things about the process[1][2] and have changed my stance for the most part.

In a nutshell, the multitasking tray is simply a way to access apps recently used. The tray sorts itself in an MRU order and removes apps once enough time has gone by without being used. Apps in the tray can either be running or not running, depending on whether or not they support multitasking.

The effectiveness of MRU order and the need for another hardware option can still be argued, but I think you have at least helped me settle what the multitasking tray really does. Thanks.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2065582
[2] http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/mobile_multitasking
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Absolutely useless hyperbolic link-bait.

No one acts that way unless they have severe mental illnesses (such as the cocaine-addicted bipolar genius) or the company already has serious systemic problems. If you see things near the exaggerations in the OP regularly, the company is already diseased and needs major overhaul.
Is this more about putting a 2001: A Space Odyssey reference on the moon for fun or leaving a record of our civilization in case it destroys itself? I'm in favor of the second, but the first doesn't seem much different from carving the Coca Cola logo.