skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's next for Apple: iTora, iBible and iKoran?
Would it be surprising, if Apple takes the path towards spirituality (remember, Steve Jobs once led a life of an ascetic) and starts offering the sacred books in its own digitized version? I am pretty sure that it would definitely have its mark of an "angelic" touch with a wonderful font design, not to mention a human voice option to render the recitation to take the believers to the greatest emotional heights. You would never know, given Apple's marketing savvy, they could bundle this with the iCoffin package, too.
I like to preach Erlang by showing how quickly I built my mmorpg for Android. More people should really be using it, it's awesome. True it's not perfect, but it's damn good.
I believe Fortune 500 companies call this "maintaining a startup environment".

</snark>
1 + til 1000
No stinking distinction between monadic/dyadic usage of array operators!
[Screencast] Elixir: Object Orientation and charming syntax on top of Erlang
>I agree absolutely, but did this hugely complex system really perform admirably in the case of the tsunami?

Yes. I'm beating a dead horse at this point, but once again, your terminology indicates you're not grasping the problem. There is no perfect system, there will always be flaws.

In what sense is the system worthy of no admiration? Because that is what you are asking for: you're saying that a viewpoint that regards the loss of tens of thousands instead of hundreds of thousands as praiseworthy as somehow "apathetic" when really it's just realistic: things could have been much worse.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2323773
Do you miss the hardcore network stuff? I would.

This was a great post. Thanks for writing it.
I'd say:

#include<stdio.h>

void output(x)
{
int y;
printf("%i\n", x);
y = 1 / (1000 - x);
output(x + 1);
}

int main()
{
output(1);
}

With gcc on Linux it has the added bonus of "Floating Point Exception", don't know if that disqualifies it.

EDIT: Nevermind, I got it:

#include<stdio.h>

int output(x)
{
printf("%i\n", x);
(x >= 1000 ) || output(x + 1);
return 1;
}

int main()
{
output(1);
}
Non-infectious ignorance can be left alone. A state senator with a PR platform, using it to spread ignorance of a sort that ruins millions of lives, cannot be left alone in good conscience.

You have a moral obligation to be less wrong: http://www.wrongbot.com/2011/02/27/stop-being-wrong-a-moral-...
Twitter is no AT&T -- YET
There are unaccountable psychological factors that happen on a game-to-game basis (as well as, daily basis) that not even "geeks" would be able to hack.

EDIT: This is coming from a guy who used to be bad, good, and decent at betting on sports (yes, you can be all three and even in the same day! ha)
"Next AOL" sounds like a pretty excellent outcome. I'm not being snarky; I'm suggesting you reexamine the stakeholders priorities. Nerd cred ranks pretty far down the list in most real businesses.
true, but the juxtaposition should then have been between "insecure" and "secure", not between "insecure" (personality trait) and "excellent" (skill level).
One thing that I'd argue about is that with many many topics on Wikipedia, you can start at the top, and via hyperlinks, more or less piece together a pretty good understanding of the topic. With the CS and mathematics ones? Not so much. It's just dense layer upon dense layer of very raw mathematics.

There's an ongoing argument over why certain editors seem to want to constrain and duplicate the constraints of physical encyclopedias in a near infinite digital medium. But I do have to agree that tutorials and step-by-step instructions probably don't belong there.

But I'll be honest, when I have to look something like this up, I usually just go back to my old textbooks vs. wikipedia since the explanations are usually better presented. The section on big-O in WP is one of the better ones, but I'll be damned if I can figure out the walls of equations in some of the other articles. Most of the material doesn't appear in any textbook I've ever seen (perhaps that's saying something about the quality of the textbooks I used way back in College?)
Wow. I didn't know that. I thought that Alexander had the largest empire (in terms of land area). In fact, Genghis Khan beat by a very long way according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires#Largest...
I'm not writing off advisors... 2 paragraphs down I say:

"With that being said, we do have two official advisors. Both are active entrepreneurs who have a ton of amazing experience. They’ve continued to give me advice and support without asking for anything in return. In appreciation for their time and their continued support, we made them advisors. I also have dozens of fellow founders that I count as advisors. Which brings up another piece of wisdom: Get advice from people actively in the game."
Escaping the asterisk also works.

find . -name \*.bar

Also passes the unexpanded argument "*.bar" to find.
Interview with Charan Langton - Loral Space Systems
troff is technically a general-purpose typesetting system, but how many people are still using it for anything other than formatting man pages? (La)TeX and other formats have pretty much taken over.
I had to double check the article publish dates. I don't know who the main audience for this site is but if someone told me these screenshots were of state-of-the-art alternative OSes back in 1999 or earlier, I would have believed it in a second.
Bathroom Occupation Notification System
"Making Office Life Better One Bathroom at a Time"
Help Japan with your expertise
A powerful earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan on Thursday March 10 2011. As of March 14, the number of casualties and disappearances has risen to 5,000.

Numerous aftershocks continue to afflict not only the area near the epicenter, but also various other parts of mainland Japan. The Tohoku area in particular remains in strong sense of fear.

In order to help overcome this immense challenge facing our
motherland, Stanford Japanese Association (SJA) is calling for
support. Online donation is available via this website, and if possible, we want your help of technology.

There are tons of information flow of this crisis, and we really need traffic control. We think that what is substantially needed technically is

- collect tweets with several hashtags, such as #save_tohoku or #prayforjapan
- listup and calendarize charity events worldwide on Facebook or Eventbrite
- organize donation websites and applications with social comments
- visualize the damage of this earthquake chronologically
- provide multicast Ustream channels
- deliver worldwide voices of praying for Japan

and so on. Everything that you're imagining is really important for Japan's current information management or future recovery. We're really, really glad if you make it. Of course, it is very helpful for us that you add on your website a link to our website or a donation button to other charity organizations.

Please help us distribute this message to your coworkers and friends. Your consideration will be the very basis of Japan's future.

Makoto Kondo
Ask PG/YC: Why were all Dropbox mobile security posts killed?
Specifically:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322585

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2323906

Can you please confirm this is a collection of trolls, and if not, can you provide an explanation? This may have poisonous implications.
Intro to SASS, LESS, Selenium and Twill 3/31 7PM at Cowerks
Inferno was, in some sense, the successor to Plan 9, as it was developed by the same people using the experience gained from Plan 9 and with similar goals in mind. For example, the protocol underlying the "everything is a file" abstraction in 4th edition Plan 9 is 9P2000; this is basically identical to the Styx protocol found in Inferno, save for the name. It wouldn't surprise me if the author was familiar with Plan 9 but, because of only relatively cursory research, assumed that Inferno had succeeded or obseleted it in some way.
How to (re) Approach People at Conferences
NASDAQ may make a hostile takeover bid for the NYSE/Euronext tomorrow
CNBC is reporting that NASDAQ may make a hostile takeover bid for NYSE/Euronext (http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYX) tomorrow. There is an existing agreement for NYSE/Euronext to merge with Deutsche Börse. If true, it may lead to a bidding war between NASDAQ vs Deutsche Börse to gobble up NYSE/Euronext. If NASDAQ buys NYSE, that would mean a single company owns all three major markets in the US.

[edit: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42075635]
Why Rixty is both hilarious and brilliant
Dropbox Mobile Security Test
A final test
I interviewed with a company in San Jose for a job on Nov 16th last year. And guess when I got a answer back from them? Dec 23rd. Yep, that's right. And not like it was some big corporation or a shady company, its a legit publicly traded $2B up and coming firm. As an active job seeker, it has been a very frustrating past 4 months for me. People don't respond after phone interviews or after interviews. And yet if I make a single mistake I always keep thinking about if that costed me that opportunity. Sorry for the unrelated rant.
I am in my mid 20s and I was just thinking about this the other day. All these comments have been a good read for me.
You can usually set a http-proxy in the APN Settings.
Peak Noise.  Managing Noise at Startups.
I often work longer hours at my current company, for these reasons:

1. I work on projects I like and care about.

2. We set aggressive deadlines.

3. I'm never explicitly asked to work longer hours.

4. If I do work longer hours, it's recognized and appreciated.
Man w/iPhone and video transmitter takes over Jumbotron
Jolicloud 1.2 Adds Integrated Dropbox
I've often wondered why someone doesn't combine analytics with more traditional executive dashboarding, ie show me revenue per click, per visitor, etc. There is more to most businesses than can be measured in just a website.
Leonhard Euler was contributing to the field of mathematics until the day he died and Paul Erdös was still writing significant papers at an age when most people have long retired.
DropSpace adds real Dropbox sync to Android
I think there's a space for partial compiles that Haskell doesn't take advantage of well. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Assume that you've got a simple dependency tree on defined names in a program and you want to refactor the type of one of the leafs. The type system is great here in that it'll track those mismatches straight up to the root.

The trouble appears if you want only an experimental type change at the leaf. It would be excellent to get successful partial compiles threaded up the tree. In other words, it should be possible to make a cut in the type dependence tree in order to test a functional subset of your program under more rapid experimental changes.

Once you've iterated enough to decide on a new formulation of that branch of the dependency tree, you can continue attempting typechecking up to the root node.
IPhone Hack can Control Time Square Video Walls?
SXSW: Free Tacos of the Apocalypse
Going real time massively reduced my support ticket queue because devs stopped asking how long it takes for their reports to update!

Aside from that you can use it to identify problems early on - one of my users shipped a broken version of their game and figured it out very early because their level metrics weren't flowing in.

It's also useful for anything with a short lifespan where the hour(s) you wait for GA wastes xx% of an article/promotion/whatever's opportunity.
It's true, but it's also the case that that's the only non-subjective point in the list. You can zip it on things like Comic Sans and table layout, but you probably shouldn't hold your tongue on security flaws.

I agree, delivery counts.
Have to wonder why Inferno calls its protocol Styx and not Lethe...
Dropbox 1.0 review
1 cycle = 1 "tau" radians. It's important to include units. I don't see how keeping irrational "magic numbers" out of the equation could make it anything but simpler. As an added benefit, it would serve as a transition between degrees and radians, by introducing the idea that there are multiple measures for an angle without simultaneously introducing a unit that has irrational values in every useful situation.

I agree that degrees are terrible, but sin(1/4)=1 makes a lot of sense. Probably even more than sin(1/4 tau)=1. The only reason to use radians instead of cycles is that changing the units breaks the wonderful trig derivative symmetry.
Dropbox Portable AHK, Run Dropbox Without Installation
I don't think everywhere needs to be SV. But, I do think that the power centers are less important in the web space. Web ideas can be built, launched and highly successful in very short periods of time. When that is possible, the actual location of the startup is less important... so long as they have a great community to support them. NYC is catching up to SF. Chicago / Austin / Boulder are having success growing great startup communities.

I'd just like to see Portland's scene improved.

And RE "Smaller cities like Portland would do better promoting emerging industries than trying to catch up to the web startup bus 15 years after it left the station."

It may have left 15 years ago, but if you run your ass off, you can still catch it.
puts ((1..1000).to_a.join("\n"))

Which, of course, is passing the buck to Range#to_a
Apps That Will Sync With Dropbox
Yes. And it's not so much a C++ purge as it is a "unmaintainable GPL-licensed slow software" purge, as far as I understand. C++ does hurt comprehension, but it's not the main complaint.
one of the c solutions took that approach [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4568645/printing-1-to-100...]
Video Demo Of Spin Play, The Magazine App That Comes With Music
Could Apple's success lead to more environmental problems?
Given the spate of gadgets(iPod/iPad/iPhone series) released by Apple in a successive fashion, they could potentially create more electronic waste than our "e-friendly" mother earth could sustain -- irrespective of the buy back programs offered by some companies.

Irrespective of the free markets and our basic human tendency to fall for the latest of the latest gadgets (a buddy of mine has all the iPod models for one), should there be some law to address this?

Should companies that expect people to purchase more and more of its environmentally not-sensitive gadgets be forced to have some sense about the waste it is potentially creating?
Have you tried F#? If so, could you say the same things about F# as well?

Also could you explain the last point "Because Haskell is so steeped in math"?
weierstrass and more:

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3591/mathematicians-who-we...

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-a...
In most cases, there's a social normative function that teaches people that this kind of behavior doesn't work. Are you an asshole in real life? People won't deal with you and you'll find yourself shut out of many social opportunities. People tend to learn to stop being assholes real quick when everybody else gets an office birthday party and they don't.

The problem with life on the Internet is that this social normative function doesn't work. Are you an asshole that nobody will talk to? No problem! Just invite yourself to the office parties and start running your mouth!

Admin lock out your account from your favorite forum because of flame wars? No problem! There's a million other forums you can head to and be a complete jerk in!

There are exceptions, HN for example is fairly unique in terms of the social environment it provides, and flaming out here can have consequences, hence people tend to behave a bit better here in order to maintain their social status in the group.

However, in addition to behavior and tone, down arrows represent a kind of social normative function that includes semantics that might push people towards a kind of consensus in group think (flags usually deal with purely bad behavior). The problem is that it's very hard on HN to have a dissenting opinion without getting knocked down a few points. If want to keep socializing here, you either conform or get out.
Plan 9 might not exist as such but should in a better world.
Color Snapper: "The missing color picker for Mac OS X"
Whoa! This is where all the upvotes are coming from. I'm the Quora user with the answer that leads with "Wanting programmers to work longer weeks is foolish." Thanks for the votes of confidence.

I will shamelessly self-promote by mentioning that I'm just about to start hiring for our San Francisco web startup, so if you have strong front- or back-end chops, want to be among the first 5 people at a startup, and want to work for somebody who gets that overtime doesn't mean better products, contact me at william at scissor.com or @williampietri on Twitter.
IMHO a much better question is: "how can we help our programmers be more productive?"

Long hours only "help" for a pretty short time period, so making the core 8 hours/day more productive is a much more sustainable approach. In my experience people LIKE being productive and don't like working crazy hours, so it's also much easier.

Top hits in my experience:

Is the physical environment conducive to productivity?
Comfortable/ergonomic setting, fast powerful hardware with lots of screen real estate, does the office allow for uninterrupted focused work and good communication.

Is the work environment conducive to productivity?
Are the software tools low drag? Is the process setup to allow developers to focus on 1-24 hour sized tasks (optimal size may vary) without interruption and having to multi-task on 12 things at once? Are your programmers protected from random management interference?

There are tons of factors that go into this as well, having your manager or team lead protecting and empowering you versus cracking the whip, making it easy to keep blood sugar at happy levels, having the programmers be interested in the work, have the programmers understand the value of the work and be invested in the success of the project.

I would much rather have programmers working 6 hours a day, focused, motivated, and productive, than 12 hours a day, checking facebooks, switching between 12 different "SUPER URGENT" tasks all day, etc....
Lookout Mobile Security
Slick production value. Wonder who made the video for them.
What script is used to run hacker news?
I want to setup something like hacker news for my site. Is it some php mysql script that is available or did they make their own? Anybody recognize it?

Thanks,
D
I agree about the well supported hardware bit. In my experience buying Thinkpads is near optimal for using linux since so many other hackers use them that any bugs get fixed quickly.
Right, just as I said, it is always a good idea to make a project more (language) uniform. But that wasn't my main point.
SXSW Accelerator Judges
Startup Visa bill reintroduced in the Senate today
Dropbox Ticket: Enhanced mobile client communication security
>No, it's a functional purity argument.

I'm pretty sure it's a reference to the fact that combining macros can be risky; one of the risks is variable capture.
Having spent far more of my time fixing Windows problems than I really wish to recall :-/, what I've found to work most reliably in practice is to wipe the harddisk and reinstall the operating system.

On the one hand, this will take a day of work (either of your time, or, if you don't have the expertise to do it yourself, of someone you pay to do it). On the other hand, you'll usually end up with a working computer; and the process is usually merely tedious.

On the third hand, naturally you may find a less drastic solution to this particular problem; on the fourth hand, it might take you as long or longer to find that fix than to do the full reinstall.

I don't know enough about Macs to give advice as to whether that would be a better solution for you.
New Phono "Callme Button" Demo Shows Use of Calling Directly from Web Browser
The Inhumane Interface
Speaking from experience, success is MUCH harder to attain after your mid 20's but is by no means impossible. As an example, I'd launch my company tomorrow if I could find a way to cover my expenses. Unfortunately, I live 800 miles from my parents and I can't pay my rent with equity.(believe me, I've tried) My bills will continue to come month after month until I can figure out a way to make a better income than my job creates now. Until that happens, I have to work. So it'll be harder for me, but I don't think it's impossible.
It's not so much about the whistleblower being in jail: but rather only the whistleblower being in jail. It seems like retaliation.
At the risk of sounding dense...

So did he imply that he was betting $60 million on the flip of a coin? I don't get why he would do that?
In other news, web analytics software is a very crowded marketplace, the competition is stiff. Best not to enter it unless you have something really new and interesting to offer.
That enumeration has its origins in Freud, if I remember correctly.
A map of checkins for Sendai, JP region.

http://checkin.to/cities/1118129#!/location/4d7e6959a2db1b17...
This was a great talk, not so much technically on doing things with R, but on methodology. The gist is that she learned R to quickly obtain and interpret data, and then to "sketch" visualizations before they make the big investment in producing a production version.
How to handle negative feedback on Twitter
Can you point to any multi-cultural societies that are economically and socially balanced between ethnicities?

Would such a society be less prone to looting in the event of a disaster?
Actually in this case they can win on freedom and they can do so by telling people that anybody can listen to their phonecalls (which is very likely true, almost certainly with a warrant) -- people care about their privacy (even though most likely nobody cares what they are saying).

But more importantly Skype can fix the ux. They cannot fix the freedom issue (and if they somehow manage to do so anyway, great).
Sorry to leave you hanging on the metrics, here's a great resource:

http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products...

Also, with a Rails app, be sure to give http://gaug.es/ a whirl.
I'm sure this can be done using Canvas. I might give it a try as a learning exercise in the future. Thanks for the suggestion :)

Didn't know MapRejuice, looks promising.

Regarding no.de, I have the same issues you describe. I'm looking forward moving to a larger SmartMachine where I can deploy using capistrano.
O’Reilly: When something is commoditized, an adjacent thing becomes valuable
Finally, a Startup Visa That Works
That last line is completely unnecessary, and rather ironic considering you were chastising someone for harsh feedback.
This quote sounds funny today:
"Unlike other social networking sites, Lycos Circles focuses on helping users to stay connected, share content and manage relationships with people they already know as well as find new people who share their interests."
TellFi (YC W11) brings Google Voice-like service to Canada, for free
And interestingly enough Perl version can be almost the same, only without declarations:

use POSIX;

sub pk
{
print "$_[0]\n";
return ( \&pk, \&fabs )[ $_[0] / 1000 ]( $_[0] + 1 );
}

pk( 1 );
Seems to me like there's a pretty big, unserved market of teachers who want good and intuitive course management tools. Maybe they're so ignored and frustrated that they'd be willing to pay for such a tool that doesn't completely suck.
As someone who doesn't have his thumb on the pulse of financial news, what repercussions would this have on the every day shareholder?
Obama Got Love For Everbody (IMG)
Our President is cool.