skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who says getting people to like you and lie for you isn't a real skill? ;)

ETS seems to be under pressure to do something since they scrapped the latest revision of the GRE. Fortunately, colleges are still free to interpret an applicant's raw GRE results according to their own standards, including ignoring any new section that appears to be BS.
Roads are an order of magnitude more expensive than high speed internet and we still ran them to just about every home in the US. As to sewers a septic field works but a local LAN is just not the Internet.
i know.. at the very least i was hoping to see lots of stats on things like adoptions by companies or heavy usage in critical projects with high visibility... all i got was factorial!!
Online network for solar research
I use Google Notebook for this sort of thing (or used to)-- how does this compare to that? Is there a key difference I should check out first?
Obama weighs putting the wisdom of crowds to work
The logo font. It screams generic.

http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=UMT000025...

Try this. It's a pay font, but it's worth having in your toolbelt.
OpeniMac is now selling Mac clones
Fair enough, I definitely plan to add a public face to the site in the near future.

Regarding account "linkage", you might not be aware that App Engine apps can authenticate users using Google credentials but never see the credentials themselves and don't get any access to the rest of your data. Google was pretty careful about that one. From the developer's perspective I get an object that tells me your Google account ID (usually GMail address), display name, and (implicitly) that you have been successfully authenticated. Good question though.
It's game over for Microsoft. The OS will become even more irrelvant. Adobe should be really worried too - they both just might disappear into a silvery lit air :)

Let's just hope Google doesn't mess this opportunity up. This is the silver bullet and they get to shoot it only once and they must not miss. No beta tags.
Ubuntu calls its releases "Hardy Heron" and "Intrepid Ibex"

OGRE3D calls its releases "Eihort" and "Shoggoth"

I assume they're following the model of attaching a name to each official release.

To reply to the rest of your comment, I think it would be more exciting for beginners to learn how to program games. There is a much higher effort:reward ratio, though. You can't write Pong in 2 lines of code quite yet.
I was bullied as a kid and I still think this is a great article.

I want to be able to tease my friends affectionately without being labelled a bully, or poke fun at my partner without having people lecturing me on 'respect'.

In fact, I totally agree with what was said in the article about couples who tease - I DO have a happier relationship with my partner because we know each other well enough to feel comfortable taking the piss, and can laugh at each other and ourselves. (Most people don't seem to understand the dynamic of our relationship, but we've been together for 7 years so must be doing something right :) )
If you thought something were profitable in a market, and it was easy enough to implement that any hedge fund could, why would you publish it? They'd just do it too until it was no longer profitable.
A Little Better Advice
Because a macho programming position will pay you more than one where you can be more effective with less work and less possibility of error.
How to search for submissions?
Is it possible to search for submission made earlier by keywords or urls? I would like to ensure that I dont submit links already submitted here. In fact I dont want to resubmit what has been redditted as well, but I am not on reddit so thats a whole different issue.

Any ideas?
Can Entrepreneurs Fix the Job Loss Problem?
Well isnt "Startups" one of the simple answers?
Would you rather be a novel or a poem? (actual Oxford University admission question)
My memory from using Notebook is that you copied and pasted text and images into what was basically an online word processor.

You might think of clipng as half-way between Notebook and Delicious -- the stuff you pick out of a page is kept as a discrete unit inside clipng's database along with a link to the original. Injecting things is done via a bookmarklet so it's pretty quick and you don't need to visit clipng to do it.

So I think the key difference is that clipng is faster and less intrusive to use.
Let's just say, hypothetically, that you've sworn a blood oath never to knowingly install Windows for any purpose other than browser testing, and yet another blood oath never to deal with IIS, ever again, for any reason whatsoever.

What's your #2 pick?
What makes appjet so great?
Nokia 6260 slide feature phone is now announced
The spanking new Nokia 6260 slide easily steals the spotlight with Wi-Fi, GPS, 320 x 480 pixels display, and a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. We bet that reading those specs the words “dumb phone” or “S40″ would never cross you mind.
On the other hand, if you thought something was highly risky and likely to succeed only for a short time before blowing up, why not publish it, then bet against it? :)

But seriously -- the author's comments seem to indicate that he is not totally comfortable with the technique and that he is aware it could lose, even though it didn't in this case.
Nativeclient: run x86 native code in Web Applications.
I'm actually working on a startup in this space. Nice to see some HN people share a similar interest
Same experience here- Yahoo generates higher quality users in both paid and organic search, but Google's volume is significantly higher. The volume gap seems even greater (in Google's favor) in organic search.
You guys really have an excellent product here. Extremely easy to use, great features and looks great too.

I'm sure you will get lots of users. What type of pricing will you be looking at?

I think you could work on optimising the page updates. Simply swapping the image in the header resulted in a full page reload which added up to almost 1mb! This makes the site seem (slightly)slow and makes it completely inaccessible to dial up users (yes they're still out there! hehe).
Hey just checked it out and it does seem like a cool idea but when I logged in and then tried to use the bookmarklet (I just dragged it up to my book mark bar in ff3) I am getting errors-a-go-go. I just went to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus and hit "clip!"

uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsISelection.getRangeAt]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: http://www.clipng.com/static/scrape.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 20" data: no]
[Break on this error] undefined
e.target.indexOf is not a function
[Break on this error] if(goToURL && e.target.indexOf('http')>=0) {

Seem to be the main culprits.

Also I just realized it may have not been intended to work that way so I went back and just selected a paragraph of text and hit clip and it worked as expected. anyway hope that helps.
Ah yes, you are right. I also didn't realize it's not even genetic programming as DNA seems to be just polygon data, not polygon-drawing programs.

BTW your comment was eponysterical :)

http://mssv.net/wiki.cgi?Eponysterical
One problem with his health is that he has significantly adjusted his diet, in addition to switching to organic food. This makes the conclusions about his health very suspect (Especially as Americans eat too much meat and not enough fruits/veggies/grains, IIRC).
Adobe's Zoetrope - Web Time Machine
Does this offer any possibilities to semanticise content?
It's an interesting idea, but the article doesn't really give any details except that he wakes up earlier, feels like he has more energy (very subjective, as they don't back this up with any facts) and his urine is brighter yellow. I wish this had been a better article, but still a nice find. Perhaps they are saving the details for the book.
I was responding to the article, not your post. I should have made that clearer, sorry.
I don't expect wikipedia to be a reliable source of information on this topic, but there is an entry that claims that hedge funds already do this sort of thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_trading
Funny that you would test the header image first. We've managed to do partial updates for most content on the pages, but right now we still do a full reload (window.location.reload(true), for you DOM junkies) for image replacements.

We haven't nailed down the pricing structure yet, but we will be announcing it very soon, and we'll definitely have a free version.

Thanks for the feedback!
http://www.portfolio123.com/
You could use Google, and add "site:news.ycombinator.com" at the end of your search terms.
In the long run, I don't see how this is much more useful than JIT-ed Java bytecode. In both cases, you're relying on a heavyweight browser plugin to execute code. Nativeclient runs direct x86 code, after scrubbing it down to a subset of x86. JIT Java takes a bytecode stream and generates a safe x86 instruction stream.

In both cases, the plugin has to provide a system call interface to do anything "interesting" with the client. That system call interface is either too trivial to enable interesting applications, or so complicated that it, not the instruction analyzer, is going to be the primary attack surface of the plugin.

It is shocking, though.
hmmm.. well if I can raise the cash I might go for something like that ;)

Bit of overkill for a tech demo but I hear what your saying. Added to my todo list (after an ignore @replies)
"Refuse to buy them more than one monitor". Interestingly enough I am a marketing/sales/everything else guy and I found that having two monitors has made my work a lot easier. I am thinking now why it took me so long to get the second screen.
Dude, pastebin? :-)

Yeah, I guess this is GA alright. Your crossover is not right -- it should "cross over" at one point, not flip flop at each location :-)

[Edit] And there's a lot of in-breeding going on! You want to keep 10-20 sequences from each generation, not just 2.
I'm more of a "Novel in Verse" type of guy. Not too many unneeded details, like in the other big novels, and still not as abstract and strange as some of the more esoteric poems I've read lately. Balanced, but not boring.

p.s. Im not a big fan of the genre, I've only read "Onegin" after being forced to, by my school. But still, I like the concept.
The layout is ruined in a narrow browser window. Obviously you never gave this much thought. Why not?

Sorry to sound so 'critical' but you asked for it. I hate websites like this even more than websites that make me scroll horizontally, because at least horizontal scrolling lets me see the page properly

Nothing works to fix your site except a wider browser window ... :(
The point that Howards makes seems to be that the unfamiliarity of Linux isn't the problem, inasmuch as the people who 'understand' the complexity of Windows not wanting to be out of a job. After all, if your bread-and-butter comes from keeping Windows running for a bunch of people, you're going to resist any move off of Windows, and as a local in a tight-knit community, you carry a hell of a lot more weight than some well-meaning yahoo from the States.
New Networks Institute, a public interest research group, has estimated that Verizon has received over $70 billion through tax cuts and overcharging to build out a fiber-optic broadband service to consumers (technically known as Fiber to the Home, or FTTH). Verizon has promised on several counts to replace their 100-year old copper wires with fiber-optics lines that reach a customer’s door in the beginning of next year (2004) (Tell-the-Truth Challenge, New Networks).

"Verizon admits that such a speed [of 100mpbs] is more a marketing weapon than anything else at this point." (Broadband DSL Reports)

</endquote>. Consumers have already paid the fees. The telecoms are the ones who have not delivered. And by the way, if you're going to just say "screw the poor people, only rich people get fiber or broadband" then I would first say, you are a pompous prick. Second, I would say let the municipalities build their own damn networks, and stop suing them when they get full support from the communities. It's not that hard to build a fiber network, if you want to see an example just look up Monticello, Minnesota. Oh wait, it is hard, because even after millions raised voluntarily by taxpayers and an overwhelming 75% support, they were sued by guess who? Large telecoms who REFUSED to build out fiber networks for them.

America's too big? Give me a break.

The solution to this problem is simple. It's accountability and it's social responsibility. Three questions should be addressed by any single Internet provider: how much money has already been collected for networks that weren’t built? How profitable is the current local phone service today? And finally, when will the Internet provider in question give its customers their refunds for non-delivered goods, or when will they deliver on their previous commitments?

Obama hit the nail on the head. It is unacceptable that our broadband penetration is this bad. And you should stop buying into the story that America is this massive country where it's impossible to wire people up. The money has already been raised to take some tubes with lights in them and stick them in the ground. There are actual reasons why the telecoms are resisting this. They know that as soon as people have 100mbps, the television will die. Skype will become such a novelty that the telephone will also die. And all of a sudden the hundred-year-old telecoms see themselves in the same shoes as the current record industry: no profit, and zero purpose to live because their technology is old and outdated. There goes their revenue stream. So now it's a fight to up the fee so high that they can justify letting it happen.
I hope it's a bit more stable than that!
Ha ha.

Although part of the reason I picked that username is that a lot of my work involves statistics/probability, so it's not entirely a coincidence that I should be posting about this.
This sounds like an excellent policy. Too bad the HR department told us that we cannot actually require a blood oath... although we can ask candidates if they have taken such an oath.
Couldn't you make the same argument about opening up your software? The competition would just give it away until it was no longer profitable.
50 ways to increase productivity
> Roads are an order of magnitude more expensive than high speed internet and we still ran them to just about every home in the US.

What kind of roads are we talking about? I know lots of folks whose home is served by a gravel or dirt road. And the "we" that ran them is often the folks whose houses they run by.
Yahoo has had too much going on...as opposed to Google which is all about simple tech and innovation.

When Google launches something new it is of a tech focus and us tech folks listen and eat it up.

Yahoo focused on so many different businesses that when they launch a new & exciting tech product..the buzz with early adopters (those who have a big role in shaping the market) is not as grand as it is with Google.

For me this sounds cool but its a Yahoo product not Google.

Hopefully it crazy awesome and it starts to change how I feel about Yahoo.
Thanks for pointing that out. We fixed the CSS issue, and we'll get it out to the production servers later today.
Mac user's security arrogance clouds common sense
The Yahoo Pipes Bleedster Feed - Bleeding Ultimate Feeds
My love affair with TweetDeck
"Borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars today to try to fix the economy, they argue, will leave a huge bill for the next generation."

Iraq, Bailout..borrowing billions is the Bush strategy except the give it to private banks and large corps in the form of tax payers with absolutely no return back to Americans.
Well done, this is very good.

I'm guessing you guys are Canadian as well from the cbc feed in the examples? Nice to see some good tech coming our of the great white north! Sometimes I feel all alone up here!
You can't write Pong in 2 lines of code quite yet

The included Pong weights in at 62 lines (36 after removing comments and blank lines).
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=390352
Thanks for the tips.

What do you mean by "curation?"
There's a lot of legacy C code (e.g. x264) that would be expensive to rewrite in Java. Also, Java JITs aren't very good at generating SSE code.
It's possible to get around using escape sequences.

In Python:

import urllib
print urllib.quote("en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile)")

It looks ugly, but it makes links clickable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_%28automobile%29
Thanks for the feedback.

I'm not sure if this will take off or not, but it's something that I'll visit every day, and in the end that's all that matters (unless I was depending on this to feed the fam, which luckily I'm not).

I still can't believe there's so much open-source software that allows creations like this to be possible. I had it running in about 30 minutes.
Ask HN: What's your philosophy?
Just curious, what drives you? Why exist?
does that mean queries related to authentication and authorization or ensuring valid queries?
Great work on a hard problem... maybe you could adapt it to make follow-me interactive tutorials... like a hostess who directs you to a site's most pertinent features.
Most open source software companies make money on service, closed source IDEs, hosted versions, etc. I'm not aware of any company that makes good money selling actual software that could be downloaded or given away by a competitor legally for free. If you're selling .exes, then I wouldn't open source unless you were prepared to switch business models.

FWIW I think open source software is a great thing but in general a horrible way for any sizable corporation to try to make money.
Minor bugfix: your 'terms of service' link in the footer goes to /about/privacy instead of (I assume) /about/tos.
In the second tab I opened there is a car that makes it past the point that causes most cars to flip. The run currently times out at the top of the next hill, but the distance is still slowly improving.
That's why government intervention is being discussed. It may not be economically feasible for everyone to be connected to the internet at affordable prices. But there is a big public benefit to be gained if everyone is connected and online.

Now die-hard "anarcho-capitalists" will say that government has no role in the economy whatsoever, but the history of most of the technological systems that make our society what it is say otherwise. Postal Service, Railroads, mapping, electricity and telephones were all limited in functionality and restricted in geographical reach until government intervention supported near-universal adoption.
there's an entire street dedicated to people developing trading algorithms...WALL. see: quant funds...whats left of them anyway
This will be fixed in production later today. Thanks!
shall we call this activeG?
Really, in many ways, that wasn't too original of an essay, but it was very well written, and it was something that needed to be said.
Thanks! We're located in British Columbia, Canada!
I meant long-term profitable, as in +EV compared to buying a SPDR with the money. Even random trading could outperform the market in the short term. But if I thought I had a method that outperformed it for the long term (which hopefully I'll never be dumb enough to) I wouldn't tell anyone.
perhaps, but if one doesn't broadly agree with Rand's morality about capitalism, then he/she probably has some sort of "capitalism is evil/greedy" view, which is something that really ought to be sorted out before one ends up starting a business :)
I thought urine yellowness had to do with how much water you drank, so it's more or less diluted.
Yet another way to run unsigned code, er viruses in your browser. :)
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I have no idea what that guy is talking about with double moving averages and what not, but I'd bet that a few simple IF/THEN statements could have produced similar results over the same period of time. Say it hand done well, would you go an invest a few thousand dollars using the IF/THEN algorithm?

On a similar note, say this guy did lose his $3500. Do you think you'd be reading this post on how to automate day trading? Randomness and the survivorship bias play a huge, huge role here.

As far as the website ideas go, I'm pretty sure that some very smart people have demonstrated that using past performance to estimate future performance simply does not work; no amount of tweaking buy/sell algorithms will help you predict where the market is going tomorrow.
Used this on a project recently as well - unfortunately it's an admin system with no externally available link. Very neat though.
Quake III is quite intensive and runs on all platforms. Figure out how it's made.

Not everything needs to be cramped into a browser frame, have an annoying login screen and eat 20% of CPU while sitting idle. Oh, did I mention the hidden benefit of being useful offline?
People have been using computers to trade since the 80s. It is estimated that in some markets (Forex, Commodities), more than 50% of the orders are put in by machines.
A review of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success
Heh, so this has piqued my interest. I have absolutely no experience in online investing/day trading, although I'm pretty sure a lot of you are veterans.

Any books you'd recommend to a programmer with day trading aspirations?
To experience the beauty of existence.
http://www.collective2.com
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10889

When is a paren not a paren? When it's punctuation.
One would think that the job of getting children to take advantage of the resources made available to them would be the responsibility of their parents and teachers. The job of ensuring that they have the resources they need is what we are talking about.
Toxoplasma may be affecting human behavior on a mass scale
So should I do a startup or not?
http://www.amazon.com/Technical-Analysis-Financial-Markets-C...
What is Google thinking?
I wouldn't say game over just yet, there is still much to be determined in this space and with this recent technology.

I first thought the same thing also, but looking at it more objectively we have to see how users adopt native client.
Working to make self-actualization more likely for myself and others.
Determinism.
Well there's how clear it is, and then perhaps the shade of yellow?

I agree that whether it is dark or clear depends on how much water is drank.
Adobe's Zeotrope - Web Timemachine [video]
My Son. (and his soon to be bother/sister)

Sounds hokey, and it's a relatively new feeling for me, but everything I do these days is all about enabling him.
World Economic Forum honours top technology start-ups
So, the obvious question for me is where can I buy stocks for $2.40 per trade? Any day trading successes I might manage would be eaten up by transaction costs at my current broker (where trades are $9.95, I think). I'd probably be a far more active trader at $2.40 (which may not be a good thing, but cutting costs is always good).
Another one...

AmEx will cancel your business credit card account if you test AmEx charges on your merchant gateway with your AmEx business credit card.
I'd learn about finance before you learn about day trading.

The Intelligent Investor - Warren Buffet's favorite

A Random Walk Down Wall Street for one perspective.

Mark Douglas books for a different perspective

Options Volatility & Pricing for the technical stuff.

And Inside the Mind of a Street Addict for the bathroom read.
"LISP territory where the line between mini-language and library is truly thin"

Which demonstrates how successful Brandon Eich was when he set out to make Javascript a Lisp-like language.
There must be more examples of suggestions gone bad...
I'll die anyway so why not make the most of the time I got?
Oh they're correct, I know some people who write those programs. But they don't publish their algorithms.