skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that the y-combinator is interesting to the such a degree that it becomes useful. Sure you won't and shouldn't use the y-combinator in any real world applications. But first off it demonstrates the true power of the lambda calculus to represent computation, and more importantly to the practical programmer is that understanding it will provide a deep insight into the nature of computation, which is profoundly useful if you ask me.
Visit the web app, and give your opinion
1. Look at the README.
2&3. Semver.

Number of followers/watchers is usually a good indication of how well-liked a project is. And as with any other open-source software, without sniffing in the code a little bit you never know what you're getting, regardless of how good the docs are or how sleek the project hosting pages are.

I like how most bigger projects are doing it nowadays: a separate page/mini-website, often using GitHub pages, that is user-centric and usually has a direct download link, and then GitHub for fellow developers.
Rationalist Judo, or Using the Availability Heuristic to Win
"In 5 days time I will fork whatever we have in development and I will declare it stable branch, release 1.12.0. That’s not going to be a stable version, and we don’t pretend it is."

... Except that you've called it stable, so you -are- pretending it is.

The only thing I would get from such a naming convention is the sense that you don't actually care about stability, since you call things stable when you know they aren't.

Release Candidates, on the other hand, show you are trying to be stable but realistic about the possibility of showstopper bugs.
Sending out spammy emails on my behalf is the absolute best way a company can end up on my shitlist. It's so.. violating.
You can, of course, look at an interview as an opportunity to "sell" yourself, but I think in the long run it's a much better idea to look for companies that are willing to engage in a two-sided dialog, rather than expecting a sales pitch.
I can't disagree with this more.

1) Most bigger open source projects have a core team. Think about the jQuery team for example. Often, the release candidates are intended for the core team, not the general user.

2) General users of a particular project generally know better than to use RC's in production. They might not be part of the core team, and unless they are going after a specific feature or bug, will ignore RC's and go with latest stable releases.

3) Release Candidates are supposed to be feature complete. If a user needs to start testing their applications against new features being introduced can usually do so early against Release Candidates. So contrary to the author's statement, indeed you can expect 3rd party engineers doing those kinds of integration tests to file bugs when things aren't working right. I've certainly done it, and I imagine many devs on HN have too.

4) If you want to look at a situation where you don't get Release Candidates, remember how often Facebook changed and broke Facebook Connect over the last couple years. It is not fun having to re-architect your FB integration 3x within a matter of a few months because they just pushed code live with little or no warning.
Do people really want someone with Google's revenue stream and internal R&D getting into the aggressive patent game?
Even if they are you'll find that it's mostly inconsequential towards your day to day music listening.
Agreed and similarly I've seen Nathan Myhrvold, of Intellectual Ventures, on quite a few Sunday morning talk shows with supposed hardball journalists and not a peep about his patent trolling is mentioned.
Have you tried xcodebuild? You should be able to execute unit tests from the command line with it.
But the point of these AAA ratings is that they are the 'top slice' of a pool of lower rated debt.

Suppose a typical student is has around $50 in their wallet at any one time : Demanding $50 from a student is pretty risky, and so is demanding $25. But if I have a large enough room full of students (say 100), demanding $2500 from the room (which on average holds $5000) is much less risky than requiring $25 from each person.

That's how AAA securities can be built from bad credits : Not everyone goes bad at the same time.

So the argument should not be about how crazy the idea of bad credits allowing the creation of good credits. The argument is about correlation coefficients.

Moodys / S&P / Fitch got the correlation coefficients between subprime borrowers completely wrong, because they believed that house prices could not all simultaneously decline in the US. And the investment banks had no incentive to explain the errors of their ways to them - and people who weren't "On-Side" at the rating agencies were relegated to lower-growth areas. And the regulators had no clue.

And here we are.
A meaningless platitude.
I'm guessing this tends to depend a lot on the kind of working-while-in-college jobs you do. A lot of comp sci majors work on their exact field of work while in college. This gives them some pretty hefty experience points by the time they look for a "real" job.
Microsoft Leaked Its Own Social Networking Secret, Then Swore It Was Accidental
No. Build a prototype first. Don't be like Color.
I look forward to your analysis of the patents in question to show that Mueller is wrong.
Password Cracking
So, the pairing of Natural Language Processing with generating a popup?
Why was he on Sunday morning talk shows? What were they talking about?
How BrowserID differs from OpenID
I don't know about firing, but certainly getting laid-off is really looked down on, regardless of circumstances. I've heard that employers do significant background checks now. Low credit scores are a red flag. Arrests are also a red flag. Not convictions, but arrests.

The social thing sounded a bit weird to me. But then, most of the people I've worked with either base their social scene around their work, or around something else (e.g. church). If you're not in one of those groups, you'll simply find yourself growing ever more distant.
Psychology review: 'How to Be Happy'
> Google Code's UI needs a lot of work.

I disagree. I think it's a nice, simple, tidy interface in contrast to github's flashy one.
No - the ABS markets are all about slicing up pools of debt.

Suppose I created a security that would give me back all the loose change found on the streets of Manhattan at any one instant. How much is that worth - $5, $20, more? (there's a lot of streets, and I'm always surprised how often I find a coin).

But I can guarantee that it's worth at least $1.00. That would be a AAA risk. And Moody's would rate it so, just by looking at the statistical properties of coins * streets.

This adds 1 security to the totals. The 'new idea' is that investors were willing to invest in new 'slices' of existing pools - chosen so that they'd get a AAA rating.

The idea itself isn't bogus. But the historical statistics of the subprime market were not valid for the wave of 'new money' moving into the Florida & Vegas markets... Subprime mortgages were a different animal than the rating agencies modeled, and no-one had any incentive to call them out on it.
Herniated discs and programming.
Hi Everyone, I've been programming for about 10 yrs now and have now developed a lumbar herniated disc and the doctor advised me to not sit for a long time but he probably doesn't realize that programming is a different beast and requires long hours of sitting and debugging. How has everyone here dealt with this? Any advice would be helpful? Thanks.
4) HN doesn't make any money and is not advertised anywhere.
a) If you're found guilty of murder that's still bad news regardless if you plan to appeal. Analogy not precise here, it's a preliminary finding not a final verdict, overall logic is the same - one side of a case can have all sorts of bad news.

b) Plenty of people said that was bad for Apple, I'm sure Steve Jobs would prefer not to part with those billions of dollars. {There's a minor difference in that it wasn't "bad news" because it was a negotiated settlement, not a revealed finding and thus not "news" to Apple}. At any rate it was widely reported as a victory for Nokia and a loss for Apple.

c) That is disingenuous. HTC (also mentioned in the headline) is not a household name and it is a huge part of Android. This isn't just bad news for HTC, it's arguably worse news for Android because the patents are reportedly fundamental to the OS. If HTC (et al) can't import Android phones or the fees make the cost of it too high they're just going to switch to WP 7.

Media: the media isn't taking sides here, the ITC did and the media is reporting that. What's your perfect headline?
How to dynamically stream music? HTML5 Hacks? - Challenge
Hey, I am trying to create a multi-streaming program that will take a song from my server (that is uploaded) and then play it to all my listeners.

I should be able to start a new stream whenever I want (Dynamically).

If no one can help me figure this out (I know there is a way via python - Java?).

I am thinking about settling for now on HTML5 audio playing, but when new people join... how do I let those people come in at the same time the current listeners are listening to?

I was thinking just grabbing the current time and making the song for that user begin at that time... but then there is bandwidth delays?

Any intelligent people out there have any solutions?

You guys are the best!
"The World Is Hers" - the curious phenomenon of Vocaloids
Where Color's problems caused by spending $350,000 to buy the color.com domain, or were they caused by either A. having a lousy idea to begin with, and/or B. failing to execute their plan?

And besides, it's a pretty big hop from $3,000 to $350,000.
To those of us who are software devs, so many of these patents don't seem to pass the "non-obvious" test. Who evaluates the novelty of a patent application? Does the USPTO employ experts in the field to exam these claims, or is it up to whatever random examiner picks up the next application in the queue?
"fewer friends who aren't really friends", that's a feature ;)
If contracts and regulations require AAA-rated securities, then AAA-rated securities will appear to match the demand.

I believe that this is what is happening, but the argument that demand for AAA securities by overcautious investors is the root of the issue makes it sound like all of our problems could have been avoided by curtailing the demand itself- in this case, by encouraging investors to take on more risk (don't be overcautious!) and be willing to purchase lower-quality securities.

As an investor, shouldn't I be able to choose what level of risk I'm willing to accept? And isn't it the job of rating agencies to provide accurate information so I that I can make an informed decision as to the level of risk I'm taking?
"If you want to be successful you have to live on 3 hours or 2 hours of sleep" ... "stay up for 3 days" ... "forget to eat" ... "sleep is for those people who are broke"

I hope nobody on my team follows this advice. :)
Companies cannot be rated higher than the country they are in?
I don't understand why that would make sense, especially in a case like the US - congress being unable to extend the debt ceiling shouldn't have that significant of an impact on Microsoft, a globally diversified company, being able to pay back it's debts...but then, the financial world is full of fun, arbitrary rules.
It might be nice to see what percentage complete each area you list is. some 50%'s and some 0%'s? all 0%'s?
The is no legitimate discussion of the US defaulting, just political demagoguery. Greece, on the other hand...
Get a standing desk?
My evening project: Mobile Optimized Hacker News
The code is available on github as well, and all pull requests welcome to improve it: https://github.com/apartmnet/Hacker-News
Might want to fix the typo in the URL.
Hmm. So more potential customers and fewer competitors? I like it.
These discovery services are not integrated into Spotify so I don't really consider them Spotify discovery features. Is a site that lists Spotify playlists really different from a site that just lists playlists? Most of these sites you can play the music. If I were to go to a website to do discovery, there are plenty of other options too like the Hype Machine and it does not require Spotify.
I love that story about beating Mike Tyson. ET's presentation style is really great too. You can tell he's just so passionate about this material.
Are you also sure it's worth a firm $3k? Perhaps you could negotiate it down a bit.
Wikipedia background: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vocaloid

Hundreds of Vocaloid videos and other material (since we all like our social news sites): http://www.reddit.com/r/Vocaloid/
Or a spreadsheet and calling it Numbers
Call My Red Phone - A simple cheap business line with flexible options
The Winklevi were never involved with facebook, though. You could say that of Saverin, but not them.
this ruling isn’t final, and Apple’s victory isn’t terribly meaningful in the long term.

Source:
http://thisismynext.com/2011/07/15/preliminary-ruling-finds-...

PS: that's a real lawyer reporting, so I guess he know what he talking about. Rather than some random reportor
This very fact means that the two of you are operating on the wrong definition of "instinct."

"Instinct" simply means anything that is inborn. There's nothing in the animal manual that says that instincts can't contradict each other in an animal. Hate is instinctive, as is love. It's not that humans defeat their instincts, it's that some of our instincts defeat other instincts.
I believe he's deliberately saying these things to shock the kids he's talking to into listening carefully. By challenging their assumptions about what it takes to succeed, he's hoping to get them to change their behavior. Maybe they sleep 7 hours instead of 10 + naps and spend 2 out of 3 of those extra hours doing productive work. That could make a really big difference in their lives.
How does any of that make sense to you - I am too tired atm to restate the obvious but -

a) Hyperbole - murder cases and patent cases don't compare. Convicted of murder doesn't have any negotiation left - plenty of negotiation is possible in this case as I pointed out - HTC can use S3 patents to offset or even make up for what they might end up paying Apple if they lose the appeal.

b) Patents are sad reality for everyone and anyone who wants to make and sell significant mobile product - Apple, Nokia, Microsoft, Google, HTC - all are at risk which they manage by paying up or making cross patent licensing deals. If it's bad news it is bad for everyone - not just Android. And HTC doesn't seem to be in a particularly bad position here - they got the ITC to invalidate some of Apple's claim and they have a favorable ruling in S3 case which they can use against Apple.

c) See b) - You don't seem to fully grasp the patent scene - whatever it is - bad/worst/ugly - it is the same for everyone. Or are you saying Apple is somehow immune to all this?
the conflict is at odds with Aol's wider aspiration to be a respected media outlet (Arriana Huffington, etc).

What? Huffington Post, if you ever read it, is a left wing tabloid. It's filled with leftist propaganda, celebrity gossip, bad-women's-magazine style nonsense, and other crappy linkbaiting. Buying out Huffington is no way for Aol to become a "respected media outlet", it's a way for Aol to become a media outlet in the style of News Corp.

Yes, by traditional journalistic standards Arrington's fund would be a massive conflict of interest. But traditional journalistic standards are all but dead. And frankly, the only new development in the past decade is that people are no longer pretending otherwise.
I've experimented with a variation of this.

Something like ...

foreach($_REQUEST as $k=$v) {
$REQUEST[$k] = mysql_real_escape_string($v);
}

$query = "INSERT INTO table VALUES('$REQUEST[email]', '$REQUEST[name]')";

Problem is, this only works if you don't plan on modifying any of the values before you stick them in the database.

You could also do something like ...

$query = "INSERT INTO table VALUES('{$e('email')}', '{$e('email')}')";
$e = 'esc';
function esc($v) {
mysql_real_escape_string($v);
}

But I think that looks pretty ugly.
Yes, "software patents ought not to apply to open-source products", because "software patents" ought not to exist.
Because infrastructure is a money pit. The up-front cost of building a last-mile fiber network is astounding (see also: Verizon FiOS) and carries with it a much longer payoff term than "next quarter." Most companies with a stock symbol have a board or shareholders that want very fast returns on investment.

(Please take the following without any hint of political bias.)
A government, on the other hand, builds infrastructure that isn't intended to have a return to it that's valued in money. Instead, that infrastructure benefits society in other ways. Arguably, building a network that functions as a "dumb pipe" where others can provide services on top of it--akin to a road--would allow greater competition in the business of moving bits because competitors would be freed from each of them expending and needlessly duplicating the others' infrastructure costs.
i wonder how that's changed since then, though? i guess both have got bigger, but what were the relative rates? i got 9k unique visitors on a front page blog post from hn last week, fwiw.
OK, let's look at structural deficit, GDP growth, and Net International Investment Position.

NIIP is interesting. Despite the US's huge debt, they have a reasonable NIIP of about -25% (I think). So the money is mostly there. It's mostly in private hands, but as long as the private sector is OK, the government will keep collecting taxes.

The obvious problems with the US are its health system (more public funding than countries with free health, but terrible value for money), its military deployments (the military can be an OK if they use it to drive high-tech growth, but actually deploying it very expensive), its prison system (they tend to lock criminals up for a little too long, and they have way too much crime for other reasons).
I don't "want" anything, Google should choose and do what they want. I'm just observing that Google is a company with few patents and are in competition in multiple areas with companies with more patents that they very possibly infringe on. It is therefore no surprise that their view on patent law is incredibly in line with this position.

I believe there's a trend in tech circles to conflate "patents badly need some reforms" with much stronger views along the lines of "patents are pure evil". This is just rubbish. The alternative to patents is massive secrecy on a ridiculous scale.
Google made significant changes to the search algorithm around July 1st. They have fixed most of the complaints from developers a day ago, still some things need to get fixed but it's near the level it was before. Check this thread: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?...
New Fossil May Prove an Asteroid Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
Confirmed as male, not that it really matters.

https://foursquare.com/barce/checkin/4e20c74918a88345f044a31...
It just doesn't mean anything at all to me to hear what Google "could" do. Google "could" do a note-for-note cover of Twitter, and then fix Twitter's metadata and API problems to make it easier to build apps on. They "could" invent something even nicer than Twitter. They "could" come up with the magic feather that integrates Twitter-style messaging into Google search. They have a zillion dollars. They "could" do anything.

They have not replaced Twitter, or even come close to meaningfully competing with it.

Google+ is not a note-for-note cover of Twitter. There are things that are nicer about it, and there are things it does that Twitter can't do at all, but that doesn't mean any of those things are critical to Twitter's key value proposition.
Photogenics factor in more than you might expect.
Rapportive is so great, I want to give them some money.
Could you or somebody please provide clarification of Florian Müller's history of distorting issues, to those who don't know anything about that person?
Neither: Dulwich.
Why should using the web be a hassle?
Do you believe in something? I believe in simplicity..
I've had this, in my head, for quite some time. Filesharing made accessble , everywhre.

How? through facebook , your phone , your IPAD iPhone ..

It's a work-in-progress ,and much more is to come. I hope advanced users -like yourselves - can appreciate the thought, and effort that has gone into the features.

I'm releasing it early to get opinions, and any feedback would be appreciated and applied to later versions. This app is being made for the user first , and as such - I need opinions from guys who have use for it - you.

To access goto http://apps.facebook.com/ -> no signup required.

I'm really not making a penny from this at the moment , just want to create a useful user experience
Seems you don't develop for Android or you'll know google messed up the search algorithm and after a lot of complaints from developers and users who couldn't find apps, google started fixing things...
Wow I never looked at it like that before. Of course if the currency collapses the companies operating in it are f'd. We need to resolve the housing foreclosure mess and stop accruing debt.
Having an RC doesn't mean you abandon development on it. What exactly is the difference between calling it 'RC' and 'stable branch'?

Both get released to users, both get changes backported.

Except with RC, you're honest. It's a candidate for a full release. If you call it "stable", you're misrepresenting facts. You're not stable. You wouldn't even know, since you had no widespread testing on it.
Too bad they didn't go for a distributed system that could have handled localized outages.
I have never heard any convincing argument (other than "we're already doing it") to use timezones or DSTs in the modern world. Can someone offer some articles or arguments?
Amazon Kindle Color Tablet Running Android?
Algorithmic trading resources
If it's meant to be displayed on a projector, you may want to make the little X that closes the pop up bigger, or even better to just click anywhere on the pop up and it goes away. Also, it could be valuable to shrink your top banner so that scrolling won't be necessary (it was necessary on my screen at least).
Also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756645
Reward signups with 'early adopter' or other status indicators. Don't force people to invite a few friends, that feels like multi-level marketing and pretty much guarantees introverts won't use your service because they want to kick the tires a bit and get used to it before lending their names to it (it's embarrassing to recommend something that may turn out to be a waste of time).
Google changed their regular search algorithm to take down content farms

How is changing the algorithm so low quality apps are always first on the results taking down content farms? Sorry but you don't know what you're talking about....
Though it is too early for Apple to claim victory, it is a first step forward against Android

HTC is already paying Microsoft for patent licensing, if it has to pay Apple as well then margins would be hit badly
Municipalities are also funded by the monopolists. Most people aren't aware of this but for example when Comcast goes into Centerville, USA and is granted an exclusive cable franchise they kickback some money to the local government, called a franchisee fee, as part of the agreement. It's all perfectly legal and publicly documented. Here's an example from Comcast:

http://www.mrsc.org/franchises/A5o2774.pdf

See section 3.1 This town gets 5% of Comcast's subscriber revenue.