skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also:

http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/

And yes, OCaml is excellent for that sort of thing. Pattern matching in particular is a HUGE advantage.
U.S., in Shift, Sees Marriage Act as Violation of Gay Rights
Isn't jailbreaking circumvention under the DMCA?
The change in price is a good point, what initially made me think about this problem is pinboard.in, one of the first .in addresses I came across and it doesn't seem to have done them/him too much damage. I'm sure pinboard.com would cost a lot more now.
I agree, that is a delusional statement.

The most popular Apple products primarily revolve around entertainment, and entertainment only marginally contributes to ones quality of life.
I doubt it's a gray area in the FB offices. The strategy is about more info in than info out, so the flow directions are certainly controlled resources. The rules don't even allow you to use someone's FB profile picture unless they're currently logged in. This is an important point.
Has anyone on HN used the Unreal Engine for a game?
Are there any successful indie games released using this engine?
Because they're scared of losing their power and being left behind by new technologies. And because they'd rather invest in life extension.
I recently used http://LaunchRock.com -- and it worked well. Simple tool, with some nice social features.

Disclosure: Subsequent to my use, I've become an angel investor in the company.
Ripple effect in HTML5 canvas
Totally agree with you on having it as part of the name is an awful idea.

I have a geek crush for .io because of I/O
Don’t be an entrepreneur by association. Be an entrepreneur by action and results.

That's one of the best things I've ever seen on HN. It (unfortunately) hits close to home.
Searching for nothing causes an error with stack trace:

http://annotatr.appspot.com/search/all?q=
had a look at it a couple of days ago. looks indeed very promising!
The original poster in that thread was running 10.5.8. No one in the thread posted saying that they couldn't repro the port leak. The thread is quite recent, the latest post being from earlier today.

I think we have to assume that the port leak is still there in the most recent version (10.6.6).

I do hope that the poster had misunderstood Avie Tevanian in his conversations with him. Tevanian was one of Apple's chief architects and was one of the big wheels responsible for NextStep's transformation to OS X. It would be kind of outrageous for an OS architect to believe that it's at all acceptable to allow user-mode processes to cause kernel resource leaks.
Skype’s Early Investor: To Bankruptcy And Back – with Morten Lund
See that's not actually solving the problem. Thats more like pretending that the problem doesn't actually exist. Instead of investigate and fix permanently so that customers don't experience problems they'd rather just keep letting the problems fester.
My experience with siege is that it actually measures siege's terrible performance.
My big question is: does 23andMe get to keep the DNA data, what does the User Agreement say?
I am Milton from Innotech and I hate my life. I'm stuck where I am because I am working full time and a full time student. But neither is really satisfying. I can't seem to raise enough capital to get my ideas off the ground and I can't seem to think of any good ideas that require no capital and can be completed with only a few hours a week.

But I will graduate eventually, then I will make more money and get out of debt. until then all I can really do is watch
things from the sidelines and keep learning.
It's a very poor way to make a point. It's like if I used the fact that the earth is flat to illustrate an otherwise good point. The point may be valid, but using such a bad illustration is better than not making the point at all.
They give you the choice of either having them keep it - or throw it away. I had them keep it because they can then run further tests without needing my spit again.
It's a mess for the resellers who want to resell content on the IOS Platform. Presuming that Apple is able to establish a relationship with the content owners directly, then it is not a mess for Apple, the Content Owners, or the users.

But, and this is a big but, this is _only_ true if Apple is able to reproduce the experience and content richness that we users currently have through Netflix, HuluPlus, Pandora and Amazon Kindle. Apple wants all of that business. I think that, ultimately, they will neither be able to reproduce the experience I get from those resellers, and they will harm the long term value of their platform. They are killing the goose to get the golden egg.

I, personally, as a user, will be hurt by this new policy of Apple's because I really, really like my Kindle, and I like having the freedom to read the same books on my iPad and Kindle.

The new apple policy makes sense for the following categories of businesses:

o Newspapers
o Magazines
o Music Labels
o Movie Studios
o Bands
o Book Publishing Houses

It does _not_ make sense for:

o Internet Radio Streaming resellers (Pandora and friends)
o Movie/TV Streaming Resellers (Hulu/Netflix)
o Content Resellers (Amazon, B&N, Readability)
o Magazine/Newstands (Zinio/Press Reader)

All I can say is thank goodness for Android - it may suck for those of us who really like the iPad, but, this new 70/30 policy has just breathed a _ton_ of life into that platform as an option that all the content resellers will now likely be flocking to...
I could be wrong here, but I believe that's covered under GINA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrimi...
ML: There is not enough radical innovation in Silicon Valley. Focus is too narrow. Too many companies that are featurettes.

Companies…like Slide?
Never new that Techcrunch was hosted on wp.com!
>In Washington, D.C., 15 to 20 percent of congestion downtown is the result of "people circling the block looking for a parking space," says DDT acting associate director Soumya Dey.

Or, to put it another way, if you have to drive in downtown DC, you'll spend 15-20% of your time there looking for parking.
Yup. I'll totally acknowledge that sometimes you need someone who's a little bit sociopathic to accomplish the extraordinary, but let's celebrate their accomplishments, not their sociopathy. Same goes for Robert Moses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
The problem I am having-

1 can't sell the app itself,
2 the app doesn't live on the phone screen (unless they make a bookmark-button)
3 even though its 30% users are already tied into the store which lowers the mental barrier to purchase, meaning you don't have to get their credit card info.
4 no push notification
To me, that is the surest indicator of a bubble-like market. I think some of the recent valuations for companies with many users but no profit nor any obvious business model are dubious at best. However, I think the valuations for companies that depend exclusively on one framework/inftrastructure base provided by another mega-valued company are downright crazy. Companies like Facebook have come and gone before, and when they go, they often disappear into relative obscurity pretty quickly after losing critical mass. Investing heavily in a company built on that foundation is compounding two very high risk strategies, which doesn't sound very smart to me. But then, I'm not a billionaire VC, so maybe I just don't get it. :-)
Since I am not at liberty to discuss what I've been doing for the last two weeks and why that makes this assertion completely, utterly and shamefully naive (and ridiculous), I'm just going to tell you a story.

Years ago, my mother worked for a company that did installations and technical support for PoS appliances. She was employee number four. This company figured that since it was chock full of highly technical people, they had no real need for an established IT department or any sort of formal policy for servers or services on site.

Guess what the password to their payroll server was?

Despite having grown from a small start-up to a respectably financially successful company in less than a decade (note: BEFORE the dot.com bubble, mind you), once their staff of technical people found out that some techs were being paid more than others... well, you can imagine what happened. My mother was one of the last people out the door.

Every time I read or hear someone shrug off the importance of IT, complain about policies or refer to IT staff as a 'cost center', I am reminded of how 'mainstream' staff still have a lot of trouble wrapping their minds around how much trouble one badly behaved employee can cause. Even when there is an established IT department, it usually suffers from such a paucity of resources and effective management that the enterprise network... well, the word 'bloodbath' comes to mind.

And now I'm going to start a stopwatch to see how much time elapses before tptacek makes me delete this comment. :-)
I wouldn't be surprised if facebook just "borrows" the idea and implements it on their own. They would have a significant advantage due to the lack of API restrictions.
Relevant: http://www.usenix.org/event/osdi04/tech/full_papers/candea/c...

Microreboot – A Technique for Cheap Recovery

"A significant fraction of software failures in large-scale Internet systems are cured by rebooting, even when the exact failure causes are unknown. However, rebooting can be expensive, causing nontrivial service disruption or downtime even when clusters and failover are employed. In this work we use separation of process recovery from data recovery to enable microrebooting – a fine-grain technique for surgically recovering faulty application components, without disturbing the rest of the application."
Peer 2 Peer University is what's next. Think of it as a social wrapper around free educational content. http://p2pu.org
Does it have a DVD drive? (Hoping no.)

EDIT: Darn! (Yes, it does.)
Cappuccino Team, I have always been amazed by your courage of entering the web tool world and your perseverance in doing what you do. Can you please share you progress so far, who uses your tool and what public application were build using your framework. Please don't take this the wrong way. Thx
I use it probably 14+ hours a day, and it's variously running MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Photoshop, 600 million Chrome tabs, Xcode and Starcraft 2 whenever possible :)

I did experience memory leaks with pretty much every Bittorrent client, but I haven't torrented any uh, Linux distros in forever.
Most of this stuff is quite interesting, but towards the end it becomes rather stretched out. Especially point 10, which amounts to

LSD + (Zen Buddhism) + (a touch of genius) = (the next Steve Jobs)
So the executive summary is the first effort didn't work and now you're trying something different? I would be curious if you've got any postmortem analysis for the last effort.

But more. I would like to offer a simple theory for why no "making search as easy as possible" site is going succeed. My explanation is that this is because job search is an adversarial process. It is, at least partially, a zero sum game. Neither player wants to remove the information-asymmetry on the part of their opponent in such a game. For example, forcing the other side to work for information about you is good because it impels the other side to be committed to you (and the other side concomitantly hates having to work for their information).

The fact that neither side is very rational either doesn't help. It's in my interest not to reveal my love of Labrador Retrievers to my potential employers because it's more likely they will reject me for this than that they will accept me for it.

Just consider - an employers wants to know everything good and bad about an employee before they make that employee an offer. A potential employee wants the opposite - they want to know all the potential jobs available, where each company is in their search and what offers said companies are willing to make before they start revealing information about themselves. Then they want the employer to know all the desirable things about them. Then they want the employer to know any negative that they'd forced to tell anyway. And they don't want to describe any potential negatives that the employer won't need to know. AND what's negative and what's a positive varies from employer to employer. What potential employees certainly shouldn't want is a "beauty contest" where they "strut their stuff" to invisible judges. But naturally, neither side can or should get everything they want here.

The adversarial situation of job search is the ultimate reason for its clunkiness. It's complex dance involving each side revealing information and making commitments. The ability of each to make commitments is important to the process as well as long as the commitment process is reasonably symmetrical (why my committing to a mere "job search" by paying money is highly disadvantageous. I only commit to specific employers after they had partially committed to me). It's a reason that job-shops exist despite seeming ignorant and irrational. It's the same reason that find "contracting agents who understands programming" to be the worst to deal with (the contracting agent isn't there to evaluate you, they're just a mediation a way for both sides to unveil their information slowly. They work good for only that).
Make a spec and make a reference implementation. Is there something wrong about it? What do you propose? Make a standard nobody can follow?
"and I'm checking for updates as little as possible." - per user though. Did the gigantic and sudden success of the app perhaps throw out some red flags? It could have been a legitimate automated response by the Facebook system because it wasn't exactly the normal growth rate for an application.
Discovering the Best Business Ideas
Dror's Folding Concrete Block Could Change How We Build
In a language that left the string library as an exercise for the student?

Where you can't even link libraries built with different version of the same compiler on some platforms.
When Refactoring Goes Bad
Obama admin will no longer defend anti-gay-marriage act in court
That threw me too. Why can't the author appreciate Steve Jobs and respect his decision to not give to charity while also recognizing that solving first-world "problems" isn't at all comparable to what real philanthropists are focusing on?

(The assertion itself is ludicrous enough without needing to mention it, but "either MacBooks and Disney or mosquitoes" is a false dilemma.)

I agree it's delusional.
I've made plans for "Life after Y Combinator" panel at SXSW
Lively Kernel: Smalltalk-like web development in JavaScript
"Very good Louis. Short, but pointless." (Too obscure?)
"A crew member entered a zero ... causing the ship's propulsion system to fail"
Is anyone else astounded that none of the team members seem to be from the original set of developers? Are they entirely gone or just not in the driver's seat any more?
Well, my 23andMe results told me I was a Tay-Sachs carrier, and my parents already knew they both weren't, which brought up some interesting questions on both my past and future. Fortunately I'm more likely to assume tests are wrong than my parent's cheated, but it was the future thing I was more concerned with.

I later found out I was part of the 23andMe data mixup[1], so the results I had for a week actually weren't mine. Kind of killed my faith in the system, and when I got my actual results they were quite boring. At the very least it makes a good story, worth the $99 in my book.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/Sample-swaps-at-23...
My suggestion would be simpler : have a "this is not hacker news" queue. It's like the frontpage, but it's for the stuff that is "not hackernews". Whenever something hits the frontpage that people feel does not belong, instead of whining, they just hit the "this is not hackernews" vote button. With some algorithm that can combine vote numbers, influencers or whatever, when it crosses the threshhold, it gets moved over to the alternative page. So there is the community moderated hacker news and there is the alternative everyone hacker news.
Another over the top comment:

"He denied paternity on his first child, claiming he was sterile. The other had to initially raise the kid using welfare checks. I have no judgment on this at all."

What, how can you defend that.

And he parks on handicapped parking at Apple campus, I'm sure the OP has a good justification for that, too.
Cappuccino is used on a variety of projects, some are internal and some are not. I've listed several applications being powered by Cappuccino, but certainly there are many more if anyone wants to list them.

- http://picsengine.com/home

- http://gomockingbird.com/

- http://enstore.com/

- http://280slides.com

- http://githubissues.heroku.com

- http://timetableapp.com/

- http://almost.at/
It probably works both ways, depending on exactly how low or high the rents are held. I've lived in some really, really nice areas that are rent controlled (SF Pacific Heights, Santa Monica, Downtown San Diego), apparently others have lived in relatively crappy neighborhoods where rent is also controlled.

Now that I think about it further, it seems obvious that rent control would be a tool that can be used by a municipality to control rents in either direction, depending on their goals.
Ask HN: Carfax source of data.
Hi. I have a question for the collective HN mind.

I want to make a website like Carfax, but free. So I started looking. My biggest hope was that mechanics must submit car fix reports to the state DMV, and that these databases would be open (since DMV is supported by taxpayers). Didn't find a thing.

I found autocheck.com that has unlimited reports, and it's not that expensive. Should I just collect a bunch of VINs and parse that site?

I hope there's a better way.

thanks!
I first thought that this was the cappuccino tool that pretends your working: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/Cappuccino-19343.sh...
Got a whole page of projects here:

https://github.com/280north/cappuccino/wiki/Current-Projects

A fairly recent impressive Cappuccino application is PicsEngine:

http://www.picsengine.com/

Also check out GitHub Issues which very nicely demonstrates the state of the art TableView widget:

http://githubissues.heroku.com/

Archipel is more of a technical app highlighting a ton of various '2.0' techs in one app unified by the Cappuccino experience:

http://archipelproject.org/
Who says we aren't still team members? We just didn't help write the blog post.
A Visit to id Software (1993)
In response to ha-hn:

The intent to this post is not to create mathematical elitism, but to highlight an important mathematical concept that comes up in programming--and many programmers may work with or around it without realizing it.

As I understand it, this concept is used in:
* Compression Algorithms
* Signal Analysis
* Pagerank
* Factor Analysis
* Animation (especially when considering more than 3 points of information for each vector)
* Clustering in Machine Learning
* Noise reduction in DSP
* Match.com's dating algorithm
* Principal Component analysis
* Image scaling
* Control theory

I know it has been used in many more applications beyond this list.

I'm sorry you feel a smack of mathematical elitism. The concepts here are not inherently difficult, just a little complex. Here is a great resource to learn more:
http://www.puffinwarellc.com/index.php/news-and-articles/art...
To be honest with you....your question is a good one. And since I am not the editor or the founder of the site I cannot say with 100% certainty that this is correct but my answer would be: yes. The main focus of the site is to cover startups. As far as I know there are no rules for only covering them when they are small. So if something I write about explodes like a Facebook or Twitter I will certainly being following up with them. In my mind that would be a "gold mine" of an article in terms of information both for myself and for our readers. Now would I beat it to death and write twelve articles about it in a five day period just to get the page views? No. That crap drives me crazy. I would like to think that I would only cover them if something significant was happening with them.

How does MacRumors decide when they are going to do another story on something that is hot?

I will check with my boss/editor and see what his thoughts are on the subject...
The point is that "think different" isn't some stupid focus grouped crap from a bunch of IBM MBAs who haven't had a different thought in their lives.

It's actually about thinking differently.
Klout's CEO on Recent Criticisms, Its Algorithms, and Its Own Growing Clout
Not every device/OS combination can be easily jailbroken. Apple actively fights to keep us out of our own devices, and that has rubbed me the wrong way since I got an iPhone in the summer of 2009. I'll buy an Android or webOS phone next without question.

That we can jailbreak is no consolation for, say, Grooveshark. They put in a lot of work into their iOS app and it's still only available to a relative handful of users on Cydia. It's great we have Cydia but it sucks that you have to join some elite nerd club to use it. Make no mistake, only people who are at least slightly geeky jailbreak devices. Most people cringe at the word "jailbreak" and are scared of bricking their phones. It's a very hard thing to explain to non-technical folk.

Grooveshark focuses instead on other mobile platforms. That's not good for the iOS ecosystem, it's not good for iOS users, and it's not good for Grooveshark. (I can't say that it's not good for Apple because as a result of not having Grooveshark on the store they might be retaining music sales on iTunes.)
"Zero notice" seems to be a common thing at Facebook. Same happened with my personal account, just gone one day.

To be fair, I guess it was because I didn't have my real name on it but it was the name my blog readers know me by. Several thousands of friends - gone, without a warning.
Brick Marketing Announces New Boston SEO Workshop Class
Looks pretty good. The layout is nice and clean. For some reason the "Hello there friend..." message seems a bit creepy, but it might just be me.

How long did it take you using Rails if I may ask?
Agreed, finger input should be primary. But I'd argue that it's not the option of stylus input, but stylus only input that has failed.
it was only a weekend project, only running for a few days before takedown - under those circumstances I'd call $500 a solid outcome, especially when the alternative is $0.
Ha! I like that idea! Thanks for that!
Sounds like an interesting app.

I couldn't find any relevant cases of headphone strangulations so I think you're good.

All I found was a case where a woman tried to strangle her sleeping boyfriend with his headphone cord...
Only if what you're breaking prevents copyright violations. Does jailbreaking an iPhone let you copy DRMed content on the phone?
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It could be argued that the CEO was doing exactly his duty to the shareholders by protecting a very important relationship. Ben used the word friend but made it very clear that this also meant critical business partners.
Mach 3.0 was folded into XNU in roughly the same way that earlier versions of Mach were used, but with more of the BSD functionality ported down into Mach rather than hosted POE-style in kernel space.

So 3.0 was adopted, with success, but not as a microkernal hosting user-space servers.
Because these are among the most important mathematical concepts a programmer needs to understand--not "almost" the most important :-)
My doctor and I had this discussion recently. He said that he is legally not allowed to advertise or share prices. The laws won't allow it as to prevent price fixing.

This was in Texas, so maybe someone that understands the laws can chime in and comment on that.