skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ofcourse, let me post the link content the way I see it when logged in with my previous username. sorry about the sarcastic post previous. I am just peeved.

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pavelludiq 1 day ago | link

The site is fine, its the content thats been sucking lately, fortunately, theres this convenient and usable "flag" link, i think I'll use it.
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davidw 1 day ago | link

What do you mean unusable? Plenty of people use it every day just fine.
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ColinWright 1 day ago | link

I look forward to your announcement of a replacement.
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cstrouse 1 day ago | link

Other than occasional issues with OpenID not working right for me I don't have any problems with it. I find it perfectly usable.
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Ricoh to cut 10,000 jobs
Suggest reading the original instead of this commentary on it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/opinion/23pariser.html
You haven't worked at many technology companies, have you?
Lockheed Martin Chief Sees Likelihood of More Job Cuts
At first, this miner said it was giving me 200KH/s. Then, I turned on bitcoind and ran Diablo-Miner, and it gave me 8.6MH/s. I turned off Diablo-Miner, went back to the webcl miner, and then it started reading 8.6/8.8MH/s too. I'm not sure exactly what's going on. It's pretty cool though that at least for a little while, WebCL thinks it can do as well as Diablo-Miner on my machine.
Also, someone just submitted this link to HN:

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/18/what-s-wrong-with-silicon...

Some nice quotes from Thiel:

“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

“Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron,”

And a quote from the article:
"The public, he [Thiel] says, doesn’t support unregulated, winner-take-all capitalism, and so he won’t support the public any longer. "

"Thiel is the lead backer of Sea-steading, a movement to create law-free floating communes and explore space, with the avowed aim of creating new POLITICAL structures even farther offshore. "

I don't see how its not obvious that Thiel's motives have an extreme conservative ideological bent. "The extension of the franchise to women" -- WTF?!

And I should have looked on Wikipedia earlier "he founded The Stanford Review, now the university's main conservative/libertarian newspaper".

What else do you need?
IBM lays off workers
Thousands Face Volcanic Ash Cloud Flight Cancellations
edit: you may not be able to see the old one as it says dead.. read my reply to olalonde below please
Generally the card issuer doesn't like that, because they don't really want cardholders to be aware of the cost of using cards.
Internet Filters - Sealing Us Off in Our Own Personalized Online Worlds
Nearly Half of Americans Are ‘Financially Fragile’
Start mining - FREE 100MM tweet db
Sup,

I have been collecting tweets for 4 days now, using a app that I haven coding for the last 5 months.

The reason why I did this app was because I wanted to make user-based recommendations, and other types of data mining using Mahout, and I didnt find enough data for my experiments.

About the app
I am using a single 8GB-ram Centos Server hosted on the Rackspace cloud with a cost of less than 15 dollars per day. It can process up to 100 (90 - 105) twitter profiles per second. It works with a average of 2GB of ram and 90% CPU. Its completely fault tolerant. It can process other social networks as well using a simple parse-template.

I was able to collect 90+ million tweets from more than 6 million -- the db has 20MM users -- users using JAVA, memcache, mysql, php (visualization), a non ACID architecture, using a object-like structure (no-sql?).

I hope this datasets helps you get into the big data world.

The current sql dump is too big (66GB) to put in one of my servers so please skypeme:calufaxp or email me calufa{a}gmail.com if you want the data. BTW, the data is FREE...

If anyone has a server where I can upload this sql and let others download it let me know.
Richard Feynman on Computer Science (Video)
Banks Hold Glut of Homes, Chilling Sales
Three easy reasons search engine owners /might/ pay for a full copy of the web crawl:

-Faster. You don't have the latency of millions of HTTP connections, but instead a single download. (Or a few dozen. Or a van full of hard drives.)

-Easier. The problem of crawling quickly but politely has been handled for you. The reading of sitemaps has been handled for you. The problem of deciding how deep to crawl, and when to write off a subsite as an endless black hole, has been handled for you. Etc.

-Predictable. Figuring out, in advance, how much it is going to cost you to crawl some/all of the web is, to say the least, tricky. Buying a copy with a known price tag provides a measure of certainty.

Of course, I am leaving out the potential pitfalls, but the point is there /are/ arguments in favor of buying a copy of the web (and then building your own index).
already possible with droidwall.
Ask HN: Your chance to shape a product manager (advice for a new one)
Summary: starting a product manager role without any previous product experience. Need advice.

Three weeks from now I will be leaving my QA position to be a product manager at a different company.

I have no product manager experience (I only have about 3-4 years of work experience, 2 of them in tech)- the people hiring me know this, but like me, believe I can succeed after an initial period of handholding.

The company is a leader in a very niche market. Their current offering is a desktop application which they plan to take online and to mobile devices, I will (eventually) be responsible for the online/mobile product as well as setting up a e-commerce system. From what I understand, the customer is typically slow to adopt new technology, risk averse and just wants the product to work and be as intuitive as possible. They currently have one person handling the product role, they will move on to other responsibilities once I'm up and running.

What advice do you have for a person in my situation- what would you do to prep for the position? What would you focus on early on? What mistakes have you made that I can learn from?

Thank you!
how about this one? http://www.techcofounder.com/
Obligatory xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/208/

It seems we've reached the point where there's an xkcd for every situation (on HN at least) now. Maybe a corollary to rule 34[1] is needed.

[1] http://xkcd.com/305/
Throw it on a torrent?
give it 6 months
Suitetuts : Free tutorial videos on Adobe software
Thank you for your comments. It seems I have to follow your advice and contact indie moviemakers or use public domain movies
Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game
In so many words, if the candidate is qualified for the job, the hiring manager doesn't legally get a choice as to whether he likes the way the candidate looks.

How is the person who was declined for the job even going to know they were discriminated against? Hiring discrimination goes on all the time. I am doubtful that VidAppy makes this any easier for hiring managers to do.
His is a variant of

"I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6."
- Steven Wright
I'm always impressed with what a genuinely nice guy PG seems to be. I love watching him try to brainstorm with these guys about ways to make their ideas work, even when they resist :P
this thread already has a ranking of -2... wow. for what?
tried that before and I dont know why it doesnt seed. I have had problems with my OSX admin user before... reinstalling everything is not really a option... :/
Every town has a library.
Let's just close all the bookstores then.
I don't think a non-installer bundle executable will be interpreted as LSRiskCategorySafe, so the user would have to manually launch it and click through the untrusted executable warning.

Really Safari just needs to ditch the concept of "safe" file-types in the first place.
Why clearXchange is great for payments
Depending on where you live, there are many meetup groups (or similar groups) that meet monthly to demo new products, discuss new technologies, etc. Find a few of those groups, make presentations, receive feedback. If you live in an area without these groups, look up a few in a specific geographic area (ex: SF Bay Area), contact the organizers, arrange to present at a few of them over a week long period and take a working vacation.
Japanese Study English By…Tweeting?
Well, it works well with unemployment at least:
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/05/25/mining-for-correlatio...
Correlation does not imply causation, but it is certainly fun sometimes to pretend it does.
less qq, more pew pew
Most of the soils in this area are Nile delta deposits.
Adapting? That's simple. All we have to do is change what crops are being grown around the world, adapt to changing weather patterns that make fertile places arid and arid places fertile, and find new homes for the millions and millions that are going to be displaced as the sea level rises. It's only a couple trillion dollars, give or take.

<sarcasm>
They're using 'correlation' in its precise statistical sense:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation
I keep trying others and always end up going back to 6x13. It's the perfect font when working on a notebook.

At work I have a larger display that sits farther away, and am running windows. Consolas is easier on the eyes there with two Emacs buffers side-by-side (at "108" Emacs font height).

I came across the 5x13 font (https://github.com/chneukirchen/5x13) and wanted to try it on my netbook. For some reason spaces come out as hatched boxes for me. The font itself looks promising but needs many changes (some of which I've figured enough out to make; but I don't know what to do with the space).
You didn't give any reasons as to why you thought HN was broken, you just asserted that it was, and quite rudely too. I interpreted that as trolling, so I flagged it. Seems like a few other people flagged it too.

If you want to initiate useful discussion, you need to establish context with your initial post. That usually takes more than a single sentence.
He's saying if he could optimize away all the requests by crawlers and robots, he'd have half as much work to do. Doing twice as much work costs more -- on the server side to serve it up, and on the network side to transfer it.

It's not literally a speed comparison, but you can imagine how if you could optimize away all the robot requests, you could do something else with the time and resources you'd formerly spent serving them.

The smugmug addendum to the story explains this pretty clearly.
Yes, the idea in the OP is not new.

To my knowledge, the first people to use remote sensing data in an archeological context used radar (SRTM, a synthetic aperture radar mapping mission that flew on the space shuttle). Radar can penetrate the land to a depth of ~meters depending on lots of factors.

They discovered the lost city of Ubar, which was a trading city (ca. 3000 BC) in the Arabian peninsula that had been lost to the desert.

They discovered it because trails that had formerly led into Ubar gave off stronger radar reflections.

Later on-site digs confirmed actual ruins. This was in 1992. A link:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01721

The person who blurbed the book you found, Charles Elachi, was a key member of the team that designed the radar instrument that found Ubar.

All of the SRTM data is online somewhere. The desert turns out to be a really good place to look for stuff. Less clutter.
I'd love to see "non-email" things living in the inbox.

I'd receive or could create a new Google doc, a wiki, a blank 'pastebin' type document, a Google Wave type thing, etc. It would sit in my inbox, exactly like an email. But clicking the subject would load the new type of file right there rather than take me to an email.

I don't want links/notifications of the new service, I want to click on an 'email' in my inbox and have it instead load the other service, right there. Does that make sense?
With anything like this, the M4W market is going to overwhelm.
They want hardware, too, so you have to pay more than an opportunity cost up front. They mention that the winner will get to work with a manufacturer to produce more prototypes, but it's hard to put a monetary value on that without more details.

Seriously, anyone with the expertise and desire to do this sort of thing on their own is already doing it and getting paid more than $100k to do so.
I think I'm on a similar realization as you. I "used to" want to be featherweight MMA champion of the world. Once I was into fighting, I kind of assumed I wanted to win (I think everyone does), but I slowly realized that I received no joy from winning. I just loved fighting, but I didn't have a drive to actually defeat my opponent. And you're right. It's fucking scary. "Wanting to be MMA champion" was so deeply ingrained into my identity at that point that questioning that made me question who I am. Am I a quitter? Some loser who can't keep his motivation up? How can I get anywhere in life if I give up?

Now I realize that if I don't receive satisfaction from doing something, there's not much reason in doing it. I chose the term satisfaction very carefully here because, for example, people sometimes say eating cookies makes them happy, but they will rarely say eating cookies gives them satisfaction, especially if it's part of an unhealthy lifestyle.

There is still an uncomfortable thought that lingers in mind that I just "gave up" and am trying to rationalize it and make excuses, but I also know that I am still fighting, and if defeating my opponent ever gives me the same elation as just being in the ring, I will be shooting for that goal again. Except at that time, it would be for real.
Laws that make it illegal to discriminate would not help businesses (they lose the ability to use every signal available to them, and it might become taboo to ask about why one is unemployed, etc), and it will probably result in more discrimination lawsuits from disgruntled interviewees. No one needs more of those.

That said, the stance of some of the companies in the article is silly.
I would say, if you are not relying on an app market for your distribution, a full blown web version is your best bet. My not backed with any data whatsoever observation is, mobile web traffic is still too small to use as the sole medium of a marketing effort.
Most people who go to google.com don't stay there very long.
Does Functional Programming Really Matter?
I think it may be user error... one day old account (tstuff) complains that the site is unusable.
part of the secret that makes any search engine unique is the knowledge that a site at x.com exists and they know there is a forum at x.com/forums which is not visible by simply crawling from the root x.com. On the other hand, I would love an open web cache for my work.
The interesting point about this analysis is that the 'freemium' model, where you give away the service for 'free' and them upgrade folks to 'pay' has a lower customer acquisition cost than the "advertise and convert" model.

This has been a very successful strategy in the apps market for mobile devices as well.

I did not see where the cost of hosting the free users was being factored into the acquisiton costs. Presumably a large number of people are 'free' users and there is certainly an operating cost associated with that, and over time that cost accrues against your acquisition costs.

If the addressable market for 'free' use was 100x the size of the market for 'paid' use then you would be holding 100GB of data for every GB of data that you were being paid to hold. If you can net revenue for that paid GB to cover that cost then you're good to go, but if not you push back on the free size.

Google offered everyone a GB of free email space when they started gmail but they understood that most people would not use a full GB. So in the 'hosted' storage space if you are going with a freemium model you've got a spectrum between '0' where your free customers aren't actually using your system and 'max' where your free customers are all pushing right to the limit.

The other challenge with the 'freemium' model is that bandwidth costs do go up as you use more. So having a 1GB pipe to the internet might cost you $3K/month whereas having a 10GB pipe to the internet would cost you 20 - 25K$ /month. Generally those are 'burstable' prices where you pay for a minumum bandwidth usaga and you pay extra when you exceed your minimum (think minutes on your cell phone).

Having and fully filling at 10GbE pipe to the internet can easily cost $50K/month. Lots of 'little' customers can do that without providing any return. So its harder to price out the 'free' customers into the total cost.

Bottom line its a great way to analyze your web service to get a feel for whether or not you are really making money or you only think you are making money.
I won't find any more solutions. I will let the program find them, which, given enough time should find every single possible solution.

Any line drawing variant is just the concept I've already outlined expanded.

So I guess my question is: Is the challenge in this finding other ways to generate solutions, even though a method that will generate all possible solutions has already been found?
Hi - founder of blue.box, the product from 2600hz you are referring to.

I'd be curious to know which features, but more importantly, have you seen Whistle? It's an API-driven control system for clustered FreeSWITCH. You can probably do whatever you need to in there.
Definitely! BTW, wetriffs.com is gone but .org is available
U.S. Army Turns to Social Media to Recruit
I'm curious, have you used both? Did you find them equal? When I've them I find myself using Khan academy for longer periods of time than I originally intended and OCW for shorter periods of time.

Genuinely curious about your experience!
thanks for admitting you did. That takes courage.
But I assumed it was common knowledge, I hear that everywhere.
like you are explaining your opinion of my post only right now, let me explain mine
I cannot click on the "next" button more than a few times before having to start off all over again.
the reason people use HN is not, in my opinion, for the quality of the service, but because of the feeling that they are being watched.
there is also a inherent negativity in the way HNers treat a particular type of application (facebook based, for example)
Yes, it's a very cool idea. Just better hope that Apple never changes the key layout on you...
Out of curiosity: what are you doing now?
Ask HN: Anything Like 365psd.com for CSS?
365psd.com provides psd files with UI elements, templates etc that are free for commercial use.

Is there anything out there that does the same for CSS/HTML snippets? (of a similar high standard)
Aerial Photographs of Joplin, MO Before and After the Tornado
+1 for the submission, so that it survives as a negative example of how not to approach a perceived problem.
HTML5 Library Monetization
join and participate in some forums that are niche related and have users interested in what you built. You can easily bootstrap a SaaS if you have a presence and some authority on a few forums.
Droid Sans Mono makes for a great programming font. It’s got a bit of flair,
and stands out among the other monospace fonts I’ve listed, and its only
real flaw is the lack of a slashed zero.

I use Droid Sans Mono with slashed zeros on my Arch Linux box. I find that I can get it up to a rather large font size (I don't see well) and it still looks really good.

Download link http://www.cosmix.org/software/files/DroidSansMonoSlashed.zi...

Arch Linux AUR link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40418
You're not substituting the right numbers into that formula. The numerator includes all bad (will fail) startup ideas that get rejected.
Urgent call while in the restroom? Here is one "clean" solution
http://codecanyon.net/
You mean, "inherently social."
Backblaze has no limitations on the amount of data you can backup or the speed at which you can backup. You can read a bit more about this on our blog: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/02/03/backblaze-is-committed-...

Gleb Budman
CEO, Backblaze
Interesting idea. So the rows in your inbox would also function as links to other kind of objects instead of just using them to open an email.

It would certainly make getting at the content inside an email faster. This would mean you'd have to put enough smarts in the email parser to determine what kind of content is inside the email and then take the appropriate action.
This is just a hatchet job, barely worthy of newsweek, let alone HN.
s/immoral/amoral
wetriffs.com was registered by Munroe, wasn't it?
Pretty cool for your product. I'd drop the 2 feature lists on the right and I'd drop some colors, especially on the arrows. Also, I'd exchange the position of the red and green stickies to follow the natural eye movement (Z shape).
Have a look at those slides and blog entries:

http://www.deepbluelambda.org/programming/clojure/
From designing in secrecy to designing in the open
Facebook is not partnering with Spotify in any way.

- This "icon" on the left of the homepage is simply a bookmark, a feature that any application on Facebook can choose to use.

- Facebook is an open platform and has yet to choose a winner among third parties for anything, and when they do they buy them and rebuild the product in house.

- Spotify does not work in the United States.

- Spotify simply has deep Facebook integrations, tech writers are either completely misunderstanding the information they stumbled upon OR they are blatantly turning this into a bigger story in order to get page views and attention.
The lowercase 'e' in Monofur is a deal breaker. Too reminiscent of italics. And the mixed baseline numerals don't help either. Otherwise it's pretty nice. Of the 10, Inconsolata deserves to be #1.
Downvotes but no reply? Could someone point out exactly what is disruptive about ubercab? Disruptive to me is Netflix. The cab industry could easily add a web-interface for booking cabs... and it's not going to be destroyed by uber. Which industry are they disrupting?
I have no idea what you're talking about, so here is an ascii picture of the Prophet Muhammad with a pancake on his head:

|~O:-|

No seriously, what are you talking about?
Is there anything in it that's false?

I ask because literally everything I've heard about the guy is negative.
The title, "Keep unwanted photos off any site," should be "Keep unwanted photos off sites you own".
Volunteering and enthusiasm has worked for me.

The old adage about doing what you would do for free is very powerful. It also helps companies make the decision to let you in the door. Enthusiastic? Willing to work for free? Why wouldn't I try out this person?

If a job opens up you're well placed to get it. If you were wrong about the job and it sucks you can get out easily. If you're actually useful companies will often discover they have money to hire you. If, after a while, you don't get an internal offer, well you're still actively working in the field of your choice which eliminates the original problem of being perceived as 'unemployed' and you can look elsewhere!

Finally I would recommend even part time work for no pay rather than the soul crushing slog through craigslist and sitting at home all day.