skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was tossing this around in earnest with a group of friends late last winter. We essentially were planning what something that heavily resembled ingamenow... now.

Now that someone realized the idea, I'm kind of glad we didn't invest much time in it...
>The section on numeric types is a long-winded and bizarrely negative-sounding way to say that Scheme wins. "In a good implementation, numerics (capabilities and correctness) are better than most CLs; on average, they are worse." Ok... why would you use a bad implementation?

Because no Scheme is great at everything. All of them are bad implementations in some sense, and all of them are good implementations in some sense (if you only count ones that have users other than their implementor, not somebody's practice project). If you could somehow take the union of great features in every Scheme, that would be nice, but that's not the case.

In the case of numerics, Gambit is said to be the best Scheme, but it has it's own disadvantages - there's virtually no third-party code available for it, for one thing. Alternatively, you could use Chicken or PLT, which have quite a bit of third-party code and helpful communities, but last time I checked (this may be out of date), numeric performance was not so great.
My problem with Chrome is such a minor one, yet a dealbreaker - once again Google have released a product which doesn't support scrolling properly.

Both my work and home laptops are broken when I try to scroll websites in Chrome.

I had a conversation with a Google Director of Product Management the other week, and I was telling him about my problems with Google Reader. He swore black and blue that scrolling worked great. But if you try "middle clicking" (ie, click your scroll wheel), it scrolls the frame window and not the articles you're reading.

Does nobody at Google scroll?!
All it has to be is a silent driver update. Then it would be an undocumented hack for someone with Google and a Bluetooth keyboard.
The content is niche. And they advertise well, since this is a 'customer base' for them. If I were selling car parts, I'd have articles about cars, and post on message boards that are car focused.

They are a good example of what you could do in your niche industry.
Thanks.

Foam earplugs generally aren't comfortable for me, but if they work for you, that's great. They're certainly cheap and easy to get.
As a kid, my dad always said "What? We've already got three dishwashers! Their names are James, Ashley, and Daniel!"

That was mostly in jest though. The other saying was "what use is a dishwasher if you have to wash the dishes before you wash the dishes?" when asked why we didn't scrub down plates before putting them in said machine...
LOL WTF! Just kidding.

Normal ligatures look like the letters they represent. Look at "fish" for example. The ligature exists to make the dot on the i not conflict with the overhanging part of the f. These WTF and LOL ligatures don't look anything like the word they replace, so they should just be called "random new characters", not ligatures.

Also, not all commonly used words get a special character. The, an, is, be, are, are more common than "et" and "at", but they don't have their own character.

Anyway, I think this is more of an art project than anything else.
Thanks everyone for the comments. If you'd like, please follow your favorite sports team, and feel free to provide me feedback via our site.

Are there too many feeds? Does the account update too often or not enough? Are we missing vital feeds?

Thanks!
Andy
Automattic (Wordpress) Has Acquired IntenseDebate’s Enhanced Comment System
Easier once you are already well known.
Motorola H550 Black Bluetooth Headset
The Motorola H550 offers so much comfort that you’ll forget that it is even on your head. Bluetooth headsets are a tricky product to make perfectly. Careful consideration must be given to where the speaker rests on the headset and how close the earpiece rests on the ear. With the H550, Motorola has perfectly combined these aspects to make a headset that anyone would want to use.
High-tech tax credits are no bailout
When I was a starving student, I was flummoxed by the market. Meat? Expensive. Vegetables? Expensive. Fruit? Expensive, and doesn't keep. Fast food? Expensive. What could I afford? Complex carbs and terrible mega-preserved food. Ramen, cup-o-noodles, and mac'n'cheese were my staples.
How is this any different than hiring a personal chef? Or a housekeeper? I mean; people have been doing this for centuries, it's just becoming more accessible now.
According to the post, narcissism is not just being 'self-obsessed,' but rather preferring breadth over depth in social relationships.

Thus, they specifically pointed out that having a profile picture is not narcissistic, but using a glamour shot rather than a candid snapshot is narcissistic. My guess would be that the glamour shot--which represents you as you aren't--is there to foster attraction from people who don't know you well, while a candid snapshot reinforces your image with people you already know.
>The password field may only contain alpha-numeric characters.

Why ?!

Also, the site is completely useless if the FlashBlock is installed. Neither does it complain about the lack of Flash support nor does it show any Flash items that could unblocked in a FlashBlock. For this reason clicking on a Play button doesn't yield any audio output and it's absolutely unclear why and how to get it working.

Also, and this is subjective of course, the orange part of the color scheme is pretty unpleasant to look at. Same goes for the greenish part at the bottom, it looks kind of "dirty".
Bill Gates, Ray Ozzie Patent `Personal Data Mining'
It looks like this is a patent on systems for mining personal user profiles for possible data correlation, although when I ran across it I was in the mindset of `mining my _own_ personal data'. Still, seems to be a very broad stroke here, as this could cover just about any multi-user system that implements features that would be cross-cutting with respect to user data. I suppose this is the thrust behind the `no software patents' movement.
I don't think that's a crazy point of view. I'm ambivalent. You have easier, better ways to win security arguments about Rails than the lack of one relatively trivial default setting, though.
Get rid of the ridiculous requirement of only allowing alpha-numeric characters. I almost turned away at that.

Otherwise I'm loving the clean interface and overall responsiveness.

I would suggest cleaning up the search results as the closely spaced lines of text are a bit daunting.
That's very good progress, but I'm not convinced the glove is what's responsible. That sounds like reasonable gains for someone who is working out regularly and trying to improve. Good, of course, but still within reason.
Walt Mossberg - Google’s G1: First Impressions
IamDave
I'm one of the founders of the company, and we appreciate your feedback.
As a programmer I am keenly aware of the issue you are describing, and e are currently working to provide more options on bit-rate and quality.
I would expect this to happen within the next few weeks and if you send an e-mail to me at amit@onellama.com I would be happy to let you know as soon as it happens.
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Removed the alpha-numeric requirement.
Official Google Blog: The first Android-powered phone
Good point... but I'm in the boat of "I don't want a swiss-army knife, social website, thing-a-ma-jig"... I want facebook to be good at one thing, which it once was and is no longer. As such, I visit fb about three-quarters as much as I use to...

Similarly, this is why I feel AAPL has gained market share, while MS lags behind tripping over LEGACY support while attempting to please every need of their customer base. And another example is 37signals.

However, like I said... my opinion might be bias. It's hard for me to be objective about Facebook given my distaste for it's recent shifts, and having loved the former.
I just follow my friends and a few people more. Maybe you can invite your startup friends to join Twitter too?
And http://fanchatter.com :)
Very nice post, it's a pity more people didn't upvote it; I like the interesting comments this kind of articles tend to produce.
My intuition is that this means Disqus wins.
There is some inefficiency, for example, in paying someone to mow your lawn while you go to the gym, paying to walk on a treadmill. :)
You may get into a bit of trouble using all those logo marks without permission. They are huge sticklers on that stuff.
It's terrible , cannot even compare to the iphone !!
Kickass high-tech electric motorcycle, battery stores more power than Prius battery
Here's IntenseDebate's blog post about it: http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/09/23/automattic-acqu...

A quote from their post for anyone worried that it'll be WordPress exclusive: "You will still be able to use IntenseDebate on Typepad, Tumblr, Blogger, Movable Type, and other platforms with more to come!"
Dude, lame. Already used up. =(
Automattic Acquires IntenseDebate
Could we get some more invites - 39 minutes after you posted and they're all gone :-(
More invites? :)
Ask YC: How many people here use Perl in large portions of your web app?
Just out of curiosity -
i feel like you're going to find that there are very few people who do.
What does it say about me that I don't have a Facebook account at all?
MapReduce programming with Apache Hadoop
"In a blog post announcing the deal, IntenseDebate says that it will now be re-entering private beta, though the service’s current users will still be able to use it."

Disqus will probably have a long time before they are troubled :)
Economists Probe the Data on Television Watching - Better test scores?
This must be how people transition from doing useful work to being marketing gurus etc. Yeah it pays, but it's bad for the soul :-) I recall Phillip J. Eby, once an unusually smart Python programmer, now a self-help author.
That you're not in a social environment that encourages Facebook.

I'm in college, so it's much more useful to me.
We've opened up a few more slots, although we're not doing this in an effort to market (or use invites as a way to grow), we really want to focus in on user feedback.

If you aren't able to get in, we'll open it up to the public shortly after we feel it's ready.

Thanks again for your feedback, please keep it coming!
Dang, found some great radio stations!

1. The streaming on some stations is pretty bad - not your fault. But it would be useful if you could classify or somehow mark with an icon - stations that have good streaming and stations that breakup often.

2. Fyi, there is no music with Chrome, but login, search, etc works.

3. I thought the "Grab A Station, Get Some Tunes" thingy on the top right were links but nothing happened when I clicked. Make it look more like a tagline and less like links.

4. Search results look cluttered due to close spacing.

Really like the service - bookmarked it.
don't you have to a)generate revenue or b) have an exit before you win?
Science Blogs can Advance the Academic Process
my first thought was tomato :)
Wow. I really like it. Very intuitive. Where do you get the radio stations from?

I think you should think about combining Artist and Genre search. It took me a few seconds to find genre. Why not just have one search box with two tick boxes underneath it?

Though the tags are kinda good, so I guess if other people find it fine, than its okay..
This is bordering on something I'd expect Donald Trump to suggest. Whether or not it can make money, it's a tactic I usually expect people like Trump or Robert Kiyosaki to promote and I start tuning out...
Why is it not better news for ID?
No, the future of ubiquitous computing is represented by bigger pockets.

...But seriously, folks--I can squeeze the eee PC into a large cargo pocket, and walk with a Joker-ish hitch to my stride, but that doesn't even technically represent ubiquitous computing. It takes longer than 10 seconds to boot, and it's awkward to use while standing up, so if I've got 'em both on me I'll always default to the iPhone unless I need to type more than a paragraph, or do something the iPhone can't.
iPhone has just lost a bit more if its luster with this release.
"Instead comparing PHP to Lisp for that purpose, I'd be more interested in a comparison between PHP and Python or PHP and Ruby."

I agree. More to the point, it would be more interesting to compare PHP frameworks to Rails or Django, as Ruby and Python are more general purpose languages and PHP, while it can be used for other things, is built to generate HTML.

The original (quite lame) article is in the lines that "I tried to use this ocean liner to go to the supermarket and it is infinitely less convenient than the car I was used to. Nobody should use ocean liners because cars are more convenient". It´s awful.
Yeah I think the best buy thing is valid. If they were going to sell them in dealerships the GPS would have been an option. Since it looks like it'll sell as a single package the retail store option might be right
Summary:

Web 3.0 is mashups, in an environment where more Web components have well defined interfaces and are, therefore, mashable.
I didn't know it was different in Europe. Here in America, you can have tasty food, cheap food, or healthy food--pick up to two options. There's a few hole-in-the-wall places with good food and single-digit entrees, but the 2/3 rule works in general.
I think the site is very responsive. First impression the UI could use a little bit more work, in terms of displaying content on the bottom half. One thing I am really curious about is how you stream the music so fast. Bu that I mean, there is literally no latency issues from the time i click on a podcast and it starts playing the stream. Great product you have here. More feedback as I use it more :)
It doesn't matter which drugs are banned and which are legal, as long as everyone is playing by the same rules. I don't see what the issue is here.
how is this different from other web radio programs? i actually don't use any and this is pretty intuitive. i imagine most others are similar though. i only use imeem and bittorrent/iphone for music these days.
Thread Safety through Self-Loading Collections
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It's around the twentieth incarnation of the RAZR as far as we can tell.It is very smart to look and dimensions only 99 x 46 x 17.5 mm. The total weight of 107g makes the phone very light. It has two display.
http://decknetwork.net/

Jesus Christ do they have to shout quite so loud?
6M DRM-free Amazon MP3s on Android (Google phone)
I've only spent about 3 months total in Europe, but I thought food was much more expensive. Also, the less-expensive prepared food didn't seem very healthy - kebabs, frites, crepes, etc. If I wanted to save money I'd just get some bread and cheese from a market. Good fruits and vegetables seemed to be conspicuously absent, at least when compared to California.

The conclusion I came to was that people in Europe tend to be thinner than Americans because they can't afford to eat very often...
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Under recently played, there are a set of, well, recently played songs. And a big spot where album art would go. Is there some relationship between these two? The image was always blank. Is this "going to be there" functionality? If so, I'd recommend hiding it for now.
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Semantic Web Value Proposition
What if Automattic's plan is to get it into the mainline Wordpress platform? IntenseDebate suddenly gets into lots of sites for free and it becomes a serious uphill struggle for any competitors.
Umm.. so it's a sidekick...

I'm just glad the android developers finally have a device for their apps.
An undocumented hack is going to shoot the G1 in the head and make it DOA? I wasn't saying that this couldn't be done. I was saying that Apple would never do it, because it's an aesthetic disaster.
Hey Llama,

I've seen you guys before as I used to work for a competitor. Nice to see you moving in this direction.

Unfortunately, the site isn't playing any music for me :(

Are you limited(or limiting) play to just within the US?
I tried about 7 different stations, and got nothing.

Nice clean design though.
Looking back at my own logs from three summers ago, I see it took me from June 5 to July 17 to go from 12 pullups to 24. It seems like your rate of improvement is about par for pullups and a little below average for bench press. I doubt the glove made any difference.
I've been cooking low-carb for a few weeks as an experiment.

For dinners I've been having a bit of meat over a large salad.

Last night:

1) half a bag of mixed lettuces
2) a diced tomato
3) 6-8 oz of frozen shrimp, thawed, pan fried in a dab of oil and a big heap of cajun spices
4) some home made dressing from acquaintances who run a local pizzeria and bottle their own dressing.

Other variants:
* replace cajun shrimp with chicken breasts ground and cooked up taco-style, and throw some thin-sliced red onion and thick-cut avacado in there
* ...or a steak, marinated for a few hrs in fresh squeezed lime juice and soy sauce, then quickly seared on a grill.

When you're eating a lot of bulk veggies, a little premium priced meat goes a long way.

When you're eating mos
You need to escape the parens:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_%28typography%29

(This should be in either the FAQ or the comment formatting notes (http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc), but isn't.)
It's great news for both ID and Automattic.
I respectfully disagree with your comment. It is like saying Google acquired Omnisio, so the other video annotation sites won.
If anything Automatic will integrate the new commenting system and Pooof IntenseDebate will be on n times more blogs.

"My intuition" is Intense debate will see more comments than Disqus. But this does not mean Disqus is in trouble either. I use Disqus sometimes on enabled blogs and it is a great product.
This isn't such a surprise. The battery in a hybrid vehicle needs to be no larger than needed to buffer the kinetic energy of typical stop-and-go traffic. Anything larger is just dead weight that you're carrying around (and expending energy to do so) in the vain hope that a big downhill slope is in your future. I know from personal experience that my Prius needs to roll down about 800 feet vertically to fill its battery.

Vehicles that need to actually power themselves exclusively (or mostly, as in a plugin hybrid) with their batteries need bigger ones for their weight, or better ones (this thing is using a Li-Ion instead of the NiMH battery in the Prius).
nice! but it didn't play any sound in Chrome

a cleaner-non-fullscreen UI would be perfect
Social Media ABC's - J is for Jargon
You don't have to innovate. I don't think the comment space is even close to done. The issue in my mind is about unified persona online and keeping track of the conversation. My guess is that the good people at ID will focus on their "feature", and never get to the big picture.

edit: i misread your comment, and thought that you meant having an exit means ID can better execute. You're totally right that my comment should be future tense. It's a prediction.
Pretty smart, I think this effectively solves the problem. Now, you get the HN readership without the risk of attracting people who just want to knee jerk vote and promote their pet causes.

I also volunteer for moderating.
I wonder if the observers would have been more accurate if they had used the Brunswikian lens model or some other tool instead of just eyeballing it. It looks like the observers were basing their judgments too heavily on self-directed identity claims.
Seems like an OK device hardware wise, but that is likely to change fast and for the better. I'd expect there to be some really nice, polished devices by Holiday season 2009.

Software-wise, it looks pretty solid. Has a number of neat features that the iPhone doesn't, but that's also true vice-versa. Seems users will have to think how they use their device to see which one fits them better.
That is certainly possible. I think it glosses over the difficultly in merging two groups together. Disqus is certainly facing lots of uphill

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/disqus.com+intensedebate.co...
If you get it right the first time, you're probably just lucky. When was the last time you had to formulate an inductive proof at a career fair? And why should you be expected to? If you already know about the Knuth shuffle and you get it right, the question wasn't worth asking in the first place.
Great Design and Great Product. Hope you make it YC Winter 09.
christ we are in the dark ages again

i need a google account to use gphone

i need itunes to use iphone

i have to buy apps from approved channels

it favors the vendors apps

no thanks

wake me when i can buy a device that runs apps i choose, connects to the network i want. i realize this is a pipe dream. the wireless world is a world of shit

i might as well look for the smallest flash-based linux notebook possible that runs skype and just hold it up to my ear old-skule style like gordon gecko and that giant cell phone from wall street
Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for transcriptions: Effective, but it's a kluge
Rails Tutorial: Casual User Authentication
FWIW I tried those and they don't fit snugly in my ears unless I put them in backward, wherein I suspect they may have reduced effectiveness.

They're probably good enough for lowering the noise floor in an office environment, though.
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This is great....
I have to admit there's healthy and European healthy. Fruits and veggies are healthy, crepes are European healthy, fast food is not anyone's healthy.

Good fruits and vegetables are only seasonally present in the central and norther European countries, where the local climate is too cold to grow a decent tomato.

Southern Europe on the other hand has you covered, the climate is a lot like California.
nice j.
of course it will be a locked device like the iphone. the mouth-breathers don't care, they just like shiny. they'll gladly impoverish themselves for what passes as a jewelery fad in 2008.
Really? I get the impression that this phone lacks a lot of the iPhone's polish... various sliding/pinching gestures, tilt to change orientation, sync with PCs... Of course, the G1 is playing catch-up, and not doing a terrible job -- it has some of the features the first generation iPhone lacked (and vice versa).

The real thing the iPhone loses is exclusivity. Now that they have some semblance of a competitor, will Apple make concessions to developers and customers to maintain their advantage?
Would it work to make NHN a superset of HN? Then people going to NHN can still participate in HN easily. Otherwise, you might create a migration.
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I won't comment on whether or not it's a disaster (MobileMe, anyone), but it's really just not that useful. There is not that much to do on your phone that would require a real keyboard. If you want a real keyboard, get an Eeepc instead of an iPhone.
I think the difference is in exactly those hole-in-the-wall places which give you the 3 out of 3.

Europe, partly due to population density, partly due to a different farm lobby, and partly due to I-don't-know-what just seems to have a lot more of them per kilometer.
FYI, Android Market apparently will have no review process -- anyone can list an application without approval.

And you have heard about OpenMoko, right?
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