skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done some searching for CCFLs and it seems very few people are making and selling them, and they only carry 2700K warm white. Can you recommend a good place to buy high-lumen CCFLs that have a more neutral temperature?
> The problem of the interviewer is not to find out how to compare strings, it's determining if the candidate will be able to write proper code if hired.

The trouble with the question is that proper code to compare strings is almost certainly going to be a call to some existing library function. There are only rare cases (e.g. when you're one of the 50 people in the world who implement libc) that it makes sense to write it yourself. It's not clear from "code a string compare" exactly which set of wheels the interviewer wants reinvented: if strcmp is out of bounds, can you use strlen and memcmp? Because if strcmp was somehow buggy, that might be a reasonable thing to do. If the problem is that strcmp is too slow, should we maybe drop to assembly? Or change to a counted-string representation to avoid byte-by-byte operations? Or calculate hashes when strings are mutated, or intern them?

(Maybe in C strcmp is a bad example, since

while (*s && *s == *t) {
s++;
t++;
}
return *t - *s;

is already about as simple as anything you'd do with strlen and memcmp...)

> If I was the interviewer I'd create a new data structure Foo and then ask the candidate to implement Foo.compare().

I think that's a better approach.
My primary complaint about Tree Style Tabs is that the nesting gets unwieldy. I have been meaning to check out Vertical Tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertical-tabs...). It's by the same developer who made BarTab. Some of the reasoning behind it is explained here http://philikon.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/tabs-tabs-tabs/. It similarly limits the tabs to a single category. I'll have to try out this Pano extension too.
I got this too :(
Although this page isn't a very good example, the problem with the lack of any sort of broadband in large swaths of rural American is a real issue. You don't need to get far out of town before your options drop all the way down to dialup or expensive high-latency two-way satellite.

Cellular wireless is what most folks I know out in the boonies use, and that is a pretty frustrating experience with speeds and latency all over the place.

I recommended an iPad with 3G to a friend in Missouri and she loved it until a tornado came along and blew the local 3G tower away. She's still waiting for it to get rebuilt and has gone back to WebTV. Yes, it still exists.
Complete Marketing Guide for WP Developers, Part 1: Pre-Launch
S&P Downgrades Earth
Looks like ~7,100 in the dataset; its definitely not "Big Data", but its definitely sizable. The USDA .xls file is 16 megabytes.
It's true that the trie allows you to prune the search tree, but I don't think that gets you to O(N). The maximum-dictionary-word-length check does get you to O(N), though, or rather O(kN) if you consider the dictionary as part of the input.
What would be really useful would be to have this colour coded by day so we could see the evolution through time.
This looks terrific, I've begun the task of uploading photos. Funny question to be asking on my first day I guess, but has anyone figured out how to delete photos once they're already up?
Well, can you just tell us what the features are?
That's cool. We can provide you virtually unlimited storage for your authoritative photo collection on our servers.
Can you provide a description of what this is? It sounds interesting, but I'd like to know more before clicking "login."
Could iPhoto and iCloud be something of a threat here?
Its worth noting that some investors are thinking this is a liquidity event because someone got a margin call rather than concern about euro economic concerns. I'd think its both. But yeah, u.s. bonds are doing fine despite the downgrade.

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2011/08/who-has-got-margin...
Yeah upvote that! Pulling all photos from a Flickr account would be a great (almost necessary) feature!
You won't find any Democrats using the phrase "Big Government" because it's a loaded, derogatory phrase. Nonetheless, the Democratic platform is generally in favor of spending on social services, like welfare, unemployment benefits, Social Security, and education, as well as generally favoring higher amounts of regulation for businesses and industries. Some of these positions are relative: keep the same amount of environmental regulations instead of reducing them, or cut education but by a smaller amount than oil subsidies. Some of them are contingent on the economic climate: avoiding cuts instead of increasing spending. But in general, yes, the Democrats do envision a larger government role in society (excepting defense/security) than Republicans do. They just don't come out and say so because that would be politically disadvantageous.
This has been around for quite a while now. What makes this news?
There's a library for constructing a deterministic regular expression from a dictionary, by the way, which would right away give you the exponential-time result. If you wrapped it in a * and applied it with a guaranteed-linear-time regular-expression engine like RE2, you'd find out whether the string was segmentable (and as a bonus you wouldn't have to construct the deterministic RE yourself) but I don't know if you'd get the actual segments.
I think this would very useful, but for the reverse reason. I believe there could be a lot of value in filtering out non nude photos. Realize the number of photo sharing sites that are available, being able to filter many of them and pull out nude photos could be very useful for those working on porn site companies.
In your case, an OS X Public folder + have your friend download Bonjour for Windows = pretty much there
If they'd taken my advice and killed off all the poor people, none of this would ever have happened.

It's time to acknowledge that not all of mother nature's experiments in the combination of human DNA are worth keeping.
What does a poorly-translated fable about Swedish tax policy in 1976 have to do with HN today?
If Warcraft & Starcraft had been the first games to use that naming convention...

Weren't they?
It may by easy to wrap it with PhoneGap.
I think you could be competitive with the other search providers if you focused on a specific topic (i.e. comp scie only). You might be able to eventually provider different portals for each field, too.
All over the place:
http://mm0hai.net/blog/2011/03/11/github-punchcard.html
Done. Sorry about that.
Digg launches Newswire
With LG patent in tow, Florida company sues Apple over OS X quick-booting
> Which Democratic spending initiatives are contributing to the current deficit? The Democratic war in Iraq, or the Democratic Homeland Security Dept? The Democratic Medicare Part D?

With all of those repub approved initiatives, the last deficit under a repub congress was $160B/year and the trend was downwards.

The deficit jumped to $460B when the Dems took Congress (and Bush was still president).

Speaking of Medicare Part D, care to name three congressional Dems who objected to it on the basis that it cost too much? It's easy to find those who objected because it cover more, that is, cost more.

And, wrt Homeland Security, feel free to identify Dems who want to spend less on it. The vote on unionization will help you identify those who wanted to spend more.

> You can argue the stimulus but that spending was all temporary and is gone by next year.

Obama and the CBO disagree. They both project >$1T/year deficits for the forseeable future. (They disagree on how much over $1T.)

> The healthcare bill reduced gov't healthcare spending

Umm, no. The claim was the overall cost of healthcare would go down, but that govt spending would go up, being paid for by additional taxes and $500B in medicare "savings". (The scoring "worked" because the taxes started before the benefits.)

The medicare "savings" consists of paying doctors less, the "doc fix". That's been on the plate several times, but each time Congress has pulled back because doctors have said that they won't accept medicare patients if they're paid less.

> The ideological split is mostly the result ... and the complete illegitimacy of any Democratic president in the eyes of about 50% of Republicans.

Ah yes, no Dems ever questioned BushMcChimpHitler's legitimacy or were at all ideological about him.
Beautiful onboard debug camera music video
This kind of comment doesn't belong on HN and I think people should take the time not just to downvote it, but to flag it.

Click on "link" and then on "flag"
linkity: http://www.odysci.com
Apparently the rioters are organising using blackberry messenger. Seems like the police are about 2 hours behind what's happening.
Book Review: Ghost in the Wires - autobiography of infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick
If you disagree, counter-argue, don't downvote.
You can increase the deficit and still want smaller government.

Not saying that that was the case, but you could be misunderstood in saying what you have.
I am. I asked them on twitter what was going on.
from youtube:Learn how developers can accelerate the pace of robotics research and development and make high functioning robots affordable and universally accessible.
Is micro-optimisation important when coding?
Agreed, the only Math I do in my daily programming is:

1) Drawing code. One recent example was an (animated) undefined progress bar designed all in code I did last friday: http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/photo-20110805-195455.png

2) Sorting, ranking and scoring algorithms. Eg. figuring out which ad to show based on the average eCPMs, or which option to show based on a Quicksilver fuzzy search algorithm.

Everything else is as grandparent condescendingly calls it, stitching APIs together. Design patterns, data managements, doing all the little polish that makes up a real app.
Join the petition to bring a sarcasm font to Twitter, Facebook et al
What's interesting is that according to the author Mark Pilgrim:

Python 3 is a commercial disaster. In 2010Q3 I had
negative sales of DiP3. More people returned it than
bought it. I'm considering retro-fitting the book's
content to Python 2.7 and re-releasing it as "Dive Into
Python 2." Seriously.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/f545e/i_am_a_fourtime_...
Neat, I've used localharvest.org that also provides more in depth information. I wonder if they started with the same data.
The Parse API does allow access from multiple platforms. But beyond that, with iCloud all data is inherently tied to a single user. You couldn't build something like a global high score list, or a way for users to message each other, or share content.

The goal of Parse is to make it possible to build any application you can imagine without having to run your own server.
I only know one thing for sure around this discussion:

FF runs netflix without hitching on my 2008 macbook. Chrome drops frames about once a second and I get an un-watchable movie.

This very well could be because of Silverlight, but I don't know enough of about the underlying connections between Silverlight and the browser to judge this. As an end-user the experience is still the same.

I do, however, still use chrome for everything else. The unified search/url bar hooked me and I can't go back.
I not only disagree, I genuinely believe this doesn't not belong here. I have downvoted and flagged because I believe that kind of comment to be inappropriate on HN.

Not all poor people are poor because they are somehow incapable, undeserving, or somehow unfit to live. Sometimes people are caught in circumstances beyond their control, and they are unable to get out of it. Not to understand that shows a breathtaking arrogance.

Who are you, who are we, to decide who has the right to live? Who are you, who are we to decide who should have rights and who should be deprived of them?

If my business collapsed there's every chance I'd find myself behind on the mortgage, and if I then was ill for a month or two there'd be the very real risk of being homeless.

Who knows how I would've turned out had I been in the situation these people endure?

I condemn the violence unreservedly and unhesitatingly, but that doesn't mean I don't have sympathy with the situations of people who are caught in the poverty trap.
Antimatter particles found in orbit held by Earth's magnetic field
pintrest looks great, like a tumblr for adults.
Thinking about complex algorithms (not just wiring APIs) is still worlds removed from high school pencil-and-paper algorithm repetition.

I would be "good at math" if it were about how well we could invent methods of solving problems, rather than how accurately we can apply the method we were taught 100 times.

I have a pretty good grasp of the behavior of systems, it's just that I'm likely to drop a coefficient or confuse a 0 and a 9, which is the source of nearly every B. I have rarely lost points in a situation where I would not have known how to write a program to do the work for me.
Somebody's already tried your idea...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics
There's a saying that goes, "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million dollars, that's the bank's problem." (I've seen it attributed to John D. Rockefeller, but certainly other people had the same idea before hime).

s/million/trillion/g, s/bank/China/g and s/you/United States/g and you've got my take on the current situation. Lots of the rest of the world's economy is based on selling things to the United States; it's pretty much China's explicit strategy for growth. If the US goes to everyone in turn and says, "Hey remember that $50 billion I said I'd get you last week? Yeah...I can give you $10 million," there will be a lot of grumbling, and hopefully some restructuring in the long term, but they'll still take the deal. Where else are they going to go?

TL;DR US has a monopsyny on monkey shaped shower curtain rings.
Yes, but that definition you quote is for "man" (often written as the more archaic "mankind"), not "men". You're actually using definition a.1: "an individual human; especially : an adult male human", in the plural, to refer to adult male humans of our field. Admittedly a pedantic point, I wouldn't bother if it didn't contribute to a real-world problem.
I think it makes perfect sense. We have a debtor who contemplates for weeks whether to default on its obligations. Why on earth would you give such a debtor an AAA (~="absolutely trustworthy", _not_ "as trustworthy as it gets") rating?
My feature requests (as they have been for every service I've tried from Flickr, to 500px, to Smugmug):

1) Let me upload my RAWs. Better if you can display them as is, but at least do what Adobe does and show the embedded JPEG if not.

2) Allow me to edit online with HTML5 compatible tools (Adobe's online service will let you edit, but uses Flash for some odd reason). With that I can edit from the road using my iPad.

3) If you want to make money, help me make money too... i.e. better to take a share of sales (win-win) then charge me and I have to hope I make enough to justify paying you. Even better if you can help me market.

4) Killer option even if you fail on the previous three - identify the things I can't. Wildflowers are number one on this list, but animals can be an issue sometimes as well. It wouldn't hurt if you can take my location from the photo, figure out which way I'm facing (time of day and angle of sun), and identify that peak in the distance as well (though supposedly the military is working on that one).

5) One I am surprised I don't see more of on the photo sites - run some juried contests. Great way to spark interest in your site, as well as let folks know they can find the up and coming photographers with some help (sort of like 500px's "editor's choice", but with benefits.

6) One more "killer" feature - tell me what I did wrong. If I ask you to look (programmatically) at my photo, take a look at the curves and the EXIF data, and tell me what I should have done to get a better picture.

7) Final request - give me a way to take what you have organized, and pull it back as those same albums onto my PC. That reduces guess work of what I have or haven't backed up, and lets me not worry as much about whether you will still be around in two years.
impressive!

for more of the food graph, check out realtimefarms.com
VC Math
Don’t take this the wrong way, but there aren’t that many people who will engage in an argument with someone who advocates murdering humans and wants to be taken seriously.
Entrepreneurship & Making Money | Adii
I'm a Londoner near some of the affected areas. The sky is not falling, London is not degenerating into lawlessness, and from what I can see from my flat window, police are responding quickly.

Other areas may be different, but London is a very large city - commenters should remember that in discussions.
Grats guys, I love Snapjoy's ease of use.. and the desktop uploader app is awesome.
This looks fascinating, and in yours truly is guaranteed at least one reader, once I have some time to devote to it. I think there's a lot of room for interesting work in this area.
Yay, final words!

We're actually arguing if that design decision (that certainly took place and yes, supports your use case. That's the reason why you defend it here, let's not forget that)

- Makes sense

- Is necessary

Both points have arguments pro and contra, but the real kicker for me is that no one, including you as one of the strongest proponent here on HN, has brought up a reason for this. It boils down to this:

- You cannot find people that you learned about years ago

Well.. Bad luck. They certainly are free to add their real name or whatever they gave you to their profile. If they don't - you don't need to find them.

- Pseudonyms lead to arguments, name calling and bad behavior

This site, as lots of other people said already, is a nice example to the contrary. I said it elsewhere and I still believe it: The quality of the comments is a function of the quality of the visitors/users. Not bound to the names they use.

If you know me in real life, you'd certainly _not_ know my real name for a long time and it's a chore to spell it to others. But IF we'd be real life friends (in contrast to FB 'friends' - I decline most offers there and don't see how they came up with that name..) I'd certainly make sure that you can contact me in every way that helps you. If I'm 'Some Dude' on Facebook, I'd tell you about it. If not - well - why is it more important that you can locate me than my desire to pick a name?

G+ is intented to be a better Facebook? We agree on this one. But 'better' is unfortunately the keyword here. For me, better is

- no name convention/rule (no surprise here)

- everything hidden by default

- no spam platform (aka: Let me opt out of _all_ games please. Before they even are developed)
For a bit more context behind what we've done here, we also have a blog post at http://about.digg.com/blog/sifting-for-diamonds-with-the-dig... .

I know a few of us read HN as well, and would be glad to answer any questions on the Newswire product or implementation (in brief: Redis).
4 reasons Windows Phone 7 will beat iPhone and Android and 3 reasons why it wont
You're on the right track, but it makes more sense to compare lnkd to the NASDAQ, which is the technology exchange.
Internet Makes Historical Jump To Almost 500 Million Websites
Hypothetically, if BofA failed, could the government even afford to cover FDIC?
Glad that the TC article touches on it, but with the track record of YC company acquisitions and killing products (yes yes, I realize dropbox is an exception), it really feels like a leap of faith to trust a YC associated backup service.

I can deal with having to export my files in case of acquisition, but it will keep me from suggesting this service (which sounds awesome, by the way) to non-technical friends and family.
Three Insights To Help Connect The Dots
I suspect he was just way ahead of the adoption curve on that. I would expect the Dive into Python 3 book sales to pick up.
Apple Releases Lion Recovery Disk Assistant for External Drives
Dropbox founders personally cashing in on $300M round
The numbers after the close are less dramatic, except for LinkedIn.

NASDAQ -6.9%
Pandora -7.6%
Zillow -7.4%
LinkedIn -17.4%

The article makes too much of this. Smaller companies are more volatile. When the market goes down, smaller companies will be down more, and when the market goes up smaller companies will be up more.
You can create feed like these:

http://www.fakefeed.com/story/ag1zfnRoZWZha2VmZWVkcg4LEgZUU3...

http://www.fakefeed.com/story/ag1zfnRoZWZha2VmZWVkcg4LEgZUU3...

..but hopefully you're more clever than I am.

Also, eventually posts from characters will have standalone profiles, which will be made up of top stories/posts. Something like that.
Great idea! Why is it great? Because it's a technical achievement that is easily understood by the normal web user. It shows how technology can be used in basic ways to make information easier to use. Well done.
Your tone suggests you think you're contradicting me, but your last sentence is simply a restatement of my point. (I'm still trying to work out a clean way of stating it, so I take responsibility for that.) The solution needs to solve the dynamics of the problem. It may visibly manifest as tax hikes and/or spending cuts, but those will be effects, not cause.
Also - looks like there might be a bug with logins, trying to fix now.
I'm deeply in debt and being sued by my creditors. I am deeply in debt because I and my oldest son have a genetic disorder and I figured out how to get us well when the entire world says it cannot be done. Since the entire world frames the problem the way it does, there would be financial support for keeping me and my son ill and lifelong legal drug addicts. There is no financial support for things that actually worked to get us healthy against long odds. It all came out of my pocket. In order to live at all, much less have any hope of getting well, I had to get divorced. As a divorced single mom with a life threatening medical condition, my pockets are not deep. This in spite of being extremely capable and having a long history of academic awards, education to prep me for a good paying job, etc. I ended up in a job paying half what I "should" be making because I was ill and heavily medicated and just didn't interview well and probably couldn't have held down those jobs anyway. "Underemployed" was better while fighting for my life.

I often wish there was some kind of assistance available for me. It feels incredibly unfair (not to mention insane) that charities, state aid, federal aid and so on would willingly spend literally hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on each of us (me and my son both) to keep us limping along in a zombified horrifying state of existence but I can't come up with a measly $50K--$100k (one time expense) to clean up my financial mess and move on and focus on writing software to teach what I have learned to others so that the roughly $3 billion per year that gets spent on medical care for a mere 30k individuals with this condition in the US could be shrunk to a more reasonable amount and their lives improved at the same time. There's a recession on. It would be enlightened self interest for The Haves to empower me to do this. But the odds are good I will keep limping along, just trying to pay my bills, while people like you pass judgement on me in the worst way possible.

If you had your way, I would be put to death and instead of the odds of me sharing my discovery with the world being poor, it would be non-existent.

That's my counter-argument, FWIW.
Smugglers Use Zip Line to Haul iPads Into China
Cheap modest evening dresses
Traveling Thoughts - Open Project for sharing your story
...and the bug should be fixed.

Worst hey-look-at-this-thing-I-made ever.
Leaky (YC S11) is Hipmunk for Car Insurance
Windows Phone GM leaves to launch start-up
I should join Twitter and Facebook just because everyone else is? And if I don't I'm technologically ignorant?