skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you are missing the point of the argument. Substitute "PageRank algorithm" with "whatever method(s) they are currently using to rank pages" as it is always changing in response to people who are gaming the system.
Flashblock is a must for me. An unexpected sound from an ad is the equivalent of a coworker running up behind me and slapping the back of my head.
classifying the sale as something which has favorable tax treatment

The UK, with a VAT/sales tax rate of about 15% has similar cases. A popular biscuit (Jaffa Cakes) are legally classed as a cake (and hence have lower VAT rate), as opposed to a biscuit that have higher VAT rates. cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes
Simplicity does not mean what Joes Spolsky thinks it does.
neat idea, I like the bartering aspect of it.
Hmm...on my 2.1 test phone, I just rendered this page:

http://www.red-team-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/aw...

here:

http://imgur.com/FDsdZ

and here:

http://imgur.com/WoMOf

It looks substantially similar on my 2.3.3 phone, too.

I see that when it's small, it's messed up. Bummer. I guess I wait for >=3.x to be the dominant platform before using CSS for my WebView buttons. :(
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Hah, wow: http://i.imgur.com/appZl.jpg

"And you'll see listed here are a number of boot images. Each one of these boot images contains the configuration of a kernel that will probably match one of your systems. Let's go ahead and use the DOS program 'edit' to view the images.idx file now."

http://i.imgur.com/V0PX0.jpg

"Here it shows in the left hand column the last four numbers of the boot images of the files we just saw earlier. On the right side is a description of the type of system we need to install it onto. For example if you look on the first line it'll show that it has IDE/ATAPI or SCSI. In other words if I take the boot image 0000 then I will be able to utilize the boot image on a system that has an IDE CD-ROM drive."

Heh. It sounds like installing Linux was as easy as 0001, 0002, 0003...
It would also be really nice for such a site to have a place for collecting tips, comments, feedback, like what I am reading here on HN.

I've learned a lot in just the past five minutes that will be useful for picking which (if any) courses to take in January.

It would be nice to see all these comments in one place, especially for people who don't read HN.
Even 2k gbp is under 40k USD, and thats for 2 years experience and in London? thats a bit hard to believe that dev's get paid that little over there. You'd be hard pressed to find an entry level development job anywhere in the U.S. that doesn't start out at that.
> I find it ironic that Apple has prided itself with "Think Different" and break away from big brother (for those that remember the "1984" commercial) when apparently Apple prefers homogeneity instead of uniqueness.

The 1984 commercial wasn't intended to state that every individual computer should be different, but that you should be able to do different things with your computer than just the business applications that were prevalent.
Was the developer by any chance from Vuru? Another Canadian company in this area.
Any video of this? Picture might not work but a video of it being applied would work..
"Solving this" implies that there are users who like, value, and want advertising. I don't feel that there are that many people who do.

The better thing to solve is "how can websites make money without ads"? How did TV networks stay on the air before commercial breaks? Maybe a similar model can be applied.
You might want to add a way to see what the product is without signing in. If there is a way it wasn't immediately obvious to me. Looks neat though.
Ok. Fair enough. I never thought of it that way. I stand corrected. I'm tempted to argue that some third party scripts may be necessary for presenting content and delaying them can mess up a user experience. But we all know not to do that so that point is moot however there are excepts, however few, to every rule.

All that aside, though I'd say I just changed my mind to agree with you.
When a new vendor release comes out, we build it with our "official" compiler settings for the different platforms, branch the headers from the source and combine them into a convenient "SDK" tree, sometimes tweak something here or there, and update the document. Amounts to several GB being checked in from multiple machines. Occasionally a developer (usually me, but others too) needs to commit changes back to our central repo vendor tree.

I suppose we could do that into a separate repository and then define parts of that as a git submodule.

Hmm, reading http://book.git-scm.com/5_submodules.html I don't see how to do that with git without using 100 GB on the library dev machines.
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What's a backtest?
Brilliant! This makes a lot of sense. Interestingly, though, I see data as working in tandem with services (as the services are the ones that would be able to make use of the data) as opposed to the data commoditizing the services. I guess that's okay -- this theory is just a model, not immutable laws of physics :)

EDIT: Okay, I just looked at those two companies, and I totally get it -- they commoditize the services by making the service free (which they can do because they're making money off the data they gather from the free users). Consider my mind blown.
I'm always glad to see more canvas libraries, but the performance of this one is pretty horrendous. I'm writing a comprehensive canvas diagramming library that is now up to 70K lines and its no where near this slow.

In case the author reads these comments I'll mention a few I see at first glance:

They are doing things like setting the font every on single draw unnecessarily (which takes a surprising amount of time, performance-wise). Actually they are resetting nearly all of the canvas state by hand on each draw, which can just as easily be done in the much faster way by doing "canvas.width = canvas.width". But even that they shouldn't do if they can avoid it.

Similarly the author should not set the globalCompositeOperation all the time unless he or she really needs to.

I'm sure there are a lot of other low-hanging fruit that can be fixed. I'll try send the author an email later tonight. I hope they keep at it.
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Great time to raise something I've long wondered about:

N[0] = 2

N[i] = 2^N[i-1] - 1

Does _that_ generate only primes?
The integration is where the value is. Even LaTeX users value some kind of ease of use or they wouldn't sully themselves with LaTeX, they'd use TeX or just write PostScript directly like a true neckbeard.
1. Incorporated in Delaware
2. Have hosting, domain and email squared away
3. Launched a squeeze for email signups http://chef52.com
4. Made a ridiculous video and submitted to yc
5. Found a hacker to begin work on MVP
6. Called a legal guy to iron out the details of said hacker
7. Had the overwhelming feeling that I haven't a clue 30x
8. Been validated by the market and some strangers along the way
9. Started a business/marketing plan
10. 3/4 of the way thru UI/UX designs

forgot to add - made my first post on HN
I am not surprised by this at all. Knew it the day when the top execs were leaving the company at such a stage.
Show HN: pressureNET 1.3, the open source Android barometer network
Fair point; I wasn't thinking of those kind of publications.
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Completely agree, the beta is well above 2 (my guess)
It really is security-through-obscurity. Though that definitely isn't considered safe, a lot of spacecraft (especially deep-space ones) are pretty damn obscure. The true weakest link is the security at the ground station, not some fool with a 40 meter dish.
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Thanks, I figured so, but I did not look closely for dates while I was reading it and only thought about the date after the fact. I wish we would come up with a convention on HN for historical material like a (HISTORY) flag in the title.
Did we meet Saturday after the Montréal-Ouvert?

It is all python with some nlp libraries and home grown and tendered algorithms.
Why would this be valuable to traders? Silver is down more than 1 $ today and is still shown as bullish. Am I missing something?The biggest factor this week was option expiry and the fact that there is a massive liquidity squeeze in europe. No one cares what yahoo finance writes. By the time the info is shown on your site is has already been processed by hft algos and been priced in. Sorry for the negative feedback.
The underlying design invariant was that you should always be able to predict exactly what the screen would look like, before you perform an action. I'm glad that's the result we've achieved.
Their shared DB hosting is free or 5MB and $15/mo for 20GB. It's not going to have all fancy features of the dedicated (fork, follow, etc) but it is Postgres at least.
Don't Bloomberg and Reuters offer something similar built into their news feeds? Not that this would negate what you are doing, just wondering.
I'm the developer for this project. Currently only the Motorola Xoom and the Galaxy Nexus can submit readings, but all devices 3.1+ can download the app. Let me know what you think, any comments, suggestions, etc.

In the long run, we're working towards improving short-term, local weather prediction by adding this new pool of unprecedented data to the mix.
I am hopeful that as the providers become more directly connected to the consumers and it becomes increasingly feasible to deal with them directly, instead of at an arms length in aggregate as was the only option up until now, that we can cut out what is ultimately functioning as a middleman in the relationship, the advertiser. You know how the internet feels about middlemen than aren't adding much value.

Even if I just had the option of outbidding the advertiser I'd be happy.
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Backtesting is where you evaluate a model, or strategy, or system, by applying it to historical data.
Thank you. Thanks to facebook, online bartering may just be a way to reduce how much we consume. Atleast that's the guiding philosophy.
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re: software anomaly

I'll have to remember that next time one of my clients finds an unexpected feature in their application.
excluding certain categories (e.g. unprepared food…

And then there are court cases about whether this is a biscuit or a cake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Cake_or_biscuit.3F
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I agree, I watched the demos and thought it had horrible performance.

Did you say your library had 70K lines!?!!?
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For starters, at least show the date of the articles in the search results. Allow filtering by source, time, author, and any other relevant parameter.
That's quite an accusation. We don't even know if he is or isn't handing over money to Liu Liu.
I'll go tell my coworker. He's the one industry programmer who gives a shit about Haskell.
This is on our todo list.
There will be shortly. Sorry about the lack of noise online -- I switched jobs and cities, and haven't had time to do some of this kind of stuff. Adam Vogt has taken over as maintainer, and will be following up with an announce.
I was with them up until the speculation that this might explain "missing mass". MACHOs have been generally been rejected as a viable explanation for missing mass, and have been for a while, so creating a rather contrived explanation for why we might not see them is very late to the party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object#The...

"Somebody" ought to make a list of the 10 or 20 Mandatory Science Press Release Topics. Every press release must work in at least one of them, regardless of how much the actual result in question must be stretched. Honestly, Better Solar Heating should have hit the Green checkbox and you'd think that'd be adequate....
I could, yes - but I was lightly referencing the fact that opening up a newspaper and seeing an ad that I don't care for means I can move past it or ignore it, whereas with a computer it could mean having to spend time running a malware scan because the ad was hosted by a malicious provider.
My eyes are going a bit as I get older, so I have been enlarging print so I can read it more comfortably (with the amount I read, that is important). I am really tired of web designers that still can't automatically resize text areas. Some pages go off the right side of my 21 inch screen with only moderate enlargement (I only use 1.25 diopter reading glasses for textbooks, I feel sorry for people with serious eye problems trying to read most pages).
it is, but the text on the site indicates that. if it was giving money to anyone else I would expect it to say so. call me cynical :)
What's wrong with Spotify?
The complexity is because the government uses the tax system to motivate behavior. There isn't a mortgage tax deduction just for the heck of it, it is there to encourage people to own houses. There are long term and short term capital gains because the government is encouraging people to hold investments for a longer time.

Any "simple" tax gives up these governmental incentives.
Assuming you want real-time data, this is the sort of thing that would cost a fair amount of money.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. But, from what I can see, this is merely meant as a useful tool for those who are interested in commodities. The people who are seriously interested in trading commodities will probably already have their own favourite price feeds and charting tools.
> In the real world where not everyone is a programmer people don't feel restricted by proprietary software. Only in some hypothetical ivory tower manned by RMS are non-developers restricted by proprietary things.

This is irrespective and has nothing to do with the point. I can figure out tons of adjectives to """describe""" you. Also, I don't know why people think their reality is "the real world" and extrapolates it to others' "real worlds".

It is not about being a dev or not, it's about a system which someone relies on (even a society with Google) and ensuring its continuity and the best for all. If you ensure it, people will recognize your work and the money will come.

> While writing that list of open source software I use, I realized that only Emacs and GCC are GPL. Why is it that the most popular open source software is not GPL licensed? If the GPL encourages and fosters collaboration why is the MIT, BSD, and MPL licensed software more active and popular? It almost seems as if removing the restrictions from the GPL encourages collaboration. The Linux kernel is a notable exception, so I'm not saying this is 100% true, but the evidence seems to support it in many cases.

A software is "good" independent of its license. Licenses don't fix bugs. If you measure by adoption, then you should conclude that Visual Studio is what has encouraged most of the software developing in the past - and I think it's true, but hasn't to do with licensing and business models.

Your evidence supports that many licenses are being used, and that's a good thing. If you want to do things because many people does them, then you should adopt the Chinese culture. We have a phrase here: "Eat Shit: Trillions of flies can't be wrong." (this is not about Chinesse culture, they have outstanding good things and others not so good).

It took about 10 years to the industry to understand that they could earn money with open source software. It was very hard to try to explain someone that he could do better with a different model. Now that the industry has "internalize" it, everybody loves open source. AGPL is the next step: there is room for improvement and you will probably (IMO) do better with a more sustainable model.
Still the best reason to leave a large company and build your own business…
Where are you getting your canvas performance info from? I'm building a canvas library too (http://jeremyckahn.github.com/rekapi/), I'd love to learn more.
Actually, they do by default. It takes extra work to maintain simplicity while adding features.
xmonad is well documented:

* http://xmonad.org/documentation.html

E.g.

* http://xmonad.org/tour.html
* http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Xmbindings.png

It was always intended to be the antithesis of dwm in terms of friendliness and accessibility.
I have done my Master's work with the XCore (xmos.com), which is a direct descendant of the Transputer. It's programmed in an C-with-CSP-constructs called XC.

I found it very easy to write XC correctly. I think that the CSP/transputer idea is really the best way for most parallel programming to happen. MPI and pthreads allow more flexibility, but in most (say, 80%) of cases, that's not needed for your application.
I think you're being optimistic. We're going to see all our desktop applications become pervasively multi-threaded in two years?

And Bulldozer is going to be better at this than Sandy Bridge, which is good at both single- and multi-threaded loads?

Ehhh. Not likely. The design isn't even that good or interesting; as I mentioned before, it's overly reliant on shared components that aren't conducive to the sort of magical perf improvements that "but you can overclock!" would require.
... come on. A picture of before and after would be great.
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I'm also kind of sick of seeing stuff done with canvases that could probably be done as efficiently or more efficiently without. (It would be particularly cool for someone to implement a library that abstracted out the back-end, so you could run in DHTML4 or excanvas or a real canvas.)
I just stopped in here to ask for backtests.
No doubt it gets to be a little weird, but unprepared is a pretty well defined thing if you don't do what the federal food stamp program in the US does and type of food shouldn't really matter. If it requires cooking or is primarily an ingrediant then no tax.

US weird stuff: If you buy a frozen burrito it is ok. Unless the store has a microwave and you use it, then it is not ok. If you go home and microwave it then it is ok.
A personal preference, but I like to have individual login detail per site. This looks like I can use many other providers to login, but I would prefer to utilize a standard username/password.
It's kind of sad to see the expressions of surprise that it actually builds and runs. Implying that most source code releases fail test case #1.
Does no one on HN do dev work for an ad agency? I see articles about agencies pop up on here every now and then, and I am always amazed at how little most of the commenters seem to know about what goes on at an agency or how it works.

Which is surprising to me, because I happen to know that there is a huge demand and opportunity for great web development expertise, hustle and knowhow at agencies, which are often full of subpar, outdated dev teams being asked to do elite-level projects by non-tech ad folks who see the startup community doing cool things and want to do it themselves.

This article is a plea to the talented coders out there (not the wannabes), to let them know that there is an agency that understands you, knows that "UX/social media gurus" and their ilk are frauds, and wants you to be able to work for them with the same satisfaction you would have at Google or some crazy startup.

(By now it probably sounds like I work for W+K, but I don't, just know the ad industry quite a bit)
Creeping sales taxes is a problem and pretty much why I think Cain's 9-9-9 plan is not a good idea. I would prefer to leave sales tax to the states and have the federal do other.
The same could be said for YouTube. It was primarily the Lazy Sunday video from SNL, along with some other major production videos, that made YouTube popular. It was only after the service saw success that the user-generated videos became interesting to the masses. They came for the major label productions, but stayed for the home movies.

But that is, of course, the fear of Grooveshark. The masses come to hear Lady Gaga's latest single, but they just might stumble upon an independent that they enjoy while they are there. That discovery leads to wanting to find more, and eventually the major labels, like in video today, become even less relevant. Grooveshark has already started promoting bands I have never heard of, and I'll usually give them a chance when I am there.
Something like this with an alternative WebGL renderer would be cool! It can make it a lot faster - see a blog post I wrote on it: http://www.scirra.com/blog/58/html5-2d-gaming-performance-an...
I've learned that it's more important not to trade the news, but trade the reaction to the news.

If a really nasty number comes out (let's say ISM) but the buy programs step in, that tells us that the underlying tape is fairly strong.

Another thing I know about these financial publications is that they are often seeking a reason for market movements. Sometimes it's just pseudo-random price fluctuations.

Also I'm on the main page now, and I"m looking at the sources that you are using. Be very careful sourcing prnewswire.com because, well, they are press releases.

I clicked on a dailymarkets and it was just a syndication of forexpros.com content, try and look for primary source.

I don't know if you're basing readings off the tone of the writing, but consider sourcing in more neutral press from bloomberg/reuters.

Hope this helps.
More importantly, this destroys my trust in OEMs, such as HTC. That, in response to inquiries about the inclusion of CarrierIQ rootkit, HTC's PR rep only said "Uhm err uhhh, ask your carrier".

Why should I need to ask the carrier? You signed the APK (CarrierIQ application) bundles with your certificate, HTC.

This is shameful.
This is awesome. I created a really nice robot, but I probably want to put more work into it before I shell out $$$ for it.
Show HN:  Cinecandy, a Movie Studio As A Service (MSAAS)
Cinecandy turns moviemaking into an easy and social experience by letting you create group videos with your friends, without ever touching a camera or a video editor.
Like the app concept - think it's too dear for the average PR blogger to get behind and use. But very cool idea!
Heard that the experimental render path with more advanced features is included in the source.

Can anyone here confirm/deny that?