skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed - this has very little to do with the JVM and server-side Java processes.

Java applets.. shudder
File uploads are definitely in the pipeline, this is only our MVP. No math proofreading, for now.
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It could work maybe as a way to actually build a more efficient kind of Groupon. Instead of having to convince businesses to run deals you let users bug them until they do, and they run better deals because they're the ones users asked for. You also don't need to take a cut (or at most a very small one) since your effort is rather limited.

Ultimately it seems you end up in the same place as Groupon as far as using it. People would want to know what deals were already available, so they don't have to ask for one themselves most of the time.

It's got a massive chicken-n-egg problem, so that's the real challenge in making it work. Using the "bowling pin" strategy and starting in Santa Monica should help.

It's interesting and different, which I like.
Related:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3024147
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036347
Colleges provide "writing centers" where people (presumably upperclassmen in a relevant degree program) offer proofreading. I don't see how this is much different.
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Little-known fact: the Nook Color (vastly) outsells the e-ink Nook.

I was surprised too.
Totally agreed, but on a 7" screen this width of bezel looks much worse than an iPad.
truth is: the majority of end user don't care if they can only sign up with facebook. it's even easier for them as they have less choice to make. This is only a problem for highly privacy and technology aware folks, like tech bloggers or developers. Apparently, they are not the target audience.
And the relevant link:

http://science.thomsonreuters.com/nobel/2011predictions/
The next generation e-ink tablet hybrid is when the real battle begins. Not sure they even needed to release this even to get their foot in the door. What's their differentiation? It just makes the iPad look like it's better value to me.
I would remain suspicious if there was any identifying or unique information in cookies after logout. Ideally, logout should delete all cookies.
I prefer what B&N did with the Nook vs. Nook Color.
I don't think anybody's asking you to write a red-black tree of the top of your head, but it would be nice if everybody knew what a balanced tree was and why they might be useful.
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That service is free, this is not. Often times the student proofreading your paper has already taken the class and off much more guidance to what that particular teacher/professor is looking for. An anonymous web service, while convenient, doesn't have that added benefit.
Microsoft has always loved spreading FUD about their competitors, so this doesn't really surprise me.
Why do the cookies need to exist? If I log out from your service, why do you need to keep a cookie on my computer?
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I'm curious, why? I havent worked with mainframes for a couple of decades. Is it because they are running legacy apps in Cobol? Or havent they figured out how to parallelize the apps to run distributed? (Going from serial Cobol to Erlang would reduce the hardiest HNer to tears.) Or are they conservative enough to not to want to risk $B if they screw up? I suppose all the govt. failures would be a cautionary tale.
Gnostic and other "non-canonical" writings are also of interest. www.earlychristianwritings.com/ is another quite fascinating source, with lots of letters and such. (Neither site seems to have manuscript scans, unfortunately.)

I would love to see a good source on the "circulating around the time of Jesus" claim. I've never been able to track down anything credible on that front.

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/Pagels-Gnostic-Gospels.html notes the existing manuscripts date to 350-400, that "some" must date to somewhat prior to 180 AD because Irenaeus speaks of "other gospels", and cites a Harvard professor who speculates that the Gospel of Thomas "may include some traditions even older" than the official gospels. Those are fairly weak claims; do you have support for your stronger claim?
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Like the article's author, I'm very wary of "parental computing". This is one reason why I'm a greater fan of desktop OSs and apps over cloud apps (when a reasonably-good desktop alternative is available). If I don't like the latest "upgrade" to a desktop app, I can typically keep using my current version without being forced to upgrade. If others are similarly displeased and there are enough of us, we can sometimes get a company to recognize its misstep and make amends (e.g. Windows Vista). Unfortunately, the freedom afforded by desktops is being eroded as Windows and Mac OS become more tightly-controlled platforms, with less freedom for end users to install (or keep using) whatever software they want. (Unfortunately, I might have to seriously consider migrating to a Linux-based GUI in the near future.)

Being a laggard can be difficult at times, but for me the user interface and experience are supremely important. (Software companies' widespread ineptitude with their UI/UX "upgrades" is hard for me to stomach.)
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I appreciate the help even if you'll be heading to Linux. (While you're there, check out "aterm" which I kind of like but had nothing to do with.)

I don't have command-option-arrows (they're used for other things), though the menu items for next/previous window are available as command-tilde and command-shift-tilde. So in theory the Keyboard pane in System Preferences can be used to remap them to any other keys.

I can appreciate the idea of piecing text together, I'm frequently cracking open temporary "vim" sessions to do that. Would you consider it too much to rely on a macro for that? Using the existing macro scheme it's straightforward to do something like remap command-option-V to open a new editor in a new window.

I agree that auto-Copying selections can sometimes be unexpected, so I left it as a preference. But should you accidentally dump garbage into a window, there's even an option to intercept multi-line Pastes.

Thanks for mentioning 10.3.9. :) Yes, that has been increasingly tricky to pull off, but I figure as long as Apple hasn't made it impossible to support I can keep it working.

As far as the scroll behavior on new input; I believe I actually am doing what you'd expect (though only when scrolled back; selecting text has no effect on it). There is also a way to suspend/resume explicitly, though any terminal can do that using the appropriate start/stop control sequences.
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I think what many of us really want is federation or some level of interoperability such that we can run our own services that work transparently with G+ as a peer. More like the way email works.

(As a bonus, this would neatly sidestep the ano/pseudonymity issue.)

So, when I can run byjoemoon+ on my own server and interoperate with G+ users with complete feature parity, I'll be really happy.

Meanwhile, I think the API stuff is great, but only a half-measure.
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A bug (exploit) in the JVM is a bug, it doesn't matter if you are running it server side or client side.

The only reason it doesn't matter server-side is that you are not trying to exploit your own installation. But the bug is still there.
Not until they figure out how robots can program. As we're not sure WE know how to program (or program correctly), it looks to be a meta-problem right now. Or, has there been AI advances that the blogs haven't talked about.

Others have pointed out that foreign workers are cheaper than robots. Perhaps this will change when oil prices go through the roof, but for now biologicals are the preferred choice.
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Only goes to show how strong a control Google has over the Internet. It is virtually impossible to havea popular website these days with google not having insight into the usage of the sight.
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So let's say you have 100 deal requests for a given business, but with varying %off and amounts.

What do you do next? Go to the target business?
Let's say you go ahead with this idea, what if half the people drop out if the deal amount is doubled or %off is halved?

I'd like to know why the sliders, and how it's different from Loopt:
http://www.businessinsider.com/loopt-u-deals-2011-6
This paper is describing a way of analysing the output of molecular dynamics simulations of proteins, a series of 'snapshots' of the positions of the atoms in the protein over time.

Given the number of atoms in the molecule and the short time steps used, it's useful to be able to identify which parts of the protein (and when) in the simulation are doing something interesting and separate those from the random to-ing and fro-ing that you'd expect to occur as thousands of atoms move about. That's what this paper is describing.

It's not being applied to experimental data, and is one of many techniques used to analyse MD trajectories. I'm not an expert in these methods to assess how novel or useful this paper is compared to the others, but I would not expect that it's of interest to a layman.
Amusing, but there's no necessary tension between criticizing Google, and still using its services. Often a monopolist has the best offering – whether because it started as the best, or they've cleared the field of any other competition, or (as in the case of the CDN and Analytics) their monopoly profits and omniscience allows them to offer a product at a price point no competitor can match.

If consumer self-help – refusing to use the monopolists' cheap, attractive offering on principle – were enough to restore a diversity of choice, there'd be no need for antitrust law. (I am very sympathetic to this view, in the long run.) But if you believe in antitrust law, and have a legitimate grievance under its logic, you can still believe in using the monopolist's cross-subsidized services while they are available.

Also, you might just want to "know thy enemy".
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Also runs on a Linux server (CentOS, PHP, Apache, etc etc), sigh I wish the Hacker News community disliked these kind of articles (at the moment is top 1).

This is what probably happened, Microsoft (assuming the site is from Microsoft) hired a consultancy (they do this all the time) to build the site for them and take care of everything (including the content).

If you're a contractor, you probably have a lot of templates and plugins that use Google's products and an Open Source stack.
These are test flights to simulate some of the conditions the actual, practical vehicle would experience. The end goal is to create a reusable first stage for the Falcon 9. It would operate similar to the normal Falcon 9 during launch, after it burned through its main propellant store it would separate from the rest of the stack (which would then proceed on ahead as usual) then undertake a short burn with a single engine to decelerate the 1st stage (which, at this stage, carries no upper stages, payload, and is mostly empty of fuel, so it is a much easier task than on the way up) enough to prevent it from breaking apart when it contacts the atmosphere. Then, the 1st stage will reenter (somewhat gently), parachutes will open to slow the atmospheric descent and finally small thrusters will guide the stage to a soft, safe landing (perhaps back at the original launch location, perhaps at some other location downrange).

Later the recovered 1st stage would be refurbished and returned to service as part of another Falcon 9. Done properly this should reduce the cost of launches by about another order of magnitude over the Falcon's already ridiculously low costs.
>I am not propagating that anyone should be allowed to have a truck on the NYC road,

>Why not look at other industries that might value from such a permit.

Ah, yes, you're not propagating that anyone can block my streets. Only the ones that stand to make money from it. Look, if you want to be on the streets of NYC, rent some fucking street-front property, don't ask the city to turn the roads into bonus street-front property because you're too fucking cheap to cover rent.

For utility work, its necessary. I'm not actually thrilled about closing streets for filming. I don't know how easy it should be to do, but I do know that it requires the access. Getting outdoor street shots in NYC isn't possible from inside a store, selling shoes is as possible whichever side of the sidewalk you're on.
Thanks for all the comments!

The startup behavior might be slightly historical, it used to be a remote-only shell in the Classic Mac days and didn't really have a local shell. Back then there was always something needed (host name, whatever), and technically it is still possible to start sessions that way. But good point...I may change the built-in default.

In any case, the startup behavior is controlled by the contents of the Default Workspace (in Preferences -> Workspaces). So you can turn off all windows, or spawn certain windows that contain whatever you want.

EDIT: I've identified what caused the "appear and disappear" behavior you described. You can download the latest version from here and it will be fixed: http://macterm.net/updates/daily.html

Thanks for the font info. I'm not sure (as a free GPL program) how to package a font, but if I can find one that's compatible and OK to include I probably will. I've even tried Consolas myself. As for the rendering, that is very close to the top of my list and is quite complicated. As I mentioned earlier, the code has its roots in Classic and I'm not relying on modern drawing code completely. That is set to change, but it's slow work. :) Unicode rendering has the same problem; although the buffer and decoder work perfectly, and you can copy/paste/drag/print any Unicode, the terminal can't display every character and it's because the drawing code is too old.

I'm glad you like how Full Screen works. Also note there's a bunch of stuff in Preferences that you can tweak for that mode.
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There's really only two tablet speeds; "smooth" (ipad) and "jaggy" (android).

If amazon makes their tablet "smooth" then that will be an achievement independently and despite of android - not due to a specific android version.

And before the android-fanboys crawl out of the woodwork: The "next version" is always supposed to finally solve the lags, by virtue of some awesome software-fix or raw dual-core power.

However, just today I used an SGS2. The latest "next version", dual-core and all. And guess what: It lagged.
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I'm seeing a lot of great discussion on this thread, but I'd like to point out that you should NEVER rely on memorization to know the asymptotic bounds of operations on data structures.

You should understand how that data structure works and then derive the running time from that.

People seem to know hash sets use O(1) lookup, trees use O(log(n)), and so forth. In reality, they have an in depth understanding of the underlying implementation and are rederiving their answers on the spot with simple mental calculations.
Thanks! The name is tentative, and just something we went with for now to test the idea.
The instant quote is something we noticed no one else had, so it was something we could stand out with.
I run http://www.ShinyEnglish.com for a smaller niche: cover letters.
It's seems to be a [very] poor attempt at creating a webpage with a form for an offline service. (Not much in the way of hacking, per se)
Hiya -- This may help: http://adtmag.com/blogs/watersworks/2010/07/ibm-mainframes-c... -- Basically, organizations are finding it easier/cheaper to keep the mainframes and transition only partially instead of moving it all over (although yes, Cobol still needed). Also, the manufacturers/software are making it much easier to do just that (e.g., Windows is coming to the IBM mainframe later this year: http://esj.com/articles/2011/05/24/ibm-windows-on-mainframe.... )
Techcrunch seems to relish in taking a little bit of fact and embellishing it with enough drama and politics. Now when the developer in question tries to correct it he looks like he was pressured into backing off.

Facebook's iOS app has been buggy for some time. There's no reason to justify a delay unless Apple blocks them so it's plausible that management is interfering in some way.
Hope the same logic is applied for terms like app. Too generic for it to be trademarked.
It's how copyright works unfortunately :( The creator of the content/picture own that picture unless they state it otherwise. Considering the nature of the document, it should be considered of public domain due to the broad public interest the document has.
I really love what I've seen of Speaker Deck so far, but I'd love it even more if I could link to specific slides in a presentation.

(I've twice now needed to send someone a direct link to the .png, instead of a link to the slide in the context of the other slides.)
Geographical area is a stronger predictor of suicide than age or ethnicity, but statistically the numbers are really low (less than 15 suicides per 100,000 people). With the societal emphasis on psychological wellbeing (we're pumping kids full of drugs for some reason), we're less likely than ever before to see the effects of depression or violence manifest themselves in an inability to reproduce.

Society can't do a perfect job of disintermediating genetics from reproduction, but it's pretty close. There are almost no guaranteed genetic trades that will keep someone from reproducing. It just doesn't happen on a meaningful enough scale, especially with regards to intelligence. At best, we'd see a slight downward trend in bad drivers over several thousand years, but with increased car safety and popularity of mass transit, that effect will be diminishing as time goes on.
Is lawdingo.com a play on words of mandingo?
Most of the motion is in the up and down, which I'd guess is why you get some gaps forming between the "layers", but it still seems to be lined up OK in the angular dimension.
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I get this:

This site requires a password for access. Unless you select "Remember me on this computer", you will be logged out of this site when you close your browser.

The password can be obtained from the site owner.
When I click through to the Posterous site, I see:

"""
This site is password protected

This site requires a password for access. Unless you select "Remember me on this computer", you will be logged out of this site when you close your browser.

The password can be obtained from the site owner.
"""

So I'm flagging this story.
and this guy made a painting machine in the 70s:
http://www.antonperich.com/
so the idea has been around the block.
The post just went password protected - but it was about LinkedIn exposing the id's of matches in their source code which could then be added to a standard URL to view the profile.

Basically circumventing paying them $99 for some pro service.

Given that the site seemed to be from a competitor, it felt a bit scummy, e.g. "Hey, here's how to rip off the leader in our field!"
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as an aside, for a great book discussing the evolution of the current bible, you should read Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehram
When I was a paying member of Flickr, Yahoo forced me to open a Yahoo account. It was annoying but at least Yahoo actually owned Flickr.
>their monopoly profits and omniscience allows them to offer a product at a price point no competitor can match.

Mixpanel is still in business.
The layout looks broken on an iPad2.
The slide preview on mouseover is killer. And where does everyone get those gray on off-white site templates? I want one too...
That depends on how you define dark matter. (i.e. do you mean only cold dark matter).

Dark matter is just matter that isn't visible electromagnetically and neutrinos do qualify.
What is to stop them hosting JQuery themselves? Or using a different Analytics platform? Neither would be "virtually impossible".
So, how do you pitch the CIO on something the company is already using?

Salesperson: This software is so easy and ...
CIO: Won't it be a big learning curve
Saleperson: Well, actually, your company is already using our software
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A neutrino detector is omnidirectional. It would be almost impossible to make it directional even if you wanted to.

You can try to measure which direction the scattered particles from a neutrino collision travel. But the actual detector is omnidirectional.

But all that said, a strong neutrino source isn't easy to just do.
Apparently even state school guys can go off to do amazing things.
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they dont really have a point, cookies are nailed to a specific domain or sub domain.
If they really wanted to they could easily associate the like button with a subdomain of facebook if the user isn't logged in, such that the cookies associated with the user login don't get sent.

They don't really want to.
I hope so. The decades between when the robots start doing all our jobs and when they rise up against us are going to be easy street.
Flash is likely the single most installed software in the world. Consider how many Windows, Mac, and Linux desktops and Android devices have Flash. Thus, Flash is an extremely popular target for bad guys.
..And many years later, his son Tristan has made a few drawing machines of his own:
http://www.tristanperich.com/Art/Machine_Drawings/
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We know they don't actually delete messages or things you delete on FB, they just mark them "deleted". With that attitude to "deleting" things, what does it even matter?

I've never written a web app that actually deletes data.

The argument they use it to prevent "spam and phishing attacks" also seems dubious to me. How does that work? And the cookie that's kept contains just your facebook ID, so wouldn't that be trivial for spammers and phishers to work around?

Actually its an attempt to make life easier on users. When you log in from another machine they sometimes use enhanced measures to confirm your identity. By keeping the cookie they get more confirmation that you are you.

I'm not justifying it. There's ways to prevent this that weren't taken. But I can see what they're trying to do.
And yet, on a site that is saying (essentially) that there is more to life than Google... You'd have thought they would have shown off that technology... (which does exist; there are decent Analytics alternatives on the market)
> We've long held that faithful digital reproductions of 2D copyrighted work simply inherit the copyright of the original.

IANAL but I believe there was a U.S. court case upholding this view, in which a museum attempted to claim copyright on images of artwork made available on their website, and lost a resulting case.