skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Tired of the poor treatment they’ve recieved the pleges at Kappa Tau fight back. Elsewhere, Evan conspires to use Calvin and Michael’s relationship to help a brother who’s failing.
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That island was washed ashore by a hurricane in 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Island). He has since built a second island. More info here: http://www.spiralislanders.com/
On the same token, if your password were to ever get in the wrong hands, you'd be pretty much fucked, no?

Keyloggers, seeing the password written down somewhere visible, or even having someone convince you to tell them the password (social hacking) are all very simple ways to get access to someone's account. These are all pretty stock-standard ways to get a standard web users password.

It's kind of like moving all your money from different dodgy international banks to one bank, and then having that bank robbed.
Divide-and-conquer and parallel processing in PHP
Introducing the Django Debug Toolbar
Ah, so that's why those homeless people keep stealing bottles out of my trash.
The logical solution would be to have a depth marker of some kind, and to simply add new sacks of bottles whenever it drops below some value (regardless of the cause of the drop).
You can use this library to calculate call option price in Variance Gamma model

http://www.fftw.org/
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Formula 1 yet. Next season will see the introduction of the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). Basically it's 40kg flywheel capable of storing 60kW of energy recovered from braking that will allow for 6.5 seconds of additional acceleration. This is an attempt to make overtaking a more frequent and exciting proposition. Regulations allow for electrical or mechanical implementations. BMW chose electrical and has already seen how dangerous it can be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzaQ-t1ojPU

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/7/8086.html
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Nothing wrong with it, it just makes it less interesting than if he had something else to say.
Win^4: Google’s billion dollar AdSense Business and the Future of Advertising
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=309347
Regardless of everything, if a company has to keep telling people they are not dead yet, then they may as well be.
IPhone Developers Go From Rags to Riches
Developers to Tim O'Reilly: "No One Wants A Cure For Cancer, Man"
Firebug Performance By The Numbers
Agreed.

Someone that stupid should definitely have faced jail time, not just community service.
Ah, I misread it as that ML "force[s] an inappropriate fundamental data type on everything", not s-expressions.
The story of transferbigfiles.com (don't use FTP)
This sort of thing would be great if it was cloned or expanded to cover UK universities. There have been an increasing number of really ropey institutions and courses popping up over recent years and many students don't realise they're in such a university (get 'em in, take the fees, put them through the least rigorous process possible, print them a degree in something like "e-Music" or "Film, TV and Radio Studies") until they're quite heavily invested.

A site where people could frankly and honestly say "this course was worth doing for me because" or "I feel that I made the wrong decision coming to this uni because" would be brilliant at a time when uni education here is becoming more expensive and people are starting to have second thoughts over whether it's worthwhile. At present, the most popular such site in Britain is a simple vBulletin forum. There's a gap there if someone wants to run with it!
Desktop Linux incompatibilities with iPhone and Android
Americans never had the honor to live in a real dictatorship, i would suggest you guys try it for a few decades, you will learn not to trust the guys making laws pretty fast.
The American finance loan seems to be a DNS hack. I've seem three other sites afflicted with the same problem and they still had control over the server and domain.
I'm particularly disappointed in TX given it's wealth, low cost to do business (attractive for startups), and epic center of oil production. Our state (and big oil) should be funding serious initiatives to curb us off oil, and hedge their company (and state economy) against the depletion of a natural resource.

Did we not learn from the US automotive industry while Japan kicked our ass? c'mon cowboys, step it up.
First Palin, now Bill O'Reilly gets hacked
His site doesn't even encrypt passwords wtf?
Technology is Minnesota's largest manufacturing export at 24%. Medtronic/3M/Best Buy are all headquartered there.

http://www.exportminnesota.com/itradestats.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companies_based_in_Minneapolis-...
I never said it was an unfair comment, just that I wanted clarification. I figured that was probably what you meant, but it was ambiguous how closely it related to the latter comments. (Perhaps there was something major about penicillin's discovery I hadn't heard of.)

I was saying that "gremlin" seems like a good new term for people who do destructive mischief for fun (particularly of a cracking nature), but never actually related it to 4chan in any way; it just came out of that quote. Where you're reading it as being about 4chan users, it was intended to be about script kiddies (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_kiddies). Hence, "I don't care about 4chan", not "I don't care for 4chan".
I think that's exactly how most students at journalism schools think. I went to grad school with about 200 smart, young, clever, enterprising people, and to the best of my knowledge, I'm the only one of them who's trying to do his own thing after graduation. Many reporters are all about being "enterprising" until it comes to who they work for, then they're happy to collect a paycheck and work for the advertising guys in the back room who make more than them.
Our state (and big oil) should be funding serious initiatives to curb us off oil

The Earth's crust contains 70,000 years worth of oil.

http://www.google.com/search?q=2.1+quadrillion+oil+barrels

What would be the point of oil-use-curbing initiatives?

against the depletion of a natural resource.

Oil cannot be depleted, since it is rechargeable.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.juliansimon.com+oi...

contrary to common belief, category 3 resources (including oil) are all renewable.
I don't think the 500 times boast is relative to percentage, but rather the standard of measurement used ...therefore the arguement of 3500% efficiency is a mute point...I'm no scientist, in fact my mind doesn't work even close to that of a scientist, but I paid attention in math class...if you are looking at something that is relatively inefficient as far as potential to begin with, 500 times the standard although very impressive is not unrealistic in the least.
See Shareaholic for Firefox.

I am annoyed right now. I am sick of everyone acting like Chrome is a coup d'etat of existing browser powerbrokers ... because it isn't, at all.

We already knew they would eventually support add-ons and we've seen extensions like the one you've proposed for a long time. I'm sorry if my annoyance is misdirected, but I don't understand why I'm the only one who sees this. Chrome is cool and browser development has gotten extremely interesting the last few months (especially now with SquirrelFish Extreme), but it is not the defeat of everyone else and I am tired of everyone acting like it is.

Apologies for venting.
This is gonna be the best Dan Lyons site ever.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=308975
Hmmm... for those without a social circle of hackers, I can concede that use. Still, the vetting process seems an... anachronism, maybe? Can't find the right word. Are they worried suits will infiltrate the group and steal their lucky charms?

shrug something just feels off about it, I'm not entirely sure what. Feel free to disregard my oddities in this case.
This strikes a few chords with me from my days of managing sub-par developers. I got to the point on my projects where I prefer not-so-good code with tests over good code with no tests! Blech X-|

Great points about the people barriers to testing -- too high of a learning curve and the difficulty of finding the balance where developers are not over-testing their code.

Unfortunately I think judgment for writing good, non-fragile tests comes from a lot of experience.
Launching web sites early is a less confrontational way for managers to get their way.
One nice thing about releasing products early is that you don't need
to make correct decisions all the time.

Say employee X really wants to implement something in a way that the
project leader does not like. Rather than forcing employee X to do it
his/her way, the project could be released to the public as "beta".
Employee X would then back down after negative feedback from the
public.

In this way, employee X feels more freedom, although it is eventually
taken away by the public.
Perhaps it is different in an age of free, all-you-can-eat, high-quality copies of commercial audio.
Analogy:

http://www.funatiq.com/images/david-mcdonalds-statue.jpg
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To be fair, there are a few musicians for whom this is true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album-oriented_rock. Led Zeppelin albums, for instance, are worth buying in whole.
unigo.com has some serious issues on Firefox:

If RadComboBox is not initially visible on your ASPX page, you may need to use streamers (the ExternallCallBackPage property)
Please, read our online documentation on this problem for details
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13 Useful Math Cheat Sheets
Ask HN: How does News.YC work?
Just curious
We've heard that at least once before. It's worth looking into.
The Financial Crisis: A Survival Guide for Startups
I hope the following generations lose this mentality.

That was the most short-sighted rebuttal I've read.
This is interesting:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22modern+car%22+%22million+p...

... a modern car involves as many as 30000 component parts

In light of the fact that in a modern car there are about 2000–3000 galvanised parts
Comcast Discloses Throttling Practices
Imaginary product
It wasn't a rebuttal. It was a question. Why do you think it was short-sighted?
>I don't buy that concision is power. This borders on a tautology, but expressiveness is power. Concision is part of that (a big part, even), but it's not everything.

Yeah, I completely agree. I was going to write about it, but then figured it wasn't relevant to the question.

I'd love to discuss these old PG essays one day.
Comcast came clean with the Federal Communications Commission late Friday, detailing how it throttled and targeted peer-to-peer traffic -- maneuvers it has repeatedly denied.

The cable concern said (.pdf) it indeed hit "particular protocols that were generating disproportionate amounts of traffic." The peer-to-peer protocols, Comcast said, include Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella -- vehicles used to transport copyrighted material without the owners' permission.

On Aug. 1, when the FCC ordered it to abandon its throttling practices, Comcast denied that it was blocking any services including "peer-to-peer services" like BitTorrent or engaged in any blocking of services.

Here is the .pdf:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/comcastic.pdf
RESTful JSON: Bringing REST and RPC Closer Together
You didn't even provide direct links to the "evidence" you were presenting. Links to Google search results pages to back up your statement? Really?
by that I mean what is karma and how do they choose what pages make it to the main page
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The chart is missing the variables for competition, which is what you care about. Capital isn't falling off trees in California, and one (of the many) reasons its scarcer in the midwest is that there are fewer tech ventures in the midwest.
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I agree testing has a big learning curve. I have been doing it for years now and still find there is a lot to learn. It took a long time to make me realize how much better isolated tests were at the unit level.

I think some of the language changes he suggests are interesting. Kind of follows some of the BDD over TDD. Something 'should' do something, not test. Tests should be isolated, not have objects mocked...
haskell is one to learn. budget at least a year of spare time to relearn. i am dumber than most so i have been going at it two years now, and i still learn new things every time i visit the haskell wiki.

why haskell? because functional languages are the future. why? because the von neumann architecture is giving way to parallelism, be it hadoop/mapreduce, or a thirty-two way multicore processor under your desk. read herb sutter's "end of the free lunch". any way you slice it, tools that address slicing up problems better across arrays of resources are the future. who knows, maybe (likely) java etc will incorporate this stuff. its no coincidence that haskell shows up in the google mapreduce tutorial.

learning haskell isn't easy, you basically have to relearn everything, and it is often confusing. but once you do, you will be five years ahead of your peers
Learning Lisp: Start with Scheme, CL, or Arc?
I've never used any Lisp before but would like to start. PG's ANSI CL book looks good, as does Seibel's PCL book, but I've also heard great things about SICP. Then again, I see that Arc has a pretty sizable tutorial, and since it's written by PG, I'm guessing it's probably pretty good.

My free time is very limited, and my end goal is to write some interesting software over the course of the next 6 months or so -- and have fun doing it. :) I've only used languages like C, Java, Perl, Ruby, and Python in the past.

Any advice on which one to go with for someone brand new to Lisp? Does Arc come with enough tutorial material for someone brand new to Lisp in general?

Which is a bigger leap: to go from CL to Arc or from Scheme to Arc? Is Arc any harder to learn than the CL or Scheme?
Oh yeah one disagreement

"Think what you will ,but 99% of the dev worlds aren’t ready for the 'testability' message"

I feel like the entire agile movement is ready and on testing. I think that movement is significantly larger and stronger than he sees it.
is this a joke?

seriously.

i cannot tell. and that makes me sad.
On the spiralislanders.com site:

"First tour group... when we arrived we were blown away!"

Made me chuckle, anyway.
Google results are often more useful and interesting than direct links. Did you have trouble finding these links within the provided googles?:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/iea/overview.html

http://hubbert.mines.edu/news/Youngquist_98-4.pdf

http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Articles/EXTROPYA.txt

http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR1...

http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Articles/NATRESOU.txt

Links to Google search results pages to back up your statement?

Are you meaning to imply that you contest either that the Earth's crust contains ~2.1 quadrillion barrels of oil, or that world society currently consumes ~80 million barrels of oil per day?
it looks to me like your submission starts at one point, and anyone can give you +1. I think front page is determined by points-per-time-since-submission calculation. So if you can get a very early +1, you can generally make the front page right away. On a busy day, it's pretty hard, because your post doesn't stay on the "new submissions" page very long.

anyone know if that's right?
we've never done anything on this scale. the debt ceiling will be raised to 11.3 trillion, meaning it will hit 12 trillion by 2011 and 20 trillion by 2020. and that isn't counting the forty or so trillion in unfunded entitlements like ss and medicare for the boomers.

adding so much more debt at a time when we need to be taking near-fascistic measures to be reducing it, likely will result in the US repudiating the dollar by 2025. its over. no nation can issue this much debt and survive. expect a global ultra-depression when this implodes, punctuated by a major war.
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Exclusivity contracts are killing entrepenenurs - can we kill them?
Exclusivity contracts are killing the entrepreneurs in this country. My past two ventures have hit hard roadblocks due to entrenched players having exclusive access to provide goods and services to large companies.

Here are the kinds of exclusivity contracts I'm talking about (the examples I ran into deal with smaller players, but in spirit this is the kind of thing I'm talking about):

* AT&T is the exclusive provider of iPhone. If you wanted to start a cellular network, you could not provide the phone that most people want.

* Ticketmaster is the 'exclusive' provider of tickets at all major venues. If you wanted to sell tickets, you couldn't at these places.

* Sony pays Konami to only publish a game (Metal Gear Solid 4) for their Playstation 3 platform.

* VISA and Mastercard pay stores to only provide their cards and exclude other cards.

* Google paying myspace to be the sole search provider for their web site (and MS doing the same with facebook).

In my perfect world, ALL of these contracts would be illegal because they artificially raise the barrier of entry for entrepreneurs like us. It is not the 'market' ie, customers deciding which service provider is the best and most innovative, it is the businesses themselves negotiating the best rate and putting smaller players out of the competition.

In my opinion, the above is no different then Standard Oil promising the rail road companies a paycheck each month for a discount on shipping costs (which is one of the main reasons they were identified as a monopoly that needed to be broken up). In fact, I don't think Standard Oil should of been broken up, they should of changed the laws so that it becomes easier for competitors to enter the market place (which they did as well - make rail road companies charge the same rates to everybody, etc.).

My question to hacker news - is there any basis to bringing up a case with the DoJ, name all the companies above in the suit, and get rid of these moronic 'exclusivity agreements' once and for all? Or does the company have to be an obvious monopoly (ala Standard Oil/Ticketmaster) and even then is the only recourse to break up the company (which is incredible stupid)?
Nope, that's a misconfigured server, an error that only crops up when using multiple server without having sync'd some keys in the machine.config properly.
They're typically side by side. Generally in-wheel systems are expensive, because they're harder to manufacture and of course the flywheel system should be suspended, so you have to fit a suspension system in there as well.

Space isn't at a premium in cars, and on motorscooters and motorcycles they just use a high rpm engine (10000 rpm in typical operation) to have smoother torque output.
A simple explaination of the financial mess that we are in ... from one of us
I have been reading bitter opinions about Nik Cubrilovic. And not a single opinion from his perspective. I have no idea if this guy is honest & loyal to his investors, not in returning cash, but in terms of the effort he put into his company.

But this opens a question of will power, morale and handling failure graciously in startup founders. It was depressing to read this post by clay cook. http://www.gooruze.com/members/claycook/blog/119381/My-exper...

Nik has commented in the above post. Quite head strong yet I somehow feel sad about his state and what everyone is expecting him to do in such a situation. He is bankrupt, his company is broke and people are going public in harassing him for the money they invested into the company.

May be he was not fair and just made merry of the investors money. But the treatment somehow is inhumane. The same guys invested in him, isn't it their mistake in judging him too?
A common problem when optimizing COUNT()
Moon landing, arpanet...
"Balance burst into tears, and took the podium briefly, shouting hysterically “don’t you people get it? We don’t want to create meaningless drivel!"

Yes, it's satire.
Where does he have the money to do this from? It must be quite expensive. Does he work in insurance or something, and this is his hobby?
I'd hate to come face-to-face with a Silverfish Extreme. Eww.
We'd scale from 300 to 700 bar as the market allows. In the Asian market, for example, range and bulk is less of an issue than cost.

We're actually aiming at creating a scooter first, and other vehicles later.

The hydrogen tanks are much more sophisticated than we need. In particular they require a plastic liner (because hydrogen is so damned small). We just need carbon fiber wound tanks. These are manufactured to a higher precision but are not fundamentally different from 300 bar tanks which are fairly cheap (ie: you can buy single quantities of 9 L tanks for $500 - $600).

It's only a guess, but we think we can keep the tank price for a scooter below $1000, and for a car, below $3000. This is dependent on carbon fiber prices, and how efficient we can make the engine and drivetrain.

The important thing is that we can expect prices to improve handsomely while t goes to infinity, whereas batteries have had a lot of the manufacturing improvements that they're going to get.
If the info in that screenshot is a representative sample:

BillOReilly.com gets ~68 premium account signups per day. Half choose the monthly plan, $4.95, and the other half choose the annual plan, $49.95. Daily revenue: $1,900. Annual revenue: $680,000.
Empirically, when you improve the weight of a car by a factor of 10% it improves the fuel usage by a factor of nearly 8%. Ballast is an expensive way to get stability.
Tweader: Yet Another Attempt at Tracking Twitter Conversations
Modern cars are quite complicated devices, even if the median vehicle contains no technical innovation at all. This is one reason we're doing a scooter first.
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Physics shows that basketball penalty shots should probably be underhand.
The Arc tutorial is quite excellent. A friend used it as an introduction to programming: great stuff.
Ballmer told attendees that he is going to stay on at Microsoft until Microsoft’s search share exceeds Google’s

Not going anywhere for a while?
But did beta testers and other customers actually say they hated such applications?

Is there any truth to this "satire"?
Geez, the drama.

How has her life been ruined?