skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I checked my website, http://underthesite.com/sites/lelanggokil.com

Your analyzer mistakenly detected my website using Microsoft IIS and ASP.NET. Which is weird since it also detected Google App Engine (which is correct). ASP doesn't run on GAE.

Just a thought, do you think website owners should mention technologies they use in HTTP header? For example your analyzer can't detect that I'm using Java and Spring framework.
All 404 pages should be like this
o ,i get it, i can click on the tasks stream and then see that list only...good idea
I would say that especially in fast-moving companies, like in the "Web" space (generalize as you see fit), MBAs have no role. But they do have a role in established companies (like Intel, IBM, etc.) where "processes" have to be followed and nobody wants to rock the boat.
since a lot of people keep gmail open ... Not as common to keep one's facebook page open.

Do you have data on this? I'd think it would be close, if not the opposite.

Edit for clarification:

In my social circles, what you said is probably true, but I know many others use FB messages more than email (any email, not just gmail). Facebook has more pageviews total, and Facebook has probably around 3X as many active users (I couldn't find numbers at the same point in time, Gmail was at around 200 million last November as per the WSJ, Facebook was at 500 million last July and 750 million last week)

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you that G+ notifications in Gmail (and on Google Search!) is hugely powerful, and will mean G+ engagement among its users will stay quite high. But when you talk about "unseating" Facebook, you have to first come to grips with just how entrenched it is, compared to social networks that rose and fell before it. It is so entrenched that Gmail integration alone will not be enough - Facebook is substantially bigger than Gmail.
Very interesting, thanks for the link! I don't feel like arguing with the father of the language and this story is already on its way out of the HN front page so I'll leave it at that. If anything it's comforting to know that such a core language feature didn't come about by accident.
60TB? That's about a couple grand worth of space. Why would that be a lot of space to Google?
Buffett: Jobs will come back with the housing market
It is interesting. I guess, I never heard of it being explicitly illegal but I suppose zoning legislation could be worded that way.

Smaller more affordable properties equate in most peoples' minds with "projects". Subsidized housing with many poor or on the verge of property families. People start seeing vision of crack houses and gangs roaming around.

All those things are unfortunate stereotypes but I think, also unfortunately, that it is often true, i.e. that is how people make decisions where to buy and how much to pay (not that poor people are always criminals or cheaper housing always = crime ridden area).

What I think the general heuristic is -- try to buy in areas that are prohibitive for "poor" people to buy. Doesn't matter what a house costs, if they see signs of "poor" people living around, they will pay enough until it gets them into a community (gated perhaps) that matches their perceived social status -- which is most often tied to economic status. These areas just price out those who can't afford homes in a certain range.

So how does this relate to the housing market? Well, I think it pushes families to borrow a lot more than they normally would as they feel the need to "escape" certain areas. Perhaps they are more rational when it comes to buying cars or big screen TVs but housing has a lot these additional complexity associated with it.
I don't think this has anything to do with how much content a user uploads. They specifically said that “For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications.”

So probably they had allocated some amount that made perfect sense while testing, but was too low for the full rollout that seems to (effectively) be happening now.
Maybe some heavy logging in this field test phase could explain it? Indeed 60TB sounds like very little. I thought Google would use their GFS system to back this kind of things so the disk space wouldn't be an issue. What do I know.
Anyone interested in building activities graph?
Well, I'm student and currently working on new project. But I'm only good at UI/X Design + some frontend, so I want to find anyone interested in building this with me :)

My project is.. basically group with friends and share activities with friends. It's all about activities with people. Activities graph will include location area,histories and activity words and keep changing graph by interactions between friends and me. and then, notify that might be interested in.

It sounds like cool grouping app, But no. It will suggest where you go next, nearby same-minded people, and next activities. This will use shared activities and histories, but also Facebook connect. Grab facebook account and get all things, then system will analyze and turn into personal db.

It's not another social network that we're tired of. Basically its activity sharing with autogrouping, but behind it- It will know, and change how we get info and act outside. The reason I put auto grouping thing on the front side of concept is, people usually not gonna use something looks very technical. By covering graph side to nice auto grouping to let them share activities without feeling something awkward.

Anyone interested in, email me innov.todd [at ] gmail (or gtalk to this) my bio is on yc profile :P
How do you know "the minimum size of a Colossus cluster"? Are you a Google employee leaking information?
MS is also doing hardware with Xbox and their mice.
Yes I know science doesn’t make much money but anyway…
First off I would like to say that I am a student majoring in life sciences + possibly math at a large US public university. I get student aid via the feds + state to almost completely cover my uni degree, which is awesome to say the least ($0 debt) ;). I like studying science especially since it advances the boundaries of human knowledge and understanding of how human physiology works, but unless I get a phd/MD/pharmD/sales there isn’t much money in it, even with a MS. A PHD + postodc will lead to decent money though, but nothing extravagant – but I will be ~30S by then. So I have my tuition + books down, but what about the rest?
The only problem in my educational escapades is money, well that and a career. I think the whole entrepreneurial hacker rout sounds fascinating and also a very good wage multiplier. If I can go from $20/hr doing construction to $/? Hr making android apps, all the better. I am actually learning Perl right now, and catalyst after that.
I guess the problem is implementation or conceptualization of ideas. So what if Entrepreneurs or anyone for that matter fails a few times, it is still possible to make money. After I saw the HN post about the ipad apps for cats I am sure there is a niche for just about everything. Of course the ipad apps for cats website was very, very slick and im sure the app has been well designed for the….intended audience.
So my question to all of the HN community is: where is the money at? I am a student so I can spend a couple hours a day going over programming and reading tech and finance news, but where can that take me? I will know some Perl by the end of the summer and my goal is to also have learned catalyst, but what about Iphone/android/? Development? All I’m really looking for is $500 or so a month until I finish my degree. Is this achievable?
For good or for bad, the media has a propensity to focus on news that appeals to the reader's primal instincts, in this case fear. A 'homeowner' being under water or in danger of foreclosure seems to invoke a greater sense of crisis on the 'homeowner' than the situation on other side of the market for the potential buyer, namely a renter having to rent for many years because houses are just too expensive, or being able to buy cheap houses. For the (potential) new buyer, there is no crisis.
How does Apple encourage people to define themselves by the things they buy?
The day I put a gratuitous video on my 404 pages, instead of something useful like a search box and a list of links to pages they may have meant to see, is the day I stop making web sites.
All the time: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+one+trick+pony
Google+ runs out of disk space, spams users
It’s still doesn’t seem to be true. Apple had 8.5 percent marketshare in the US in 1Q11 and even less worldwide. HP (27%), Dell (23%) and Toshiba (10%) are ahead of Apple.
You're correct - I'm looking into this, thanks for the bug report!
It's free and open source, anyone can take the source code, modify it and sell it under their own name. In fact I've read that Baidu was doing exactly that. Some manufacturers have also changed the default search engine in Android to Bing.
http://lineofthought.com/ is much better
IEEE 754 floating point isn't associative
The stock of housing is much larger than the flow of housing to and from the property market each year.

That is, current homeowners greatly outnumber people currently looking to buy by a large ratio.

So the media's coverage isn't one-sided so much as majoritarian.
How Do We Know What Consumers Want?
Well, then they can have their heavily regulated ghost towns.
This is cool.

Some bugs in the information returned though.

For example: http://underthesite.com/technologies/WordPress-Batcache-Plug...

"WordPress Batcache Plugin is closed source. "

Batcache is Open Source :)
Because you can. I've made far more useless stuff simply because I felt it would be interesting or a challenge to make. Which in turn are usually the projects I learn the most from.
Cars and homes are completely different animals. Yes, home prices have been inflated, etc. But property is a very scarce resource and is generally a good investment over the long term. Just because you can build homes quickly doesn't mean that they will be in places that people want to live. Those places will always be highly valued.
http://mrdns.com
Maybe it is just me, but wouldn't it have been useful to start with the goal to reach?
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fonzm/why_doesnt_...
Polarisation of neighbourhoods resembles an emergent phenomenon. Schilling gave an account explaining how a very weak preference of people in group A to live in a majority-similar neighbourhood could, within a few 'moves', cause an almost total polarisation of populations.

See Micromatives and Macrobehaviour or Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams.
I work on Rust, which is in a similar space to Go. IMHO this article is oversimplifying.

(1) Recursive anonymous functions: This is the first time I've heard this criticism. MLs usually don't have this functionality either. It's not too much trouble to give the function a name.

(2) Tail call optimization: TCO isn't free. It requires all callees to pop their arguments, which slightly penalizes every call in the program. Rust is planned to support full TCO, but the current compiler only does sibling call optimization (a subset of TCO).

(3) Continuations (I assume call/cc is meant here): Again, these are expensive, because they interfere with the stack discipline. You end up having to garbage collect stack frames in the worst case. For this reason both Go and Rust have implemented exceptional control flow using stack unwinding and destructors. (For Go panic/defer/recover play the role of destructors, while for Rust we use a more traditional RAII system.)
I meant why not in Scheme?
I've never understood why this question is asked on Hacker News. Can you really not imagine why someone would try to do this, even as just an intellectual exercise?
You are correct in that I was generalizing when I should not have been.

I've used Google Apps for work and since a lot of communication comes through email that means Gmail is open (or at least getting notifications with the talk gadget). I would not be surprised if you were correct that many folks leave Facebook open all the time.
There is a secondary purpose for sounds on digital cameras: it makes it obvious to people in the vicinity that someone has just taken a photo. This is, indeed, mandatory in some places. I don't believe there is an actual law on the books, but government guidance in Japan is that if you make a camera or phone with a camera feature it has to loudly announce itself and it should be impossible to turn that off short of damaging the device. (This is largely to prevent sexual misconduct.)

For example, if you turn down the volume to zero and set my phone to manner mode, it will ring on taking a picture loud enough to hear 20 feet away.

Similarly, current model electric cars (Prius et al) are designed to run less silent in certain circumstances, mostly for the benefit of pedestrians and cyclists around blind corners. (I don't know if they shipped that one to the US yet.)
Property is a scarce resource in some places. Often the difference is how property is released into the housing markets, and what can be built on it.

For many purposes, Australia and Texas are comparable. Yet Texas has far cheaper housing than Australia. The difference, according to some researchers (and I agree) is that Australia has very complex, overlapping zoning laws and constricted land release; Texas does not.

Another interesting case is Germany. In Germany you have a constitutional right to build a home. Germany has apparently had, in real terms, quite flat house prices for a long time despite not being particularly land-rich compared to places like Texas or Australia.
I saw this graphic in a WSJ piece a while ago. Obviously many patents are probably unrelated to mobile, but still. Pretty shocking:

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/MK-BN208A_norte_G_...

That is some serious ganging-up on Google.

Full-article:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230458400457641...
That's fair, but I'd argue that most renters would like to buy a home or would pay a reduced rent if housing prices decline.

Put in that context about 40% of the US population has something to gain by lower housing prices -- so I still think the media has done a bad job covering the other side of the story.
Send Receive Fax from Java - Coding help
Does anyone knows of a good tutorial to send/receive fax from a JAVA code.
I sometimes wonder if code golfing has the risk that some junior developers might confuse it as good code.
Is it OK to complain about something you didn't make, didn't pay for, and don't use?
You need to change the #define to

#define _ F-->00||F-OO--;

See http://ioccc.org/1988/westley.hint
Quite simply, no. But if it was notifications they were probably going through 'Chubby' [1] which is sometimes used as a scratchpad for notifications. But if you read the interview with Sean Quinlan [2] you can get a sense that 60TB is quite small.

[1] http://labs.google.com/papers/chubby.html

[2] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1594206
I cannot read the original post, as it is deleted, but I may agree with it. Most random number generator are 100% deterministic. Yet, if I take two on two systems, I cannot guarantee that both produce the same sequence. And no, seeding does not guarantee that, at least GNU does not think so: http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/ISO-Random.html states:

— Macro: int RAND_MAX
The value of this macro is an integer constant representing the largest value the rand function can return. In the GNU library, it is 2147483647, which is the largest signed integer representable in 32 bits. In other libraries, it may be as low as 32767.

Barring bugs (a problem that the writer does not touch) floating point arithmetic should be deterministic. Problem is that different machine may determine to produce different results, given the same inputs.
مسلسل الكبير اوى الجزء الثانى
مسلسل الكبير اوى الجزء الثانى
Very funny, but he also brings up a great way to approach alternative bean placement by focusing on results and defining success.

All too often, the client's motivation is FUD, and to continue the analogy, they spend all their money on what they hope are magic beans. When no beanstalks grow from their nostrils, they discover too late that they’ve no money left for bean removal surgery - or anything else. So moving on, for the consultant, is not so much a choice as a necessity.
Writing code that works on first go
I was there! Great presentation, but Wapalyzer and WhatWeb already do the same thing as this, as far as I can tell.
Awesome, when this can do writing (presumably with an in-memory store for now), I think there will be some really interesting in-browser version control uses.
I agree except for the whole ";" "," "." line endings issue. When I can't copy and paste to move lines around without "fiddling" with the line endings, I get angry.
The "I'm a Mac" ads are probably the most glaringly obvious case. The iPod dancer ads are another example of marketing that revolves around selling an image and lifestyle. Everybody does this kind of thing, Apple just does it better than most.
cars are liabilities: they cost you money to own and you can't sell them for more than you paid for them, classic cars aside. houses are different because...? they still require expensive maintenance like a car, upkeep in the form of insurance and property taxes... houses are only assets when you are better off than renting or you are renting the house and turning a profit.

I think house prices were also driven up by dual income families who can afford more expensive housing.
Bill Gates Flabbergasted By Gmail
The media doesn't cover the news democratically in other areas. Else it'd be pretty boring, reading that millions of people woke up and had a cup of tea this morning ...
It took me a while to figure out this was a slideshow, and that only part of the page is clickable. (Plus, keyboard keys do nothing.)
Linus Torvalds on Google+
It seems some programmers just will not accept new syntax at all. I think it's a waste of time trying to please these people and, contrary to popular belief, you don't need their blessing to make a successful new language. Coffeescript is an example that supports this.
This is sad. I like Charles' writing (esp. Accelerando). But I think his curt, snarky replies were rather rude -- and spouting expletives to a highschool student is just over the top. I lost a little respect for him today. I will not be emailing him (ever). Hopefully I can overlook this offense enough to still read Rule34.

EDIT: The student was also in the wrong; he was being presumptuous. The best way to deal with these people is just move on.
You do not need to add anyone to the circle. Keep the circle empty and it will still work. This is based on a hack published originally on Google+ : https://plus.google.com/107797841320768724118/posts/ghXafbr4...
Ip Logger
Scribble your photos with facescribble
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747152.
The "I'm am Mac, I'm a PC" ads for example try to make people associate the computer you buy with your personality and lifestyle.
I've actually been slowly getting accustomed to this. Before, I used to just drink my hateorade when it came to things like this, but ever since I've started to visit HN more frequently, my tolerance has expanded.
I was wondering why does it show it at all, when it doesn't show 31000, or 41000 for example
Is this a joke? When I see people using their phones in public the #1 app, bar none, that I see open is Facebook. people are just browsing their feeds, commenting, liking, etc. This is mostly on iOS devices but increasingly on Android as the FB app has matured.

750 million people around the world use Facebook at least once a month. Of that number HALF return every single day, and 80% use it at least once a week. Facebook is a big deal that has deeply imbedded itself into the lives of many, many people. "Checking your Gmail" is a completely different kind of interaction.
The problem might be that this is how the real world works, or the minds of most of the people who vote in democracies. While I admire Socrates more, didn't he essentially live like a bum? Maybe to really get enough influence to move something, you have to play the game.

Not that I like it - that is why I am a software developer, not a politician. The real hacker mindset would be to try to figure out how people's minds work and take advantage of it (for a greater good, of course).
I thought about doing an in-browser git implementation for enabling offline mode in a webapp. Doing things with git would make some really interesting sync scenarios possible. Looking at what was involved though, I think I'm glad I didn't go down this particular rabbit-hole.
Synchronous RTS Engines and a Tale of Desyncs
It flickers. Is there anyway to inject CSS in the head of web pages with chrome extensions before the body loads?
Leaflet is just great. I made a demo as soon as I heard about it a few weeks ago. I combined leaflet on the client side with varnish as a tile cache and nginx as a tile server. I plan to switch to node.js as soon as it supports sendfile.

http://maps.cloudno.de
I found this bit a little jarring: "Thorium reactors would not melt down, in part because they require an external input to produce fission."

As we should all know by know, this isn't the only risk for meltdowns. The Fukushima reactors scrammed almost instantly after the earthquake, well before the tsunami, but it was the continual heat production of the fission products in spent fuel which was the real danger.
I think this would have other uses. Presumably, this thing would not use energy; it would just pass photons from A to B. Make one a meter square with a twelve hour delay and point it to he sky, and you have instant lighting at night. It would he like a battery storing solar energy coupled with a lamp.

Unfortunately, even if we could fold a 12 hour light path into a tiny space, losses would probably be too high. Some of the light that got in would come out after 12 hours,but most of it would be converted into heat long before.
Console.fm - New social music site
based on charts of genres... but not telling where the charts come from. linked to @500startups
somehow linked to @500startups and not telling where the charts come from (yet).
So I guess "field testing" is the new beta testing? Google watered down beta by applying it to finished products to the degree that they've had to invent a new term to fill its function.
Yes, thorium is huge. I don't know what it has to do with the rossi e-cat though, which smells like a scam. I'm flagging this article for being a terrible source on information about either separately, and being a confusing jumble trying to combine the two topics.
Here in the city I am in, there is no problem at all selling those houses, and in other bigger cities it is similar. More and more people move to the cities if they can afford it. Better schools, better hospitals, and you Hukou (you "citizen registration card") it will not say "rural resident" anymore; to be a "city resident" is looks much better.

Buyers can be reasonably sure that those new areas will be developed a few years later.

However, for some 3 years now, the state and central gov't constantly come up with new laws to avoid that people buy many apartments and leave them empty. The new property tax in selected cities is one example. An increase in required down payment capital is another (http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-07/07/content_128581...). In the city I am in, you only get a bank credit for your first apartment now, to buy further apartments, you have to finance them yourself.

Buying an apartment is the safest form of investment in a country where the health system is only just being built up, and the retirement system is not widely trusted (yet). It is more the thing of the new middle class. The really rich people will try to get part of their money out of the country as soon as they can. You never know how stable the country will be tomorrow, is usually the reasoning.
Indeed. And the reassuring clunk of the car door is as much to get you into a calm frame of mind before driving as anything.