skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a relevant update: its 10:42 the night of a deadline. To keep myself stimulated I am working on my native s-expression php syntax (I wouldn't call it "a lisp" but it does lend itself to much more elegant constructs and the "transmogrifier" [takes s-expresisons and fwrites to "normal" php including expansion of special forms] is written in php alone) hahah!
try http://viddler.com
so you have to pay twitter for the service and then pay your cell provider again per message? who would sign up for that?
From the article:

"Thomas Malthus Put forth his theory of limits to human growth... What happened was that population growth declined and has halved since its peak in 1963."

Of course, on the other hand, something else happened 3 years before that peak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control_pill
Why? Because they either owned or know someone who owned a domestic product in the past

Or rented. Seems like almost every car I rent is a GM, and I always notice something flaky or broken about it (which is sad considering they rarely have more than 20,000 miles or so).

I own a Toyota, but ended up driving someone else's Chevy for a while this weekend. I couldn't believe how cheap all of the components felt, not to mention how much my body ached after driving it for 2.5 hours.
In fact the fastest HTTP/BT/ed2k download agent on this planet is Thunder(aka Gigaget), which is built on a hybrid P2SP network. Someone may consider it leeching, though.
Identity Discovery
Unfortunately, data plans are brutally priced here too (in Canada) so that's not yet a great alternative. I still pretend to hope for WiMAX (or something), but chances are slim-to-nil given the setup here.
I'm so glad I found rtorrent. I had just started learning my way around (n)curses to implement basically the same client interface, in python.

Instead, I'm looking at rtorrent's implementation, in my free time, and working on other things. Saved myself a lot of time trying to do something I probably would have done rather poorly.
Actually Intel did not really "find a way around the problem". CPU speeds have barely improved since then, instead it's all about multi-core.

If passively parallel was all it took, we could have AI today, but we can't. And it doesn't look like CPU's are going to get any faster.

The curve did exactly what the linked article said: it turned into an S curve.

Moore's law still works because that's a measure of cost, but if you plot a single core, you get an S curve - which means no more singularity.

Plus, even if you had a super fast computer, you'd still not get a singularity since no one knows how to program AI - even if you gave them the fastest computer in the world.
I was around during the dot-com bust, and this little piece of revisionist lore always irks me. Something called "Linux" existed in 1998-1999, but it is not the "Linux" you know today, and when stacked up against Solaris running on Sun hardware, it didn't really work. People wanted to run their entire back-end on a single system, and that single system pretty much had to be a Sun E10000 running Oracle, because nothing else could scale up as high. The LAMP-stack scale-out style of system-building had not been invented yet.
You "couldn't believe" how cheap the components on a Chevy were?

LOL. GM has been shite for many years. Even to this day the old lemon laws hover over them. Ford is the best of the bunch and I wish them well...
You're a madman!
Same asymmetric relationship where stronger leverage strength to increase the asymmetry.
Several projects like that...

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ver...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cxx/

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/python/doc/index.h...

swig for completeness but I don't think it qualifies for easier

or just let the jit do it http://psyco.sourceforge.net/introduction.html
1. I've actually considered not charging for the Linux version and only charging for the Windows and Mac versions. From a cultural perspective, Linux users simply don't buy software. No value judgment there, but simply a statement of fact. (I'm a Linux user myself.)

2. I don't yet have official packaging yet for Linux, but I plan to start with Ubuntu and Debian debs when I do. Right now it's just a tarball.

3. You're probably right that expensive software is going to be a harder sell when the source code is available for free. When I wrote the article, I had end-user software in mind, which generally isn't that expensive.
I realize this was a joke, but 10 years experience developing Cocoa applications on Mac OS X (and previously Nextstep) is essentially the same. Slightly different UI classes, but otherwise mostly the same.

And yes, there are people with 10 year experience with this stuff (Wil Shipley comes to mind)
Tapping news online - news channels top India trends
twitter and news channels.
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Thanks heaps, both for buying the app and the advice.

Please let me know of any suggestions/ideas etc you'd like to see, and let me know if you find any bugs as well.

By the way, what's your app?

[Edit: Had a look at your site. My girls will love Fantasy Dolls when it arrives. Love the look of your site too; clever, original and clean]
There are currently problems that is pushing the envelope of computational power, i.e., MD simulation (see D.E Shaw Research), engineering simulation on jet engines (see Pratt & Whitney) - even state of art of Infiniband clusters and custom-designed chips cannot simulate more than 10 seconds of molecular interactions or the complete fluid dynamics of a jet engine under a reasonable time-frame.

You are however right in the sense that AI can't be achieved by tossing more CPU power. Almost all of the media hype on the Deep Blue Chess Playing or hedge fund black boxes are all narrow AI, that is, programs that look "smart" because human beings have painstakingly poured so many techniques into a specific and narrow problem-space. We have yet to come up with a artificial general intelligence (AGI). For those who are interested in AGI, check out: http://www.agi-09.org/ and http://journal.agi-network.org/ .
You fail for assuming future $1000 computer will be transistor based.

You're also being disingenuous in stating that every neuron contributes to a human's knowledge, that there is no overlap of knowledge between humans, and creating a computer with equivalent human knowledge requires a 1 to 1 mapping of neurons to thingers(say transistors, but could be quantum gate whatcha-ma-callits).
I used the python tutorial and library reference in addition to "Python in a Nutshell" ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001889/ )

With a healthy amount of coding, I've gotten very comfortable with python, although I still feel like I'm not quite utilizing it idiomatically. As such, I've been going through Programming Python ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009250/ ) - which is very well written, IMO - as well as reading a healthy amount of other people's source code, notably CherryPy ( http://cherrypy.org/ ), since I use it a lot.

If you're experienced with other languages, I'd suggest implementing something like a tetris clone as an exercise in learning the language. If you're only experienced with web-dev (as is often the case these days), I'd recommend implementing a few small web-apps with CherryPy - it's the most "pythonic" "web framework" I've seen so far.

Oh, and keeping an eye on the mailing lists ( http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo ), particularly python-list, python-ideas, python-dev, and python-3000, can be very enlightening.
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Now you get to feel doubly stupid since HN _does_ have an edit option!
You got downmodded (I think) because he said where he lives: vancouver.
This is a great question, and something I've been thinking about lately. I assume it's pretty much exactly what you're doing combined with hopefully having people around that already know some reliable methods (that were probably learned through trial-and-error), if such things exist.
Well I agree that it's not automatic. But to say that the quality of cars has nothing to do with sales... That's a bit much. Reputation can be built, repaired, earned or lost. Up is harder then down.

Japanese cars once had a bad name. So did Koreans. But their quality was (is) on an upward path. American cars once had a good name.

Anyway, the only bit I found interesting was this:
"They love to blame labor agreements, pension plans, and health plans for their precarious financial situation, yet didn't the companies negotiate and sign those deals in good faith? Surely the down-the-road financial burdens were calculable at the time."

It's as if the world brought this down on them. They negotiated these deals. Maybe unions had at the time some sort of monopoly. So what? They still bought in. These manufacturers certainly have heavy negotiation power over their suppliers. They can even squeeze governments (around the world, btw). They point to these because it's easy to point at & absolves them.

Now I am going to make an uninformed guess. The people in top positions at these companies are no longer the type of people that can make great cars, innovate, produce efficiently. If they are, it's a fluke. The no 1 job these guys have had for a while now is political manoeuvring. An ideal previous job is more likely to be head of some lobby group rather then managing a smaller manufacturer. That's just the way it is when the biggest influence on the company is its interaction it makes with governments: it gets good at it.
OK, I got the emails from everyone, will send invites as they open and I have invites, which could take a while.
Icahn Doubles Down: Buys Another 7 Million Shares of Yahoo
I am a man trapped in a world of php. Like a prisoner making a go board from cock roaches and rocks. My other project is using the same transmogrification system to implement ruby esque syntax into php. One of my newer piece is let blocks which can return closures i.e.

$inc, $dec, $get = let($count = 0){[$count++],[$count--],[$count];}

This also uses the ability for multiple return values as well as square bracket lambdas which return their last statement if no explicit return is encountered.
Nanite: A Self Assembling Cluster of Ruby Processes
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I just started trying to solve problems on http://projecteuler.net/ with it, and learned a ton about it.
The computationally enormous brain contained in a compact space is proof enough that technology won't graze any limits for a long time.
What Major Ethical Challenges Will We Face in the next 100 Years Because of Tech?
Disclosure: This is mostly for my own intellectual curiosity, but I also intend to write a series of essays on the subject.

I personally am worried about privacy and security in the cloud. What do you feel will be a major issue we will have in face in the future because of changing technology?
But to answer the original question: yes it is just as risky.

But because people are all uploading and downloading the same file (if they used the same torrent), bad files are negatively reinforced and good files positively.
This is not exactly on-topic, but here's a question that I still haven't gotten a good answer to:

People who are excited about a potential singularity: why? Doesn't the idea of being obsolete scare you?
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There is also an information gap here. If you're a typical American middle class undergraduate:

1) You have negligible work experience at anything even close to important.

2) Your social circle is 100% composed of people who have as little experience as you, or less.

3) Your adult mentors are mostly university professors. They operate in a very quixotic labor market, mistakenly believe the rest of the world operates the same way, and often have the business sense of a tadpole. Not a particularly intelligent tadpole, either.

4) The only gainfully employed adults you know outside of academia are your parents, and you have never discussed job searching with them. That may be as well, since they have not been on the fresh meat labor market for a few decades, and they are not in your industry.
Project Euler + Django
Hmm, combine BaseShield with DropBox and you might have a winner...

You should also add a way for developers to bundle their software directly with the BaseShield so they can distribute the bundle as a single package on their website. This will save small developers a ton of effort in writing an automatic software updater, they'll be able to simply rely on your mechanism.
Chicken Head Tracking
Google Chrome Stats, Three Months Out
My T61P's been a dream machine, no problems at all.
Installing an app on Vista/XP almost always requires administrative privileges even if the only need stems from writing into the C:\program files\ directory.

And frankly once you give an application Admin privileges once, it doesn't matter anymore it can do whatever the hell it wants. Sandboxing is a much better mechanism from a security perspective

Plus uninstalling a program is always problematic under the existing Windows mechanisms, basically it is every programmers duty to write an uninstaller for his own software, many of which are buggy, leave trash on the computer and so on. Sandboxing an installation makes the uninstall automatically easy & fool proof.
Err, you can disable the auto grow setting in transmission if that's what you are talking about?..
As far as I understand, in the countries where they remove sms it doesn't cost money to receive sms (at least that's true in the UK)
Well, doesn't look like this mac release has any RSS functionality at all.
It is true India is probably one of the very few countries with this vast a diversity in people, culture, language. There are more languages and far more religious communities in India than the number of states and districts.

However the small chunks of the country cannot self sustain. Its a complex problem where there is a strong necessity to be united at the same time ensure a govt which can handle the diversity.
Ask YC: Outsourced sysadmin?
Hi there

We're a small team and whilst we know a little about the server-side of things we're struggling a bit to look after our servers. We want to concentrate on building our apps and not managing the servers all the time so wondering if anyone has suggestions for outsourcing our server management? We've had some issues with load past few days and our own knowledge was exhausted. We installed nginx instead of Apache, added a caching app but we're sure a good sysadmin would have pinpointed our problems sooner and suggested ways to improve things quicker. We don't have the funds to employ someone full-time, so any suggestions here would be appreciated.
The linux installer also has an option to opt out.
That's what I've been saying for a while. Yahoo is WAY undervalued. It has cash, it's running at a profit, it has the most popular portal in the world, and MASSIVE name recognition. Additionally, in the developing world, yahoo is the defacto standard.

Yahoo is not going anywhere soon, no matter what the press says. P/E is good on that share, yahoo is a certain buy at the moment.
100 years?

redefinition of intelligence and potentially life.

/yep, optimistic
People will always react angrily to pricing increases. About the only way to alleviate it is to weight yourself down with support for users on grandfathered/legacy schemes, and announce changes with enough notice to people to buy up at the current price before things change.

Pricing decreases you're just doomed. People will resent having paid $40 last week instead of $25 this week.

For the other stuff, are you being too noisy? Existing users shouldn't be affected by changes to trials and signup technicalities.
Genetic engineering!!!!!!!!!!!!
thinkpython.com - although its supposed to be an introduction to programing using python but it suited me really well, even though I was a C++ programmer for four years. You can skip the basic parts and run through some of the explanations which are for a new programmer but all in all a rapid start guide for python.
Well, I'm studying iPhone development at the moment, and I guess I'll try to enter the contractor market soon when I'm comfortable with the platform. Or maybe before, there are enough people who will pay me to learn (I think, anyways)!
Does transmission let you prioritize files within torrents? I don't remember it doing that, and I love that feature in uTorrent.
Is this hacker news? Can we please keep this kinda thing on SlickDeals.net?
Musing about Code Generation, MDSD and DSLs
Some thoughts about MDSD
What about Techmeme?
Also, there are some good google tech talk videos:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549

Python Design Patterns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vJJlVBVTFg
This is an inappropriate use of a current event to highlight the relevance of a tech trend. Pathetic.
While we're at it, let's lie about whether we have master's degrees, and about previous work experience. Being unethical is fun!

C'mon. An exploding offer is lame, but that's no reason for us to stoop to their level.
"PicClick Visual Shopping, find everything 100x faster!"

That might be true if it didn't try to load 550k worth of images before you started scrolling, and then begin loading more as you scroll down making the user experience much more tiring than typing a few words into amazon, google, or ebay.

Who buys DVDs based on the cover art on the keep case anyway?

A picture is worth a thousand words, but a thousand words downloads faster.
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Cringely actually tried to design his own plane in 30 days in an interesting PBS documentary:

http://www.amazon.com/Plane-Crazy-3pc-Gift-Set/dp/B00003A9RW

Join Robert X. Cringely, computer industry gossip columnist and high-tech gadfly as he sets out to design, build and fly an airplane in 30 days
This is a natural extension of an idea that dates back centuries. One old-fashioned way to build a suspension bridge is to use a bow-and-arrow to get an initial rope across. Once that's done, you can attach a stronger rope to the end of it and pull it across. This is the exact same solution in a more high-tech guise.
But they are not trying for security - but rather profiling, so clichés that apply to security don't apply here.

But I don't think it will work anyway. For example, you might want to check the page to page timing - but I tend to middle click a whole bunch of pages, and then read each tab and close it.
I wonder how many people have built these types of distributed systems using ruby. I did a similar thing for compiling my company's product. It's just so easy if you use DRb. Out of pure curiosity, does anyone else here have examples they have done?
Will we see next 100 years? I doubt that. Probably we would have erased ourselves by then.
Who on earth pays to receive SMSes or calls for that matter?
I have a similar story to yours. I turned down an exploding offer from Apple last year, because the deadline was too soon and they were unwilling to cooperate on that. I couldn't be happier with the result. By keeping my options open, I ended up with a much better position than I would have had at Apple.

I totally agree with Joel about the need to educate people about this topic. Many college students know they can negotiate the terms of a job offer, but they're intimidated about actually doing so. I hope Joel's article gives a few more students the courage to stand up to bully recruiters.
What is your source of this info?
Back in the day, I was heavily involved in reverse engineering iTunes to figure out the "authentication" hash sent with DAAP requests. I very quickly got sick of chasing my tail every time Apple unilaterally decided to change their protocols for the sole reason to disable third party interoperation, incidentally breaking old versions of their own software just for the hell of it.

I'm sick of Apple and all their works. If you're a software engineer, and you value open standards and competition, you should never, ever buy an Apple product. Their anti-competitive actions, from breaking their software through misusing legal instruments right up to controlling which apps one can and cannot write for the iPhone, reveal a fundamental distaste for standards, co-operation and even the law.

Every moment spent trying to interoperate with Apple is a moment wasted. For the free software community, most of us have stopped chasing our tail and gone to open standards such as UPnP media streaming. Apple's culture is that of the 70s, the dark ages of personal computing. I can only hope that people inside their organisation like Stuart Cheshire can make some sort of operational change.
I just signed up for twitter. This was my experience:

1. Horrible unicode-failure on importing contacts from gmail. Yes all those fancy non-ASCII characters are actually being used around the world, even for names.

2. Only person I "know" on twitter is Zach Parson from Something Awful, and that was from an automated email.

3. I try to import contacts from my real email, my google hosted mailing account, which afaik uses the exact same API and URLs, apart from the email not ending in @gmail.com. Not stopped on input validation, but something breaks horribly on the server backend.

4. Trying to find other ways to look up people and groups, I find nada. It's either from my email account, a direct url or nothing.

So I have one "contact" on a broken service which provides me no viable means to find any more. I realize this is very much depending on location, who you know and blah blah, but I don't see this killing SMS any time soon.

The idea is good, but the implementation is simply too broken, too lacking or both.
I've built some layers on top of God with DRb and it is a pleasure to work with. I will, however, note that nanite is in a bit of a different league.
My results: Against me, you've won 11 games, lost 0 games, and tied 9 games.

Maybe it´d make sense to add a slight random element to throw off intelligent human players? 10% chance of picking one completely randomly every time? It might lead to people who could break the system picking up patterns wrong.
Just start working on a project and figure things out as you go.
Asynchronous High Performance Login for Web Farms
Javascript buttons to collapse comment threads.
how does it know what is "humor" etc?
could I have an invite? peter [at] omgponi.es
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I thought you meant selling open source, in general, not just to end users.

You know, I'm glad you submitted your post here. I'm currently working on an article about a similiar topic. The discussion has been very helpful.

Would you mind if I contact you directly using your support E-Mail adress? I'd be really interested in your feedback.
Indeed, without the media terrorism wouldn't be nearly as effective. Who would tell us to be afraid?
Here's some stuff that would cause a problem is they happened, but that I don't think will happen:

Mind body transfer
People living forever
Artificial wombs

Here's some that might happen:

Prenatal genetic selection, or alteration
Human cloning
Very expensive treatments that can not be afforded by many
Having children very late in life (i.e. within
a decade or two of expected death)

I don't know if it's possible to get it, but try to watch the show Century City, or at least read episode synopses. Your question is the premise of the show.