skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That highlights a big issue, though - anything in that market will necessarily be a very high-touch sales process and therefore very expensive, unless it's absurdly easy to use and install. If you can solve that issue (Square seems to be having a crack at it), you'll probably be extremely successful.
There's a reverse problem too with complaining about karma farming eroding the SNR. I care about learning interesting things and couldn't care less about my karma on a website. I've only ever submitted two articles, and those were only after I read something that I found profoundly interesting that had just been posted (I read them right after getting an email alert that they were posted). For both, I also took the time to search HN to make sure they hadn't been submitted yet, before I hit the button. But the second one still drew complaints of being a duplicate based on prior submissions of a related previous Techchrunch post that hadn't shown up in my search and that I'd never noticed despite hitting HN several times a day, because they hadn't been upvoted at all and had quickly plummeted off the first few pages. I hope a solution can be found that cuts down on both redundant submissions and occupying comment space with annoying complaints about redundant submissions (and that obviates the need for annoying complaints about the annoying complaints).

I'd suggest trying just eliminating awarding karma to users, at least for submissions - just use the submissions' points for the ordering on the page. It takes way more effort to write a valuable comment than to hit submit for a link, so let comments become the sole determinant of users' karma. I think users would still submit pages they find particularly interesting for HN out of desire to share interesting things.
The font can be hard to read, but I think it's Winklevii, even though it looks like Winklevil. At least the OP took the word 'zombie' out of the original title.
Google is a snapshot of links TODAY. Links that no longer almost certainly pass no value. Rand is wrong about a few of the domains on the list, as they have done shady SEO in the past. Also, OSE.org is not a fluid list - it only crawls a sliver of the web, and their index is not nearly as comprehensive as Google's. It was updated a week or so ago, and before that, had not been updated for a month and a half.
Man, Flash is like Windows 98 back in the day. Time to take the plunge and uninstall.
Last year it was $99 (I think) and people were all over it. Add in the free interest and this looks like the exact same deal.
Since they want to start with an implementation built into kernel libs, I wonder how easy would it be for btrfs to switch... Since the interface is similar, I really hope it's possible.
hm, seems the terminology has changed since i was trying to invent the chinese keyboard in childhood. we used to call the chinese characters hieroglyphs (characters that represent the bigger notions like words or parts of the word), as opposed to letters (characters that represent the sounds). now i see in wikipedia that they are called sinographs and contain of ideograms.

my idea was to split the chinese character to the most primitive strokes like horizontal, vertical, diagonal strokes, squares, commas etc.

i dont know, they have keyboards in china, and they are not that big. do they let to input sounds and then choose from several chars that sound like the input, or implement my childish idea?
Thoughts on skimming:

* Very high-rated posts could be distinguished subtly. (Maybe a small element is bolded or italicized.)

* Skimming might actually be a symptom of something wrong. Like too many low-signal posts in a thread. Also, maybe skimming even correlates with people posting too fast, or the point system leads to worse posts.

* There are other skim-markers. For example, post length and author.

* Maybe skimming using points isn't actually faster. Could people be wasting time judging whether the post's worth the points?
Robert Harper has recently started blogging and is claiming a big success with teaching functional programming to first year students. http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-dog-that...

"...we are placing a strong emphasis on verification and proof as tools for the practicing programmer, chief among these being the infamous hellhounds of Computer Science, induction and recursion."

andrejbauer wants to know why Prof Harper is using SML instead of Haskell. There is a slight technical difficulty about proofs in a lazy language but "Well, in Haskell you’d have to use coinduction rather than induction, since the recursive definitions of datatypes are understood as final coalgebras."

That seems to make the point that ML is easier due to synergies with learning to create inductive proofs in maths lessons.
As someone who lives in the UK, I almost see dollars as monopoly money, I just can't easily interpret the value properly. For example, if something I wanted was $10, I'd snap it up, whereas if it was £5 (~$8), I'd think twice. You'd think it would be the other way around given that each pound is worth more than a dollar, but I guess you just give greater value to the currency you use everyday.

Though I wonder, would you generate more sales selling a product for £6, than you would selling it for $9? And could you switch your pricing from $9 to £9 (~$14.71) and maintain a similar conversion rate?
City64 at least fails to produce the same values on an x86 and big endian PPC (Debian squeeze on both):

x86
========================
641f1cd0505d1ff9 : I
e394c6831e9d6e71 : do
651c1a4b0b3f2d88 : not
9fc671af2d051786 : know
1fa385757f0016ec : about
f2407bd9ce678f7f : making
73bd225c6b6b8163 : awkward
ea78562e35777eb1 : rhopalic
3c854a925e6e4a9e : sentences
84a04e9aa8dae9f5 : .

PPC
========================
641f1cd0505d1ff9 : I
e394c6831e9d6e71 : do
651c1a4b0b3f2d88 : not
147d90cc620fc6b2 : know
23af6044b2394703 : about
4f80227202845190 : making
4b8b4b3cd98a1de9 : awkward
61b38def2ee9465f : rhopalic
29016ee1c7c61e93 : sentences
84a04e9aa8dae9f5 : .

For anyone that cares, the test program was…

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "city.h"

const char *word[] = { "I", "do", "not", "know", "about",
"making", "awkward", "rhopalic",
"sentences", ".", 0 };

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
for ( const char **p = word ; *p != 0; p++) {
uint64 v = CityHash64( *p, strlen(*p));
printf("%Lx : %s\n", v, *p);
}
}
Another article here: http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-may-r...
Call me an old dude (which I am), but can we please not make fun of people's names? The joke is funny, I laughed, but it is not good to do this in a public place like HN.
From some recently leaked images of Win8, it appears that it will support mounting ISOs out of the box.
haven't seen this stuff in a while... given the complexity and large history-tracking tables of modern branch predictors, is this stuff still useful?

or is the code written in this manner just to make it more platform independent (i.e. cycles still matter for embedded applications, etc)?
I have basically switched to SML from OCaml over the past year, and to be honest there aren't huge differences between the languages.

Objects, classes, polymorphic variants, and labels are all missing from SML, but none of them are a big deal. SML has slightly nicer records, in that you don't need to declare a record type, and can (and often are) used in a way similar to labeled arguments in OCaml. Unfortunately, structures cannot contain functors, and functors cannot return functors. Since I switched, first class modules have been added to OCaml, but I never used them in OCaml so I don't know how useful they would be.

One benefit of SML I have found is that function applications (including operator applications) are clearly separated from other types of expressions in the precedence parsing, so it is easier to remember the precedence rules in SML than it is in OCaml.

So, all of that is less than compelling, but I mention it because if you are comfortable with OCaml, you will likely be comfortable with SML. The reason I switched is because of MLton, which is pretty outstanding at optimization. You can write in whichever style works for you, because all the stylistic changes you would use with other compilers or interpreters for performance reasons don't really have any effect. There is basically no runtime barrier for using any kind of abstraction. This doesn't tend to show in the types of microbenchmarks that people often use for comparing languages (for simple programs, OCaml and MLton have pretty similar performance), but it's very nice for larger programs.
This is not overly dramatic. Flash can now compromise your entire computer simply by your browser being directed at malicious content. It may be a search result, or a link, or an email... you click, and your entire computer is compromised. All your data could instantly disappear. All your money could be drained from your bank account.

Remote exploits that require no abnormal user action are fucking serious.
Cat Hands - Node.JS + Kinect + OSC [video]
I usually just put the isos on a Linux box, share them, and then mount the share as a drive in Windows. Isn't that the easiest way? :)
Linux and Mac also have a perceived software deficit. If not to consumers, definitely to businesses. The more software is on Windows, the more people go to Windows, ... etc.

One could choose to view that forcing MS users to use 3rd party software to a common problem is actually 'supporting the ecosystem'. Someone in Microsoft could be saying that they aren't forcing users, but giving them the choice.

So what happens? The implement ISO mounting for the most part but either have compatibility bugs or they extend the functionality to benefit its own ecosystem better. People complain about that too. Think carriage returns (\n\r) and Internet Explorer. People hate Microsoft for these reasons.

So really, they piss someone off either way. So doing what costs the least amount of money (nothing) is often best.

That said, asking "How does server administration on Server 2008 and related products compare to other platforms?" answers a larger and more important question than "how do I mount ISOs on Windows?"
Pentadactyl, improved vim bindings for Firefox
gone now
Company Name: Talamu (we turn commercials into games)

Company Size (number of people employed): 1 full time, 2 part time

Company URL: apps.facebook.com/thevideogame (this is what you'll be working on)

Position: Development, Interactive design and action scripting

Contact Email: zach@talamu.com

Skills Needed: Flash, Design, PHP, MySQL, CSS/XHTML
I wonder how much more artificial and heavily processed ingredients those kids are taking in verses those of parents buying groceries and making their kids a lunch. It could definitely end being less healthy for a lot of kids, ignoring the fact that different people need different amounts of nutrients based on their diet away from school as well as other factors of their health.
Something like a free kindle to all new Prime subscribers?
Unless I'm badly confused, the particular issue on which he came out against the plaintiff was already brought up.
Wonder if they have anything in place to stop people flashing the existing K3 firmware which is ad-free.

There's also existing hacks out their to customise the screensavers, wonder if they've patched this else people would be able to avoid the ads.
I think you can use notifo for this?
I hope you don't turn the points display back on. Hiding points makes it more likely that users will actually read a comment before voting it up or down.
Predator Object Tracking source (Compilation for Mac OS)
"Winklevii" did appear in the CNN article. Judging from a quick Google search it's been used before (42,000 results)
http://www.google.com/search?q=winklevii
Yes, I've had to create a "priority" tag. It's ok though.

The biggest thing that's missing for me is the ability to add screenshots. That just hurts.
WSJ now http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110411-709790.html
I second Sources of Power. A truly fantastic read.

As a adjunct to learning about "Commander's Intent", the USMC's Warfighting provides a fairly simple background of theory.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266193
The screen shots are too tiny.
Metrics: From Code to Business Value at Yammer (from CodeConf)
Official source: https://github.com/zk00006/OpenTLD
Interesting idea with the time T1 when comment wuld be so old that the score could be shown. But there's also existing timestamp T2 when the comment is too old to vote. How you'd suggest to relate T1 & T2?
It's an experiment, may stop happening.
They're the perfect demographic. Keep in mind the ads being pushed are in the form of promotions based on the examples Amazon is giving, for um, this promotion.
I might go with "Structured Javascript Applications", or something similar, as your chapter titles indicate a degree of concern for structure/robustness/non-spaghetti-code apps.

Or maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see.
Wait, the policy has been in place for 6 years and parents have recently voiced outrage? I wouldn't take this report at face value. Maybe some parents do not like the principal and is looking for cause to ruffle a few things up.

A 6 year-old policy probably has it's bugs all worked out, why the sudden change of heart?
China's daily deals site Lashou raises $110 million
I like the simplicity of it. Simple logo, text that isn't under contrasted. Simple description of what they're working on, and simple ways to sign up for notifications.
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That's technically not the reason why they were "censured", although what you describe was seen as part of abusing their monopoly.

Like the commenter above said, there is nothing illegal with being a monopoly.
This is running rampant in the adult community right now. Studios suing thousands of people for uploading to torrents. It's the new revenue model when your current isn't generating. Subpoena 1000's of IP's and send threatening letters demanding payment.

Sad.
Twitter Engineering: Twitter Search is Now 3x Faster
What about Paypal? It should allow you to move around money quite easily and people can withdraw it to their accounts also relatively problem free. Although I am not sure about the state of Paypal in all the countries you mention.
There is some stuff under AdWords here, from patio11: http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/
Probably so. A valid concern and understandable...safety measure/warning to users that a new account may be spamming.

That's not the case for me, long time lurker. Finally decided to make an account and share some of the stuff I've been writing as I thought it would be of interest to some people. Not an attempt to SEO/spam/other crap.
I would be okay if there were some way to tell roughly how many points a post was getting, even if it wasn't precise. For example, some sort of color coding that moved to warmer colors on a roughly logarithmic scale.
The EFF's guide to protecting your electronic devices at border crossings:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/effs-guide-protecting-...
Doesn't Microsoft still distribute large fixes, service packs, MSDN, TechNet, and the like as downloadable .iso images? Do they seriously expect people to waste hours burning piles of physical DVDs for that sort of thing?

Sneakernet is apparently still an essential part of their network stack. Good luck if your server is mounted in some data center you don't have easy access to. Remember this next time you hear them say they're "betting the company" on cloud computing. They just don't get it.
Ask HN: Tips/secrets for partnering with large businesses?
I know from past experience and from talking with a lot of people that it can be hard to get a response from larger businesses, and even harder to get around their customer service departments and speaking with a higher up.

Many startups have services that need participation from larger vendors in order for them to succeed (for example ShopKick). While working on a previous project a large majority of my emails and phone calls to larger companies that we wanted to partner with were ignored. So HN, what are some tips/secrets to getting a response when looking to partner with a company, and who should you be contacting at that company (the CEO's, the marketing department, etc).

Edit: It would also be great for any business owners who use HN to weigh in on this as well and let us know what works for you and what types of things you ignore when being contacted about partnerships and biz development.
This article hit a lot of buzzers for me from my last job. Especially the signs there may be a problem. Burnout was rapid and high, confusion abounded, and so on. If I still worked there I'd email it to my coworkers so we could ruminate on how spot-on it described the office.
HTML is a web technology, but video codecs are needed by a wider range of applications, including playing optical media, games, and presentation software.

The non-political arguments the mozillazine article makes against using the OS's media frameworks can be solved by using ffmpeg/etc. as fallbacks, except for the one about having to support multiple rendering paths (and even that could be solved by just packaging ffmpeg in the OS-supported codec format).

If a web browser maker wants to make it hard to use H.264 even when the user already has a fully-licensed decoder as part of their operating system, then they are putting their political goals above the users' needs.

If I want my browser to supplant my operating system, I'll use ChromeOS. Otherwise, I want my browser to play nice and not bring along political baggage.

I don't want my browser to include it's own unoptimized codecs, it's own half-assed OpenGL implementation, it's own font rendering code, it's own widget library, it's own PDF viewer, and it's own device drivers. I want my browser to include a kick-ass [X]HTML+CSS+JS engine, and delegate the rest to the operating system like any sane application.
Because of the purity and laziness in Haskell, it is difficult to reason about the performance of what you're writing in Haskell. Fundamentally, a computer is not functional - it does everything via side effect - and I think Haskell goes too far in abstracting this away.
Please experiment with not showing comment or story scores. Just show a user's total karma on the profile page.
Out of pure curiosity, how is this in any way related to start-ups or technology?
> Your Landlord can't just create an infinite number of apartments on the fly and rent them to an infinite number of people at almost no extra cost to him.

Incidentally, this is the same argument as with piracy vs. physical theft.
It's hard to imaging how the task of translation can be combined with language learning since one requires great competency and the other requires little or no competency.
What if the front page had a few random picks from the "new" page to give a little random extra exposure to undiscovered stories? They'd be different for each user...
According to the article, it was $99 last year w/ a $5/mo subscription.
It's reasonable to want more feedback, but given YC's model and applicant volume, it's also reasonable for them to give most applicants a generic decline, as well.

I'd say your reward for the effort was the chance at acceptance, plus the benefits of the exercise – having necessary pitching discussions with your cofounders.

Why focus specifically on why the YC process passed on you? Lots of other people can give feedback that will reasonably approximate YC's – and perhaps more importantly, will let you know what other funders/mentors/customers would think.

The keen desire for a YC-specific-explanation is itself a potential reason they might avoid giving detailed feedback... even a few words might encourage some teams to obsess over YC's estimation (and perhaps keep trying to 'clarify'/'explain' their application) rather than moving forward on other opportunities. Sometimes, a simple 'no' is a favor, too.
Whats the platform you're developing for?

Check out http://pervasent.com for mobile.
Orlando as well, we constants make the top 10 list. While our big web shops are limited we own online travel as well as simulation. We have a few big game dev sweat shops and plenty to do for the hardware hacker with NASA (may be drying up) and the simulation and flight companies. While we have stagnated in recent years we still seem to hold from 4-6 place in the top 10 slots of tech cities. We are pretty wired with 50mbps connections to even the remote outskirts of Central Florida, as well Tampa has it's own tech sector and is 1hr away. Senior dev jobs here are a dime a dozen and you can command 100-130k if you are a good developer. We are similar in pay scale to the valley but cost of living is marginally cheaper as well we are one of the few states that does not have a state income tax. We affectionately call ourselves the Silicon Swamp. The VC scene here is a lot more reserved than in the valley and you really do have to know people well before they take you serious, but there is venture capital here, it is just not as high profile as the valley.
Hence Sketchbook, I use Sketchbook with my Bamboo tablet (I've heard good thinks about ArtRage). I'm no artist, but Sketchbook feels much more like real drawing than Photoshop/Pixelmator.
It's about design, which relates to both.
You raise a good point w.r.t. SSD drives, but the reality is that even if most computers being manufactured today included a solid state drive, the vast majority of consumers are using drives with moving parts. It will be at least a few more generations of hardware before OS-level developers will be able to focus specifically on the features of solid state drives when designing the filesystem and main OS APIs.

That said, there is room for someone to develop a filesystem API designed with solid state in mind, or even an entire OS, but I don't know if there would be enough of a market to make that development worthwhile.

Is there Anything about SSDs that interests you, from the perspective of the future of Redis?
Bing Now Powers 30% of US Searches
Out of curiosity, do these twins maintain a facebook profile?
Read up on Perry Marshall, he seems to be the go to source for all of it.

Additionally, Trada.com is providing a crowd-sourced solution.

Tools wise I guess I would refer you to wordtracker, and other keyword research tools. Since the more specific you are with your terms the lower the bid price can be.
Should be working now, thanks for checking it out
You'd think that text posts (like the parent) that have links within them would make their links clickable once they pass some karma threshold.
I want to preface these comments by saying that I don't yet own a Kindle. It seems to me that the savings offered don't equal the annoyance factor of seeing ads. If the price was $49 I would probably run out and buy one just to experiment with digital books.

Most of the people I know who have Kindles use them to read fiction or business best sellers. If that's what I primarily consumed I'd have had one by now. Anyone on here buying all their tech books on a Kindle?
Also, if you want to do it right, use a dual form for expressing a pair, -o. One Winkelvos, two Winkelvo, a family of Winkelvi.

Duals are used for pairs or things, like eyes or hands, in Latin and Ancient Greek. In Sanskrit, duals are even more common. (Respect your elders, learn some outmoded grammar today!)
I mean... they just want to look responsible. If they'd toned it down, people would have accused them of not taking things seriously enough. It's better for them to seize the situation and own it rather than let the press have a field day and then spend time having to explain themselves. That's just my 2c...