skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you're using the REST API? While they try and roll out a fix, have you tried to use the adCenter Desktop to at least somewhat manage the ads?
How? They already have the data and plumbing, all they need is a GUI. I don't think Google would go for a Hipmunk-style GUI, they'd just build something search-based you could see in your results.
Amadeus in the travel chain: check-in &amp; boarding
Cool idea, but I can see it quickly spiraling into -- "watch me jump off my roof and most likely miss this trampoline and hurt myself terribly for $10".
Which only works until they associate it with another computer, at which point you have to do it all over again.
not that depth first search isn't a pretty good analogy for what happens, but I believe it's SLDNF resolution, and I'm not 100% sure the exact algorithm is mandated by the language, though it might be for cuts.
I don't disagree that the points being made are over the top—at least at this time—but it seems like the Ruby conferences have brought this increased scrutiny upon themselves.

And you're probably right, my limited impression of the Ruby community is that they don't "give a shit". Which is why my advice is to pressure the sponsors. Misogyny is bad for business these days, who wants that kind of P.R.?
There might be something in here, but it's buried in details: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/v...
Yesterday In a shocking incident, the office room and furniture used by a senior government official belonging to a Sheduled Caste community were 'cleansed' by sprinkling cowdung water, allegedly by some employees shortly after his retirement from service.

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/retired-dalits-office-clea...
Ron Conway On Startups
Shirts are also great PR, prize rewards, and 'thank you' gifts for users who run into nasty bugs. We've had a lot of success and fun with our HipChat shirts. Our tips for others:

1. Buy high-quality shirts (American Apparel)
2. Buy small and women's sizes
3. Show some attitude, not company boilerplate
4. Buy from a local shop
5. Have a few different designs - people love having a choice
6. Make sure the shop saves the screens (cheaper to re-order in the future)
7. Quadruple check the spelling and capitalization :)

Full post: http://blog.hipchat.com/2010/08/19/7-tips-for-making-company...
Down Wind faster then Wind
I'm pretty sure Mr. Norvig will have a thing or two to say about this :-)
Some languages have a community developed site for open source and popular mailing lists or forums for questions. So GitHub and StackExchange by themselves are a poor measure of language popularity.
They could probably spin new features faster than Google. For example, every service I've seen requires a departure date and return date. In my head, I thinking, "I don't know - sometime this summer." I'd like to be able to pick a destination, the number of days, and have it tell me when I should go on vacation to get the cheapest fares.
Apple to release iOS 4.3.2 in the next two weeks
I think it's more than a hack. List comprehension is a way to look at list manipulations which comes from the functional paradigm of programming. It is interesting and instructional to see how it can be expressed in a heavily imperative language like C. I would say it's a teaching tool, not just a hack.
I guess I would recommend perhaps LISP, FORTRAN and APL if you wanted to pick old time languages. More recently you might want to take a look at Ruby and Haskell, to pick a functional language, and COBOL, which has some interesting ideas in it you won't find in some of the other languages.

-- Guy Steele

Notice that he lists COBOL as a language to learn. I've always found Dijkstra to be a little over the top (often the only way to get people to listen), and Steele more pragmatic.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Programming-Languages-Guy-St...
Herez my post on why google needed to buy ITA. http://bit.ly/h07ked
Spy online for $13/hr.
"Same economic progress in 1980s with China, but vastly diverged since."

I don't get this. The current GDP of India is same as the GDP of China for the fiscal year 2003. [1][2] How is it "vastly diverged"?

Besides, India is growing fast (almost as fast as China) with many economists predicting that India will overtake China to become the world's fastest growing major economy soon and will likely remain so for years to come. [3][4] Citi group recently went as far as saying that India will be the biggest economy in the world by 2050. [5]

For westerners the poverty scenes in India can be depressing but for Indians the future looks bright.

[1] http://bit.ly/eNhHOj

[2] http://bit.ly/dNszZ2

[3] http://bit.ly/hhraFQ

[4] http://bit.ly/fm0MR2

[5] http://bit.ly/fyWktP
the number of poor people living under $1.25 a day has increased from 421 million in 1981 to 456 million in 2005
The ability to consistently identify the consumption habits of a small demographic with large purchasing power and target advertising directly at those individuals is immensely more valuable to advertisers than Adwords. It's the reason Apple does so much print advertising.

Improved browser speed and increased bandwidth means that you can perform more searches in a given time. Degraded search results mean that you will do so, and thereby generate more advertising impressions and hence more potential for revenue. Or to put it another way, anyone ever becomes so frustrated with the Google Search's results that they clicked on a sponsored link or other ad to see if that's what they wanted?
As someone who has read about node but never actually looked at any demo code, this was a pretty good example. Now I understand what all the fuss is about!
PlayStation chief: Nintendo makes 'babysitting tools'
Person of the year is not the same as "hero of the year". I think it has to do more with who wielded the greatest influence on the world that year (for better or for the worse). Iranian president was considered as well sometime ago (and he is a nutty boy!)

Also, I don’t think it has to do with greatest number of people impacted, rather the avg impact multiplied by the number of folks affected. Wikileaks impact on say 30 million people * how much the average impacted individual’s life has changed > Zuck’s impact on 600 million people * the very marginal change in the life of average user. I also wonder if this change need be 'real' or 'perceived'.
Why is this stuff unique to tech companies? MBAs, despite being constantly accused of it by nerds, aren't idiots. Neither are accountants, neither are controllers, neither are middle managers.

Everybody does their best work when they're most comfortable. Why haven't many traditional companies figured this out yet?
Learning Prolog sounds worthwhile, but time spent learning Prolog is time not learning something else. Why not Erlang or something obscure I've never heard of like Fril?

Also, I'm getting fatigued by authoritative talk about computer science curricula in the same "kids these days" manner as someone convinced the world is falling apart while actual violent crime or teen pregnancy statistics drop. I'd expect claims like Oliveira's to be supported by some kind of data we can be privy to instead of vague anecdotal impressions.

"Schools are more interested in teaching marketable languages." Ok. All schools, most schools, state schools? Where's justification for "It seems like that they are looking for ways of getting people through the program as quick as possible"? Why does it seem that way?
It's just CentOS
Only Windows users or developers regularly login with administrator access.
2. Buy small and women's sizes

This one puzzles me a lot. The place I work recently ordered a bunch of shirts for everyone who wanted one in the dev team. The sizes went up to XL, and their "XL" was the same size as an "M" in some stores. Fully half the devs in our shop couldn't fit into the largest size offered.

Here's a tip, as someone who likes wearing t-shirts: buy larger sizes. Someone who can wear an "M" can just as easily wear an "L" or "XL", but the reverse is very much not true.
As someone that focuses on the business/marketing side of things I think this is an interesting concept:

"Have a conversation a day with a techie for 30 straight days. You’ll realize they’re smarter than you, more passionate about what they do, more engaged in their work and solve more interesting problems."
I've seen several of these on HN in the past few months, and this one is definitely my favorite.

This post is well-written and covers a huge range of topics. I found the information detailed enough to point me in the right direction without going over my head. I also appreciate the tips on which design resources the author found valuable. Good stuff!
Thanks for the kind words and feedback!

>>I haven't been able to figure out why it is delivered as a browser extension, though

This came largely from alpha user feedback. Those folks told us that they wanted access to the question stream, but didn't want another login to manage to access Twitter data. So, we started with the extension which made it easy to be notified when there were new questions.

We are working on a web app as well as integration into some of the major Twitter clients and social media dashboards. Eventually we'll get to mobile (another highly requested platform). That way folks will have lots of options as to how they access our tools.
There's no reason your salary at a previous, unaffiliated organization should have an affect on your next salary. Hiring managers would like you to believe so, just so they can peg their offer to that number. If that happens, be sure to politely remind them that your previous salary was based on the completely unrelated finances, managers, timing, and circumstances at a different company -- and that you're interested in working for the new company because, among other reasons, you believe they'll make you an offer that reflects fair market rate for your schools and expected contribution to their company.
Let me reveal a little secret.
80% Indians are willing to migrate to USA for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility at $200/month salary.
There's also get_flash_videos which works on a number of sites as well: http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/
I think this is an awesome idea. I hope it works. I'd use it extensively.
Have to disagree strongly with your first paragraph. What is valuable to advertisers is intent. It's why Facebook ads have such low CTR compared to Adwords. A person searching for "auto loans" is more valuable to the advertiser than someone whose buddies all drive Porsches.
I've been planning something along the lines of your first suggestion - essentially a replacement for craigslist personals, with temporal data but sorted efficiently. I can do that pretty well with the dataset I have. The problem I see is that it has an even worse chicken-and-egg problem; it requires people to post a bit of content. Right now the steps to going in the match system involve: 1) Accept FB connect and 2) Click "I'm available". If folks had to write content too, there wouldn't be anything to start.

I figure that a feature like this makes sense to add once the kernel of a critical mass exists. It can happily coexist with the traditional "search everyone's profile" feature.

Which feature are you referring to as the "friends thing"? There are two features that leverage the social graph - you can limit matches to friends-of-friends (2°, not 1° - you already know those people) and you can suggest dates for your friends (I suspect your bro's/best gf's will be the prime user of this feature).

Thanks for the feedback.
YouTube uses some kind of bursting heuristic that is marginal in certain scenarios.

What it does is it loads the first chunk of a request to start playing with high bandwidth, but it then throttles the connection to approximately the bitrate of the video stream. The idea is that YouTube reduces the costs (bandwidth, CPU, routing etc.) of transferring bits that are never actually consumed, because the user stopped watching the video before it finished playing.

The quickest way to get a YouTube video is to download it with a download manager that sends multiple requests. Those requests ought to trigger the initial burstiness, and if you have enough of them either the initial burst will be sufficient to cover the whole file or the total bandwidth (even though throttled) across all simultaneous downloads will reach your own download bandwidth.
Depending on your point of view, you might say we are already moving in this direction. :-)

A large number of people consume e-mail using HTTP, so it has in many cases replaced IMAP and POP. We also send e-mail using HTTP, both through web-mail systems and ad-hoc forms. This replaces SMTP-for-sending.

All that's left really is the server-to-server SMTP, and if the distributed social networking protocols (OStatus etc) take off, then SMTP will have been partially replaced as well.

The main issue is that aside from OStatus, none of these are remotely close to being standardized. So automation is hard. This is good for preventing spam but bad for many legitimate things.
YTube Video: FAQ: Traffic Squeezer - Custom Linux Kernel Compilation
Wow, that's great to hear. I honestly had no idea if this was going to be helpful.. it kind of felt like a raw, disorganized brain dump when I was writing it.
Let me work on something really cool without undue interference and I don't care if you give me a t-shirt, coffee mug, water bottle or anything. Schwag is nice, but building something useful is better.
Until I ran a browser (Chrome, or it might have been Safari) that didn't have AdBlockPlus installed, I had actually never seen a video ad on YouTube that wasn't part of the video being watched (i.e. a pre-roll ad). I didn't find out that they had implemented this until about 2 months ago.
Syntax error: expected operator but found '(' at line 1, column 5.
It's a shame that the sneakers one does not show a UI, but what was supposed to be encrypted data. There were several UIs that appeared in it (banking, telephone, power-grid).
It can be such a fun, unique experience. One time as I joke I started singing old rat-pack/crooner standards from the 50s, in the middle of a Halo match. When I stopped, my teammates actually begged me to continue saying it sounded really good and we were playing better while I sang. Literally nobody else has ever complimented me on my vocal talent, lol. Many hilarious situations arise that you could never get in other walks of life. But, yes, the obnoxious players ruin it (yet, it was much worse in Halo 2 IMO, it just didn't stop other people talking).
In fact, I've found company t-shirts to be a little too "Stepford employee" for my tastes. It's part of a dangerous train of thought where you assume the goals of the company you work for are the same as your goals, or your personal goals must be completely aligned with the company's. Very dangerous thinking for salaried employees, IMO.

On the other hand, sometimes a t-shirt is a t-shirt.
Gnome desktop instead of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04?
Anyone? My question again.
Yes, income disparity has gotten a lot worse since 1980. We're now back to about the levels of disparity that we saw a century ago during the gilded age. Just like then, I expect to see a long term backlash. (At the height of the backlash in the 1950s the top personal income tax rate ranged from 92% to 93%. On income over $1 million/year. That was a lot more then than it would be now.)

Currently the US government takes in about 15% of GDP in taxes. That's the lowest that it has been in a century. I would expect to see that change as well at some point in the future.
I tried this for a while and there were little things that drove me crazy. I can't remember the exact issues I had, but I'm sure other long time Vimmers would have some problems. I just found myself having to look up "why is this command xyz not doing what I expect in Viper mode" all the time. YMMV
> If we force everyone with wealth and power to live like the masses, then the only way to improve their lot would be to improve all of society or emigrate.

I think this is called comunism (as Marx intended, not as was executed in the USSR, Cuba, and any other place in practice).

The problem with this is that if you don't allow for the existence of official channels the rich can use to improve their lot then there is no point in being rich, so most people will either not bother and work as little as they can to live or find unofficial channels where they can have power to improve their lives (see the communist parties in the former USSR and China).

Of course, communism can arguably work, but how to do so is still an open problem.
A buddy and I were drinking months back, and for whatever reason (most likely several beers was the reason) he misinterpreted the Bing and Facebook arrangement that was made for "Facebook is buying Bing."

Completely un-Microsoft, I can't see it happening but if it did.. Damn that could make things interesting.

Bing is interesting, it's a great attempt. The problem is Microsoft, so long as they're running it and setting the "standard" for it, it's going to be a failure. It's not going to knock Google off their perch. It's just not. And anything less than that will be a failure. Cut that team and product free, hand it over to like a facebook? IBM went through some similar stuff, MS should be spinning stuff out, if their current phone effort fails again to live up to their hype, they should just cut that group free too, let them go and be successful. that stuff creates new industries which in turn create new opportunities for everybody, including MS. Let Bing or Bing + FB cultivate an army of guys that want to get rich and can control their own destiny, the output will be far more interesting
Yeah we have had this talk for decades - it's now time to stop that and do something about it. No offense but the belief that things will change themselves magically while I sit and complain - hilarious at the best!
sorry if this is completely OT, but as seen on footnote 4, holy shit, they are making mib 3 ? thats awesome!
Doom 2 running on E-Ink
Discussion: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-April/...
I don't think so, can you prove your little secret and what social reasons would that be? just curious to know.
At a number of places I've worked at, people did not want t-shirts. They preferred a free meal instead. Mentioning that a t-shirt lasts a lot longer than a meal had no sway.
It has only been in recent that I started doing so as well.

I have even thought about changing the tag line on my Iphone when I send am email that says: "Sent from my Iphone" to "Sent from the john"
It is dummy democracy. 80% Indians are surviving on 20 rupees/day.
Do you think these people can vote as per their conscience in elections?
To give an example, check out http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

I've never found anything as useful or flexible for searching airline data.
What are the two exchanges shown as being about 500 miles east of the Carolinas and five hundred miles east of Madagascar?
Hotpot is becoming part of Google Places
One more time killer in the internet.
That's not the "whole point of the article".

The "approaches" are academic in origin; the difference is that Google has more data to train those approaches. Their "approaches" are not different from "existing academic initiatives." Academia often deals with issues like "how to deal with sparsity" of data (i.e. smoothing); at Google, those issues are less important. Having data doesn't not mean having developed the technology.
Valid point, but _fit into_ and _wear_ are different things. Most skinny people don't like swimming in their clothes.
Who's predicting the fall of India? I think what's being predicted is the non-rise of India.
I don't particularly care about "authenticity" of any culture. I don't really think there is a such thing. I'm strictly talking about how aid has had negative impact, so when I talk about them not forming "their own civilization" I simply mean their inability to date to successfully form stable governments, civil services, etc., regardless of their structural details. There are probably ways of giving aid that would have not had negative effects, though it's hard to know.
I think you missed a point in the post: the designers are NOT using git. When the designers make a change, the designers are not doing a git add. Dropbox is just about getting the assets from the designers to the developers, so that the developers can do the appropriate git operations.

Presumably the developers have whatever hooks they want, and they still get run at the appropriate time....
Indeed that is true, but it is also true that if you are writing things for other people to read, then what value those other people put on your delivery is more important than what value you put on your delivery.

If you are writing only for yourself, then things like grammar and spelling are less important because, presumably, you know what you meant. However, if you want other people to value what you write, grammar and spelling become very important.

First, because poor grammar and spelling sabotage your meaning and delivery. There were several sentences in the article where I had to stop and think "err... what is he trying to say?" It is entirely likely I misinterpreted the meaning of some of these sentences. The fact that the author understood and valued those sentences is of utterly no help to me.

Second, there are people who believe confusing and ungrammatical writing are symptoms of confused and unknowledgeable writers. I understand you may not agree with this but, again, if you are writing for other people then it is the other person's impressions you must consider, not your own.

Defending ungrammatical writing by challenging a reader's inferences and thoughts is not convincing because, if you are writing for other readers, it is precisely those inferences and thoughts you should be addressing.
Show HN : Stackwork :a bare TODO list
URL :http://stackwork.appspot.com

This is my first post on HN and also this is my first web project. So please excuse me if i have made any obvious mistakes.

I have been learning Python for about 2 months now and i made Stackwork with Python and Google app engine.

Stackwork is a very basic TODO list.You are limited to adding tasks and deleting them .

There is not much at the moment but i value your feedback and ideas . So try it out and tell me what is broken.
if we're trying to be fair, that wikipedia article alone links to two other live streaming sites that launched before yahoo live. people have been streaming video for a while now :)
This article reminded me of the employee-only Facebook hoodie, which (according to some commentors) sold on eBay for over $4k
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/05/join-the-cult-facebook-hood...
No idea, and that is a good point. I doubt all of these companies end up succeeding.

That said, I think that the majority of them simply lose their investors money, so it's not going to harm the economy at large.
Filming got delayed a bunch of times, is ridiculously over budget and one actor quit but they still have Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones onboard. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1409024/
I am an Indian, My father used to tell me how his mother (my grandma) helped him pay the tuition fees of his college by selling the silk from her marriage dress (Marriage dress, is an important thing for an Indian, Most Indians marry only once in his life :-) ) (Tuition fee was like 50 rupees (1 USD) ) back in 1970's

My mom used to tell me that it took her 1 year to save money for getting a table fan back in 1985. (my parents were teachers in a school)

Things have changed a lot in India after globalization. I am sure India is progressing, Every beggar in the street has cellphone.

It took united states 200 years to where it is now. We just got independence before 60 years. Please do not compare the living conditions of both countries.

Yes India has lot of problems, caste, religious extremism, lack of quality education, Corruption, Poor infrastructure, vast gap between the rich and the poor. I am sure she will eventually sort these things out.