skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I did too. Of course, most of the links that people get in email are broken... but it would be great if it worked!
Hey folks, just FYI, I work there and this is not intended to be a public API for anyone to use. As others have pointed out, it's trivial to set up such a service yourself anyway.

I know the security-minded among you are going to start complaining that it would be easy to add a nonce, but we'd rather avoid that. Our strategy is to serve virtually everything from cache.
Weird, didn't happen before. If you report the problem to https://github.com/CloudMade/Leaflet/issues I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.
Perhaps 'once thought' here should be understood as meaning, 'once thought by children and laypeople, based on the simplifying just-so stories traditionally told them'.

For example, I 'once thought' tool use was uniquely human, having had that bit of folklore orally passed to me by some authority figure – or maybe even just another child; the provenance of one's first coarse understandings of the world is not always clear. The details get filled in later, if you're paying attention.

A popular/journalistic account can very easily confuse 'new to me' or 'new to laypeople' as if it indicated fresh discoveries.
1GB over a few months? In text? That's ~500000 pages of text. I doubt that the reporters actually received that much email. There's probably something else draining space that they didn't realize (hence Gate's surprise).
This is what they want:

func outer(a int) {
func inner_helper(b int) {
...
}
}

Pascal allowed nested functions 40 years ago...
Could you give more details on this problem? Do you mean that map moves more slowly than the cursor? In what browser/system does it happen?
There are plenty of people who won't bother, if they have to take any amount of time to figure it out. I've seen plenty of that attitude on Facebook. One could argue, of course, that we shouldn't worry about such people, since they don't seem to care anyway.
And even fewer know the keyboard shortcut.
Google Reader is the better feed reader I could find in both desktop and web categories. I like the sharing features, the only thing wrong is that it's not free software and not hosted on my server. I tried some GReader-like software but it was not as good, in particular regarding the keyboard-driven aspect.
TechCrunch.com daily uniques down ~60% since sale to AOL.
Well, at least this particular article is transparent about the worship of wealth going on.

"When you're rich, they think you really know." --Tevye, "If I Were A Rich Man," Fiddler on the Roof
Stopped using an RSS reader a long time ago because I just couldn't keep up with all the content. Too many unreads, too much noise, got sick of it and figured I'd get the good stuff through Twitter or HN if it was really important.

If you're building an RSS reader, I suggest you build one that filters out all the garbage and only shows me what I should really read. I honestly don't think we need "yet another RSS reader". Having some sort of algo to rank the content could be a good way to differentiate yourself.
Except few modern devices actually transmit there frequencies in-band. They get encoded and sent out-of-band, then recreated (if needed) on the other end.
Google reader.
- Integration with my other resource gathering (ie - bookmarks) and starred item management
- a way to automatically categorize duplicate stories so I only read about a particular piece of news once, even if every blogger on the web is writing about it.
I see no reason to believe that. Advances in adult stem cell tech doesn't seem to have helped embryonic stem cell research. Why would it work in the other direction? Apparently there are significant differences. Anyway, we have little reason to try, give that adult stem cells are working and all the ethical, ah, difficulties with embryonic stem cells.
What is the state of general language-to-language converters? Are there any projects trying to do this?
I actually implemented a lucene search index in case you might want to do it in lucene...

https://github.com/krickert/IPAddressZipCodeStateCountryLuce...

It downloads one of the many free DBs of IP addys and makes it into an index. You can do geo spatial searching APIs with IP addys.. Fun stuff.
I think the biggest problem in RSS is not so much the readers but the slowly declining discoverability of RSS.
Still, there are some privacy related failures that should never have happened...

Your profile photo is always visible in full resolution, even to the general public, and you cannot change that. That in itself is much worse than facebook.

Of course, you can hide the Photos tab, which means that people won't be able to navigate to the Profile photos album, but it's still accessible. I have to try out yet if older profile photos are visible as well.

So, how to make your photos visible to your circles and hidden (but not invisible or inaccessible) to the public? Impossible.

Also, I've found no way to only show people who've added you to your circles. Either you show it to the public, or it's hidden.

There is a feature that allows you to see how your profile appears to your friends, but I'm not that concerned about my friends... I can always delete someone. How about how does it appear to people in your friends' circles, and other people on G+, and the public? I can only see the last one, but I have to use another browser for that.

All in all, from what I see, I'm one of the more invisible people on G+. They really should make most things default to hidden, or just your circles, otherwise they're no better than FB.
Can you forward one of the broken links? Agaram at google. Thanks!
Google had their share of failed social products in the past - Orkut, Wave & Buzz. And with those failures they got opportunities to learn from their mistakes as well as understand the working of competitor products - Facebook, Twitter.

With Google+ they are trying to offer a new product which has the best features from Facebook, Twitter baked into it from day one topped with some kick-ass features like Hangouts, Huddle, Circles and a slick intuitive interface.

Yeah right now mostly techies are using but once it becomes open to all, a lot of folks are sure to join in. Even if they don't want to, the black toolbar on top of their gmail and other google products will eventually draw them to try Google+. It might be quite difficult to make 750M Facebook users to migrate, but Google+ can provide a significant competition to Facebook and Twitter as well.
it is quicker for searching on particular story than typing site:news.ycombinator.com and usually gets the work done :)
Colo(u)r scheme cheat sheet
Google Plus's UI is still way behind Facebook.

It would be a lot easier for Facebook to fix their holes with privacy(essentially copying Plus's Circles) than for Google to become more like Facebook.

We needed someone to put pressure on facebook to give more granular privacy control. To the extent that Plus pushes Facebook in that direction, I'm happy!

Plus' other features like Hangouts are nice but nothing really that I missed enough to drop Facebook. Privacy is one thing that I can see myself moving away from facebook for.
I assume by sexual misconduct you mean someone taking pictures in the bedroom

More likely taking photos of someone in a semi-public place, e.g. changing rooms, on a train, in a café, etc.
The idea of using "range" across what should generally be an infinite channel is not something I would've guessed existed.
At $3.75/week it was less hassle for me just to pay up. Strangely I also noticed that I actually read a few more articles per week now that I'm paying for it. It's a great paper. I don't understand the aversion to spending a little bit of money to get a bunch of good content.

On a side note, the Android app used to be horribly buggy but a recent update seems to have fixed the issues. Anyone who was turned off before may want to give it another shot.
Next you are going to tell me the moon isn't made out of cheese.

No, really, that's why I said I was talking about a specific machine code instruction sequence.
'09-'10 Taulbee Survey (CS PhD/BS/MS degree stats)
NetNewsWire (Mac) is what I use. I've tried quite a few and really like it. I don't think it's lacking much.
It is sad to see a company (Google) that is so pro-open source in many ways (WebM, sponsoring Mozilla, releasing a good open source, cross platform, feature rich web browser, the whole open web, etc.) and yet is so very closed when it comes to maps. Right now both Yahoo and Bing/Microsoft allow OSM contributors to trace from their aerial imagery. Google drove their own cars around the world and haven't opened that at all.
Your point about IEEE transcendentals is a good one, and it ties into the so-called tablemaker's dilemma. But this isn't just an IEEE issue since we're talking about specific CPU-level instruction sets. I'd be surprised if AMD wasn't precision-compatible with Intel on x87 and SSE at the lowest level. Were you writing x87/SSE instructions using assembly code or intrinsics so you're sure the same instruction sequence was being generated in both cases of the example you mentioned?
I have been looking to learn spanish. My personal preference is to take a classroom course so you will have real people to interact with and remember the vocabulary. And then you can follow up that with online material.

During my search, I also found
1. iTune podcasts (Coffetime Spanish) and many more
2. My local library has a tie-up with MangoLanguages
3. Verbling ( a new site backed by YC)

Rosetta stone is always there, but is something I would consider once I have take a classroom course first.
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Status: Enemy
Facebook stake: .022%
I don't see that "why?" is curt. It is succinct.

Perhaps in this particular case the questioner WAS trying to be rude, but that's not relevant to my reply to hvs. Note hvs said he could not understand why this question is asked on HN. He was talking about people in general who ask "why", not this particular questioner.

I'm astonished that anyone would be surprised that on HN, of all places, that people would be curious about why someone is doing something. One of the defining characters of hackers is curiosity.
It's the same on the new Lenovos. I have a T510 and it has only one jack for mic input and headphones (probably using a 4-contact jack). I cannot use it for Skype until I find a new pair of headphones with mike that has that jack. In the meantime I have to use a Bluetooth handsfree.
Since when did banging something against a rock count as tool use? Surely by that measurement any creature that scratches itself against a post or takes refuge under a tree is a tool user. Many creatures make nests - is that a tool?

If a fish was dropping a stone onto a clam I would accept it as a very primitive form of tool use. Just.
OMEA Reader for me.
Never liked Google reader.
Would love to see if it could detect more scripting languages and frameworks than PHP.
That's the same as facebook then?
How is Google+ open now? Can I be 'social across networks' with Google+ now?
I would honestly love to spend my days having sex, drinking coffee, reading, writing and more sex – with travel and several residences on the Mediterranean coast of Spain and Costa Rica (Pacific side), thrown in.

I lived in such a way for nearly two years without the residences but with travel to London and Rome. The sad, sad truth of it is that there is no money at the end of it, and I ended up very much in debt and almost bankrupt.

Um, when people say 'do what you love', they typically mean 'do WORK that you love', not do any old freaking thing you please, without regard for how to pay the bills.

Maybe I missed something in the article?
People have been using "app" as an abbreviated form of "application" for decades.
How can one find out the percents owned in a public company?

For example, can anyone tell me how I'd find out how much O
Omidyar owns of eBay? Or, where I could find such information for public companies?
You realize that CentOS is based on RHEL which is already extremely stable and conservative in updates? Even if new CentOS was released on the same day that RHEL, it wouldn't be 'the latest and greatest software'. CentOS lagging RHEL doesn't add anything of value.
Everything that needs our immediate and utmost attention ... is loud.

All cars within earshot need my immediate and utmost attention?! Nonsense.
I don't know about FSW, but there are some Googlers working with OStatus. And Google created PubSubHubbub, which is one of the core parts of the specification.

Btw, omg, I just checked and Google+ is already sorta-compatible with OStatus in the same way Buzz was, at least for my account... Atom, ActivityStreams, WebFinger and PubSubHubbub are already there. Salmon is missing but it's a complicated protocol (took weeks for me to implement it in Ruby), so it's understandable.

It means you can probably follow a Google+ user with StatusNET or Identi.ca! You can't mention or share data yet, but I hope it's coming...

For me, federation IS the future. Let's hope Facebook joins the party!
RIM placing focus on Talent Acquisition amid layoffs?
Market segmentation at work.
Thunderbird for feeds I want to see updates from eventually but don't care when, each feed goes into a separate folder and I just check them when I have time. Biggest problem is when something changes in the feed format or something, and it re-downloads all messages.

Livejournal for feeds I'd like to see the day they are updated. Biggest complaint is sometimes it's super laggy and won't update for a few days, then spam feed with all updates.
Warping Text To Bezier Curves
That link is extremely helpful. Thx.
Ever blocked someone on Google+?
Google reader, its avaiable anywhere and got a better mobile interface than the competition.
I would suggest you define your audience/find your audience. I say this as someone who has a couple of websites that grew out of emails I wrote on lists where I was popular and then, when I left one such list, the websites largely languished, in part because they had no audience, there was no one whom I was speaking to, there was no definition for what I should communicate. In recent weeks, I seem to no longer be the red headed bastard stepchild in some circles and, combined with other events in my life, I am beginning to write more. For now, I am mostly writing more emails for some subjects and it hasn't really led yet to significant development of the websites on those topics. I expect it to eventually lead to that, but it hasn't yet. However, on another topic entirely, I have found an audience and am suddenly productive after languishing a long, long time, even though the intended audience is currently only one person.

If you don't know whom you are speaking to, it is difficult to know what to say.

Best of luck.
Great, but I can't use it because those who pay money for Google Apps for Domains are exluded from having a profile. No, I don't know why either.
Drinking, having sex and writing can all be done for profit... It appears he missed the part where your day job has to pay the bills.
He owns 142,366,408 shares of eBay according to:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=EBAY+Major+Holders

I can't currently find the number of shares outstanding in eBay, but I'm sure it's somewhere under that Yahoo page. Edit: found it: 1.30B shares so he owns around 11%.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=EBAY

Transactions made by insiders are also quite interesting:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=EBAY
There are an infinite number of such pairs of numbers. 87, 25 may be one of them; perhaps 83, 22 is another, and 88, 28 is another, all describing the same distribution.

But they don't, and that's a key point. The numbers are, in fact (in this example) 25% and 87%. Different numbers would describe a different situation. They are not percentages of the same thing; they are percentages of two different things.
The same was the case for lisp.

But you can actually make do with just one space.
Yes, you can mix these approaches. Almost every client-server game does that to some extent, e.g. Unreal Engine 1, 2 and 3 supports both replicated state and replicated function calls, although it's mostly based on state replication.

However, even a small amount of constant error with lock-step networking means that you can't distribute the authority. Imagine a case where a unit is low on health and a tiny error in the unit's position makes the difference between whether it's out of range or in range of an enemy unit's fire. Thus it either lives or dies based on the presence of absence of that error. With fully deterministic lock-step networking, a client can make that determination on its own, without checking in with anyone else for confirmation. Without perfect determinism, the best it can do is make a tentative decision, which it might have to reverse soon thereafter if the server's view of the situation disagrees.
Given that we seem to have reached a point that medicine can cause the body to outlive the brain's shelf-life (eg Alzheimer's and the like), I'm not sure your plan is going to work out that well for you.
I really excited to try out the brand new Python 2.5!
Function is Nothing Without Beauty: 10 Sites Doing It Right
I use Google Reader, the keyboard shortcuts are great. I'd like to have native unread count in the favicon like gmail. Other problem is that the feeds don't refresh automatically (or better, just appending new content without a refresh).
That's true, but that's a competitive advantage that google can maintain for a long long time.
Yes, but when you, oh, have sex for money, you usually aren't doing it for your pleasure but for theirs. And most hookers don't enjoy it, not at all, and are frequently not in it by choice. There are some that do enjoy it and are there by choice, but they are the exception, not the norm.

Sorry, I'm really not trying to be argumentative. I think I'm trying to agree with you and doing it badly. :-/
Absolutely! Way to put it better and more succinctly than I did.
Sometimes I really wonder if they don't have something more important to discuss than this.

Then I remember that no, somebody properly has their ego invested in the "one correct way to put commas in a list".

Then I piss of that person by using semicolons.
Where Do All Those iPod Profits Go?
Google Reader on the desktop and Byline on iOS. Google Reader compatibility is a must in order to keep all devices in sync.

On iOS the following are must have features:
* swipe to next article
* preload RSS articles and linked content for offline access and faster browsing of content

Byline is currently the best RSS reader on iOS, but it has a lot of shotcomings:
* No Next Unread button or gesture (NetNewsWire does, but is otherwise a horrible, horrible app. Avoid like the plague.)
* Slow compared to Reeder
* Only shows last 1000 RSS items
* No gestures for navigation like Reeder
* Uses an effing dropdown menu in portrait mode AND does not hold state for the menu
* Some feeds with special characters are not correctly in folder, but dumped in the All Items folder

I would actually prefer to use Reeder, but Reeder is terrible for actually reading RSS. Skimming RSS feeds yes, reading actual articles no. Whoever thought that a pull or push gesture to navigate to the previous/next RSS item was a good idea should have their head examined.

Somebody really needs to write the perfect RSS reader for iOS by combining the best features of Byline and Reeder + that missing Next Unread button.

I moved from Bloglines to Google Reader due to Bloglines inability to keep state, unavailability and lack of development. Generally Google Reader has been ok, but I originally preferred Bloglines and moved over only when it was obvious I had to due to the demise of Bloglines.

Google Reader's web interface is OKish on the desktop, but absolutely horrible on any mobile device, hence the need for a native iOS app.
I think he's made some unfortunate mistakes with his language and use of units:

"we could transfer 900 Mbit for a half of a second and another 100 Mbit for the other half of that second. How much data was transferred during that second? The answer is 1 Gbit per second."

"for" implies multiplication, i.e. 2Mbit/s for 3s transfers 6Mbit in total, 2Mbit/s * 3s = 6Mbit. The phrase "900Mbit for half a second" should probably read "900Mbit in half a second", giving 1.8Gbit/s (and thus supporting the point of the article).

"The answer is [not] 1Gbit per second", it is 1Gbit. It is a measure of data, not transfer rate.

He makes a good point though, averaging may mask important details.
Reeder (www.reederapp.com), having tried many and stopped reading any RSS feeds for a good while because I got too frustrated with them all. It's a front-end to Google Reader, which I really didn't enjoy using.

Main thing I'd like is the smarts to filter out stories which are essentially the same, but perhaps not exactly the same.

Oh, and if I bookmark/star something, then next time the same story comes up, highlight that I've already seen it, or even suppress it.
I agree with the general point that you might be over-smoothing if you graph data with large window sizes, but you don't have to change the units on the graph as well, and probably shouldn't, since "Mbit per half second" is a confusingly nonstandard unit--- the units of measurement and the granularity of measurement don't have to be tied. An Mbit/s is a rate, and you can graph the rate in that unit for data points taken over a window of 1/2-second also.

Same as how in physics, lots of things are expressed in rates of "per second", but this does not necessarily imply that the measurement window was one second; it might be vastly larger or smaller than that. Or, with cars, you can measure the speed in mph or km/hr much more frequently than once per hour. =]
The idea of a monolithic base operating system has got to go. A machine as a unit of encapsulation wastes resources and forces a needless race towards lowest common denominator bug compatible versions of packages.

If application A needs PHP 5.2 and application B needs PHP 5.3 they should both be able to exist on a "machine" w/o resorting to complicated maintenance or having separate OS instances per app.

Witness, http://nixos.org/ a purely functional package management system. Use it either in userland or as an entire OS. You decide.
The BBC site has a more detailed article from three days ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14047670

It says that the organ was made of glass in London, and then flown to Sweden and soaked for two days in a solution of the patient's stem cells.
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I think the most reasonable cutoff of what is tool-use is that tool-use must be learned, and not just instinctive. I think that excludes nest-making but includes all of the interesting things ravens do with rocks and sticks.
As long as these empty buildings don't fall down from neglect, and the money couldn't have been spent more wisely (i.e. these will serve a valuable service some time soon), then I don't see this as a big deal. But more than likely, the glut of resources devoted to housing means neglect in some other place of the economy.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design -F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Yes please!! This is the feature I always find myself wanting. (Using Akregator / Kontact in KDE.) So many stories are duplicated at various stories that the ability to hide all but one where the target URL is the same would save lots of time.
I bet Gates is also thinking about how much it was costing Google to store all that. Multiplying the numbers by the numbers of Hotmail users (2 GB * a few hundred million).

That was the clever thing about Gmail's original invite system. Google could offer an amount of storage that Microsoft could never match, and the invite system ensured they could control the initial volume of users.
Is this part of a general trend?

YC is down too:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=ycombinator.com&geo=...