skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zaki... Great job on the service! The tasks that have been done thus far are of the highest quality I could expect. My concern is the tasks not getting done.

I had 3 or 4 done yesterday, but since then, nothing. Will you be able to cope with the load soon?
"Natural materials", eh? You could make the case out of wood, and insulate your wires with sap, but I'm afraid I can't think of a good natural source of n- and p-type doped silicon wafers.

Seriously though, modern semiconductor processing involves an awful lot of very nasty chemicals, you can't make a chip without 'em.
If you make applications for windows, then you would understand that people either can't upgrade or won't. Their old machines don't work with newer versions of the OS's.

For web developers this is fine, since they don't need to install programs. However for those of us that need to install programs, it's going to be sticking with python2.5 (or even 2.3 if you want better compatibility).
Yep, though resolved by his reminder that he doesn't have 800 billion sitting around, and that he's one of the richest guys in the world.
The alternative isn't physical force. It's to just let people use your product as they please after they've bought it.
I would love to interview this guy just to ask 'What's up with the inner tube escape?'
Why isn't it easy to develop for Symbian?

I thought Symbian was the superior mobile-OS? Obviously that doesn't mean that it is easy to develop for it though so it could still be a great OS.
Credit card validation for an account (charge $0.00 just to confirm the information?)
I always thought if I was gonna rob a bank that starting a month prior I would call every service oriented business in town from plumbing to drapes and setup an appointment with everyone for 11am on the OTHER side of town. A thousand angry service people rioting should provide sufficient police distraction (maybe film it and monetize with revver, what a twofer).
I tried this out for a few minutes but gave up on it when I was unable to find any way to export the data.
That is so sad.

I wish the best for all the working people of US, specially California, affected by this incredible situation.

It's unbelievable that the people who caused this are getting bailed out or walk away with their past few years worth of bonuses.
After reading this article:
http://bit.ly/2QsjEr

I had a feeling that this article would be off-key.

"Financial Crisis: So much for tirades against American greed"

"It took a weekend to shatter the complacency of German finance minister Peer Steinbrück. Last Thursday he told us that the financial crisis was an "American problem", the fruit of Anglo-Saxon greed and inept regulation that would cost the United States its "superpower status"...By Monday, Mr Steinbrück was having to orchestrate Germany's biggest bank bail-out, putting together a €35 billion loan package to save Hypo Real Estate."
So much for that tech stock rebound: Apple, Yahoo, Google killed again
Since you mentioned The Road to Reality, I have to put in a plug for Feynman's Lectures on Physics.
There seems to be an almost pathological bias against profitability with a lot of startups.
Yeah, I think it's important to have a gradient and maybe a big color block showing the color of the current "feeling".

What I'd love to see is not just an up and down. I'd like to see a "meaningless spin/rhetoric" side of the scale. Maybe it's just an extra button you hold down when you think something is meaningless banter.

I mainly want this so politicians will see that spin measured and after a few sessions of "99% spin" they'll work on getting their spin meters down into reasonable levels.

Another thought is to have half of the audience do "agree/disagree" sliders and the other half do "specific-answer/meaningless-spin". We need to call just as much attention to the latter as we do the former.
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It also doesn't work on FreeBSD/OpenBSD. Though they plan to fix that at least.
Obama Releases iPhone Recruiting, Campaign Tool
I'm right handed and can raise only left eyebrow.
The US also works much longer hours.

People in France and Germany produce 30-40% more GDP per hour of work than people in the US do.
FWIW your first two issues are addressed on the post. <fb:serverfbml> can be used for extended permissions and some other js provided by FB for automagic iframe resizing.

I agree with your point though, I think not requiring FBML apps to reload all the FB chrome would be a better solution. He mentions that this is in the plans at the end.
You'd actually submit an authorization for $1.00. An auth doesn't withdraw funds, it only allocates them, and it expires after a few days.
That's not really it, if we're going to speak in generalizations it would be more fitting to talk about the investors that favor high risk/high reward growth patterns.
I swear, the first program to pass the turing test will have been programmed to break captchas.

Now there's a way to bring about the Singularity.
I think there would actually have to be some money changing hands. Five dollars would be enough to throw out the spammers and still be a small enough amount to keep customers happy. This is assuming that their e-mail is extremely important to them.

I'm thinking Google and Microsoft can't do this. Perhaps there is a niche opportunity here?
Life: Everything. . . All the Time
Charlie Crews and Dani Reese investigate the death of a family man who is found beaten and bound to a chair at the bottom of an empty pool. Captain Tidwell is convinced the murder was an act of gang violence and sends the detectives on assignment. After interviewing the victim s daughters and two gang members
Ugly Betty: Filing for the Enemy
Wilhelmina, now preparing for her first issue as editor, puts Betty in a difficult situation when she offers her a job as her assistant. Meanwhile, Christina becomes suspicious of Stuart’s true intentions, Daniel faces a custody battle to keep Daniel Jr. in the United States, and Hilda’s romance with Coach Diaz reaches a new level of hotness.
I think the whole huge employee numbers are just a way for those big companies to justify to their investors their high valuations. "Oh yeah we have 700 employees, so we are a huge company, so 500 mil in VC funding is really not a lot for a huge company like us"
I see a slide, and a scale from 0 to 100, but what do the different values mean?
No email provider who wants to be dominant is going to raise that kind of barrier to use.
Interesting, but there are 2 critical differences :

1/ there was no Federal Reserve in 1873. The 1873 depression was one of the crisis that motivated the creation of the Fed, we thought a centralized bank system would help to stabilize the system.

2/ We are under the Bretton Woods system since 1944. It's the 1929 Great Depression that motivated the agreements of Bretton Woods.

What makes this crisis unique of its kind is that the US autorities are going to unleash 700 friggin billions dollars in the engine. It is a first time in history that such ridiculous numbers are summoned. This challenges at least one assumption of this article :

The post-panic winners, even after the bailout, might be those firms — financial and otherwise — that have substantial cash reserves.

In 1873, money was tied to gold. Therefore if you had cash reserves, it meant you could exchange it against sound, physical gold. It was guaranteed. It's not true anymore.
I think that'd be useful as a means of creating a universal web id, which could then be used in lots of areas.
Google 'Goliath' Microsoft says
Given the financial aspect I'd prefer a technical solution as well, just as the spammers surely must wish they could solve captcha computationally. Unfortunately they're willing to pay per account and unless their opponents (the major email providers) are also willing to, they have a significant advantage.
Credit Crisis Spreads a Pall Over Silicon Valley
The original source is here:

http://www.esquire.com/features/75-most-influential/elon-mus...

Excerpt:

The next big moment will be life becoming multiplanetary, an unprecedented adventure that would dramatically enhance the richness and diversity of our collective consciousness. It would also serve as a hedge against the myriad--and growing--threats to our survival. An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball--or go extinct.
Manage Focus Effectively Using Contrast
The deep Perl gotcha
I think the CC providers charge merchants for these. Do you know that to be incorrect? If I'm correct this means that it now costs email providers cents per account per month, which just took an expensive turn for the worse.

If it doesn't work that way I bet Visa amends their merchant agreement to start charging -- they aren't in the business of doing millions of identity verifications per month for free.
Thanks for the information on 3.0. I have been thinking about using it for an upcoming project. Now I just might wait.

Any idea on when it might be out?
How much of that is due to the safety we provided for European intellectuals?
Perhaps harder for cops to follow you if you're not on land and they don't know which side you're getting out on?

Alternately, another craigslist advert paying $200 to tube down the Skykomish River wearing a painting mask.
I don't know if "perks" are a new currency. I think there will be a return to practicality and cash will have more value. All my friends who used to brag to me that they had 100,000 airline miles saved up, are now trying to see if they can get more cash for them on craigslist or flyhub.
I like how the turing test is reversed.... It isn't so much a concern whether human's can recognize a computer (these days anyway), but rather, can a computer recognize a human.
Allowing you to use the product as you please has the ability to hinder me from using the product how I please. Cheaters ruin the game for everyone, so it isn't as clear of a distinction as, for example, running whatever software you want on the iPhone.
Seth's Blog: When you stand for something
Location of Plane Wreck of Steve Fossett
Referred from this wired article ~ http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/google-earth.html
Oct. 2 1608: Up close & personal with Hans Lippershey
Here is the original article:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21442

Caption: Piston power: In an unconventional engine design, a rod with a piston at either end shuttles between two combustion chambers. Magnets at the center of the rod move past metal coils (orange) to create an electrical current.

I usually call these crankless engines.

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Free-piston engines aren't new: they were invented in the 1920s. But the increased recent focus on hybrid cars has led a growing number of research groups and automakers to start research programs to develop the technology. Unlike in conventional engines, there is no mechanical connection between the piston and a crankshaft (hence the name free-piston). Since the design allows for improved combustion and less friction, the engines could be far more efficient in generating electricity than either conventional generators or newer fuel-cell technology.
I'm in the process of adding "WTF?" text right now, but the basic process is that the user sets the dial to their overall sentiment about the subject at any given moment. In the VP debate case: Do you like what the person on the screen is saying? How they are acting? Their response to the question?
"This particularly "lame" app is only a proof of concept that there will be more apps and more developers for Android unless they change."

More apps? Possible, but it's up in the air. More developers? I would doubt it.

What Android offers in flexibility, it lacks in simplicity and availability. Most people on the planet don't know that Android exists. They wouldn't recognize it if they saw it. Compare that to the App Store, which got pushed out to every iTunes on the planet, and the iPhone, which is kind of a big deal news-wise. (I remember seeing it on the front page of the local paper. That's big considering it was just a tech announcement.)

The iPhone has things to offer developers that Android doesn't. For one thing, it offers slickness: the same slickness that Apple offers with most of its stuff. The ability to easily code apps that feel lickable. It's got the "high quality" name behind it. A lot of developers follow things like that. I'm thinking primarily of Instapaper - Marco has said before that he does not look at Android with any sort of eagerness, and that he doesn't think a Google OS is worth it. And I think Instapaper is by far the best and most useful application I've seen.

No, the iPhone can't pull off Locale. I disagree with your thinking that Apple WILL implement it. Locale seems nifty, but it's not a gamechanging app or anything. I personally LIKE that my apps can't run in the background. Obviously, other people are going to disagree. But you can't look at this and say "Oh, look, Android is going to cream Apple," because it's not, because the two attract entirely different sorts of developers, and because I think Google and Apple both REALIZE that they aren't directly competing here.
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Sorry but that statement is crap. I'm sure if Twitter could be done by one person, they could. These companies have a LOT more going on than just banging out code.
I've used Thinkpads before and I always feel slightly dirty doing so. They're powerful, but they're ugly and they feel wrong when I'm using them. There's a disconnect in particular between the hardware and the software.

I'm using a MacBook Pro right now and everything about it feels perfect. Multitouch in particular: it's the only feature on a laptop where I now feel bad using desktop computers because now they feel less smooth.

So I'll go out and disagree with you and say that Apple's the standard for quality, though (as always) I'd be interesting in seeing your counterpoints.
Recent in terms of what? That's over 60 years ago. Unless the average human has started living to 100 or more, 60 years is a generation or more.

And I bet if you really looked at it, total GDP probably really took off during the industrial revolution, some 50 years before that.
I'm not going to argue that in many senses cheats ruin the game for the greater good... I'm saying there's a better way to handle it than suing your customers. Simple bans would work.

My post also is looking at a correlating problem in terms of "non-official" servers if you will. WoWGlider while in itself ruined the game experience when you were a player vs a player who used it. However, its ultimately ridiculous that someone who through their own might and knowledge can write a program that doesn't directly modify the actual content of the game, rather just controls outside variables to get it to behave differently than expected at a user's consent, and Blizzard can claim copyright and sue for millions.

The correct way to handle it would be removing players who are found to be using the product from the game and/or finding a way to make your program resistant to such outside influences.

Theoretically, the company shouldn't even be liable for "damages" since they didn't trick players into doing it, they didn't force them to do so, players went on their own and did it, knowing the consequences. The program itself had no direct effect on the protected files themselves, only indirect.
FireTune Takes the Hassle Out of Optimizing Firefox
Linux Rooted in Fiction: ParanoidLinux
Oh, you definitely pay for the privilege of submitting Auth requests. You have to have a merchant account with the card issuer. The systems I've worked with went through a third-party gateway system which connects out to all the different card issuers. It's definitely not cheap to set up. I'm not sure if there's a per-request charge or not. I wouldn't be surprised either way.
An iPod isn't the same as Mac OS X.

My computer crashes once every week or two, but it does that when I'm running ten stressful applications at once. Before my computer I'd never have thought of trying to burn a CD, create a movie, run diagnostics on my library, and several other things all at once. Things on Windows crashed haphazardly, unpredictably. I can run my Mac for days straight and they still go well for the most part, and when they crash it takes one reset to get it all working again.

iPods have a much lower standard, sadly, though my iPod touch hasn't crashed once since the software update.
Virgin Galactic rejects $1 million space porn
not that surprising really, when you can't find a job, going to grad school pretty much gives you a 2 year extension to wait for the market to bounce back.
Apple bluff beats royalty flush
Is Search The Best User Interface For Mobile?
It certainly confirms one's intuition, but the degree of correlation is pretty surprising to me, assuming this is real data.
This is the first time I've realized that I don't feel comfortable clicking on faces to navigate a website.
Skyscraper maven brings his labors of love Downtown
Another article with pictures here ~ http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/2008/08/stop-and-smel...
Relax. Even if we had the hardware today we'd still have no idea how to write passable AI software. By the time somebody figures that out, maybe the hardware will have caught up.
While I see your point on the "What kind of serial killer are you." Things like a Bush countdown clock is a way of expressing your discontent with the current president/administration. And in the scope of things I'm not limiting it to just these sorts of things. I'm talking about general ways of putting expressive ideas and symbols on your page.
Is 8aweek down or dead?
No updates on their blog for the past two months.
And I cannot get to their web page today
That rather depends on your definition of portable - I mean, even if they included win98, you'd still likely be stuck with Python 1.5 for Windows CE 1, and no Python for many systems.

That it works on several of the most common, different, platforms in use today, I vote that counts as "portable" - reasonably so.

Another way of looking at it is not how many Win98 systems are there, but that there is (presumably) nobody willing to jump in and argue and offer to support Python 2.6 on Win98 - so how in demand can it be?
I'm sorry, but you're going to be the brunt of this small mini-rant about Linux users being incredibly unaware of what we mean when we say pretty.

Fuck Compiz. It's wholly unfunctional. A rotating cube does not make something pretty, it makes it resource-intensive. Wobbly windows are not functional and they serve no purpose.

Pretty is something that looks good WHILE having a definitive meaning. The "genie" effect, for instance: it shows me exactly where I have to go if I need to restore a window. Or Expose: seeing my windows fly out and reveal themselves. Or stacks in Leopard, giving me one-click access to whatever I want one-click access to.

Pretty is trying to do something and realizing you can. It's my being in iTunes, talking to a friend about a song that came on, and realizing I could just drag the song out of iTunes to send a copy to him. That's not an advertised feature of iTunes. It's just something that you can't do in Windows Media Player or Amarok. It's something that made my life a wee bit simpler.

Pretty is my searching Help for something, being given a menu item instead of just a result, and having that item highlighted with a spinning arrow to point out the result.

Pretty is spring-loaded tabs. It's picking a color and being given a set of crayons as a visual metaphor. It's opening TextEdit for the first time and realizing that it's not just Notepad, it's a fully-featured visual text editor that can produce pretty beautiful results.

Pretty is CMD-Space-s-a-enter opening up a web browser, or CMD-Space-s-h-e-space-l-enter opening up a song. Out of the box. Without any fiddling, having an ultrafast system for opening files.

When we Mac users talk about pretty, we don't mean the fact that our windows look beautiful, although let's be honest, they do: they're minimal, they look very pretty even though they're gray, and I love how menu options appear as part of the chrome instead of having two distinct dividers apart from content (not to start talking about the lozenge button or the top menu). Pretty is how things just work. It's things making perfect logical sense as you do them. It's about whenever you wonder if you can do X, you find that you CAN do X.

Linux is not pretty. It's not it's not it's not. It takes a good screenshot nowadays, and that's more than it used to be able to do. But that doesn't make something pretty. That makes something PRETEND to be pretty. It's what's on the inside that counts, not what's on the outside.

I'm not anti-Linux. I ran Ubuntu for a year before I got OS X. I like it more than Windows, when it works, when my audio and graphics don't get messed up (and they ALWAYS do, of course). It is not pretty, though. It's pretty on the surface, pretty before you realize just how incapable it is of doing some things easily. And some Linux users are honest. My friend says that he cares only about if Linux does what he wants at no price. That I can respect. But don't say that your wobbly cubes make your OS pretty. That's like saying Vista is pretty because of Aero.

tl;dr: OS X is much, MUCH prettier than Linux. Period.
Chemistry and programming? You mean, like, computational chemistry? (That's an awfully hard subject to get into, and I don't know any books written at an introductory level.)
I know you're joking, but: when did "geek" become synonymous with "doesn't care about rich user experience?" Can't you be a geek and care about things working beautifully? Because according to some people on HN (not you, omouse, this isn't against you), the minute you start worrying about aesthetic you abandon being a TRUE geek, and that's stupid and demeaning.
There is a solution to this, but it's one that won't be implemented for some time because it is properly a government function.

Verified Identity.

The swiss have something like this, and are offering it to users in other countries see http://www.incamail.ch/english/home.html?language=english

But to really work, it needs the force of law (not that it wouldn't be gamed, but it's a lot easier to throw someone in jail for crossing the post office than some random companies TOS).
would any of the folks who signed up as demo users want to go through a fake mingle, updating on the hour instead of the day to get a better feel for how things work?
To some extent they are already in the cloud - they offer hosted services, Windows Live file hosting, hotmail, CRM Live; they have lots of hosted files so they must deal with CDNs.

So, why don't they avoid Amazon and do "hosted Windows servers" themselves?
Not really the point when discussing the investor market. If companies don't have quick exits, the typical venture investor can't make their fund operate.

That said, I do believe building a company that creates value on the basis of selling a profitable product is all that matters.
That's what comments are for :^)

I always make the dependency pretty clear in my scripts. Plus, it's a "best practice" in the jQuery community to name your plugins in the form jquery.plugin.js or jquery.package.plugin.js.
Developing for the iPhone: The Fear