skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if you understood me. If you're paid for your work, I assume you're also producing something.

School is the only time we're allowed to learn without also producing something. You can learn on the job, but there's an expectation that you will produce something as well. They're not paying you to learn for your sake, they're paying you to learn so you can produce something for them. This does not exist in school; everything you produce is only for pedagogical purposes.

I don't know why you brought up incentives; my point has nothing to do with them. My point has to do with time and money. Since you produce nothing of value in school, no one will pay you for it. So you're deferring income so that you can devote all of your time to learning - school is an investment.
An Army of Ones and Zeroes
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Videos on YC's demo day?
Are there any videos on YC's demo days? Would be interested to see how presentations are done and see the YC startups out there.
I wonder how much significance it is that one of the co-authors appears to work at Adobe, but you do make a good point. The money is in the implementation and all that.
late-comer here. I felt quite hesitant visiting a domain named 200nipples, but congrats, guys.
Could also be called "How I became a Russian script kiddie".

Also: Did Slate fire their editors?
Google-backed SeedFund injects $1 million into Lifeblob
So - it opened on my city (Which is awesome - most places seem to open on a world view or somewhere in Nth America)

However I'm not seeing any sports fields...

Okay --> I'm so used to using GMaps - that I clicked and dragged but never just clicked.. I looked at Denver to see some actual data - and finally worked out how to add my own.

And then after typing in a reasonable description - It flashed up a JS error "0" to me...

I like the concept though --> I'd probably use it.. (Although what I'd truly love is the next step --> this is a cool running track; this specific oval is for cricket; etc..

Also -> more Sports? Or are you using the assumption that cricket, football, soccer, AFL, etc are all "Grass/Dirt fields"
I did include the jcc stuff; 63 variants of those still seems excessive to me. It would be totally stupid if there were that many straight 'jmp's.

Accessing dwords off the top of the stack is a smallish penalty if they're in cache, and if the loads don't interfere with the pipeline.

Edit: be slightly less brief
I don't think netflix will lose too many customers over this. It was really cool to get an e-mail saying sorry we haven't shipped your disk we will credit you before I even realized something was wrong. Normal companies just act like nothing is happening and you have to call them to get a credit.
Let's compare the x86 ISA to, say, a Ford Model T, and a reasonably modern RISC ISA (SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, etc.) to, say, a Ferrari. The latter is newer, prettier, and inherently faster. However, this Model T is so successful in terms of sales that Ford has been able to hire a bunch of engineers to figure out how to add a bunch of structural reinforcement and replace the original engine with a couple of turbojets. Now the Model T looks even cruftier than before (it's got jet engines bolted on!!) but it's now at least as fast as the Ferrari.
Tjena!
This sounds like it would be useful for me (haven't tried the demos since the server is down) but I have a pretty big and messy set of astrophysics simulation data that I'd like to be able to query. I doubt you'll get much traction from the public with that as a demo, though... ;-)
I don't understand. If you have 300 notes, and 12 tones, the number of different melodies you can play is 12^300 (12 choices at each step). Why is it 300 factorial? You don't have 300 distinct entities to permute.
Sorry, I don't know much about the innards of routing hardware. I do know that doing all the routing in a time equal to the propagation delay of the light is pretty damn impressive to me.
McCain unveils his own tech policy proposal
MS should dump Windows in favor of a Unix-based windowing shell
In experiments, researchers found that an 86-microsecond exposure of the beam would bore a hole 40 meters into a block of copper.

Simply. Amazing.
After lawyer fees, she probably got only a few thousand dollars.
Supercomputer to explore mass of the universe
That looks damn neat.
excerpt from John Donne's Meditation XVII

No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
Its definitely a culture thing. Its best shown by the Chinese parent's desire for their kids to play the piano.

Do you think Chinese parents make their kids learn piano because they themselves were inspired by Mozart and Chopin?
No, they learn piano because it is something that the kid can show off (to relatives, colleges, etc).

Those kids learn PI much in the same way.
I'd say so - its definitely become more socially acceptable to be a bit of a geek in recent years, I first started noticing it between the first and second Lord of the Rings films.

We've seen shows like Big Bang Theory and the IT Crowd have popped up in recent years aswell - which shows theres a stronger following towards this culture.

I think the adoption of more geek centric technology is just a natural progression :)
That'll probably be the peak, too...six months after the olympics, and he'll be a tired brand. Olympians don't have a long shelf life.
I've had a couple of my own links marked dead recently. It doesn't really bother me, I just submit stuff I find interesting and if the admins want to kill it they kill it.
Firebug is an absolute must for javascript programmers who use firefox. Even if you don't understand any of its complicated features, the firebug console gives you good error messages, shows you a link to the line in your code where the error occurred, and you can type in expressions to evaluate them. You want to know what foo.opacity = 0.5 does? Just type it in.
This is really fantastic stuff, I'm a big fan of _why's work.

I really love the principle behind this:
http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theLittleCodersPredicam...

I hope that this can help make programming as fun and accessible as it was on the C64. I grew up learning QBasic, taking for granted that I could draw some stuff to the screen and play music in a handful lines of code.
Yeah, Writely is a great counterexample. Their vision and Google's vision were really close, so they integrated well into Docs.

And just to show you that technical issues are not the primary problem, they were using Windows/C# but managed to port to Google's Linux/Java-based infrastructure and login system very quickly. (Granted, C# is way closer to Java than PHP).
I feel a little let down by Mozilla and Adobe.

I don't follow. I thought it was Microsoft that torpedoed the standard. What did Mozilla and Adobe do wrong?
Good observation, but I actually didn't end up choosing the one I started off. But you are right about putting it near the top, it kind of discourages the reader even though, I thought I was pretty objective.
I still like it
No, what you are seeing is that individually creditable work occurs in the pre- and post-corporate employment stage. Which is practically a tautology.

There are plenty of epic technical achievements within Google. In fact, it's practically expected. The rest of the world just hears about these innovations, on average, three years after they happen. If they ever hear about them.
Wow, this is really cool, but I was under the impression that this is already doable. Why is everyone so surprised?
Mad props to _why.

I'm a huge fan of the idea of shoes. I tried an earlier version and found it just a bit lacking in features for things I wanted to do (networking, I think). Obviously this is the idea -- everybody wants a language that is nothing but exactly the features they want/need, but all of my sample application ideas were things that were going to need some kind of networking (network tic-tac-toe), and it didn't look like I could do what I wanted with it.

The last time I talked to a kid about computer programming, I asked what they'd want to write, and they said "a game", and drilling down I came to the conclusion that what they really wanted was a level editor for an otherwise complete game engine.

Obviously this is aimed at someone subtly different, but I think it this idea extended to have some graphics/network/game oriented gimmies would be really popular.
I really don't understand you. I have a shelf full of computer science and math textbooks behind me, which I read even though 1) I do not need them for work, and 2) I am not currently in school. I don't produce anything of value by reading The Art of Computer Programming, but I am still 'allowed' to do it. Nobody is paying me or permitting me, even though the stuff I do is still for pedagogical purposes.
Editors will also kill straight up dupes of other stories, or things with no intellectual content (like funny pictures, etc.) A lot of it is arbitrary though, obviously.
Factorial is the hello world of functional programming. The fact that everyone knows it inside out aids the example, because the reader can focus on the important details (the Y Combinator).
The answer is, that it depends. Revenue split used to be 60/40, with 60% going to the developer.

Depending on when Jonathan Blow signed his deal, he may be getting as high as 60% or as low as 30%.

I blogged about the issue here:
http://parveenkaler.com/2008/03/08/iphone-app-store-revenue-...
I think this is a little excessive. It really implies that someone got a strong high school education. A lot of the public high schools where I grew up sent a small portion of students to college just because the school system was hurting very much. Most students didn't feel like they had learned much until after their first years in college or a stint at the local junior college.
Toy of the Day: FeedMySearch - Google Search to RSS
I'm going to guess that if enough people flag something, it automatically goes dead, unless perhaps it's received some threshold of upvoting.
OK, yes, someone's query busted the system down. But it's up again now.
Live Arcade is typically 70/30 (70 for developer), but it's negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Hope he got more!

Note that this isn't a "crap-out-a-game-make-a-mil"; he was working on this game for, I believe, 5-ish years.

(worth buying and playing, btw)
Hey, thanks for checking it out. The big issue now is that there is not a lot of data...I'm counting on people to add their favorites, although I'll try to seed it as much as I can.

Sorry about that stupid javascript error. I just fixed it so the add functionality works properly. I had considered adding different entries for football, soccer, cricket, etc. but it seems like those are usually just played on whatever field people can find, rather than being designated. I can add them in easily though.

I'm intrigued by your idea of putting in more granular data. Do you think that would involve having specific comments for each of the features selected? As it is, it's hard to pick out specific parts of these parks and schools in detail.

Thanks again, and let me know if you have any other comments or ideas.
Why Unix? It's not like it's the ultimate OS. If M$ is smart, they'll forge ahead with Singularity. Unix's security model is great for mainframes with a knowledgeable super user custodian. It's outdated for today's Internet.
He's 23. The peak would be right before the next Olympics, assuming he can at least make the team. He wouldn't have to perform well, just ride on the inevitable hype that would come before it. The Olympics themselves don't have a long shelf life, and the optimum time to release a book would be just before they start.
The 70% cut is a very, very special case.
Is there some gaming of the flag function?
As the article says at the end, that's where Phase II of the process starts, where she is going to sue them for malicious prosecution. Let's hope she wins that too, and the award is large enough to actually hurt the companies (i.e. punitive damages).
oh my god the docs: http://hackety.org/press/nks.html

it reads right to left (click on the left hand page of the spread to advance).

Brilliant zine-like design aesthetic.
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Why should a GUI toolkit have networking features?
The response is much better than the original article.
One of her lawyers is named "Ben Justus"? I'd have smirked incredulously at that if it had been in a movie.
Ask HN: Know a Free Mobile Analytics Service?
Hey,

I plan to launch a mobilized version of my web-application within the next week. I've never done mobile-friendly webapps before, and I'm assuming the Google Analytics I'm using for the main site won't suffice for mobile platforms. So if I'm wrong, does anyone know a good Mobile Analytics service that's free and reliable?

Thanks as always,
Mike
Is It Finally Over? Yahoo Appoints Icahn Nominees to Board
Thanks! Job Alchemist is just a little sparse - for right now we just need a site that starts to build the parent brand.
It probably means that the Unix security model (user,group,world) is a bit limited and has a single point of failure(root). Anything less than capabilities is going to have similar flaws.

Better than UAC though.
I hate when I've commented on something, am being modded up because of my ostensibly good commend, and then the story goes dead....
That one got killed automatically because the domain is banned. I think the domain was banned because someone once spammed us with links to it.

Another reason non-spam/troll stuff gets killed is because it's a dupe.
Thanks, I hadn't read that article.

For me, this is part of the magic of the Facebook platform. There would be "How do I..." posts on the platform forums, from people who clearly had no web development experience at all (and probably no programming experience in general). They made me realize that the Facebook platform, in its own way, captured some of the magic of writing a game in QBasic (or, before that, Z80/Commodore/whatever) and passing it along to your friends. All your friends use Facebook, none of you are hackers, but you make something neat on Facebook and they get to use it, and they know YOU made it... because of the intimacy, it's much more magical than just making a website or a desktop program.

Of course, it's a lot more complicated than it used to be. You can't just get a simple Basic program and start messing with it. You need to find hosting, with PHP, maybe MySQL, get the API client, figure out how to get it all working together, upload it... it's far from newbie friendly.

But still, I wouldn't be surprised if there are hundreds of kids today who first got into programming by asking the question "How do I make a Facebook app?"

I definitely agree with _why that we need more of this.
Unix's security model is great for mainframes with a knowledgeable super user custodian. It's outdated for today's Internet.

You're right that the traditional user-group-other read-write-execute security model is outdated, but modern freenixes have support for ACLs -- so in this respect Microsoft could replicate the existing Windows model on top of Unix.

I don't think that Microsoft should give up on Singularity -- it sounds like a very exciting research project -- but it might be a good idea to have a back-up plan in case Singularity doesn't work out.
YouTube questions IOC DCMA takedown request for Free Tibet video
While there have been advances made on both ends, js based statistic engines do have lingering problems for mobile apps. That said, there are a number of workarounds:
http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-analytics-without-javascript....
How to get a traffic history graph on Alexa if your site is not in the top 100,000.
Just compare your site with one that is in the top 100,000.
An attempt at a fix:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAST_TCP
It appears that I confused the missions of Shoes and Hackety Hack, which would explain my misaligned expectations.

It looks like Shoes is intended to be the graphics engine for writing Ruby apps including HH, and HH is supposed to be the easy-to-use general purpose programming language.

I would be curious to see how non-trivial applications fit within the Shoes framework. My experience with ambitious frameworks has been that they work great until you want to do something that isn't perfectly aligned with its intent/charter/design, then you start fighting them really fast. Maybe Ruby or Shoes offer ways around this, but if you have to write non-trivial network or disk i/o code maybe the total win you get from a really simple GUI framework is diminished.
Remember, if you live in Brazil or China, even the stringent Kyoto Protocol allows you to pollute as much as you want.
I assume that most of your day is still spent producing something, which you get paid for. In school, such time does not exist; it's all learning. I think you're focused on incentives, which is orthogonal to my point. Regardless of why you learn (ranging from for your own enrichment or for practical gain), having a few years set aside to do nothing but learn means you will learn more.

If you somehow have a job where you are allowed to do anything you want and produce nothing, then I'd like to know who you work for.
In Pictures: America's Fastest-Dying Cities
_why is like a one man contemporary version of the Beagle Bros (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Bros)

Speaking of beagles, and related to the little coder's predicament: It would be cool if someone chucked a beagle board (http://www.beagleboard.org) into a keyboard case and made a modern version of a C64. A hobby hacking community surrounding it based on _why's aesthetic would be a lot of fun.
Ask HN:  Does anyone know how to get back into facebook?
Long story: http://textblog.anands.net/archives/196

Short story:

I have 3 RSS feeds and I was trying out various options to add the feeds to my profile. I finally settled on a Yahoo Pipe to aggregate all my feeds into a single feed.

Facebook termed it as a violation of their TOS. A GUI mis-understanding later, my account got disabled.

Question: What is involved in getting back into facebook? Does anyone know?
I highly recommend the paper version. Very reasonably priced.

Ironically, I haven't found the time to actually read it, but I page through it now and then just to admire the thing.
Agreed, but in a parallel universe where the parent post actually asked the implied question, what other functions would you suggest? I try to explain these things to other people enough that I'd love to hear other suggestions.

Map might be another good one, although for better and worse it expects the reader to follow the idea of first class functions. Something like

map square [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] ---> [1, 4, 9, 16, 25]

is pretty simple, though.
PowerPoint Plugin Adds a Spatial Dimension to Presentations
"shut down to new users" just means "taking their sweet time porting to a google backend"

When things are Google products, there is a certain level of reliability, security, and performance that is expect. Google tries harder than anyone to avoid the Fail Whale.

It takes a long time for large software systems to be ported, security reviewed, integrated, and tested with Google's custom stuff.

From what I have seen, being acquired by Google means that you go dark for 18 months and then emerge as a Google product.
Some time ago, I heard Microsoft was working on non-linear PowerPoint presentations, where you wouldn't have to go from one slide to the next. As someone who has to give presentations with flowcharts & architecture diagrams, I'm impressed.
"Where Some See Crisis, Others See Opportunity..."
They are now. Words become a part of the language because enough people use them.
P.T. Barnum, Incorporated.
I've had a couple friends with similar experiences, their accounts were reactivated after:

1. Emailed request/explanation.

2. Short time period (~2 weeks).
70/30 is the default case for the upcoming Xbox LIVE Community Games:
http://creators.xna.com/en-us/XboxLIVECommunityGames

Microsoft only takes more than 30% if you are lucky enough to have your game featured (read: you'll make it all back and more in volume).

Disclaimer: I work on Game Studio and the XNA Framework
"Please do not place hands in path of beam."
Wow, that's horrible. I would really feel slapped in the face if I had spent the time to learn XBox360 development and they shifted the royalties across the 50% boundary.

70/30 seems entirely fair, 60/40 feels like the pain point to me, and less than 50/50 seems like they should be giving me health insurance.

What a great example of why carrier "portals" never have content you want on them. Hopefully Apple's honest and open approach to licensing really raises the bar for everyone else.
Best. Extension. Ever.

(Sorry. Yet, if you challenge that, I absolutely want to know what you think is better so I can install it.)
Because describing something formally means you have a deep understanding of it. Formal descriptions require synthesizing the important concepts from the whole.

Understanding a new concept feels good intellectually, but it also gives you more power: now you can recognize that pattern elsewhere and perhaps apply new techniques.
At great difficulty. A lot of people can't manage it.

My girlfriend's father & his wife had two house. They liked the smaller one but it couldn't contain their stuff. The sold it. (and built a couple of new sheds to contain it's stuff)
That what reporters are for :) If you read the news you will see an endless stream of highly unusual events, but unfortunately that doesn't prove anything.
H2O Project
Because it was the domain of studios with big budgets beforehand?

Now it appears to be within the realm of backyard hobbyists - thats what makes it impressive.
Netflix prize competitor: With the best algorithms, metadata becomes worthless
Just this title hit me like a tonne of bricks. In terms of Outlook being shitty, Xobni was a very logical start up to improve it, but I can't believe that I didn't think that there should be PowerPoint-improving plugins.

I definitely see a need for this and I hope it will be successful. Now, to change the way corporate America thinks about making presentations, because gaining inertia for this will not be very easy.
Can't wait for this experiment to start.
Another reason non-spam/troll stuff gets killed is because it's a dupe.

It's hard to find dupes when all you have is a link you want to post. For example earlier today:

http://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.positech.co.uk/tal...

returns nothing

even though the story is already posted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=275780

Too often the names of the stories alone don't work. Or the name is misleading or otherwise bad.

Is there is a better way to see if a dupe already exists?
The point of the judgment was to pay her legal bills. So I wouldn't be surprised if all of it went to her lawyers.
It's interesting to consider employee acquisition as a motivator. As far as I could guess there are a few motivations:

1 the technology

2 the product/userbase

3 the employees

4 kill competition

1 & 2 could be 'masterplan' motivations. 3 has a maximum dollar value. 4 is rarely admitted.

It's hard to judge if they messed up without knowing which one it is.