skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The reason why I make history videos is that many people I know (many of whom are quite educated) don't even have a basic scaffold of world events in their minds (or the potential causality between events

I think this problem can be generalized. There's a predisposition for lopsided development across intelligence domains. Like the cliche nerd that has the social intelligence of a rock and viceversa. Modern society re-enforces this tendency by rewarding people to specialize into increasingly narrower intelligence domains. This sort of tunnel vision bias just isn't sustainable in a modern democracy.
Vowpal Wabbit (one of the fastest learning implementations, from John Langford, also of Yahoo!) now has an "online" LDA implementation (Hoffman et al 2010: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/HoffmanBleiBach2010...). It's probably the fastest single-core LDA implementation.

http://hunch.net/?p=1594

http://www.machinedlearnings.com/2010/12/lightning-fast-lda....
Just started programming, made this as a learning project: Cool or Loser
The majority of spam is monetized via three banks
Artemis Fowl? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Artemis-Fowl-Eoin-Colfer/dp/01413121... though just get it from your library (which may have a different cover).
Do you want me to explain Haml-JS shared across both or the parent of your comment to explain RDFa? If you email me - aaron.blohowiak@gmail.com - I'll write up a tutorial and send it to you when its ready.
And many mail clients happily continue non-encrypted sessions if the STARTTLS negotiation fails.

I wasted _days_ recently trying to track down code bugs that weren't there - a piece of Cisco gear that was in the clients network was running a standard configuration called SMTP Fixup which was deep packet inspecting and rewriting the "250-STARTTLS" capability responses and passing them on as "250-XXXXXXXA" on the fly. It took me way longer than it should have to debug, partly 'cause I started looking in the wrong place, but largely because most of the testing we did was with mail clients that were perfectly happy to transfer mail unencrypted when the STARTTLS capability wasn't announced.

Anybody MITMing you in Starbucks could easily do the same.

A little bit of thinking with my "evil hat" on leads me to believe a similar protocol aware packet inspection/modification tool could easily rewrite webpages on the fly, looking for links to common service login forms and rewrite appropriate links and form actions to be http instead of https...

Maybe an appropriately paranoid way to set up this sort of canary is to have all your mobile (ie, non-fixed ip address) devices use a vpn into a trusted and well secured host?
Context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model
PurchaseOrder rather than ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.
Have some extra fun with today's Google Doodle (Les Paul)
Being part of a large organization, the organization gives you the answer. It may or may not totally work for you, but you working for a profit-making MACHINE. Successful companies learn to indoctrinate(willing) their employees. A good employee at any company should be able to rattle of why they are there and what the companies believes in. The only difference for a corporation is that there are a lot of people using the same answer :)
You could simply hire an assistance and have a maid at home. Of course, there could be a service where you can pick them based on their looks, though it would be a little discriminatory.
Why Can't More Poor People Escape Poverty? Self-control overwhelmed.
I recently switched password manager to 1password. It syncs with dropbox on the iphone as well. Indeed feels like magic.

My budgeting app syncs over wifi and feels bad somehow. It is nice to get rid of this unnecessary obligation to sync stuff. Kinda as if the garbage walked itself down to the container. One thing less to take care of.
Can big data make Groupon profitable?
A list of some people using Clojure in production here, http://clojure02.managed.contegix.com/display/community/Cloj...
One of Dave's stated investment principles is to invest (at a lower valuation) BEFORE product-market fit or traction.

I think it's normal in incubator/accelerator programs for some startups not to launch their product publicly before demo day.

Admission to the accelerator program is based on strong recommendations from the 500 Startups mentor network, and then a meeting with the 500 Startups core team.
Some of these companies are direct competitors in that how they differ is in their algorithms or the sliver of the market they're trying to "be the best" for. But then you get into the difference between networks, exchanges, DSPs, et cetera, and the differences and relationships between them get complicated. Check this graph out:

http://chrisohara.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/ecosystem_0110...
Does it help you if you call it third-party research? Whatever it is, however it is, it wasn't helping 99% of us till now.
The top 5 Ruby on Rails websites to find a job
Management consulting is very different than technology consulting. Accenture, IBM, Deloitte, CapGemini: these are the kind of firms that compete against each other for enterprise tech projects.
I am using Chrome in OSX, and the site doesn't work for me. I click the links / voting buttons, and nothing happens. So, I'd say "Loser", pick another idea :)
Analytics for your Outlook calendar (what MS should have built)
My day job is leading a UX team for a large software company, and as someone who manages writers, designers, and developers, I know how disruptive meetings can be to people who create. As such, I take measures that perhaps other managers do not, to ensure that my team doesn't cringe at the sight of a new meeting invitation from their boss.

One thing I and my team have struggled with is quantifying our 'annual investment' in meetings. Questions like the ones that follow are very difficult to answer using Outlook's interface:

- How much time in the past year have we spent in meetings?
- Which people in the organization tend to hog the greatest amount of our time?
- How many 1-hour meetings do we have throughout the year (versus 1/2-hour)?
- What are the most 'expensive' meetings we attend?
- With whom do we tend to be in meeting on a regular basis?
- Who is always scheduling ^#!@!*&^$ early morning meetings?!?!

So in the spirit of PG's essay, "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule", three of us (all working for the same company for our day job) set out to build a visually-pleasing, engaging analytics tool for Outlook calendar that would give designers and developers answers to questions about how we spend our time. It's called Meetalytics.

We’d love to be to the Outlook calendar what Xobni is to the Outlook inbox.

Turns out that quantifying the way you spend your time -- and then sharing that with your team and manager -- is actually pretty powerful. It gives you the ability to say "We need to cut down on the number of hour-long meetings" or "I get pulled into meetings way too much during my ideal 'creative zone' time" or "Can you please speak to so-and-so about how they use my time?. Comparing Meetalytics between similar roles is also very enlightening.

So besides some background on our start-up, what's the point of this post? Our goal is three-fold:

1. Solicit feedback on the concept from start-up founders, entrepreneurs, and anyone who regularly uses Outlook calendar in their work life. [http://www.meetalytics.com]

2. Give this awesome community an opportunity to get a complimentary Outlook calendar analysis the moment we're live for beta. Simply visit our beta sign-up page (and be sure to use "hackernews" -- without the quotes -- in the invitation code field). [http://www.meetalytics.com/signup]

3. Connect with someone in the HN community who can introduce us to someone senior at a large organization (tech would be great; other sectors are cool too!) who may have a need for our solution. My email is in my HN profile.

Many thanks,
Lance, Joanna, and John
I think this is the "plumbing", if you will, of the internet. For a $400m acquisition, AdMeld doesn't even have a wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdMeld
Oh come on, I think we're intelligent enough here to consider a metaphor without getting emotionally twisted out of shape.
The article you're referring to I think was written by Mark Weiser. It was called "The Computer for the 21st Century" unless you were thinking of a different one.

It's quite a vision for 1991:

http://www.ubicomp.com/want/papers/ubi-sciam-sep91.pdf
Weird, I'll look into that.
Up In The Clouds: The user is now obsolete
Encapsulation is also addressed in the article. I really liked his response to that too, it was like a more succinct version of the Steve Yegge Wikileaks/Java private methods blog post[1] that did the rounds a few months back.

[1] - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/wikileaks-to-leak-50...
The magic number is 6, not 7.
In cases like this, do developers have any legal grounds to sue? Would the developer had to have patented some of the technology to gain a legal basis for a suit? If Apple can claim it was a clean-room implementation copying the same functionality, I assume he's just out of luck?
I agree with some of the article’s points, but it doesn’t mention that Apple hired Peter Hajas, the developer of MobileNotifier.

> It is great to see these enhancements become available to millions of users, but it affects the ability of others to innovate on the platform independently of Apple.

Could someone explain this to me?

I don’t think that stealing features from iPhone developers’ add-ons is any worse from stealing from Android or WebOS. (And, for better or for worse, this is the point of software patents.)
Recently posted in HN, the Clojure web stack:

http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction
And a huge reason is risk, scale and performance.

There was a good article linked on HC that was full of quotes from founders who were acquired. The difference between a startup experimenting with a new feature and a corporation is that if you F up it only affects a small number of people. For a corporation, an error could be millions of people affects and tens or hundreds of millions of dollars lost.
> I think he has a good point, and as someone who really likes functional languages, I agree with him, but I think there really needs to be a better explanation of functional "patterns" and how to structure large functional programs before it will catch on more.

Are there any good existing resources for learning these things?
Same here, also used PkgBackup to sync to Dropbox. Although I expect that will still be around since it also supports syncing non-App Store applications and settings.
> If your ideas are retarded, of course they're a dime a dozen.

Conversely, people who believe ideas are a dime a dozen tend to focus on shallow ideas. The lack of deep interaction with technology (and whatever a pivot is supposed to be) forces you into businesses with a more social rather than technical role: web design, blogging, social networks, etc. I don't see much of HN's advice working well for a company developing asynchronous CPU chipsets. In theory they should be the same; the advent of fabless semiconductor shops and hardware synthesis languages lets someone design chips in their garage in Iowa, but the depth of technical knowledge required makes it a much different game than starting up "a distributed Facebook" or "a Foursquare but for X."
Reminder, this is taking off tomorrow at noon. Over 80 companies are involved!
Embedly (YC W10) Raises Another $450K, Launches One API To Rule All Embeds
Free Idea: Performance Based Ads - Monetizing Excess Ad Inventory
I'm not saying it's a bad idea. But I think alot of people take for granted the role our current system of agriculture plays. International food trade plays a large part in maintaining peaceful relations. It's what props agrarian society. It's the foundation of civilization. Food plays a greater social role than just providing nutrition. Ideally, any disruption to the establishment would leverage these relationships.
I read the article but not the comments, so perhaps I'm repeating something there...

> a closed-circuit life support system capable of keeping a human occupant alive indefinitely, for many years at a stretch, with zero failures and losses, and capable where necessary of providing medical intervention. Let's throw in a willing astronaut (the fool!) and stick them inside this assembly. It's going to be pretty boring in there, but I think we can conceive of our minimal manned interstellar mission as being about the size and mass of a Mercury capsule

Perhaps the most effective means of interstellar travel is bases within asteroids, not spaceships. Future humans could build habitats inside asteroids, then with a few nudges upset the entire gravitational equilibrium of the asteroid belt, slinging some asteroids out of the solar system. We're probably able to compute the most optimum way of doing this within the next century, and humans are more likely to survive interstellar trips buried inside asteroids than in a spaceship's husk.

> you're not going to get any news back from the other end in less than decades.

> transporting our Mercury-capsule sized expedition to Proxima Centauri in less than a lifetime.

Why not one-way trips? The new civilizations might consider themselves new "countries", unworthy of interference by Earth in their internal affairs.

I should add we have another billion or so years of life left in our Sun, before we really need to leave our solar system: that gives us enough time to learn how to do one-way interstellar trips. I concede that in the meantime, Earth's population is likely to suddenly drop a few times. The projected 9 billion inhabitants in year 2050 seems unstable, though new food/fuel technology may come before then.

As for mining the asteroids, perhaps it'll be done by Earth-based avatars. Certainly the Moon can be mined that way, with its 1 second response time, but Mars would be more of a challenge, requiring machine-human cooperation in the processing.
There are lots of ways to organize companies in the ad tech space, but I like to think of them based on what masters they serve. (FWIW, I've been working in ad tech for the last three years)

One of the big divides is serving advertisers vs. serving publishers. The Kawaja/Luma Partners slide that is oft cited shows how various companies fit into this divide. Advertiser (or buy-side) tech generally tries to optimize on ROI ... driving revenue per ad dollar spent. On the publisher side, tech tends to be about driving higher impression prices... finding the right buyers for the impressions you serve.

Another divide in my mind is tech that is designed for brand advertising vs. tech designed mainly for direct response. Brand advertising is typically what you see in national TV ad spots or in the full page adverts in magazines. The SuperBowl ad spots are emblematic of this. On the other hand, you have adverts that are more about offering a particular product or service with a concrete offer (Two for one, 10% off for referring a friend, etc.).
that bright green banner is really bright... i found it hard to read any of the text on the site.

i'm also not convinced -- i see a crowded laptop screen and a bunch of post-it notes but i don't see a screenshot of my "favorite device", so i can't get a good 1-second gist of what you're offering.

nit picks:

- "while you were out memos" should be "while you were out" memos (move quotation mark)

- i would take the first person qualifiers out of the copy (we take the ..., our app..., etc) and make things shorter and more concise.

overall:

- design looks nice, though it looks to me like a pre-made theme

- show your apps in action, in an uncluttered environment (note how most macbook images don't show the keyboard)

- strengthen and clarify your message
Because AirBnB have cured cancer? Or was it prevented genocide? Or something, like, worthwhile?

Most rational people don't give a flying toss whether Airbnb existed.

It's pretty obvious the ends did not justify the means. They're a reservations website, wake up, sniff reality and stop drinking the koolaid. Is it ok the aggravation they've caused to small business owners and the total lying. And that's ok because they did a few cereal packets once? Because they're 'naughty'?
So does running a successful bagel shop. The "ideas are worthless" people place your neighborhood bagel shop, Crazy Frog ringtones, and Qualcomm in the same group: businesses you can totally run as long as you know how to 'hustle.' Somehow I think Andrew Viterbi would frown on that.
> I agree that American society doesn't need any one particular city, but we do need a healthy ecosystem of urban areas.

Do we?

I'm happy to assume the benefit of a couple of finance-urban-centers, but it's unclear that there's a huge benefit from having finance, art, and fashion in NYC. If fashion and art were elsewhere, NYC would be significantly smaller, but would we be worse off?

My point is that the big urban areas in the US contain aggregates that may not be particularly synergistic. If they're not, then its the "lower-tier" cities that are actually important, and that we happen to co-located many of them.
BMW Releasing Consumer Information
An email from a co-worker suggests that BMW Dealerships are putting information on the web, I don't know if this is only in So-Cal or bigger than that:

I got an email today from BMW telling me about some new promotion which directed me to http://censored.mybmwexchange.com/ .

This page was unauthenticated, http, and worst of all contained all of my personal information including my vehicle's VIN number and address/phone/email. I contacted my dealership and they took it down for my name, but others are still there. This is a huge privacy concern and I encourage you to go to http://yourfullname.mybmwexchange.com/ and see if they are publishing your info publicly on the net as well.

We found about 50 people by just guessing names and a few employees here are up there as well, so I figured I'd let everyone know. At first I thought it was just customers of Bob Smith BMW, but censored got his from Century West and they have his info too. Very disturbing...

I contacted matt.smith@bobsmithbmw.com as well as the marketing company running the campaign. If you find they have your info too, definitely make some noise.

Acsellerate, Inc. Attn: Jana Pivkova
16882 Bolsa Chica St. Suite 108
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
Phone: 800.715.7105
Fax: 800.715.7101
Email jana@ami-success.com

With all of the recent privacy breaches done to companies like Epsilon and Sony, you'd think others would grow a brain and not do stupid stuff like this.
Pretty sure he was being sarcastic actually.
I have been trying applying for jobs in a very targeted way. I have been doing personalized introductions to screencasts or sending links to things they've specifically asked for. It hasn't payed off yet, but I believe it is the correct path for me.
JavaScript Toolkit to create animations
Android app for listening to content on the websites
MovableCite: Keeping Web Citations in Sync
Would love some feedback on this idea to solve a problem I see occurring every day in the blogosphere and online news sources.
Explanation: It's a social music/DJing application. People can create/join rooms and then a number of those DJ (choosing from the existing (large) library or uploading files themselves) and the listeners then vote on the songs, thus providing (funny visual) feedback! It truly is incredibly addictive and a great example of mixing social + music (unlike anything I have ever seen)...
Chalk me up as another one in the ad industry for a living.

For me, the excitement of working in the ad industry comes not from the end product that we produce, but from the technical challenges we face. We're trying to serve ads in under 100 milliseconds. Not just a few. Hundreds of thousands, every second. The infrastructure and intelligent architecture to handle data at that speed and scale (not just for serving the ads, but doing reporting on them) is incredible. Downtime is not acceptable, so on the DevOps side of things we're monitoring everything carefully and often redundantly, and collecting hundreds of thousands of metrics every minute to give us many views into our system. Deployments happen multiple times daily, and our Engineers have sweet tools to roll out their code to all environments (okay, I'm a little biased, since I wrote a lot of those tools).

If you want experience working on large scale projects, I'd say the ad industry is a good place to be. I imagine the finance divisions that have large infrastructures really close to the trading floor are also pretty amazing, although I have no personal experience.

AppNexus is hiring, too. Hit me up with any questions, or go to http://appnexus.com/careers/
Da Vinci didn't spend much time in any given direction. What I see Da Vinci doing is relating what he's learning to what he already knows.
Not directly related to jailbreaking, but this link on the sidebar of the OP is interesting. Published 2 days prior to iOS5 announcement. Depending on how you look at it 6-8 of the "must download first" apps are now part of iOS5.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/04/10-apps-you-should-install-fi...
Oh come off it. The title and URL preview clearly give enough of an impression of what this is about.
Pretty much agree with the above, but would like to add:

"and event twitter or facebook." ("event" should be "even")

"for you to access anytime" (missing full stop at end)

I also didn't come away from it understanding what exactly the app does, what makes it different to someone just emailing me my messages?
Awesome. That's what I've heard. :)
Good point. I have added an explanation above...
Novelty? Psh. This is old, old news in the form of a fad.
Am I the only one that thinks Apple is using revolutionary technology to work toward the perfection of a deprecated computing paradigm?

I mean, yes, iCloud makes computing work like magic, but it sort of ignores what post-web computing means. Computing anymore isn't just about working on the same documents on any device that you own seamlessly (that part is, to be sure, great), it's about sharing and collaboration. iCloud gives you access to your docs and photos and music wherever you are, but it doesn't seem to do anything to let you share your digital life.

Am I wrong? What am I missing?
How much to spend reading and how much time to spend in programming exercises / programming for yourself? Now I have a daily job and it's hard for me to find the right equilibrium between learning new techniques and stuff and just creating something new with what I already know.

(I read relentlessly, too; English is not my native language though so sorry for the grammar)
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It's really hard to beat Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf, http://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Bookshelf/lm/R3LG3ZBZS4GCTH. I've found the Standard ML books to be particularly illuminating as far as structuring functional code.
Thanks Cherian

Would love to talk further about your experiences.

Feel free to write me - ak@urbantag.com

Thanks! and yep - def a tough problem... ;)
The American Underground is a bunch of relatively small offices. There was/is an incubator down there as well called Launchbox Digital, but it's unclear if that's continuing or not (see the discussion in this thread). Because of the layout of the Underground and the type of companies that have been down there, the companies down there seem to be closer than your average office neighbors are as far as I know and have heard.
Google Panda Update 2.2
It seems to me that sort of attitude leads to spam and "Tragedy of the commons" scenarios.

If everyone who thought they had "a better service" and were thus justified to send "a few emails to Craigslist users" the utility of Craigslist would be negatively impacted.

On that basis I would think the "rational person" might not find that sort of behaviour acceptable and would vote to preserve the resource.
`Rich Hickey dubbed his tendency to spend more time thinking about problems than typing code as “Hammock-Driven Development”. ` in the foot notes ;-)