skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the big bang was an event that we know happened, but we don't know that it's when time, space, or the universe came into existence nor is it defined as such. Big bangs could happen over and over. Don't confused the known event, for the theory that it was the beginning, they are different things.
The online activation was broke as late as DP4 meaning you couldn't do a legit clean install.

Clean is the only way I roll, so hoping its fixed...
I can now scrap my pushState fork :)
Another favorite line is, "You're a bit early for us" and ask you to keep them updated. AKA if you start to explode they'll open their checkbook.
System Admin, with some programming background maybe under the DevOps movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps
What circles enables is selective sharing and private groups in a less painful way. The larger my facebook circle is with a mish mash of people from different parts of my life, the less willing I am to share in general.

Young kids will want a way to do private groups as both 1) they get older 2) their parents and other adults hop on facebook--since it's not socially acceptable to say no to your mom on fb. And if google nailed that, I think they have a good shot, as what teenagers, rap artists, and technorati do now is what everyone will be doing in the future.

That said, facebook is a fast follower. Their response to how private groups and sharing could be enough to stave off google.
> Your being slightly nit-picky because hands down it is more aesthetically pleasing

It is more aesthetically pleasing, but it's also pointless (because searching a calendar is a minor task) and distracts from the main calendar view, especially with the new pastel colors: you see the search button more than your calendar data.

It's a severe case of form over function.
FYI, the link to Cirkuit on your user profile is incorrect (it links to .com instead of .co). The project sounds neat though.
I was replying to the comment about historical evidence by pointing out that we don't have conclusive evidence either way, so it's an open question. There have certainly been some historical areas arguably without government, to various degrees [1], but the longest of them (~330 years) didn't last much longer than the oldest constitutional republic (which I believe is the US) has so far, while other forms have lasted for a thousand years or more.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy#Lists_of_ungoverned_com...
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Supply & demand during road show - the IB running it will price it, sometimes the day before a la LNKD.
Why people focus on only the TFG is beyond me? De facto, they are nobody despite the fact that they have backing of the US/UN/AMISOM/AU. Do you see this map[1]? TFG stronghold (a few city blocks you can count with your hands) is pitifully small. They have no legitimacy. No confidence from the people. It's a sham where a massive Parliament (more than 500 individuals, almost 100% comprised of people who live in western nations throughout the year and haven't lived in Somalia in ages) gets bankrolled, the cabinet and the rest of the bloated executive branch stuffs their pockets with cash from the US. A president who was the leader of the leading Islamist militia group and now has switched shirts and flies around everywhere as "President of Somalia" (this is analogous to having OBL decide there's better pay to sit in Kabul as the President of Afghanistan and the world recognizing and funding him as a new legitimate head of state.

While on the other hand you have somewhere like Somaliland that has actually organized real, transparent, democratic elections, a functioning government that actually has confidence amongst its citizenry and yet isn't recognized by anyone and is basically ignored. Forget the fact that it's innovating in the mobile banking space at a faster pace than most other African nations, a booming renewable energy sector, and plenty of opportunities for outside investment. Sure, it has plenty of problems to deal with itself, is in active conflict with its neighbor Puntland, and still has a problem with corruption, tribalism, and nepotism...yet it is one of the few signs of progress in that nation.

When people say anarcho-capitalist society and things like that, they picture homesteaders or other idealistic groups of people living off the land with no rulers and loose confederations at best. Think Spain[2] in the 20th century. Somalia is quite unlike that.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/9/9f/2...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain
how exactly did groupme "fuck over" arrington? i can't find anything on it.
I don't think the concern is that FB will die, but that FB is in control of the platform.

Outside of any agreement Zynga and FB have, if FB takes an action that hurts Zynga (for example, hiding all Zynga games), there's little recourse for them. Technically, you can still play farmville on farmville.com, but many, many people play farmville by searching for "facebook" in their address bar.
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They're RAISING $1bn, not a 1bn valuation. More like 15-20bn val.
Make Google+ look like Facebook
Now on another topic which I find interesting, consider how the abstraction algorithm (conversion to combinators) can be simplified with the use of two helper functions L and R:

\L = (\x\y\z (x z) y) # send z to left side only
\R = (\x\y\z x (y z)) # send z to right side only

Of course these can be defined in terms of S and C but I just implement them directly in the interpreter for efficiency.

Now let's abstract the Q definition using L and R in addition to S and C where possible:

\Q = (\x\y x (y y))
\Q = (\x R x (\y y y))
\Q = (\x R x (S I I))
\Q = (L (\x R x) (S I I))
\Q = (L R (S I I))

That's much more compact than just using S and C alone.
You need something like firebug or webkit's developer tools to get the content. If you're using Webkit: Click on the Network Tab, reload the page and wait. When it's done loading, click on XHR at the bottom. There you will see the path, and the contents.
I removed some of the parameters of the request, for safety reasons ... but if you use firebug while loading plus homepage you'll find it.
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Just hired an awesome front end developer who is making great progress with our lead app developer. An API has been released to our external partner.

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Possibly Google Closure

If you look at the JS there are comments from Google Closure's testing framework.
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The Foundry is absolutely kicking everyone else's ass with Nuke. They have an interesting business model as well: don't do much research in house, instead work with studios with big R&D budgets and license their tools when they're mature, bringing it to a wider audience.

They've done it with Digital Domain and Nuke (compositing), Weta and Mari (3d paint), and now Sony and Katana (lighting).
Rise and Fall of MySpace is A Lesson for Facebook
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Wow, this is an awesome looking site - wish I lived in one of those cities.

I am running on a resource-constrained computer right now - my only complaint is the JavaScript seems a bit slow - scrolling on the main page is choppy. Might be worth profiling on lower-end machines a bit to smooth some of that out.
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Remember Google Fiber for Communities when you read this. I would be very concerned if I was a cable company. Google would probably be happy enough to give a la carte TV via Hulu and high speed internet for little/no profit as another ad platform.
They don't sell any data.
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SEEKING WORK - Preference for 30ish day projects, will consider up to 6 mo.

CS Degree - Portland, OR, USA, Prefer remote work

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Also C#/.Net, Asp.Net, Silverlight/WPF, PHP, ASP, C++, MySql, SQL Server, jQuery
Experience leading remote teams.
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Thanks for the feedback! Where do you live? I'll work hard to get whichever city it is!
The thing is, in many ways, the iPhone is a toy compared to Blackberries. Which is exactly why people want iPhones - same facts, entirely opposite conclusion.

Stuff like this makes me think of the dolphins in the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."
> When a user navigates from the URL bar or from a link on another site the browser requests a specific location from my server. Since I'm already serving the browse HTML it makes sense to render my templates at the same time. It doesn't make sense to send only a generic template and then have the popstate trigger an XHR request for some JSON which gets rendered by a javascript template library. That's extra and unnecessary.

Wait, I might have misunderstood something here: do you mean `popstate` is triggered when users arrive on your site from an other one or from nowhere? On initial loading? As in, it's triggered by navigation between different domains, not just in-domain navigation?
Thanks. Beta launch this summer.
Surely TC would have had an embargo on this story?
Been watching sublime for some time now after I gave it a short try. If only these lightweight editors provided CTRL-click type navigation I'd be sold. I use IntelliJ IDEA now - it is a powerhouse of irreplaceable help. It works magic with Java/Groovy/JavaScript/CSS/HTML navigation.

I need Sublime to provide type navigation. Forget debugging and other features.
Skype? That's what they are offering as an answer to google+? Yikes... No thanks.
If you're in the UK check out:

http://www.coderstack.co.uk/startup-jobs

We've list lots of startup jobs.
Facebook to launch In-browser video chat with Skype integration
to be fair, I don't see him mention it as a resume, the poster did. He just has it as "about", which it is.
> What am I doing wrong?

pushState is called with three arguments, {state, pagetitle, url}

If the user navigates directly to a URL, state will be null or undefined, in which case your onpopstate handler should not execute the XHR transition.

I'd recommend testing in both Firefox and Chrome, as each browser handles onpopstate events differently.
Amazon May Have Trouble Dodging California's New Online Sales Tax
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Front End Developer (full-time)

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> If the only way you can make money off of a good idea is by suing other people who are using it, then it's not a good idea.

Huh? It's clearly a valuable idea, otherwise said other people wouldn't be making money by using it. (We can argue about how much of that money is due to other things how much is due to the idea, but let's assume that the idea is somehow essential to to implementation.)

So, what makes it a bad idea? Surely it can't be the existence of a patent held by someone who isn't practicing.
Definitely. Google wants to ensure that people understand it's not a Steve Jobs type situation at Google. Innovation comes from everywhere. I think it's impressive that they could successfully implement a site-wide redesign despite the fragmented nature of the company. Ordered chaos.
Perhaps nobody has yet offered them the "fair price" he believes Apple should get for licensing the operating system.
Good thing Google+ came out. I know too many people who consider Skype's video chat quality a joke.
PowerPoint isn't necessarily bad, but 95% or more of the people that use it do a terrible job.
Well, I signed up with an email address and a password with special characters in.
I got "invalid email/password combination"
When I retried with a different password it complained that an other user already registered with that email address.

I then retried with a different email address and dead simple password and got the same.
Wow. This is the something "awesome"? Google+ is looking better and better.
Arrington: "We’ve never broken an embargo at TechCrunch. Not once. Today that ends. From now our new policy is to break every embargo. We’ll happily agree to whatever you ask of us, and then we’ll just do whatever we feel like right after that. We may break an embargo by one minute or three days. We’ll choose at random."

http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/death-to-the-embargo/
How reliable will this free storage be? Is it only useful for sharing, or can one archive pictures?
Linux commandline: recursively find total size of selected files/directories
- Who cares

- No

- No

And you didn't even complain about "stdio.h".
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well that's too much work for me. bulk adding would be nice to have google.
The scores seem to be in the same order as people are shown in the top-right corner, and on https://plus.google.com/circles

I only saw 5-6 different score values there, so most people are ranked the same.
I am/was quite a fan of SETL, so I'm going to keep an eye on this language...

But why are relational types limited only to be composed of primitive types?
Spain ... A Rough Guide.
Lots and lots of people here read TechCrunch. It's still essentially the paper of record for the startup scene. Consequently, when major interesting news breaks, several different people see it on TechCrunch first and all submit the article at about the same time. The duplicate submissions count as upvotes, and just 5-10 of these immediately after an article breaks is enough to get a submission near the top for a short period of time, during which it's the first link on the story people coming to the HN frontpage see, so it gains momentum.

Honestly, I don't think TC is as bad as you characterize it, especially when it comes to breaking news (as opposed to high-level commentary). They've done a good job at breaking several big stories in the past year, even though I disagree with a lot of the more opinion-type pieces.
> "I just look for something that parents will hate." That this is a successful strategy is self-evident.

Quoting Joshua Ellis's piece on the grim meathook future:

> Feeding poor people is useful tech,

> but it’s not very sexy

> and it won’t get you on the cover of Wired.

> Talk about it too much

> and you sound like an earnest hippie.

> So nobody wants to do that.

> They want to make cell phones

> that can scan your personal measurements

> and send them real-time

> to potential sex partners.

> Because, you know,

> the fucking Japanese teenagers love it,

> and Japanese teenagers

> are clearly the smartest people on the planet.

The full text is at http://zenarchery.com/?page_id=1180. It's short. Read it.
Particle Debris (wk. ending 7/1) The Dog Ate My Homework
Forget Diet Coke and Mentos: Singing Bowls Excite Droplet Fountains
Would you happen to be using Chrome?

edit: Try checking the `state` attribute of your event object, it should only be set (therefore truthy) for history entries created via pushState, urls being navigated will not have a state.
Musicians identified epidemic's cause before the doctors
Isn't that how it works right now? You select the circles you want once, and then it remembers them. You can still remove any of them on each post.
In the UK they've been running an ad about BBM - getting your friends together, meeting people in a nightclub etc.

When I first saw it I thought "about time, that's what they need to do - capitalise on the fact that BBM is selling phones to teenagers/young people".

And then it ends with a guy in a suit checking his bank details with a message about online security.

Totally destroys the message that the advert was, until then, successfully portraying.
How will it be different from Plaxo?
Yes, it turns out it grows based on the screen size. Still, with the browser maximized on my laptop, I see only one where it used to be 5 (or 4 + more).
Looking at the file, it strikes me that it doesn't seem to be quite what you think it is, namely a "relationship score" between Google+ users. People that I've never communicated with on Google+ but mailed previously have a score (and the people I've mailed most frequently have the highest scores), while people I've only communicated with on Google+ but never mailed don't have one (the fields are empty). Organizations that I've mailed also have scores, and they obviously don't have Google+ accounts.

It looks more like a "relationship score" for GMail that doesn't take into account Google+.
Newly coming 3D Smartphone
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I think you're confusing the general idea of cursors with datastore cursors, which require a query and can't be created "per request", but "per query". See:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/queries...
Betting _for_ this is like betting against humanity!
Not sure about the other features (could not find it actually) but if only it lets me set a list of contacts for which it reminds me the birthdays and also tells me that I haven't talked to them in a long time. Sigh.
If your non-techie friends read xkcd, they aren't terribly representative of non-techies
Google+ Invites Selling on eBay for $20
> - Who cares

Compilers care, or should. "void main" is illegal per the spec, and if your compiler happens to do anything useful with that, it's purely out of luck.
Providence, RI

Tracelytics (http://tracelytics.com, jobs@tracelytics.com) looking to hire for two positions:

* Software engineer, experienced with Cassandra, and an expert in Python and systems programming.

* Marketer, experienced in executing online marketing campaigns, and that can contribute to strategy
This looks awesome. Really pretty, and definitely a service I would use if I lived in one of the available cities, especially if you can maintain the quality of the recommendations.

How did you get the seed data (i.e. the initial set of recommendations)?
It will be a "magical new experience."
Though he'd only been back Apple a short time when this video was recorded he had an amazingly clear vision of where Apple needed to go. One that he executed on once he assumed the CEO role.

Two things I caught that were highly interesting:

He talked about Apple 'controlling distribution' and then caught himself. Was he already planning Apple stores that long ago?

He was obsessed about having a good cell phone and hearing him go on it was interesting to note was before the smartphone had even been invented. I note with humor that it was a dealbreaker for him that the phone have a physical keyboard! Guess that's one area he comprised on in the final design.
Yep. Chrome bug?
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