skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is brilliant!!

The only issue I will have now is trying to convince my wife that SC2 is a healthy addiction - especially now that her iMac will be renamed 'Archon'.
Har har har.

Extreme theorists don't hate applications, they just don't especially care if they exist.
I can see that your work contains much that is new and good however the new is not good and the good, not new.

A paper on this work would be illuminating if ignited.

Congratulations: You have now once again successfully solved one of the one star exercises in Knuth's TACP.

In this work, is your coauthor a professor, post-doc, Ph.D. student, Master's student, undergraduate, or a visitor from a middle school?

So, your new programming language is Turing Machine equivalent. Okay. Beyond that its main feature is that it 'encourages a programming style' you prefer. Just why is that 'style' more significant than, say, style in the rag trade?

Your work has used some theorems from math but has it added any theorems to math?
He went to the Oracle and learned his future was Google.
I ride the JZ line in NYC. I try not to fall. Either I will read my weekly nymag, or if I've already finished it, I will see what literature my fellow passengers are reading - the people reading from Kindles tend to read steamier novels.
Working remote is good but it also depends on the type of position and type of remote. There are definitely unique challenges depending on the type of positions. For example, IMO:

Solo Backend Developer = Remote Anywhere=OK

Backend Developer with a team = Remote within the city= Possible; Remote outside of city=Challenging; Remote International=Hell No;

Front End Developer = Alway prefer in-house; Remote (depending on how good they are) within or outside city=Possible; Remote International = Hell No

Front End Developer with a team = Almost alway prefer in-house; Remote (depending on how good they are) within or outside city=Challenging; Remote International=Hell No;
IEET: Key [Technology] Trends of the Next 25 Years
"A partitioned box with unix and windows. Windows OS named Marine, Unix OS named Infested Marine"

This just seems to be the wrong way around...
This is based on a mountain of false assumptions. Just a few of them:

• Most people choose a language based on quality rather than what everyone else is using

• Good languages are necessarily well known (if you build it, they will come?)

• Large corporations, which make up a large segment of the market and can basically anoint programming languages to dominance, have the ability or inclination to choose a good programming language (rather than, e.g., a language which has a strong promotional machine behind it or a language whose backer offers lots of enterprise support)

• Attractiveness to amateurs is equal to all other factors in determining a programming language's quality (regardless of what you think of the language, this is a large part of PHP's popularity)

The thesis here is simply false for any reasonable definition of "good." The only way you can make it true is to "#define good popular", in which case it's tautological.

For example, the reason there is still so much COBOL in production is not that the language is awesome and people choose it of their own free will — in fact, the opposite is generally considered to be the case even by COBOL experts — it's simply entrenched. These systems would not be written in COBOL if they were being developed today, but because they happen to have been written in COBOL's heyday, people still use COBOL. The market chooses COBOL for these positions because of the horrific cost of rewriting everything from the ground-up, not because of anything related to COBOL itself.
Could you provide some feedback on a friend's social music service?
Some friends of mine are working on a social music site after the style of Reddit. In fact they're a licensed affiliate of Reddit.

The concept is pretty simple: Musicians upload their music (music they hold the rights to) and listeners vote on the songs as they're playing or as they find them in /r/radioreddit or the charts and discover sections of Radio Reddit. As songs recieve votes they are promoted on the stream by having a higher probability of being included in the live stream playlists as well as making it on to the charts.

As I understand it, the voting actually works via Reddit. After a song is uploaded, listeners can submit the song to the /r/radioreddit subreddit with the song information where it will then accumulate votes. Songs are then included in different genre playlists based on their popularity (the algorithm is public in their faq http://radioreddit.com/faq).

The service is called radio reddit. See: http://radioreddit.com/

I think the admins are interested in feedback related to the usability of the site itself as well as the service in general. Feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Sounds fun if you do it for your home network, but profesionally you'll quickly appreciate embracing a more dull pattern of calling database machines db01, db02, etc, preproduction machines preprod01, preprod02, etc. And the sysadmin that will come after you will appreciate it even more.
Just remember that Infested Marines are (stat-wise) more powerful ;)
> You can try to attack both parts simultaneously:

> I note that the systems aspect of this project seems quite complex. Do you think the cause of the convoluted implementation can be attributed to the more-or-less ``simplistic'' mathematical analysis you used?"

This has to be my favorite one :)
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Hmm. I think this will be very much like AirBnB for food, but it's in a gestation stage w/kitchen show-off shots to build a community first.

There's also Mealtik, which is AirBnB for food.

Ultimately, I hope all three (or more) you folks go big, as the biggest problem will be skeptical customers and perhaps buzzkill regulators (like AirBnB in NYC is up against).

Having a bunch of momentum + market examples and flavors is the best way to get past all this.
for all or just for me?
Biz is apparently sitting on AOL's board.
I couldn't disagree with you more. This is not a posting of a lolcat, it is relatively witty.

Sure it's no Silence Dogood essay, but you're way too harsh here.
Back to Bricks and Mortar?
According to the official FAQ (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) on-topic is defined as: "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
Now I personally am a hacker (we'll leave the good for others to argue) and I find this interesting, if not rather humorous. This post currently has 51 points, meaning at least 50 other people also considered it interesting. If that's not strong evidence that this link belongs here please explain what is.
In all seriousness: Do you read the footers of every page you visit?
EU to ban cars from cities by 2050
Yup, it might be helpful to see metrics along with every "review my startup" post. not # customers/users, since obviously the startups that post will have low numbers; but maybe things like manhours spent coding, number of people involved, time since ideation, etc.
Can't help but wonder how Square's investors feel about this.
This is pretty clever. Reminds me of an article a few years ago about printer names -- YouTube named theirs after Wu-Tang members; Google, after Transformers:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/the-wu-ta...

Regrettably, I must report that at Blizzard, printers have boring but functional names. And even though the campus is laid out with three buildings positioned similarly to the current WoW map, they're merely Buildings 1, 2, and 3. At least the meeting rooms all have lore names, however.
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Yep, you are basically making a new requirement that hires have to be Starcraft experts; and if not, then your naming scheme is totally unintuitive and overly verbose.

I'm a big fan of the function###.IATA (or ICAO) code.

So like db1.pao, web3.sfo, m22.sin...

I don't do the 01 02 thing because that falls down at 99. :-)
Do you really think it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." ??

Honestly??

I think it's a cheap joke with no intellectual value. Some people find it funny, and they will upvote it. I'll happily believe that 50, 100, possibly 1000 people here find it funny to think about how to insult computer scientists.

After you've read it - what have you really learned?

Upvotes do not of themselves mean an item meets the guidelines.
Agreed.

In general I'm not sure how you could think the battle-worn/old-tech/modular visual style of the Terran race applies more to Windows than Unix.

Whereas terrifyingly-impressive testament to the brutal domination of an evolutionary niche and subsequent uncontrolled (uncontrollable?) growth seems like such a more-natural analogue for Windows.

And that's without even touching the gross, slimy, infested allusions. ;)
_I’m told that Verizon, for example, has two /16 blocks (128K addresses in all) that are external addresses assigned to internal nodes like printers. Those could all be recovered since they are being misused, or Verizon could sell them for close to $2 million, following Microsoft’s act of price discovery._

Not really, assigning globally routable IP's to internal nodes isn't misuse at all and is done widely in for example university networks. This is what IP was originally intended for anyway, and there's no real reason to stop.

Verizon is one of the only major corporations that takes IPv6 seriously, having it in a production environment and requiring support on their 4G network. All their 4G devices have public IPv6 addresses.
"Don't add process until you feel the pain of not having it."

Excellent phrasing of what I've been preaching in our startup all along. We apply this to every angle of our business and I find this is very, very good advice for startups.

And it's not just for software development, either! Need an order processing system? No you don't — you can handle things manually at first, thus learning what you really need. Need a CMS? No you don't — the bugtracker you use for your software can probably help you enough in the beginning. Examples abound.

Follow this philosophy and you'll build a lean company. What's even better is that once you actually do add process (or buy external solutions, or hire additional people, etc), you'll know what you're doing, because you will have learned the real requirements.
We (correction, I) keep dual names on all our machines. First the descriptive name lb01, websrv01, db01, etc. The second is the informal name all based on constellations and other space based entities like earth, star, taurus, corvus, leo, etc. Via Puppet[1], the MOTD of each server is generated with figlet[2] and other information so that the machine can be identified using all of it's names.

Most likely it's overkill - but I do like my pretty names as well.

[1] http://www.puppetlabs.com/

[2] http://www.figlet.org/
Three Years of Scrum at Socialtext: One Team's Experiences
This is mostly for the benefit of SSDs. You want to be far more aggressive with cleaning on them.
Just curious, are you upvoting stuff on the "new" page? I see a lot of stuff that I think is interesting get few if any votes, and then slides off to obscurity. As you noted, this is a community, and so all have to play their part. If you and a few others upvote interesting stuff, it probably finds its way to the front page to fend for itself.
What sold me on unix being zerg was the concept of the swarm. Open source == powered by the hive mind.

Also I think it is safe to say that most everyday folk relate more to windows; same way most would relate more towards the human faction.

That said, you have good points!
C++0B maybe?
Interview with ComodoHacker
At schools with separate "pure" and "applied" math departments, there's sort of a running joke in the pure-math departments that they feel offended if someone has accidentally managed to find their work useful, because it means they've, quite to their chagrin, advanced the agenda of the rival applied-math department (or at least, that they weren't "pure" enough). But of course that's a self-deprecating joke more than a statement of what theoreticians really think.
First Vimeo prototype from 2004
Purdue's CS Department is legendary in its archaic theoreticalness (if there's such a word, but would be a nice insult, I think). So much so, it seems, to produce a lot of funny commentary. For another popular example from proggit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gcgv8/all_hope_...
It means your TPS Report cover sheet has jammed the printer.
Even if it was Colr, Android Market could find a way to make it impossible to discover via search.
Nice to see some progress coming out of this. Its one of the areas in basic science that can be massively disruptive overall. (probably no need to tell this crowd was room temperature superconductors would change, I know they would sure lower my datacenter cooling bill :-)

I don't doubt for a minute that this is something google.org would fund if the federal gov't money dried up. To much benefit for their business to overlook it.
>"OK, call me a hopeless capitalist but the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) idea he proposes will not work, only companies at the scale of Google will be able to tackle the overhead involved and be willing to walk the associated minefield."

Or the Library of Congress - which is already the public library of the US.
Maybe this could have helped:
http://code.google.com/p/activejdbc
Poetic masterpiece of Claude Shannon, published for the first time
Yes, regularly. I use the "New" page as my main landing, before visiting the "Front" page. Every time I visit I upvote everything that I think is of value.
This article should have been named 'Six Reasons Why Google Books Does Not Satisfy My Needs'. I beleive Books are a constant source of revenue for Google, and let's be honest, that is the only reason for corporations to exist.

Oh, btw Goole Books snippets are getting injected into my search results more and more often, so it looks like the idea of searching through the books isn't dead at all.
The block store component in kivaloo uses multiple files, yes.

Needing to do GC won't make you need more I/Os to service requests; the exact same sequence of B+Tree nodes will need to be loaded from disk. The only effect of GC is wasted disk space.

Kivaloo does support a data-loss mode, so you could store locks in a daemon running with that option. Personally I prefer to err on the side of caution when I'm dealing with locking and transactions.
NYT.com Pricing Page: http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp5558.htm...

NYT Home Delivery: https://www.nytimesathome.com/

WSJ.com Pricing Page: https://order.wsj.com/sub/f3

Both of them suck because it's not easy to figure out how much you'll actually pay annually. They purposely bury the actual subscription cost behind "details" hover-bubbles, and only explicitly show you limited-time rates which are far cheaper than what you'll actually pay in the long run. Basically, it's a signal that they're afraid to tell customers how much they actually cost.

WSJ
Year 1 Year 2 Diff

Online $103.48 $155.48 50%
Print $119.08 $363.48 205%
Online/Print $139.88 $441.48 215%
iPad App $207.48 $207.48 0%

DUAL-PLANS REQUIRED:

Online/iPad $310.96 $362.96 17%
Print/iPad $326.56 $570.96 75%
Onl/Pri/iPad $347.36 $648.96 86%

------------------------------------

NYT
Year 1 Year 2 Diff

Online/Mobile $183.96 $195.00 6%
Online/Tablet $243.96 $260.00 7%
Online/All $423.96 $455.00 7%

10001 (NYC, NY):

Print (S-Sun) $289.80 $327.60 13%
Print (M-Fri) $285.20 $322.40 13%
Print (F-Sun) $349.60 $395.20 13%
Print (7 day) $538.20 $608.40 13%

90120 (LA, CA):

Print (Sun) $345.00 $390.00 13%
Print (M-Fri) $340.40 $384.80 13%
Print (F-Sun) $478.40 $540.80 13%
Print (7 day) $680.80 $769.60 13%

With the exception of the WSJ iPad App, everything increases rates in year 2. The WSJ increases them dramatically.

The NYT print subscription includes free online/smartphone/tablet access (All Digital Access). It's actually cheaper to subscribe to some Print plans to gain All Digital Access, than it is to just go digital!

Online/All $423.96 $455.00
Print (S-Sun) $289.80 $327.60 NYC
Print (M-Fri) $285.20 $322.40 NYC
Print (F-Sun) $349.60 $395.20 NYC
Print (Sun) $345.00 $390.00 LA
Print (M-Fri) $340.40 $384.80 LA

I guess this means it's cheaper to provide online, smartphone, iPad access, AND physical home delivery, than it is to omit delivery. ;)
Spinning the Sun's Rays Into Fuel
Also, highters instances can do words-injection and MITM attack between me and the other user. And i can't react !
RiderOfGiraffes doesn't need you to tell him how Hacker News works.
Necessity, not Scarcity, is the Mother of Invention
That is the obvious symmetry. Anyone could have written it.
You are, of course, correct that upvotes do not "define" what belongs in this community. However if you will not accept that evidence, look at the other comments in this thread.

I see people having fun and satisfying their creative curiosity by making and building upon jokes inspired by this link. Links which link intellect and curiosity are quite often posted to HN.

To answer your question on what have I really learned... well that's not a question you want to start asking. I can point out quite a few articles that don't belong upon HN when held against that criteria. Take for example almost everything related to the NYT. I usually don't click on those and just wait for the blog post that explains the same thing with more information and less filler.

As for another argument that you will find quite easy to strike down, this is not somewhere where I go do to market research, it is somewhere where I go to entertain myself and find things, preferably about hacking, that I may read. This link does a brilliant job of being related to hacking while also being entertaining.
Yeah, now that I think of it I can't remember why I'm doing the 01 thing. Must be residual from my previous job where we used this pattern.

I remember reading through the Bind file and seeing

# >10k machines? NEVER!
streamer0001.xxx...
Ask HN: Best way to milk a viral Facebook app?
i am about to launch a facebook app that has a chance of going viral. I do not see any long term viability of the app. My goal is to make the maximum possible money and exit.
what are my best bets?
>the DOE is the only entity capable of investing in research of this kind?

who else other than government has this kind of money for such fundamental research? (i.e. a lot of money without any feasible productization in the next at least 10 years) May be IBM Almaden comes closest, and yet it is still very far.
This description of process made me think this would be a nice place to work. Really sensible!
The Art of Admitting Failure
This is very intellectually unfulfilling. Second place? HN is approaching chain emails...
Recommended steps: power cycle, kick, replace
This is not quite as bad as what Mediacom, a large US cable ISP is doing on their network. They are modifying TCP in transit to change 404 responses from websites into a 200 response with a line of javascript to redirect the browser to their own search engine. They've been receiving non-stop complaints for 2 months and there's still no way to opt-out.

A month ago they were caught injecting ad's on top of google.com and apple.com, as well as replacing AdSense on arbitrary websites with their own advertising.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Mediacom-Injecting-Their-...
performance-wise it does not look like the best

Show me a networked data store which does better on the same hardware. (FWIW, with trivial keys and values, kivaloo gets significantly more operations per second.)

default 128 MB memory limit on kvlds. this can be changed i suppose? i hope docs will be coming.

Command-line option to kvlds, documented in a text file in the kivaloo tarball.

services requests upon it from a single connection; and a request multiplexer (mux) which accepts multiple connections and routes requests and responses to and from a single "upstream" connection. does this mean it support multiple requests in one round-trip?

Yes, and responses can come back out-of-order, too.
Is Trader Joes Really Not on Twitter?
Someone who:

1) has a lot of hustle and energy, even when things are uncertain

2) refuses to give up

3) has a long-term passion for the product or space, not just interested in a quick exit.

4) finds creative ways to get customers or market feedback

5) has a good product and design sense
Only works if you cannibalized that iMac from two other Macs.
Well, yeah. I'm sure the average person with 4 windows boxes at home wouldn't be wild about the idea of the creep seeping between the boxes...

Whereas unix folks are more likely to be nerdier and like that sort of thing ;)

Oh, and awesome scheme overall.
This is what the email looked like: http://www.errant.me.uk/code/snip/10

He also gave tips to get subscribers back.
Can anyone who's got Hibernate and ActiveRecord experience give a quick shot on the big differences?

I haven't used ActiveRecord.. but spent years with Hibernate, and consider it a pretty impecable project compared to other ORMs I've encountered (J2EE's CMP, and Django's ORM, specifically.
> this is ... somewhere where
> I go to entertain myself

And there's the difference between my purpose for being here and yours. I entertain myself in other ways on other sites. I come here for information about hacking, startups, and things that satisfy my intellectual curiosity.

This submission does none of those. I don't think it's even especially funny or clever, but I've seen it all before.

Thank you for your reply - it has taught me something. There was a time when I would've upvoted you to show that you added value, but these days votes seem to be used mostly to express agreement or disagreement, so I'm disinclined. But I value your comment - thanks.
The Case for Color (How VC's can Justify a $41 million investment)
I'm not sure how useful those metrics would be at any point, since some ideas are simple, and others complex. Plus how do you quantify time since you got the idea? Just for example.
It would be hard to come up with a vision of the future that freaks me out any more than that description.
Display issues from a GitHub repository in a console window
To the brain, getting burned, getting dumped feel the same
> Common philosophies I hear exposited in tech circles is, "Biz co-founders are a dime a dozen" and “Good ideas, in and of themselves, are worthless”.

If "the idea" is so valuable, why doesn't it survive first contact with the customer? Why the need to pivot?

You seem to think that "the idea" is valuable, so feel free to point out where "the idea" was a crucial factor in success.

Since it's fair for you to respond with "okay, but you point out where execution mattered", I will.

Amazon, Google, Apple (wrt IPhone and IPad), IBM, Intel, Walmart.

In all of those cases, a competitor had "the same idea", and was first and better funded.

If you think that that's unfair, feel free to give us some examples of actionable "ideas" that biz people had first.
Wow, from 2 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436058

The comments back then were.. different somehow.
One problem with the LoC is that they don't really do a great job of making the collection readily available.

Sure they have http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

Which is "ok". But it's not really searchable, the interfaces are clunky, and I can't really just go find say...the Wizard of Oz series, or review historic maps of my state without going through dozens of clicks in an interface that's taking up about 1/6th of my screen real estate (and only downloadable as a jpg or an obscure geodata format called MrSid).

Ugh.

It's obvious that a ton of thought has gone into organizing the data, but not much into retrieval.

By comparison, it took me .16 seconds to find the Wizard of Oz books...and oh, if I care, a play in three acts, some song books, and other odds and ends.