skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used it much, but they could use the Condorcet method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method) to rank everyone on linkedin, or everyone in your team, or whatever. It would be pretty silly if they just told you how many duels you've lost rather than give you an overall standing, either global or team-based (although I can see how that could incite some rivalry).
Racing too. Always amused me as an acronym :-)
Or, more likely, kill him in a fire that looked accidental.
Happy 25th birthday, IETF
I wouldn't want to be the publisher betting on a 73 year old with a history of missing deadlines hitting one in nine years time.

And then, from the site:

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After Volume 5 has been completed, I will revise Volumes 1--3 again to bring them up to date. In particular, the new material for those volumes that has been issued in beta-test fascicles will be incorporated at that time.

Then I will publish a ``reader's digest'' edition of Volumes 1--5, condensing the most important material into a single book.

And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and Volume 7 (Compiler techniques), but only if the things I want to say about those topics are still relevant and still haven't been said. Volumes 1--5 represent the central core of computer programming for sequential machines; the subjects of Volumes 6 and 7 are important but more specialized.
---

Which would all be wonderful, but seems possibly overoptimistic. Sadly.
That explanation's good enough for me, honestly; if it were listed simply on a separate, clearly linked page, I would be satisfied.
Nokia X7 leaks again ahead of possible launch this month
Back To The Basics Make $10-$15+ A Day Per Video Easy YouTube Method
I tried to log in with twitter and got the following, using Opera 11 on Windows 7:

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Request URL:	http://alpha.beepl.com/register/new
Django Version:	1.2.4
Exception Type:	Warning
Exception Value:	Incorrect string value: '\xE3\x81\x8C\xE3\x81\xAA...' for column 'text' at row 1
Exception Location:	/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/warnings.py in warn_explicit, line 102
Python Executable:	/opt/bitnami/python/bin/.python.bin
Python Version:	2.5.4
Python Path:	['/home/jparicka/svn/beepl', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3c1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/tweepy-1.7.1-py2.5.egg', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/simplejson-2.1.2-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/oauth2-1.2.0-py2.5.egg', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/httplib2-0.6.0-py2.5.egg', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdflib-2.4.2-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/jsonlib-1.6.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/oauth_python_twitter-1.0-py2.5.egg', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/python_twitter-0.6-py2.5.egg', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/flup-1.0.1-py2.5.egg', '/opt/bitnami/apps/django/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/home/jparicka/svn/beepl', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python25.zip', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages']
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Look at the leaflets that come through your door, why are they leafleting rather than just advertising in yellow pages ? - it's because for a lot of services people don't actively look for the service but will use it if prompted by advertising.

Sure people who are actively looking for a service are more easy to sell to and I'm sure Google, etc. will make a lot of money from them. But they're only a small part of the overall market.
Ouch .. busy server. We have this running off of a single 1GB GoGrid server. :-(
On my system (Window 7) undo/redo seems to mess up after a bit, which was quite annoying. It'd eventually start removing lines or something. I don't remember exactly, but in the end that's why I stopped using it. Also, I think I remember long running scripts freezing the IDE.

NotePad++ does a decent job for editing a file here or there. PyDev is my editor of choice when working on a project.
Going to the page in a new tab shows that I'm logged in fine, apparently.

As a side note, the font that you use in the post-it notes looks like Comic Sans, which makes it look a bit tacky. Perhaps a font that's more clearly different from Comic Sans or closer to "handwriting" would help?
"really hard"?

93 / 2 = 46.5
Why pi?
Now that I'm logged in, here's a feature suggestion... it would be kind of cool to be able to flip through suggested questions randomly, or perhaps look at "genres" of questions if you're in an answering mood.
The Social Network + Pirates of Silicon Valley
Sounds good. Our idea is to match relevant questions to you - those in which you expressed the strongest interest. This is what will effectively turn beepl into a question distribution platform. I am hoping to have this in place sometimes next week. Thanks for a great feedback!!
Link Popularity Building Is Worth Being a Maniac for It 
Link building is frustrating, time-consuming and can be even more confusing at times, yet people share a love and hate relationship with it. Why? It is because of the fact that it is still the key to achieve higher PR and helps a website to rank better in SERPs for relevant keywords and ultimately helps to attract a good amount of relevant traffic as well. However, you could literally spend a lifetime building links and still have a feeling in the back of your mind as to how these links are helping with your sites’ promotion.
A quick note for those who signed in (thank you for that btw), you can send questions to beepl directly from Twitter simply by adding #ask hashtag to them.
It is, of course, heart-wrenching to read something like this. And certainly in cases of crisis (flood, hurricane, etc), I think it is the correct thing to do to ship in food. But in many cases, I really am ambivalent about it. "Diet for a Small Planet" made the point that hunger was rooted mostly in political issues and trying to give food to people often worsened the problem. (Someone here once spoke of some US company providing just enough free baby formula in some third world country for mother's milk to dry up and many babies starving as a result because the parents couldn't afford to buy the formula after the free supply ran out.)

I don't know what The Answer is. But I think fixing root causes of such problems is where more of the focus should be. "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime."
You totally misread me. I'm not saying you should use OO to be a good programmer. I'm saying you should know it.
Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspur Preview
Those seem to be gone as well. Shame.
I never heard back from dmoz.org.
I have tried to add my customer's website years ago...
The shred man page warns you that the tool is not fully effective on journaled filesystems. I doubt wipe is, either.
It also picks up in_replies to these questions and aggregates them in one place - on beepl that is.
huh...and soon you will find yourself staring at the black spot 24x7 :) just kidding. I liked the post +1
I'd love to see that, but all too often it's the opposite - stuck on bugfixing antique, crappy code because somebody did a dodgy hack and figured it was "good enough". Taking the time to do it properly means that you ultimately go faster, not slower.
Programmers think differently than non-programmers
AFAIK this is the first browser (no extensions, on win7), that finally got the tabs into the titlebar (Fitts's law).
The whole upper screen border, a huge mouse target, now does focus the tabs. I do software long enough to know that this is not an easy out of the box feature.
I was always wondering why Chrome never tried to do that, but now they have to, every serious browser has to!
Ask HN: Name my e-commerce startup
HNers,
Today is very hard with domain names :)
I searched for hundreds of variations without success. So I will be grateful if you could help.

About startup: In short - SaaS e-commerce platform.
Mix between Shopify, Chargify (great names!) and PayPal with social and mobile components.

Domain name wishes: short & cute (like those 2 above).
Requirement for domain: .com extension, domain is available or cheap :)

Thanks,
B-Scan
Does anyone know if any such FOSS works with SSDs and their wear-levelling of their writes?
Teens playing with laser injure helicopter pilots
Aptana 3 Beta. It comes with Pydev.
Developing on Ubuntu/Windows

I really like having Terminal in the IDE itself. Pydev also comes with django template editor which is nice.
Thank you, folks. Great feedback.
WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string
Because Kwolla existed as an actual site before (http://www.prospectvista.com) that didn't go anywhere, we had discussed open sourcing it. One of my main goals for 2011 was to have a commercial product, and this (and the shopping cart running the kwolla.com site) is it.

I'm considering making it a SaaS type product, that might work out very well.

Everyone is telling me $150 is too steep, so I'll lower the price too.

Thanks for your input.
Ask HN: What's the typical range of equity a VC will request for seed funding?
I'm just curious, for seed money, how much equity do VCs usually ask for? I know YCombinator is 2-10%, but is this typical in the industry?
A HN Rising Star list

A list of HN members with average karma scores over 6{arbitrarily selected} sorted by dates they joined with the earlier you join being the high up on the list you will be.

Also, a minimum time of a 100 days{arbitrarily selected} on HN before you can appear on the list.

Hopefully, it will motivate new members to contribute quality content given the possibility of early recognition.
Although, I really hoped someone will ask some question to give this a try.. It's just a prototype anyway. So thanks again.
While I think he is a great add to YC, maybe also Gary acknowledged Posterous lost the battle vs Tumblr?

Huh, what? What evidence is there that Posterous has lost any battle against Tumblr? Just because you chose Tumblr after being advised by one of the founders of Tumblr doesn't mean Posterous has "lost a battle"...
Extracting images from Apps in the AppStore
I generally recommend DBAN[1] for people who are disposing of old boxes.

[1]http://www.dban.org/
Vivere di natura e pesca nell'isola di Rodrigues - Blog Top Sites
This post is a link to the original EDGE Magazine article that the first post, a Guardian article summarises. Not sure that's reason enough for flagging because of duplication but I would understand if the all caps title persuaded you. :)
Hmm, I tried asking a few questions through beepl's interface with the twitter checkbox selected, but none of them are actually showing up as my tweets.
haha:) be careful...addiction is hiding around the corner:P
thanks
Buy gold instead, for the same reasons: (1) it's very unlikely to go down; (2) it's very likely to go up; (3) you won't miss out on a lot of interest elsewhere; (4) it diversifies your portfolio; and (5) it's a hedge against the decline of the U.S. economy.
That's the caption to the pic - meant to be read in hot girl's voice, not TLP's.
Thanks, but all I am seeing is photos and apparently the list of 151 contributors....or some such. Where is the body of said article?
Having searched for mine (zookshop.com) for weeks, I sincerely wish you good luck.

Also, you will notice at some point that 99% of \d{1,4}shop.com is registered in China and parked. What's up with that?
Ubuntu, used to use VIM exclusively, now I'm trying a variety of IDEs at the moment (found out I prefer something that can remember the state of the project, to just VIM + NerdTree).

My experience so far:

* Geany (programmer's editor using GTK+) is simple and fast; if I'm using a graphical IDE, I'd like code completion (that can complete the code I wrote, not just stdlib) though

* Komodo (Edit) 6.0 (built on top of XUL) is fairly comprehensive; I keep getting bugs (or weird behaviour) with it (last time it wouldn't remember the custom python path for code completion), and feels a bit sluggish

* So far I like Wing IDE (commercial, I'm having a trial run atm). Comprehensive (if you go with the pro variant which costs a bit more, but hey, if I'm spending a lot of hours every day in it, it's worth it) & feels fast to me.

I haven't tried Aptana or PyDev. I have this (irrational?) feeling about Eclipse being huge, slow, and memory hog. I've used it a couple years ago (for some Java coding) and never felt good using it; and it was the bloatest application on my system (yes, even more than OpenOffice). From the comments here (so far), it looks its more or less the same nowadays...
Learn how to Code this Weekend
It should be mentioned that Rop admitted at last year's congress that they were too pessimistic and that things are actually better than they looked back than. The German constitutional court has been surprisingly effective in stopping many of the government's surveillance initiatives, which no one really expected back then.
Of course, none of this really contradicts your main point, but I thought the change of opinion of the speakers might be interesting.
Penguins Harmed by Tracking Bands
At that distance the beam has dispersed quite a bit and has hit more than enough particles of water and other stuff in the air as well as Rayleigh (sp?) scattering that I find the story somewhat unbelievable.

Your typical laser pointer is not collimated to the degree required to do damage at that distance, a few hundred feet and you're looking at a spot size way too large to do physical harm. It would still blind you for a bit and it's definitely irresponsible and illegal but that alone should be enough.

The chances of hitting both pilots in their left eye while their right eyes remain undamaged is interesting in itself, possibly they should do a control on this by testing other helicopter pilots directly after flight for similar symptoms when they've not been hit by a laser pointer.
This thread has already happened twice in the last 13 days. Here are the threads for reference (ordered from newest to oldest):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097735
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057704
It provides context. Dr.Chua's article was not just about rote learning vs creativity. For instance, how far do you think rote learning can go in music?

I would suspect that children need a balanced mix of both: discipline to learn the basics in whichever field they want to get into, coupled with freedom to explore their own interests. I suspect that today's american school culture stresses creativity to the point of ignoring the fundamentals. The good thing is that there are self-correcting mechanisms built into the american system as opposed to the chinese system where the children and the parents too, rarely get much of a say.
I wish there was a version that only overwrite once with 1's. That would be best for my SSD. (Which has wear leveling and is formatted with a journalling filesystem anyhow, so perhaps it's moot.)
What Facebook Should Steal From Microsoft’s Playbook
aren't verification and definition of associative operators two different problems?

I mean, while you can't generally prove that an operator is associative, you can have probably tell that they are associative by construction.
Silly conspiracy theory.

1) The scope is too large. Too many engineers at hard drive manufacturing companies would have to know about it.

2) Too America-centric. Engineers in foreign countries, that actually build most of the stuff, would know about it. It would be an enormous security gap that they could use as well.

The sad thing is that such paranoid fantasies, that are easy to debunk, blind you to the actual conspiracies, that are less comprehensive, more subtle and therefore much more threatening. I bet the TLA government agencies love these stories.
RE: halo's text summary -- the slides themselves are just text. There are no inspirational pics or anything. You can skip the presentation once you've read his post.

But I think this list leaves out the important detail of understanding/addressing root causes.
Given that some like it and some don't, it might not be that great an idea. Besides, you can always reply to someone's comment and ask for a way to get in touch with them.
H.264, WebM and Google - Explained
VIM and NERDTree and some Python plugins (although I did use Eclipse when attempting to port a Java library to Python library)

Platform:
- Mac OSX
- Ubuntu

Pros:
- The flexibility and efficiency of VIM has so far been the best thing about VIM for me. The ability to move quickly throughout the document and move lines with minimal keystrokes is why I got hooked on to VIM.

Cons:
- No auto-completion (never installed the plugin perhaps?)
- Dealing with 1000 line files and trying to compare things here and there is slightly painful
- Always having to exit VIM to get to the command line (which we had something like Emacs but it's against the VIM philosophy isn't it?)
So, that's basically meditation, but with the help of a black dot.

Helpful, but hardly revolutionary.
But that's not a private messaging system. I get enough spam as it is and don't feel like playing games with obfuscating my e-mail when there's a better solution.

And if you don't want private msgs, just turn on a flag to disallow it.
Union Square Ventures announces new $200M "Opportunity Fund"
Yeah, I already saw many parked domains like that :(

Thx.
Btw ZookShop looks nice!
Have you tried http://wordoid.com?
http://pair.offshore.ai/38yearcycle
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106495
I use Vim and Terminal on Ubuntu.

Having spent a majority of my career so far developing on windows in Delphi and Visual Studio, this is a complete change for me. I have been programming in python for two years now, and spent a first year trying different IDEs: Eclipse with Pydev (on windows and ubuntu), PyScripter (windows), NetBeans, Komodo, WingIDE, recently tried PyCharm and MonoDevelop, but they were all too slow or cumbersome for me.

The speed and flexibility of good editor (vim) and unix tools is the way I feel most happy.
I didn't. Nice find. Thank you. Will try something.
Literate programming with PHP
> With 2. 5 billion or so shares outstanding, that’s a $70.65 billionish valuation.

Wow, that's a total failure of understanding significant figures. "2.5 billion or so" is significant to one digit (assuming the "or so" refers to uncertainty about the 5). Then he magically finds four sig figs? Ridiculous.
Let us know when you decide on something. :)
In Bulgaria there is a list of people declared for national investigation (обявени за национално издирване). In this list there are people who need to be arrested, who need to be a witness in a case or who are missing(i.e. they are kidnapped or disapeared). If Dancho is truly missing since September then he should be on that list.

I tried to search for this list online but I couldn't find it (maybe it is not available yet). The article doesn't say anything about the official situation. It will be great if anyone can provide some official information.
>i don't have anything important to say or to be asked.

Let other people decide that. I can't think of anything anyone would want to ask me, either - except that once someone wanted me to get in touch to talk about my university. (I think I forgot to contact them. Sorry.) I still can't think of anything else I might be asked, but there might be something.

If you actively don't want to be contacted, fair enough. If you just don't think you will be, it doesn't hurt to be available. (But yes, email is sufficient.)
Cool Google Tech Demos competing for your attention
But what to do against those brain-wave readers? I better start thinking encrypted!
Obviously Facebook believed something was 'invented', as Facebook bought patents from Friendster, and wanted to ensure Facebook would not have to license the Friendster patents they were violating.

In your same manner of reasoning, h.264 was not invented, it simply emerged spontaneously at a certain point of the technological timeline, as the natural progression of things.

I would argue it was facebook's reliance on open-source software and existing Friendster techniques (THAT WERE PATENTED BY FRIENDSTER), that allowed Facebook to succeed.
I think this is a good time for a reminder:

The email address in your profile is not visible to other HN users. If you want people to see your address, put it in your "about" box.
Try using http://impossibility.org/ - a domain name generator.

It was posted on HN a few weeks ago. There's some surprisingly good domains available from it.
Have women evolved to protect themselves from sexual assault?
If a company had internally 'invented' all of their 'differentiating' technologies, then why would said company purchase patents relating to those technologies from a competitor's company?

Perhaps Facebooky did not 'invent' many of the social methods and processes it's service uses, and instead 'copied' them from existing entities (some of which were patented).
Lady Gaga was seen on Date My Ride
Tnx. Will do. That + Wordoid looks promising!
It's vapourware until you can buy one. A lot of things that are shown at CES do end up being cancelled before they're ever released.
Itunes site's most annoying usability flaw
Garry reached out to me for an interview with Posterous. Although, I didn't get the position in the end I was stoked about the fact he even contacted me in the first place. Thanks Gary! And good luck on your future endeavors with YC!
Since the article links straight to the video stream (OP: please add a note to the title), here's Knuth's introduction to this particular Christmas Tree Lecture (on Pi):

"Mathematicians have known for almost 300 years that the value of 'n factorial' (the product of the first n positive integers)is approximately equal to n/e to the nth power times the square root of 2(Pi)n, where Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. That's 'Stirling's approximation'. But it hasn't been clear why there is any connection whatever between circles and factorials; the appearance of Pi has seemed to be purely coincidental, one of the amazing accidents of nature. Recently however Johan Wästlund has found a nice explanation of this phenomenon, and the reason turns out to be connected with the theory of trees."
If "several" photographs were attached to his pleas for help, why did they elect to only include two of them?
What's a good & accredited online university for CS courses?
You're welcome. Best of luck!
Komodo IDE with VIM key bindings. Netbeans wasn't bad either. I really didn't like Eclipse.
Extensive Benchmarks Of Amazon's EC2 Compute Cloud Performance
Union Square Ventures Launches the Opportunity Fund
Here's one: http://www.krollontrack.com/
اقالة سلطان بن فهد
A relative who works in an HR-related field sees a lot of persons with Phoenix degrees, and is generally not impressed.
I use discovery of my email address as FizzBuzz: totally trivial and if you can't do it, further discussion will not likely result in a positive outcome for either party.
Good to see that Knuth's mind is still as sharp as ever.
I use emacs, and almost always write for Windows. If I need a GUI, I use PythonCard.
About to quit my job to learn to code. I'm 25 w/$100k saved, what should I do?
You should add "[video]" (or alike) to the title at least.