skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually have several academic papers and a few forms stacked in a pile on my desk. I write on the backs of those for quick notes and scratch paper.

Anything written on those that's actually worthwhile eventually makes its way into something permanent - either in code or in an actual paper - so I don't care what happens to the note itself.
More proof: RIP good times
Bottles in the clubbbbbbbbbbb
JSSpeccy: A ZX Spectrum Emulator in Javascript
Perfect. Pink Floyd at their best.
5K is a bit much for an individual.

But a great business idea would a small shop, that owns one of these and sells its use.
You send them your plans, come in the next day and pick up the part.

It would be like a neighborhood factory, that manufactures anything you want.
Yes, we are definitely interested in other sites too. Our main page is pretty generic, but we decided to do a special pitch to game developers for exactly the reasons you state.
This is a bit of a specific one, but the array_shift function is really slow on large arrays. The workaround I found is to use array_slice and unset the array index afterward.

Overall though, I find out about a lot of cool things just from the comments on the php.net site. For example, I learned how to use pcntl_fork from the socket_accept page, and then I found out about socket_create_listen from one of the process control pages.

My approach is basically just to figure out what I want to do on a higher level, and look for sample code on all the individual parts. Then who knows, I might discover something amazing.
It doesn't seem to actually have that many stats on it. I clicked on NFL and there was just a list of teams. I clicked on a team and then there was just a schedule, i.e., another list of teams. Where are the stats?

I was hoping for something that would show me some new, interesting statistics. Like different ways of analyzing the stats to say how the conventional wisdom was wrong about something.
This is a gripe, so excuse me for nit-picking, but I don't think this is exactly "literature." It's not particularly well-written, and it still has the attitude of an enthused amateur.

I'm not saying I didn't like the article. I did: it's the first Yegge I've actually cared to read in its entirety. But people, particularly people who aren't word people, tend to attribute superlatives to things that they like, and the word "literature" in particular is one that bugs me.

This was a good story, absolutely. It was heartfelt and sincere. But that's only a part of what makes good writing good. Literature is about the art of crafting words, of putting them together in ways that are aesthetically pleasing. There are people who can write great yarns who aren't writing literature. And this blog post, while it's very good for a blog post, isn't literature.

Which isn't to say it's not worth reading! Some people assume that literary merit is all that makes writing worthwhile; those people miss out on a lot of things that are beautiful and worth reading, just for the manner of the prose. I don't think that's true, and I agree with you with everything else you said. Just... don't assign attributes to a thing needlessly. It's like people that listen to a rap song and praise its harmonies. There are other ways to compliment a piece of writing.

Excuse me if this was unwarranted with your writing. I'm hoping this didn't come across entirely as somebody's being a dick needlessly. It's just something little that sets me off, and it provoked my writing something this time.
gigaom is the new cnet. nothing to see. move along.
It's pretty exciting. The founders are sharp and know what it's going to take to break into this market. It'll be interesting to see how it all turns out.
Propaganda?

Reading up on candidates, being enthused about them, and voting based on the issues you believe in, isn't the same as buying into propaganda. You have a right to your cynicism, but don't mock the people who genuinely care.
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It seems we can't get any glimpse into what their product looks like, so I can't answer my question:

How would this be any better than Moodle?

The most I can presume is that Instructure would be more purposely anti-Blackboard and would probably charge to develop features on a per-client basis, which would be very helpful for small institutions that just don't have the staff to implement their own functions in Moodle.
I count calories in the opposite direction. I usually buy the things that are more calorie dense. Like I usually buy clif bar and related clif products because they pack a lot of calories per bite with a relatively good effect on my blood sugar.

I've started eating extra pb&j's at school/work to make it through the day. I struggle to eat enough good food because of my demanding days and low student income. It can be difficult to pack 500+ calories of snacks to make it through a long afternoon. Do other people have this problem?
So far I've done the most with College Basketball and College Football.

Here are a few links that show features and stats unique to StatSheet:

http://statsheet.com/chart_list

http://statsheet.com/mcb/rankings/motion
http://statsheet.com/mcb/games/2008/03/08/north-carolina-76-...
http://statsheet.com/mcb/referees/steve-welmer/trends
http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/player/davidson/stephen-cur...

http://statsheet.com/cfb/teams/florida/game_stats
http://statsheet.com/cfb/players/player/florida/tim-tebow

http://statsheet.com/blog/introducing-statfix-com
I don't know much about Moodle, but from what I can tell they aren't playing the enterprise sales game... at least not yet.

With universities and other large, corporate organizations, salesmanship (not necessarily technical polish) is what wins.
Yes and no. We have created a signed applet capability in the Plura infrastructure, but we have not pushed this out yet. In the future, if an affiliate chooses, he can request work units for a signed applet that would allow them to make http requests. We will probably pay more to affiliates that do this and will certainly require user opt-in. Our normal applet is unsigned and cannot make http requests due to the java sandbox.

We have one company (80legs.com) that is developing a web crawling solution using Plura. We are using a different model to acquire the nodes for this.
What are your dietary credentials? Every time there's a remotely food related post, you come in banging the "NO STARCH MOAR FATS" tambourine, and I'm curious where your data comes from.
Does anybody know if they have a not-slow VM/interpreter now? I read that they were replacing the old-and-slow tree traversing for a VM or something, but i've not heard much about it.
I would just like echo the same sentiments. Poor UI, particularly with respect to menu navigation.
The author thinks that the correct sex ed would reduce the teen pregnancy rates in those groups.

The author doesn't know those groups very well. They're getting pregnant because they want to get pregnant and have kids. Different sex ed won't change that.
a clone of a clone is a clone

iphone is a clone. so?

i don't get what you're complaining about. if storm came out first i'd say iphone is a storm clone. butthurt much?
Two Moleskine. One for serious stuff. One for current stuff.

iPhone notes, reviewed frequently.

Text files which I convert into Moleskine notes.

That's all.
Learning from Harley-Davidson's comeback
Monthly payment = $2.60 times # avg. simultaneous users times CPU %

It sounds dishonest to summarize this as 2.60$ per user per month. It is 2.60$ per user, if that particurlar user plays non-stop for 30 days straight, assuming 100% CPU

In other words, you get 1 cent per 3 hours of play time. To get 100$ per month, you need 10000 users, playing one hour every week or so. (hopefully, my math and interpretation is correct)
There are certainly lots of assumptions, but it might be valid for the first generation that has already passed. This is borne out in population growth numbers by state.

I linked to this mainly because I find it interesting, not because I believe it.
Holy crap, these are AWESOME.
It can build a 5x5x5 inch cube, but at 1$/cubic inch it would cost you ~125$ to do so. Depending on size and tolerances I think it would be an excellent way to prototype things like mice, but it's still far from cheep to use.
The Problem With Zoints (a look at a failed start-up)
They've genuinely cared so much that their brains have fallen out. I will continue mock them mercilessly.

Mock Mock.
Confused about Social Media? 237 Viewpoints
Facebook in a Suit: LinkedIn Launches Applications Platform
History of credit cards.
What to do when you are in a circular discussion with a VC
Oh god, we have become a propaganda outlet now.

Expect more Xbox stories as we approach Xmas.
I had a friend that used to sell these - they were going for about 30k each; unfortunately they didn't sell enough so had to stop. He told me about a woman who runs a business making busts of people's heads.
LinkedIn applications: Too little, too late
Fed Cuts Rate to 1% to Avert Prolonged Recession
I grew up in Texas, reddest of the red states, and a lot of my friends did abstinence pledges. Most were Christian Evangelicals to one degree or another (they even evangelized to me, though god only knows why. I wasn't really liberal at all back then).

So I know these groups pretty well.

None of them, not a single one, wanted to get pregnant and have kids at age 16. Have sex, certainly, have irresponsible unprotected sex even, but getting pregnant was not something anyone wanted. Maybe in five or ten years, but in high school, none.
I'm curious about where the money is coming from, i.e., what kinds of computational problems are you solving for your clients, and what kinds of clients have hired you?
As both someone who has been hired, and someone who has hired, I have no problem with resumes that are 1+ pages, provided there is relevant content. Nobody else I know would expect everything to be on a single page.

This is especially true in IT, where I want you to explain the projects you worked on, your role, and the eventual outcome. That means a paragraph in written form, and two or three of those take space.

This all being said, I'm not going to read any novels. Let me scan your history easily, but then get details if need be.
I could never understand the advantage of using a templating system inside another templating system. Smarty has loops. PHP has loops. Did I miss the train?
that's actually fascinating. i had no idea such a movement even existed (not meant as a disparaging remark in any way).

my startup plans to incorporate forums so this was an insightful read.
Frankly, I think it's worth the effort to research candidates and pick the one you think will make the country better. I've read up on Obama and McCain for quite a while, and I place my vote for Obama with confidence. My time was well-spent.
I monitor my referral traffic closely so it didn't take long to see hits coming from HN (which I watch anyway). That's how I also knew about the post on Mashable (or did I secretly post that too :-)

(s)lacker take a look at my reply to your comment on the other post. There are plenty of stats I think you'll find are unique to StatSheet. I've done the most with College Basketball so far. If you need more help, just IM me.
Paper resumes are fading. Most employers now read them on a screen, either through an online job service, LinkedIn, or an email attachment.

As someone who is in the process of hiring two people, I think the on-screen equivalent of one page is too short. I can handle scrolling down for another page or two, but any more than that makes me suspect that it's a data dump, and will require extra effort to glean the important points. Often I receive resumes in batches (20 at a time, delivered by email), so opening a bunch of excessively long resumes would start to drag on my time.
Mine's two pages and seems to be generating interest at the places I've sent it to.

My sister does recruiting for ConocoPhillips (admittedly, a very different industry) and also ran a resume-writing workshop when she was in grad school. She was adamant about not going over 2 pages. The reason is that your resume will likely be printed out, handed to other people in the department, thumbed through, and taken to your interview. If it's on 1 or 2 pages, it'll fit on one sheet (single or double sided), but if it's on 3 or more, you need a stapler, and that's really inconvenient for people whose daily responsibilities don't include shuffling paper (i.e. anyone in scientific or engineering departments that'll actually be making the hiring decision).

When I looked over resumes at my last employer, I had the same opinion: 1 or 2 pages is fine because we've got an industrial-strength printer that can do double-sided printing, any more than that's a pain.
The Bush administration spent five years and purged its own attorneys trying to dig up some cases of voter fraud they could prosecute. In that time, they convicted a grand total of 26 people. If there was the slightest evidence that 'thousands' of fraudulent votes were being cast, it would have emerged by now.
:( sad day IMO.
OpenID is a nice idea but fatally flawed in the grand scheme of things. Unified accounts are GREAT. But OpenID just isn't the right way to go about it...

I knew Google was moving towards this but I always hoped they would see sense before actually going for it fully.

Disappointed in them for the first time in a LONG time!
This is really weak criticism here. He is bashing LinkedIn for not opening the flood gates right away, not being for largely frivolous communication like facebook and twitter, and accusing them of being too exclusive.

"If I have an application with a clearly compelling value I don't need the approval of LinkedIn; I can just build the application either by myself or for a different platform."

He is looking at this completely negatively. The applications they are launching with were also developed externally. Nobody should have to wait for the go-ahead from LinkedIn to develop, they should develop a quality product that makes sense within the business network.
even better is:

$success =
do_chunk_a() &&
do_chunk_b() &&
do_chunk_c();
...
From a technical administration standpoint, the system is extremely fragile and absolutely crumbles under load.
It depends on a lot of factors like duration and type of experience. I would say that people are moving toward a don't cut out important details school of thought. One approach I have seen and enjoyed is compiling a common single page resume and then having a second/third page as deeper explanations of past positions.
Indeed.

When was the last time any one called Google an Altavista killer?
This attitude frequently comes from the top, since plenty of MBA types are convinced that a good manager can manage any company, whether it's producing software or sugar water.
Have you looked through this: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/ ?

It has a lot of a lot, so you don't have to write so much native PHP. Even Rasmus recommends it as his "framework" of choice (although he does not "like" frameworks).
####ing hell - VS2008 was released a scant 11 mths ago :(
I have 744 "Drafts" to myself in GMail.
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But how can can things outside of our perception be said to "exist"? (pass the bong, dude)
I've been many times on both sides of the desk.

What I found as a resume presenter is that the readers, many times technical folk, (at least once you get through the gatekeepers) always want detail. Lots of detail. Except when they don't.

So I gave up on one page resumes. Instead, page one has a bullet list of benefits I bring to the job that nobody else does -- sales points. The rest of the pages list jobs, technologies, and roles. Being somebody who gets around a lot, this section runs on for several pages.

I haven't heard any complaints. Usually the wordy part of the resume generates enough keywords to hit on database searches, which is step 1. The bullet list scores the initial interview which is step 2. The initial interview is just a technical "smoke test" and an attitude/availability check, then we're on to the tech interview, which is step three. During the tech interview, it's usually technologies and industries, with me quoting from the wordy part of my resume as the reviewer pages along.

I haven't been in the market for many years (it's all word of mouth after a while), but this format, along with the right experiences, put me in the top few slots at most places I competed.
Why isn't the submission process anonymous, anyway? (granted, according to the design of the algorithm you may be able to deduce the team who is behind it.)
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I run a web design/development company that does a lot of work on political campaigns. We thought creating something like this would be a great way to reach out during the seasons final week.

Before we send our final blast to the campaigns themselves, is there anything we should improve?

Was it foolish to build something like this when it has such a short lifetime?

What should a campaign site do?
Warning, Mac-centric answer:

For task lists, I tried a bunch of things at one point, and only one that stuck was Taskpaper (http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper). It's so simple that I actually use it. I've been using it for about a year now on a sustained basis. It has simple emacs keybindings, like other OS X text editors, so that's nice for me too.

For ideas best expressed by complicated freehand drawings, I use pen and paper. I always carry an unruled (no lines) notebook for this purpose.

For a while I was using a small drawing tablet and Curio (http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/) for drawings, but it didn't stick. The GUI was a little too slow, and plugging in the tablet was too much of an extra step. A tablet Mac would solve this. (Yeah, yeah I could get a PC, but I'd rather avoid it if I can.)

When I take notes at a meeting or a talk, I use TextEdit (again, w/ simple emacs keybindings), and depend on spotlight to help me relocate things. I prepend all filenames with the date in <2 digit year><2 digit month><2 digit day> format, so by default things sort by date across filesystems etc. This is surprisingly useful.
We put it in terms of average simultaneous users because that's the way a lot of affiliates think. They say, we have an average of N people playing the game at any given time.

For websites and other affiliate types, we say we pay $15/MWU (million work units) where a work unit is 15 seconds on an average node (the system-wide Plura average node performance).
2 pages is fine. Just don't try to puff it up with irrelevant crap to inflate the page count.

Awards:

- Math genius prize at University

- ...

- 8th grade spelling bee champion <- FAIL
Here's an example: http://pluraprocessing.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/example-appl...
I had lots of interest with a 2 page resume but found restricting myself to 1 page forced me to hit the high notes and focus on what message I want to send.

I found this necessary when an employer put me through a 5 hour interview for a web developer position. I thought I was applying for a research position but someone saw web experience in my ancient history and lined up the interviewers to steer things that way. Granted I was offered the research position later, still... the interview would have benefited by skipping the web stuff.

Also there is something to be said for making them want more.
Brevity is the soul of wit.

I think a 1 page resume is essential. Even Gates or Jobs could have a kick-ass 1 pager.

Exceptions include a need to list technical details like published papers/books, patents, etc.
I have a 10meg PDF resume (4 pages with lots of pictures, hyperlinks, and partial nudity). It has gotten positive responses about 60% of the time, but they are generally very positive. Having a resume that doesn't please everybody, and stands out from the pack, is valuable. Even the 40% who didn't like it will remember it.
This completely shifts the way 3d printers and the industry works. The price for most of these START at 18k, but really cost 50k. There's been a lot of advancements in this area, including the open sourcing of schematics and software for the technology.

Problem with this company... its vaporware. They've been talking things up and "launching" for quite a while. I hope they do launch though, and soon, because it will be a winner.
things like this make me giddy
Great! Fill out the form on the website and we'll get you signed up in the private beta.
They also have an awful browser. The bold I tried couldn't even load Slashdot - it just died. Even the S60 browser can manage to load it, albeit badly.
...although I did have one CEO try and bill me for the ink it used for the hardcopy.
People in general spend about 30 seconds looking at your resume. One page or not, it has to be skimmable. Use bullet points and bold to bring out the important stuff. Use lots of white space.

Lots of detail doesn't impress me. Your place for that is in the cover letter where you write about the one or two things most relevant from your background that are specifically appropriate to the open position.

I think one page is a good goal to have, even if you don't make it; it forces you to trim and focus on the important stuff.
No, we tried to do this, but we can't run Plura in Adobe AIR. AIR uses Webkit for its browser, but Adobe has removed support for browser plugins, including Java.
It's pretty BS... Software built around OpenID needs to be rewritten to detect when http://username@domain.tld/ is entered as a OpenID login and if it's @gmail.com address, contact Google's OpenID servers.

From the comments on the original story at Blogspot:

This is because http://username@domain.tld/ is a valid URL and can thus be used as an OpenID.

The problem is that while that may very well be a valid URI, it's not a standard URI and OpenID software hasn't been written to use this kind of mechanism.

To make matters even worse, there is no OpenID server set up at gmail.com - servers need to put a special case for when the @tld.com matches gmail and contact the appropriate OpenID servers in that case.. it's basically Google demanding that you authenticate their users on their terms.

Test results for OpenID:
http://openidenabled.com/resources/openid-test/diagnose-serv...
http://openidenabled.com/resources/openid-test/diagnose-serv...

EDIT

Here's the link to the Google OpenID documentation for developers, it's even more bloated than I thought:

http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OpenID.html

You need to ask Google to give you the URI to the OpenID endpoint for a given account. Each account has a different OpenID endpoint, and different incoming requests are routed to different endpoints....

And I quote:

3. The web application sends a "discovery" request to Google to get information on the Google authentication endpoint. This is a departure from the process outlined in OpenID 1.0.

4. Google returns an XRDS document, which contains endpoint address.

5. The web application sends a login authentication request to the Google endpoint address.
This action redirects the user to a Google Federated Login page.

They're being pretty damn cavalier about using an OpenID that's not really OpenID in the first place.
One obvious reason is that unlike, say, SIGCOMM (which is also not anonymous) the authors will need to defend their submissions over multiple rounds of challenges. It's not a "everyone throw your stuff over here and NIST and the NSA will sort it out" kind of thing: the crypto results that select the winner come from research the contestants themselves will in part be doing.
Oooooooh.

This is about as useful to me as a second nose, but for some reason I really would like to have one. I guess because it represents the next huge step in computers -- home manufacturing. Once that takes off in 30-40 years life will never be the same.
Andreessen on his latest venture, Silicon Valley, and the future of technology.