skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'd like to point out that this would work for other things beyond fashion, like local/indie/small-time bands. if you're going to build it, why restrict it
Great stuff, just printed 8 copies and handed it out to my fellow developers.
Escape from voting machine Hell
If they had used latitude/longitude + tags to generate this, then it would be super-cool indeed.

This is what I thought about while reading the article, but it doesn't appear to be what they did. It would be fun to try this, though, and probably wouldn't be that hard, either.
Sorry, I'm still not following (I could very easily be missing something so I apologize if this is the case). As long as the buyer isn't being forced to buy, how can variable prices be evil?
Google Code Blog: Introducing Powerful Visualizations for your server-side data
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Το χαμομηλάκι: «... Το γέλιο είναι δημοκρατία.
i'd say it'd be a great resource for people interested in that sort of thing.

i'm not sure how large a market it is, so i really can't judge how successful it would be, or what you would even consider successful in that niche. it's definately a step away from your standard hacked news startup, i think you have a good idea on your hands though, that's a gut feeling hehe
E-voting groups are watching a handful of states
It seems to me that people with children in the war are more likely to want a leader that supports getting out of the war sooner rather than "staying the course".

Anecdotal, of course, but the people I know who have been over there or who have children in the war claim they don't see that we are going to accomplish much and want to the US to leave Iraq as soon as is feasible. Whereas McCain is more about winning the war, my impression of Obama and from his statements, is that Obama is not so much about winning as much as wanting the war to come to a reasonable end.

So yes, if you had an investment in the war personally, you would probably have more direct information rather than propaganda about the war. Regardless of your emotions.
I remember checking InTrade sometime in March, and it showed something like a 70%-chance that Hillary Clinton will be president. Guess that the gamblers become more accurate as time to election approaches zero.
I'm wondering if there's a way to download that and use it offline.
It's not just Amazon size it's also mail order shopping. They don't need to display the product so a lot of the presentation related stuff can just be skipped. And they are not concerned about shoplifters so they don't need to protect a tiny USB stick that easily fit's inside a pocket inside a large hard to open box.
This one hangs in my cube: http://colorcharge.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/jquery12_c...
It's so hackable. Just keep an eye on the URL because it keeps the score for you.

I mean come on, you build a quiz for geeks, at least try to have a not so accesible way to change the score.
Ahhh... you just caused a major flashback in my memory. I remember reading about Banach-Tarski paradox about 7 years ago or so and it gave me so many headaches. I think I read the paper explaining it trice and it still made no sense to me and on my second reading I was convinced there was an error in an equation somewhere.. I asked a math prof who's a brilliant theoretician and he explained it to me and it still made little sense. Then I read von Neumann's explanation and it finally started making some sense. The key to understanding it is, like with many other concepts, to ignore your intuition and trust the math behind it.
alternately, assuming it software, is there anything we can do to help? If not, be sure to share the idea again once it reaches that state.
Restricting it might be useful as to not dilute his idea and make it unappealing to die-hard 'indie fashionistas'. Perhaps making his code generic, were this to ever be completed, would be useful in creating spin-offs.
Andy Bechtolsheim On a Common Start-Up Mistake
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Same again - I've got a two year old MBP... Only problem with it is it's working just fine :|

Think waiting 12 months or so is a good idea. There should be a big bump in specs by then. (hopefully Apple supported 8Gb RAM).
You might want to check out http://www.smashingdarling.com. Not saying that there's not room for multiple competitors in this space, but thought it might be a good place to see what's working, what's not, and some areas where you might be able to make improvements.
Security vs. Convenience in Anyvite
I just saw this in an Anyvite message:

"Note: Please do not forward this email. Doing so will give other people access to your Anyvite account."

In looking at the URLs embedded in the email, it was clear that they have some hashes glued in there to allow the user to bypass the login.

I'm not trying to bust on Anyvite; I've considered a similar scheme myself.

But I ended up deciding that it was a bad idea. Other opinions?
Overclocking the lecture: consume recorded lectures much more quickly
Irrepressible widget-maker RockYou aims at Asia, raises $17M
This is great advice. I go to as many local startup meetings as I can. Besides being a great place to meet people, they're almost universally a lot of fun.
I did a lot of Intrade trading on the night of the 04 election. Suffice it to say it isn't that cut and dry.
seems like a lot of people held on to their g4 pb until this release. I just didn't like their hardware offerings in the intervening four years (too expensive or too cheap-looking), but I love my new al-macbook. my only annoyances: doesn't seem to work well with a bluetooth keyboard and usb mouse in closed-lid mode. also, seems to always forget the brightness settings for my display and keyboard (adjust brightness based on ambient light is a cool trick to show friends, but when I'm working, I don't want things changing based on whether my head is blocking the light or not).
well, i wasn't necessarily implying to have one site that dilutes the idea, but the solution for fashion could be cloned into another app for music, and so on.

the idea itself is reusable. suggestion engines could always use improvements.
The search feature also seems to be somewhat fuzzy, which rocks. Searching for "isnumeric language:c" returns hits for "is_numeric", "isnumeral", etc. Very nice!

My only minor complaint is that the search results page is sometimes displaying the wrong highlighted excerpts of matched files. For example, using the above search, I see highlighted text for things like the "(c)" in a copyright notice, or an emacs "Mode: C" hint. Because it's only displaying the first highlighted region per-file, it's hard to use the results page to see which hit I want to drill down into.
Just now:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081103-obama-goes-gun...

Perhaps more significantly, there is no reference to network neutrality, perhaps the single tech
issue on which the gap between Obama and McCain is most pronounced. At the 2007 Google talk, Obama
declared he would "take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality, because once
providers start to privilege some applications or Web sites over others, then the smaller voices get
squeezed out and we all lose."

They edited out the Network Neutrality part of the videos. Ars Technica says it, not me.

Go ahead, mod me down again. Have a nice cozy groupthink and keep voting whoever you fashion while shutting down any dissent. That can never go wrong, right?
You also get a big performance boost when you use the cache-control headers properly. Because you'll be saving the browser having to connect to the server to check if the file changed, and if you have many js, css, and image file, then you'd be saving a lot of round-trips.
Could you provide further explanation, or will you leave this hanging mysteriously in the air, shrouded like a punter knowingly tapping his nose?

It seems cut and dry the way the article is written: Intrade/Betfair correctly predicted 50 states. Are you going to try to make some money tomorrow night, or is there another reason why you won't give up your closely-held betting expertise? :-)
Battle Pits Dolly Parton Against Google
Most physics professors I've spoken to don't actually understand things like quantum entanglement. They just say "the math works. that is all."

There is no intuitive understanding of a subject like that because neither 100K years of evolution of our brain now decades of real world experience expose us to it.
Ah, what with the talk of the mock up I assumed you at least put up something as a visual basis. Sounds... refreshing, actually, even if it puts you on the spot, it frees you to show your stuff personally, as opposed to through prepared materials.
They don't escape the query text field - XSS.

http://github.com/codesearch?q=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22Oops%22)%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cspan%20%22&repo=&langOverride=&language=&x=0&y=0
Solar power game-changer: 'Near perfect' absorption of sunlight, from all angles
Definitely.

It's good for noobs.
For some reason, it thinks I'm not in America.
My experience, while obviously not universally true, is that "release early, release often" is critical to web applications.

One big mistake we made at Powerset was to keep everything secret and fuel the hype machine. I think that in the end this was harmful to the company image. It would have been better to get the tool out in front of people, show them what we could do, and let them see the progress. That way you can get people behind you, cheering you on, instead of having them get bored with all the unproven claims you keep making.

Ideas are cheap. Implementations are what make or break a business.
Very nice. It'd be nice to see a little better relevance. For example, I searched for "game" then drilled down to one of my projects which was listed in the side bar. Towards the bottom of the results was a hit from "game.rb"... it seems like a hit from a file who's name includes the search term might be more relevant than that.

Or, perhaps a hit like "class Game" should be considered more relevant than "attr_reader :game". Perhaps.

Overall, very nice though.
Anyone else having trouble finding java on ubuntu?
Any good ones in the NYC area?
I really think the new macbooks / ~ pro are a bit of a letdown price/performance wise. There are recent other notebooks, such as the Samsung R560 that cost about half of what a macbook pro costs, and offer roughly equal specs.

E.g. Samsung R560: 2ghz core 2 duo, 4ghz ram, geforce 9600M GS (see here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=303188) for 1052 USD

versus macbook pro: 2.4ghz core 2 duo, 2ghz ram (http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macboo...) for 1999 USD.

The samsung is even cheaper than the new macbook. Unless you really need OS X, getting a samsung with linux seems a better deal.

Am I alone thinking this? I've used macs for the past 6 years, and OS X is pretty neat, but every single piece of apple hardware I've owned has given me trouble. I'm seriously considering switching away from macs for my next upgrade.
Yes!

More Erlang Frameworks!
Seems too sensationalist to be plausible...
GOP resorting to "Robo-Tweets" for Voter Suppression
Being perpetually enrolled in college does have its perks - I got my first educational license (at v6) for $99 and all subsequent upgrades for $50.
The Haiku OOO Email
I thought so too, but the article seems to make sense for a materials science angle...
LG KP320 Unlocked
LG KP320 is a new launch by LG that has captured the market with its magnificent features in a short duration of time. You can make your whole ambience to shake over the rhythmic beats of its built-in music player which can play the music in the formats of MP3 or MPEG4.
Ok, so the whole article is just a regurgitation of what is already known about Windows Azure + ranting. Dziuba has obviously not used the service.

If you think about it, .NET Live Services' service bus = SQS but better. SQL Services = Bigtable. Azure = AppEngine (you give it the code and it makes it run). It's not really that hard to get, different, or superfluous. It's just so easy to use that your average enterprise VB window pusher can use it.

And yes, the marketing sucks. It took me a good hour to see what's going on.
he probably wouldn't want a check.. likely they want a western union wire or something.
The "frustration-free packaging" is incidental. The whole point is that Amazon will be saving a lot of money by not shipping empty air around. If you can send the same thing in a smaller package, this means you can fit more packages in a singe shipment to the warehouse, ship more things from a warehose to the distributor, and also send more things in a delivery truck at the end of the delivery process. Everyone saves along the way, meanwhile the customer gets a "furstration free" package, which truthfully, is probably easier to open, incidentally.
"The second biggest danger with going solo is the loss of motivation."

I found this to be true, a few weeks a go I mentioned my idea to an old friend of mine and he was sold.

I have found a cofonder and now things are back on track. I was lucky, the guy I'm now working with is my best friend from grad school. So I already knew I wouldn't have a problem with him.

I do think that having somebody else working with you makes a huge impact. Not only on the product itself but also on your mentality.
(10^14) nanoseconds = 1.1574 days

I should have said If N^2 means 10 million... Anyway, I tend to think of 10^10 nanoseconds as vary bad (10 seconds) and (10^14) > 1 day as unreasonable, but that's just a rule of thumb from the days of 1Ghz CPUS's.
Let A Thousand Web APIs Blossom
How long have they (Sennheiser) been doing this? I bought a pair of CX300's this past summer and they didn't come like that.
Dolly is a cold, cold woman. I wonder whatever happened to Jolene...
Yep. Getting tired of the cycle. Every 3-6 months since 98 or so (when I started reading slashdot) there's a "major discovery that will revolutionize solar power!". The article spends three lines on a few pseudo-scientific generalizations and the rest gushing about how power generation companies' days are numbered.

Its been a decade. Photo-voltaic solar still sucks just as much as it did before the turn of the century. I'm tired of hearing about anti-glare coatings, stupid mirror tricks, splitting water to get hydrogen with your solar power, etc. Sticking a plain old solar cell in your rube-goldberg is not a breakthrough. Call me when we get drastically more efficient silicon wafers. You can keep your mirrors.

Sorry for the rant y'all.
Did you read the updated version they changed Information to Ideas but it says:

Ensure the Full and Free Exchange of Ideas through an Open Internet and Diverse Media Outlets

Protect the Openness of the Internet: A key reason the Internet has been such a success is because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.

Edit: I know it's an important issue to some people, but it's not something that's important to voters so it's going to get dropped from speeches.
Yahoo Live gets the axe
They should start by not sending a packet of page markers the size of a credit card in a box large enough to ship a small child in. And i'm pretty sure paper doesn't really need to have fancy air-pillow wrapping filling the box. A shipping envelope would suffice.
Exactly, and by that point she was already finished.
Enjoyed the rant.

News is nothing without context. We get a lot of noise in this area, but no useful context.

I'm just glad that fusion is only 20 years away, and has been for the last 40 years.
http://abstrusegoose.com/64
A well ordering is just some way of ordering a set made formal. Basically, if you have a set, you can find a relation such that any subset will have a least element. I should also point out that the example given of a set that is not well-ordered is wrong. The proof was found to be erroneous.
Thanks for posting this, very useful.

One of our services relies heavily on S3 for image storage.
Voting Machines Can Be Maliciously Calibrated (reported by Matt Blaze)
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no need to provide any extra information, it really doesn't matter who submits something, but any reason you wouldn't mention github in your profile? sometimes i like checking out profiles to see what people are working on.
Your house keys can be duplicated with a cellphone
I've always like the idea of a Netflix for books but it doesn't seem profitable to me. USPS Media Mail would be the only way to ship them. Right now from DC to Pittsburgh the cost of shipping a 1lb book is $2.23 and the max is 10lb for $5.38. Even then that's assuming you have regional shipping centers for these things all over the country, or you charge customers different rates depending on how far away they are from the shipping center.

It's too much work and I don't think it's profitable in the long run.
It is implied. Closing statement says it all.

But hey - that's why I'm endorsing Barack Obama, not myself, for president.
It's a bit unfortunate that there's already an Erlang framework called "ErlyWeb".
Electronic Nose to detect if you ate nachos for lunch
Does the FCC really not see the potential of this kind of internet penetration? We're already the laughing stock of the rest of the developed world in that regard, this would at least be a step in the right direction.
California: Yes on Prop8 took over Google adsense
Has anyone notice that all of the Google ads are Yes on Prop8 ads? (If you are in ca)

Makes me wonder how much money they must have spent, and the inner working of the brains of the people are wasting our resource on such a pointless issue.

Here's a TechCrunch article about it.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/03/google-may-hate-prop-8-but-that-doesnt-mean-they-wont-serve-ads-supporting-it/

I'm taking down my Google ad for the next two days.
Didn't people stop developing that?
Getting manufacturers to do it is just a way of shifting costs

Probably costs less for them too.
it'll make kids happier since they will be able to open their own presents

That makes me smile. Excellent point and better holidays for all.
church groups are very well funded, especially the more fundamental ones whose members adhere to the tithing rules.

i'd also like to note that those ads probably don't really cost much unless people click on them. for them to get so much consistent exposure, they must be throwing up huge bids.
I don't see the difference between a Linux "zombie" and a Win32 "zombie". I've personally seen both platforms get compromised and when it happens the results are typically the same.

I'm solidly behind the theory of viruses being made for the cheapest platform available - Windows and Linux.
I'm sure it's cheaper for the manufacturer to package too. More efficient all around and no reason not to do it if it's already mail order.

[edit: clarification~]
After a few years these packages will be recognizable as new mail-ordered items to one and all.

From a frustration standpoint - they look easier to wrap. Now a days I can barely wrap a lot of these squirrelly toy packages.
Such a great article. And I love when the NYTimes calls me rational.
The issue with virtual goods is that most people don't "get it". "Why would you spend $1 on a stupid picture?". The business model differs too much from the produce. => market. => sell. people are used to. It's all a matter of psychology and sociology and until people realize that enough to execute on it, I don't plan on having competition.
last release was 6/14/07, though discussions continue on the erlyweb google group.

seems like it's still used by a (small) number of people.
Yep, you actually just walk into the office with your laptop in hand, set it down on the table, everyone gets up and stands behind you to watch as you start driving and talking...then they start asking you questions, you get derailed answering the questions, and suddenly ten minutes have gone by.
People? It's exclusively Yariv as far as I know.

Last I heard he's gotten hooked on Numenta's approach to AI, so I guess you could say he's on a hiatus. The source is available though -- I maintain a mirror of his repository on GitHub.
This revenue could get into the nine figures next year

I did a lot of research last year on virtual economies. I really, really wish I had been able to put this together into a startup. This stuff rocks.
Kitchener-Waterloo needs a Hacker News meetup ;)
Yeah, but that samsung laptop is hideous:

http://www.samsung.com/hk_en/consumer/detail/features.do?gro...
Don't believe it. They're usually pretzels now. Too many people allergic to peanuts.
Richard Stallman on the Failure of One Laptop Per Child & his new laptop
USB Mass Storage Device
We use the USB mass storage devices everyday, such as USB hard disk, USB stick, USB flash card reader, CD/DVD, mobile devices. Those devices are commonly found in our life, until I got the STM32 evaluation board from a local supplier.
Complexity and Intelligence by Eliezer Yudkowsky
so stealth mode until you have a product? or don't stealthmode at all, just come out and say "we're building THIS, get ready for the storm" ?

heh, i'm just afraid of saying we're going to build something, then having to say "woops, we changed our minds, building this other thing makes more sense to us, sorry about that thing before..."
A better example is the well-ordering of the reals. From wikipedia:

From the [axioms of math] one can show that there is a well-order of the reals; it is also possible to show that [those axioms] alone are not sufficient to prove the existence of a definable (by a formula) well-order of the reals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-order

So you can prove that set of real numbers can be well-ordered, but you can also prove that an order cannot be defined.

Kind of how God exists, but cannot be perceived or comprehended ;)

(or maybe not)
What does a virus care about how "expensive" the platform is that it infects?
Fuck executives.
Seemed more than just lacking intuitive explanations. In entanglement for example, the answer is because it can't transfer information & you learn that just fine in any intro to quantum class.
The person creating the virus cares. Affordability of the platform is a major issue when the producers are coming from eastern Europe.
What if you're not looking for a technical co-founder? If I could find someone who (a) had a good idea of the Real Estate Technology landscape and (b) has relationships with local Brokers, I would drop everything and start my "next big thing" tomorrow.
This isn't really saying much. Slysoft "broke" BD+ a while ago. Then they "broke" it again, and "again" after that. Each time they "break" it, Macrovision revs up the protection code and "breaks" Slysoft.

Slysoft is far ahead of Doom9 in this effort, and they get paid to do it. There are disks today that AnyDVD still can't play.

Both Slysoft and Doom9 are emulating the BD+ VM. It is obviously possible to emulate any instruction set architecture. The question is, can they emulate the VM and all its (undocumented) platform features perfectly, so that no protection code can discriminate between the emulator and the real thing? So far, the answer is "no", and therefore, so far, BD+ remains "unbroken" in the most meaningful sense.
jesus, prop 8 had gotten so much coverage i thought it might be something i actually cared about.

read the wiki article and it has nothing to do with tech at all. it's about gay people.

WHY THE HELL IS IT ON TECH SITES?

this is ludicrous and you just infected HN with that crap. could have said something in the title OR text that said what the hell it was actually about...
Scribd is terrible! Can we just use images for things like these?
It's hard to see how BD+ is really hurting the average Blu-Ray consumer. Most people don't copy their DVDs. Meanwhile, all BD+ needs to do to earn its keep is win a week or two of lead time for the most important titles.