skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brain implant allows mute man to speak with synthesizer
stallman is a good lawyer
What if working hard on what I like could potentially get me into debt? Or what if I like to impress people?
Offtopic, but:

When Marty goes into the future they should arrive in a future where he went missing (because he's traveling through time). Hence, the whole movie makes absolutely no sense at all.
http://abstrusegoose.com/80
Perhaps the site could be in "read-only" mode indicating the last updated time.
Appreciate and live the moment. Most people (incl. myself) were always looking for big things in life. Not realizing, at the end of the day, it's all the small little things that you take it for granted are all that makes the whole differences.
I'm guessing so. IIRC, pg has mentioned looking at news.YC contributions, but I haven't seen him mention looking at karma specifically. (Then again, I'm not a YC applicant, so I haven't really looked into it.)
We've got a 64K-word TX-2 core memory on display at the MIT Museum. [update - here's a link http://tinyurl.com/5mve8b]

Back in 1975/6 I was using a DEC LSI-11 that had core memory. I forget how much but it was enough to run FORTRAN.
Similarly how walking is what the feet does, conscience is what the brain does.
Exactly.

I used to use noprocrast until I got in the habit of using override. Now I uncomment a line to my /etc/hosts file that points news.yc to another IP. It works a lot better because if I go to news.yc while the IP is redirected, my browser caches the IP and I can't access the site, so I have to remember to unblock it before I try to access it. This forces me to think about what I'm doing.
Python might not have as many bloggers as a hip language like Ruby, but by community I mean people contributing to open source python projects, writing papers that use python, etc.
do { ... } while(0) is Ansi C and has type void.

({ ... }) is a GCC extension and its value is the value of the last expression inside the block.

So they have different uses.
PCA is an incredibly useful technique. At work we've been using it to model the structure of the yield curve, i.e. the graph of interest rates vs. maturity. Turns out you can decompose most daily movements of the yield curve into three components: parallel shift up/down, steepening/flattening, and a "bow" where 2s5s flattens, 5s10s steepens, and 10s30s flattens.. It would be interesting to build an interest rate model that evolves these three components forward in time... it would probably be most useful for short time scales where the principal components are unlikely to change.
Start hacking. It's all the fun of science but with the rigor you like in math.
I feel like editors/directors are what got Yahoo into this position in the first place. Rather than focusing on technology, they assumed that the internet would be like traditional media - something hard for new players to break into, something where you could tell the viewers what they wanted to see, etc.

That hasn't proven to be the case. Yahoo and AOL focused on pushing content they thought was important to users.

Yahoo & AOL: Oh, you're logging into webmail, you probably want to hear about Britney Spears' new baby first.
Me: No, I really don't.
Yahoo & AOL: Well, we'll show you that story because everyone likes gossip in their mail.
Me: I don't.
Yahoo & AOL: Well, you're wrong. Our research tells us what you want, not you.

Google took the opposite approach - give people what they ask for. Don't try to give them something unless they ask for it. Maybe subtly suggest - like the webclips in Gmail - but make it so the user can tell you what to put there and can eliminate it if unwanted. Then, focus on the technology that lets users get what they want rather than hiring "experts" that can tell you what people as a whole "want".

In the old world (newspapers, television, radio), it was important to figure out what people as a whole wanted. There was limited capacity and so only a few of the billions of possibilities could reach an individual. The internet is different. For practical purposes, the permutations are infinite. As such, the problem is letting a user find what they want rather than experts selecting what everyone will average to.

Yes, it would be nice if Yahoo's services formed a cohesive direction as the article suggests. However, that's not Yahoo's big problem. Yahoo's problem is thinking that no matter where I go, I want to hear about the sexiest celebrities or what Palin is doing or about the hollywood SAG or about the Knicks. . . Let me tell you what I want and then get it for me! Wait, I did tell you what I wanted! I wanted my mail! So, why are you getting me "news" when I asked for mail?!?!
> Maybe it was just my school. I figured Stanford and other top schools would be different.

Dunno about Stanford, but it's basically like that at Amherst, except for a small group of students (perhaps 10% of the student body).

A friend (former cofounder :-) and I were talking about how even though Amherst is the #1 liberal arts college in the country, there were an awful lot of dumb people in his classes. He's found that people were way smarter at his employer (a boutique management consulting firm) and now at HBS.

I had the opposite impression - I thought people were crazy smart at Amherst, and then more average, though still smart, at my employer (a financial software startup). But that was because I was in physics/CS, while he was in econ/psych. I get the feeling that many universities have internal hierarchies, where people in quantitative fields are often more driven than people in the liberal arts.
Perhaps one should compare the sophistication of the two ad campaigns?
Q&A site for relationships. Very slick
unrelated question: I've been recently been reading a lot about wavelets and multiscale analysis. My application area is in text processing and topic models for legal document analysis. Wavelet transforms or statistical modeling in the wavelet domain seems like the kind of thing that would have been tried many times over in finance. Do you know of any instances when it turns out to be useful useful for time series?
Buy Akamai stock. If I had a time-machine, I'd tell myself "Go all in. It's not going out of business" back when it was selling at $0.50/share in 2002. I'm satisfied with my 10-bagger (I missed both the trough and the peak and didn't sell all my shares), but if I'd put my life savings of about $15K in in 2002, and sold at the peak in 2007, I would have made $1.8M.
4000 computers over 6 hours... Makes you wonder about electricity costs of this experiment.
This is rich. A once-great, dying newspaper telling a once-great, dying Internet company how to run itself.
Hrm. De gustibus non disputandum est, as they say, but what I like about the Baroque Cycle, for instance, was that there was a lot of material. Something brief, say the last harry potter book, takes me a day or two to read. I could see how something that long and wandering wouldn't be for everyone though. I think his best is Cryptonomicon, which tells several good stories, is good sci fi, but isn't too awfully long.
Surrender. Don't fight reality, go with it.
I am not sure if advertising can be ethical.

Most advertising aims to mislead or manipulate people. Even the unobtrusive ads besides google searches are nothing more than less relevant search results forced on the user.

Advertising is even hard to justify in economics theory, where consumers are usually considered as satisfied when there preferences are met. What's the point for the economy as a whole to mess with people's preferences?
From the article:

"Polymorphism is where OO excels and where the relational model fails..."

But nothing can be done with OO structure that cannot be just as easily modeled in a relational form. One only need think in Prolog to find the appropriate model. And that's the beauty of relational databases: all constraints are in the form of relations (i.e., not some as relational constraints and others as inheritance constraints).

Various bugs (there are probably more) in the implementation:
The article's database allows two entries of the form:
(marriage_id1, Tom, Mary) and
(marriage_id2, Mary, Tom).
to coexist in the database,

The article's database also allows such transitivities as
(marriage_id1, Tom, Mary),
(marriage_id2, Mary, Bill),
(marriage_id3, Bill, Tom).
Relational or OOP, a constraint to eliminate these cases requires a search of the database. It is insufficient to require only that one cannot marry oneself.

The article's database also fails to handle the not uncommon case where two persons marry, divorce and then remarry (often consecutive times).

About performance:
There's never been a question about performance: object databases can perform faster than relational databases, usually by an order of magnitude. Most OO database use primarily pointers while relational databases use primarily indexes. Computers are fast enough today that in most instances we don't notice the difference. But where speed is absolutely necessary OOP databases (and similarly structured databases such as CODASYL, ISAM, etc.) are used.

Some reasons relational databases are preferred:
- ease of maintenance,
- the relational model allows a standardized query language,
- constraints are handled within the database engine proper.
"...including 2 malware monitors, an antivirus and 2 firewalls"
In case the attack is too strong for the first firewall?
I'm not saying you need to be a monk and focus entirely on your startup. Think of it an additional class you have to go to every day.

And I dunno if its being older talking, but at this point I look back at all that time that I wasted, and feel like I've wasted an opportunity
I've heard people talk about it, but never seen any concrete applications to finance. If you know of any papers or introductory material, I'd be thrilled to check it out. I know nothing about wavelets or multiscale analysis -- I couldn't even define them if you asked -- but I have a decent math and statistics background so I'd love to take a look.
My understanding (and even experience) is that, to get at everything you have to break your code up more than you might otherwise. Thus you have to be the developer to write unit tests.
If HN is closed,a hacker will just set up of a cache. Heck, I might do it.
Our research group has had experimental papers rejected because they did not agree with first principles simulations. The issue is that at least in quantum chemistry and materials physics, the theory is simple and easy to write down but making quantitative predictions from the theory requires the use of (a) massive computational resources, (b) inspired approximations, or (c) all of the above. (unless it's an "emergent" phenomenon) It's debatable what the relationship between theory, experiment and computation is. I submitted an abstract to an APS conference yesterday and I noticed that you were asked to classify your submission as "theoretical", "experimental", or "computational". I think I agree with the APS in that all three styles are useful and complementary to each other.
First step for an interplanetary internet
The main differences are that:

- A 1% failure rate on an F1 car may in fact be considered acceptable, but completely insane in a production car that may sell millions of units a year. F1 drivers, despite all that we can do, also accept a much higher level of personal risk than most other everyday drives.

- F1 cars only have to worry about a single passenger, and due to the controlled nature of the race a more limited number of failure modes... which is to say the scope size of the problem is significantly reduced - and designing for F1 is already non-trivial!

- Carbon fiber is almost impossible to work with on a mass production basis - the nature of the material prevents high-precision parts from being made, which is hell on a production line, but easier when you're hand-building everything

And you're right - it's entirely possible for a limited-size team to build a car from scratch - assuming they had all the parts as it is. It's entirely impossible for them to attempt to build the drive train, engine, all panels, structural parts, suspension, etc etc, from scratch. It's also very difficult for them to afford the sort of testing required to get this car to market.
Isn't the mapreduce sort NlogN in the number of entries? That would make 1e13 log 1e13/(1e10 log 1e10) 68s/4 = 6.1h. So they were actually faster than the possible scaling? Doesn't sound right...
Yes, I was a junior at the plant at the time - I handled heat cycle, noise, and airflow testing on shrouds, fans, and motors, as well as building (which, being that the plant is unionized, really just meant collecting parts and hounding the shops people) prototype parts for clients.
Half of these are obvious, also some are inaccurate.
Sloppy.
Has google added voting to search results?
Noticed this just now as I was browsing. Let me know if you see the voting options...
Here's the announcement:

http://groups.google.com/group/webpy/browse_frm/thread/964a2...
Here, just set this as your default URL:
http://www.merlinmann.com/rightnow/

It actually helps a little.
Don't waste time.

Value your family and friends more, they are the only ones you know in this world.

Don't listen to Naysayers.
I'll simply use something paraphrased from Voltaire's story Zadig: "Be just and worthy of having friends."

Do that and everything else will follow.
May be the author derived the title from this last sentence:
What if exotic forms of life could thrive where there is no liquid water at all - swimming around in lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's frigid moon, Titan, for example?

But then these things have been known and being considered for decades. What calls for an article on this with such a sensational title?

Looks like this publication has a thing for sensationalism.IMO, not a very good indicator of being scientific.
This is SearchWiki. You only see that if you log in, and it only affects your view of specific results.

See:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-searc...
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I'd second that one.

My message to my younger self: don't screw it up moron, or you won't get happily married!
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Microsoft's expenditure is known to be $300 million for Vista. But the article is comparing this to Apple's total budget.

Apple still has iPod commercials, for instance. The portion spent on the Mac probably isn't "bigger" than Vista's.
This was not software for cars (I should have been more specific). It was accounting or ERP software of some kind.
"But Grandma, how am I supposed to learn about it then?"
Heh... I guess this is what Yahoo gets for talking smack about how quickly they could sort 1TB: http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/hadoop/2008/07/apache_hadoo...
a.k.a abolish institutionalized marriage. all in favor say aye. aye.
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We were writing it to 48,000 hard drives (we did not use the full capacity of these disks, though), and every time we ran our sort, at least one of our disks managed to break (this is not surprising at all given the duration of the test, the number of disks involved, and the expected lifetime of hard disks).

I'm a bit at lost here. Does that mean that one in ~50K hard disks fail within six hours of usage?
alas, doesn't help to only have $30 left in your paypal account and no credit card either.
The message during the blackout should say, "SHOULDN'T YOU BE WORKING?"
When You’re Going Through Hell, Keep On Going
What’s the Point of Daylight Time?
"Don't listen to your parents so much."
Don't pretend to do, just do.
I don't remember the series clearly, but he comes back much before that future event so he is not really missing at that time.
Yea, I think thats the route i'll end up going, I've already started developing a pattern system, and overnight I thought of a few ways that might make that easier to get the title and date of a page.

There's only one thing I'm still stumped on and thats simply how do you tell when your on the original article page and not the index/tag/search/ that still sometimes contains the same content as the article page.
Debt consolidation - a good or bad move?
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After signing up for Netflix last month, I realized that I am one of those users that the algorithm writer's probably hate. I usually vote things "1" or "5", because a movie I did not like meant I just wasted 2 hours of my time. On the other hand, a movie I did like was an enjoyable and relaxing 2 hours.

So I rate everything to the polar ends, and also tend to have pretty varied choices for what movies I like. Usually the only genre I avoid is Horror/Psycho/Chainsaw Death films.
Google have been working on Map Reduce for 4 years longer than anyone else.

I'm actually pretty happy that we (Yahoo!) are talking about what we are doing in the Open and contributing in an Open project.

You could reproduce what we did. Obviously you can't reproduce what Google did. What's more useful?
Looks like it isn't "officially" released as the main site hasn't yet been updated, but it probably will be soon.

I have to say, though, of all the web frameworks for python, I particularly like this one for its simplicity (and it's released as public domain, to boot).
This framework is terrific.
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Taking up space isn't the same as taking up freedom. And, the analogy doesn't hold up: Power meters are in your house, but you're not allowed to tamper with them. So are mailboxes.

Laws don't go away when you enter your front door. You can't murder, you can't beat your children, and you can't steal from people, even electronically.

Being inside your house does grant you some rights, like to privacy, and against unreasonable searches. It isn't completely obvious, though, whether or not DRM violates those rights.

Again, I don't like DRM anymore than the next guy, but it's not a black and white issue. And it's made worse by the fact that the laws it seeks to protect haven't been updated for far too long.
He's missing the point you've just alluded to: in order to unit test everything that could break, it needs to be written in a way that you can get at everything. In general, the more easily testable code is the better designed code. So, if you're doing Test First development, you will write better designed code our of sheer laziness.

In my experience, when developers decry writing unit test code as boring, they are:

1) Usually writing their test afterwards, so they've already gotten the reward

2) Have bad design habits (usually solitary programmer habits) and so find it a real drag to imagine tests for their code.

Also, the article's understanding of the benefits of unit testing are pretty shallow. The way Unit Testing increases quality is much the same way code reviews and formal methods increase quality. It is the same reason we have double-entry accounting, or why people tell you to read your writing out loud to proofread it. If you make a point of checking yourself in a distinct, separate step, that cognitive separation makes you less prone to glossing over your errors.

Unit testing is not a magical elixir and isn't perfect by any means. But the author doesn't really contribute to the discussion.
They still haven't fixed the bug with sessions not being compatible with Web.reloader. :(

Otherwise, good to see web.py still making progress. :)

Definitely my preferred web framework.
I vote turn it off in the morning - that way you don't start your day with procrastination, and folk in the UK get a nice mid afternoon break.
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"The difference being, Flipkart focuses mainly on best sellers."
I got turned off here.. nice to know that India is doing its own online bookstore thing (though thats definitely not the first), the beauty of online bookstores is that even the most obscure books which match your interest but are not hot cakes are in fact available for you. (virtual inventories, etc, etc)

If you talk only about bestsellers, the customer might as well subscribe to a book club (Books Today is pretty famous in India) and get them really cheap.
I mainly mean you should avoid consumption debt-- you should avoid living beyond your means. Debt incurred as part of a project your'e working on could be ok. (Could.)

If you work hard on things you like, you will impress people.
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pg,

I don't know whether this is part of a viable solution, but I will say that for me, excessive browsing has become a problem (not just of this site, but in general -- mostly tech news sites and blogs). FWIW.
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Pfft. Vacuum is just matter, without the fluctuations.
That's kind of an edge case. But even within acting there's a distinction between actually wowing audiences and trying to seem impressive. The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge is a good example of what not to do.
Exactly. Plus, it's advising Yahoo to be more like the New York Times.
But under my hypothetical situation, it's just for a week - who cares? Alternate time zones, then you can be like my cofounders' sleep schedule.
Smoking weed has nothing to do with courage...maybe you mean to say "resist silly laws"?
That's from a year ago. I think TFA is speculating about the same kind of vulnerability, but active now. It is just speculation, though.
Why all those Great Depression analogies are wrong.
Is this solution scalable though? Are you saying that they should store this key on the server side for each instance of gmail and then check every single AJAX request to see if the key is present?
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Could this be done by running e.g. a portable instance of Firefox alongside a regular install? I read that a while back some people were doing this to use/test Firefox 2 and 3 concurrently, but I never gave it a try.

Currently, I keep a clean Opera installation solely for high-importance secure transactions, but I like some of the features that (I know, I have to trust them) Firefox extensions add to Gmail. I also don't want to be running Gmail through that clean Opera installation; I want to restrict my use of the latter to access to known sites and trusted content.
I would be curious to know how they fixed it in the first place.
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"I don’t think the downturn in our general field will be as drastic as it was back in the day."

Whatever area they work in, people always seem to say this. I used to work for a "Big 4" accountancy firm, back in '91, and the official message from management was "we do OK in a recession. People go bust and we get more receivership business." Then they laid off 200 people, then 200 more the next week.

Now I hear the same thing from people I work with. One of our tech support guys reckons he'll be OK because "people still need techies to fix their printers." Well, assuming people do still need to have their printers fixed, which they won't if they just got laid off, or if they decide to do it themselves instead.

Even if you have a strong business, a recession could change the whole game. Or maybe you get lucky and your competitors go under and you pick up more business in the medium term. But nothing's certain.
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Sounds dead on to me. The typical sort is O(N logN). O can be slightly different between the 1T runs and 1P runs, e.g. slightly difference latency or pattern of disk failures. Every sort is sensitive to the data distribution. There is probably an interesting distribution of results across the runs.