skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has it improved it enough to the point that you would pay for it? For me, definitely not. At best it's a convenience.
> People who play the "It is a truly wise man who knows he is not" card are usually trying to limit you.

I've always felt just the opposite. Acknowledging what you don't know can furnish you with the drive to learn it - thus becoming better. Understanding you're not "wise" is the first step to becoming so. The moment you get to confident in your abilities is the moment you stop learning.
This article is written to sound like the suspension was due to blantant sexism, but there doesn't seem to be any reason to believe that. Almost certainly just a innocent misunderstanding.
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> It's fine to post-rationalize it that way but your initial comment left very little room for that interpretation. Questions generally work better than assertions for addressing curiosity.

Please re-read my initial comment. It _was_ a question followed by a statement of truth. I'm not post-rationalizing anything.

I don't like the way this conversation is going. Thank you for your interest.
I'm using this to propose to my girlfriend.
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Tell that to the teenage kids who were using twitter to communicate to people that they were under assault. They were able to do it discreetly, without having to vocalize themselves by a phone call.

Twitter has it's usefulness, but not everyone has realized it just yet. I hope that changes - maybe the upcoming integration with iOS will allow it to. Depending on how far it's integrated, it can provide developers some amazing tools to work with.
The title on HN ("NASA finds water reservoir equivalent to 140 trillion times the world's oceans") is not the title NASA uses on its article ("Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water"). It appears to be have created by mashing together the first two sentences of the article - the first describes it as a reservoir, the second describes its size relative to the earth's oceans.

Don't blame NASA, blame the submitter.
The problem with that - and I say this as a generalist myself - is that usually you don't know a lot about everything. You think you do, but it turns out you don't. For instance, I've known "a lot" about web development. Now I have a new job that exposes me to domain experts in web development - and it turns out I didn't know jack.

There's nothing wrong at all with being a domain expert. Most generalists - again, I say this as one - aren't as good at everything as they think.
<!-- Layer contains table with 5 cols (width is divide by no of chars) contains Captcha Chars -->

It was however, nice of them to label the spot where my breaker should scrape the characters. (Bonus points for that label being pseudo-code for my scraper)
The point is that it would have been clear, had he thought a little harder or had more conviction. This kind of analysis is useful because it can affect future behavior.
In my experience, they're available as soon as WBEZ finishes airing them for the first time.
The reason for suspension is probably the quotes in her name. A Google engineer on g+ posted that you should not have any special characters in your name to avoid getting suspended.
I suggest reading these before getting too excited about the game industry:

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/117/1178844p1.html

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Gameloft-Glenn-Watson-dangerous-...

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/iso44/trouble_at_ga...
Neat take on the scheduled email idea!

(plug our own Momentomail service requires you to schedule a precise time)...random delivery might be a fun take on the idea -- surprise yourself!
Have you ever looked at the code in JSONKit? It makes perfect sense that it won't support ARC. JSONKit has a lot of small optimizations that deal with allocating memory that interfere with ARC and the assumptions the compiler needs to be able to make for ARC to work.
If I had to design this, I would pick the time according to a power-law curve with closer times being more probable. In fact I would be willing to send ALL my normal emails through such a filter.
Not that this matters, though, because ARC and non-ARC code can call each other.
3G iPod Touch on the horizon?
re-framing problem for clarity:

"Man who follows everyone he meets complains about noise in his social streams..."
I guess that rules out the plot of "V" ...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/V_%281983_min...
News like this makes it clear that Google does not understand social any better than Facebook does.
That's what I actually meant -- quicksort shows where the imperative approach shines, and using it as an example of functional programming is a particularly bad idea, because naive implementation is not relevant and serious one (in place sorting of random-access sequences) is quite complicated and not elegant at all. It's just the example of the fact that not all algorithms can be efficiently implemented in purely functional manner, just like not all algorithms can be elegantly implemented using only imperative techniques. There's no silver bullet.
Financing your start-up
Is Hulu Boxed In?
Better get started on the pipeline. LA's residents are thirsty.
In case anybody feels like getting together with for a HN minecraft session, I'm hosting a server here: 78.46.43.181

Currently its just me and my friends (when I persuade them to throw away their time and get Minecraft). I will leave it running anyway in case somebody feels like joining. The machine I'm running this on is fairly high spec and is otherwise idle (only hosting one very very low traffic website on it), so it "shouldn't" lag, st least, not from lack of resources. Hosted in Europe, so ping may be a bit high from the US.
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Java7 Hotspot broken?
Is this repo used by the website, or you merge things from khanacademy.org back to this? I'm having trouble finding a reference to the Scratchpad text tool in the github scratchpad.js.
The argument is that selling something that nobody wants to the government is not entrepreneurship. This, I concur.

However, it was wrong to conflate something which the author couldn't think of anybody wanting with something that nobody wants.

Secondly, the entrepreneur isn't "selling" to the city. The city is getting money for free, i.e. cut of the proceeds without having to come up with capital or operating expenditure.

The lack of car parking spaces in cities is a growing problem and cities are actively trying to solve the problem of public access without having to fund public transport, since hiring public service workers may not be an option. Providing bikes for hire can be seen as one of the measures a city can use to reduce cab traffic.

For me, once I find a car park, I am very reluctant to leave it until work finishes. If I have to go anywhere else say during lunch time, having access to a bike would be extremely handy.
funny that its still in googles cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jiwjaQH...
Though the semi-automated systems using humans can break CAPTCHAs, there are still scenarios where using it makes sense. For example, to prevent DoS attacks, a CAPTCHA might be employed to route visitors from one part of the site to another. Even if humans are involved in this loop, the delay introduced in solving the CAPTCHA can slow down the attack.
> Sorry to be the buzz kill here, but this isn’t the first fake Apple store in China. It might be the best fake Apple store so far, but I know for example that there has been at least one fake Apple store here in Beijing for many years. It never occurred to me that I should call the New York Times and give them a scoop, though.

> OK, yeah, that is mildly interesting. But I could come up with a lot of examples of other amazingly good fakes in China. Again, that’s not exactly news.

Translation: I am jealous that I didn't realize that people would find this interesting and win that traffic for myself, so in classic sour grapes fashion, I am designating this 'not news'.

Nothing to see here, move along.
> I'm doing serious work and my company has been rejected by sixty (that's six-zero) VC firms in the past five years.

I just want to burn some HN points here to tell you that you're not alone, and that there are a lot of other people out there that are terribly frustrated by this.

Investors are primarily in it to make money. They're optimizing for returns. When you have a choice between a company that will spend relatively little capital and has a chance to make a lot of money, $5 at a time, from millions of people, in a short period of time, and then get sold to some other megacorporation at a valuation that's detached from reality, versus a company with higher capital needs and a 20-year roadmap to becoming an industry heavyweight ... well, you choose the first one.

The horde of "business consultants" (coaches, advisors, what-have-you) aren't much better. I went through a period of intense naivete that involved trying those people out. I would try anything that might have a chance at accelerating my business. I have never before been charged so much to receive so little truly useful advice, from so many people so hell-bent on violating the very first rule of problem solving ("understand the problem"), and so inclined to insult me or my goals. They're all just doing the same thing as the VCs, but at smaller, pitiable scales: they're focusing first-and-foremost on making a buck.

Sometimes the situation leaves me feeling bitter. As a hopeless idealist and an obsessive problem-solver, I can't help but to habitually look at the world around me and see in its place the potential for the future that so many people with resources claim to be interested in while being interested first and foremost in making a quick profit.
If this page doesn't load for someone... just refresh. I've been getting a "page unavailable" response at first, but the link does, in fact, work.
It's not even plausible. Native binary plist reading is typically about 2x as fast as JSONKit (in my informal benchmarks).

So they claim to be about an order of magnitude faster than binary plists, which would be astonishing if it were true.
Implant the message into your skin with an LED indicator light set to turn on in 40 years. Power the whole thing (timer and light) with a self-winding watch movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_quartz
I don't know what to do with these numbers. I can relate to our ocean in some way, 2 times, 5 times, maybe 10 times the amount of water but higher numbers are too much for me.

They should just use liter instead.
I'm very familiar with MT from my PhD research :) It's a nugget of gold hidden in a single .c file.

I asked the question in relation to the LC generators in stdlib, where it seemed like reseeding from the (probably MT? I believe BSD uses Yarrow) generator in /dev/urandom would actually result in more entropy than the internal state of the LC generator in Perl/C stdlib. Totally agree with not reseeding MT though -- I have it in a persistent FastCGI script with an initial seed from /dev/random now.
Pair showering is a good way to involve your teammates in these inspirational moments.
How the hell they found something that is xx billion light years away? Isn't that xx the amount of time that light (or whatever else) needs to get here so they can see/measure it?
It also sounds suspiciously OO.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/104600580124930283388/posts/QBFa... He has access to Dashboard #liar
Any interesting ones?
He can, already https://plus.google.com/u/0/104600580124930283388/posts/QBFa...
His solution is the "problem" of having to update the whole game state in a function is "is not to return new versions of anything, but to simply return statements about what happened" and "Actually handling what happened is a separate step, one that can be done later on in the frame."

Did he just make an imperative DSL out of erlang?
Human labour is thousands of times slower and thousands of times more expensive (even at $2.00 per 1000) than automated solving. The fact that spammers have been forced to use such inefficient solution techniques is proof of the captcha technique's efficacy.

Consider if these captcha's were not in place. By the above logic, there would be thousands of times more spam on sites like Google and Facebook.
I don't have the down arrow on comments that are replies to my submissions or comments, and anyway I wouldn't have downvoted you. I disagree with you but that doesn't mean your comment is stupid or anything, we are discussing and I see no reason to downvote you here (but I won't upvote you either, of course ;-)).

About our discussion: I get your point, but I think that simply for the usage I described there are still a lot of people/company who can benefit from Twitter (or equivalent, like status.net).
Then why does G+ allow you to have quotes in your name?

This is absurd.
>older SQL systems have been beaten to death in production

But they haven't. SQL Multi-master replication systems with no single points of failure really aren't that common, and that's what everyone really wants. Everything else imposes huge production costs.
We checked into Matt_Cutts and found some seriously disturbing information. I am sorry that I can't go into more detail.
He is. I think he should try to build a raytracer first and try to let it output the render in 1 second. Might give him some understanding of how hard programming and optimizing is.
haberman's rule for publishing benchmarks: you don't get to claim that you're >2x faster than your already-highly-optimized competitor without explaining why. If you don't know why, you need to figure out why. Without explaining why, I will assume that it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, or that you made a mistake in your benchmarking.
Ignoring the obvious slant to the article (especially funny since the author is questioning a Forbes article) dictionary.com defines an entrepreneur as:

en·tre·pre·neur
[ahn-truh-pruh-nur, -noor; Fr. ahn-truh-pruh-nœr]
1. a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
2. an employer of productive labor; contractor.

So, if the article really wants to know is Ms. Cohen is an entrepreneur, then I think the answer is yes. Also, how does an article with the phrase "the end is near" in the tagline make it to the front page for so long?
Terrible, terrible, terrible analogy.

The ecosystem of programming languages are analogous to class&race interplay in RPGs, especially RPGs where youve got strong distinctions between melee (imperative) and casting (functional) classes, with a smattering of hybrids (Python, Ruby, Scala, Clojure).
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Oh, sorry... if you're asking whether it's possible to hack the "crappy rand()" such that it has more entropy by constantly re-seeding from MT... then I have no idea =) I just use MT itself.
Can you provide a link to these 'hostile' comments?

I think hostile is too strong a word to describe often 'opposing' viewpoints.

I think it is both difficult, and less effective to have middle of the road opposing views or often tamed language.

People here feel strongly about their convictions, about the way things should be done, etc. etc. That shouldn't be taken as hostile, but just differential.

Unless I am missing the initial hostility in comments, but maybe linking to a few examples could help.
Space is web-scale (how has no one else made this joke yet?)
Classic Halo remake coming to Xbox 360
There are studies supporting that, yes, but there is also a study or two which seem to say that the muscle model is a self-fulfilling prophecy! It's a complicated area, let us say. See:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2y2/willpower_not_a_limited_resource...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1fe/antiakrasia_technique_structured...

See also

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1fe/antiakrasia_technique_structured...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1yn/what_would_you_do_if_blood_gluco... (and all the studies in the comments especially)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/h3/superstimuli_and_the_collapse_of_...
LA residents are sitting next to an ocean. If they want water, they should elect a government that will allow them to build desalination plants, as opposed to one which creates artificial scarcity.
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Well, the light (well, x-rays, I think in this case) has been transiting space for billions of years, then astronomers collected it. Astronomers collect light that was produced billions of years ago every day.

Hope that helps!
This is terrible advice. Someone wants to get into gamedev, and the first project you want him to do is "build a raytracer"? Obviously you're just a terrible person trying to discourage the guy, so foo on you.
This seems to be so consistent with people who have tried WebOS, aside from the hardware (and possibly subsequent lack of consumer adoption as a result) all the reviews seem to think it is a highly capable and competitive OS.

I wonder what held back Palm from making competitive hardware when they were so clearly on the right track with the OS?
5. Say yes ... No!

SAying yes is an implicit delivery promise. You will either break yourself (budget over runs, massive stress) trying to deliver, and/or you fail and your reputation suffers

If you have done it once already and know how much effort it will be - say yes and quote

If you have never done it before, say "I have never done it before" but for a small hourly fee I will implement a prototype. If you like it we can talk full project, but if not, or if I cannot make it work, then I just keep small fee as R&D.

The customer then has more choices / options which is usually appreciated

Dont lie to customers. And saying yes without saying "I've never done i before" is lying.
I guess I was particularly lucky or talented. Anyway, I feel obligated to point out that it's not impossible, since I did it, and I'm not that smart.
Does Google's support system suck? Yes.

But these posts from people annoy me, because they really don't add anything to the debate at all.

I did not violate any Terms of Service

Maybe correct, maybe a lie, or maybe he just doesn't realise he did. We have no way of knowing which.

your refusal to provide me with any proof otherwise makes me absolutely certain of this

If you weren't certain of this before they didn't provide proof, apparently you're not too familiar with their ToS, maybe the original statement that you did nothing wrong wasn't quite as definite as it sounded.

I should also mention that I am in fact a paying customer in so much as I purchased my domain through Google and I have purchased additional storage from Google.

What relevance is that to their shutting down other services?

I have been what you could call an enthusiastic supporter of Google as a company

Who cares? And frankly I would rather know that a company treats their customers equally, rather than giving better support to people who boast that they were early adopters.

I am absolutely furious that they would disable my account without notice

Perhaps he's forgotten what he wrote in the second paragraph of this long rant, which was despite your automated message telling me your system “perceived a violation.”.

Screw it, bored of reading this now. Essentially, make the point that Google support is awful, sure. But surround it by a whole load of drivel and credibility is lost.
Because advertising wasn't covering NYT's costs, and easily allows people to scrape and replicate your content elseware without ads.

If NYT was able to stay profitable with ads on their site, they wouldn't have thrown up the paywall to begin with.
Earth holds about 1.26x10^21 liters (source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophys...). So 140 trillion times that would be 1.764x10^35, or about 176 decillion liters.

I don't know what to do with these numbers either.
Except that this money is a drop in the ocean in Google's finances. So, when they launch a new product it makes most business sense to support their majority userbase first.

I feel your pain, but I can see Google's reasoning here.
Think, then plan, then code.

Simplicity where possible, complexity only where required.

Be a code scientist. Take your theory about the bug, test your theory, then make the fix. Then test the fix.

Don't be satisfied until you really know what's going on.
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I know of nothing Mac-like, but IntelliJ is the best I've found. There's a free edition, but the Pro version is worth it.
Tip Of My Tongue?
By the way, I am not trying to say anything negative about either group. Simply pointing out that from simply living in N. American society and reading forums such as reddit, I have observed prejudice against linux users, Apple fans, GBLT folks, non-white middle class people, and so on which all has a similar flavor.
Get an autofollow/unfollow program which just follows people based on keyword, followers list, following list, etc. You put a couple of interesting tweets, and interesting username, and a background and profile image. It follows those people, see who follows back and then after a certain amount of time unfollows the ones who don't (or everyone) pretty easy way to get a lot of people seeing your tweets.
I'm lagging slightly behind, I want in on this too!
Yes, definitely. I could see myself paying for Facebook just as much as I pay for Netflix, and potentially as much as my phone plan.
This link was posted here yesterday. Matt Cutts' comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2795465
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Hi,

I don't think "the war on drugs" is really germane to the stated subject of this site - hacking and startups. There are better places to discuss it on the internet.
She's prominent enough that I'm sure they'll reinstate it.

Guys, it's a beta right now. This is why. Part of signing up for G+ at this time is volunteering to be a bug tester.

She found a bug that where it allowed here to put quotes in her name, even though she's not supposed to.
1.918 * 10^35 cubic liters [1]

[1] http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/SyedQadri.shtml
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This guy has been creating a lot of noise on Google+ in the past day. Although I have no direct information, the early signs are that Google is comfortable about why they terminated his account.

In general I don't care about this guy. More interesting is the issue of "my data" and "your service." I see this as equivalent to a landlord and a tenant (no matter how little rent paid). The landlord can, under certain circumstances, kick the tenant out. The landlord cannot under, any circumstances, hold or destroy the tenant's possessions.

Longer post here https://plus.google.com/115878613002809583306/posts/WsWj4CEh...
>Then why does G+ allow you to have quotes in your name?

Because it's still in beta.

>This is absurd.

No it isn't.
Agreed that DNSimple is a fantastic product -- we just moved Domainr's DNS over to it, which went very smoothly.
Suffice it to say that many Google employees have looked into this, including me. After digging into the situation, I agree with the action that Google took in this case.

I also went and got Google's official comment: "For the privacy of those involved, we don't discuss motivations behind account suspensions but we are confident in our actions in this case."

I'm sorry that I can't go into more detail.