skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is blogspam, the linked page only contains

Here’s a link to a visu­al­iza­tion of the United States debt.

It’s showed step by step in $100 bills, you just fol­low the num­bers and… well,
you can surely check whether your idea of “how much is one tril­lion dol­lars” was
cor­rect. But it doesn’t stop there.

when the actual visualization is at

http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/

which has previously been submitted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2846947 - 0 comments, 3 points, 1 week ago

and here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2790210 - 87 comments, 233 points, points to http://www.wtfnoway.com/, which redirects to the original article.
It always seemed like you were a fan of leaf's ape dick. :P
ICBMs are perfectly acceptable to use in warfare but like all warfare it comes with political ramifications. What I'm not sure of is what advantages over an ICBM this might offer.

ICBMs can carry non-nuclear warheads but it's a VERY expensive way to get a payload on target.
Another dubious aspect is linking to PG's essay with the implication it's a slam dunk argument for software patents. While PG may come out in favor of software patents, he readily admits that the issue is difficult.

PG does make a good argument that abolition of software patent would be a step in the abolition of all patents (and the incentivation of companies to hide all profitable innovations). Yes, but the further institutionalization of software patents could just as easily result in a limited number of large companies owning the right to innovate in any fashion. Pick your poison.

One thing to consider here is that GPL's software provides a similar incentive system to the patent system. In exchange for releasing its algorithms, a company gets to distribute a huge store of existing software. Letting that arrangement replacement the patent system seems like a fine approach to me.
> I suspect that maybe an intro book skips over some stuff in order to present a good conceptual base rather than a fully rigorous, complete set of definitions and options.

I suspect that the intro book leaves it out because it's not widely associated with the term, because it's a rather specialized data structure.

TaoCP also doesn't seem to mention multiply-linked lists or anything equivalent in its discussion of linked lists.

> Compare an intro to calculus book: it presents you with several differentiation or integration methods, yet when you come across the Lebesgue integration technique, you don't run to your intro book and claim "It's not in here, it's not actually integration!"

Compare someone claiming that Henri Lebesgue invented integration. It's misleading, not because he didn't invent a type of integration, but because he did not invent integration.

To my mind, the linked list claim is worse than this, because even to advanced practitioners in the field, "linked list" has a relatively specific meaning, and is not generally used to refer to "any data structure with linked elements". One could argue that a graph is a form of linked list, but that's not a common definition.

> Again: please stop with the disingenuous stuff -- it's still not cool.

What's not cool is repeatedly calling someone disingenuous when they take the time to answer you thoughtfully. You're coming off as self-righteous and rude.
Someone has to write the systems code you depend on.
I think it's a great idea and concept! It definitely hits a subset of Yelp but on a more personal and individualized sense. Good luck! In terms of Feedback on design I would try and ditch having the bright green everywhere. IMO, it looks like MS Paint coloring so it comes off a tad tacky.
Thanks, it's challenging to present the product in a short and sweet way, while also making details about our philosophy discoverable. Working on this.
These are pretty indispensable when it comes to modern x86 assembly: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/
I tried Dvorak, but switched back to Qwerty.

The reasons being: Dvorak is optimized for English and not for my native language, many standard app shortcuts (e.g. Emacs) are optimized for Qwerty and I type at ~ 100 WPM; I could probably type faster with Dvorak, but not that much faster as to be worth it. I also don't feel pain in my wrists - I used to feel when learning to touch-type, but since then my hands got used to it.

Qwerty is much like C - it's an industry standard and it's good enough.
I'd say this a pretty nice feature, but then again I'm a developer so I don't count;)
A while ago I compiled a list of unicode characters that looked like letters, to get past curse filters. Not comprehensive, because I just manually skimmed through a unicode table, but here it is if anyone cares:

Wide letters: Ａ Ｂ Ｃ Ｄ Ｅ Ｆ Ｇ Ｈ Ｉ Ｊ Ｋ Ｌ Ｍ Ｎ Ｏ Ｐ Ｑ Ｒ Ｓ Ｔ Ｕ Ｖ Ｗ Ｘ Ｙ Ｚ ａ ｂ ｃ ｄ ｅ ｆ ｇ ｈ ｉ ｊ ｋ ｌ ｍ ｎ ｏ ｐ ｑ ｒ ｓ ｔ ｕ ｖ ｗ ｘ ｙ ｚ

Better looking letters: ϲ р с Ѕ І А В Е М Н О Р С а е о ѕ і ԛ

Anyone know of a better resource?
Well I'm thankful I closed my Google+ account now. The wave of mass spamming was completely relentless ... even after I closed my account. I literally disabled emails (to prevent the wave of spam I was hite with), then I decided to leave, and then request no updates after leaving O_o they just kept coming.

Somehow I think they are going to take the same approach of mass spamming Facebook did, I guess games are the best way to do this and create stickiness...

EDIT: spam = 20-30 unwanted emails a day. And I kept getting them after I left, I had to fill in a second form to get them to stop. I know of atleast one other person this has happened to aswell. Not sure if its fixed now or not.
Call me when I can get to the airport, park, get through security, get seated, fly to my destination, get off the plane, wait for my luggage, and be out at the curb in 12 minutes.
you could also try using the session manager add-on. I find it pretty handy for when FF crashes with 20+ tabs open in the HN tree, another 10 or so in whatever google search tree I have open, and some other miscellaneous tabs.
The consequence of breaking Rule #1 is that the cheat will be so straightforward that it can be distributed by wizards to muggles and 50% or more of your players will be using it.

The "fix" has helped with PR: now the muggles are afraid to use it, so they don't feel so bad. But guaranteed the wizards are still using it.

This shenglong guy has zero credibility with anyone who has ever cracked a game. Judging by his inability to understand the programming issues, its entirely possible that his claims of "spies" are equally delusional and that Guild Masters are now telling him "No! No new cheat here!"
Looks interesting, but i'm really starting to get annoyed at the overuse of the word hacker.
how one would determine what "unexpected" is an increasingly international world

1. Highlight any two adjacent characters from different languages. Virtually no one needs an English word with one Cyrillic letter substituted in.

2. Highlight any word whose letters all look like they are for the current locale but is made entirely of code points from another language.
What if we think of it as Schrodinger's Falcon? It has both completed and not completed the trip from NYC to LA!
East Bay Ruby looks much more of a conference than a meetup. SFRuby's basically just talk to people who are good at/learning RoR and code. It's also weekly.

SFRuby is probably better for meeting people who code RoR, and East Bay Ruby sounds like it's better for learning something related to RoR.
"Your knowledge of assembly language will help you write better programs, even when using HLLs."

Assembly was the first real coding I did after learning BASIC. It taught me:

1) How to build and structure an application - from intrinsics like 'divide' upwards, I now seem more able to build large/complex systems than people who only learnt HLLs

2) Fundamental datatypes like DWORDs that have helped me optimise performance of HLL apps

3) To appreciate the heavy lifting provided by a language like Ruby - and an understanding of how it does what it does

Application developers that have never worked on the bare metal are poorer for it.
I wouldn't correct a native speaker. I was just offering, in case they cared.

Fast and good are de facto adverbs. Maybe in some American dialects it's common to use other adjectives as adverbs, but not in mine.

Agree that language changes.
I combine "Tree Style Tabs" with the Tab Group[1] feature (added in FF4 I believe) instead of using a separate window for each class of tabs that I'm viewing. Those 2 combined with the "Pin as App Tab" option for Gmail and a couple of my control panels makes for a pretty efficient setup usability wise.

I really would love to see memory efficiency improve. I restarted FF yesterday and I'm already at 2.22 GB. It would be great to be able to set a ceiling on the amount of RAM FF is able to get its greedy little hands on. My iMac has 16GB, and I've seen FF reach half of that before when running a big Flash based web app with a hundred or so other tabs open. My little MacBook Air only has 4GB, so being able to tell FF to grab no more than 1GB or so would be fantastic!

[1] http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-are-tab-groups
Mach 20!? Heavens, and I thought the NASA X-43 was fast.
And what do you do after you read a patent? Clearly, not building useful products that use those ideas, because a patent expressly prohibits you from doing that.

The part of the argument you're missing is that patent were intended to "promote the progress of science and useful arts" and, as they're practiced today, are doing the exact opposite: delay the progress and useful arts.

In software, if I can't use an idea for 20 years, it's useless. I would rather take my chances, think about the problem and come up with my own solution. Unfortunately, because of onslaught of patents, that solution is more and more likely to have been patented by someone else.

As a practitioner of software arts and science, I not only don't have the time to sift through thousands of patents, but I also risk potentially fatal damages by independently coming up with ideas of my own.

That is the cost of patents and it's becoming unbearable.
MIT Media Lab studying cities (and more) and we need your votes.
Interesting. I just did a bit but I can't tell if it covers the USPTO? Do you know if it does?
"Facebook's privacy controls are actually more fine grained than Google+'s"
> But confusing and convoluted to the point where most users have no clue what is being shared vs not. Circles makes it so much easier. Facebook lists were supposed to do that - but they were hidden away and not very easy to use - so very few users used them.
Then you must be friends with "online media sociopaths". The solution is simple, don't add people you don't want to be updated about.
I don't think the problem with software patents is that the inventor didn't necessarily made the code before.

Quite the contrary, some of the most controversial software patents are in fact so simple that you learn that in CS 101 or by yourself. Some other are just plain common sense.

But I agree it could help a tiny little bit with claims such as: "1) A mean of broadcasting current mood and menial activities using text messages. 2) 1 over the internet. 3) 1 over a portable device" (fictious, or maybe not?)

But still, my friend told me he could have made Twitter in two days.
First, I apologize for posting once previously. I had a poor title and I couldn't figure out how to edit or delete it.

Preliminary results for one question are here: http://pulse.media.mit.edu/results
Poll: How Did You Land Your Job?
We're conducting a study of how startups (funded and non funded) form their teams.
Posting a job online (Monster.com, TheLadders.com)
Networking (referrals, introductions through friends)
The Solaris kernel (for example) has lots of data structures that have multiple linked lists. For example, the cpu structure has at least 6 linked list pointers.

For a reference published in 2001 (before the patent was filed): http://books.google.com/books?id=r_cecYD4AKkC&lpg=PA413&...

Also note that a doubly linked list is described by claim one.
Don't feel too bad. I've been using Windows 7 since shortly after it came out and I had no idea until I just read your post.
The analysis applies to that threat as well; it just adds some constant number of bits of entropy.
Everything posted on Hacker News has the same and equal ability to be picked up from /newest. If the content you are posting is interesting it will naturally hit the front page and will not need artificial votes from friends.
Linkedin's explanation for yesterdays viral lash out on their opt-out strategy
The project is only 10 days old (so, no).

It looks promising though, especially as an alternative to RVM in development. I'm keen on installing something that doesn't take over my shell.

I'm not going to lose sight of how awesome RVM is though. It changed the way I develop in Ruby.
See also http://www.youtube.com/startupschool for the 2008 videos. Omnisio's versions had the speakers' slides, but those seem to be lost.
yes. As for any picture from Twitter
I would love to hear Jack Dorsey!
I personally see these hypersonic flight tests as being more about research into flight. They are exploring the absolute limits of aircraft (I know it's not a plane in the traditional sense) aerodynamics and maneuvering, and I like to think that's useful for something besides payload delivery.
Interesting. I've not had that experience at all. A handful of followers who, as best I could tell, only wanted to alert me to their fantabulus products, but hardly anything momentous.

What I wonder now is why this happens to some but not others. "I'm not very cool", of course, is one plausible explanation. :)
That's a good idea... ruby-build could provide an `rbenv-install` plugin command for rbenv.
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| Selling software is also a whole lot of work relative to writing software, as you're probably going to discover in short order.

I absolutely agree with this statement. I'm curious, looking at the relative difficulties of selling software vs. selling service (i.e. bandwidth/cpu/storage + features) if I would be better investing my efforts in the latter.

I know it's the bandwagon argument, but I can think of a lot of cool startups offering tools. I can't think of any offering tools offline.
Testing Intuitions about Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Do I have a bug?
eAthena is batched inserts, which actually makes the problem worse. I'm not speaking from theory when I pose this problem - potion consumption actually caused the server to lag every few seconds (players at the time will attest). If you believe players are consuming one potion per second, I don't think you've played competitive WoE.

For an accurate representation of how fast you can hit a button: http://www.blamethepixel.com/files.php?a=b&type%5B%5D=11...
Download "tapometer". I believe the world record (can't confirm) is 33/second. I can manage about 14 myself on a desktop keyboard.
Yeah, and anyway this service sounds more like Yelp meets LinkedIn
We have information about previous startup schools (including some videos) on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/series/startup-school/
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Frankly I think it reads more like a textbook non-apology apology but that didn't fit in the title. Condescending tone, responsibility deflected and zero remorse displayed.
An official release with a web site and improved installation process should be out next week.

If you're wondering "why would I use this instead of rvm?" be sure to read the readme: https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv#readme
" A powerful chemical company that poisons a town’s water table can do precisely the same thing."

Isn't it illegal to poison towns' water tables? That seems like a pretty severe flaw in your analogy, since presumably you don't think suing people for patent infringement and then offering to settle is or ought to be illegal.

There's also the fact that chemical companies provide clear social value: people buy what they make. With software patents, though, I'm unaware of any case where someone has reconstructed an invention from the description in the patent.
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I don't see a pressing need to use RVM in production; when I deploy, I pick a Ruby version and stick with it unless there's a security issue, at which point I pull the updated REE package from Phusion/let Heroku figure it out.

Considering the many times I've seen RVM installs fail due to checked-in broken code, I'd hardly call it "production ready" either.
My companies aren't startups in the sense intended here, but all my hires over the past few years have been through agencies.

However, we've trained our agencies.

When we have a vacancy we provide "homework." No CV will be considered unless accompanied by answers to the "homework." Any agency that sends us a CV without answers gets a warning. They do it a second time they get blacklisted.

We have two agencies that are now brilliant - we've trained them to pay attention to the job description and only send us CVs that are relevant. All the other agencies have been deep-sixed without prejudice.
The real issue is that Google has the right to review the experts that look at Google confidential code. MS is supposed to disclose these efforts to Google. MS disclosed this expert to Motorola, but not to Google, hence the problem.

From what I can tell Google has a good case on this, but it's far less controversial than the title would lead one to believe. MS will probably have to get a new expert and light smack on the hand for not following protocol. These types of things happen all the time in court cases.
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well, the google translate api is still scheduled for shutdown dec 2011 http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html... google wastes its and our time with games from yesterday ... well at least we know now what their priorities are. in a way i pitty google, they were great once, now they are just ... facebook
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I had the button for a few minutes and even played a few quick games, then it went away and I haven't seen it since.
When I was in high school, I spent a summer interning for a TV writer. It was laborious and menial work. Essentially, I would take his heavily redlined and annotated scripts, type up the revised versions, then drive them back to his house. Then I'd repeat this exercise the next day. At the time, I remember thinking what a chore it was, and wondering -- sometimes aloud -- why he didn't just save different versions in a folder on his computer, skipping the intermediate step -- me -- entirely.

At the end of the internship, he asked me what I thought of the script. And I found myself able to speak with candor, precision, and something approaching intimacy about the way it had evolved over the months I had seen it. At that point I realized that he had basically Miyagi-ed me. Wax on, wax off. Paint the fence. Etc. It was a humbling, but (in retrospect) cool experience.
I've seen several proposals, such as making patents non transferable, shortening their life time or not allowing cases to go to court unless you can prove your business depends on that patent.
it was an engineering generalization that made certain features easier to develop

The rallying call of poor programmers everywhere.

Its not about ease of engineering. Its about consequences. The game designers wanted an invisibility card. There were two ways to program it, one easy and one hard (you're talking to HN, so I imagine a lot of people here can think of ways to implement a system with all of the constraints you describe).

They chose the easy one. Either because they couldn't think of the hard one, they didn't think the easy one would have consequences, or they were overruled. The OP's surprise seems to suggest a lack of forethought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_Syndrome
I created a small Javascript bookmarklet that lets you type Dvorak in any textbox on the web, for when you can't change the computer's layout for whatever reason. It's helped me a ton when I'm on public computers: http://fferen.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/javascript-qwerty-to-... (apologies for the lack of draggable link)

</self-promotion>

I've been using Dvorak for about 4 years now (with Vim as well - no issues here) and I love it. Heard good things about Colemak though...
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22!=%22
Cramp: Real-time web application framework in Ruby
Still, Chrome eats less memory than FF with 1-2 extensions (Firebug - very often disabled, and a FB addon). How can you argue against that? Just accept the fact that FF got issues.
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If the outside expert is supposed to be an outside expert, then there needs to be a way for Google to object to the expert on the grounds that they're not really that independent.
Intel needs to be competing against ARM anyway. With Windows 8 capable of running on ARM chips, Intel needs to stay relevant. Most consumers don't need more processing power, they another core or a faster processor doesn't mean anything to them. Tell them the battery will last two days or that it is xmm thick (because the battery is smaller) and you've got something people care about.

I suspect Apple will move the MacBook Air to one of their own ARM chips in the coming years. Apple likes to control the supply chain, even if at this point the A processors are not really a product differentiator.
why bother? they will deprecate it in no time anyway i.e.: the google translate api http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html
this is a fairly common hack exists in just about every game that incorporates invisibility

I think not.
I agree 1080% about letting your customers easily contact you. That said, I think you completely missed why this terrible practice came about:

1) When dealing with a lot of automated emails, you get a lot of automated responses like out-of-office messages and failure notices (I know others have mentioned this).
2) Many companies have a support process that doesn't take place in email, because email doesn't scale very well.

So rather than just open up your inbox to thousands of junk messages and customer inquiries that you lose in the shuffle, I'd amend your call to action:

Get rid of the no-reply. Set a reply-to that goes into your support ticket system (you have one, right?). Set up rules/filters to automatically get rid of the auto-cruft and route responses to different mailings to the right place.

With that addition, I say: hear hear! Commit to listening to your customers and banish the reply-to! I know our team is going to after reading this.
No, I don't know offhand if it would apply in a case like this. But I've never heard of a suit against the patent office for damages from allowing a patent they shouldn't have... and that tells me that there's probably something in the way of such a suit proceeding. Sovereign immunity was just my first guess as to what that might be.
Shouldn't recruiters be a choice? That would have been my answer, rather than other.
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Coffee tabs are cool? I thought they sold on their convenience.
On sane systems, tab completion refuses to complete if there is more than one potential completion. Unfortunately, I seem to remember that Windows does some silly thing where it cycles through the possibilities…
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Definitely. Not just for demo, either— something trivial like sheetrocking a ceiling can be a hassle for a team of guys, never mind about something harder like framing. A team of guys in robosuits could knock it right out.
Time to rethink every website in the world
RVM belongs nowhere near production. It exists so that the guys with the macbooks can sync up versions with what is happening in the Linux distro, not the reverse.