skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The travel logistics for running in daily organized marathons would be too much. If he were putting daily flights/travel to the next city where there was a scheduled marathon, it would probably be impossible.

That said, still very impressive. Running 26.2 miles a day is amazing. Anyone who can run over 100 miles per week deserves nothing but praise.
Yes there is. However pretending problems don't exist by hiding them doesn't every change anything. If, on the other hand, I reply and make my point and attempt to address the problem, perhaps the problem will go away through the magic of solution.

I don't understand why you would comment tho, since you could easily down, flag, or otherwise pretend my comment you don't like doesn't exist, which is how you suggest to others they handle things...
The selling of add-ons would be an equivalent model, of the general model the author is talking about, for anime.

From the article: "This approach can be mimicked by anything that is made of bits not atoms. It can be applied to writing. It can be applied to music. It can be applied to film. It can be applied to photography, anime, cartoons, etc, etc."

The author is talking about the general business model where the thing made of bits is given away (e.g. the anime made from the bits) and the stuff that costs money to create (e.g. the merchandising made from the atoms) is charged for. Obviously, there is no notion of support for anime, music etc that the author mentions.
Note: the results of a search are not a database per say, they are an interpretation of a database. At risks of falling down the analogy hole again, it's somewhat like an artist's work is an interpretation of the material he uses. He doesn't copyright the clay, but he inherently owns copyright of what he produced from it. Like I feel Google does with their search results of a database of websites (as does DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc.)
JPEG canaries: exposing on-the-fly recompression
Of course, such a wave would be pretty bad news for a certain theory proposed by a certain Albert.
Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh)
This is one of the greatest web startup super bowl commercials of all time, and it was run in 2002 which was pretty much the worst of the trough:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH39xjXaLW8

(It's the Computer Associates 'amnesia' slot where the guy walks into the filing cabinet and blacks out right before the big meeting.)
Well, they're already bigger than Godaddy.com and preparing for IPO at 15 billion this year so it isn't that strange.
I agree... but it also makes me yearn for what will be seen after I am gone. I constantly wish I could be frozen and woken up every 1000 years to see what else we have learned about the universe. The fact my glimpse into the cosmos is so fleeting does disappoint me.
But why is that?
The exception seems warranted for a service with 190+ million monthly users.
Looked at the demo: it makes a total mess all over my history stack.

If you're trying to be "trend and geek," build a system that doesn't break the back button. Unless you're building a CSS3-only engine, you don't have to store the state in the URL. You can still parse the URL fragment to allow people to deep link the slides, having a small "link to this slide" button is worth it not to have to force the user to click back 20 times to leave the presentation.

Although I guess if you're using the TOC to navigate the slides non-linearly it could be considered a feature.
Big Game Scores Big For Scammers
I like it because it describes someone who knows how to sell and convince, but also has a lot of skill to back it up (pool hustler for example).
It sounds slow, but think about what's going on in the processor. Memory access instructions are far slower than simple arithmetic instructions. As for the conditional nature of the load instructions, I'm sure that the Cortex-A9 branch predictor will make the overhead from that pretty close to negligible. And there's probably something similar on the Cortex-A8, though I haven't checked.

In other words, this is a lot less slow than it sounds.
I have a friend in Guangzhou, British and fluent Chinese. specialises in this type of thing. If you are serious in getting it resolved contact me joel@heliguy.com.

Thanks
I find that my personal projects are the ones that get the most visiblity and recognition. If I were to think of purely in terms of am I getting cash for this time - then I would probably never spend time on any project or startup where there was no money in it for me right away.

Think about all those open source projects on GitHub - if nobody ever worked "for free", you would get such great wonderful projects like some amazing jquery pluggins and what not.

I think when people think in a small short term view like this, they severely limit themselves.
I think you're on to something here, at least about the HN community being at the leading edge of what's cool.

Just anecdotal, but I saw that statement in the article of "python surged" and had a WTF moment. Just yesterday I was putzing around with python and Fuse to make a silly filesystem, and found myself thinking "man python should really stop being my go-to language, it's making me seem so old-fashoned". Lately I have had a lot of those thoughts about python. It's my trusty language, and probably my first true love, but this last project and the article was my "python jumped the shark" moment.

So, the question now is:

I have a crapload of useful tools in python, and I don't want to rewrite them in other languages - has anyone made serious progress into calling into one runtime from another? Kind of like the JVM or .Net worlds, but universal?
Just hover over the "Reveal the results" link below to see the stats without voting.
anything which prolongs life increases population growth any other argument is absurd, yes I know the theory that populations with high infant mortality have more children, but surely the infant mortality acts as a population regulating factor, and besides large populations with a high decay will always eventually be taken over by lower populations where fertile couples are living longer!
Fast code doesn't touch memory that often - if you're doing enough loads/stores that the extra instruction is significant, you're probably bounded by memory latency instead of processor speed anyway.

And the most common "frequent" accesses (stack space) don't require those checks.
I think this misses the readability of dark color on a lighter background. A dark menu-bar can work on iOS because their are only 4 or 5 items in the menu bar, and each is an icon.

The OSX menu bar uses a mix of text and icons, and I believe is easier to read with dark on light. If it was limited to only a few words like WP7, I don't think it is an issue, but with 4+ text items, scanning dark text on light is easier.
A process crash will cause the same problem for thread-per-connection server. There is essentially no difference in stability between thread-per-connection and event-loop based servers.
"100 years ago, physicists thought perpetual motion machines were impossible."

Bad example, man, the "anything is possible" crowd hasn't necessarily conceded that point either....
Perhaps the best compromise would be to sell it very cheaply. As a practical matter, a buck or two isn't much of a barrier to people who want to use your software, and if you spread a useful product far and wide, that still benefits humanity.

It seems like being misunderstood is what makes you angry and unhappy here - so switching to a model that people understand might be a relief! Remember why you started the project. Is your goal to prove people wrong about the value of free-but-not-open-source software, or is your goal to improve people's lives at a low cost? After all, there was already a cost to your software - the time cost of finding, evaluating, and installing it. That time cost, plus a buck or two, would not be a big increase in the real cost for end users.

And you could keep it your little secret if your 'business' runs in the red because you charge pennies on the dollar compared to what it's really worth.
Since a lot of the big technology winners from 2010 were infrastructure plays, I wonder if back-end still plays more of a role than client interface, which, putting node and backbone aside, is where most of the JavaScript is written right now.
Plenty of web startups buy Super Bowl ads. Go Daddy, CareerBuilder, Cars.com, Overstock.com, Monster.com, Priceline.com, and Hulu all come to mind.
There is not a way to do this on the device (on iOS, while not jailbroken)
The trampolines are located in a segment of the address space which is marked as read-only, presumably by the MMU.
It's not very surprising that they decided to do this, especially since it was first (and so far only) launched in Finland. I don't know about the rest of the world, but Finns are quite used to paying for things with their mobile phones. Giving your credit card number for a smart phone app or an online store does, however, not seem like a very safe thing to do for a lot of people not used to deal with these things. I'm not sure if those people use Android phones very much, but I am quite sure this will make it much more appealing for many to pay for the extra content.
right so we vaccinate even though theres a low chance of contracting a disease, a significant chance that the vaccination will cause side effects and a chance that it might not work anyway. Makes sense to me!
There is no separation between operator billing and SMS as I understand it. An "operator billing" payment is simply a very expensive SMS. The differentiation all happens at the provider's end.

This makes it a very flexible system, it has been in use pretty much since SMS became popular.

How do you think those kids were paying for all those ringtones a few years ago? (before you could just put any mp3 on your phone easily)
Oracle "sanitizes" Hudson's creator from wiki
Security services firm HBGary Federal zeroing in on Anonymous
Crispin Porter + Bogusky

http://cpbgroup.com/
Very nice! Inclusion of preons is a bit questionable though.
Three things struck me:

1) The persistence of C. Looks like it will remain "the glue" between the machine and "higher level" operations for the next decade and beyond. It's strong niche in the "must be fast as possible and still portable" arena helps, too.

2) The rise of Python.

3) The decline of VB.
The validator also needs to prevent modifications to the program's own code, otherwise it could, say, remove the breakpoint instruction from the start of a data bundle.
After substantial thought on the topic by various smart people, the answer seems to depend on the ultimate nature of physics and ultimately the ultimate end point of engineering. If leaving planets is engineering-impossible and we can't fling even small projectiles out of the Solar System at any reasonable fraction of lightspeed, then it's of primarily intellectual interest. If the Singularity is impossible and humans will remain recognizably human for the indefinite future but it's possible to travel between the stars enough to actually colonize things, eventual war of some sort seems pretty likely in most situations, though not necessarily to extinction (though not necessarily not!). If a Singularity is possible and looks something like Accelerando, the future of humanity may be an enormous set of entities of such incredible mutual alieness that meeting another set of such entities from another biological base may be of no particular note, locally exciting, globally ho-hum.

I haven't expanded much on the thinking behind these, because I mean them merely as examples of my main point and if I go on too long about them it becomes very tempting to miss it in a flurry of nitpicking about the details of various scenarios. My actual point is that we don't really know what happens, because we don't know what those engineering limits will be. There are some scenarios where the universe naturally favors species getting along, and there are scenarios in which the universe naturally favors species attempting to extinguish each other with all possible speed.
Skimmed the thread and it doesn't seem to move away from the assumption of one programmer, one product. Open source is always at it's most impressive (imho) when you have a mass of individuals contributing to an application or system. It combines community, professional development, experience, peer review, etc. to produce some impressive products.
From the perspective of CS academia, I don't think of Stanford and Cornell as having particularly noticeable prestige differences. Stanford is considerably larger, so is better-known in more areas, while Cornell specializes in a few, with a math-heavy, formal focus. Stanford's business/VC connections are definitely better known, though.
The best advertisements are ones you don't need sound to understand what's going on.

I.E. anyone can understand
If I understand GR correctly, FTL travel is (in principle) not necessary to reach an alien race in reasonable time, no matter the distance - from the point of view of an astronaut. Due to length dilation, from the point of view of an astronaut, the whole universe gets pretty small when he travels with almost-lightspeed, so that he can travel, say, one lightyear in five minutes (assuming he can survive the acceleration).
The problem is that the wait on earth would be pretty long...

I'm not actually 100% sure my interpretation of GR is correct, if anyone of the people who know more about it could elaborate, I'd greatly appreciated it (for example, I think acceleration has effects on time, too, which could crush my "long distance travel in no time"-theory).
I wonder if the Mercury News is doing a series on some of the lesser-known Google leaders. They did a profile of my VP over the summer:

http://www.physorg.com/news202108905.html

I think it's a refreshing change from the mainstream press, which seems to be "All Marissa, all the time" when they're not talking about Page/Brin/Schmidt.
when we look at the improvements that we've made in the last 100 years it makes me very excited for even the foreseeable future, not even what might happen after that. We live in very interesting times indeed
Note that Minix has a microkernel, too.

Look up the Tanenbaum vs. Linus debate on the subject of monolithic vs. microkernels.
The biggest thing that draws this into question for me is the fact that Visual Basic and Javascript supposedly dropped by the similar amounts.... ??

Among a dozen other languages, I still frequently develop in VB as I have a huge code library for it (crawling back into the 90's) and it still works well as a general Swiss Army knife tool. I have seen the community plummet though and of course it's rapidly fading in it's significance.

Javascript however is on a meteoric rise development wise. It seems it is being adapted to anything possible and I see regular talk of it being used server side now too.

Yet supposedly they both dropped similar amounts? I'm surprised VB didn't drop more, and Javascript "dropped" at all.
How can it be a bubble? Their money isn't based on investments that hope for future earnings, but from their own yearly, insane profits.
Do you consider getting an upgraded implant someday, or is that not practical?
Russian peasant multiplication
> if I absolutely had to do it by phone, I'd record the call.

This may not be legal everywhere.
This is one of my least favorite types of questions. It's like asking, "is there a painting methodology for latex-based paints?" Well, no. You use latex-based paints just like you use oil-based paints. Apply it to the paper until your sense of taste tells you you have art.

Programming is the same way. Write a small amount of code until you have something beautiful. This methodology will get you far with any language.

The hard part is refining the sense of taste. Just like there are a lot of poor starving artists who never get it, there are going to be a lot of poor starving programmers who never get it. That's sad, but that's the reality of creativity. Not everyone has it.

But you can try, and the way you try is by reading other programs and writing your programs in a similar style. There are low-level things and high-level things to look out for, and you're not going to get them by reading Stack Overflow. You have to play with a language and its libraries on a daily basis for years. Then you will begin to find the "methodology" you are looking for.

There are no easy answers.
(Copy & pasted from a feedback email to Dave because I thought others might like to elaborate and discuss):

Great job on starting HackerBuddy. I was impressed with how quickly it matched me up with someone!

Ideas as they came to me:

1. Cool icons and good tooltips for areas of expertise!

2. I like my profile but you should allow vanity URLs like hackerbuddy.com/artvankilmer

3. Are you pulling pics from Gravatar? Nice bit of personalization.

4. Twitter and HN icons would be a natural addition :)

5. My Twitter and HN usernames are probably my HackerBuddy username. Could suggest that automatically instead of making me type it in.

6. Browse Users isn't prominent enough!

7. How I can give feedback isn't prominent enough!

8. Browse Users can't just be a dump of profile names. I need to be able to slice & dice by expertise, general availability (don't suggest folks that have already been paired with a bunch of other users), etc.

9. Some kind of reputation / recommendation / feedback system would really help. Why not pull in a user's HN karma or StackOverflow score to help seed things a bit? Even feedback on a user's profile of how helpful they were would help.

10. "CSS" is painfully missing, esp. since you have "Design", "HTML", and "JavaScript". CSS != Design (e.g. I think Photoshop, Illustrator, wireframes)

11. Logged out home page is a good start but you need more to hook folks. Try imagery of hackers helping hackers, appealing to folks obsessed with HN karma / SO scores / Twitter followers, and just nailing your value prop. "Free karma for helpful hackers" doesn't do it for me.

Keep up the good work!
The problem with using an analogy to prove a point is that the analogy is nearly always a poor fit for the actual situation.

In this case, I think a better (still flawed) analogy would be where "TeacherSoft" records only everything the students say - so if they're having a lesson about "Joe the Novelist", TeacherSoft sees some words and snippets of information from Joe's work, including when the students quote back a sentence of two, but not all of Joe's work.

This is closer, IMHO, to Bing seeing the URLs of Google's search pages when a user visits them, and which links the user chooses to click, but not the search pages themselves.[1] But it's still a poor analogy, IMHO.

[1] If you don't know what precisely Bing gets sent, it appears to be this: http://projectgus.com/2011/02/bing-google-finding-some-facts...
What Gladwell Gets Wrong: The Real Problem is Scale Mismatch
I think people make an exception for GMail because in terms of innovativeness, it could easily have been a startup in its own right. People make similar exceptions for other companies, eg. Jef Raskin is often called "the founder of the Macintosh" despite it being developed inside Apple, Ray Ozzie is called "the founder of Lotus Notes" despite it being funded by Lotus.
Also, that there's no transmission of the results page. There's a URL with a search query in it, and any URLs that the user clicks on from that page.

So any copyright would have to apply to the string showing in the user's browser address bar. Not quite as clear-cut.
I need deadline pressure as well, so I assign myself personal deadlines to follow that tend to precede the real one by 50%. I tend to find that while I finish before deadline, I'm always able to improve the product before the real deadline.
Perhaps it's not necessary to freeze yourself - if Moore's law just ignores physical limitations and keeps going, we could have the technological singularity within our livetimes.
It will get quite boring for people working in the computer science field after that ;-)
The Android Market is practically hostile to dialogue between developer and user. It's really a shame.
Please PLEASE someone tell me this is real. I would like to have that ray of humor in my day.
I meant that Google should specifically set it up so that for all permissions you get an error code (tailor to the specific permission).

In some cases, such as accessing the contacts or a directory on the phone, you could simply return an empty list. If you don't have write permissions it could tell you that there is not available space (or that the directory is read-only, etc).

I doubt it would break too many apps. I am actually more concerned that it would effectively become the way to turn of adds.
Thanks, James. I think you're hitting the nail squarely on the head here.... You've given me much to think about!
You know, I was thinking about this recently. Since the operation is quite expensive (tens of thousands of dollars), insurance coverage is a must. It's hard to get insurance coverage for a new internal component if mine is still functional. Also, today's technology - in terms of the internal component - is not that much better than what I got in 1991. For example, right now I have 22 channels, but the best that one can get today is 24 channels. The improvement is relatively small for the amount of hassle that I would have to go through to get that improvement - surgery, recovery time, etc.

Like all surgeries, cochlear implant surgery has risks. I don't want to take heedless risks, so I'm content with what I have for right now. Although I think I would get the surgery if the implant was 100% internal - no more external parts!
"...I eeked out my $40,000 a month..."

OH NOOOOOOOOO

(I write insightful comments so that I may also write cathartic ones like this. Vote however you like.)

Edit: This comment was ill-conceived in every way possible.
I particularly enjoyed the first line: "the internet is inherently insecure..."

Okay, joke's over, everyone pack up and go home. Last one please turn off the lights...

Alternatively, this could be some kind of philosophical comment on the futility of life. "The world is inherently unsafe. The only certainty is in uncertainty."
Maybe interfacing to javascript libraries has replaced actual new javascript development and people search for, for instance, "jquery" instead of javascript.
Unless of course you tell them and they consent to it. And if they don't consent to it, tell them you need to do it in writing. Disclaimer: not a lawyer, but you shouldn't be taking legal advice from the internet anyway.
I use amphis crm www.amphis-software.com cos its easy to use and does all I need with contacts, mail merge, customer notes, multi-user and customizable.
Well, no. You use latex-based paints just like you use oil-based paints. Apply it to the paper until your sense of taste tells you you have art.

Except you don't use oil-based paints the same way you use latex. Most of the time you wouldn't use either on paper.

Painting is a bad example to argue your point. Painting requires adherence to a certain technical methodology or else you don't get anywhere near your envisioned artistic result.
If the group coupon concept is a fad but valued by investors as something more, than the concept is a bubble.
See the Sun (NASA)
I don't know, it seemed that those companies weren't making huge amounts of money.
They can afford to pay for the ads out of the profit they're making.

Assuming the various established UK price comparison sites aren't all wasting their money saturating TV advertising schedules, TV advertising is actually pretty good at grabbing the attention of the not especially tech savvy bargain hunter.

Moreover, even if SuperBowl ads aren't good at getting consumers to start spending money through them, it's a very high-profile way of showing their ability to reach a much wider audience to the businesses they partner with. They're the type of companies for which brand advertising makes perfect sense.