skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found it really really hard to gather with it and never finished it. Same was with "A Fire Upon Te Deep", but after the first quater it was okay for me, and I finished and liked it.

What I really found hard was, that this takes all place in it's own Universe with it's own Rules. And no where is described/explained what the these things or rules are.
Just like you would dive into e.g. Star Trek TV Show for the first time and see someone beam. The person would disapear and repear somewhere. Due to the fact that you see it, you understand what this beaming thing is.
Not so in Vinges Universe. Same applies to Gibson and the Sprawl. It's hard to mess around with it, when no where things are explained.
Mabye this is due to the translation of these books (I am a german reader).
Any others experienced the same/similar ?
Woot
Zappos
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Takeaways from the VC Outlook Dinner in Boston
While the leaked cables have caused unrest, I suspect that, if successful at throwing off dictators, they might well deserve the peace prize.

No chance they will get it, however, as the Nobels are clearly highly politically influenced.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the same bug exist in the BigDecimal to double conversion? It has to turn a precise value into an approximate double using a similar algorithm, no?

return base.scaleByPowerOfTen(exponent).doubleValue();
Flash only? After google's stance on h.264, this is quite surprising.
> Google's engineers are making the call and the counsel is just providing legal advice. The legal counsel doesn't know what is infringing on what.

[citation needed]

What makes you think that a big company with enormous potential for legal liability would let engineers make decisions that are of legal consequence, like whether to aggressively push a video format amidst a patent minefield?

Do you think the engineers wrote the patent license too?
So, because some people are stupid and follow slightly less stupid people for idiotic plans, the entire history of Norse navigation via Sunstones must be this!

Your comment seemed to say that it was implausible that success in a risky enterprise might have been entirely due to luck yet attributed by many observers to skill. All I pointed out was that it isn't just plausible, it happens all the time.
Introducing ChiliProject – A community fork of Redmine
Any go enthusiasts mind explaining this one? It looks like a very strange syntax:

No, Andrew described this case:

> should be rewritten as,

> select {
> case ch <- v:
> // sent
> default:
> // not sent
> }

Without the default, the select statement becomes blocking.
The same game as google plays with the adsense spam sites. As long as they make money, allow them to stay even though in public you say taht you will do everything to ban them.

It's not that hard to spot users messaging new users during the first few minutes. If one user does this multiple times, just ban him.
He did go into more on the on fault-tolerance and availability of Clustrix in another post:

http://sergeitsar.blogspot.com/2011/02/mongodb-vs-clustrix-c...

(nb - I also work at Clustrix)
If your job is 100% noise, quit. But a workplace will always have some noise, face it. But measure it, know when it's too much, and quiet some of it.
Tried one in the shops, nice but the resistive touch screen is something I'm not used to!
for the same price? I spent more than that (150 Euros) for a C5, which is basically an almost dumb phone + ovi maps.
While I don't disagree, I had to reopen the link to figure out what you were talking about. The even bigger banner and traffic cone logo drew my attention away from the top of the page such that I never noticed the self-promotion up there.

Of course if I actually tried to navigate on the site, it would be a different story, I'm sure.
> If so then what is the reason Google is not providing patent indemnification?

You could ask the same question of MPEG-LA: they don't indemnify their customers either.

> If it does, MS would bundle it with IE9

That is not at all clear. I would even call it unlikely.

> I guess Google is afraid of being sued for billions

I guess MPEG-LA is afraid of the same thing.
Reflector was written by a smart guy. IIRC the obfuscation partly consists of assemblies stored as resources in the executable assembly, and loaded dynamically. But no doubt you're right - it could be disentangled.

Better and more ethical to re-write.
Perhaps that's why old-school journalists like Burman would be ready to leave.
Ask yourself this: If Stackoverflow shut down today, would Google be providing more relevant, equally relevant or less relevant results for programming related searches? If the answer is less relevant, then I think it's clear there's been a lapse of ethics.
Time Warner Cable snaps up NaviSite for $230M as cloud computing consolidates
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play – The Playstation Phone
CBC != CBS
Facebook, All Down Hill From Here
When people start to realize what a cluttered mess FB is, they will do as I did and deactivate their accounts. I became sick of the obvious frustration of navigating through privacy settings; which are always a moving target. My life is much simpler and more personal without putting it online for all of my FB "friends" to view. I'd rather go with a smaller, invite only solution that doesn't have a public side.
"Investors are in the business of making money, not making judgements about ethics. Legal challenges are the ones that matter to a business, not ethical ones."

That may be how things are, but that doesn't mean they have to be. There's no law of nature or 'business' that dictates that is how it should be, like there's no other weay. It's all a human choice. Some people choose to act this way.

How can we change this? Simple, don't interact with folks that choose to act this way.
Latest crazy development: anti-mubarak protesters using laser beams as defense to blind pro-mubarak supporters trying to throw molotov cocktails. This just gets more and more insane/interesting...
dpcan: You make a good point about linking to apps from Twitter and web sites. I didn't think of that. Thanks for your thoughts.

Glad to know you are doing well on Android Market. I'm still confused at my personal tendency to readily make app purchases on my iOS devices but not on my Android phones. But then again, I guess we aren't the average mobile user these days.
My feelings on The Egyptian Revolution
The perils of working on different sides of the Atlantic…
They don't steal content, they give it away, thus undercutting for-pay sites. They were trying to pull the 'unfair competition' angle.
Yes - you pay and they decide later what you get.
Marble Run: physics based game on Javascript
The bigger news from the announcement, to me, was that in-app purchases are promised "soon".

EDIT: docs here --- http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/index.html
Can you provide some examples of more lucrative segments?
Set your heart on an MBA? Don't bother
at least it doesn't have a different background color, so it fades into the background a little bit.
> I just ordered my first Android, a Nexus S for $199 with a 2-year contract cancellable for $200.

Wait, what? If you buy a Nexus S outright without contract it costs $529. You're telling me that I can buy a Nexus S with a contract for $199, cancel for $200, and thus have a contract-free Nexus S phone for $399?

Can someone else verify this?
if you upvote a story, it gets saved under your profile.
hehe... races to give an answer - that's another thing that we have been hearing a lot around here lately! ;-)

And, thanks for the service and the link - I am not quite sure how I missed that post!
I didn't really understand the comic, but the digikey ads along the side had me drooling.
What Is Facebook, Really?
FYI, Lutz was on Blend (then called Sparkle) since he first produced reflector, at least as far as I remember. He was the brave soul tasked with integrating some components my team was producing for them, back in the deep, dark, early-aughts.
If it was a macro it would get something right. A macro would fail in response to a road block of some sort. This guy just failed at everything.
Ok, so it's not exactly the same, but the C3 had a nice screen + QWERTY for 130 euros retail. Do realize that's without subsidies, I'm sure you can find something and knock about 30 euros off the price (which happens with prepaid, you never pay full market price with the bundles) and fine something very similar.
It sounds like you have a really good friend in Tennessee. I think if you pursue this further, you can still do it in Tennessee. I think that your current "customer" isn't really interested, and that it will not be hard to part amicably, or you can just try and give him what you promised from TN if he gives you what you're waiting on. The ball is in his court.

It is unclear why you have such expenses needed (3-4K in programming and server costs) but I'm guessing you aren't the programmer? I think you need to be the programmer for a situation like this, so you should probably spend some time working on that.

I'd mothball the idea, get a job, get your financial life together, and work on it in your spare time.

I'd absolutely, positively, take a good 2-4 week break from thinking or working on this project, once you have a steady paycheck coming in. Veg out playing video games or whatever you like to do in your spare time. You gotta recharge.

After doing that, if you're still passionate about this idea, then great, go for it re-charged and with a better perspective and firmer footing (and do it in your spare time). But if not then no harm no foul.

Definitely you need to tell your supplier that the original idea has not worked out, comply with whatever agreement you made with them an stop getting the feed for now and tell them that you're hoping to retool and have a more viable business model down the line.

I could have missed something or misunderstood something so don't take offensive if any of this seems inappropriate. But you gave it a good shot and if it is going to succeed you need more distance and perspective, and you should not try and kill yourself to make it work. The market is talking to you, and you need security and space and time to be able to understand what it is saying. (And I don't know what it is saying- it mihght be saying this is a bad idea, or that you might need to make a specific tweak, I don't know.)

Edit: I realize I didn't answer the original question. How would I monetize the info? Try and find a way to use it to help people lose weight. That's what I'd do. In fact, now that I think about it, I'd love to have access to the data to do exactly that.
What is the best language/strategy for doing text analysis on websites? 
I would like to identify companies involved in certain kinds of businesses by searching on a keyword(s) and using software to identify the company names in the sites. I'd like to automate the whole process, and be able to use some sophisticated methods to digest the results.
Now this is even worse:

State	5-Cause Known, bug
Priority:	4-Low
Ask HN:  What features am I missing from my webapp?
I wrote a webapp that deals with web security, specifically, creating an API wrapper around a web service to handle Two-Factor Authentication for websites that want (and likely need) the added security, but don't want to deal with it themselves. Basically, instead of just having a username/password, this system lets you have a login page with a username/password AND a temporary N-length alphanumeric one-time-use password that's SMS'ed to your cell phone and good for X minutes. All you need to do is add 2 method calls to the API.

In any case, I think it's a much needed product for countless websites, but I want to be sure I have all the wants/needs of future customers covered before I start pushing it. (Yes, there's companies that do this already, but they're MUCH more expensive, and require you to install a LOT of their software on your server).

I have a full list of all the features on the "sell" page, but I'm sure I'm missing some things that potential customers would want. So, please, feel free to let me know what I'm missing, and what you'd want from a service like this.

http://nxtpass.com
1. Say I have a 2 node replica set. Now a replica dies, permanently. How is the recovery automated? These are quotes directly from your docs:

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Resyncing+a+Very+Stale+R...

"1. Delete all data. If you stop the failed mongod, delete all data, and restart it, it will automatically resynchronize itself. Of course this may be slow if the database is huge or the network slow.

2. Copy data from another member. You can copy all the data files from another member of the set IF you have a snapshot of that member's data file's. This can be done in a number of ways. The simplest is to stop mongod on the source member, copy all its files, and then restart mongod on both nodes. The Mongo fsync and lock feature is another way to achieve this. On a slow network, snapshotting all the datafiles from another (inactive) member to a gziped tarball is a good solution. Also similar strategies work well when using SANs and services such as Amazon Elastic Block Service snapshots.

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/fsync+Command
"Lock, Snapshot and Unlock

The fsync command supports a lock option that allows one to safely snapshot the database's datafiles. While locked, all write operations are blocked, although read operations are still allowed. After snapshotting, use the unlock command to unlock the database and allow locks again

2. Really? Is this wrong then?

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Set+Design+Conce...

"Writes which are committed at the primary of the set may be visible before the true cluster-wide commit has occurred. Thus we have "READ UNCOMMITTED" read semantics. These more relaxed read semantics make theoretically achievable performance and availability higher (for example we never have an object locked in the server where the locking is dependent on network performance).
I don't believe so; the conversion to imprecise doesn't follow the same logic that the String to double does. But I don't know what logic it does follow, nor if there's other bugs there :)

In any case, for the original value and variations I tested, the workaround does function properly.
Except that the screenshots clearly say "(so and so) has sent you a message", which is plainly false. I'm not sure how you could see it any other way.
I hate to come across as the pedant (since I agree totally with what you are saying), but to clarify a point: you were not guilty of insubordination, since you were not a subordinate of the estate agent (well unless you worked for them, in which case you would have been).
It's not what the book is about, just a few interesting/realistic scenes. The book itself is epic and brilliant and spans almost every genre.
Pyramid 1.0 - Pylons project new website
The Julie Project
Yeah that will be awesome...don't know about the others but i have enabled the HTTPS feature.
As a long time iOS user (I had the first gen iPhone before the App Store existed), I really don't see anything missing.

The tabbed interface for the app description/screenshots, user reviews, update info and permissions info is patently superior to the messy iTunes app pages.

The Market is really orders of magnitude faster than iOS's app store, too.
I am in total agreement with MindCrime. If you are both technically savvy and business savvy and have solid communication skills, being able to understand and translate the needs of both business groups back and forth is a very valuable skill set.

Project Management is a place that you can leverage all of your skills while contributing materially to a business and still continue to be a generalist, assuming that is what you want to continue to be. In your particular case it sounds like you enjoy being more hands on, so a business analyst role might not be the best fit for you, however it is always something to consider, if the job were at a company that you felt you just had to be part of.

There has been significant demand for technical project managers over the last decade and I didn't see that changing anytime soon, which is always encouraging for those that like to change jobs regularly or are worried about their long-term employment prospects. Plus it is a great way to be involved in many different projects across the breadth of a company.

Project Managers often find their way into upper management over the long haul because of their intimate knowledge of so many different corporate functions. So if long term, senior leadership is something you have a desire for, this is not a bad route to go.
(Slightly OT: I'm happy to chat any entrepreneurs who are thinking about pitching OAF about our experience doing so. I also highly recommend AngelList.)
Yeah, I agree that freemium will work perfectly for you - the use case is there - people who do business via GMail/Google Apps want their social CRM built in right there!

One quick question: the upgrades that we see today (Facebook comments and the like) - will they always be free or will that be a part of the freemium suite at a later date?
Plumber sued for cybersquatting
I like the idea of not just hiding information for certain people, but the clean slate idea. Once the sharing ends, the information and content is swiped clean preventing others from leveraging that after the fact. Time sensitive groups are relevant to how we interact in our actual social circles today.

FB groups do not capture this reality, the groups that are created stay and information shared is always available even after an event, or group moves on.

I believe fridge is on to a more accurate social graph. Add business and commerce solutions and you got your self a relevant business model.

Businesses don't care about who you where 2 years ago, they care about who you are now! (Time Sensitive)

Keep up the good work!
Facebook, Twitter Valuations Fuel Trading Surge to $7 Billion
Of course, I thought that way in 2007, and at the same time thought twitter was pretty absurd and a product of the silicon valley echo chamber and could not see why any mainstream people would use it.

But this time, I'm really sure!

Seriously, I think that if anything, these kinds of articles are contra-indicators. When they say "facebook is king of the world" it is time to short, when they say "facebook is over" well, it might be a time to buy.
2011 Beercamp (Great HTML5 Site)
He does say iOS rather than iPhone, so he could be talking about expansion into markets that currently have an iPod Touch and a dumbphone, or no phone at all due to youth or poverty.
How can we stop this kind of things to happen ? I wonder if the Free Software Foundation can help with legal advice if there is a clear violation of the GPL.
I pay $59 for a Roku box I watch at home -- why wouldn't I pay $35 for Reflector?
Startup OnCompare is like 'Yelp for Software'
Microsoft offers H.264 plug-in for Chrome, queries Google on WebM
The Four Key Dimensions of Business
Not only is the store 8 months late (announced at Google IO last May), it's buggy and I can't log in. I'm not quite sure what took Google so long to get the store up and running, but it's been really frustrating to wait this long for it.
I really like your idea, but it doesn't really look like something to hook up to my web app and accept payments.
There's something most of HN are missing. You are indeed being rude by not letting me point it out:

* Google having the Bing toolbar installed and entering the search into Bing toolbar is one thing (and I'd expect MS to be using the data)

* Google having the Bing tolbar installed and entering the search into the Google hom page is a very different thing (and I'd expect MS to be using the data)

Judging from the moderation in this thread, people seem to think the first happened.

According to Google, it did not. No other source contravenes this.

Sorry if you think me pointing this out is bad. Perhaps your efforts would be better reporting all the non-hacker stories on the front page?
Ask HN: Why do you love programming?
A buddy of mine recently asked me why I love programming so much. I was surprised to find that I had a hard time putting into words the reasons why I love writing code. Now I'm able to explain that I do it for fun because I like to build tangible applications from ideas that I have, but at the time he asked me I couldn't put that thought into words.

So, HN, what are the reasons why you love to write code?
well - that's unfortunate.
Love to see Unbounce getting used for this. Just wanted to say, we try and make it easy to split test. Rather than creating a whole new page, you can "Duplicate this variant", make some changes, and split traffic between them. Maybe we're not doing a good job of making that obvious.
This Market is a good news BUT it seems so much like an unfinish product. That another proof of the difference in the attention to details between iOS and Android.

This is a screenshot of the Market from France: http://i.imgur.com/lchpI.jpg

Half the page is in the french, half the page is in english and IMO the worst is the "~" before the price (they convert $/€ so it's ROUGH price wtf! ). The website doesnt feel that it can be trust IMO if you look to it like a John Doe.

This is definitely a step in the good direction but please Google please polish a little more your android products so that they appeal the masses!!
> Some of these may work on FB but many topical, time and event based relationships would not work within the FB friend request structure.

Could you explain why they wouldn't work with a public group, or a public event page, where there is no need for friend requests? And for the sake of argument, could you also say why I should trust you with my data instead of Facebook?
this is how android will eat symbian's market share