skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I don't want to say that companies like Twitter are not creating technologies (Craiglist certainly isn't). They are certainly innovative. But it's not in the same as inventing the internet.

Take a simplified example of a printing press. One step is developing the steam powered press (NASA like). Another is inventing the newspaper (more like twitter).
Trying to quantify these things is like trying to quantify the importance of joints in mountain climbing. Knuckles, Wrists, elbows or shoulders?
Detailed summary of MITs "Introduction to Algorithms", part 7
This is what I meant:

"You deposit $100,000 into a CD. The bank creates three loans based on the original $100,000 deposit. Loan /Asset #1 = $90,000 Loan/Asset #2 = $81,000
Loan/Asset #3 = $72,900. The total = $243,900 in assets for the bank. This is $243,900 in new money."... ..."After it pays you 5% interest, the bank has made a tidy profit of $238,900. ($243,900 - $5,000 = $238,900.)"

The crucial link that wasn't mentioned is that when as loan is issued that money is returned to a bank as a deposit (usually). Only then can then re-issue it as a loan.
If you remove the caret, it matches function names; with it, it won't work since there's no way to match the beginning of the string at that point.
No, they originally delivered 2-speed cars that were locked in 2nd gear -- and now they're replacing that gearbox with a one-speed gearbox that's a lot stronger.

They increased the power of the engine while waiting to fix the gearbox, and found the car now accelerates fine with only one gear.

-W
I'll drive the Tesla every day, as I do with my Lotus. Why drive a boring car to work?

-W
That's actually a good question. I haven't been on facebook much in a while but last night I decided to go and investigate the situation. I was actually pretty impressed by how things have changed and I think I'll be logging on more often.

As for the recent redesign, they had to do something to get everyone's profile organized, readable, and consistent again (while still giving people the ability to customize things and add apps) and they actually did a really fine job. It may be a little confusing and disorienting at first when you're expecting everything to be on a single page, but once you realize your profile is now made up of several different distinct pages (wall, info, etc.) it makes perfect sense and works smoothly.
The problem with the nested sets is that changing the tree can be slow. You need to update all the nodes with right/left pairs after the insertion/deletion point.
There are two more methods which can be of interest and don't suffer from this problem:
"Materialized path model" (which uses strings to encode the whole path to a node) and the "nested intervals tree encoding" (which could be the ideal solution if someone manages to implement it. I couldn't find a decent implementation):
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0402/0402051.pdf
Strangely, perhaps, our sales are up a lot lately...like 20%-30% in the past two months. Maybe it's just that we do a lot of international business and our products are on sale because of the USD deflation, I dunno.

But, I'm having a hard time seeing the storm from where I'm sitting. I know it's coming, and I'm tucking away a little cash and being cautious about spending, but so far, we're doing better than ever.

Anybody actually feeling the pinch yet, or is it all just a "something bad is coming" feeling?
Discovered it yesterday, found it handy just 30 minutes later. Cheers for making this!
...or google RMS!
MMA Gear
I was surfing the net and found this website. They have more MMA Gear than the store I normally buy from, and the price is right.
I think the nature of innovation has changed a little, too.

I used to work at NASA's TDRSS installation and innovation and new ideas are not really their thing. Maintaining their amazing uptime is, though.
Games vs. Real Life
Why have universities and established academics been slow to embrace science blogs?
hi there, pascal can't be that bad after all ;)

no, seriously -- your points totally make sense, i just wanted to provide additional material for the top-down approach. the "shores of hell" were also more thought of being tied to the 90s analogy and not directly with code generation. i agree that it's considered to be a black-art, but the entrance barrier to understanding is usually pretty high (i have taken a course in advanced code generation at my university as part of a phd curriculum); i found that muchnicks 1997 book is a good reference and rewarding experience -- notation set aside...

one stats on interpreters/compilers: a paper called "the structure of efficient interpreters" (or at least some title close to it) has an interesting finding: the difference between a standard interpreter and an efficient/optimized interpreter is a factor of 100, whereas the difference between an optimized interpreter an a (AFAIR non-optimized) compiler is a factor of 10. hence the tradeoff varies.

finally i have to agree with you that the dynamism plays a crucial role for compilers--but then again, it is also very hard for optimizations in interpreters ;)
The Long-Term Questions for Apple
IANAE.. but how would nationalization be worse?

Seize a bank when it's in trouble, "fix" it, and sell it in a public offering. If the income from the sale nets more than the government spend to fix it, that profit is distributed to the original shareholders.

This happened i Sweden in the early 90's. Some banks were in trouble, and the government said that they'd help them, but by nationalization. One of the major banks were then suddently conveniently able to get some capital, and survived on it's own.
Perhaps they were gambling that enough dems would vote for it (because of the scare tactics of reading out the dows stock starting to crash right before the vote) so that it would pass, and later when the bailout became the political failure it was destined to become they could point to dems as responsible. American voters have a very short memory, and few check facts. I'm sure that the fact that this is so closely connected to Bush could be forgotten with an excellent mudslinging campaign. Then the Repubs would be able to take seats in the next congressional round of elections.
It was an entertaining article, granted, but I disagree that greasing palms to get a table at a restaurant is a hack.

Maybe I'm just bitter at the overuse of the word nowadays.

"Dude! I totally hacked that cereal into my mouth with a spoon!"
I'm confused as to why you need to protect oil rigs from tsunamis. I thought that tsunamis were only dangerous when they reached the shore. In open water all you get is a slight swell.
Stick around and add your own. Welcome to Hacker News.

Also, it's customary for new members to let me take their Tesla for a spin.
World Efficiency Record for Solar Cells
One big difference between the US and Europe is the French Revolution: it has been disastrous to religion in Europe (especially in France), and simply didn't happen in the US.
"... The reason I chose to go in the opposite direction, though, was in large part because starting with the syntax tree etc. has been done to death, and a lot of people hit the wall long before getting something that generates a program that can run. ..."

If there's any reason to write a compiler that's a good reason. More examples the better.
Hacking unix systems
mm , nix systems become un-secure these days , while it become famous and going to spread all over the world and dominate it instead of windows BUT till now i can root many of it and gettin access on it in nasty way with the full access in its damn shadows files , config.rs so where is the hell of its security , i can't find it
what if an eccentric math genius finds one larger but doesn't publish?
You’re Sick. Now What? Knowledge Is Power.
"I did have an incentive: I could eat at any place I could successfully finagle my way into."

It's not clear, but I took this to mean that his meal (if not the tip/bribe) was paid for on expenses.
LOL money is not "special". It's just a commodity, a universal unit of exchange to facilitate trade because bartering is inefficient. There is, in any economy, over the long term a 1:1 mapping between "money" and "wealth" (the latter being goods and services). If more wealth is created (by physical and/or intellectual work being done) then two things happen. First, money becomes worth more (e.g. how many MIPS per dollar). And the money supply is increased so that some things always cost more-or-less the same (e.g. Big Macs). If you have more money than wealth, the value of each unit of money goes down (inflation). That's why you can't print banknotes to get out of a sticky situation.

You could skip money and use seashells or chickens or whatever you wanted, the mechanism would still work.
It's snowing on Mars
OK, have to read it again.
Faugh - who has 10 seconds to spend on a business plan?
Light throws a curve ball
If you watch your last 30 years of politics, you see that both red and blue parties were at the helm during significant decisions that effect us now. The only thing you can conclude is both parties are full of dangerous "public servants" and we should clean house.

DONT VOTE FOR PARTIES!!! VOTE FOR PEOPLE!!!!
House Web site overwhelmed as bailout bill fails
A common apologetic for Christianity is that you either believe Christ was God, or that he was a lunatic. The middle ground (that is, Christ wasn't God but merely a brilliant moral philosopher) is hard to defend given what the Bible says Christ did and said.
Of course there are odd outliers as with anything, but it's still a paradox - how can someone have logical thought, but believe in religion.

Consider that a large part of western culture is the product of rather religious people (I'm not claiming it is exclusively the product of Judeo-Christian thinkers). There is a long tradition of "odd outliers" throughout history.

I do, however, appreciate this:

For a start the fact that they only believe in one religion and not all the others should be a red flag - an athiest and christian are very alike, the athiest just believes in one less god.
Not really - it's just hand waving. I want clear, cogent argumentation with pertinent facts, and refutations of other points of view, not silly imagery (he does better elsewhere). Like I said, I don't know if my car example is very good or not, but calling it "stupid" and going off on a rant is not the sort of commentary I'm after, which is, again, why I doubt I'll find much of value regarding the issue on this site - people here are hackers, not economists.
Can HTTP packets travel on UDP/IP?
And restrict HTTPS to TCP/IP
How To Install VMware Server 2 On An Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop
I agree, the word "hack" is overused. But if you go by the jargon file definition, you can apply it to almost anything.

"hack
[very common]

1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.

2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed."

He got into the restaurant. Whether greasing palms is "not well" or "incredibly well" is up you ;)
They will all be back up before long....hopefully..But in the meantime I second run4yourlives 'buy buy buy' remark!
You could do something like that, but it's hardly practical as the TCP connection is the only state in HTTP and you'd have to implement something for retransmissions anyway. As a special case, I see UPnP uses SOAP over HTTP over UDP.
Now that he got a Businessweek plug, it looks like all of PG's efforts with YCombinator have finally paid off ;)
Rumor: Primeiras especificações do Playstation 4?
I've been testing it in the latest version of Safari on Windows XP, and there doesn't seem to be any major bugs. Could you tell me what isn't working?
Seems sensationalist.
If you look closely, the dow was down 7%. aapl's beta is 2.37, so we'd expect apple to fall 17%. goog's is 2.07 for 14.5%. yhoo's 1.19 gives 8%

since the market lost so much money last night, how badly are the tech giants fairing against expectation?
aapl:-4%
goog: 3%
yhoo:-3%

so, either Oh NOES! teh sky is falling! or tech stocks are more sensitive to market activity.
Looks like I'm not the only one who plain doesn't know:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/09...
The odd thing is that the New England colonies were founded by religious weirdos, while the South was founded by normal English people, but it's the South that's especially religious now.
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10 links to walk you through today’s financial crisis
How to instrument your Java EE applications for a virtualized environment
I always have a strange reaction when someone tells me to do something I'm already doing, or have already done.
Official Google Research Blog on Machine Translation
Thanks, I wasn't too aware of exactly what had changed. I didn't realize that the transactions would not be made available to the public, that seems insane.
I often wonder if many of the struggles with HTML/CSS and standards would be alleviated by a strong macro language for markup.

In fact, whenever I touch CSS I often wish it was more like a macro language.
Implementation of a Javascript DNA sequence editor
Not of all the value lost is depreciation. A lot of the value is determined by the market. For example, Hondas and Toyotas have better resale than a Ford. The principle is still the same thing basically.
Norway to take on Apple over iTunes-iPod lock in
Unfortunately when you ty to find a system that is pure in separating logic from presentation you run into a situation of needing to have a logic core with no user interface assumptions wrapped by an interface filter. Building a simple implementation of this is not too hard, but doing it in a way that gives you the sorts of flexibility that will allow you to build something your users are happy with is very complicated.

I have an idea that such a thing is possible and have been working on just such a project for several years, but it's non-trivial, and I don't know of anyone having achieved it so far.

There are lots of systems that claim to separate UI from logic but which are in fact innundated with assumptions about state transitions. At some level, every system I've seen assumes a binding between GUI and application logic, even if it's not as obvious as in this case.
Grizzly - Java NIO library to build scalable network applications
Not sure about this... I think in large part the problem with Windows Mobile phones is the driver quality/integration -- a problem that you can't separate from the hardware too far.

Yup - The problem with a phone is that yes, the software is important - but people still see it as all hardware and expect it all to just work like hardware.

So people see it as a device, but it's increasingly a platform. Apple's model will certainly be more successful in treading this line - but remains to be seen if that's the determining factor or not.
> Every religion injects fear in you.

On the contrary: really religious people continuously make experience of confidence, so there's no room left for fear.
"The really big threats came from big banks anxious to keep their subprime accounting tricks going as long as possible, and to keep up their oh so profitable derivatives game."

Would these be same "oh so profitable" banks that are currently going backrupt?

"This article, from NINE YEARS AGO..."

Ummm, that makes the article all the MORE powerful, not less. Points are awarded for predictive power, the further in advance and the less conformist the thinking the better. "Conformist thinking" meaning "everything your professors, the mainstream media, the teacher's unions, and Hollywood shove down our throats.

"wasn't making bushel barrels of money for the people who helped keep a certain political party in power for most of this last decade,"

Finally, we are agreed. See my reply to powellb above. I didn't mention the names or the political affiliation of the top six recipients of donations from Fannie and Freddie. Strangely, you didn't either. Nor did you mention the name of the Congressional Caucus that has pushed this emtire mess on us from day 1. No need to link to it, in any case. It will be showing up in TV ads soon enough.
I know this probably sounds like a troll, but I think a useful translator would be "english -> simple english".

I'd use it on my own documents.
Microsoft provided first look at Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0
See also: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dynlangs/ll1/shriram-talk.pdf

"Stupid Parenthetical Syntax" vs. "Smart Parenthetical Syntax"
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'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' are giving up new secrets about the ancient world
Sort of.

The more interesting trade is long GLD short USO (oil). Bit of a decoupling in commodities.
Free, Legal and Online: Why Hulu Is the New Way to Watch TV
"The Structure and Performance of Efficient Interpreters":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=266900
can HN articles waste my time with deceptive titles?

YES!
>wasn't making bushel barrels of money for the people who helped keep a certain political party in power for most of this last decade, that it would have been allowed to remain?

Exactly right. Bush did try to push some sort of regulatory scheme back in 2003 which may have prevented some of this, but a certain political party prevented it.

"Significant details must still be worked out before Congress can approve a bill. Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D6123BF...

The difficulty in this situation is that the Dems had a lot to gain by opposing regulation, while Republicans would gain very little by pushing it. So why waste political capital? Also, think about the narrative:

Anti-regulation: We want to help low income and minority homeowners.

Pro-regulation: We need to reduce lending to higher risk borrowers because someday in the future, house prices might not go up, and that would be bad because [insert all sorts of technical words here].
Short answer is no.

HTTP assumes a guaranteed, in-order transport, which UDP does not give... If you were to work around this, you'd basically end up with some kind of subset of TCP anyway.
If Money comes from debt, then what's the credit crunch crises about? If anything they would be richer rather than go out of money.

An interesting question is indeed though as to why is it not the government who lends money?
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Cymbolism - quantifying association between colors and words
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> It's not about pretty icons, Apple fanboys, and its not about business use, Windows Mobile Nerds: its about giving people the true tools to build whatever they want without lame App Store limitations and _OS handcuffs_.

Tell my why developers can only use Java applets then that can only access certain API functionality that Google (or the carrier) wants to limit them too? Why can't I program for Android using Python, or C, and why can't I connect to the phone from another machine over SSH to transfer files, or compile applications, or tunnel an X11 session? What was that you said about "no OS handcuffs" again?

> No one else makes a legitimate phone OS with all this support that can be tweaked down to the very roots. For one thing, I'm excited to be able to download an entirely different version of all of Android’s core applications if I don't like the default 1.0 versions—and that’s every app, everything from the dialer to the contacts manager

Openmoko has been making this possible (and infinitely more open) for far longer than Google was even planning Android...
Is there such a thing as Tivo for the internet?
I took 10 screenshots of news websites moments after the failed bailout to see how they reacted. I wanted to go back get more from other sites but as time went on, they updated and the point was lost. So, is there anything to rewind the internet like I can do on my Tivo or DVR?
Would be great to see an essay by you on this fiasco.
You keep speaking on the premise that it is contained to sub-prime mortgages. "The people who took out those loans knew what they were getting into"

What about the other 90% of people who live on the same street as the asshole with the sub prime mortgage who are now unable to sell their house if they need to because the sub prime one is at auction for half the price they need to get?

Liquidity isn't going to fix that, we have a problem with too many houses on the market and too few people buying them. If you have enough money you can still get a prime mortgage, people just don't want to buy right now.
Nothing wrong with that at all - that actually sounds really reasonable. Is anybody doing this? I'm getting to the point where I'd pay for most of the stuff that I'm getting for free now - if I had some sort of contract that would give me some recourse in case things go awry.
The title's not deceptive ... it's the title of the page.

Either way, the answer to questions of the form "Can #{framework.name} scale?" is pretty much always yes. That's kind of the point of this page and all others like it.
Someone said (I think it was in Money as Debt[1]) that "if all debt was cancelled, 95% of the money in the world would disappear instantly."

[1] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279
Yeah, I bet those 'stingy savers' didn't go to college, and thus accrue the student loans that are practically required to get an education these days.
Why Opting Out Is No "Third Way": The perplexing banality of "libertarian paternalism"
Many use http://www.fusebox.org/ or some other MVC framework on top of it, though (not all).
I realize the author's intention and the fact that this was written in a "bottom-up" style, but one has to be careful when using "bottom-up" in the world of compilers. It can also refer to the type of algorithm used in parsing. For instance, yacc generates parsers for LR grammars in a bottom-up style, meaning it builds the parse tree upon discovery, not upon expectation such as a top-down parser for an LL grammar.
There are infinite though countably many prime numbers, meaning you know there is a larger one than the exact number in hand. So in a sense, "Largest found prime is not the largest," is always true.
To keep it pedantic: published != known. Known by one is still known.
We'll have the source code next month, and at that point, your hacking abilities will be the only limit.

OpenMoko is interesting, but realistically, Google has way more muscle and stands a better chance of spreading Android far and wide.
No, I don't. I was talking about all houses and all mortgages when I said:

"Houses are not an investment vehicle. If you buy one, it should be for the long-term."
The alternative is Stalin?

The only options are a system with where minor laws are passed dishonestly or Stalin.

a country is not a company

OK. But I was not taking the analogy very far. I'm saying that if bills are passed by tacking on little unrelated clauses that benefit the particular interests of certain politicians while flying under the radar in order to bypass democracy, you lose some respect & trust in an institution. It also makes me leery of anyone that thrives in the environment.

These institutions are decision making bodies making decision on behalf of others.

BTW - Apparently (see the comment on substitute bill), this is just a technical trick to bypass paperwork & speed this along.