skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that they got rid of the giant submit box at the top that I always mistook for a search box.

The new layout seems to be pretty efficient, too. The bar on the right effectively acts as a RSS feed, letting you see stuff as it comes in and what time older stuff came in.

If you switch to the headline view (I assume it will be the default view, once the design's been up for a while and there's no need for the "Welcome to the new design" bit), it's just like the older version. The font change takes some getting used to, but I've always found serif fonts easier to read.

I'll use it for a bit before I make a decision, but for now, I like this.

I do wish the design were a bit wider, though. There's so much wasted space on the sides.
Exactly what I was thinking. Sure you can work incredibly hard for 2/3 days, but at the end of it all you are going to be very tired. I don't think it would be physically possible to do this for a whole month.

I really would love to try something like this though.
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Dictators also have access to radio jamming tools. The relatively narrow 2.4 and 5GHz bands would be easy to jam.

Alternatively, one could transmit GSM and G3/GPRS signals, masquerading as legitimate mobile providers.

What's interesting is that the US didn't use radio jamming during the Iraq or Afghanistan campaigns. Have capabilities improved to such a point that an entire country could be blanketed by radio-frequency jamming signals?
Besides; everyone knows that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas. (A gigantic nuclear furnace.)
Ugh, what is that horrible font? Whatever typekit.com is trying to do (in Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7) isn't very working...
Perhaps England has gotten better of the past few years, but I found that 3G coverage in northern England (outside of larger towns and cities) was very spotty about 3 years ago. Hell even GSM was spotty in quite a few place.
Oh, right. Forgot about that.
Anyone who has built their own bikes quickly realizes how easy it is to get to the order of thousands. $3500 for carbon fiber is fairly reasonable.
It's been that for quite a while; my brother in law was living in Canada last year, and in order to watch soccer games that could only be found on French Canal+ he tuned in to Justin TV...
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So the noticeable difference (having not paid attention to the layout of this particular blog in the past) from other blogs is that the sidebar doesn't scroll with the content.

That means that the big ad takes up about half the screen for me, and probably about 100% of the screen on a netbook, meaning that whatever links are supposed to be over there are permanently scrolled off the screen. I count 4 of them visible at my resolution, though the last one is cut off, implying that there's more that I'm missing.

So if their goal was to keep that particular ad in front of me the whole time I'm there, they've succeeded. But realistically they've simply removed the rest of their site from the navigation, meaning that if I end up there my only way to move on is via the back button.

I can't imagine that's what their goal was.
See http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375715,00.asp
It fails the basic test for me. It just shows a blank page with Javascript disabled (NoScripts).

Navigation should never require Javascript. It should display content and gracefully degrade. It doesn't even display a "please enable js" style warning.
I would have to agree with you. It is not last.fm because there is no scrobbler. What would really be interesting is a scrobbler that worked across all platforms including browsers. As far as I know Boxee's solution forces you to use their software to watch videos if you want to have them scrobbled.
The difference is that my grandparents aren't on Second Life.
Well, the correct answer in that one is "neither"; they're both orbiting their common center of gravity, which is near, but not equal to, the center of the earth.
My belief is that the reason teams were so productive was not that they worked insane hours (although some did), it was that they were laser-focused on doing work that really matters.
So you think *your* capability model is bad?
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Yeah, exactly. From the docs:

Access the same data as Python for Python clients. This can be parsed into Python object as eval(urllib.urlopen("...").read()) and the resulting object tree is identical to that of JSON. However, when you do this, beware of the security implication. If you are connecting to a non-trusted Hudson, the server can send you malicious Python programs.
Or when NeXT bought Apple. I only see good things from this.
On the "face plant when braking" angle, even a normal bicycle is at risk for this with a lot of handlebar designs, like the simple straight length of tube I have. I slammed my brakes once last year when a car turned in front of me, and the bike stopped. I kept going, yanking the bicycle to then fly over me.

* At speed I now always brace my arms behind the handlebar.
* Damn I'm glad I was wearing gel padded gloves.
* I am very much considering different handlebars.
Well done! The original list is a combination of inspired and obvious ideas along with a few clunkers. Interesting to look back on a very different time....
Extrapolation from a small and rich country like Austria to the entirety of Europe is very dangerous and quite likely to give inaccurate results.
Exactly. I got in a little argument with my sister the other day about how obnoxious the modified bikes were that cruise around her neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico. People attach little two-stroke engines (or whatever) that are loud and polluting. My argument was basically, just f'ing pedal. But she made the point that in the tropics, sometimes you want to avoid the sweating that comes from just a few pedals down a sunny street, and, second, not everyone can afford a scooter or moped (or ac'ed car!).

Puerto Rico just announced proposed penalties for these modded bikes, which seem a bit harsh: http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticia_noticias_politica-879951.h...
Peter Seibel does a beautiful job in explaining lisp syntax and semantics in his book Practical Common Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/syntax-and-semantics.html
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It's detecting a horizontal scroll.
Yes but the practice is there's always someone a year younger than you who thinks that too, and so he's working for free and hoping the same thing. Then a year later, another one...
Ask HN:  Hacking in real life - what do you create?
Okay, I know computers are real life too... but you know what I mean. As enjoyable as coding is, I don't know if there's anything like stepping away from the computer and making physical things with your bare hands. Things you can feel, smell, and interact with. I think the Y-Combinator application actually has a field for this.

So, Hacker News, what do you make/hack when you aren't sitting at your computer?
In 1996 I was in school and broke :-)

One major difference for me in the intervening period is the availability of free development platforms. In 1996 I couldn't have coded up a basic LAMP webapp even if I knew how and options for free desktop app development were rather restricted; the idea of, as a relative novice, coding what I could with today's tools but in gcc and a text editor just doesn't bear thinking about. The barriers to entry were just so much higher.

Plus, as you mentioned, if you want to host online then that becomes vastly more expensive too. A good part of the explosion of technology that we're enjoying now is a product of it becoming far more viable for students to play and produce something of comparable quality to commercial endeavours, at least superficially.

All that said:

It took me years to learn that action today is almost invariably better than action tomorrow. Still not always great at putting that knowledge into practice. I'd have drummed that into myself, hard. Tinker. Experiment. Test concepts. Remember that what isn't viable today may be perfectly viable in a few years time as technology and adoption levels improve. Ideas multiply when you execute because you gain a better insight into the possible.

Don't just think, do.
Seems it may actually be more than just a myth.

See the penultimate paragraph on http://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/?strPage=Info&strBrand=...

Wikipedia also gives http://www.aes.org/historical/store/oralhistory/?code=OHP-01... as a source for the Beethoven story being true, although you have to buy that interview to actually hear it.
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I was expecting a more pragmatic explanation of why Clojure, Mac OSX and Google App Engine. Although at this point, the pragmatic selection of Mac OSX and iOS is understood.

What did Clojure do for you that the hundreds of others don't or didn't? What is unique about your infrastructure? What challenges did you find? Etc..

Why the Google App Engine? Cheaper? Free? Faster? Why not the others?
I wonder if that's going to be a more secure system addressing the hack!
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Of course. Its like android phones vs. ios. Initially, the competition was pretty non-existent, but over time android phones have become a much greater competitor - of course the same will happen to tablet market.
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I don't think he's saying that it's a significant technical challenge. The software and hardware will play along just fine, but I think you'll run into trouble at the wetware level.

tldr - people will hang up on your ass.
I hope Facebook is the "new AOL".

However, AOL at its peak had 30 million subscribers. How many does Facebook have?

Since 2001 internet use has made the share of AOL much smaller and still everyone needed to connect. There are many users since who have never seen AOL services in use, including myself.

However, internet adoption in democratic non-banning societies is going to slow down (saturation) and Facebook is going to be even more integrated. And since we mostly communicate with people from the same country and even from the same city, growth in non-Facebook countries is not going to matter.

What I would like to happen is that Facebook becomes obsolete or too annoying (like MySpace).
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I think their is a link to my linked-in profile in my HN profile which covers some of my experience. But to keep it brief, I was doing CGI/C and CGI/Perl on the web then around 94-95, the green team dropped Java on the net (I think it was a .8 release) I remember I downloaded it and never got around to playing with it, by the time I did it was at the .9 release.

At that point and with Netscape's announcement, we all thought Java was going to be what Javascript/CSS/HTML is now. Anyways, I rode it through its evolution to a server side language and I ended up doing a lot of Java/VRML work. I was doing computer based training around 1.2 and was doing Java and VRML work for a training and simulation company. Anyway, after that, my tenure becomes pretty standard. with the JEE and Apache web stuff.

As soon as a viable alternative existed for web front end though I bailed on Java for web as fast as I could. I always felt that we went too far towards Sun and Oracles vision of the dumb terminal, and that we set the web back a decade from where it could be, we are just now starting to see what the web could have been if we would not have been so dogmatic about server side frameworks and gave Javascript a little more love sooner.

It seems that when Java on the client died so did any effort to place UI logic in the UI. Anyways, I am totally side tracking, but my point was, my background besides some forays into simulation and AI, is pretty similar to other JEE / Web developers who have been in it from the mid to late 90's.
Still waiting for all of the Samsung Galaxy S variants to get 2.2 officially.
I hate javascript links that can't be opened in new tabs.
Before any smart alec points it out, the "cat|" is redundant in the above. "gpg --verify" is sufficient. My HN profile is also PGP signed.
Using the User Agent String to do anything in CSS or JS is a giant no-no. IE conditional comments, CSS hacks, and feature detection / polyfills are the industry standards. The UA String can be non-existent, mishandled, or just plain-old fabricated.
Gizmodo's complete redesign: A textbook example of how not to do it.
Ask HN: Built a news stories classification engine ... now what?
For the past 2 months, I have been working on a news stories classification engine. I believe to have reached a stable stage and the application can be viewed at http://babeligg.com/.
I have so far approached it as a technical challenge. Right now I have two interrogations which I submit to the HN community:
* Is it possible to run some test suite to independently confirm that the performance are superior?
* How can such tool/API be monetized?

Thanks.
But it wasn't and soon those on it knew it wasn't too.
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> Other than that, who else uses Windows?

Anyone writing cross-platform software of any kind. In the context of this article, say, the Chrome team.
>Exploitation is about power, not the money that's involved.

Yes. I was also talking about the fact that sometimes circumstances force people into exploitative situations.

Heroin/crack addicts often face a choice between prostitution or death from withdrawal symptoms.

The obvious answer is to jump up the ladder and say "well they chose to start taking drugs;" it is often not as simple as that either unfortunately.
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Shouldn't the title read "its" instead of "it's"?

Sorry if it seems like nitpicking, but as a non-native English speaker I find it weird how often this issue comes up. If any native speaker here has any idea why this particular mistake is so prevalent, I'd be very interested.
thanks, I've subscribed to the SF & bay area.
You really don't think the iPad 2, which is right around the corner, will have comparable hardware and still cost about what it does today?
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This is a good point.

The post was already quite long, so I tried to summarize everything. I will reserve this part for another post in the future, also because for now the apps are not yet live and I will certainly have more experience in the future to address all these questions better.
I was looking for something like this the other day, thanks.
You are correct, in the case of "it's" the apostrophe doesn't indicate possession, but rather a contraction of 'it is'. I think it is a confusing edge case, which English has many of.
I would cover some fairly basic topics:

1. Naive Bayes (with review of probability needed to understand)

2. Linear Regression

3. Decision Trees (for a nonlinear model)

4. Boosting (and why it doesn't overfit much)

5. k-means (and other clustering)

Be sure to emphasize cross validation or a holdout set to evaluate all these models.

The new edition of the "WEKA" book would be a nice text, rather than the original papers.

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Gonna be hard, because it's hard for Android Tablets to stand out.

Take the Archos 101 WiFi tablet: 10.1" screen, amazingly light with 480g (the 9.7" WiFi iPad weights 40% more, even the 9.7" Kindle is over 10% heavier), very good battery life, USB client & host ports, actively supported and updated (since the update to Froyo all earlier software glitches are finally gone), optional Android/Angstrom dual-boot feature for embedded Linux hackers, and all that at a really low price.

And guess, does anybody care? Zilch! There are just to freaking many Android tablets, and there is just one Apple iPad (okay, two: WiFi and 3G). I despair...

Edit: To clarify, the iPad alone gets about as much media coverage as all the Android tablets combined, and that's the crux right there!
The point is, for the first time in human history, we can see by direct observation that the sun is in fact a sphere. It's not huge in the sense that "We were right!", but rather that wow... now we can actually see it!
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I guess I'll get this started.

- Vinyl decals for windows, walls, etc. On a whim, I bought a vinyl cutting machine a couple years ago and have been at it ever since. Sometimes I sell them to others, but I usually just do it for the pure enjoyment of seeing my ideas come to life. My walls are covered in vinyls now.

- Vehicles, a never-ending project. I currently have a 2003 Suburban that I've been slowly modifying for the past year. Before that, I knew nothing about cars. Now I'm pretty sure I could take it 80% apart and put it all back together. It's got a ~5" lift, steel offroading wheels, modified exhaust, aftermarket head unit, and beefy mud tires. I've given it hell offroading and had to replace too many parts to count - but that's when the most learning happens, so it's all worth it.

- Light-box? I don't even know what this is called, but I envisioned it one day and brought it to life. It's a wooden box that's 5in deep with a sheet of plexiglass on the front and a lightbulb inside. The plexiglass has a design that allows light to shine through and make really cool effects. I made one for Christmas that had a silhouette of trees and houses at the bottom with Santa and his reindeer flying above. It turned out even better than I envisioned and was one of the coolest things I've ever made.
Shouldn't the title read: "But jobs are" without uppercase and the "it's".
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Disney bought Pixar. Not the other way around.
Two things here!

1) Tech Crunch doesn't really operate in an eCPM world, they operate in a "real" CPM world with advertisers that are largely paying for branding rather than conversions.

2) The CPMs on electronics reviews (high end or otherwise) are significantly lower than the CPMs on "content a CTO would want to read".

SEO for a publisher really only serves the purpose of getting organic traffic to more premium ad campaigns, much like paid traffic (where a publisher buys CPC ads). The catch with this is that inbound search engine traffic needs to roughly match the demographics you've sold ads for or you end up shooting yourself in the foot. You can do short term traffic buys to inflate ad views with otherwise shitty traffic, but only rarely and it's still dangerous.
Who are those hardcore technorati and where do they bash Youtube?
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Hi, my suggestion on the hotel is the Cardinal Hotel in The heart of Palo Alto. I've stayed there couple years ago for a week. For the price they ask this hotel has anything one do need. The university ave is jus couple of blocks away and Palo Alto, at least in my opinion, is the heart of Sillicon Valley.
If you have a large project (speaking from experience with Mozilla here), you discover that gcc has issues (speed, generated code quality, etc), make has issues (especially if you want to use the same makefiles on all platforms; things quickly get very painful), the linker has algorithms that are O(N^2) in number of symbols, filesystems have issues, and your own code has issues. ;)

That's just life with a large project.
With the industrial revolution, there was a massive shift among the lower/lower-middle classes from farming to manufacturing. Where will this large group of people who lost their jobs in the recent productivity surge go now? I don't think everyone enjoys or is cut out for computer based or intellectual work and there should be a viable option for 'hands-on' people to earn a livable wage.

I spoke to an American businessman that did some work in China and he mentioned that if you invented a new technology that was highly productive and removed the need for a lot of manpower, you'd have a tough time getting that pass the government. For them, having jobs for the 1+ billion Chinese is a top priority, even if they have to sacrifice some productivity to get there.

Productivity shouldn't be pursued at all expenses. Sometimes inefficiencies are good (see the U.S. political system of checks and balances, redundant systems in engineering). When the car industry/steel industry was bustling in the U.S., many of those lower-middle class workers bought homes, cars, televisions and created a market for financial and high-tech products. If this segment of society can't be integrated into the economy, I fear there will be long term negative impact on the demand for products that many of us here build.
Many smart people have pondered long and hard over this exact problem for decades. Why not climb on their shoulders and adopt the WAL approach that's working so well for most RDBMS?
PPPS: you can only buy the "I visited the mothership" t-shirt at Apple HQ. It counts as proof you were there.
As a quick counterpoint: I'm curious how much you pay directly for the quality writing/journalism/investigative reporting that you consume each day? So far, journalism knows only two business models: direct sales or ad revenue. The first is dying/dead, and until someone invents a new business model for content producers, expect this to be the new reality moving forward.
Now say that in 160 characters. :)
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To be fair, the British Broadcasting Corporation ought to have been a lot clearer about its remit in the past. Take Dirac for example, why was the British taxpayer funding that development work when H.264 was already widely supported? It's no wonder now that they are being required to make cuts, they had become a huge sprawling monster with a finger in every pie, no matter how relevant.
Sound like a load of bull. A cloak and dagger update that isn't going to be officially called an update? To make sure apps made for dual core Honeycomb devices (which has already been refuted to be dual core only) work on single core? And Viewsonic gets it first?

If you are going to try and make something up, make it believable.
Thanks a lot! Does this download original sized photos as well?
Why a generation and a half ahead? Is it so that when the iPad 2 is released (in a couple months), one generation ahead of the first iPad, you'll say the Xoom is still 1/2 generation ahead of the iPad2?
I'm a non-native English speaker as well. More than this specific example I hate when someone uses then instead of than, because it often makes the sentence hard to understand.
Design is Hacking or Hacking is Design - if you're interested in design links, post them. I'll upvote them!
Is it really shocking that a journalist's 101 ways to save a technology company were (mostly) way off?

Those who can, do. Those who can't act like they can and then write about it.
No, "But its jobs are" would match the intent. Saying "But jobs are" would be a more general statement.