skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I just wish they were more consistent. I don't care that they reject apps they don't like on their own service for their own device. I do care that they let some through that are really unpolished. If I made a really stellar app and put lots of time and effort into it, I would hate for it to drown in a sea of inferior half-assed apps.

The App Store is for business. If I want to do something more exploratory or academic I do it in an open system.
yeah man, but if they search for my exact name, its just me - i'm trying to clean up the google results for my name. :|
thanks a lot !!!!
Turns out that this spelling isn't that common. His YC profile is 6th in the google results.
Why You Should Hate the Treasury Bailout Proposal
i disagree with his implied comments on the dollar. this is a dead currency as of friday

The interview is from January, which in Hedge Fund Manager years is, like, three aeons ago.

You'll notice that the dollar has been going up recently, and is in fact pretty much back to historical norm levels, so it seems the market does not share your pessimism.
Anyway, I wanted to let you know that, behind closed doors, Paulson describes the plan differently. He explicitly says that it will buy assets at above market prices (although he still claims that they are undervalued) because the holders won't sell at market prices. Anna Eshoo pressed him on how the government can compel the holders to sell, and he basically dodged the question. I think that's because he didn't want to admit that the government would just keep offering more and more.
Is the US past its prime?
Having watched both this country's recent economic events, its loss of leadership in science and technology, and its drift away from reason, I'm coming to the conclusion that the US is no longer really the "place to be". Do you agree? Why or why not?
It doesn't really make sense though. I assume the aim isn't to go 'off the grid' but push something to the top of the results. Your CV perhaps?

Anyone looking, a recruiter for example, will have done countless similar searches and will know what looks natural. One result and then a bunch of mis-spellings will probably raise suspicion. I can understand trying to get rid of your embarrassing spring break photos but YC is only going to give a neutral or, more likely, positive impression and keep things looking natural.
200,000 Cores and 10 Petabytes: Blue Waters
No, I don't think so. I think there is entertainment, like reading a good book, or listening to good music, that is worth something because it ... helps you in some way, and entertainment like digg, which is just a complete time sink.

This essay by Neal Stephenson puts it into words better than I can: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/opinion/17stephenson.html
Firefox world proxy toolbar | MAKE MONEY ONLINE WITH HARRY
Already done. And successful enough to be acquired. Yet by no means 'killer'.

Rapid Messaging Service (RMS):
http://www.heyanita.com
If the bank applied the advice "don't endorse without security" the economic disaster we see today wouldn't have occured.
I'm trying to lean Haskell. Again. First time I thought it would be easy. "I can learn any language in a week" I thought - as long as it is Python or Java or something closely resembling, it turned out. Gave up fairly quickly.

Second time I was serious, invested a significant amount of time, but still gave up when I reached monads.

Then I taught myself scheme and worked my way through SICP, just to be better prepared. Now I'm trying again, and it makes a little more sense, but I'm still stuck at monad transformers.

If someone can learn Haskell in a week I hate them. And I hate all monad tutorials. "Monads are easy, they are just like a conveyor belt" "No, they are just like a spacesuit!" "Monads are like a box of apples, that magically transforms into a box of oranges!" "No, its easy: Monads are just like green monsters whits eats values, but when you kill the monsters they puke the values out again - you could have invented them yourselves! Perhaps you already have!"
Going back as far as 1604, King James I of England had the following to say about smoking:

A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/james1.html
Also amusements parks, museums, day trips, parks, restaurants, cruises, beaches.
Interesting. Grades would be a much more useful metric if the course description and course syllabus were available as well.
Interesting that you first give a reasonable explanation - and then immediately revert to social pressure (granny method) while saying something incorrect, since it is fundamentally better in terms of bio-mechanics - read the article.
Free work for web sytes creators
Free work for web sytes creators and over specialists.
What's keeping you from waiting until this launches and then taking the idea and running with it? The fact that this'll never be launched.

This is actually a good business model. For years, people have been toiling with the three stage model: 1) whatever, 2) ???, 3) profit. This new method, that cuts it down to 1) ???, 2) profit, is revolutionary! It'll totally undercut everyone on efficiency.
The Japanese seem more ready than most to project human feelings onto cartoon characters. Thus the popularity of cartoons focused at young adults in Japan, as well as the phenomenon of cartoon pornography.
I think to determine if your tastes are aligned with others' (me, for instance), you'd have to say whether you liked Cryptonimicon and the Baroque cycle. I loved the first, and enjoyed the second.
and who will have the contacts to gather the initial team

If they are connected, shouldn't they be possible to find through your own social/business network?
The lady at the book store said it was great but hard to get into.

You do know that Stephenson's latest works have been nothing like "Snowcrash" or "The Diamond Age", right?
"The ending is my favorite Stephenson ending."

... you mean, he's included one this time?
Really amazing pictures. Glad you put this up :)
I always thought the correct buzzword for what he's describing is "Unobtrusive Javascript." Google backs me with 120k search results for Unobtrusive vs 5.4k for Unintrusive. I do realize that the meaning is similar.
Palin Hacker Caught - Son of Democratic TN State Rep.
texting is a form of asynchronous communication who places the greater burden to the sender who has to spend more time typing a message, while a phone call can be faster.

But, text messaging is considerate to the receiver, as it lets the receiver consume the message at their own time, while a call would have to interrupt the person whatever they are doing.

Text is better in very noisy environments, bars/clubs/concerts.

In Europe at least, texting as always been a little bit cheaper than a phone call, and the receiver usually doesn't pay for received messages.
He forced a password reset by answering questions about Palin’s birthdate, zip code and where she met her spouse, Wasilla High School.

By this admission, the media needs to drop the word "HACK" right now because that's not hacking. That's social engineering.
On the Mac it's CMD-Shift-{ and CMD-Shift-}, which is more of a pain to use quickly.
Trendy Podcasts Submittal
Well, good luck. I don't agree with your philosophy, but there are always people that will.
That was awesome.
Further pics:
http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5136
that is a nice option too, but i already hit a mail to PG asking for a delete!!
I can imagine this in 2108:

look at those old pictures of New York, they are 2d but still very cool!
Python's Super is nifty, but you can't use it
Boring? Coming from FOSS, I'm rather enjoying this feeling of vindication. Best part is this protectionism helps nobody, apple least of all.
But it's more than just convenience. It's also the impersonal part of the text that makes it so popular. You can write stuff in text messages that would be wierd saying out loud.

Just like me writing this message to you - I can think about what I am writing, revise it, etc.
The color photos shot during the war were mind-blowing.
Fund Raising 101
Believe me, I've tried. But no one in my network has both skills: capable of developing a complex website AND capable of being a founding partner.
I may be wrong, but my gut feeling, for a variety of reasons - is that I need someone with more experience. What yo suggest would be fine if I just needed a good developer. But I'm going to try...
Windows 7 Starts to Come Into Focus. Slowly.
The Power of Introspection and Detached Analysis
Seems I'll no longer get creativity points for giving the elite commandos a form of "half-telepathy" identical to what was described in the article (except with transmitting equipment implanted in the cranium as well) in that near-future sci-fi story I was planning on writing...
There is no difference to MSM.
Providing you do good work, word of mouth is the best selling method. All my projects comes from client recommendations or repeated work.
Well, this settles the question, posted in an earlier thread, about whether the culprit was very very smart or very very stupid.

(Unless, of course, this guy is innocent, in which case the real culprit was very very smart.)

In other news, I sure hope everyone who feels compelled to express an opinion about what should happen to this kid now will stop for a moment and consider whether their opinion would be the same if he were the son of a Republican senator and got caught doing the same thing to a Democratic candidate, and to make absolutely sure that their opinion would be the same either way.
What can CPython learn from the new JavaScript VMs?
Doesn't stability usually improve from one point of contact to two? It certainly does on your feet.
Failure must always be an option
(1) Almost every high level language has a bit-struct-style binary parsing library. Python, Perl, and Ruby all have libpcap file parsing libraries. And yet the overwhelming majority of raw packet processing code is still written in C, because it's just not that hard.

(2) Ok, type checking is kind of the point of OCaml. If you're into that sort of thing, go for it.

(3) High level languages are slow and getting much, much faster. Javascript, Python, and (soon) Ruby are getting JIT'd to native code and threaded C calls. And all of them have foreign function interfaces that let you call into C/C++ code when you actually care about speed.

(4) I doubt anyone's choosing OCaml over Python for the library support.
Yeah I'm sure people on the street will stop buying Apple after this gets out eh!
I'm in the same position and did the same thing he listed without overthinking it. #4 and #3 are the most important. Do for others first and be patient and it will come back multiple folds.
There seems to be quite a lot of support out there for jailbreaking etc if you want to install non-approved apps.
One proxy is never enough. You need more. Like seven.
TIP #328: Coroutines
> I sure hope everyone who feels compelled to express an opinion...

... will do so elsewhere?
I only said I was willing to entertain it, I didn't promise it would make sense.
Social engineering is people hacking. He didn't hack any people. He subverted a poorly designed password retrieval mechanism.

Just because he didn't use a personally crafted 0-day exploit doesn't mean he wasn't hacking (or cracking, if you're in to semantic debate).
Oh I don't know, I think that "suitable punishments for computer criminals" is perfectly on-topic, as long as it's not too infected by boring politics.
does anyone here really think that a "l33t hax0r" was dumb enough to post a screen with the proxy url visible?
Disagree. Where else would you go? Every other country, viewed in objective terms and not "OMG USA suXors. I read it on reddit", seems worse.

I do think that if the current trend and velocity continues for another 10-15 years, this may no longer be the case...
And you think that your view that politics is boring is on-topic?
Over 9000.
The final chapter almost seemed to me like he was writing under duress.

Without wanting to spoil anything, it pretty much goes "Fine, you want an ending you bastards? Here's your fucking ending, they all fucking lived happily ever after. Happy now?"
How do they get the 500 trades figure, then?
snow crash was a literal page turner

A literal page turner, as in you literally turned the pages?

Seriously though, as I recall an awful lot of Snow Crash's exposition came from a series of interminable dialogues between Hiro and his AI librarian.
Also I had never seen "industry" as an adjective.

From wikipedia: "Generally industry is diligence, assiduity, hard work."
Perhaps it's more meta-ontopic.
I am referring to people you might know through degrees of separation -- not people you know directly. Our acquaintances know further acquaintances know further acquaintances, etc. The networks themselves network.
No. Google it.
How easily we are fooled: The rotating grid illusion
He was definitely emphasizing a focus on something "bigger" and a shift away from many of the current crop of apps/startups. Can't say I disagree with him either. There are so many smart people out there. We can definitely do more.
You can pretty much call the election right there gentleman.

I don't have any political preference in the matter (I'm an Aussie), but I predict that Republican extremists are going to take this and run with it as far as possible.

Not only are people going to see the Palin/McCain team as the underdog, because everyone loves an underdog, but they'll also be portrayed as the victim of evil attacks by the democrats (even though it was his son, and I'm sure his son has little political preferences yet)

That just sucks and frankly it scares the living shit out of me that someone like Palin could potentially end up being the "leader of the free world" when she has shown some incredibly odd positions over time.

EDIT - just adding this in as a clarification incase anyone wants to call this anti-right propaganda (as I saw myself downmodded earlier, if anything I'm anti-noob)

I've got no problem whatsoever with McCain being President if his age wasn't a factor. He's earned his right. It's just that there is a growing anti-American sentiment in the rest of the world (I see it all the time in Aus) and it would be a step backwards to have someone like Palin being literally a heartbeat away from the top spot, especially with the absolute mess that it appears Bush has made.

You guys need a leader, not a pretty face.
Fred Wilson's Web 2.0 Keynote
So girls are getting virtual boyfriends now? Great. My chances were bad enough already.
Do you think the view that politics is not boring is on topic (or meta-on-topic)?
What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
Unfortunately, Wall Street has already figured out an even better model:

1) Profit!
What's a good book? Harry Potter? Shakespear? What's good music? Beethoven? T-Pain?

More importantly - who is the judge? The government? You? If so, then are you allowed to decide what is 'good' for others? Are they allowed to decide what is 'good' for you?

You see what I mean? There is no absolute when it comes to entertainment. There is no good or bad. There is just stuff that entertains, and stuff that does not.
The Smoking Gun: Arresting Images
This is great. In particular:

"What tends to happen in financial markets, is bad things happen when you really divorce the people who take the risk from the people who understand the risk."
It's not the JS engine speed - it's the connection/download speed that matters, especially for iPhone v1.

Apps were essential even before the app store opened. Jailbreaking, yo, remember?
That is (as far as I know) only voice-matching. It matches the name you said to whatever pre-recorded read in name you have assigned to a contact.

So it's not like it actually understands what you say, more that this input "pretty much" matches this pre-recorded file.

There's a long way to from there to full, usable voice-recognition.
The only thing surprising about this article is that people would actually pay money to see his website...
Extratasty - Get your booze on - Drink of the day is "French 75" by ewan | 09/21/08
Neat, but I suspect there are underwater worlds that look even more alien.
OCaml's type-checker is pretty awesome. You get the benefits of static typing, although you almost never have to declare types.

This also makes interfaces easier to understand. You can often understand what a function does without looking at the documentation or code. For example, let's say you've never heard of a map before, and you peek in the .mli file for the List module and see:

List.map : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a list -> 'b list.

This means that it takes a function (whose type signature is 'a -> 'b) and a list of 'a, and returns a list of 'b. Your first guess is that it produces the item-for-item image of a list under a function, e.g. f [a0; a1; ... an] -> [(f a0); (f a1); ... ; (f an)]... and you'd be right.

Pattern-matching is also a huge plus of the language, because it saves you from having to do a lot of ugly if/then kung fu and makes the code more readable.
The benchmark is useless because the machine was testing itself.
Peter Norvig at Startup School 08
(1) Erlang, Ocaml, Common Lisp, Scheme, and Haskell can all, with relatively mundane code, parse a TCP/IP packet in 4 lines, nicely formatted, and some of them gets it type-correct at the same time. The problem isn't that you cannot do it in C, the problem is that you are wasting your time doing it. When it is reasonably fast as well, there is no excuse.

(2) Indeed.

(3) JIT and tricks from Self will not make the code faster than a well-implemented Ocaml. Also, the complexity of said implementations leaves much to be desired. If you know how little optimization the Ocaml compiler does when compiling to native code you are pretty amazed that it is so damn fast.

The point here is: will $LANG scale along the speed axis? Currently (it may change) Python doesn't. It scales up to a point at which you go write your code in C/C++. JSON decoders/encoders that are fast happens to be a nice example. Contrast that with Haskell, Ocaml, Common Lisp where you can improve your program and scale it far more on the speed axis before you have to succumb to Fortran77 for your libatlas ;)

For most problems, this scalability is not that important. But then again, there are some where it is crucial you can get that extra speed.

Personally, I program in both Ocaml and Python at work. We have most web-stuff written in Python whereas some backend parts, where correctness and speed matters, are written in Ocaml. We could have used C/C++ at the backend, but our development time is much lower in ML with a fraction of the effort required.

On the other hand, the Pylons framework does wonders for the web-frontend. We don't need the type-correctness as much there, the speed doesn't matter that much either as long as we can serve pages up quickly enough. I would be sorry using Ocaml there as it would hamper the development speed and take more time.

Bottom line: I dual-wield!
Lets say you could go to UK. What are the objective terms in which UK is worse than US?
Silicon Valley's resiliency might get tested
I think you're confused, here is the robots.txt from this site (linked by you)

User-Agent: * Disallow: /x? Disallow: /vote? Disallow: /reply?

user is not disallowed anywhere, vote? and reply? and x? are, but they are not content, they are actions, basically all of the content of this site is indexed.

Your idea of site owners being selective about SE makes no sense to me. Would users then have to use 5 or 6 different search engines to accommodate all possible webmaster preferences?
Hypothetically, it is really easy get away with something like this:

1) Go to a well-trafficked coffee shop that you've never been to before. Pay with cash.

2) Use a bootable Linux CD or a virtual machine for the actual "attack." (Xen, VMWare, anything.)

3) Spoof your wireless MAC address. (if you are paranoid)

4) Perform your "special investigation." Post your info to wikileaks.

5) Reboot without the Linux CD or securely delete the virtual machine when you are done.

6) Don't brag about it.

See, you don't even need a proxy. It's not that hard.

How can anyone be so stupid to get caught anyway?
That doesn't make any sense. The current bagholders have much more motivation to get rid of them. And since the US is the only buyer (unless they do set up an auction) then they have all the power to set price.

Take each asset, calculate fair value, apply 30-50% discount, and put in a limit bid. If someone wants to buy them, let them.
Wingman: In-Browser Validation
Yep, nothing says India like weird plants.
At least the photos are credited
Let's Hope It Works (And Even Then It's Painful)
Python already has Psyco[1] and some people claim[2] that Python+Psyco is faster than V8.

[1] http://psyco.sourceforge.net/introduction.html

[2] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/f90342f5...
Ask HN: How to store user/pass securely in the browser?
I'm working on a web app that will let the user interface with a 3rd party site via my service. In order for my service to utilize the API of the 3rd party, it requires the username and password for each individual user's account. I don't want to store people's private information on my service though. Not only do I feel personally uncomfortable doing that when other services want me to, and I don't want to be like that, I don't want to be in a position where someone potentially hacking my service can get all of my users' info.

I will have SSL setup for all communications between the user's browser and my service, and the API servers for the 3rd party are also via SSL.

I know I can very easily store the user's U/P in a cookie on their local machine(s), but that in itself presents security problems for them.

So, I need to be able to store the U/P somewhere. I don't want to make it so the user has to retype their info every single time they use my service, because it then reduces the click-and-go functionality of my service to zero.

What's the best approach in this kind of situation? Am I missing something obvious, or do I just have to bite the bullet and take the least-onerous option that's available?
@Seedcamp: Winners & more winners at startup central
> It's just that there is a growing anti-American sentiment in the rest of the world

Of course there is - you feel safe. When that changes, you'll be pro-American again. Yes, we've noticed that when something bad happens, it's always "When will the Americans get here to help?" and (annoyingly often) "Why didn't the US stop {whatever} from happening to us?"

Feel free to rely on the Euros instead. Heck, maybe the Chinese or Russians will come through.

BTW - Your assumption that Americans should care about how "the world" feels is probably wrong. Yes, I know that you think that we should, but ....
School desks: the next generation
zip archive on wikileaks

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_Yahoo_inbox_2008
Not even that. Social engineering would be if he tricked Palin into divulging the information.

It's really just being able to use Google.
Then again, you don't have to be very l33t to do what he did.
As noted in the article, there are plenty of private buyers for these toxic assets. The problem is that the buyers want to buy them at $0.10 on the dollar while the banks want to sell them at far above market value ($0.60 on the dollar).

While the current bagholders have much motivation to get rid of them, they won't sell them at market value because doing so would render many of them insolvent. (Many of them are marking these assets at $0.60 on the dollar on their balance sheets).

So the Treasury is planning to help out the banks by giving these banks what they want - ability to sell the assets at above market price. (which results in a transfer of losses from the banks to the taxpayers)