skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If he needed a command-line tool for tracking tasks, why couldn't he use ditz?
The prime years in the 21st century and the differences of their differences...of their differences.

2003 2011 2017 2027 2029 2039 2053 2063 2069 2081 2083 2087 2089 2099

8 6 10 2 10 14 10 6 12 2 4 2 10

2 4 8 8 4 4 4 6 10 2 2 8

2 4 0 4 0 0 2 4 8 0 6

2 4 4 4 0 2 2 4 8 6

2 0 0 4 2 0 2 4 2

2 0 4 2 2 2 2 2

2 4 2 0 0 0 0

2 2 2 0 0 0

0 0 2 0 0

0 2 2 0

2 0 2

2 2

0

This does not always result in 0 at the end. For example, the differences of the first eight primes:

1 2 2 4 2 4 2

1 0 2 2 2 2

1 2 0 0 0

1 2 0 0

1 2 0

1 2

1

Here is what it looks like with better formatting: http://i.imgur.com/BuPij.png
What is the difference and how should they respond? It seems to be a rising frustration among power users that Google is increasingly becoming a wasteland populated by spam. For example, Marco Arment recently commented on his podcast how hard it was to find answers to simple questions on Google these days. He was saying that the content farms have basically created a page for every PHP function with thin content and rendered it useless. For a company whose goal is to index all human information it is a pretty big warning flag.

What is the appropriate user response? Go to Stack Overflow? Find a branded knowledge base like O'Reilly's Safari? I'm genuinely curious to know what we can do.
I'd use AES128, it's more secure (well, so far anyway). There's a weakness in the AES256 algorithm that makes it weaker then AES128. Not weak enough that I would really be worried , but if you have the choice...
I've been wanting to build a decentralized curated social search (buzzword soup I know). The idea is that security has to be based on trust, and adversarial search is a security problem. Here's my idea, it starts with delicious style bookmarks and a social graph. the search engine indexes the pages you've bookmarked so your bookmarks are searchable. AND, you can expand your search to include your friends bookmarks. Obviously it wouldn't be comprehensive, but it would work really well for shared interests like programming.
Professor, you could've proved your point by linking to
at least one example of how Blekko found a founders
work and listed it by date (as the task required), instead
you have hashtags on health, finance, etc.
The truth is that nobody has arranged that information
in the way you want, if it existed at all, that venture
database where you found the 500 companies
would've been the natural place to look.. CrunchBase
maybe?!

Thought Worth mentioning
Google has proven to be very effective data collectors (see "What they know" stuff from WSJ e.g. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870330970457541...) - it may on the one hand be surprising they don't use this data more effectively to identify and thwart spam. OTOH, they're making a lot of money on spammy SERPs.
re: search tools search by last week, last month, etc.: very cool
AWS seems to have more open positions than I would imagine they should. What are the turnover/pay/working conditions like there?
An year ago I could hardly cook anything except omelet - badly. During the last year I've learned a bunch of recipes - enough to feel confident in the kitchen. Looking back, I think the factors that made it easiest to me to develop the habit of cooking were:

- A decent kitchen. I've tried cooking before but the lack
of kitchen appliances was just demotivating.

- A need to save some money. Bringing food with me to classes was supposed to be cheaper.

- A bet with a friend of mine on who can make 6-pack abs first. I wanted to eat healthy and tasty at the same time, so I had to control the food.
I eat lots of supermarket 'ready meals'. There seems to be an assumption that this is worse for my health that if I prepared and cooked the ingredients myself. Can someone point me to some concrete scientific evidence that that is true, or at least some convincing theories on why it might be true? (Ready meals are really convenient - if I'm going to motivate myself to give them up, I need some concrete evidence that they really are bad for me)
excellent point! I was thinking of what you mentioned this morning.

How I was not able to see this issue before in the social networks?

I think part of it was my fault for not checking twitter during the Holidays and unless you search for "Is my IPhone going to fail in 2011" I don't think you were able to know about this issue. Also most blog posts/twitter content has been reported today but not a week or so ago.

But following your point, do you think now we have to become dependent on Twitter and Blog posts to know if our software/hardware is going to function properly the next day? Wouldn't that be counter productive?
There's a bug in your tag cloud: You're splitting on whitespace. The tag "venture capitalists", for example, really isn't the same as the tag "venture" plus the tag "capitalists"...
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Ask HN: Best way to introduce a young girl to computers?
My sweetheart's daughter is 7 years old and very precocious. I'd love to give her the chance to get interested in computers at such a young age -- and not just playing games on them, but using them. What would people recommend as the best approach?
Drunk hackernews
We Are Mammoth is hiring a .NET developer: http://blog.wearemammoth.com/2010/12/were-hiring-net-develop...

We're in Chicago.
We have several positions available in New York City AND London. If you have an interest in breaking stuff, can code in C, Java, C#, Python, or whatever, come talk to us! Send me an email at <my yc username> @ gdssecurity.com

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> The one thing you bring up that's interesting is what to do with bad searches. How do you deal with a mis-typed part number? Should a system know which part number you have? If so, how would that be done?

There's lots of ways to handle this but doing a fuzzy search for similar or possibly related part numbers should be easy enough. The user can then be presented with those search results. If the model/part number isn't found you could even provide them the option of adding content for that part if the site takes user generated content. I don't think I've seen any site take this approach but instead go with the spammy show a ton of ads approach instead.

Appliance models and part numbers is actually pretty interesting. A couple of people I know built and maintain a simple desktop application for smaller appliance retailers and parts/service companies. The application contains a database of all valid part numbers issued by every major appliance vendor for the last twenty years or so. This information is updated about once per week by the manufacturers and they supply this information freely to anyone that wants it or to members of specific programs. Some of this information is provided via faxes or emails which sucks but data entry can be farmed out to temps. This company aggregates the data and provides it as a service to their customers. The application can do full or partial matches for part numbers and can filter based on appliance type. If a small two man team that doesn't even work on the project full time can successfully manage that I don't see why the big web based sites are so full of bogus content and spam.
Is there some interesting result in number theory that led you to take the absolute value of the differences?
Some light reading for next time you're stuck on the runway in a snow storm
Los Angeles funded startup: web developer and visual designers.

Still in stealth, but launching within next 6 months. We have 15 people worldwide and are well funded. Actual LA office is in Santa Monica and we need people on site there. Looking for a lead web developer, ideally with exceptional JavaScript skills (not just playing around with JQuery), and we're looking for another senior visual designer.

It's a great team and if you're in the area or willing to relocate to LA, it's a fantasic opportunity to have the startup experience while not sacrificing competitive pay. Email & twitter in my profile.
Does anyone have a theory to explain the bug [1]?

[1] Any non-recurring iPhone alarm between January 1 and 3 will not go off
" monetary wealth, respect from peers, self-sufficiency, and ultimately self-esteem and the genuine, pervasive kind of happiness that self-esteem makes possible"

Why are these things valuable? If we define valuable as worth a lot of money, obviously they are. If we define it as extremely useful or important, then that's just a judgement call again, no?
Another life saved by alcohol.
Because ECMAScript turned out to be pretty awesome, and is now the de facto standard on the web.

If you don't like Javascript, your best alternative right now is to make a language that compiles into it. Take whatever "nice" features you want. Here was my crack at it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2044752
Haha yeah, I'm a little drunk-over.
I know, it's odd how some people act like all web scraping is a terrible thing, when people have built such large businesses based on it. Companies try very hard to get scraped by Google, and don't like being scraped by other random entities so much - I suppose it depends on your intent. Poorly written spiders are a problem for system admins.

If a resource does have a public API, some very positive things about using that instead are that not only is it less resource intensive for them, it is much easier for you to create and maintain. If you're relying on scraping to get specific info from a site, it's a huge Odin when changes to their HTML break your code.
This may be a bit of a tangent, but I want to see the results of the VC system survey.
There are huge risks with this approach, but there's also a lot of potential. Search could look quite different.

It would be an ideal place to experiment with and profit from novel search ideas. For example, third party developers may experiment with query-induced flash mobs where people who just performed a similar query could collaborate in real-time to find the information they need.

Finding ways to prevent such an ecosystem from descending into absolute chaos would be a fascinating challenge.
Ask HN: Relocate me.
I am NY based developer (PHP, Perl, JS, HTML, Node.JS, MySQL, MongoDB, etc, etc) with sysadmin experience (*nix, Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, Nginx, PHP-FPM, Solr, Puppetmaster, EC2, etc, etc) and I need to get out of here...

I am looking for jobs elsewhere, that are able to help in relocation, where I can offer my all including years upon years of work experience (though no degree - might as well be honest about it up front). I am eager to learn, and eager to teach. I am able to get the job done, and give my all to a company because I am passionate about my work (though some work to life balance is well appreciated).

I can interview, provide code samples, and do tests (though those logic tests that seem to be the trend just don't appeal to me when looking at a company I would want to work for).

If anyone is looking - I would be interested in talking to you (yes, I know there's a Who's Hiring thread, and this might just be more noise, but I want to be found as well instead of just me reaching out to companies blindly).

I can be reached at hn.20.notimportant@spamgourmet.com (and I would obviously reply with my real name/email etc)...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262968
Good discussion there...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99544
Nothing here..
The Best Reviews of the Year
A way to export the list of articles in 'Saved Stories', either by way of an export function or an RSS feed (public/private) of the page.

After many years of enjoying Hacker News I now have a long list of great articles that I have liked, upvoted and in a sense 'bookmarked'. Right now, even though we can view these articles on the website, we can't download the list in any useful fashion or format.

Actually, adding RSS feeds to other pages like "best", "new" and the new function "over?points=" would be very useful as well...
Can you tell me how this is different from, say, Java? The fact that you are happy to run arbitrary binary code that was compiled for a specific platform? So now we are supposed to "write once compile everywhere" like C++, and then ship that to platforms? That is not in the spirit of the web AT ALL. If you want Java, at least THAT is write once, RUN anywhere. And why isn't running Java more seamless? I think answering THAT will be helpful to the original discussion.
That's a tough bug to fix. I use each word in the title and location, minus a list of stop words. There's no intelligence or built-in vocabulary.
Or just

pgrep -c apache
Other than the fact that they're both command-line project managers, these don't look all that similar. Among other things, pit is designed to store your data in your home directory, while ditz is designed to store it in your VC system. Pit has git commit hooks, but it doesn't look like ditz does.
There's lots of ways to handle this but doing a fuzzy search for similar or possibly related part numbers should be easy enough. The user can then be presented with those search results. If the model/part number isn't found you could even provide them the option of adding content for that part if the site takes user generated content. I don't think I've seen any site take this approach but instead go with the spammy show a ton of ads approach instead.

Fuzzy logic searches would be awesome.

The problem here, of course, is that the site doesn't own the search program. They can only influence it in certain predefined ways. So if you're building a site for dishwashers from the 1970s and you know that folks consistently misspell some brand name? You either provide a page for that misspelling that Google can crawl or those folks don't get content. Assuming you're doing a quality site, folks who can't spell need content as much as those who can. Yet if you provide a page based on a misspelling folks will yell "spammer!". It puts you in a bind. There's no answer everybody is going to be happy with.

I think people can tell whether or not site owners are trying to help them out or just trying to trick them using Google. At least I hope so. I know as much as I hate ads, I'm happy if I never saw one again for the rest of my life. I have to be careful not to take that personal opinion and apply it to all site creators, however. There's nothing wrong with noticing that folks are looking for something, can't find it, and providing content in that area.

In a lot of ways Google is a victim of their own success. The net was so new, the algorithm so cool, that it looked a lot like magic. People got used to the magic and forgot that it's just a computer program somewhere. I think we may expect too much.
The New York Times is looking for a Snr Software Engineer and sys admin in NYC

Follow this link and choose 'Production' for Major Department:
http://nyti.ms/webjobs

Email me if you apply and I can help ensure your resume gets seen directly or answer questions you might have.

Not advertised there are Web Developer roles (CSS/HTML/JS/PHP/etc) - email me (my HN username @ nytimes.com)
This is a repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=170510 from about 3 years ago. I missed it the first time.
The FCC regulates radio and TV because the airwaves are public property. The public airwaves are auctioned off by the FCC to various companies, and the companies have to live by the FCC's rules or go home.

In other words, CBS might own a lot of equipment privately, but they don't get to broadcast their programming through my airspace without my say-so. Since negotiating with millions of individuals to avoid interference is not feasible, the people gave the FCC the power to negotiate on their behalf. So the FCC is mandated to protect the interests of the people.

The internet is different, since anyone can make their content available without causing interference, and also a lot more of it is privately owned. The FCC doesn't have a mandate (or even, maybe, the authority) to regulate the internet.
List of data structures
Datasphere is hiring php, java, .net, and front end hackers. We are an ignition backed company.

https://datasphere-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm...

We are headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and led by a team of Internet veterans with backgrounds from Amazon.com, IMDb, Microsoft, RealNetworks, AltaVista, Trendwest and other leading companies.
I love Google products, but I can't help but agree. I'm currently trying to find a colour laser printer that has good performance (quality vs speed) with a reasonable running cost over the life of the printer (at least a few years).

All I'm getting is either the manufacturers slant (PR) or spam sites all harvesting the same reviews.

To solve this I now look for vertical based search sites. In this case http://www.printershowcase.com/small-officecolorlaser.aspx is the best I've found... but it's hardly to printers what dpreview is to cameras.

I stick with Google because it largely works well, but when I know what I want to see and that it must exist but cannot find it... then I find myself looking elsewhere all the time. DDG and Blekko I use in these cases, but even they're not solving these kinds of needs.
Google could easily provide that. See http://encrypted.google.com/
Well... This solves one problem.
What Does Technology Want?
Haha, Comic Sans kinda works for this website!
We have an open linux admin position in LA. Send resumes to jobs[at]venarc[dot]com
Doesn't this assume you can get the code you want to execute into memory? And that the page it ends up in is marked as executable?
So are you arguing against Native Client or pointing out a couple of niggles with the current implementation of Native Client? I don't think anyone was suggesting that the current experimental builds are perfect and infallible.

And if a single implementor is a bad thing, shouldn't you want Mozilla in on it?
Pre-made meals aren't intrinsically bad for you; it's the preservatives and other questionable ingredients (and quantity of) that the manufacturers may add that is detrimental to your health.
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I don't have an official turnover figure, but I've been there 8.5 years and counting.

As far as working conditions, people show up and they work. We don't have a whole lot of toys or frills at the office. We don't get free food or drinks, but we are paid well and can afford to buy our own. The focus is on meeting customer needs and on shipping stuff that works well and doesn't break as it scales or endures heavy loads. We ship often and run fast (see the AWS blog at http://aws.typepad.com to get an idea of how fast).

Teams are responsible for building and running services, and for fixing them when they break. Many teams measure the number of high-priority tickets generated by their services over the course of a year and set year-over-year goals to drive the number down. As a dev, you might get to carry a pager from time to time, and you will learn to build services that are so robust that they never wake you up :-).

We are really happy with the success of AWS to date, and that's why we are hiring.

As a new employee you'll be put to work right away on something that is of real and immediate value to the company. You'll learn on the job and you'll get to rub shoulders with really sharp people.

Pay is competitive by industry standards and is generally a mix of cash and stock grants. We also have a full suite of benefits.
If you want to start teaching her how software works, Alice is a good start:

http://www.alice.org/kelleher/storytelling/

As well MIT scratch is a little more gender neutral:

http://scratch.mit.edu/

If you want to go less with the programming route and more of an artistic route, buying Photoshop or Pixelmator and working some tutorials will usually set the spark. I have found with my girls the art stuff took just a little spark and they ran with it. My 10 year old is now teaching my 3 year old design. The programming still takes active involvement on my part to help her through some of the tasks.
Short answer: No

Long answer: It depends on what you define as arbitrary code execution. In a good number of cases, you can use ROP to execute whatever "code" (made up of little bits of existing program code repurposed for your needs) you wish, and accomplish whatever you want to accomplish. In many cases, this is finding your "real" code and setting memory protection such that you can jump into it. In effect, if you have control over EIP, you've already owned the system; it might not be easy to do everything you want to do, but it's effectively always possible.
Ask HN: At the company you work with, how thick is the so-called "PR filter"?
http://www.dataists.com/2010/12/ranking-the-popularity-of-pr...

http://regulargeek.com/2010/12/11/9-programming-languages-to...

For web dev one needs to understand the whole stack:

- some back end language: I recommend looking into scala, clojure, F#, erlang besides your 3, which are all terrific languages

- database design and tuning (SQL relational and otherwise)

- javascript/CSS and at least) compatibility matrix for IE, firefox and chrome

- reasonably proficient at linux admin: SSH, iptables, tools like nagios,
Ask HN: Who launched something in December?
I was impressed by the work done for "Launch an App Month" in November: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398

and the results: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962465

So, I thought it might be time to ask again. What products were launched by HNers in December?
Once Mozilla and Google support it, that puts a lot of pressure on the others. It might still not have happened, but Mozilla was the swing vote.
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I don't have the answer to it yet. However, it will likely involve exposing them to WoW or it's equivalent and then showing them how more long term sound activities can be even more rewarding.
It won't. Whoever comes up with a better search engine is going to get a large check from Google, and a monster check if he can make MS and Google go into a bidding war over the business.

A better search engine is not what will do Google in, because they would understand the danger it posed to them. What will do Google in is a business which they don't understand that can kill search engines as a place to do business.
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Wikipedia isn't really decrentralised. It's all centralised in wikipedia.org. It's not easy to 'fork it off'/.
In his defense; While I don't have an iPhone, I'm an avid reader of all things technology and check HN multiple times daily. I also failed to see these so called "thousands of blog posts and tweets". Again, not familiar with the iPhone, but can't Apple send out notifications of some sort?
Not generally true in that era, though. Alexa and IMDB, yes. Junglee, Planetall/Shoptheweb, Exchange, Live Bid, Bibliofind, Accept, etc - mostly dead. Good list of Amazon acqs/investments at http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/amazon.png
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This cost me a couple hours of work this morning, and put me in a generally bad mood. I need to wake up and be alert (driving 12 hours in inclement weather) at 5 tomorrow, and sleeping in a few hours messes that up royally.

These are the kind of bugs that screw with people's trust, along with messed up calendars and call-dropping. This is not okay, and should not have happened.
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