skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of an old joke:

One day in the early days of computing, General Electric had a problem with their computer. All of their engineers took a look at the problem. Although each was wise, they were unable to understand the complexity of the machinery and repair the error. A call was made to the retired engineer who had helped in the original set up of the machine.

The retired engineer walked around the machine for a few minutes, just looking it over, not touching anything. After a few minutes, He took out a piece of chalk, walked over and placed a large X on one particular part of the machine. He then said' "Tap it here with a hammer, just once."

After the one tap, the computer roared back to life and began working!

A few days later, GE received an invoice from the retired engineer for $10,000! This was a lot of money in those days, so they returned it to the engineer and asked that he itemize his invoice.

A few days later, they received an itemized bill which read:

Chalk for one X mark - $1.00

Knowing where to place the X - $9,999.00
$800 millions should be enough to live comfortably by for a lifetime; no need to go all-in on bitcoins.
surprisingly, i don't think it is. it's a nice little resource that IMDB tucks away -- why is the only mention in the bottom footer?

fyi, we've always had our eye on doing something similar with http://gorankem.com (currently just music discovery) ... we could apply our same ranking methodology to tv shows & their episodes, but movies are a different breed.

we compare apples-to-apples (no WALE vs. The Godfather) so if/when we get there, it'll be (e.g.) rank your favorite tarantino films...
Well, I have to argue that it's not the same pattern. I think the problem
is that you still like to believe that js has classes, which it doesn't: js
has got objects only. That it also has constructor is an (admitted?)
historical mistake. Just think of all the weird crap that goes on to make
`new func()' work and produce a new object.

What is no mistake is the refreshing change of view you get when you
start embracing objects and prototypal inheritance. See for example the
traits library[1, 2].

[3]: Is a cursory introduction to Self, with another points example :)

[4] Contains an example of my own (heavily inspired by Self and Io). I have stitched together various internet
sources to come up with `clone', an operator assisting in differential
inheritance.

[1]: http://traitsjs.org/

[2]: http://code.google.com/p/es-lab/source/browse/trunk/src/trai...

[3]: http://www.cs.aau.dk/~bt/DAT5E08/MarkusKrogh1.pdf

[4]: https://gist.github.com/997910
Can you finish the sentence "my customer is..." and delight him/her?
i thought this already existed. [googles...] here it is: http://hnofficehours.com/
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Since the announcement of the Page Speed Toolbar I predicted Google would not simple crawl a website, it would render it.

Now we have previews in the search results, so we know for sure that Google renders websites.

Next to detecting hidden spam or javascript layout changes, I presume this rendering can be used to produce a waterfall of the site loading process.

So while Google does this with a HTML5 feature in modern browsers, internally it should already have:

- page speed scores

- render scores (perhaps render time)

of all websites in index, regardless the browser their users use.

That is how I think Google measures site speed; it uses these known non-HTML5 factors for ranking the fastest websites.
But the "receiving" ISP is only receiving the data because its users asked for it. It doesn't make a difference if the data comes from a Spotify server or from a PC. It's still the same amount of data being transferred.
Real and recent. They were Libyan rebels.
Bitcoin is a market which has buyers and sellers. Just because one more idiot is willing to buy $10, or $1000 for a coin does not mean there is a market to SELL $50M worth.

This market sounds easy to get into and hard to get out of - especially in a hurry.

...saying that. I think the value of a bitcoin is probably going to go up. Everyone loves a bubble.
That is not true. They get to issue new money and decide who gets to spend that new money before the circulation of that new money causes general prices to raise.

Those who get the new money first live at the expense of those who don't.

The central bank doesn't need to produce anything to create this new money.
I remember Scheiner later saying that he wasn't sure about this theory. These are just speculations (from over a year ago).
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I tried coding on the bus, but the roads are too bumpy. Plus, my 1 hour commute involves three different lines, so I have to pack my stuff up twice to change busses. Another downside is that my ride takes me through one of the rougher neighborhoods of my town and somehow I wouldn't feel too comfortable with my laptop on my lap in that area.
That would have to be something that cannot be resold. Still, a company which sells its product (which would have to be unique within its market segment) for "real" money today would have to say goodbye to all those dollar-wielding one-dot-oh customers and hope they come back tomorrow with bitcoins.

Why would a company do that?
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> The key to the system's security is that as long as 50% of the bitcoin nodes agree on that the current difficulty level is you can't inject 'fake' money into the system.

Isn't it quite easy to spawn a few million malicious nodes?
Nothing will ever be more worthwhile than the VHS Gift Pack of Triumph of the Nerds!

On a more serious note, it seems to me that some of this list is still pretty valid.
For every Andrew Carnegie, there are lots of others who watched their basket and saw it destroyed. They just don't go around giving advice.
I won't say anything about Gil's personal beliefs, but I will note that his music and poetry often contained a lot of anger.
Ask HN: Formula for better measuring improvements in SERP position over time?
Our startup is constantly focused on improving our SERP position for key, transactional terms. However, measuring progress on a weekly basis across thousands of terms can be a challenge. Moving from SERP position 45 to 40 is way easier than moving from 6 to 1, and this makes it challenging to determine holistically how much we are improving on a weekly basis across thousands of terms.

One can imagine that the SERP position vs. difficulty graph looks like 1/x where the y-axis is difficulty and the x-axis is SERP position. Thus, measuring improvement would involve summing 1/$current_serp_position - 1/$previous_serp_position for each term. This is obviously very crude, has anyone come up with a more refined and accurate way to measure this?
I don't get it. this app seems to be more about making a statement than innovating. I don't agree with the premise that stripping down an app necessarily makes it better. when I use microsoft word, the many features of the app don't cause me to flail my arms in desperation. I'm really trying hard to not use the word "hipster" in my thoughts about this, but I guess I just did. I guess the focus mode is neat, though.
I've also found EchoNest to be useful for testing music/emotion stuff.

http://developer.echonest.com/docs/v4/
Here is another analysis that I think is much more balanaced than any of the ones you linked to: http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analys...

Here is his conclusion:

"Taken as a group, it feels like a remarkably solid case — Samsung can’t just up and countersue Apple with its own patents and hope to walk away with a handshake and a cross-license because of the various trademark, trade dress, and design patent claims. How the company decides to deal with those issues remains to be seen; there’s no question in my mind that Samsung designed TouchWiz to look and feel as much like iOS as possible, and then marketed it as such. . . . . . . Depending on the strength of Samsung’s promised reply and countersuit, my guess is that Apple might be willing to eventually settle the patent claims but will push the trademark and trade dress claims as far as it can — if Apple loses those it’s open season on the iOS aesthetic. You can bet Steve Jobs and Tim Cook aren’t about to let that happen."
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without SICP? It is incomplete!
Hardly Hackernews (flag?), but here's RMS: http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/discussions/2011-May/002978....
Linux founder cancels Israel visit due to pressure by Palestinian groups.
Ha Ha Ha ... I love it ... tho based on the replies, it looks like you're missing some smiley faces or sarcasm tags.
Nice article. AFAICT, "social" is a bit like TNT. If you don't know how to handle social/TNT and you're handling social/TNT, you're in deep shit. If you mention social/TNT, you better have a strong argument for why you are able to use it correctly. I've heard very well connected and regarded folks say "when we get to scale, we can monetize easily...". The question back is always "awesome! when can you come back with proof? Say 50k users and growing?" Carrying the analogy forward too far, there are some applications that are 100% dependent on explosives, but they're few and far between (see Fireworks), but I hear tons of people talking about social applications as though they're super-common and easy. More often than not TNT/social are added to existing applications to enhance the application: see Mining or Music; rarely are TNT/social used to build stand-alone applications (see Fireworks, Facebook, Twitter).

I'm definitely in favor of the article's advice to: build a tool you'll use, get others to use it, figure out how to add network effects, then figure out how to add social. Much less risky and, probably, much more satisfying.

From TFA:

my latest venture is Buffer,
a new Twitter application.

I appreciate the author's points on adding-social and I'd certainly be curious about his perspective on building an applications that is 100% dependent on a capricious social network.
> Standard libc process control (fork/exec/etc)
> The libc fork() and exec() functions are not present in PHP by default.
> http://www.phpsadness.com/sad/17

Why would anyone writing a PHP app need those? The page just calls it a missing feature without explaining why this is a bad thing.
Apart from the fact that you're comparing the obsessive focus of a business plan to that of a portfolio, you realize that Berkshire owns NetJets, Dairy Queen, Borsheim's jewelry, insurance companies, and the Burlington Northern Railroad, right?

"Obsessive focus on being awesome" is not a non-diversified investing strategy.
You seem to think that I was saying that operating systems don't have value and/or that it is not possible to make money developing operating systems.

What I was actually saying was that the business model of charging for the operating system (You give me $100 and I'll give you a copy of RaganwaldOS) is going away.

Making money by using a proprietary OS to extract a higher margin from selling hardware is what Apple does, and giving the OS away so they can extract "pay in kind" is what Google does.

Microsoft's model is going away as well. Maybe not today, but it is going away. We already have a situation where their biggest customers--the PC makers--make more money from JunkWare than they do from their so-called margins. Given that the PC makers are actually JunkWare distributors, they are all actively and aggressively looking for ways to extract themselves from Microsoft's rent-seeking position.
There's an ARM version of Windows 8, either it launches with no software or MS builds in a way to support all the existing stuff.
I don't know much about economics, but...

Gold isn't really a non-consumption commodity. It's used in things like jewelry and compter circuits.

In other words, it doesn't just work because everybody agreed that it's a good mechanism for trade. It works because it actually has underlying value. Or, at least, I can't rule out that possibility, because it DOES have underlying value.
Check out thenewboston's java tutorials on youtube or go to his site at thenewboston.com

You can also try out Head First Java book.
Well, it was ten years ago.
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RMS, "Linux founder"? Really?

I know journalists rarely do their job right but this submitted here on Hacker News? No. And moreover the story has already been covered by earlier submitted links. I wish I had enough karma to downvote.
He could'hv travelled at his own expense instead of making an issue out of it.
getting traction for your startup is very tough,
and at times even demoralizing.

Amen, sister! It can be even worse when relatively non-social folks build a social startup. It isn't uncommon for someone to realize that they aren't actually users of social media only after they build a social application. Nothing worse than building something only to realize that you have to convince other people to use it when you aren't interested in using it.
Yes, and yes.

That said, this is more like arguing that you can't be a great artist if you don't know how to make the canvas yourself.
He claims the reason is that the Palestinian groups that invited him threatened to not pay for his visit once they found out he was visiting Israeli institutions.
1. It seems very obvious that he would visit Israeli insitutions on a speaking tour, this should have been known in advance.
2. I'm surprised no Israeli has offered up the money for his trip yet.
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I would include "Algorithms in C" by Sedgewick [1] and might tone down the wilder side (I mean it is important to understand the dark side of the force but not to dwell on it (unless you're an secops type)).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Parts-1-5-Bundle-Fundamenta...
No, it could also mean that types of people who A also tend to B, or types of people who C also tend to A and B, and so on.

Correlation != causation.
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The government doesn't need collateral, they use yours.

Seriously, government debt is backed by the fact that the government has the legal right and the practical ability to confiscate as much of its population's wealth as it feels like. I don't like US government debt at all, but it's nowhere near the point at which the don't have the ability to pay it back.
I'm not convinced of this rebuttal. The problem is that these systems tend only to improve serendipity within the comfort zone. Greg's One True Scotsman argument that a "well-designed" system would of course be better is not convincing either.

Naive systems optimize for things you already like, or variations on things you already like. The system doesn't need to present a broad array of ideas. Presenting you with something that causes a strong negative reaction is considered a bad thing.

Newspapers have the same problem to a lesser degree: I know folk who read the Weekly Standard and who wouldn't touch the NYT with a bargepole, and vice versa.

We just have many more, smaller echo chambers. People will always have to make the conscious effort to give strange views a fair hearing.
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Godel, Escher, Bach. I cannot recommend this book enough. Read it like it's literature.
Yes they do. They're the ones who go around saying "Don't put all your eggs in one basket".
In my opinion it also lacks "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment", "Hackers and Painters", "The Cathedral & the Bazaar", "Free as in Freedom", "Rice Tea", "Free Culture", "Steal This Book", "Do it!", "Little Brother", "For The Win"... just to quote those which pop into my head as I'm writing this.

But it's a great idea to have such a list!
That's only true for some stocks, and GE is a bad example. The majority of GE's assets are not tangible things but rather debt owed to GE Capital. As of 2010 only 9% of GE's assets were tangible property, plants, and equipment.
http://www.ge.com/investors/financial_reporting/index.html
Savitch's Absolute Java is reasonable, if a bit expensive.

I found it a tad verbose and slow, but there's many worse. There's a joke in there somewhere.
This is a very timely article for me. The place that I work used to have an office about a 12 minute drive from my house. It was a temporary solution (that ended up lasting over a year) and we needed to find a more permanent location. It was somehow decided that cool companies are downtown, which would make it easier to recruit and retain cool people. Well, we moved about a month ago and my commute went down the tubes.

I now have three options: 1) drive for 35-60 minutes at a cost of $27-$34 per day ($16 for gas [my camping truck was never meant to be a commuter vehicle], $11 for parking, and a new $7 toll which I can opt out of for a more congested route). 2) Buy a car with better gas mileage, which would be the same duration, but cheaper. 3) ride the bus for $5 per day.

Now the thing is, I'm very lucky. It turns out that there is an express bus from my town straight downtown to a location close to my workplace. This sounded perfect. In practice, it has been punishing. The bus ride itself takes exactly one hour. Getting to the park and ride and walking to the office adds between 15-30 minutes depending on timing. So I have upwards of 2.5-3 hours of my day lost every single day.

I've tried coding on my MBA. I've tried podcasts and music. I've tried reading my Kindle. Nothing works. This article may cite questionable research, but I can tell you from personal experience that it is absolutely true.
Interesting side effect of these bitcoin discussions is the back & forward of "this is a scam" --> "This is insane social engineering hack" --> "This is no different from any other money" :

Makes you think about what money is. We're so used to it that it seems trivial but if someone explained to you about their idea for this new thing called money you would probably think it was stupid, pointless and a way of scamming a goat for some stupid round things.

So much of our world wouldn't exist without money.

Serious question: Is there currently some easy way of buying and holding bitcoin without having to know anything about it, install anything, compile anything or be able to justify it or explain why to your wife? Perhaps some relaible online wallet?
But it has much less underlying value than other consumption commodities. Copper is more more useful than gold, for example.
The idea has been around since the turn of the century.Lippmann proposed it [1]. But the first guy to BUILD a light field camera was a Russian in 1911 [2]. He built a light field camera AND display using a copper plate drilled with 1200 pinholes and reconstructed the light field of a lamp.

BTW, your comment illustrates that much of "computational photography" is just re-application of tricky imaging tech from other fields. Nothing wrong with that, but something to keep in mind.

[1]http://www.tgeorgiev.net/Lippmann/index.html
[2]http://www.futurepicture.org/?p=34
Object.create(...) is a factory pattern. "Object" is suddenly a factory for making anything, you just supply the blueprint in the form of "Point." So to know what will happen, I need to look at Object and at Point. One strength of this pattern is when I want to handle cross-cutting concerns in the factory. For example, I can modify all objects created with aspects if I use a factory to create them. Or I could have the factory decide whether it is creating Plain Old Javascript Objects or whether each object is backed by persistent storage a'la ActiveRecord.

A factory is very different from a keyword baked into the language. The new keyword suggests that the underlying language is doing the construction, and all of the details about the object being created are encoded in its blueprint, "Point."

I consider a factory and a keyword to be two very different patterns regardless of whether you want to call them class-based or prototype-based.
Don't forget that Facebook started as a "tool" - essentially a preseeded online yearbook. Social ideas are fine as part of your vision, but they are essentially impossible to bootstrap without being useful in other ways first.
I think thats already answeres in his comment.

he would prefer most of his apps in Euro and a few in Bitcoin
Show HN: my weekend project – location-based SMS chat rooms
Over this past weekend, I wanted to build something that let me text message the people around me – I recently moved back into a university dorm (for the incubator I'm in), and wanted to meet new people on campus by letting them know when we were throwing a party.

So I built Textius (with support from my teammates/business partners). It relays SMS messages to users who have checked in on Foursquare within 250m of you, essentially creating ad-hoc chat rooms. All in all, for a rookie Ruby dev, it took about 18 hours.

I wish there were some sample screens I could share, but this all goes on in users' phones. We had a 6-person test the other day, though, and it was actually a lot of fun!

What do you guys think?
I'd disagree heartily with that quote. During development, multi-cellular organisms aren't "fully functional." They survive, but in barely functional states, in wombs, cocoons, or eggs.

Organisms do have to self-assemble though, which is pretty damn cool.
Over this past weekend, I wanted to build something that let me text message the people around me – I recently moved back into a university dorm (for the incubator I'm in), and wanted to meet new people on campus by letting them know when we were throwing a party.

So I built Textius (with support from my teammates/business partners). It relays SMS messages to users who have checked in on Foursquare within 250m of you, essentially creating ad-hoc chat rooms. All in all, for a rookie Ruby dev, it took about 18 hours.

I wish there were some sample screens I could share, but this all goes on in users' phones. We had a 6-person test the other day, though, and it was actually a lot of fun!

What do you guys think?
I went to high school and university in Toronto and don't remember "Asian" kids (we call them Canadian) doing better or worse than anyone else.
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That gold is overinflated doesn't diminish the fact that it has a utility outside of it's use as a financial instrument.
Here's the thing: due to the nonlinear value of money, if you're betting that something is going up massively then you're pretty much just as well off betting some of your money as you are betting all of it.

If I have ten million dollars, and I really think that tulip bulbs are going to go up by a factor of a thousand, it's still dumb to invest all my money in it hoping to get ten billion dollars. Instead, I invest half my money in it, because the difference between having five billion dollars and ten billion dollars is (in practical terms) small, whereas on the losing side the difference between having five million dollars and being completely broke is very large.

There's one exception to this: entrepreneurs frequently put all their money into their own company. Why? Because nobody else will, and because if the company doesn't get that money then the company will collapse. Wise? Maybe, maybe not, but it's wiser than sticking all your money in some random asset which, if not bought by you, would be bought by somebody else.
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I thought the HN crowd would have an appreciation for the number 1337.
He did not make an issue..he is still going at their invite..
pets.com stock doesn't count? ;)