skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back at CMU there were local-to-campus on-line bulletin boards. Eventually these became local netnews news groups.

One of these was the "general" bboard for the CS department. Creativity was always valued in the department. Thus, while normal people would go to the general bboard to sell a used couch or get advice on selecting a water heater or find out what colloquium's were coming up next month, those people would often be confused and alarmed to find stuff like this:

"

16-Sep-82 12:09 Neil Swartz at CMU-750R Pigeon type question

This question does not involve pigeons, but is similar:

There is a lit candle in an elevator mounted on a bracket attached to the middle of one wall (say, 2" from the wall). A drop of mercury is on the floor. The cable snaps and the elevator falls.

What happens to the candle and the mercury?

=

16-Sep-82 17:21 Howard Gayle at CMU-780G WARNING!

Because of a recent physics experiment, the leftmost elevator has been contaminated with mercury. There is also some slight fire damage.

Decontamination should be complete by 08:00 Friday."

That kind of behavior caused consternation in some circles. Alas, the CS department also famously fosters an honor-based social order called the "reasonable person principle". Essentially, everyone should behave like grown-ups and assume the same of everyone else. The reasonable person principle doesn't leave a lot of easy room for rules like "don't post jokes to the general bboard else no desert for you". So, two responses evolved.

First, Scott Fahlman invented a typographic convention to signal that a post was a joke: :-)

Later, the cs.opinion newsgroup was created and people were encouraged to act out their creative writing impulses there.

cs.opinion occasionally went off the rails (e.g., when one T.A. came to have a fondness for railing with apparent sincerity against minority students who he thought unworthy of being admitted). Mostly, though, it was good fun. Occasionally some real gems of writing were posted there.

Olin was one of the better writers. I recall but don't have at hand several loving realist / surrealist descriptions he wrote of life in his native Georgia. More famously, and in some ways anticipating the SCSH acknowledgements, it this exchange:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/autoweapons.html

"It's common knowledge that whenever you get two or more CS grad students together, the conversation will inevitably drift to the same topic: automatic weapons. [....]"
Ask HN: Thoughts on Google Summer of Code?
Summer of code sounds interesting (even though it may not pay very much). I would love to be able to work on an open source project such as Processing or Inkscape while still being able to support myself, but I'm left wondering a few things.

Is it worth it? Are there better uses of a student's summer?

Also, is it right for me? I'm an interactive multimedia major, not a computer science major. I'm more experienced with the interactive elements (such as websites, UI toolkits, and games) than with low-level algorithms.

I'm a 3rd year university student, if that has any impact.
Startups and StartUp America: Can They Really Restart America?
All About the Eyes
Let's Crate, a free file sharing service for educators
How many payments? Are they really going to be every month or are you going to be at the mercy of an A/P department?

My experience, the best way is to go the primitive route and get a hard check that you can deposit manually if there are not too many of them, though I hope you have too many.

The reason is that entities hate to pay this kind of money and there are always issues (late or checks that are light etc), so having as much traceable, physical data is huge.

This does not scale well but for a smaller entity it actually works quite well.
How is a free text messaging app making the founder rich enough to donate $1M?
I'm with you and do feel the same way for the most part. Just think that in this article specifically, it's in a good way.
Data is encrypted client-side, so even Mozilla can't read it. If someone hacks Mozilla, they could get your encrypted data, but without your passphrase, they won't be able to read it. On the downside, if you forget your passphrase, you won't be able to read your data either (you have to wipe your account and start over).
Yeah, that's the page I had read and was expecting perf that killed the Nexus S stock browser. But I'm not sure if its any better. Do you see better perf on your device? Are there some pages that show the perf delta more than others (besides Mozilla built showcase pages?).
From an innovation standpoint, it might be interesting to go with the model of high benefits of success, low cost of failure. That relative skew is what has arguably made the US the leader in this field in the macro.

Startups given the market for engineers in particular actually only have a temporal starvation penalty. It's not like they can't get another job after they fail.

Doing this in a large company might lead to even more innovative products because startups are so under-resourced and governed by promises to investors that they risk becoming myopic and less agile.
If you want in-depth coverage of the Epic (and other digital cameras) listen to "the rc podcast" at http://www.fxguide.com/podcasts/

Their Canon 5D and 7D stuff was really informative also.
Google goes Instant with Commerce Search
Stanford Wants To Open A Campus In New York
> We have at least two decades of cheap oil ahead.

[Citation needed]
Looks good, a little bit toyish, though. The endings of the letters look like they are rounded. I prefer the stylish seriousness of Helvetica Light on the iPhone, but that's a matter of taste.
To be a little more helpful: Basically for ACH you get charged per transaction.

http://www.achq.com/lz/ach-processing-solutions.php says $.25/transaction, though I've heard that you can find as low as $0.04/transaction.
Volume 15 and possibly volume 8 of the "Histoire Universell" are missing! I always suspected the universe was insufficiently documented. Now we have found the source.

(Look Northwest, first two shelf columns to the left of the doorway, 8th shelf from the floor. I'm going to make a note in my pivotaltracker blaming Jsarokin for today's velocity.)
Artificial leaf produces electricity through photosynthesis
The older Red One had a much longer report time than the new Epic.
Haha. Way to try and ride on Facebook's branding.
Ask HN: How would you get the word out about a new dating site?
I'm having a lot of success with advertising for my new dating site, The Matching Game - http://www.thematchinggame.com - but am having a hard time figuring out other ways to get the word out. All of the articles I google just look like link bait.

So does anyone have any ideas about how to get the word out about a new, fun, free dating site? Mostly looking for press suggestions, but any ideas are welcome.

Thanks in advance.
I tried two quick examples in the browser for a little test. Thinking in terms on banal clipart I use the tag "happy" and I get back a very nicely shot photo of two attractive people making out in a doorway. Hmmm. Then I try "friends" thinking I'll get something a little more office appropriate and I get a nicely cropped image of two young ladies in bikinis frolicking on a beach.

Nothing R rated or tasteless, just not the kind of thing I want to explain to my boss who's looking over my shoulder. Think I'll be sticking with http://placekitten.com/ then...
Post Comments Via Email on Posterous
Does contentEditable/designMode work on it by any chance?

If so, it will be the first mobile browser to support it.

Basic test here: http://html5demos.com/contenteditable

or much more advanced here: http://ckeditor.com/demo
Fuck you, dickwizard
Here's a link to the site: http://www.thematchinggame.com
Sorry, I was half asleep and typing on my iPad
Color inspired by Steve Job
Why maps of Libya and Japan are so important
The Problem With Microsoft...
+1 to this.

I don't work full time on my lifestyle business but the IRS will be taking a hefty chunk this year. I wish they read HN more so they could scoff at my lack of entrepreneurship and spurn my meager revenues.
I really don't like it at all. All the blurriness gives me a headache. The Y Combinator CSS looks pretty cruddy.

I understand that you're doing a lot of experimenting, but it's probably better suited for test.html, instead of index.html...
Advertise on Facebook — that's the one place where folks identify themselves as single in addition to indicating their interests. If you're looking for press find every romance and sex columnist you can find and pitch away...
I have to agree from my experience at IBM. Those rewarded tend not to be rewarded much by industry standards (years salary at best) and the entire team or even the most meritorious contributors are rarely rewarded.

I know of at least one team that came up with something major that asked for their compensation to be tied to their product success having their idea moved to another team because "they should do it for IBM purely". Of course that product failed for lack of vision and focus.
Or even just wrap the function in Pipe:

>>> from pipe import *
>>> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] | Pipe(sum)
15
This is a pretty big deal in the maturation of private clouds. NewScale probably isn't something of interest to a startup with integrated operations and practicing DevOps/continuous deployment, but for larger organization it allows the IT division to publish a catalog of VMs and then allow for chargeback between departments ("self-service IT")
2050 doesn't really seem to be soon enough to cause any action. There will be people hemming and hawing, and by the time 2050 rolls around, the deadline will be 2100.
I'm guessing the answer is zero.

Cases involving the RIAA might be a different matter but it's unlikely that there would be any blanket assumption of that sort for any file sharing case.

The thing to remember here is what people, particularly people in the law, are paid to do and what they believe are very different things. It's possible, even likely, that she has no strong opinions on file sharing one way or the other, that she was just doing a job and that she's entirely capable of taking a clear and unbiased view of things.
I don't think that will be accurate with Scarlet showing up.

The other big difference from the Red cameras and Canon is RAW versus a heavily compressed h264.
Or you have really diverse music tastes and prefer lossless formats?
Microsoft Wants to Turn Emails into Small Web Apps: Partners with Posterous
TMTC 50 - Chad Fowler and The Passionate Programmer
51 TMTC Being Nice (MINASWAN)
Start off the with free version. When you need another feature, see what the lowest tier is that has your desired features, get that. Repeat as needed.
An Updated List of Android Apps for Honeycomb
> The climate will change. That's completely natural and I can't see a reason to stop it (honestly I think it's impossible). Humans and other animals will just adapt and the evolution will continue.

This is a very weird paragraph. Forgive me if I don't understand properly, but let's look at this carefully:

> The climate will change. That's completely natural

The climate does change naturally. It also changes due to artificial reasons (unless you consider human pollution to be natural, but that's just word semantics. For now, lets call human-caused climate change "artificial").

So no this is not completely natural. Our activities have had intense repercussions on our planet's climate in a very artificial way.

> and I can't see a reason to stop it

Really? You can't see any reason at all? If we don't stop polluting and heating up the planet, it's possible that hundreds of millions of people will suffer and perhaps die. Worst case scenarios have terrible food shortages and awful fresh water problems as rain patterns shift and change. Even if none of this happens there is absolutely that risk. How can you say that you see no reason to stop the human-caused climate change?

> (honestly I think it's impossible).

This makes zero sense to me. We started changing our climate a long time ago and didn't even notice. We're still changing it now. What makes you think it's "impossible" to start going the other way? Dude, we can drive electric cars on the moon. We can develop technologies to help regulate our climate here on Earth just fine.

> Humans and other animals will just adapt and the evolution will continue.

Not so fast. While evolution will definitely continue, there already are mass extinctions happening due to climate change. We're changing things far faster than most species can react to, far faster than evolution can handle.

Life on Earth will most certainly continue and evolve for many millions of years into the future. But at what cost? We don't need to kill off millions of species just 'cause it's cheaper to burn fuel than use other methods.

Let's try to keep as many currently-alive species going as long as we can, yeah? What's the harm in that?
Wow, thanks. That looks a little too complicated for me, though.

Edit: Also the link seems to be outdated.
It's either that or let most of their content be uncrawled and show up on efreedom.com instead.
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Your status as a business person is defined by customers and revenue, not titles like "founder" or "napkin entrepreneur"

Let others debate on titles and definitions. Focus on making money.
IDC Projects Windows Phone to Top iPhone in Market Share by 2015
Sure, but my point is that you can't know for sure whether Facebook will actually delete your profile even if they say they have.

"They trust me - dumb fucks" - Mark Zuckerberg
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Estimates Point To 3 Million Nooks Color Sold
Firefox 5 Preview available
The Start Project's First Graduate Launches, Pulls In A Cool $3 Million
This is modern journalism, and the logical by-product of 24-hour news. When there's no actual news to report, everything becomes news, gets jumped on and beaten to death.
Oops. Didn't see it there. Sorry.
Hmm, your argument seems to rest on the conflation of 'barriers of entry' with 'copyright protection.' Consumers can now easily download music illegally - what's that got to do with barriers for entry? What market players have successfully exploited lowered entry-barriers?
If you have a rooted phone, you can always use AdFree. It adds entries to your /etc/hosts so it blocks ads in all apps.
Well searching for "Wizard of Oz" on Google is about like searching for "hot teen sex" in that there is a lot of commercial incentive for Google to return results and returning something relevant is trivial given that Google's algorithms are tuned to return potentially monetizable results over a diversity of potentially informative results.

In other words, when was the last time something from the LOC appeared as a result of your Google search - such as the copyright data from Webvoyage? For example google("wonderful wizard of oz" copyright) and try to find this highly relevant information from the LOC [http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=wo...]

Aside on MrSid - if you are archiving a map for reference as a map rather than clip art it is ideal, and archiving maps for use as maps is what the LOC does. On the flip side, Google's goal is to sell advertising for companies like "worldsbestmaps.com" and so returning useless (from a map making perspective) results increases the value of Google ads to those companies.
In my opinion it should be perfectly possible for someone with C# and C experience to start learning Python and Django at the same time (you can go over the tutorial at docs.python.org. in a handful of hours tops and that should be plenty to start), I personally have no experience with Rails, but I imagine the same applies.

(Also, the #python IRC channel on FreeNode.net is a truly excellent community!)
Are you sure? According to this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Sync/1.1/Setup it says the passphrase you use is sent in the clear (over HTTPS) to mozilla every time you get the data. That implies that while the data may be stored encrypted client-side, it's decrypted or at least verified server-side.
Atlas Shrugged - The Movie - Part 1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/

May be an interesting movie. I personally have mixed feelings about the novel. I though it was way too long and would have been a better book with some proper editing.
Not to mention the question of who would build and maintain the roads...
Exactly; this is a follow-on play, not a startup play. In other words, the world had to wait around for a big company to do this business.
And yet another service that does not support Ubuntu... Ubuntu One just might get my money after all.
Sausage works. Why won't a finger? It is about conductivity, isn't it? May be the bots will pickle our fingers for best results.
Daylight Savings Time issues, and other time-sensitive code snafus like one, will likely rear their ugly heads periodically for the foreseeable future:

https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5852

Especially since the SA bug was patched to "match 2020 and onwards..."
AMAZON CLOUD STARTUP BRITAIN AND WEBSITE IN 60 SECONDS
I was surprised how much of a load webcrawlers (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc) imposed on us at PatientsLikeMe, the majority of which is Google. The "intelligent" rate limiting results in a very high rate of crawl for many sites.

We added additional caching and manually lowered the crawl rate to address this at PatientsLikeMe.
Maybe they'll just render some random portion of the files inaccessible unless you pay up? Or just make your account read-only until you clear out enough of the files. Plenty of ways to handle it without wholesale deletion.
I like it. It's clean, reads nicely at small sizes on a screen, and shows its Modernist heritage while going for a little more motion.

I wish I could use it on my web application (I think), but my quick scan doesn't show any licensing information.
Maybe. But so are all the headlines about Amazon. Yes, Amazon beat Apple and Google to the punch on the media locker, but the extent to which that is relevant is questionable. Apple sells 70% of the digital music in America compared to Amazon's 12%.

http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/05/amazon-elbows-its-...

It's good to see Amazon getting in there and releasing forward-looking products, but it is also important to realize that they still have a ton of catching up to do. If Blockbuster released an online video locker product I don't think it would dramatically affect Netflix.

Point simply: Kudos to Amazon for getting their first. Not sure it's going to make much of a difference seeing as Apple's media locker is coming out in the next few months (as is Google's apparently). Customers are sticky to their music stores.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Confirmed
If it is for a prototype, why not just use the Django admin? I would not run a full-on SaaS site with the built-in admin, but I would be happy enough to use it to demo back-end functionality.

There might be use-cases which would prevent this (e.g. row-level permissions are impossible - if you can delete one FooObject, you can delete them all), but if you can avoid these it should be ok.
Apparently, "juggle balls cooperatively" is German for "play catch".
This is the best article I've read about getting press coverage:

http://mediastandardstrust.org/blog/fuel-to-the-fire/

But it's a pretty competitive market place out there, have you considered buying ads?
MIPS - First 64-Bit Multi-threaded Multiprocessor IP Core Code Named “Prodigy”
This answer won't be popular here. If you're well-versed in C++, a jump to Java would be less of a cognitive leap than a jump to the dynamic / duck-typed languages that others have cited here.

Java has some excellent web frameworks. My personal favorite is Wicket, but there are many others.
class Dog:
def speak(self):
print "Woof!"

class Cat:
def speak(self):
print "Meow!"

obj = Dog()
obj.speak()
obj.__class__ = Cat
obj.speak()

Prints:

Woof!
Meow!

Seems to validate what the OP was saying.

EDIT: I don't understand the downvotes. The OP spoke of Python's "ability to change what any object is, on the fly," but was refuted and downvoted. Doesn't the above code sample illustrate exactly that? The object's class can be changed on the fly, therefore changing what the object is.
Hello there,

Posting on Hacker News is a good start. But I would consider leveraging social networks to help spread the word. Here are a few options:

-You can integrate Facebook Connect or Twitter Signin to get users to link their accounts to their thematchinggame.com profile.

-Once connected, you can post tweets or status updates about their activity.

-You could also ask them to tweet or to like your website whenever they signup.

-You could also create a simple contest for an iPad 2, and users would need to invite the most friends possible to be eligible. Or you could ask them to like or tweet the contest.

Good luck!
I learn with pet projects, i.e. stuff that doesn't have anything to do with deadlines or customers.
Is it so difficult to believe that that was a joke?

I can see myself making that sort of joke in person, but after seeing what's happened to Zuckerburg, I would treat the internet as a press conference.

Zuckerburg has been described as socially awkward more times than he's been described -- you can't be sure that he wasn't just going too far with a joke. That's very common for the stereotypical logical type -- doubly when he's talking to a friend that would be fine with the joke.

But suppose it were not a joke. This guy has changed the world forever in an incredibly short period of time. I'd be surprised if he didn't change his philosophy somewhat, if not drastically.

Few people have to adjust to being one of the most influential human beings in the world, especially in their mid-twenties.
You've misunderstood what '2k' means - it refers to the y axis, not the x. Both aspect ratios you cite are effectively 1k.

Also, regarding Avatar - see the comment above about what it takes to compensate for lower resolution sources. There is absolutely no comparison between what Jim Cameron can do with 1080p + a quarter billion dollars, and what the average Sundance aspirant is trying to pull off for less than a million.
Hi Maukdaddy,

That's not very nice. Maybe I'll make a gigapixel image of your face after I give you a knuckle sandwich.

Just kidding. :-))

Seriously, there is no BS in the Tech Crunch article. If you want my direct thoughts on it, here is my blog post, which is a lot shorter than the Tech Crunch and the Wired articles.

http://blog.360cities.net/strahov-40-gigapixel-world-record-...

cheers,
Jeffrey Martin
http://teamviewer.com You don't even need to install it to run.
There was the Unladen Swallow project but it was different in a few areas. The Python front end seeks to create an ahead of time compiler for GCC, whereas Unladen Swallow used LLVM's just-in-time compilation framework. Ahead of time compilation could be quite beneficial to applications like smartphones or video games that could benefit from a faster Python environment but don't allow JITs like PyPy or Unladen Swallow. (License permitting.) The Python front end is also being actively developed right now whereas US seems to have petered out.
Just tried it. It does!
I get it! The PHP site being hosed with too many concurrent requests is the Erlang rationale.
We do. there is a button under the pano, "share current view". it gives you a link like this for example which goes to a zoomed in location in the pano:
http://www.360cities.net/gigapixel/strahov-library.html?v=-3...
Color, Facebook, and the Value of Implicit Social Graphs
A referrer is not sent when following a link from a secure website (https) to a non-secure website.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-15.1.3