skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was baptised, but tried to leave (defect). They don't let you do it anymore ( http://www.technomancy.org/catholic-defection/ ) :(
Nah, I think they'll rewrite it in C++. No, really.
I'm a fan of dry satire, and this is the best commentary I've seen so far on high frequency trading.
Andy Rubin now Senior Vice President of Google
Star Trek characters in pixel form
Yes and I heard of Xbox Live, PSN. Also .com sells games, we dont. We are social platform. Same goes for Steam. It is also controlled by admin panels.

But isn't this what people said about Facebook, serious ever heard of MySpace? Competition is where it is at. Without life would be boring.
Infographic: How the average person uses their mobile phone
I totally agree regarding trying new things. If something interests you more, then go and do it. But if you walk away from something just because you got your ass kicked, that's just lame. Maybe that might lead to something better, more likely not. I think a hybrid model where you do something that you love while you keep your options open is a good approach :)
the user-agent sniffing is a pretty neat trick.

if people catch on to that and start checking with curl first, you could even serve the friendly content the first time someone fetches it with curl.
What I don't get is why it uses multiple asterisks for levels (and an ugly font-lock hack to hide all but the last):

* header
** second level
*** third level
**** fourth level
etc.

when it's feasible to set outline-regexp to

" *[*+.-]" ; broken out due to HN's formatting

and then just use spaces and asterisks (and dots, pluses, minuses, etc.) directly:

* header
* second
* third
* fourth

org-mode is really powerful, but does so much that it's hard to learn upfront. I've used Emacs heavily for several years, but never quite gotten into it. I have my own variant (a thin extension to outline-mode), which uses the 10% of org-mode's functionality that I actually care about.
I was too young and never paid attention to search results. I definitely think your reasons are valid.

I didn't intend to say people's perspectives weren't, rather that from an insider's perspective, Live was very much approaching success.
Can you imagine if private schools in the US had to do the same? Currently the top-tier private colleges in the US admit only about 10% of their students from the bottom 50% of the income distribution.
Ruby with Heroku is tough to beat. It has worked very well. I'm using Padrino instead of Rails.
Apple's functional structure sounds like a good way to maintain consistency across product designs and nimbleness of corporate strategy.

Google's (and Microsoft's) product-oriented structure sounds like a good way to have fragment product designs and strategies and create political fiefdoms. "The Innovator's Dilemma" suggests that by placing too great an emphasis on satisfying customers' current needs (with existing products), companies fail to adapt or adopt new technology that will meet customers' unstated or future needs.
Why not use the source link?

http://www.esendex.co.uk/blog/post/what-does-bob-think-about...
Yes, Google is using other people's work. They didn't invent the computer, for example. So what? If their part of it was negligible, somebody else would have given me a useful voice recognition system by now. Why doesn't notepad have a microphone icon on it? If notepad added a microphone icon tomorrow, do you think it would work well? Check your priorities. Delivering a working solution that I can actually use matters a lot more to me than writing a paper.
One things WebOS excels at is multitasking. Cards and stacks in WebOS are a great way to have multiple items open. I used to have an iPad and sometimes I'd use it for web browsing since it has a much larger screen but I'd always miss how easy it was to switch between pages and apps on WebOS.

Having a physical keyboard is a little different, but it's not really a positive or negative for me. I make extensive use of Just Type to quickly launch apps or search and sometimes it's really nice to have the whole screen available while you type. It's also possible to enable a virtual keyboard via third party apps, which leads me to my favorite WebOS feature.

WebOS is easy to hack on. There was a someone at Palm who said something like "WebOS doesn't have the concept of jailbreaking; we call that logging in". It really is that easy. You have root access on your phone so you can do whatever you want. Since the kernel sources are available there are alternative kernels available and there are alternative apps stores available. Since the official app store is not yet available in all countries someone developed a way to activate the phone as if it's in the US so you can buy apps but still have it work on your local carrier. Not all the code is open sourced so some people say that it's not as open as Android, but as far as being able to do what you want with your phone I think WebOS is far ahead of the competition.

I haven't done much development on WebOS but my experiences so far have been positive. I don't really like JavaScript but I still think developing for WebOS is fun. Definitely better than my experience with Android and even though the Eclipse based development toolkit isn't as nice as Xcode I think Ares is better.

Even though it has the features I want it still needs some work. Using WebOS 1.4 for me was kind of like using the early versions of OS X. I could tell that it was a good idea but the performance needed some software and hardware improvements. With WebOS 2.0 my Pre Plus is faster but still not as fast as I'd like. I've used a Pre 2 a little and that seems fast enough, but I'm waiting for WebOS 3, which will have an improved rendering engine, and the Pre 3 before I upgrade. I think HP's decision to put WebOS on every computer they ship could produce a lot of good things, but we'll have to wait and see. I also plan on getting a TouchPad as soon as it's launched and the integration between the two is very appealing.
It's not just the flight specific widget bing has, but the fact is consolidates several sites worth of data into a single interface. On Google you don't get a unified view of data. The ticket vendor is not important to me. It's only the flight cost and number of stopovers that matter, which google does not help with.
... and once again, they shut it down after less than a year (well, instant search never even launched in the first place).

Yahoo! Live was really cool. I used it to watch the Eurovision Song Contest with friends from the US once.
How are well paid government workers the "economically disadvantaged"? And for that matter, how does reducing subsidies for a service consumed primarily by wealthier people (a college education) harm the economically disadvantaged?

Smug comics which preach to the choir are great, but I like statistics more. Here are statistics on the work habits of the US poor (about 1 in 4 poor people works): http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2007.pdf

Here are statistics showing that the poor consume about 2-3x what they produce: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

(In India, obviously the stats look nothing like this.)
From the article.

"In Computer Science programs, there is a tradition of having a course of two that represent the watershed between people that can grok CS concepts and the ones that can’t. "

Would those HNers who've been through a masters or PhD in CS help an uneducated brother hacker and list any such "watershed" courses they know of? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: links to course home pages would be highly appreciated, plus any reminiscences of how tough these courses were/felt like.
din't is easily a sticky key or a fast-typing error. It happens to any of us and doesn't necessarily say that the person has a separate first language.

Furthermore, even though it's good form to read over a message you're sending and remove the typoes, grammar-os and other such issues, it doesn't always happen :)
Facer reading part 2 - the origins
When that happens it is usually a conflict with another extension. If you email me with the other extension you may be running we can do our best help out (joe@inboxq.com).
The only value I ever had for Bing was their cashback shopping engine, and they've gotten rid of that.

Birth and Death of Jellyfish.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish.com
No, Assange dide.
To your first question, you should take a look at http://adioso.com/ (YC W09) by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomhoward

Has been covered a few times on HN already e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1651737
Give me one reason why this is worse than downloading an unsigned binary from the same site.

It's not.

Yes, the user-agent sniffing is clever, but it's circumventing a security precaution that isn't even possible with a binary installer.

More discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2420648
"Nested comments, while better organized, just seem like a bunch of people having separate conversations."

Why "just"? What's wrong with that? Who says our goal is for online discussions to precisely mimic only that one form of conversation the physically world and constraints of human cognition permit? You and the original article seem to accept this as an unspoken assumption of how to rank conversation quality. I don't. The right way to do digital things is rarely "Exactly like the analog case, but with computers." (See also: newspapers, education.)
I think it's strange how upset people were about the story, given the story of the first movie.
This is an oddly compelling case for something that I would have written off as superfluous. I love the little things you learn here on HN.
Our up-front payment of $300 is more than most make with a 10% commission (cafe press & redbubble), and we plan to increase it over time as our sales numbers go up.

The community aspect of Chirply also drives more views and sales, versus the silo'd store aspect of the others you mentioned - where you are responsible for driving your own traffic.

In the end, we'll be a much better place for designers as our payments increase over time, and the level of exposure for not only your Chirply products, but also your portfolio.
Apple will make great speech recognition, maps and email when Google makes a great UI.
> the problem is that if you promise a manager something

The real problem is thinking of "estimates" as "promises" when really they're rough guesses. If you go around holding people to a guess as if it were some kind of gospel biblical contract then yes, they will lie their ass off to protect themselves. Combine that with the fact that most organizations attempt to control the platform used, computers used, monitor size, operating system, IDE, editors, revision control tools, languages, documentation systems, testing methodology, meeting requirements, pairing, and nearly everything they can, and you start to see the real problem is....

managers who don't know programming, motherfucker. :-)
Good read, you could probably make a dedicated one just for developers.
48÷2(9+3) = 2
>A luxurious car with an unspeaking driver who works for 12 hours every day at less than $200 a month,

Again. Comparing earnings in terms of USD is meaningless. $200/month in India is vastly different from earning the same amount in the US.

Sad that even some HN'ers are taken in by this. In comments the other day about outsourcing it was about Indian IT workers working for peanuts. Let me tell you, first compare the prices of services and commodities and then compare salaries and you will see the discrepancy.

>Rags-to-riches stories in India are popular but rare.

Rare? Well, I don't know the metric that the author is using for 'riches' but it certainly is not rare.
Doesn't this tie them to Flash? As far as I know, one can live stream video only using Flash, there are no provisions in HTML5. Is that correct?
Thats the problem with Yahoo. Never enough PR for what they create. If they want something done, you have to publicize it. Sadly, Yahoo is on a downward spiral.

People always asking, what do they do again? They are nerds, but sadly too much management and not enough PR.
In my undergrad CS program, it was Operating Systems. The course required us to move from writing programs to solve well constrained problems to addressing issues of memory management, file systems, command line interfaces, etc.
I want to see this make it down to the phone, ala Qik (which is currently broekn on the Nexus One (or was as of a month ago)).

Then I'd really like to see an explosion of #copwatch #tsawatch live videos. #civilliberties
The first question is not mine, but a quote from the article. But I never knew of Adioso and it seems quite neat! So thanks :)
Right, because a single git clone can't rm -rf your drive. A single "| sh", can, which is the point.
Now that I've finished reading it, I'm kinda bummed that they didn't incorporate the high-res gravitational map of the earth. I wanna see some lorentz transforms in the mix :/
100k in SV = 70k in Atlanta (if not even less) as far as buying power.

200k will get you a 2 bedroom 1000sqft 2br-1bth condo facing the biggest park in the city.

If you say 100k, you have to say where. I'd rather make 175k in Atlanta than 250k in SV looking at buying power.
It's hard to sell brand advertising on user generated content, which is another reason the approved partners are desirable.
New tech shows Einstein wrong: we can watch Brownian motion
How to Make a Facebook Contest Viral: Nike Golf Shows How (screenshots)
Sequoia Invests $8 Million In Messaging App Maker WhatsApp
Ask HN: Anyone else still waiting for email?
I have yet to receive any word from YC... Anyone else still waiting? I have checked my spam folder and still nothing.
because i wanted people who view my blog to see it as well
Everything that Matthew said plus the ability to easily reload from a cryptographically good backup copy of the OS if it detects anything has gone awry without disturbing your "applications". I'd highly suggest following the link he gave, it is a very interesting revue of many modern and practical security approaches.
Sony to Propose a Method For Protecting Digital Music (1999)
'SHINE'y Ahuja - The Captive Of Darkness
not quite, 48÷(2(9+3)) = 2, but 48÷2(9+3) = 288

to clarify: PEMDAS is the order of operations.
so parenthesis first: 48÷2(9+3) = 48÷2(12)
then multiplication and division (they have the same precedence): 48÷2(12) = 24*12 = 288

for another reference: http://www.google.com/search?q=48%C3%B72(9%2B3)
From Pitch to Lawsuit in Five Days
Hey! That's my site (m00d.net) unfortunately minecraft.net had about 90% uptime a few months back it screwed my poorly built application, without error checking it filled the db with junk so I took it offline and never brought it back. Mojang told me that they liked looking at the data so I expected they'd throw their own online, a more accurate one.

I'm considering talking to them again and seeing if they'll provide me a dump of sales data (just the timestamp of purchases) so I can re-grapgh everything, it would be cool.
Nice writeup -- at Jambool/Social Gold we used a similar approach which enabled us to do deployments continuously throughout the day without interrupting transactions. This was key to allowing us to iterate faster and incrementally deploy small pieces of larger projects without having take downtime.
If these sites are still up, how does Bing compare now?
> In fact I'm going to reveal a secret : physically, desktop SATA drives are exactly the same as professional grade 24/24h operation-guaranteed SATA drives. When they fall off the assembly line, they're tested for reliability and performance. Over a certain threshold, a drive is deemed professional and receive the pro firmware; under the bar, it's a desktop drive.

This may be true in some circumstances, however I have observed that enterprise drives from some vendors have a larger heatsink volume than the consumer drives, and also weigh a little more.
> If it takes this long to get around to fixing the small things, how long is it going to take the fix the big things?

Generally the small things don't get fixed because the big things are getting fixed.

Gmail has been regularly releasing new features and new labs over the past year. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
I'm not saying that the papers that get published aren't good or valid. "Good enough to publish a paper" is indeed good.

It's just that once the paper is published, it becomes a cul-de-sac, a nice little city with no roads leading in or out, etc. Other researchers can only use the result by reproducing the idea by-hand (or at best through crufty Matlab code).

Yes, I'm sure the papers I've scanned involved considerable work and data (I worked in computer vision). But that work is often if not generally unavailable to the reader of the paper.

The point is that in creating a working system, Google has to do more than extend academic research, even if academic research involved good ideas that had been given some thorough tests in isolation.
The ad is likely being served by a CDN server much closer to you than the server the video itself is coming from.
"Wave Disk Generator" completely rethinks hybrid gasoline engine
Why do revolutionary business ideas fail in Africa?
Do you agree or disagree with the following article on Forbes.com about Africa and New Venture creation? http://t.co/iFhmjFG
Yeah, but... i've tried Google Voice Search and it works incredibly well; whereas Dragon on the iPad did not work well enough to actually use for its intended purpose (although it was fairly impressive - i had low expectations).
More content and a video here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42460541/ns/technology_and_scien...
Thanks for building and sharing it.

By the way, I didn't completely understand why I would use it instead of Thin until I had it running and had read http://pow.cx/manual.html. Maybe the mechanism I described in the first paragraph of the grandparent should be more prominently and clearly communicated? Maybe that's part of what you meant with the first two paragraphs under "Pow prevails over the forces of evil.", but in that case I think they could be more specific. But maybe that's just me.
I break into a site you use often and get a lot of personal information on you, but not enough; I can see approximately where you live, and go through your trash to finish up my collection (e.g., rifling through garbage to find SSNs, etc.)
Unimpressed with article. For example, it says prolog only returns true and false. Prolog only returns "i proved it is true" and "I couldn't prove true", which they mislabel as false - so false is not "not true". If you want to focus on features that expand your understanding of what a programming language is, that is surely a big one - false isn't !true? Wrap your brain around that and try to program anything that is still correct, it breaks everything you know about what you can do with a computer.

I disagree with seeing prolog classified as functional - my experience with functional programming in lisp had a very very different view of side effects than my experience with declarative programming in prolog.

Sure, learn prolog and you'll learn more about programming, but that's true of any programming language. I'm not convinced the benefits of learning prolog exceed the benefits of spending the same amount of time on something else. The main thing I learned in a prolog class was the huge danger of relying heavily on facts without also considering confidence in those facts. I can learn the exact same lesson if the declarative language I choose is SQL, with the added benefit that I might get to use the SQL someday.
It isn't a blog, but I would highly recommend picking up a copy of iOS Recipes by Matt Drance and Paul Warren: http://pragprog.com/titles/cdirec/ios-recipes. It has a bunch of little tips and tricks in it on making your app work and behave better in general.
There was an excellent discussion on this same salary negotiation tactic in a recent episode of "Build and Analyze":

http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/19

(Salary discussion was at some point after discussing VC but before Android market share.)
Pianobar - Command Line Pandora. No more Flash
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability
The issue is not about state employees at the university, but who can afford the education there. Here in California, the Master Plan for Education (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Master_Plan_for_High...) had the goal of providing education for everyone, and it is not unlikely that that is a significant reason for California's strong economy. But that is being eroded gradually.

Anyway, obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/386/
Dropping off a physical press kit that is unique and design~y enough might get some press coverage... about the kit itself.
I think they may have been a bit ahead of the time here.

One problem with Yahoo is that they aren't able to lay out a vision: here's something cool, and here's why you will like it. Steve Jobs is the gold standard here, of course.
48÷2(9+3) = 288

If anyone cares. We can poll it up.
It's not forcing -- most rating systems don't force you to rate -- rating is for when wanting to express your opinion.

And I can see a difference between someone that hasn't voted, and someone that voted a 3-stars in a 5-stars system.
Matt, How long would you estimate, for a search changelist to hit the production at Google? I've got friends working there. Prepare to be surprised.
> It's easy to see how bad military interventions are...

Yes, except replace the word "easy" with "can be measured." Once you get into the domain of things that cannot be measured (or "not easy to see" as you say, presumingly requiring interpretation -- by whom?), you lose the empirical ground, and thus anything you say becomes close to worthless. I would rather stick to things that can be measured and not require speculation.

An authentic non-Western civilization in Africa is a very beautiful dream, but there is one huge problem to it: guns are effective and can be smuggled, whether by white people or black people or whoever.

Try looking at the spread of Christianity in Africa. Suppose there were no Western missionaries. Would we have had a "more authentic Africa" then? Probably not, we would have likely ended up with a "more Islamic Africa" instead. But don't dwell too much on this because it is just another of those "would" things that can't be measured.
Tech startups race to replace failing federal government
Treating ordinal ratings (1-5) as nominal labels is not the best solution, IMO. It's true that the "distance" between each rating is not equal, however disregarding the fact that 4 stars is greater than 3 looses quite a bit of useful information.
Funny how it's become a novel idea to do science collaboratively on the web, which was invented by physicists at a particle accelerator specifically for that purpose.
I guess there are some saltwater catfish http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
The Evolution of Google. What a long, strange trip it's been.
Nice, coralrift is slick. It does look super similar to http://staticloud.com

I wonder how much inspiration they have taken from there. It looks like they have uploaded their demo site to: http://dane2.staticloud.com/

Who would be the target market for this sort of service. It is potentially quite niche. Is it targeted towards users technical enough to be able to write html, css, and javascript. But not technical enough to use say Amazon's new static web site options on S3 http://bit.ly/h1rcJ8 or github's static hosting option?
Nice trick, but you end up selling a LOT of readability and maintainability just to get a "cool feature". When in Rome, act like the Romans: wouldn't a nested for loop do the trick just fine, in a way any C programmer can understand?
Does anyone know what makes ITA so special? Why don't any of the big airlines have APIs that Hipmunk, Kayak, Orbitz, etc. can use directly? (Do any of them?) Seems odd that everyone should have to rely on this one company for the data, when it should be originating from the airlines.