skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears my understanding of that word was faulty. I always thought it meant something along the lines of first-rate, I didn't realize it had such a specific meaning. TIL, I suppose.
Right, but you still need to present it in a way that is easy for people to understand. XML is a fantastic way to deliver a large amount of data, but it is hardly parse-able to anyone who doesn't know what a markup language is. JSON as well. My point was that "take data, throw adsense on it" is hardly a simple plan.

Developers need to know how to display data in an easy to understand, easy to follow, and easy to consume manner in order to get people to the site. Keywords and SEO only go so far. You still need readable content for humans.
Lived on the east coast all my life... and yes pretty much.
A lot of people on the left side of the political spectrum are starting to wake up to the fact that many people start startups as Democrats, but quickly become strongly libertarian in their economic views as they come face to face with the realities of government waste, regulation, and corruption.

The Uber and AirBnB founders are unlikely to pull the lever for statists, for example. And this is very dangerous to the progressive movement as startup founders tend to be smartest and most resourceful of their peers. Huge amounts of money has been invested in making sure all college grads mouth fashionable left-of-center slogans on economics, but the movement started by Paul Graham inadvertently threatens to unwind all that.

This article is motivated by that realization and is one (vain) attempt to bring entrepreneurs back into the fold. There are other attempts too, like "Startup America". But in the longer term these efforts are unlkely to succeed as more and more people at early stage companies encounter manifest contradictions between their lived experience and the religion of their birth -- namely progressivism.
Don't worry, PyPy beasts this as well, at ``n_queens(12)`` on my machine:

alex@alex-gaynor-laptop:/tmp$ time python queens.py

real 0m16.837s
user 0m16.820s
sys 0m0.000s
alex@alex-gaynor-laptop:/tmp$ time pypy queens.py

real 0m2.548s
user 0m2.530s
sys 0m0.010s
I just did a quick analysis with Google Insights for Search and posted the results. To me, it looks like 4sq is flat since April globally, and down 30% from its peak in Aug 2010 in the US:

http://yak.to/tech/p.bf/Has-Foursquare-peaked
I think he's just making a sensationalist title.

I work in SF and ride Bart for an hour. Like in his post, I work most of the way, have internet access most of the way, and find I get a lot done.

Public transit isn't unique to New York. They just have more of it.

He's just trying to turn it into a Silicon Valley vs rest of the world thing.
Despite it's entertainment value, there is nothing in the passage which supports the belief that the brain is a computer (or even a "meat computer") or demonstrates why the analogy of brain as computer is logically different from brain as mill. That's not to say that the complexity of a computer may not create a more attractive analogy, but one must keep in mind that no matter attractive Camelot appears on screen, it's only a model.
Actually, djbdns does not have a perfect record: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/13864
Why? If computer-driven cars are much less likely to crash than human-driven cars, it would be entirely appropriate for there to be a social stigma against humans driving cars (because it would show disregard for the lives and safety of others). It would also be entirely appropriate to treat human drivers more harshly when they were responsible for accidents, as they would have had the choice of instead allowing a computer to drive and statistically probably avoid the accident.
Chrome is on version #11 in stable. #12 and #13 are in beta and dev respectively.
Ars Technica did a great series on the technology and economics of self driving cars a few years ago:

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/09/future-of-driving...
Has Foursquare peaked?
Commuting in New York blows. There is a layer of filth on everything. I spend my whole commute just on the verge of having an "ick" breakdown.
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Also, microjs is limited to JavaScript frameworks under 5k, and without dependencies.
Error: Object.create is not a function

Source File: http://www.everyjs.com/js/libs/sproutcore-2.0.a.2.min.js

Line: 9

(Page doesn't list anything for me. Firefox 3.6.15/Mac.)
I'm curious what the HN crowd thinks about using Google Insights for Search as a proxy for measuring consumer traction. Thoughts?
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Are you kidding me? My commute is shorter in Cali than it was in NYC.
I commute alone on a motorcycle, love it. :)
It could be that she had admirable self-control.

It could also be that she didn't think it was that big of a deal, or that she didn't have an overinflated sense of self, or that she herself had done something embarrassing recently and saw a comparison, or that she herself was a waitress at one point and had done something similar.

We do tend to put our preconceptions in others' situations when left this vague, don't we?

I have experienced, you could maybe even say I've had the social experience, of all of the above.
Really? Do you have any citations/references? It would be good to have some on hand. :-)
Not bots, but users of Huggle and the like. With a thousand or so "vandal patrollers" getting fed the recent changes queue in real time, most edits get pretty heavily scrutinized. Unfortunately, many vandal fighters get overzealous and overstep their bounds.
You need to upgrade to FF4. (Presumably as SproutCore 2 gets closer to release, it will get better error handling. But the old Firefox is the reason is won't render.)
I don't want to mine. I want to buy $100 of bitcoin, without having to do much more than put $100 in paypal and forget about it.

Just an incentive to learn a bit more about it.
Human Brain Limits Twitter Friends To 150
It's not finished, but here's a (very) rough first cut:

http://pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=d7e93f386e34109d

EDIT: And here's the AIML file on Github if anybody wants to play. Pandorabots.com is a nice place to host these things for playing around...

https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot

--
And since we're talking chat-bots anyway, here's some stuff for people who might find this sort of thing interesting:

http://pandorabots.com/botmaster/en/home

http://www.alicebot.org/documentation/

http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/pics/wallaceaimltutorial....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIML

http://alicebot.blogspot.com/
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Twitter/finger gateway
For those who still remember the finger command :-)

finger <twitter-account>@sa.tk

For example satefan@sa.tk

Written in Python with Twisted.
You're relatively new here, so you might not know that it's very much not OK to talk to someone like that here.
I don't know why, but I always get a good chuckle or two from reading or watching Linus' materials.
I asked a question about this a while ago on HN, and even threw in the point that I've charged the MacBook with my side projects on the employer's AC outlet (but never used it at work, nor used their network).

The popular answer: buy another battery (carry two) and explore another job.

My interpretation was that if I did work-for-hire e.g. contract work that I never owned (because it was done for a client), then I could develop a portfolio (while not true side projects) outside of work. An extension to that is to work on projects with diffuse ownership (many people on the team). A further extension is to work on purely pro-bono projects (I do find pro bono projects more creatively fulfilling than the constrained business app-type contracts)

Either the headhunters for mobile app developers either don't understand the side project thing or the companies that are using headhunters don't understand it. A company said 'Yes, you can work on your side project as long as it does not use any of the code that we write here'. Really? They don't seem to understand that any decent programmer is constantly rewriting/refactoring/debugging/refining their personal, homegrown library of code and that there is a fair amount of infrastructure/frameworks that is never written from scratch. So, I think this is why so many BigCos are now turning to training their in-house developers on native mobile stuff.
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very insightful!
No, I really don't need to.

3.6 barely runs on my machine as it is; a number of clients are asking me to downgrade them from 4 to 3.6 because of stupid issues like not saving your tabs by default when you close the browser. I have about thirty tabs open in my browser right now, and the last time I upgraded Firefox, it didn't bother to save any of them the next it launched.

I just can't be arsed to go to that much trouble over one website.

edit: (removed snarky edit.)
No it doesn't. This test agrees with me.

It doesn't give actual resolution numbers since they didn't test correctly, but otherwise it agrees with me.
Was War and Peace a side project or the main project?

If it wasn't done as a side project then it isn't really relevant.
Google, give me control over search results
I've been to a number of major US cities, and lived in 4, and NY is by far the dirtiest city I've seen outside the third world. The sanitation system is non-existent. There are no alley ways or trash bins, so there are just bags of garbage littering the streets. It's surreal.
Things you didn't know about Mashable's Pete Cashmore
>it's not safe to use or show your expensive anything on most of the subway lines.

Are you talking about Manhattan or, like, the deep Bronx? I always have my iPhone out on the train, all over Manhattan, including late at night, and I've never had a problem. I generally feel safe just about anywhere I go in Manhattan.
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I would appreciate counterpoint instead of (or in addition to) the downvotes...
Ditto on the design and the mismatching of icons and messages. Those slides don't really seem to help your case here. But I'm also concerned with the language usages ("Stop hiring like an amateur!") can be a bit too forward, assuming and jarring. Maybe that's the "slick" way of talking that I am not used to.
Not exactly a dick: you're intensely conscious of the social hierarchy. I've noticed that some people just are, and some people just aren't.

What you do with it is what makes you a dick or doesn't. And a lot of that is under your conscious control. The people who don't care about the social hierarchy are just lucky because they don't have to worry about it.

Now, using words like "social inferior" is probably a bad idea if you want to not make people aware that you're aware of the social hierarchy :)

On the other hand, I'm much more concerned about your use of the word "incompetence" above than about your use of the word "social inferior." Sometimes spilling a drink is just an accident, not a sign of incompetence. We've all spilled drinks in our lives; people who serve them for a living have surely spilled more. You can get into a lot of trouble if you can't tell the difference between incompetence and bad luck.
Who cares? This is still an awesome bit of code.

But, if you really want to go there, based on the dates listed on http://www.tramm.li/iWiki/FrontPage.html, this was done a few months prior to Bellard's x86 emulator :)
Haha, yeah. Everyone has a crisis with every car at some point I imagine. Well put another way, every car make/model has a crisis with someone at some point I imagine. It probably would come down to personal taste. I of course love mustangs. So I'd go test drive a new Shelby GT500 if you really want power, or just a Mustang GT and see if you like it. There are always other options, though. The new Chevy Camaro, Dodge Challenger, and Chevy Corvette to name a few.
Driving on an iced lake or any other condition where your car is more likely to become submerged than you are to run into something, being unable to exit the vehicle quickly can be fatal.
Keep in mind that the analogy of the mill is only one element in support of Leibnitz's central argument in the Monadology. A crude outline:

Perception exits.
Perception cannot be found in the parts.
Therefore there must be something else.
To avoid the same problem the something else
must not be composed of parts.
Therefore a simple substance [the monad] which
perceives must exist.

What the passage from Leibnitz suggests is that the step from drawing an analogy using most sophisticated technology of the day as representative of the brain to the belief that the brain is the technology is not unique to the invention of computers.
No, it is not common. I've never heard of anything so overreaching. It would indeed deter any other company from hiring you, startup or otherwise. And I think it tells you all you need to know about the company you're considering working for.

Since you're using a throwaway account anyway, would you mind telling us whose agreement this is?
My dad grew up there, plus both my parents got their undergrad degrees at UIUC.

If you're worried about having access to cool research, you can also apply to be an intern at NCSA while an undergrad. I interned there while I was in high school, so I know you don't need to be at any specific level of education for them to take a look at you.

The homonym issue can be subtle, and I don't think many spell-checkers will pick it up (maybe Microsoft Word, but I don't use that anymore). It might be best to have someone you know who is more aware of these things have a look through anything you send in with an application.
If you're looking for excitement, consider the 2004 Toyota Corolla. I cannot claim I drive a stock car, as I got the in-dash cassette option (indispensable for listening to old MC Hammer tapes), and occasionally put premium in it. It handles the turns well (like Toad in Mario Kart), and can take a little while to get going, but the sex appeal is undeniable...as is the ability to chime in on threads like this one.
Agreed! Most of this advice isn't that useful and in all honesty can be bad advice for many sites. Really "fast websites" use external caching to not hit the database at all.
What is more mathematically interesting about this is that if the "assumptions" are off by a factor of 10 or so (say, the atmosphere actually has more like 10^45 molecules instead of 10^44, and a breath contains 1x10^22 molecules, not 2x10^22), the result is reversed:

[1-10^-23]^[10^22] ~ [e^(10^-23)x(10^22)] = e^(0.1) ~ 0.9

-> 90% chance that any given breath contains none of Caesar's last.
There are some major problems with Wikipedia but I don't think deletionism is big enough to sustain a new effort.

My biggest gripes are that many articles are just too long. I'd like to see a word limit or something.

Also, I really don't like the emphasis on citations. It leads to articles comprised no more of disorganized sets of citable sentences. Somewhat counter-intuitively, the citation emphasis leads to less popular but citable statements dominating in many places.
After many years using PostgreSQL too (8.2), I have other kind of advices. We didn't tweek much the configuration. Instead, we use date indexing, denormalization triggers and different kinds of materialization to have a good performance overall.

Date indexing: This was tricky in the beginning as a timestamp with timezone column can not be indexed (because the value is not fixed). So we use timestamp without timezone columns and handle zones another way. Then, for a big table with events that you want to keep for a long time, you can CREATE INDEX i_date ON events(ts::date). Then in all queries fetching for this table, make sure to add a WHERE ts::date = 'YYYY-MM-DD' clause, this way you will hit the date index and get fast queries even with billions of rows.

Denormalization triggers: Suppose you have a Russian puppets structure like usergroups, users, events, items. You need to access to items, and also most of the time filter by a 'type' value that is properly stored at usergroups level. The straight way is to do a quadruple join, but this can be slow. So we add a denormalized column 'denorm_type' in items, with two triggers: one trigger forbids direct update of 'denorm_type', another trigger reflects any change done at usergroups level in the 'denorm_type' column. This helps a lot.

Materialization is a higher level of denormalization than the one above. It is necessary to keep the 'real' data highly normalized, but most often one need to access to the data in a more user-oriented form, specially for reporting purposes. Views are excellent at that task, but they are computed in real-time. Materialization is the process to write some of these views on the disk, and index them, for faster access. With proper triggers, it is feasible to keep these materialized views safe (ie. read-only) and always up-to-date (any change in the base data triggers an update or insert in the materialized view).
Hardcore Pawn is the ripoff of Pawn Stars, which is quite good.

You would definitely like Pitchmen.
prob just like the blackberry storm
Well, other than pg himself, probably, yeah...
The waiter rule works - if someone is rude to a waiter, it's an incredibly bad sign, because at the very least, it means they've never heard of the waiter rule.

However, just because someone is nice to a waiter doesn't mean they have good social skills or don't treat inferiors badly. It turns out there's an even better variant of the waiter rule: listen to all a person's interactions with other people. Listen, for example, to how that person talks about other people behind their back. As the aphorism says, what people will say to you about other people, they would say to other people about you.

In my real-life example of this lesson, there was a person who always gloated about how they had screwed or were about to screw other competitors, negotiators, etc, but of course always made sure to point out how much he was helping me. I foolishly believed it, when of course all the evidence was that I shouldn't. Eventually, the situation changed, he didn't need me anymore, and sure enough, he took advantage of me too.

Knowing how people treat others is supremely important as a defense mechanism.
Why one should not be nice with waiters? Or nurses? Or any other people?

oh I know: that is because people in power are mainly jerks so they need to be taught to be nice.
Of course this kind of thing probably comes naturally to those who are parents and actually do have impressionable kids watching 'em.

No, it doesn't. You just become far more cognizant of the things you should be doing differently to set that good example...and aren't. :/

I'm pretty sure I'm much more of a dick on the internet than I am in real life.

I thing that's pretty much a truism for all. People require body language to really be understood and, without it, tend to be read negatively. Perhaps something to do with trusting other villagers and fearing strangers?
2011 Subaru STI here. It's not my first rodeo though... previously I had a 2007 STI Limited (1/800) and a 1997 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX (AWD, turbo). I refuse to buy a boring economical car... it's really my one indulgence. I don't drive often, but when I do I want to enjoy it.
Perhaps not as ironic as you think:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/business/03cnd-raytheon.ht...
As long as there is some component of air that stays the same: both in identity and proportion, the calculation should hold. Is there such a component?

Atoms, as long as the amount being sequestered in the water or the soil isn't significant. Oxygen is probably a write-off, since there's far more oxygen atoms in the oceans than in the atmosphere, and since O_2 to H_2O is part of animal respiration. Nitrogen, perhaps, might be more constant, but honestly I just don't know enough about the nitrogen cycle to have a good idea.

Ah, but the third most common component of the air is argon, which is deliciously chemically inactive. You could at least compute the probability that you're breathing in some of Caesar's argon.

Simplifying assumptions, even those seemingly false, are common in fun math problems. The point is just that, the math. I'm sure the traveling salesman had issues to think about other than the classic math of the problem.

Of course. And the other thing that's common in fun math problems is that as soon as you're done someone's gonna say "That's great, but..." and point out something you've ignored. It's all part of the game, and I'm just playing along, not being critical.
Ebay or your local autoparts store might have the repair manuals you're looking for. Sometime with enough hunting around you can even find a digital copy online.
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War and Peace was the side project. Tolstoy's main project consisted of managing the land and peasents on his country estate.
I always ask the receptionist about how the candidate acted. You don't have to be all warm and fuzzy (heaven knows I'm not!), but you do have to be courteous.
No project with any tangible artifacts here... my "project" for the long weekend was to read the Alexander Osterwalder Business Model Generation book. And I'm almost done, so "mission accomplished" on that.

I'll probably start Open Innovation or Blue Ocean Strategy next. And work on some Customer Development briefs, transcribe some notes from last week's batch of interviews, and maybe write a blog post. That should round out my weekend.
This presentation looks like an early Mark Zuckerberg speech. Awkward and painful.
At first I thought "wow, that's pretty cool". Then I read your username and was disappointed that you didn't have a Bugatti.
The copy and design look fine to me. As long as you are freemium (not just a free trial!) and the service works well, you are OK to launch and and test and iterate.
I would read that as a short lived slavery contract and never sign such a thing. My freedom to act on an idea I have at any time is much too important for me to give up.
> you should be nice to waiters because otherwise you are a jerk.

It is interesting how this is a good analysis story for HNers. It is sort of a nice open-ended parable and it seems how it is interpreted tells something about the person interpreting it.

Some identify with the waiter -- they imagine making a mistake and someone yelling at them and them thinking "what a pompous ass".

Others identify with the CEO -- they imagine how they would have pity on the waiter (assuming they are somehow superior because they have $X more money in the account or that many employees they control), or how they are leading by example and not showing their anger (yet still are cursing the hell of out of the person in their head), some are worried about _looking_ bad so they imagine acting well if someone is watching ...
What is wrong with your WRT54G? I have a WRT54GL with DD-WRT on it and have had no problems.
Perhaps you're correct about status but I militate against the idea that any one human being is more valuable than another. Money, fame, glory or whatever else, you're just the same as every other human on the planet. Blood, bones and your shit stinks just like everyone else.
A sample interaction:

Human: hi
pgbot: What are you building?

Human: an online graph database
pgbot: Who needs that?

Human: Startups
pgbot: I worry, I worry...