skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, also the ingredients used for the top sellers should be fresher since they are being consumed at a greater pace. This reminds me of how Krispy Kreme has one item that they are known for, the glazed donut, which brings in customers who they are able to sell milk, coffee, and other assorted donuts.
Apples to Oranges.

I stream Pandora/Rhapsody at the gym in the morning, watch tv shows movies (transcoded for android), read email, rss, run python scripts at night to copy off my pictures, run locale to automatically adjust my ringer volume for work, etc, etc, etc.

A cell phone is not even close to a the computer that is the android phone.

A better comparison is a laptop.

And like a laptop, a lot of power is going to the fancy screen.

However, I get a couple of days out of mine with cyanogen + extended battery.
That is true, but if the penalties were severe, you wouldn't have Monster, Trovit, Juju, Indeed, SimplyHired, etc. all reposting the EXACT same job and all ranking nice and high.

Autoblogs work entirely on copied content and do REALLY well for how little work they require to setup.
In general, every employee in California may freely work for a competitor after leaving a job and may do so right away.

But - in doing so, he has no right to pilfer his former employer's trade secrets and either use or disclose them in the new position. An employee can use his general skills and expertise freely in any position, as these are not tied to misuse of confidential, proprietary information. The tension lies between your right to work freely using your skills and restrictions placed on you to the extent you learn confidential things in your old position.

Thus, the general answer to your question is that, yes, you can work for another company doing a payment service even if you have worked for PayPal, but you can't use or disclose trade secrets from your former employer in your subsequent job. Do gray areas come up in such situations? All the time. Usually, they don't lead to lawsuits. In extreme cases, they do; in abusive cases, they also do, though these are not justified (i.e., where a former employer wants to chase and punish an employee just for having left employment). In the vast majority of cases in California, nothing happens and the former employee freely moves on - at times immediately, at other times after some delay. (Results may vary in other states where the law may be different and particularly where non-competes are enforced).
I was originally skeptical about point removal. That's valuable information. But now that the site has been this way for awhile, I think it's a net win. It feels like people were using that information for bad purposes -- voting with the herd, voting to get a comment where it "ought to be" rather than just voting up or down on merits, and so on.

If comment scores were to return today, I'd feel bad about it. At this point, it feels like my comment scores are private, and generally nobody's business.
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According to my grandmother, Hess (the department store) introduced odd pricing for that very reason when she worked there while in nursing school.

Apparently they had to send the receipt and the money via pneumatic tube back to the office where they would file the receipt, make change, and return it to the register. Customers would wait for their penny, helping to keep the employee from pocketing the cash and destroying the receipt.
I wish Startups Open Sourced had some way to do interactive content; I'd love to be able to reformat it and see just one section (e.g. "how hard is raising money") for EVERY company which answered that.

I've read about half of the dead-tree version at Sunfire while waiting for VM stuff; it's a great book, but this is exactly the kind of data where being able to treat it as structured data, instead of a static book, would be awesome.
To me, "best" is the one that's easiest to manage and doesn't break. BIND has done well for me in the past.

If you're worried about speed, you're not going to get much improvement by looking for new DNS software. The time it takes a server to look up an answer is dwarfed by the network latency.

If you want faster DNS, pay for a service that has anycast servers. They'll cut down on the network latency significantly.
New intro video and templates to start from:

Video:
http://vimeo.com/24285343

Example starting template:
http://alpha.boxesandtext.com/#20110526_024324_73273226bb120...
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Losing the hashbang and instead using history.pushState() to update the URL won't solve the problems that infinite scroll introduced.

Also, the idea of using a page range (e.g. /pages/1-3/) will only preserve which "pages" were loaded when you pass on the URL. It does not state which "page" you actually want to link to. This solves a problem that no one had - I don't care how many pages you had loaded in your browser when you pass me a link.

Here's a slightly different approach to infinite scroll that, imho, works reasonably well: (NSFW) http://www.pr0gramm.com/
Have you a link to a story about this? I'd not heard anything about LinkedIn's IPO going sour. I googled but nothing except positive stories were returned.
I've been lurking HN for awhile. This article have finally made me create an account and post here.

I recently made a website that scrapes a popular message board and displays the archived posts. My goal wasn't to make money, but rather scratch an itch for the users of the board myself included (the message board deletes old posts and does not allow users search for posts based on user handles).

I was thinking of putting on Google ads to pay for hosting costs. I haven't bothered to do any SEO (I'm absolutely clueless in this area), but this month I have around 120k page views and 40k uniques. Most of the visits (over 80%) is from Google keywords.

Is the return high enough, like this article implies, to deface my site with Google ads? I heard that Google doesn't like content farms and my site could be considered a content farm, so would I even be allowed to put Google ads on? I would be happy to make $80 dollars a month so I can finally move from my free-tier EC2 micro-instance to a small instance... Any advice would be cool.
Absolutely. That's why I'm stating that the purpose is to store a photo library. Amazon or azure storage are too expensive for relatively big, long-term, pretty static data that will be read very sporadically. The problem is that, if you want to have an alternative, going up to S3 or Azure or similar is too expensive. That's why I'm asking if someten knows better.
>As the cost...drops, the number of viable niches literally explodes

My God, thank you for the warning. I will be alert for exploding numbers!
They are both audio devices. They have speakers and microphones. Why can't they pair modem-style?
I'd say that using closures and functions to create public apis with internal private structure does qualify it to have 'language constructs for public/private'.

It just took programmers collectively over 10 years to figure it out. I blame the 'new' keyword in JS, it feels completely grafted on after the fact.

Lua has been using this method of designing modular programs for years.
I've actually gotten Eclipse into a fairly clean state: http://i.imgur.com/ln2N8.png

Most of the clutter is gone, but all of the nice IDE features (refactoring, immediate error detection, etc.) are still there. It's a nice way to work.
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I made sites that list British post offices and post boxes:

http://edwardbetts.com/postoffices/ and http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/

I think both these sites went live in 2008.

Here are the AdSense figures for this month so far (May 1st to May 27th):

* $52.94 earnings
* 21,708 Page views
* 147 Clicks
* 0.68% Page CTR
* $0.36 CPC
* $2.44 Page RPM
The PHP bug report tool is at http://python.org. To file a bug, click 'Download Python'.
[cough] I hear Google has pretty good bandwidth and scaling. Ever try App Engine? [/cough]
Obviously not quite buried yet.
His arguments about the existing functional languages can be roughly split into two categories:
1.) Languages refuse to make compromises and therefore are obscure (Haskell, Erlang)
2.) Languages are crippled by making too many compromises (F#, Scala).

He presents good arguments about why both types of languages can't currently break into the mainstream, but it unfortunately seems like these options form a partition of the possibilities (i.e. a functional language must fall into one of the two). If this assumption is correct, then by his analysis no functional language can break into the mainstream.

I'd love to see a discussion over whether or not that assumption is valid, but for now let's assume it's true. I don't think the languages are the problem. Instead, I think it's the general momentum and consensus of the community. Without books like Learn You a Haskell (http://learnyouahaskell.com/), Haskell would be an order of magnitude more difficult to begin learning. I'm still trying to figure it out, and there are a lot of examples of topics where a similarly good tutorial would ease my learning. Eventually, as the language gains popularity, more and more such work will exist. Furthermore, if popular companies demonstrates that it's a great choice, more people will want to pick it up. If all this stuff happens, our intuitions will grow and adapt to make such a language a natural choice. In summary, the future of functional languages depends more on our understanding and promoting them as a community, as opposed to the languages themselves.
If HN can shunt bad comments to the bottom, that's a service to readers.
I actually clicked on the google search.

The second result, "Ideas are just multipliers of execution" is actually a very insightful answer to the idea/execution "question."

http://sivers.org/multiply
Good execution pretty much is a continuous stream of good ideas. "The idea" is merely the top level idea, and it matters most because it is at the top level. Good execution is rarer because it requires not just the possession of a single idea, but the propensity to come up with them day in day out.
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That's strange, right? Did HN just demonstrate some law of psychology? "Public shaming is decried; private shaming is tolerated."
Reductio ad absurdum has already been tried.

I don't know what will make software patents go away. If they totally ignore the US Supreme Court saying in the Bilski decision, essentially, "Ignore State Street; Follow Benson, Flook, Diehr", then whom will they pay attention to?
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> Wow, what an achievement! This is the one thing that PHP really, seriously got right: no application server.

I think you mean PHP has no 'apparent'. It damn well does have an application server, it's called mod_php embedded in Apache processes or php-fcgi backends.

The thing is, that PHP apps DO fail after a certain number of requests, it's just hidden from you. Internally PHP ships with a MAX_REQUESTS (which defaults to 1000 I believe), after a backend has served that many requests the process is recycled (an expensive and non-ideal operation on high load applications).

If you do a look around on Google you'll find this behaviour ships with PHP because of 'known memory leaks'. Rather than fix memory leaks the authors have opted to restart on an arbitrary number of requests. Does this sound like good design to you?

You think there's no application server because you've likely never worked on anything substantial enough to notice the silly string holding the whole mess together.
Can't we have something like this? -- Those who want to see points, could enable it, but then they would not be allowed to upvote/downvote. OR they could still vote, but their votes won't be counted (or given less weight-age?).

Does it serve the purpose for both the sides? What are the potential caveats in this?
Or you could just use a real programming language that has some kind of design.
Grove wrote a book on this called "Only the Paranoid Survive". Terrible title. Good book.

He points out that if you own the low end, you gain huge economies of scale. You pay for your foundries and R&D with cheap low-end parts, but only barely. Nobody can compete, because they don't want your rubbish margins. But then you can put huge margins on your high-end products by using cost-cutting technology and your huge efficient factories to lower your costs.

It doesn't work in all industries. But it's great in technology, as efficiences of scale do exist (what's the maringal cost of 1 more chip, or one more CD-ROM?)
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This is a refreshingly honest analysis from someone that has a lot of skin in the game. I completely agree on both points. First, the functional paradigm is important and a step forward for most problem domains. Second, none of the current crop of functional languages is going to truly break into the mainstream.

I think it's more likely that we'll see more and more functional techniques trickle down into mainstream languages than it is that we'll see a pure functional language adopted as-is. C++ just picked up lambdas, after all. I do regret somewhat my dalliance with FP over the last decade though. If I'd invested that time in mastering DSP or graphics programming instead I'd be better off overall.
There's a reason they say sell in May. A lot of people think in June LinkedIn is going to take a beating. But who knows really, a lot of the time it is just a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Seems to me, a successful "startup"* needs to solve a problem, relieve pain, or create something revolutionary that creates elation/astonishment. It needs to be something the market wants. In other words, it is a great idea. Implementation is a matter of hiring the right tradesmen/tradeswomen to make it happen.

People enjoy paying for what they want; they resent paying for what they need. Ideas uncover 'wants.'

Frank Lloyd Wright. Ideas.
General Patton. Ideas.
Sir Richard Branson. Ideas.
Sun Tzu. Ideas
Clausewitz. Ideas
Edson. Ideas.
Ford. Ideas.
Larry Page. Ideas.

Sometimes, great ideas come from those who implement that idea, sometimes the ideas come from those outside the industry. Either way, it's the idea that is at the center of the product the market wants.

* Startup: launch of a web-based application.
This is ridiculous. LinkedIn had benefited from computer algorithmic trading that jacked it's price to extraordinarily urealistic price to earnings ratios. p/e is a metric in which stocks are valued. How much the company is worth divided by the yearly earnings.

To say LinkedIn got screwed is to say the dot coms got screwed in 2000. Guess what? The only people that got screwed were the share holders. LinkedIn should be jumping for joy that their peice of shit company is worth anywhere near 8 billion dollars. I just feel bad for the stupid shareholders when their shares become worthless.
It seems that politicians all over the world are starting to really press this issue, and even get the press to promote these ideas for them. I don't think they realize what they are about to start here. I think they underestimate how much people want the Internet to remain free, and how many want it to remain free. I feel the next few years will be very interesting.

The TechDirt post was referring to this article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/26/internet...
The Inner Savant In All of Us
It's somewhat funny that this article seems to miss the very practical rise of functional programming style in JavaScript, especially with the rise of libraries like underscore.js

Of course JavaScript has some pretty severe limitations as far as functional programming goes, the biggest being really cumbersome lambdas, and a lack of implicit return. If you try to program in a functional style in JavaScript you'll be fighting the language more than you'd like. However both of these issues are remedied in CoffeeScript.

As someone who was a lisper before getting into web development I'm really surprised to see lambdas, closures, pattern matching/de-structuring bind, let statement equivalents and more be part of a language that is not even talked about too much as being lisp-like or functional. Also important is that CoffeeScript's main selling point is that it's practical and more sane then JavaScript, not that it's functional or lisp-like. At the same time CoffeeScript is probably the closest thing I've seen to a (potentially) successful lisp-without-parens

Functional languages will gain serious traction, but I think it will be when their users find their features convenient and helpful (coffeeScript) rather than interesting/mind-blowing/etc (scala, haskell, erlang..)
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No, you can be staff and not have direct reports if you just want to code. Some staff engineers do manage but it isn't a requirement. There's a separate job title track for non-coding pure managers.
I used to work at a firm that paid gobs of cash for just this sort of data. The trick, of course, is that you need to be well versed in the needs of potential clients before you can even think about staking your claim. But if you know what people need, and if you can collect and effectively present it to them, they will pay for it.
I'm not that crazy about the approach the author lays out to building traffic -- regurgitating public datasets -- but it is a fact that good content will probably surprise you with how it can pay off with AdSense. $2 - $7 Page RPM is totally do-able. Don't take the author's advice verbatim. Just think of whether you can build a site that will draw those volumes of page views, preferably a site with good content people want to see that will supported context-targeted ads.
He's saying the stock doubled in its first day of trading. Meaning the shares were offered at a price. The company sold shares at that price. The same day the value of those shares doubled. So tr market is saying the shares are worth double of the IPO (initial public offering) price.

This behavior was common during the dot com bubble. IPOs doubled in price, everyone was happy. It's totally unrealistic.

Anyone who buys LinkedIn is retarded. Serious people that trade the market wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Sure you can trade this crap and make fist fulls of money in the short term. The venture capitalists got paid. Do not own this stock.
What do you use instead?

I used to use pymacs and ropemacs with python, but it broke in hard to determine ways, and then on my latest project it was horribly slow, so I stopped.

I still live in emacs
Replace "tamed" with "controlled". There are vultures everywhere circling the internet, pondering how to establish ownership of it (or some portion of it) how to shape it, throttle it, condition it, modify it, how its very existence can be turned into an asset that can produce dividends, most importantly, how to get others to pay you money to maintain a connection to it.

The internet doesn't need fixing, what it needs is protection from men who want to put a big fence around it and charge you money so you can get some.
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Unless I'm missing something, the CS Rep giving him his password in clear text does not necessarily mean it was stored in clear text.
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Writing a thesis needs proper information and planning. Students need to spend quite a lot of time preparing for it as well as learning how to write it. There are many sections to a thesis and because of each section’s importance it is vital that students learn to write thesis properly.
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I take ghetto to mean substandard, unpolished, incomplete, etc... No racial undertone. An overly sensitive, dare I say politically correct and self righteous person, can read offense into anything.

To suggest that Pincus's comment had anything to do with race is your own self-oriented projection.
Exactly. Almost everyone can identify recursive grammar (except people in a small South American tribe who speak a non-recursive language).

You don't need a raw MC to assess the likelihood of "The DOG ate my homework", "My WASHING MACHINE ate my homework", and "MY LEGALLY ate my homework". You need P(WASHING MACHINE = NOUN), and P("My NOUN ate my homework").

But that's not right. You could also have P(WASHING MACHINE = NOUN THAT CAN EAT STUFF). Or maybe P(EAT = HUMOROUS TERM FOR DESTROYED), P(HUMOROUS SENTENCE), P(WASHING MACHINE = OBJECT THAT CAN DESTROY HOMEWORK).

Anyway, it's really bloody hard to put it all together. But that's what humans do. I'd imagine that we store it in our short term memory, then make a few quick parses of it, under varying assumptions, and keep the ones that are most consistent.

In reality, Chomsky is fighting the same sort of battle that happened when Newton and Leibnitz were around (no, not the battle between Newton and ... the rest of the world really). OK, you have gravity. But what causes it? Why? It's an interesting question, but not necessarily one that will lead anywhere.
Well, in my opinion this is only partly true. Conversely, a good idea also determines how good a team is.
How much of a competitive disadvantage are they at relative to Amazon due to the sales tax situation?

Speaking of which, how many people actually report and pay the use taxes on purchases from Amazon?...
A friend of mine from high school bragged that he achieved some measure of infamy in middle school by hacking Diablo in such a manner that it was possible to duplicate items. He then claimed Blizzard offered him an internship -- again, in high school -- for showing them how he did it. I knew about the incident (oh, the wages of a misspent youth -- Diablo, not hacking), but always figured he was embellishing most of it.

Some years later, sure enough, guess who was in the Diablo II credits.
The Sunlight Foundation, OMBWatch, POGO, and a variety of trade associations for newspapers and investigative reporters lobby on behalf of transparency issues.
So many words... so little content... Was the play by play of how updates are installed from the SD card (complete with bizarre insect related similes) really necessary?

"So was it all that and a box of Fenway Crack Jack? Suffice it to say that 3.1 doesn't quite drive the RBIs like Youk and Gonzalez or jack-up home runs like Ortiz, but it's smooth on the base-path like only Jacoby can be and yeah, the ladies can get their Ellsbury on too."

Really? The article reads like something a high school student wrote, trying to hit the 2 page (double spaced) mark...

That being said... my Transformer arrived yesterday, and I'm very pleased with it so far. I look forward to an even better experience with 3.1.
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It's inefficient to do that, as from what I understand PHP actually sets the error level to none, processes that line, sets it back, and continues. Also it would suppress any other warnings from that line, which could be unrelated to the supplied argument value.

Instead, I use a 'get or else' function, as in some functional languages. For arrays, it goes

function get_or_else($array,$key,$default=null)
{ return isset($array[$key]) ? $array[$key] : $default; }

This avoids any warnings, and also allows you to specify a default.
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I no longer read comments. Points acted as an editor's cue on high quality content to read. Maybe more good comments are produced now, but it's no longer possible to find them without reading everything.