skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the direction I'm going in now, it just seems like I'd be able to get things done a lot faster with someone helping out on the front-end. Is it common for startups to have back-end devs also work on the front-end when they first start? Is it worth offering 20 or 30 percent, or is it better to just hack something together until you can afford to hire a designer?
Even they, who actually have a real reason to police names, allow the same first and last name when there is a different middle initial.
That's not completely true. Take a look at Google's Megastore paper: http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2011/Papers/CIDR11_Paper32.pdf

James Hamilton has a good summary of the ideas in the paper: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2011/01/09/GoogleMegastoreT...
I personally wouldn't take at face value anything written by Kevin Poulsen regarding Wikileaks:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/27...
Just on the design of the page for the moment - I'd consider having a simpler "demo image" at the top of the page. I was distracted into reading the text and wondering what QuietWrite was :)
if only there was a good (and hopefully cheap) hardware device to go with webOS, it would definitely be cool to hack with. The Palm Pre, however, in my opinion did not function as a useful device, mostly because of the hardware (and lack of applications compared to iOS and android devices).
There is a ton of inbreeding on capitol hill and top corporate companies. This is ridiculous but not more ridiculous than banking ex-CEOs giving bailouts to their former companies.
Indeed. I thought the OP was referring to the recursive algorithm, not the final algorithm.
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A First Look at the New Google TV: Online Video News
Ain't really brilliant. And they used the same 'doodle' method before. What would be nice is if they used the HTML5/canvas methods they've been hyping so hard. Unfortunately, animating this with that would take at least a QC Xeon.

What would be really, really awesome would be if they did it with Flash. Then it would work on droid, and iOS users would all go 'wtf?'
That’s really not true. You don’t have to take my word for it: try it with fib(1000), say.

The answer should be:

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Slightly related, time-line-wise: http://scimaps.org/submissions/7-digital_libraries/maps/thum...
Oh I will! So will many others, and thus will end my unfair advantage - being brave enough and tenacious enough to uncover undocumented API by sniffing the wire. It is important to have unfair advantage in business, so much so that I wouldn't start a business without one such advantage.

To be fair (he-he) I now have a new unfair advantage - a significant number of happy active users. I hope they will help me to stand out.
You can't escape the laws of physics, but if you know how to get physics on your side you can do things that at first glance appear impossible. See: human flight.
I don't mean to defend Google, because I don't know how well this ploy will work out but let me offer a counter analogy.

I would find a Chromebook extremely useful even though I have a laptop, desktop, and Kindle.

A Chromebook would be used for emailing, light reading (aka HN), and web surfing. It'd be an appendage, and not the end-all-be-all of my technology sphere.

I'm also an avid amateur photographer, but like many I never offload my pictures onto a laptop during a vacation or photo-shoot. Years ago, I bought two 16GB flash memory cards for the camera. With that, I can take thousands of pictures and never worry about offloading anything.

If in fact, I absolutely needed to offload data I'd just plug in a handy USB-connected external hard-drive and get instant access to 500GB more space.

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As an aside, since you're in Paris you should by an Orange card. Its about 10 euros, and gets you Wifi access at many of their hotspots around town.

Alternatively, you should be able to get Wifi in certain public parks too without paying. I haven't done the later, but I have done the former.
I hope he gets his Facebook page back and shuts down his business site: http://www.zucklaw.com/

Or at least, take down the auto-playing flash movie of him popping up and talking a la Princess Leia's hologram in Star Wars. Only reason I even looked is because we're in the same city.
You're confusing InnoDB with MyISAM. InnoDB does redo log recovery like all grown up databases. MyISAM requires a lengthy fsck type operation.
Sounds like a recipe for white flight. Switzerland was also among the last industrialized nations to allow women the vote (1970!). Provincialism is not a panacea and government isn't the only place where power can be concentrated.

On the other hand, my idealistic version of political reform is so far from reality, I won't even bother you with it here.
It sounds like you want to be at home so that your little girl gets more of your time. Working effectively from home requires getting as much time to yourself as possible. It's going to be a tough conflict.

I'm a dad with a 20 month old son. I've tried working at home and even with Mum looking after him I found it next to impossible. There is nothing quite as distracting as hearing a crash followed by your child screaming. Little boys do this A LOT.

I understand your thoughts on day care though. I hope you find an arrangement that works for you.
webOS sorely needs Galaxy S2 class hardware. HP should stop all else and get a slick device out like yesterday.
The best debugger is a good compiler
This is a great method! It avoids arbitrary floating point arithmetics[1] and thus makes it more comparable with the method presented in the article.

As far as I can see, this algorithm is very similar to the matrix operations of the article, at least in terms of complexity.

[1] Only the very last step might involve fp arithmetics, because you'll have to convert the result pair (x,y) back to x+y*sqrt(5). However, we already know that the result has to be an integer, so the its second part will always be 0, no fp arithmetics required.
The most minimalist commercial website you'll ever see
>Most access tokens expire in two hours, but some tokens work offline and remain valid until the user changes the password, Doshi said.

FB users can just go into their authenticated applications list and revoke access tokens on a per-application basis. Changing passwords shouldn't be necessary - that's the whole point of access tokens.
Yes I did. The sync took a lot of work, and I am glad that people appreciate it (many do). :) The icon needs to change, I agree. I am planning to run a 99-design contest and then have users (such as you) vote on the best option.

The poll will be announced within the app itself, so just keep installing the updates and you will not miss it.
Yes, but isn't Google supposed to be able to come up with an elegant equation to represent those coordinates so it's not just this huge ugly pile of crap? I popped the code open on it this morning and yawned. You know a company's starting to get love handles when they have people who spend a week doing stuff like this that runs for a day, mildly annoys a bunch of people, and is immediately replaced.
It's got all the useful information you may want, with none of the cruft. I'm either amazed or... actually, no, I'm just amazed.
It's not clear what this means yet but libmono.so is shipping with the default Android 3.1 build and Miguel de Icaza seems to confirm that Mono is shipping as part of Android.

http://twitter.com/#!/migueldeicaza/status/68435231035756544

Perhaps this is nothing more than Android trying to reduce the average download size of apps. Does Android have a history of doing this with popular frameworks?
Not from a good source, just from various claims that $1 to $5 CPM are common, some rough calculations starting with some summary data for Google, etc. I'd very much like a good source.

But if the $2 CPM is within a factor of several of reality, then the broad conclusion still holds: By the time a project is live and has users and, thus, qualifies for equity investment, if it is a good project with usage growing rapidly, then it should throw off enough cash to make equity investment unattractive due to how long it takes to get a check and the chances that after a year the revenue and pre-tax earnings will be larger than the check.

But, if cut the CPM by a factor of 10 to $0.20 and assume 5 ads per page sent, then the revenue per page sent is only cut in half and so are the monthly and annual revenue figures. Then the broad conclusion still holds: By the time the project is ready for equity funding, if it is a good project, that is, with usage growing quickly, then it should soon no longer need and maybe not want equity funding. And with some irony, here "soon" means in time about the same as that required to raise equity funding. So, the founders can sit there and ask,

"For the next six months, what do we do? Do we use the time to jerk the chains of a few hundred investors, pitch to a few dozen, and get a check or just keep working on our project, help the usage keep growing, and at the end of the six months have more in cash in pre-tax earnings than we would get from an equity investment check and still own 100% of our business and not worry about a Board. Also, now we just own the business outright, but the day after an equity investment we will own none of the business and, instead, have to work for about four years on a 'vesting schedule' to get back our fraction of the business, and we will never get it all back. So, what do we do for the next six months?"

So, broadly we have to ask, will there soon be some really successful Web sites that never took equity funding? So, for this part of investing, is venture capital dead?
#7: You can try cutting edge stuff.

Yet you can't even do css background gradients. Real cutting edge.
The idea that the government is out to protect your interests is an incredibly naive viewpoint. The government is not some mystical ideal immune to corruption - it is a collection of people as weak and human as you.

This is why the only humane, practical government is one with significant checks and balances, limitation of power. Libertarianism is the only way to solve real world problems, instead of idealistic naive thoughts.
You're welcome!

I'm delighted to find (so far) two happy users on hacker news and it brightens up my day. It rains so heavily today in Seattle that I need all the brightening I can get. :)
Wow. A modern equivelant of Sir Richard Francis Burton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton

I am a little in awe of people who speak multiple languages with ease. I struggle to learn any informal language other than English, my native tounge.
There is something in my brain that blocks my attempts to learn human languages. I do not struggle with programming languages, just human ones.
yeah, this entire thing has kinda impressed me, I'm on the lookout for a new ATM, may look into this
Then all you do is increase the cost by about 5 years worth of pay and we're back to square one. Admittedly, it'll handle lobbying at the local level for construction jobs for example, but it won't stop the oil lobby in Alaska.
If you just want to browse securely, a VPN might be overkill. Just set up a free EC2 account or get a cheap VPS ( http://prgmr.com/ ) and SSH tunnel through that.
Well not with that attitude!
I love it. Now if restaurants would follow suit.

And <br> is the only tag.
Government isn't the only place power can be concentrated to be sure. But it is the only place where power is concentrated using coercion.

Everywhere else, some value must be delivered in exchange and there are competing choices. For example, the media has a lot of power but also a lot of competition. And the more technology and choice we have in general creates even more competition.

Your version of reform may not be reality, but nothing is until discussed.
> To some commenters: the C in CAP and the C in ACID are not the same thing.

This is an interesting point, but I wonder if they are really that different. Even NoSQL systems support atomic updates and sequential consistency at some granularity (like a single key, document, etc.)

I wonder if it's really so inaccurate to think of NoSQL data stores as a set of tiny ACID databases, one for each key/document/etc.
Ah, I didn't realize the responses were sent via snailmail.
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So, in the spirit of HN I'd like to foster a challenge. I challenge the people of HN to come up with a startup to challenge the status quo. How about a startup that could expose this in an easily consumable way by the public? What about a startup that makes government corruption irrelevant? Lets put our money where our mouth is.

Is there money to be made from benefiting the social good? Is there a way we can bring people together with an app or service that can bring about an end to all of this? On HN I see some of the most intelligent people that have ever lived. If we can't come up with a solution, then who can?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Marissa_M...

(edit: nevermind, she is now VP of Location and Local Services; I was thinking of the background image debacle)
Let me see... in the Australian context such things can and do happen, but happen much less because "lobbyist" is a bit less of a job category than it is in the US.

Part of the reason, I think, is that individual parliamentarians make fewer of their own decisions than they do in the US. It's almost unheard of for an individual member of parliament to vote against their party on a given issue, so all decisionmaking on whether to support a given law is done at the party rather than individual level. And you can't persuade a whole party to support a law just by buying it steak dinners and hookers, you have to convince 'em that it's actually a votewinner. (Or you could just get your industry group to donate huge sums of money to the party, which is how, for instance, the Australian Hoteliers' Association keeps liquor licencing laws written to their advantage in most states).
Care to elaborate on the hardware? Speed seemed decent enough (compared with e.g. the first iPhone) and I personally really liked the "pebble" form factor. Sad that it'll never see webOS 2...
If you were to look up my name on facebook I am apparently some super hot blonde female.
FYI there's evidence that early daycare leads to behavioral problems later on. One hypothesis is that it's because kids model their behavior off of other kids... instead of adults, which are the model of what we want kids to become.
There is PowerShell (which I use) but if you thought cmd.exe was slow, its got nothing on PowerShell, which takes slow text rendering to a new level.

On a Core i7 clocked at 3.5Ghz with SSD :)

Getting home to work on a Linux terminal or Terminal.app is like heaven.
Ask HN: Are ImagineK12 invites out yet?
Chat! Please? I've done a few gotomeetings with people who were in a noisy environment and could only do text chats.
Typical way to gain views and make it look like you know what you are talking about (although the author does seem to know good algorithm development). Hell, comparing it to Bogosort is a stretch. Bogosort is not even a naive algorithm.
Heh. I guess I am old -- I read this as Captain Crunch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper and was wondering who the hell Spaghetti was....
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Just to expand on this, the "C" in CAP corresponds (roughly) to the "A" and "I" in ACID. Atomicity across multiple nodes requires consensus. According to FLP Impossibility Result (CAP is a very elegant and intuitive re-statement of FLP), consensus is impossible in a network that may drop or deliver packets. Serializable isolation level requires that operations are totally ordered: total ordering on multiple nodes, requires solving the "atomic multicast" problem which is a private instance of the general consensus problem.

In practice, you can achieve consensus across multiple nodes with a reasonable amount of fault tolerance if you are willing to accept high (as in, hundreds of milliseconds) latency bounds. That's a loss of availability that's not acceptable to many applications.

This means, that you can't build a low-latency multi-master system that achieves the "A" and "I" guarantees. Thus, distributed systems that wish to achieve a greater form of consistency typically (Megastore from Google being a notable exception, at the cost of 140ms latency) choose master slave systems (with "floating masters" for fault tolerance). In these systems availability is lost for a short period of time in case the master fails. BigTable (or HBase) is an example of this: (grand simplification follows) when a tablet master (RegionServer in HBase) for a specific token range fails, availability is lost until other nodes take over the "master-less" token range.

These are not binary "on/off" switches: see Yahoo's PNUTS for a great "middle of the road" system. The paper < http://research.yahoo.com/node/2304 > has an intuitive example explaining the various consistency models.

Note: in a partitioned system, the scope of consistency guarantees (that is, any consistency guarantees: eventual or not) is typically limited to (at best) a single partition of a "table group"/"entity group" (in Microsoft Azure Cloud SQL Server and Google Megastore, respectively), a single partition of a table (usual sharded MySQL setups) or just a single row in a table (BigTable) or document in a document oriented store. Atomic and isolated cross row transactions are impractical on commodity hardware (and are limited even in systems that mandate the use of infiband interconnect and high-performance SSDs).

[Disclaimer: I am commiter on Project Voldemort, a Dynamo implementation; in addition to Dynamo, I also find Yahoo's PNUTS and Google's BigTable to be very interesting architectures.]
It sounds like you aren't really the target market for this device.
This would be a nice thing to put on the FAQ page (country restrictions on both subscribers & merchants.) As an Australian I assumed I knew the typical answer, but I went to double-check anyhow.

(I assume also that when a merchant gets paid via Paypal not cheque, that means the merchant is also paying Paypal's 1.1-2.4%+Xc on top of pintpay's 3.6%+30c? Is that right?)
Hey, let's not downvote tejaswiy, it's a fair question.

I can expertly tell you that people use Google Tasks because of very low friction to entry. If you are using Gmail, starting to use Google Tasks is a one-click process.

Friction is paramount to adoption of, well, pretty much anything!
To be fair, the US gov't (or any gov't for that matter) steals its information and tries to assert full control over it as well. Any comments regarding hypocrisy directed toward Assange ought to apply equally to all governments. The notable thing here is that, in line with the historically great 4th estate, we once again have a news outlet that can act as a peer, rather than a subordinate, of governments.
Our new HP Veer phone with webOS is launching on AT&T next week. PreCentral reports a pretty good deal for people signing a new contract - http://www.precentral.net/white-ATT-veer-be-free-best-buy-av....
Is anyone else as shocked as I am that Goldman has barely had a slap on the wrist for this stuff?
They really are that different, and I hear 10gen is hiring. Increase the peace.

- Lil' B
Libertarian clap-trap. Governments and pies only become a bad combination when there is no meaningful oversight or regulation. Your point of view makes sense in America where this is the case.
But then you have to also regulate the income of their family - it would be all to easy to give those financial motivations to their spouse, children, or others close to them.
Going on the list - that was one of the top requests from beta release today - expect that in the next couple of weeks and thanks for trying it out!
Given Assange's track record of reactions to leaks within WikiLeaks, it would not be surprising at all if this is authentic: http://harmful.cat-v.org/journalism/wikileaks
If you're looking for a big acquisition, you should look to grow your assets first. Raise some capital and increase profits. If you get that trend going, then chances are you will get some attention.
There's my old standby for anything sensative: SOCKS5 Proxy via SSH (just use -D:8080 on your cmdline and use FoxyProxy or whathaveyou)

if you're really overkill, you can always just use -X with SSH, fire up Firefox or Dillo or Chrome on your server and just tunnel X.

Just keep a reasonable quality machine (say, 1.4Ghz) running SSH and your favorite flavor of linux.
I like it - it should have a little styling though. Like a nice font.

It would also be cool if they had something that indicated really quickly what they did... visually, maybe a picture of a bike, or the store or something. Even better if the picture was animated like those other websites.

I like music too - maybe they could play stairway to heaven real loud as soon as I got there. That would be sweet!

Maybe they could engage me better if they had the text do something... like use the <blink> tag.

I tried to like this on facebook and share it on twitter after wanting to post it to digg -- but the buttons dont seem to load for me.
that imagining something that nobody had yet thought about or mentioned was much harder.

Yes I agree with your friend finding something truly and absolutely novel is incredibly hard and rare, but you almost never need to. A variation on a theme is often enough, especially if the execution is better than previous versions.

For instance, not only do Avatar and The Last Samurai come from a literary archetype, they come from the same literary archetype. The idea for figuring out how fast something changes was around for a long time before Newton and Leibniz developped differential calculus. Myspace predates Facebook.

the idea is a requirement before execution can begin

An idea is required before you can execute clearly, but once you start executing that idea often evolves in quite unexpected ways. There are also cases of discovering something purely by chance while working on something unrelated as long as you are executing something.
Nope. Sometimes regulation spurs innovation, forcing businesses to go from "business as usual" to "how do we deal with this?". Air pollution regulations in California helped drive a lot of innovation around cleaning up car exhausts, for example. Without that restriction, movement in that area would have been very slow.
How about a Google Translate plug-in?
The best part about this, under Obama's ethics rules, she's not allowed to lobby the FCC on any matters, nor can she lobby any executive branch member about the Comcast/NBC merger until President Obama leaves office[1]. So she's being hired as a lobbyist even though she won't be able to lobby anyone.

[1] http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/f-c-c-commi...
Try F#: Interactive Tutorials [Silverlight]
I agree with you, but here's my attempt at devil's advocate:

These industries require domain expertise gained over years in order to understand the fundamentals of these industries at macro and micro levels, So, who better to help regulate them then people directly from the industry with that expertise. Career politicians and bureaucrats simply have no real world experience, so we must get industry insiders to provide insight.
In a replica set configuration, all reads and writes are routed to the master by default. In this scenario, consistency is guaranteed. (You can optionally mark reads as "slaveOk", but then you admit inconsistency.)

This does sacrifice availability (in the CAP sense), but I haven't heard anyone claim otherwise.
This CSS works for me:

http://www.pastie.org/1891062

Try bumping the font-size on #header #search up to see things resize.

Worth knowing, Helvetica is wider than Arial, which is why it might look fine on Windows and too wide on Mac.