skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting aside the future predictions, the first hurdle for Android is to match the iPhone mobile web browsing experience. I hope they succeed, because opening up the handset market, and moving smartphones from early adopters to mature users will be critical in helping make some of Rubin’s predictions come true.
Yeah... So I think this article might be a bit out of date.

Original posting about Shuttleworth:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=301738
I love you for sharing this tip. I've got a 10 incher so it won't make big pies but I can definitely get something fast and tasty going on.
True, especially if they use the word "shuffle"... To me that brings to mind shuffling a deck of cards first - which is somewhat analogous the "swap elements" array shuffling technique.
> there's the new V8 JavaScript virtual machine with its boasts of near-native code performance,

What does that even mean? Your JavaScript will run as fast as highly optimized assembly? Or even normally compiled C? I think not.

It does JIT JavaScript to machine code, so in that sense it's exactly "native code performance"
Official T-Mobile G1 Site
When taken too far, sure. But honestly if you can't use your money to spend more time doing things you love, and less time doing things you hate, then what's the point?
I'm sorry about the swipe, Brandon. I was just annoyed, because there were a couple of disparaging comments about the stack overflow articles. I should have handled that a bit more tactfully. My bad.
I honestly hope that Android will be notable for the kind of ecosystem an open platform provides.

I could care less about web browsing on my mobile, the only use I've managed to come up with is reading my RSS feeds while on the toilet, which honestly isn't that useful.
Probably a stupid question, but what would happen if you gave mortgagees an option to buy back their own loans at some level of discount?
I think a mashup is a more accurate description than steal.

FWIW.
And just try doing a search for "citation needed" to get an idea of the number of Knol pages that are copy/paste from Wikipedia without even trying.
Making Hulu, BBC iPlayer Worldwide | Is It Time To Overhaul Territorial Licensing?
The new blogroll
Canned Beans. Chick Peas are my favourite. Open the can and eat with a fork or spoon. Best to use the cans that can be opened by hand to avoid excessive preparation time.
Yeah, Costco is a good idea. But it still isn't as "cheap" as beans and rice at about $1-$2/meal.
While I agree, after a winter of YC, then a spring and summer of no YC, I'm looking forward to visiting the next round this winter to get my rice and beans fix ;)
Stanford B School Professor on How To Fight Open Source
Shuffling a deck of cards is a very simple problem in randomized algorithms and something that anyone who took a course in the area should know how to do (maybe not the fastest way, or with a full proof of correctness, but still).

Here's an easy way that mirrors insertion sort:

for i=0 to a.length-1

x <- random number between i and a.length-1

swap(a[i], a[x])

induction gives a proof of correctness

[note: as sown points out this is known as the Knuth shuffle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_shuffle]
A new version of AmigaOS
"... I've created a slinkset ..."

Tried it but having trouble putting a non-hackernews article. Also noted if you have a slinkset login, you should be able to login straight away.
"There is no greater mistake than when a young man believes he will succeed with borrowed money."

Isn't VC money essentially borrowed money?
Back in the VHS days, copies used to be difficult to obtain and poor quality.

Now, copies are easier to obtain (instant download, no-DRM) and equivalent or better quality...

Some will point at iTunes, but I can't get much of what I want at iTunes. Equally, iTunes limits the devices I can play back on. It's not a bad model, but it's a walled garden and will always be limited by that.

Basically - it's broken - territorial licensing aside.. there is going to reach a point where distributors need to take a completely different tack, or simply sink.
Yeah, people totally take them "personally"and start "useless wars."
We are truly living in the future now.
Google's brand is not a commodity. Google's technology for "technology for aggregation and distribution" is not a commodity.

"Once the content creators and owners realize that simple fact, then we might have a turnaround in the media sector." - yea, Google is empowering more content creators to realize revenue, through adsense, than any newspaper ever did or could.
Finally someone really big in the mac dev community stands up and says it all. Smaller and lesser known developers would have been afraid of the consequences of possibly being blacklisted/banned/rejected. There would be an uproar bigger than all the collective previous backlash (i am rich, netshare, podcaster, mailwrangler etc.) if Wil Shipley or his products were, and I doubt Apple would be that foolish...

I really would have liked to cut Apple some slack because the app store is sort of new, but some of the stuff happening right now is making even the more well known iPhone developers nervous/unhappy/outright pissed off/unwilling to work on any more iPhone applications. Besides, Shipley is right on target in everything he mentions. I'm sitting on a couple applications and ideas just because I know they would be rejected by the app store morality police. Oh well.
UBS' Diamond Smuggling Scandal
tech books that jump straight into examples without providing overarching context drive me mad-- which is one of the reasons why i absolutely love the rails way.
Here is one: Lamb cotelets with couscous. It takes 5 minutes to cook and is quite delicious. It's in the Jamie Oliver book.
Lead Generation, B2B Lead Generation Services, Lead Generation Company
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When I have already taken a whole ton of college classes, what is the point?

Did you take the SAT after you had completed a ton of college classes?

[Edit: abridged]
I suppose the eggs are cheap because of the disgusting "chicken batteries" that produce them? I don't trust eggs...
I have to admire the plucky little lady...All these years, and all these troubles, and yet, somehow, Amiga keeps plugging along.

I moved to Linux and Windows (for games) in 1995 from an Amiga 3k. And I found that Linux had more of everything that I loved about the Amiga: Community, great independent software developers producing innovative and strange things, a culture of teaching and learning, and a focus on openness and interoperability (ARexx was slick). So, I haven't really looked back (much), but I certainly learned a lot and had a lot of fun with my Amigas. But I don't feel like the world is really missing anything these days by the lack of a mainstream Amiga product...for a few years in the 90's I occasionally wish for stuff I'd used on my Amiga (the IRC and email clients I used, for example, were awesome and it took years for me to be as happy with alternatives on Linux or Windows).
It wasn't DNS, since I'm using the registrar's and just doing a CNAME entry, so I never changed nameservers. It actually had something to do with a cookie apparently. Now it all seems to be working fine.

There was something about the redirect looping. I have so little clue about that stuff. Either way though, it's not a slinkset problem.
Obama advocates reform that puts bills, meetings, corporate tax breaks online
Not sure. I thought it would put the link there and then the text once you clicked it, but that's how it behaved.

At least it should be gone soon.
Yet the technology for aggregation and distribution is a commodity -- content is not a commodity.

That is a ridiculous statement. A commodity (in this context) is something that can be purchased from any vendor with very little preference from buyers. Price becomes the only differentiators.

The core has always been printing, not content creation. Actually, what is killing newspapers is that most of what they do/did was either a monopolised commodity tied up with printing or simply no longer necessary. What previously made a newspaper a newspaper?

Classifieds/Notifications They were the only ones that had the ability to make new information available. They competed with each other locally for a piece of this goldmine. Monopoly gone and now unnecessary.

News Aggregation - Come on. How much of what papers print is printing & delivering what other papers/wires/independent journalists wrote. Well, we don't need them for that anymore.

"Analysis" - As far as commenting & analysing all that aggregated info, well they can still do that. But you need to compete with professors, grandmas, retired politicians & anyone else with access to Wordpress, an endless sea of them. You need to be very good & papers certainly don't have a monopoly on quality.

distribution & printing - No longer necessary.

What do they do that isn't like that (no longer necessary part of a monopoly)? Their representatives like to point to investigative journalism (first hand research & fact finding) & community binding (everyone reads the same paper). The latter we can do without, the former is a commodity, of sorts. Actually, not always, but doesn't justify the whole shebang - sorry.

Bottom line is that 1. online ads aren't worth as much, 2. classifieds no longer belong to them, 3. we don't need them to print paper & deliver it to us & 4. they have competition for content creation. Tough bananas.
If users only want headlines & don't care where they are, Newspapers are the commodity.
That sounds like alot of work ;)

I might as well just have unfriendly signups!
I think you are wrong.

A. Do you think that they'll be better off if google can't access their sites? As well off as Britannica?

B. You can exclude your site from Google's index. When they suddenly wake up & sue, how will they explain never exercising that?
You could also try to do content-based duplicate detection: rather than looking at the URL, try to determine whether a new article is substantively similar to a previously-posted one. Getting that to work with a high degree of accuracy would take some thought, however. Perhaps there's some work on this in the information retrieval literature?
So I asked a Mac user once where his delete key was... and he told me he preferred it as a key combo.

This story relates because I think Apple hates people who type. And it also used to hate people who moused too...
Why in the world wouldn't you just keep them in your pocket? Diamonds aren't metallic... they're not going to set off the metal detector.
someone from Wikipedia should start sending license violation notifications...
Having worked with formaldehyde I expect that is a horrific practice for all concerned. Very shocking.

I'm not sure why, as a vegetarian, you feel you don't need to worry about avian flu. You catch it by being in close proximity to live poultry, not by eating it. As you've already said that your meat is dead when you buy it I don't see how your risk is any less than mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_shuffle

Neat!
I had to come up with such an algorithm a while ago and don't remember it being very difficult. Later I learned "my" algorithm is officially acknowledged, there was a HN post about it a while ago (some other guys stole my idea and slapped their name on the algorithm, damn it).

Of course my Java-Dev-friend only answered "just use the shuffle method of the Array collection".

Besides, I'd rather work for a company that asks too difficult questions than too easy ones.
Yes. Anyone can create an article about anything. The hope is that over time the better article about something will rise to the top and somehow become the article.

I swear sometimes Google is run by geeks who read Ayn Rand one day and thought "gee the market economy can solve any problem!"
done... http://www.thehackerforum.com/
National Reverse Phone Lookups
I was searching for information about a phone number and I cam across this site. It gave me detailed information about the location of the number, and could even give me the name of the owner.
AIG's ex-CEO refuses $22 million severance payout
I think it's a cool idea. Hackers tend (IMO) to take a gestalt view on the world which makes them naturally interested in much more than just programming and startups. If HN isn't the place to satisfy those needs, I don't mind seeing someone else give it a go.
I would actually say Django has a very poor HTML escaping facility. (Though, better than Rails, for what that's worth.)

I feel like I've used template languages that actually understand XML (or HTML) and thus have context sensitive escapes. It was probably written in something gross like Java, so URLs were output verbatim in links, while say instances of "/search?q=" + someVariable would url escape someVariable in links, and html escaped in tag contents.
indian fare from trader joe's is bomb, particularly if you're vegetarian and broke. it's $2 a packet and all you need to do is just squeeze it out and add starch (the nan they have in the bread section is also pretty solid).

also, living in sf, burritos are the cheapest and most filling (not to mention tasty) takeout you can get hands down.
@pg, what's your rate these days? Haven't had any of that slow cooked chili in ages :)
>>After ingredients he is probably paying 100 dollars. That's between 2 and 3 dollars a meal,

Uh, fuzzy math? He's paying $60/week + food, so $100/week would be more like $7/meal (assuming breakfast isn't a fully cooked meal since eggs/pancakes don't cook so well). Would be $15/meal if he's only talking dinners.

Still seems like a good deal considering the time he saves, and I'd like to have a mother's cooking rather than my own feeble attempts :)
You Think Knol Sucks? I've Got the Perfect Knol Article For You...
Some background: there is a "rental crisis" in Australia, attributed to an economic boom which means:

- young people with skills in high demand are cashed up and moving out of home earlier

- there's a load of skilled and semi-skilled migrants coming into the country

The media will commonly run stories about 30 potential tenants turning up to inspections. This is the extreme - some locations/price ranges are not suffering high demand, and most properties fall somewhere in between.
The real problem with PHP is that (despite the ability to run it from command line, etc...) a language centered around web application. That's also it's greatest strength: it's seamless and easy to integrate with Apache.

I wonder why the author wouldn't consider Perl: powerful Apache integration (mod_perl), performance and great deal of expressive power. A PHP code monkey could be trained to modify Perl and the presence of powerful and mature testing tools (e.g. Test::More) and common libraries (DBI, myriad of XML libraries, template libraries, etc...) can minimize the amount of damage a junior coder will do.

(And if you're unable to use mod_perl, using CGI::Fast suffices for most cases and is trivial with mod_fastcgi).
Off-topic alternative: TheHackerForum.com
After reading Matt's post about a place for off-topic discussions, I came to the conclusion that a forum would be much better suited for that kind of stuff.

A couple of reasons for this:

- A better sense of community

- The ability to categorize submissions

- Still have use of moderators

- Avatars and other goodies that come with VB

I'm sure you can think of a few others. Anyways, the utility of this can be determined by you guys - make use of either thehackerforum.com or nonhackernews.com for your off-topic stuff. I just thought I'd provide the choice for those who prefer forums.

Let me know if you have ideas for more forums or want to be a moderator
I don't mind about off-topic posts since what i'm looking for mostly is short, witty / insightful comments

for example, pg may not comment on obviously "hacker" stuff like php thread, but he might on 'non-hacker' posts like healthy food, stock market, etc

that's why i avoid (skimming) posts with php, python, ruby, windows, linux, gnu, oss, fsf, mac, osx, apple since the probability that i get great comments is approaching zero [over time]

Yes, there's a "comments" link up there, but i still have to manually search

My suggestion is that hn to have an alert icon where the list of my favorite "thought leaders" comment on the post - think about gmail's star

so if a post has a star next to it, then maybe pg and some thought leaders comment on it ... that post could be interesting

"always take the harder path" ... commenting is harder than upvoting
...and that's expensive rice and beans. ;-)
The latter - I have enough food for all my meals (lunches and dinners) each week. I often have more than enough, and share with my roommates and friends.
http://thehackerforum.com

For the lazy.
Windows 7 must appeal to geeks--or else
Coping with Speech Noise in the Modern Workplace
Guideline-lawyer! :-) I assume that by post, you mean comment.

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site.

(1). I suggest that the "intention of the guideline" is to reduce cluttering the site with meta-discussion, and it would serve this purpose best if comment was construed as including a submission.

(2). in terms of the "letter of the guideline", what is the meaning of the words comments and submissions? The guidelines have separate sections for each, and clearly use the terminology used else on the site, which talks of comments on articles and articles that are submitted. A broader construction of "comments" as "things that comment on other things" is not the literal meaning.

Therefore, I agree that the excerpt about comments does not include submissions, and I was wrong. However, I think it should include submissions. :-) Another argument is that submissions about the site are not "On-topic", by this definition:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I'm not sure that complaining about the site, and attempting to modify other people's behaviour, gratifies one's intellectual curiosity (in contrast, a discussion about how a social site can be run does do this).

However, I think in future, I might leave all such discussions to my betters, and focus on things that I find interesting, instead of trying to "improve" the site.
You can get a program manager position right out of school these days? Damn I'm so cursed for being gen-x.
if you have iphone use this app http://app-store.appspot.com/?url=viewSoftware%3Fid%3D285538...
colinplamondon, thank you for submitting my site to HN. I was debating it but didn't want my first submission to be mistaken as self promotional blog spam. I'm glad you and others have enjoyed it =)
non-unix system can't appeal to geeks
Yup. Had no choice. The second to last time I took the SAT was a few years back when I was still in like junior high and they were offering the one out of 1600. All the schools wanting SAT scores want the new one out of 2400 now. Ergo, I needed to retake it (well, more specifically, take the newer version of the exam) for applications.
It isn't that "no company" is willing to pay 25 cents, it's that many of the "qualified to buy" companies are unwilling to do so while others are buying as much as they can afford. Me (and you) are locked out.

As to what I know, do the arithmetic with some horrendous default and forclosure recovery rates and see what you think the net present value of these loans is. (BTW - It's not just securitized home loans. There are also corporate bonds that are selling at a significant discount. Some are bargains, some aren't.)

However, in a very real sense, it doesn't matter what I know. If I'm willing to risk my money, why should the govt risk yours?
Firefox has a (to my knowledge -- undocumented) bookmark keyword feature which allows assigning keywords to bookmarks. These keywords can then be typed into the location bar and firefox with automatically load the bookmark. The keyword input box only pops up when you right-click on the bookmark and go to properties. This along with the search keywords probably account for ~40% of my speed when surfing. (tabs account for a lot of the remaining 60%).
TipJoy as email postage?
I think you are both right - it is a few bucks a meal for food, but when you factor in the labor costs into the total of what I actually end up paying, it is in the range of 5-10 a meal based on the week - some weeks I get shrimp, some weeks it's turkey!

This week (first batch), it's Greek food! Kabobs and some salad. No idea what's coming Friday =)
Making long-term decisions like where to live and work on the basis of short-term variables like the current economic climate is not a great idea, IMHO. It's hard to forecast economic conditions any significant time into the future, and the Canadian economy is deeply linked with the US economy anyway. In my experience (as a Canadian), you'll find more opportunities in the right areas of the US than you will in Canada, typically for better pay as well. There are lots of nice things about living in Canada, but purely for career advancement, I think the US is still the better choice.
I have had friends tell me what I should watch out or I'm going to get poisoned =P
Zoho Part 2: The Cookbook
subreddits have moderation

But I like slinkset - and its UI is more like oldschool HN than web 2 reddit.
http://nonhackernews.com/ would have been a better place to post this.
done: http://www.reddit.com/r/nonhackernews/

note it's moderated (Matt, you can have this if you want - just a demo).
16 Legendary Women Entrepreneurs
Would all of this "off-topic" go away if there was a reddit like check box for topics in the settings, HN & NHN that users could turn on/off. That way, a user can just turn off all NHN.

Sealing these two off with two different sites seems a bit much. Are strictly HN people so offended by NHN that they want it of there GD site altogether.
You're brilliant! I would have never thought of that, and yet I think that this is absolutely a trend we'll start seeing. Outsourcing is going to go to the neighborhood.
Quite a few airports, ask people to empty their pockets and pat you down as part of the security check.
"Rise to the top" implies a ranking; I'm guessing that Knol simply Pagerank for ranking. I don't see any explicit ranking.

So, this is the old problem of how to rank... Maybe social news style voting? But different from reddit/dig/HN, because it wouldn't be "news", so newness shouldn't be a key factor.
Boulder Startup Developer Job Fair
Never heard of a mass import/interview like this - certainly seems like a fun idea.
I remember diving into ligatures when I was hacking my thesis in LaTeX. The geekiness of learning LaTeX made writing up tolerable.

And the output was spectacular, if only in looks and not in content :)
I rarely downvote, but your comment has left me wishing I had a few more to spare.
the funniest thing is that someone in the comments says, "this is web 2.0".
My attempt at taming HN <http://pipes.yahoo.com/lunatech/hackernews>;
That's usually larded with fat...?
Well, nobody pays Oracle list prices. Well some people might, but Oracle will always cut you a deal. They would much rather sell you a site license for a price you can (just about) afford than have you go somewhere else.
I would suggest taking one's mineral-supplement separately from mineral-binding chemicals.