skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you assume that? I know of those things and they haven't penetrated much in the 17 years since that presentation. But the patterns they embody have at least become common in the more popular and impoverished languages. This reveals their value to the masses and drives their acceptance as first-class language features.
Great, but slow!
Scott Adams wrote in The Dilbert Future that life would become more like Star Trek.

I heard once that the imagination of science fiction is the same imagination of innovation. That life becomes more and more like science fiction because actually building something is the next step after coming up with the idea,
Anchor text seems to be a more reliable predictor of spam or bought links rather than page quality for e-commerce sites. It's unbelievable how much crap is out there. Great example with JCP for personalized jewelry, seems like there's no way they should be #1 for that query.
Why Microsoft should have bought Nokia instead of Skype
If you ignore the "super hacker" cliche, which I agree is lazy and simplistic, then there is something arguably chilling, or at least sad, about the story. The best and brightest coming up (without alternatives, according to the article) into a life of crime, because their circumstances and environment don't afford the opportunity to succeed as anything else.
Ask HN: Do you use amphetamines to enhance your coding performance?
Personally I am prescribed VyVanse which a long acting amphetamine. I have Pure-O (a type of OCD) along with ADD which sometimes causes me to be in my own little world, a space cadet in class. When programming I generally don't need to take my amphetamines, only for boring mental work do I need it. However, it does help me a little bit more with my coding, I make less mistakes and my memory is a bit improved. How many of you use Amphetamines or other drugs for programming or other intellectual heavy tasks (math or something)?
Usable storage for cloud storage
It's "first dibs":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibs
Fair, but a few points:

- Genius was much better than this when it launched. It's even better now, but it wasn't as bad back then as Instant Mix is today.

- You don't think google has more data about music than Apple did when it launched Genius? YouTube, Music Onebox, search traffic.

- (severe bias alert) EN's playlist APIs are the same excellent quality today as the day it launched (sept '10.) We're roughly 0.10% Google's size. We didn't need any warm up period.
I don't know about this conference, since I wasn't there. But speaking as someone who has helped organize conferences attended by a few thousand people, there are two points I would like to respectfully make:

1. Sometimes, the conference is about PEOPLE and the content of the sessions. I confess that at more than a few of the events I helped organize, it was no accident that the WiFi was wonky or non-existent. Yes, some people bitched and moaned, but the overall effect was that that attendees and speakers felt engaged with each other because everyone put their laptops away and actually paid attention to one another. In conversations and after-event surveys, the #1 bit of positive feedback was, "Hurray for having an event where the WiFi was turned off."

Yes, we all know that a lot of people attend events and use Social Media to bring in a larger audience from those who could not attend (I do), but all too often, I see people sitting there with laptops open to work e-mail. They're not there to add anything to the discussion, and really, what's the point of even being there?

Of course, a good conference organizer has already worked to insure that the speakers are well-prepared, moderators are trained and will actually do their job, and the content is valuable (not a sales pitch). It pains me to no end when I attend an event that waste my time by not having those three items checked off.

2. "Now you booked a venue and they say that they can handle the WIFI for you. Chances are, they are lying."

Respectfully, there's no conspiracy here. If your event is taking place at a hotel or conference center, then more times than not, WiFi is an expensive add-on (all things are expensive add-ons in the hospitality industry, but that's a subject for a much longer post). You have no control over it, and in fact, if you try to rig up a few routers and roll your own hotspot, you're often in violation of your facility's contract which means fines or blacklisting from future events.

Just my two cents from my own experience. Yours may differ, so we may disagree, but no flames, please.
That's largely solved by intermediaries, though. Much of our current economy can be re-created on top of Bitcoin. In this case, a credit card like intermediary would guarantee the transaction once they saw it, providing insurance against duplicate spending, so the recipient can get their money regardless.

Intermediaries kind of defeat part of the purpose of a decentralized system, but very very importantly, they're optional with such a system.
Foodies vs. Techies
The author claims that he doesn't want to test an overly-simple "hello world" benchmark, and then he does exactly that.
I must admit that I don't find components as black boxes at all hard to (re)use. I find frameworks hard to (re)use.

On virtually a daily basis I drop in a new compponent where I don't know the internals. I do it without thinking twice, for the most part. Half the time I don't even look at docs -- just the interface.

Fx's OTOH are a pain to learn and integrate. And once your bought in, you're kind of locked in.
The problem with a MOP is that it is so general that it is possible to do anything and thus impossible to reason about anything. Kiczales gave an interesting retrospective talk where he talks about this subject and more:

http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060709.html
Thanks to you (and the other) commentors on here for the ideas. I will see what I can come up with, and let y'all know what ends up happening.
Do any of you Backbone.js aficionados know why I am having trouble getting the defaults to save to the db?
An open platform to connect people and things (ThingSpeak)
My impression of why these things haven't penetrated in 17 years -

* Few people program in Common Lisp
* AspectJ is an extension to Java
Take a look at http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com I think the interface is a bit cleaner, plus they include states and countries as well as cities. This site is also the result of HN's weekend challenge.

Here's the author's experiences http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/weekend-challenge.html
>I will pay you $10 for everyday I don't come to the gym and get on that bike for at least 25 minutes.

Not to nitpick, but I think that "dont" shouldnt be in that sentence? The way it's worded incentivizes the trainer to make sure I don't show up. Without the "dont" it sort of encourages me to not show up because it costs an extra $10, but at the same time the other guy is going to be encouraged to get me to show up. Or maybe the analogy just doesn't work. I get your point entirely though.

I liked the article.
And the divisibility can be extended. The 8 decimals are largely just because the current client(s) only understand it to that degree.
Creator of Vagrant here. I'm sorry you had a poor experience.

Get in touch with me at mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com and I can help you get through any issues you may be having. Not being able to set it up easily is definitely a "bug" in my book!
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I don't think you can even use the word 'employee' if you're not being compensated for your work.

I'm sad that someone presumably talented would even entertain the thought that working for nothing is in any way reasonable.

(i.e, Sad at the reality that skilled people are gullible and undervalue their worth)
Suggestion: add the states and provinces of the world as if they are cities.

Sometimes you know the person you're scheduling is in California/US, Alberta/Canada, or Bahia/Brazil. But since those are not cities they're not coming up in your location search.
No. Using JSONP, you are forced to directly eval() code from another domain - you can't just use a javascript library to change that code.
What to do about “unstructured data”
Android, including the N1, never stopped being buggy as hell, though.
Froyo made wifi flaky, 2.3.4.2 made Gmail flaky, Cisco VPN support never got implemented, etc.

Using Android requires a continuous effort to search for workarounds
jQuery JSON parser will delegate to JSON.parse where available, which doesn't have this problem.

Using JSONP with jQuery, you have to directly eval() the response from the server, and you don't control what the server sends - it could send invalid javascript with these code points in it. You can't fix that from the client-side, jQuery can't fix that.

The servers have to be patched.
I discovered Joe Davis and TT a couple years (even going so far as to make my own editing tool which, I like to think, influenced Joe's own implementation).

I was thinking about the news article ideas the other day, actually. (E.g., a 24in60.com snippet that expends to a full article.) I think it would be really cool, but it takes a lot of work to make something seamlessly go from being a snippet of information to a full-fledged investigatory article. You'd basically have to write a series of increasingly more detailed articles using the same story flow. This might be something text analytics and computer-generated content could be able to do; if not today, then someday.
This comment is additional to my previous one, because Android's browser's textarea input breaks once it contains as much text as my previous comment.
I didn't consider dumpster diving when I hear about laptops of millions of customer data stolen and social exploits. Those social exploits are having bank employees put keyloggers indirectly on their own computers and being able to read any kind of information in the system.

Considering that he's doing it from Lagos, it might also mean that security is not very strong.
Bookmarked; we'll how if it gets used in daily life, but it's certainly better than the tool I have been using. Seems slow, currently.
If you switch to Android, you will instantly feel at home, since Android has similar wifi connection issues. (It has a habit of losing the ability to get an IP address from wifi, until the phone is not just rebooted but the battery is completely drained as well.)
Paralyzed Student Walks - Mechanical Exoskeleton
Bitbills are Bitcoins you can hold in your hand
http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-05-27/business/17246015_1_la...
I'll absolutely agree that Google Music Instant Mix is nowhere where it needs to be.. not even close, but I still can't shake the feeling that this review is more of a "Please Buy Us" post...

Just curious, in regard to the quality of EN since launching.. You guys we're clearly working on your algorithm for several years prior to launch[1] in late 2010.. That's sort of a warm-up period, no?

[1] second last paragraph of http://blogs.oracle.com/plamere/entry/genius_or_savant_syndr... from 2008
> indicating that the second part is the only solution.

I'm not familiar with a notation in which implication means "only". As in:

x = 4 -> x > 3

does not in any way imply that x is the only number larger than 3, or that x is only larger than 3. I specifically wrote "x1" to indicate _a_ solution, not _the_ solution; if it was _the_ solution, there would have been no need for the "1" index.

> it must have the form "x1 = (-b + sqrt(b^2-4ac))/2*a".

Alternatively, since sqrt could be the multi valued function with no specific branch selected, this actually does give all the solutions.

> However, I'm willing to admit that this is nitpicking.

And I can't even find any appreciation for it - Because you picked a set of assumptions (x is Real or Complex, sqrt is a specific branch of a multi-branch function, no natural order for solutions) treated as axioms, but question others, where said axioms actually determine correctness.

Are you sure I was not, in fact, describing an equation in Z_2?

Nitpicking at this level, especially if you do it often, might make you feel good about yourself, but doesn't actually get you anywhere.

-- beagle3, who started professional life as a mathematician and switched to engineering at a later stage.
I would actually go even further, and say that unless your equity is comparable to that of the founders, you absolutely should not be working for free.
If you lose your wallet, you lose your bitcoins. This means that losing data from your hard drive is equivalent to losing your bank account.

I get the idea that people ought to back up regularly, but look at the reality of the situation. How many times have you heard a friend or relative bemoan the loss of important photos or files because they didn't back up their computer?

I assume that the eventual goal of bitcoin is to be accepted by the mainstream public. Unless I'm misunderstanding something (which is entirely possible), we'd be asking people to accept the idea that their money is only as safe as the data on their hard drive.

Do I have this all wrong?
What people need to realize is that if you build a business that depends strongly on Google's platform you are facing the same risk as any business that is built atop another platform (facebook, ios, etc.). You are subject to the whims of the company you are using.

At most you should only do it if (1) you are trying to flip to said company, or (2) you use it as part of an interim strategy and will eventually lower to proportion of that platform's importance to your profit.
Grubwithus (YC W11) is coming to Seattle
Near the bottom, there's a link to the Economist's report

http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy%20Index%202008.pdf

North Korea got 2.5 points on "Functioning Government". They aren't controlled by foreign powers, and they exert full control of their territory. That gives them a 2. Maybe they got a half point for the civil service.

Also, a fair number of the points you get is the perception of the populace of their government. Depending on how Orwellian the country is, they can rank quite highly on those.
Nice, it's like having a slider to go from Raymond Carver to David Foster Wallace.
That's rather speculative. The Democrats in question lost their seats because of voter grief after an enormous marketing effort against them. It had nothing to do with the Constitutionality of Obamacare, and unless you're a Constitutional expert, you really have no leg to stand on in making such claims.
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The author says what he means by an overly-simple "hello world" is a test of retrieval of static resources. His test is very simple but it does require a dynamic response from the server.
Copied from serverfault:

Since you are looking for storage numbers, I'm assuming you are referring to swift, openstack's object storage system.

Swift by default stores 3 replicas of the data. This means that total storage / 3 is your billable or usable storage. The number of replicas is configurable on a cluster level.

However, you can get more detailed. I'd recommend you keep your drives at less than, say, 80% capacity to allow for sudden bursts of storage needs and to give you time to acquire new hardware and grow your cluster. Also, keep in mind that every 2TB the manufacturer advertises is only 1.82TB. Then you have some overhead for formatting.

The above gives you "total raw storage" * 0.90949470177292824 * .8 / "replica count" = "billable storage".

Plugging in your numbers, we get 96TB * 0.90 * .8 / 3 = 23.28TB billable.
Functions are not enough since functions are implementations. Haskell type classes on the other hand represent the kind of thinking being discussed here.
Long time vim user here, and I'm considering learning emacs. How do you know it's the truth? And, how did you get started?
Why not go the opposite way and write increasingly shorter snippets from a full article?
So use mybitcoin.com then.

Or another 3rd party you trust.
Kiczales actually points out that the many recent advancements on reasoning about programs (type systems, contracts) can probably be applied here.
Real Graphic Design isn't cheap. Identity design from a SF studio can run you into the thousands. $10k, easily. (If you're a big corporation, add one or two orders of magnitude to the bill.)

Now of course you can find stock and spec work on sites like 99designs—but that isn't real design. Rather, I consider it an affront to the profession. It will give you the same quality of work that outsourcing development to indian or russian kids for $5 an hour would get you.

EDIT: I wonder why I'm being downvoted for this. I know it's unpopular to elevate design, but it makes a huge difference. And after spending 4+ years of our life and $200k at design school to master the craft, I think designer's true worth and skill deserve some recognition.
You don't actually provide any examples of what you're talking about, so it's hard to say what you're actually saying, making your post mostly useless fluff.
Exactly. VMWare, right now, has the best tools overall. Everyone else is playing catch-up.

However, everyone has caught up enough that there are plenty of choices for competent hypervisors. VirtuaBox, Xen, KVM, Hyper-V - they may not be enterprisey enough yet, but they work fine for more and more cases.
Specials :
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McDonald's to Introduce Touch-Screen Ordering
In most states, afaik, unpaid interns are not allowed to be working on things that provide income to the company.
I type Colemak 99% of the time, but the 1% I don't, it can be a really frustrating experience. It amazes me that 20 years of typing ability was forgotten almost entirely in a month.
If you lose your wallet, you lose your cash.

That does not mean cash is unworkable, that only means people will learn to keep their money in a safe place. Might take some time, but they'll learn all the same.
Get equity

Get paid

Whether they are in YC or not is irrelevant. YC is a nice to have but not a determinant in your compensation.

1 year cliff

4 years vesting

They also have money in the bank (Thanks to Yuri)
Pretty much everyone who's done a startup could accuractly predict what would happen to Diaspora. They were a bunch of young guys who hadn't been in the real world long enough to know they were up against. Funny enough, if they hadn't received any attention at all, and grew organically they might've had a chance with an open source platform. But as a tech blogger's wet dream they were doomed from the beginning.
Mens rea has to do with the natural consequences of the act while legal mistake (not knowing the law) has to do with the legal consequences. So, eg, if I burn down your house, mens rea asks, "did I intend to cause the fire?" while legal mistake asks, "did I know it was illegal?" Generally lack of mens rea is a defense (I burned down your house by accidently starting a grease fire in the kitchen,) while legal mistake is not (I didn't know it was illegal to burn down houses.) The exception to legal mistake is when the law requires legal knowledge, eg, knowingly failing to file a tax return (I must know that the return is required.)

There is also factual mistake where the mistake is not about the law but about some fact necessary to the crime, eg I intend to link to burn down my neighbor's house but instead, mistaking my house for my neighbor's, burn down my own house.
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I've been using emacs since the 1980s, got started in school because it's the editor one of my early comp. sci. courses used. Tried vi a few times, and I still use it occasionally on systems where emacs is not available (this is one real advantage of vi[m] it tends to be on even the most bare-bones systems), but the separate input and command modes have never really felt natural to me.
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Same here - I had about 20k of debt (low interest, deferred, and tax-deductible interest) when I graduated from MIT. You'll find that MIT, Harvard, etc. all tend to match or charge less than what FAFSA says you should be able to comfortably pay.

MIT makes it clear that they want you there regardless of whether you can pay. I definitely recommend that any high school student who's interested and passionate about technology apply, and not weigh the cost too heavily in considering where to go.
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If you're a PC or phone manufacturer and want to get in on the tablet market, it's Android or nothing. You can already see the beginnings of this market with the Xoom, Galaxy Tab and Asus Transformer, but the combined effect will be that potential customers will soon have unparalleled choice at every price point, something the iPad will never be able to offer.

Your question "When it comes time to drop 500+ on a tablet" is itself rather meaningless. A year from now you'll have Ice Cream Sandwich (or Jello or whatever) on $200 netbooks with detachable keyboards, 7" slates, 8.5" tablets with pop-under keyboards, and even iPad 3-like 10" tablets. And maybe a few other products we can't yet see.
I thought the article was written quite badly... If you're interested in these sorts of stories, there's some great books out there (usually in the form of a autobiography).
http://everytimezone.com/ from Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy is my choice. But I am willing to switch if you give me a rest URL for custom time.
I have only heard people who haven't tried it say this.

I've read some reports from people who are tired all the time because they haven't "adjusted" - and the punchline is they never will. I think Pavlina's and others are in denial; while the social aspect is obviously negative, it gives them a convenient excuse. If there the only downside was not having a schedule that worked with the rest of society, there would be someone, somewhere who would not have done it, but would being doing it. But there isn't, because that's not how sleep, for us, works.
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It's only standard insofar as Sara Lacy, now a regular TC writer, wrote it. I was a regular reader of TC at the time Sarah Lacy was transitioned (stolen?) from Businessweek, after a similar longer form write up she did about venture capitalists received high praise. Paul Carr is another writer who transitioned to TC from a more mainstream writing background, the UK's The Guardian, I believe. Not sure of any others.

Edit: a vote down? For inaccuracy (I believe it's accurate), or dislike of the writers mentioned?
Very cool! I hope they can pull it off because if they do, it'll lead to some very interesting stuff...

Be even cooler if you could buy them with cash...
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I think it's mostly because science fiction molds are view of the future and many inventors are influenced by that. I'm pretty sure that Star Trek influenced some of the inventors of the cell phone even if it wasn't consciously. Now we have things that are looking closer and closer to holodecks (all we need is photonic matter), the kinect is pretty proto-holodeck in my view. The touchscreen interfaces and iPads were probably also influcence by Sci-Fi. Basically Star Trek invented the future ;p
Perhaps a clever way to give Bitcoins as a gift?
Well.. apparently people are using "print" still, but fwiw, most professionals I know (including myself) who use vim also use screen, which lets you keep your commandline utils for debugging, etc, a keystroke or two away.
Nice!

I've thought about a vertical UI like this for the last 2 years but was never happy with the html mockups (my last mockup: http://www.txtlabs.com/tzs/), so I know this UI is hard to get right.

Suggestions:

- simple buttons for next/previous day & today

- make date boundaries more prominent

- speed - do everything in JavaScript - site should become purely static as a nice bonus

- drop-down of ordered timezones as an alternative entry option

Question for HN: how would you monetize a simple site this? ads? or not at all?