skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I just watched an episode of the Outer Limits ("Tourist Attraction") in which a biologist proposed communicating with a strange sea creature by decoding its vocalizations and synthesizing messages in its language, the same way people talked to dolphins. I didn't realize the part about dolphins was fiction, not science, and my reaction was, "Of course! If we know what the sounds mean, then obviously we can synthesize our own messages. Huh, if people have been doing it since the sixties, I wonder why I've never read about it...."

Now I'm wondering why it has taken us so long to do something that science fiction predicted fifty years ago and which wasn't blocked by any technological limitations.
What about early adopters who "like" your site, come to your fanpage, and get their friends to check it out?
It needs to be asked because a Git repository is a database.

What would happen if you had two MySQL servers running off the same data files in a shared Dropbox folder? Is that a good replication strategy?
number 1 totally. if i hadn't found this site on HN i'd think it's a scam.
Been in this situation. Didn't let-go due to emotional reasons. Became much more messy later. Reduced entire team's performance.

Still regretting it after two years. We could have used the budget for a better performer!

It might help to think you're not 'firing' the person for non-performance. Rather you don't have a good fit with him.

There may be other organisations where he may well thrive with more structure and direction (perhaps in services).
I don't know what Greplin is doing, but indexing alone doesn't imply they cache your data somewhere. Although the index contains pieces of your text, you can't reconstruct it from the inverted index alone.
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A nitpick on the linked bio page:

WeddingType, the invitation typography generator, is for non-designer couples looking for a save some money by creating their own invitations.

"...looking for a save..." should probably be "...looking to save..."
Incorporate twitter login or some other OpenID provider.
Amazing bug find: Incorrectly Rounded Subnormal Conversions in Java
And the market won't bear 50%, or anything close to it.
hi, had you an experience with relational databases before? did you have any difficultirs with the DB part of your beautiful site, or Django makes everything easy?

i am thinking that relational databases used today may be a problem sometimes..
Easy there! MySQL is something completely different. If relational database replication would be as easy as Dropbox, then they would all support it out of the box. Do NOT use MySQL on Dropbox!

Dropbox is for stuff, which needs to be synced but is (usually) not accessed concurrently. The programmer with the Dropbox-git will not code on two computers at once.
I'm an engineer at Facebook.

We started using Google's ajax crawling spec. Whenever we see:

http://twitter.com/#!/ptarjan

we actually crawl

http://twitter.com/?_escaped_fragment_=/ptarjan

Let me know if you notice any issues.
I'm planning to live in Thailand while working for an American company. Advice? 
The specific country is Thailand, but I'm be interested in learning about similar arrangements in other places.<p>I plan to use a tourist visa for 1-2 month stints with trips back to the US or nearby countries (probably Malaysia) to renew. Is this sort of visa abuse risky? How about if the principles of the company are all in Thailand, and possibly employing Thai citizens?<p>What are the biggest things to be aware of when doing something like this?<p>Thanks HN!
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Cach lam giau khon ngoan nhat la lam theo nguoi giau
"Làm việc chăm chỉ không bao giờ có thể giàu có, làm việc khôn ngoan mới nhanh giàu. Và cách làm giàu khôn ngoan nhất là làm theo người giàu"...
I thought that if it was FALSIFIED in this context, it would be falsified in general. Of course, the other way wouldn't prove that string theory works for anything except that particular case.

But even that I think might be inaccurate:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3127
Alternate hosts of the paper can be found using Google Scholar; here's one: http://dspace.learningnetworks.org/bitstream/1820/629/1/ICLS... [pdf]

From José Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses [1930]:

“Doubtless the most radical division of humanity that
can be made is that between two classes of creatures:
those who demand much of themselves and assume a burden
of tasks and difficulties, and those who require
nothing special of themselves, but rather for whom to
live is to be in every instant only what they already
are.”

What Ortega y Gasset argues, and what is still true today, is the true threat to our livelihood comes not from those working to change our society but from those who deny its imperfections, who see acts of self-improvement as admissions of weakness, and who define the correct view to be equivalent to the view of the majority.
For your better quality VPS providers, memory isn't really an issue because memory is dedicated. For your old time OpenVZ/Virtuozzo low-end box, that's not the case. You can oversell every resource on an OpenVZ box... Back in the day SW-Soft was claiming you could provision hundreds of VPSs on a 32 bit server. I never saw anything close to that, but I've seen some amazingly oversold servers trying to keep up with disk I/O.

One of the nice things about Xen is that disk I/O can be controlled somewhat because each domU has a specific process in dom0 for disk access. So you can ionice things & provide a somewhat more controlled access to the disk.
At the risk of taking the troll-bait, I'm not asking for any kind of apology or sympathy. I'm actually quite happy with the deal I got all in all, and in any case, I wasn't at the table when the terms were set. I'm simply pointing out that it's extremely naive to think that focusing on creating long-term value for customers cures all ills.

In fact, we are in a period in business history where companies that have achieved cash-flow positive with good growth and a sizable revenue stream are at a loss as to how to free up cash for continued growth (and to reward early investors and employees). IPO'ing brings huge overhead with Sarbox, not to mention the requirement to manage the business to quarterly goals. Continued venture funding is usually quite a bad deal, loans are still really hard to get, and more creative options (like FB's private placement) are under lots of scrutiny from the SEC.

That leaves a buyout or private sale as the two best options, neither of which is an efficient transaction (ie unlikely to bring the highest value), and both of which are likely to come with some unattractive terms.

As an entrepreneur, don't underestimate the importance of this question: once you create a valuable business, how will you transform the equity that you've created for yourself, your employees and your backers into cash?
Too bad i am not in the US. I stay in the UK.
I partially agree with you. You're definitely right about the industrial revolution, and I hope you're right about the information revolution.

However, I think there's a real possibility that, in the near future, automation will lead to a permanent increase in unemployment. Even if general AI proves to be a long way away (which I think it is), a lot of service jobs are algorithmic enough that they could became automated in the next few decades. If true, you end up with a small elite business/management class which finds themselves far wealthier than before; a few people who managed to hold onto their old jobs (domestic cleaners, plumbers, etc) or find new 'creative' jobs; and a vast unemployed underclass.

In theory with all our new machine-created wealth the entire underclass could live very comfortably on welfare. However, the way most societies are set up, that's unlikely to happen. The economic pie gets bigger but the people at the top suddenly find themselves with even more power and get an even bigger slice, and the people at the bottom get screwed.

I think this guy makes a fairly convincing argument: http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm

If you have the time, his scifi novella about the social impacts of mass job loss due to automation is also OK (like a lot of amateur scifi, some of the writing and characterisation is pretty bad, but the ideas are interesting). Worth a read if you have the time.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Season 2 of the Wire also touches on similar themes. (It's obviously not sci-fi, but it made me rethink my belief that "automation is fine, people just need to not be so picky about finding new jobs").
"Web app" is a misnomer. If the content isn't browsable hypertext, it has abandoned the Web and stepped backwards into the ghetto of siloed client/server apps that were deservedly hated in the 90s. And the industry has yet to deliver a trustworthy js sandbox that can safely run any code it happens to find anywhere—the majority uses the defaults because they don't know how reckless those defaults are.
I just signed up when i saw this posting. The android client would definitely make this a more useful service, but you seem to have several different clients available. I am guessing that it is the node application i should use, but it requires permission to access my location. What does it need that for?
FOSDEM: Hbase architecture from Facebook
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Original paper available here:
http://arXiv.org/pdf/1005.4915
- "Hey can you build me a house?"

- "Sure, how big do you want it? How many rooms?"

- "I'll tell you what. Build the house and we see how it goes".
All that work you did to make your IO sequential goes to waste as soon as you put it on a VPS

Why? You can run only one VM inside each hyprervisor. Or you can run only one IO intensive guest.

I hardly see any reasons to run my servers on hardvare instead of VMs in 2011.
Canadian gov't servers attacked from Chinese IPs
P7 Server Visualization
Treating the intangible as property was long established in common law, not just with regard to patents and copyright, but many other things. Blackstone lists, for example, ten kinds of "incorporeal hereditaments": http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/blackstone/william/comment/b...

The clause in the Constitution about granting exclusive rights was not creating something brand new, but just assigning the power to do it to the federal government instead of the states.
Actually that's a cross compiler, and products made with it are almost certainly allowed on the appstore (I actually worked on a J2ME->iPhone cross compiler in 2008 when the appstore rules were even stricter, and products using our compiler were allowed on the appstore (though we were living in constant fear, back in those days it was much more ambiguous)). It's only useful if you've got the source for your android application, at which point you can recompile it into an iPhone app. It doesn't run a 'bare' android app.

If an actual Java runtime was made though, that would be banned.
The article doesn't properly distinguish between simple changes in the type of work that is done and structural changes.

Generally the change is n jobs paying $w / hour doing X being replaced by pn jobs paying $rw / hour doing Y. The markets generally ensure that p*r < 1 long term (for constant market size); however, the values of p and r, and the economies of scale of new technologies have a profound impact on their overall impact on important societal outcomes like inequality.

For example, consider a technological advance which has relatively low barriers to entry, such as voice over IP. In this case, r < 1 (people doing VoIP work get paid less, on average, than people at telcos before) but p > 1 (access to telecommunications technology is easier, so more people do it, even at fixed same market size). This creates more jobs and reduces income inequality.

However, in other cases, new technologies have higher barriers to entry than the existing manual option, p < 1, r < 1; medical equipment that is prohibitively expensive to manufacture and operate except for big players; small clinics close down and a few mega-clinics open up; while production is more efficient overall, the market is less efficient, and profits are higher for the few that remain in business. There are less jobs and more inequality.

The best possible outcome is when technology that makes jobs obsolete is low-cost and accessible to everyone; jobs are lost, but people don't need to work as much to make ends meet.

The worst is where new technology creates economies of scale that mean few big companies control major production but don't need many workers, but still charge only marginally less than the more labour intensive alternative; jobs are lost but prices don't go down by much. The only solution to maintain income equality is government taxation of those big companies combined with government public good expenditure (e.g. hiring the people who lost their jobs to do research).
I just want to clarify that I'm not making a normative claim about the behavior of low or high NFC individuals. I'm just saying it might be useful to know what kind of audience you're targeting when building your application.
Ports and container terminals, planning and design and the
I have never met a medical doctor or a nurse who was worried about not having a job — in fact this may be one of the few professions where they'd kill to work less. Even if efficiencies boomed in healthcare thanks to technology you still have to deal with increased needs of a booming elderly population. On the other hand I've met many folks with law degrees who look like they've made a bad career choice...
Why do you expect Apple to do your QA?
I have done this before, to maintain and improve the ranking get a few backlinks that match the phrase you have already now on Google. I have launched about 15 websites this way and keep good rankings. Google sees the initial feedback from the social sites, lists your site, but it will keep falling if you don't get some matching backlinks pronto. If you type into Google cheap social marketing I have the first site, I used these techniques to get listed and rank the site. However, what I am offering is overly complex and I don't believe people understand the value of knowing Google's trigger points, when they notice the social attention, when other sites start taking the twitter/etc posts and adding them to "social conversation" websites, etc. All of this feeds back into your organic ranking as long as it is relevant.
Exactly, that's why UNIX is for knights! Those who use it (at least, via the terminal) eventually become knights, and it's through that process that the curve shown in the article develops.
How to Solve Problems of Asus P4P800 VM Driver?
Asus P4P is a series of motherboard drivers that were in great demand few years back. But still some people owe their system with the Asus P4P800 VM motherboard Driver.
First it was the record shops. Next it was the video rental stores. It seems odd when you think about it that it wasn't the book stores first?
I hope they'd outlaw bolt-cutters, so nobody will steal our precious bicycles.
Additionally, it will also make the lower margin appear reasonable to developers etc, meaning Apple have given themselves a new revenue stream AND developers aren't that annoyed as they currently are at this 30% rate.
Aquatic carnivorous plants with ultra-fast traps studied
Yes, you haven't grokked it. When you work on a development branch like this you can rewrite its history with git rebase --interactive before pushing your commits to the main branch.
> We should rather call IP an intellectual monopoly privilege, than a right to a piece of property.

Agree. And the pernicious thing with this is that, while of course publishers and creators should be renumerated, doing this through scarcity, which is a natural condition in the physical world, does not make sense, as it is not a given in the virtual world, and scarcity should be avoided where possible, right?

Markets basically are good because of three things: 1) enabling efficient investments, 2) decentralized decisions, 3) and efficient use.

But in the virtual realm, while the first two of these are the same under scarcity, the 3rd is not, as without natural scarcity, efficient use is 3) as much use as possible.

Therefore a market-like popularity algorithm (no council of old men deciding what receives money, but popularity / appreciation / number of downloads) + a levy system, or something similar, would make the on-line market work much more in the spirit of the first, physical goods market, rather than according to the letter of that market.

And as the importance of virtual goods grows, it becomes more sensible to create a second market for it, so we have two free markets, instead of one.

For those interested, I wrote more about this in my (history) thesis:
http://www.logilogi.org/pub/Enclosures/paper.pdf
The relevant video about the ultra-fast trap of that aquatic carnivorous plant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb_SLZFsMyQ
Why Twitter Must Expand Beyond 140 Characters
From Transportation to Pixels (history and future of Microsoft 'Metro')
Levchin & Gurley: Next Big Co. Will Capture The Interest Graph
All of his logos had that! In fact I think a real good test of a brand is if you can blur the logo and still recognize it. Of course part of that is the ability to saturate the mass media with your brand — and Rand was part of that golden age.
Not everyone is tech-friendly and acceptable to new technology they see some things, as intrusive etc which is why certain platforms couldn't have existed in the earlier stages of the Internet etc hence, they are less likely to move over to a new platform because they are familiar with it and know where everything is.
I also remember my grandfather using saucering to cool hot tea down, I finally have an explanation for why it works.

I wonder why the practice went out of fashion. Do paper doilies send a signal that the saucer is not to be used to hold liquids?
I'm sorry, but this analogy is too loose for me; I must rebut.

Suppose the toolmaker maintains these profits by keeping his thumb on the wood-seller who can barely support his family selling 80 cent pieces of wood. If the toolmaker paid the wood-seller $1 or $1.30, this would be more in line with what the wood is worth. The fairness of these price points can be argued.

Now we're back to considering whether engineers are underpaid!
we've actually been talking to mailplane, so it should be sooner rather than later.
Practically the existence of other extraterrestrial life forms can't really affect humanity that much.The closest star is over 4 light years away. I doubt communication would be very successful with a 4 year gap between any response. Any physical travel would be incomparably slow, so I doubt any life form would be able to intentionally visit Earth. So we are pretty much limited to searching for life in our solar system.
"We locked ourselves in a room and asked this question over and over: “What is something valuable we can provide to event organizers so that they can promote our product?”

Zac finally came up with an idea."

Was it luck? Was it hard work ? Was it education ? Was it intuition? Was it genius? what made Zac come of with the idea !

http://www.chrisranjana.com
It made me think of Tron.
Apache UIMA ("Unstructured Info Mgmt apps") Bolsters IBM Watson
Vim is definitely faster at starting up ;)

For "." you could say that C+k,C+_/C+y does most of what I want done -- and arguably, the more complex cases might be amenable to using regexp-replace.

Regretfully, the only time I ever use hjkl is to play crawl :) The emacs keys are perhaps more geared towards using modifiers, with M-f/M-b + C-f/C-b serving as the closest replacements for movement, and M-z for zap-to-char.
This is something I would be interested to do myself too.

Only difference is, I am from Finland, and at the moment I don't have such a job that I could perform my duties from Thailand. Although I work in IT-field, and technically it would be possible, but for some reason my employer does not agree with this arrangement.

Anyways, I will be eagerly waiting for any advice on this matter also.
Not really. Physical books are fundamentally different from their digital counterpart in a way that records are not.
Visualization of Egyptian Revolution On Twitter
A visualization of the network of retweets with the hashtag #jan25 at February 11 2011, at the time of the announcement of Mubarak's resignation, is available. The data was collected using Gephi connected to the Twitter Streaming API, converting the users and retweets to nodes and edges in a dynamic network. Though the data represents only approximately 10% of the retweets, it's interesting to see the large flow of interconnected retweets in just one hour.
The article linked to http://www.bordersreorganization.com/Reorganization_Closure_... which is a list of stores that they are planning to close. Two on that list are reasonably near me. Presumably something needs to happen with the books in the soon to be closed stores. Frequently in that kind of situation they are sold at a considerable discount, and if that is the case then I would like to take advantage of it.
Among all the things wrong with the financial system, insider trading is arguably the least important. The publicly known conflicts of interests should be alarming all in themselves.
Twitter should NOT throw the 140 character limit away, they should continue to enforce it because its their value proposition.

There are several sites such as Deck.ly (highlighted in the article) for longer tweets and they aren't really popular with mainstream users. Moreover, unlike its considered rivals (Facebook, which I don't consider to be a rival although many tech blogs do after Facebook implemented the status feature) is that Twitter only release changes to its users after a lot of consideration and testing which is another reason as to why they won't throw away their value proposition.

Additionally, and potentially the most important fact is that Twitter is a place to communicate with people, discover what new in your world and let them know "what's happening" hence the ability to do so via SMS. By editting the limit etc, they are alienating a core of their users and a CORE which has been the heart of its growth especially during the Iran Elections etc and by editting the limit and adding meta data to it, users in these regions wouldn't have been able to see the tweets properly because everyone on the planet don't own a smartphone. Which would result in a change in using Twitter especially for people in these regions and altering its culture, something which companies work hard to protect and develop.
He doesn't, but he does expect them to make some QA (that's one of the purpose of the appstore: not letting broken applications go through), and it's sad they've dropped QA-ing 3.x at all, especially since there is now a generation of devices stuck there.

Should we expect Apple to also drop QA-ing 4.x as soon as 5.x is out the door?
What makes you think other stores are going to be better of?
If you read the Android Market terms of service, you'll see that you're not allowed to use any payment processor except Google Checkout. The only exception is if Google Checkout isn't available in your country.
I'd said before(and still believe today) that the best option for Borders is to be aquired by Amazon. Then you could browse the stores and sample what you wanted before you bought it. They could do in store promotions unique to each store and when you ordered from them, you could ship it to your local store free the same way that Wal-Mart does now. Also, you could pay cash in store or use your Amazon account to check out. It's a perfect fit IMHO.