skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I already have a hosts file. Now if I only had the willpower to point ycombinator to 127.0.0.1, I'd have tons of extra time.
Are you kidding? Raw source code has huge utility!
Many companies build businesses upon open source software, and this is really no different except they're paying for the code.

Understanding the API and integrating it into the current system is all most companies need or want to do, so buying some code off the shelf is a LOT cheaper than the development effort, and in many cases actually less risky, even if they don't fully grok the full source.

Of course, support can be sold separately. But that doesn't mean the code itself doesn't have value. Right now I'm using dozens of OSS modules, most of which I'd be happy to pay some money for because of the time they've saved me and my business.
The NoteSlate is trying to define the product itself, archetype, electronic paper. We are trying to define this archetype for general public, bit against their today`s usual network expectations.

Huh?

Memo to vendor: edit your copy before releasing it.
You don't know how bad schools can be.

>Certainly in my childhood and young adult life there were a number of factors to my success or lack of it that had nothing to do with which school I attended.

But would those factors be the same at a different school? I'm going to commit a minor sin and say a statistic without a citation; the average ACT score among teachers in Chicago was 19 a few years back.

You say you went to a shit hole high school, in which case you really _should_ have a sense of perspective on the whole thing. If your school was a shitty as you say, you must have been near the very, very top of your class (not in class rank but in overall success). That's a huge distribution of people who are _not you_, who went on to more desperate lives.
I want that REALLY HARD!
This is the old noble savage debate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage). As evidenced by the fact that Western societies have engaged in it for at least the past 500 years, it's way less settled than you make it out to be. Convincing arguments exist for both sides.
Not to mention test driving a SOA app is much harder than writing a monolithic Rails app.
I did not know about KeYmeara. Looks great!

While I'm not sure if we may count those as "programmation by contract", some Java tools provide (some) static analysis:

- Findbugs

- IntelliJ IDEA does some nullness analysis : http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/documentation/howto.html

- JSR 305 (Annotations for Software Defect Detection in Java) attempted to standardize on a set of annotations. We use it in our project, mainly the @Nonnull at the moment... I believe Findbugs considers these annotations.

- CodePro Analytix, also recently open sourced by Google, might also do some static analysis: http://code.google.com/javadevtools/codepro/doc/index.html

- Eclipse might too (any expert Eclipse user knows?)

I think there is still a lot to do in this space. "Contracts for Java" is a step in the right direction :)
Traffic patterns for web apps
Cisco to acquire Raleigh based Inlet Technologies for $95M
Not anymore, I'd assume. It's running 2 year old hardware by now and Fermi-based GPU's pretty much trounce the GT200 family when it comes to double precision. That said, another good example of how GPU computing can provide a lot of horsepower for (relatively) little cash, especially for certain classes of problems. I built a Tesla Desktop SuperComputer (Dual Xeons, 3 Tesla's and a Quadro 4800) for my school's Computer Vision lab back in '09, and it cost us ~8K for a ridiculous amount of performance.
"The house of ‘The Last of his Tribe’, a sole surviving uncontacted man who lives on his own in the forest after the rest of his tribe were massacred"

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/evidence
If its my own hard earned money, I can't fall into the latter category.
yes, he did. it's a little absurd, but I believe his main point is still valid.

the inquisition &etc were as much about cultural conformity and control than about espousing a culture of violence. while ridiculous the question is not to compare ridiculousness levels but to compare the _reasons_ that people were doing the ridiculous things they did.

killing people for the express and explicit purpose of killing people is bad mojo.
'800 pound gorilla' SAS faces threats to dominance
> eldritch horror escapes or is otherwise unleashed as consequence of scientific hubris

I, for one, welcome our new dark overlords...
One of the main ideas behind CSS was to move style and design away from content.

While this is a clever trick, it pollutes your CSS with application logic that should be separated from your design.

- HTML for content and markup

- CSS for design and style

- JavaScript for client application logic
I think the poster means that for the average person Facebook is the channel you maintain for people you know publicly (i.e., weak social interactions) to contact you, and email/phone is for your inner circle.

For some of us it's the other way around: email and phone is how people we don't know well contact us, reserving Facebook and Twitter for closer interactions.
I think you've identified their problem, you're their target audience AND you're not 100% happy with their competitor yet you don't know about their service!

They definitely need to work on that, maybe that will solve their chicken and egg problem!
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Probably to keep them from being broken by the styling on the article's page, which could change in unknown ways at any given time in the future.

Better to keep the example on its own independent page.
Because they most likely lead a happy (and possibly leisurely lifestyle by our standards) already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society

Perhaps a more interesting question to ask is why would anyone want to switch to civilization? It has really been all downside (except for the wealthiest few %) until very recently in history.
While a great attempt at an analogy, I don't think that it really helps things. I've never misunderstood THAT part of event-based asynchronicity (is that even a word?) The part that is confusing to me is HOW it works and eventually to the point of WHY and/or HOW it is supposedly better than traditional threading (other than cleaner-looking code). I've never seen a good explanation in non-OS programmer terms.

To me, it seems that no matter how you take the "messages" to do work, that work still has to be done. It surely doesn't magically use less resources because you told the OS that it could just call you back when it is done, as opposed to you having to hang around? Something has to be hanging around on one side or the other, and the "call back" takes resources as well, surely? It seems that you are just trading tit for tat. Maybe the reason is to not utilize some specific resource in the meantime?
I would assert that the problem is in the problem and not in Star Trek's analysis of the problem.

That is to say, the problem of interference and controlling choice is not an easy one. Star Trek portrays one viewpoint and its pitfalls. That's not muddying, that's _clarifying_ how muddy it already s.
Really? What if they're just out walking and are unaware of the existence of other humans? Finding a city when you think your group is all there is would be rather "contaminating". And you've still contaminated that one; if they bring back that information, you've allowed contamination of the culture as a whole, the same as if you went yourselves, except you get to sit back and lie about how you had nothing to do with it. Unless you wish to state that an individual can and does accurately speak for a group, especially a group you know almost nothing about except what that individual has told you? What if they're the anarchist of the group?

And if we were to know if they think other humans than themselves / those they immediately interact with exist, we've probably exposed ourselves to them, as that would be hard to know through un-detected observation alone.

Our existence is interference if they become aware of it. Absolute non-interference is impossible if they ever become aware of us in any way. If we "must not contact them" unless they want it, we cannot impose ourselves on any who do not wish to contact us, which means complete isolation until they magically express their desire to contact that which they cannot know exists.

My point is that "We must not contact them, unless they want to contact us." is a logical impossibility, not something one can actually achieve, and it makes no sense to hold such an impossibility as an ideal.
It's pathetic that you need to offer this for free.

The net is swamped with illiterate postings so your service should be in hot demand.
That "empty gesture" was the spark that caught Tunisia and Egypt…
Essay Plan: The Conceptualisation of an Essay
Every thing that has order requires a plan. The same is applicable to an essay. The submission of a successful essay relies heavily on how it is planned. Therefore, students are strongly recommended to ensure that proper planning is carried out before the writing of the essay.
Cloud Computing for Business gone Wrong
I don't know. But after using a MBP touchpad and now the external one they started selling a while ago, I quite simply will never be physically able switch to a PC ever again.
"wund" has at least one defect in common with the main site's redesign: it requires clicking around to read the details of the 5-day forecast.

There is probably someone, or a group of someones, at WU who think they have improved things.

(edit: typo)
I saw pictures from this video months ago. I thought it was demonstrated then to be a "hoax" or faked.

No?
> Moreover, the pressure of the water would tend to push up through the borehole

That's the plan actually! The water would rush up and then freeze sealing the opening and keeping the ecosphere uncontaminated. It is not the freon that would be the problem but the bacteria that they would introduce in the lake. Now hopefully they have some contingency plan for bacteria contaminating our side of the ecosphere ;-)
It's still quite new, so for now I think you'll have to build it from source.

I know it's annoying when a jar is not available in the Maven repository. But it shouldn't be a dealbreaker either.

We have a Maven repository proxy for the company, so I deploy my jars there:

mvn deploy:deploy-file ...

It's better than having each developer manually install the jar in their local repository:

mvn install:install-file ...

More information:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/usage.ht...

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-install-plugin/example...
One thing that people in this conversation are overlooking is that if these tribes were contacted they wouldn't be brought into an American culture, they wouldn't get quality health care and internet access. There are millions of indigenous people living throughout South America and they mostly live in squalid slums. Personally I'd rather live in the jungle.
Sounds like a very advanced Magna Doodle.
Honestly I don't mind keeping FB as a Rolodex of people I may only tangentially know, but I don't necessarily want to know what they had for breakfast. Hiding totally solved this problem for me too.
I'm not familiar with how hacker news works. Who has the power to change the title of a post?
I do hate the tendency for people to write massive plugins to implement what is fairly simple functionality. I wrote my own collapsible menu a few months ago. It uses a little jquery, but all the code is pretty simple. To me it's a good example that sometimes it makes more sense to role your own solution than to drop in someone else's 30kb plugin. Here's the link for anyone who is interested in checking it out:
http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/05/01/simple-jquery_menu/
It wasn't so much the actual idea of the earth rotating around the sun that Galileo was punished for. It was more the fact that Galileo used analytical thinking to reach that conclusion rather than basing it on some respected Roman or Greek philosopher or the bible. If Galileo had determined that the earth rotated around the sun based on some scripture, there would likely have not been any trial. People might have thought him an idiot or disagreed with him, but they wouldn't have thought him a heretic.
Crossed my mind to ask if anyone saw any parallels with Australia. Glad to see someone mention it.

My rough interpretation of the article is that cheap labour from Poland distorted the Irish economy, and the banking contagion resulted in loans to the Polish who couldn't afford the loans, and subsequently disappeared, especially once the whole economy went sour.

An important difference to Ireland's story is that the people who make up Australia's cheap imported labour face greater restrictions in entering the country as they are, with the exception of New Zealanders who are have the same living standards as Australians, international students (and possibly people on working holiday visas) who, to my understanding, are required to demonstrate sufficient funds to get by. Staying on after graduation of whatever course is not guaranteed and has become more difficult post a recent policy change. Australia runs a points system in issuing residency visas and has just cut the number occupations/courses which receive points.

My feeling is that the same expectations fueled bubble has arisen here (I'm in Melb) but has been sustained by the resilient resources dependent economy as well as the capital inflows from those who see Australia as an attractive place to invest and/or also live/have a holiday home.

"real-estate bubbles never end with soft landings. A bubble is inflated by nothing firmer than expectations."

Although the factors driving the housing bubble in Australia are different from those in Ireland, if we concede there is a bubble in Australia, and we listen to economics professor Morgan Kelly, we're due for a crash.

A couple counterpoints to the above: China's demand for resources will probably span another two or three decades, and also Australia's financial lending practices are not and haven't been as lax as those of Ireland or the US.
They're going to fix it in the next release by changing the wait spinner to a rotating multicolored disc. All better.
Possibly getting the visual thumbnail index, cover, toc, and if they're nuts, intro video (talking head telling you what stories are in the issue). There's an option to autostart the talking head, they think it's that cool.
Ok.

India is now an "important" country. Burgeoning technologically and culturally, what it received from Britain was access to the intellectual firestorm of the Enlightenment. Hindu thinkers were involved in the formation of Universalism, the idea that all religions were different aspects of the same thing and could be united.

Of course, it cost them the pain of the Pakistan-India divide, the struggle of Gandhi, and a confusing cultural identity among a people that didn't necessarily have a singular cultural identity in the first place. But what price is too much?

South Africa paid the price, and is now among the most advanced of African nations.

Of course, most indigenous peoples just got royally fucked. Aboriginal Australians and the Maori. So I suppose your point in general holds.
It's easy to be judgmental. What would you have done if you didn't have parents to mooch off of for a year? What if you had a family to support?

It's easy to tell yourself you succeeded all due to "self control" and "discipline". But the truth is like many judgmental types, you had considerable practical/emotional support as well.
Don't use that metaphor, for starters.
Any one else notice the motor/pump trailer spewing white smoke? I assume it's a souped-up reorganized pwc, with a 2-stroke engine?

Clever hack, though.
On another note, last year Twitter open sourced Gizzard.
http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/04/introducing-gizzard-f... (ironically, nobody seems to have tweeted this article!!)
Natural curiosity-I downloaded the repo,and tried to understand what it was.
Later,it also seemed the buzz surrounding ( on HN atleast) didnt last much, and I forgot about Gizzard completely.
Are there startups/bigCos using Gizzard,other Twitter's open source stuff?
I hope he was talking about something a little more subtle, like the fact that we have so many Hispanic people here without citizenship and have therefore created a sort of lower subservient class. But probably not, slavery's a bit too strong a term unless there's a somewhat-mitigating "wage" in front of it.
It sounds as if you're envisioning these people being painlessly integrated into modern society, perhaps retrained as plumbers, software developers, etc., then joining Brazil's (extremely small) middle class. This is just not realistic.

In practice, these people joining "civilization" would almost certainly mean ending up living in grinding poverty in an extremely violent "favela" (Brazil's ubiquoutous shanty towns) with drugs and guns everywhere.
I heard it was actually going to be an hourglass.
Rate my app: Adore.ly
It's almost that time again: the time where lovers are mushy and singles are grumpy. A lot of apps are rolling out during this time claiming to help you find "the one" without the fear of rejection.

The concept is easy: A logs on and adores B. B gets notified and sign on. If B adores A too. They both find out they adore each other and happy ending.

Here's how we are different to restrict trolling and to provide a much easier experiencer:
-no registration, log-in with Facebook Connect
-you just click on the person you like from your Facebook friends list and we send an invitation to their Facebook inbox.
- you are only restricted to 3 adores
- you can not unadore until 24 hrs later
- mutual adores will be revealed any time between 6-36hrs after both users adored each other. pulling out your adore during this time frame with cancel the mutual adore reveal.
But to build a prototype you probably are going to have co-founders who are going to build said prototype with you.

Someone(s) is going to have to throw in a little seed money if only to pay for hosting of the prototype.

And between you and your co-founders you would be ill-advised to begin building that astonishing core value and creating out-of-pocket expenses without some kind of legal agreement in place of ownership and ownership %ages.

That's usually what a corporate entity and cap table are for.

I've seen former best friends and college roommates sue the fuck out of each other because they didn't do this back when they began building said prototype.
> He's dead wrong that it doesn't download in the background.

You're reading this wrong. What you're describing isn't what he was talking about. He's talking about letting it download in the background, as in, iPad is sleeping, and it automatically downloads over night, without having the app open.

He does mention background downloading how you describe it. He does, however, mention that waiting a minute twenty to even get to that stage is annoying. Basically, he says that it should open up within 10 seconds, and download in the background as needed. Not a minute twenty.
Ask HN: Daddy, what's "tax"?
My daughter just asked me this. I could only laugh.
I've also heard this before but wasn't sure about the details. Thanks for stating this.
I'm using firefox-3.6.13-1.fc14.x86_64, yet the site asks me for a modern HTML5-compliant browser. Firefox 3 can play Theora videos.
"It's like trying to eat, but before you can bite, someone takes some of the food off your spoon."
And lumberjack competitions.
I'm not sure how much you interact with the "average internet user", but when I do help desk roles, as well as my role working for a floating university, I interact with hundreds of non-technical end users (Given my job history, I've interacted with thousands over the years). What I can tell you is that basing any theory about statistical anomalies on your preconceived notions without any hard data to back it up is usually an exercise in failure.
Is the debate here about poverty or is it about debt?

Money is just the messenger in the economy - it transmits information to you about what roles might or might not be valuable, and from you as to what goods and services you would like to consume. It's not hard to stay out of debt - you simply have to heed the message that money is transmitting to you.

Poverty is a wider question, and includes whether or not it is fair & just that some people have to make the sacrifices needed to stay out of debt. When I say that you can simply choose not to send your kids to college to avoid taking on crippling student loan debt, that is a 100% factually true statement. When you then say "But one shouldn't have to forgo an education to avoid going into debt", that's a normative statement. It's one that I'd probably even agree with you on, but it's a much broader conversation with no clear answers about how to fix it or even what the problem definition is.
Yep, it looks like it's on some kind of buoy and you just sort of lug it around. It looks very fun. Although, I don't know why an engine, a hose and a nozzle cost 136k. I guess R&D, so I expect the price to drop to $500 eventually?
yes, a link would be very nice for that one.

Furthermore, I'd like to know reasons for their return, if that's the case. Also, I'd like to know what their children think, if they have them in the outside world, and what happens if they're provided some of the benefits of outside society (eg: state-of-the-art surgery from top-trained surgeons)
My recollection is Google has said several times that they don't use the toolbar tracking to effect search results. I can't find any sources right now though so I'm going from memory. One exception is tracking goes into personalized history which customizes search for that particular accounts results.
Logging pages views with the Google Toolbar does not mean those those views are used for Google's search results.
If it's a calculated risk, why is this a problem that needs a YC startup to fix, rather than simply a risk that didn't work out?

There're certainly people that take on debt as a calculated risk because they believe it'll pay off in the future. My parents did that to send me to college, and it did pay off. But when it fails, they usually just go "Well, shit," and fall back on their contingency plans for how to handle it if it fails. If it's a calculated risk, they've been making those plans, right?

But the fact that there's a startup out there to solve this problem (several, actually, but this one seems more above-board than the alternatives on the radio) indicates that this wasn't a calculated risk for many people. The essence of a calculated risk is that you go into it having done all the due diligence you need to weigh the possible consequences, and then make your calculations based on that. What's there for this startup to sell if people have already done that?
Ah, I had a parsing error while reading your comment and I was confused. I 100% agree with you.
I think the important difference is that you are actively doing something while getting the paper. You go outside, and have something to look at while you are waiting. Perhaps if he opened it a bit before he knew he would need it, and did something in the meantime it would be easier to wait.
That is some very clever code and it definitely works with javascript disabled.
It is definitely something we are working on (I'm one of the co-founders). We've just launched and it will take some time before the words spreads around - codecanyon has been around for over a year and a half. Features like this certainly help
I don't know how The "Startup" "Foundry" is going to "take on" "TechCrunch" with their "unnecessary" quoting.

:(

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/