skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think every voter should get their own list of sorted stories and comments. That list should form based on voter's upvotes and downvotes.
Then readers would quickly stop seeing postings they are likely to downvote and see more postings that they are likely to upvote.
Pretty soon people who express their interest in controversy - would get controversial stories on top of their list and people who express their interest in groupthink - would get lots of stories re-confirming their groupthink.
That's the problem IMHO. Company get sold for X, and did substantial business with Hecl? Get x/200 or alike and give it to the Hecl developer as a donation.

It's not too hard... Open source coders are likely to write more open source software, so it's a good investment for the collectivity.
I've been looking for something like this, and I like it! I might end up putting it on my server to use privately.

Unfortunately, your GitHub link is wrong (404). (edit: fixed)
1. Check the docs and release history of the projects/apps; if they have not been updated prior to v1.3, it's likely to break with v1.4.

2. Run the test suite of the apps.

3. Run the apps with v1.4 and warnings turned on via:

python -Wall manage.py runserver.

Not only will you quickly see what's broken, but Django will dump helpful deprecation warnings for things that will eventually break at some point.
What if platform x costs 1.5 times as much to develop for, but then sells 3 times as many copies? (Assuming the same app price across platforms.)
Developer Opportunity: Pinterest + CityGrid
Fetching Records from Multiple Tables in SQL Database
When we are working with Tables in Database we need to perform some basic operation with Tables. These operations may be inserting records, updating records etc. The most important operation we need to know about the table is fetching records from the Table, also we can say retrieving records from tables.
Sorry, which (widely used) language out there can be statically analyzed without restricting language features? And being difficult to statically analyze is hardly a reason to switch to C++.
Would love any feedback anyone has.
Technology only becomes obsolete when it no longer solves a problem you have. It becomes irrelevant when it solves a problem you no longer have.

He is investing in stuff that will allow him to create. The only problem is if he can't create stuff faster than his competitors (not much of a problem if you have enough talent and skill) or if people suddenly become no longer interested in the stuff that he wants to make (which also seems unlikely).
They haven't just "found single neurons which trigger memory". They found the only neurons that were active while experiencing a specific situation and memorizing it and they managed to show that activating only those neurons is enough to trigger a reminscence of the very same experience. You cannot say some other neurons would trigger the same memory, because nothing changed about those neurons during "generating" this memory (under the assumptions science currently holds about the brain), so they cannot store it.
I'm slightly confused as to if this has any use beyond "on-demand data access" use cases. I reviewed the site and I like the idea but I'm confused as to what else this could be used for. Would something like a "Heroku" style PaaS using PyPy or something that targets NaCL benefit from this is a process separation sense? Anybody care to clarify?
voluntarily revealed? What about having their job threatened?
MegaUpload host pleads for cash to preserve user files.
The things on the left side of the graph were relatively inexpensive consumer devices while the things on the right were generally more expensive.

The author's surprise that the color tv or cell phone weren't more quickly adopted seems ignorant of price considerations. Color televisions and cell phones were very expensive when they were introduced.
"I have to say, I'm really impressed with Facebook for coming out and making this their issue"

I don't find it impressive or surprising. This is a major issue that would change what people would want to share. No sharing - no facebook. It's obvious that they need to do whatever they can fair, unfair, legal, fud to stop employers from requesting access to a facebook users page.

Another commenter (jerf http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3745916 ) brought up the issue of legal standing which I agree with. Facebook probably doesn't have legal standing (that is clear) but the mere fact they are raising the issue will stall the process and give them time to come up with a solution. And instill "carry on as usual nothing to see here" into facebook users.

They are getting out in front of the problem before it spins out of control.
Whoops! Thanks. I forgot to change it from private to public.
Skeltrack: Open source skeleton tracking library for Kinect
Certainly, if you don't personally enjoy it then it doesn't qualify as music.
Flame Challenge - explaining science to 11-year-olds
Here's a good list of changes http://procrastinatingdev.com/django/most-important-changes-...
Intel seems pretty confident that they will be able to get to 11nm in the next 5 years or so. Past that, pure shrinkage of transistors via purely "conventional" methods will mostly hit a wall, but everyone saw that coming.

There's been a lot of work on nanoelectronics. For example, some scientists recently announced at a semiconductor conference that they had found a way to bypass the diffraction limit completely, making 2nm features with a 650nm laser. Similarly, I know an engineer who worked on a massively-parallel electron-beam-based etching device, which could also be applied similarly at very small node sizes. There's a billion other technical challenges, but there's been a lot of progress in making features on the molecular level.

If anything, this is better than expected: EUV has had some serious problems over the past few years, yet its delay hasn't stopped the next few nodes.

Moore's law doesn't require that shrinkage continuing, though, as there are other technologies available. Memristors in particular may allow scaling faster than Moore's law would otherwise predict.
Good article. True, pricing is glossed over and I guess freemium disruptions depend on what you're selling.
That's an excellent point. Cell phone networks and color television content took a long time to develop. They weren't useful to very many consumers when first introduced, so the market rate was naturally very slow.
French president promises law to make viewing "hate sites" an offense
Address spoofing vulnerability discovered in Mobile Safari on iOS 5.1
Bulk updating already exists.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/queries/#upd...
> From the time I arrived at MIT in '08 to the time I left in '11, I witnessed a pretty huge shift in the interests of MIT students towards startups.

I've witnessed now multiple decades of change, and the interests of the student body vary according to the fashion of the day.

If I were to advise fellow alums about preparation, I'd advise: Prepare for change. As trite as that sounds, it's been the only consistent trait.
It depends? :)

I think the short answer to "faster traction" is Mobile App.

But there's a lot of factors and depends on your app, of course. Instagram is a good example of a mobile-app-only that gained massive traction.

Websites tend not to explode at once as much since there is no ranking system that feeds in on itself like the App Store. Also, you're more likely to get press coverage for a mobile app than a web app.
'Minecraft' used to create fully functional graphing calculator
Measure your website’s performance with improved Site Speed reports
I haven't read your post, but I'll guess what it says:

Early employees take a pay-cut, work hard, and get so little equity that even if there's a big (not gargantuan) payout it won't make up for the pay they've lost. The only real advantage is that they are an early employee, and have a reasonable chance of getting promoted in the growing company.

edit: read your post. I was right. It's what basically everyone says about early employees.
There's http://library.linode.com/

But I'd highly suggest learning how to administer a Linux installation from the command line locally before you create a VPS and open yourself up to be hacked as you try to learn how to do everything.
I'd love to have them try out Searchify's hosted search and see how fast it is. The key to fast search is RAM, which is why we run our search indexes from RAM (not cheap), and most queries are served within 100ms. If you're the author of the blog post, please contact me, chris at searchify, if you'd like to do this comparison, and I'll set you up with a test acct.
When you consider all the D batteries I had to buy for my boom box, it was pretty expensive ;)
Ask HN: Quality HTML5 training resources for Advertising Dept.
I know the online advertising department of a medium-sized newspaper that wants to get trained to build quality HTML5 (meaning HTML+CSS+JS) ads. Some have backgrounds with CSS and JS, but they are not professional front-end developers. Where can they get the training they need?

The resources can be free or paid, online and on- or off-site, but administered hands-on training may be best.
You Can’t Be What You Can’t See: How to Get More Women in Tech
Creative cars of the past
Let’s take a little look back at the past and see what cars were at the dawn of mechanical engineering.
Svbtly Obtvse
That's a feature. Artistry was a failing industry in the era of the boombox; friends and family would steal the hard work -- performances -- of artists in the streets of our nations. Handheld devices have come a long way of protecting the consumer, from the likes of the MPAA, and the artists, from those of us stealing their live performances.
Because while that part of the law is not unpredictable, the rest of the events rely on too many variables any of which could fail.

Why go thru such Goldbergian process to discredit some politician. It's overly complicated. The result of this kind of alleged "framing" isn't even guaranteed -see Berlusconi.
Apple Flash Crash: Stock Halted After Trade Causes 9% Plunge
This is precisely the analysis given in the per-transistor pricing crossover chart. That shows that the old rate of wafer price increase still allowed for significant per-transistor cost advantage fairly quickly. The whole point is that the rate of wafer price increase has itself increased to the point where these crossovers are barely happening anymore.
I've played with Trigger.io's Forge and can tell you as far as crashes and debugging, they provide a webservice that your app can report to, and you can monitor it in real time. That being said...

After playing with Trigger (or Forge is the actual product) I was rather disappointed.

somethings I've observed:
1) Forge is NOT free - You have to pay $50 A MONTH to remove their branding. Which is a big splash screen that is shown for about 3 seconds when the app is launched. This producing a terrible waiting period (not sure if they are doing work in the bg) but it defiantly doesn't feel as snappy as it could. Am I'm not paying $50 to find out.

2) I saw nothing that supports their claim 5x performance than phonegap. I've built a fair share of native and web wrapper apps. If anything it was a little laggy'er.

3) It's early in its life, many features are actually not cross platform. Many things only working in android or iOS.

I;m still sticking with phonegap. It's a way more mature system. And its Fee.
When one's core beliefs have no basis in logic or objective reality, it's simple to maintain consistency. All that's needed is the invention of some new concept to explain the discrepancy.

The world created in days -> but a "day" could be a million years.
Evolutionary theory -> but <creator> is driving the evolution
etc...
Java developers make less than "other developers"? This is news to me. Also: This is news to me.
The biggest point this is missing - the cost of acquisition. If you sell your product to 0.1% of China, you'll have tonnes of revenue. If you have to send salesmen out to knock on half a billion doors to get that 0.1% to buy, your profits won't be so hot.

Or, you could buy adwords. You can try a "viral" strategy, which magnifies your acquisition (by a factor you can calculate - if 90% of your customers can sell to a friend, you get 1/(1-0.9) = 10X the acquisitions you'd get without the viral strategy), but it's not a holy grail unless every customer brings in more than 1 friend. Guess how often that happens?
Meta: Paginated Comments
I've just noticed that comments are now paginated. In some cases like "Lighten Up" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3736037) only the first comment and its children is displayed.

I noticed this because I'm working on an extension that does various things on news.ycombinator.com and one thing is determining new posts on comments. It's now not practical to find the last comment id on a page so that's broken. I'm very hesitant to implement pagination because I really don't want and it's a bad solution.

Besides the problems for certain extensions, top comments are now even more privileged than before. The incentive for piggybacking the top comment is greatly increased because otherwise you'll be on the next page of comments.

edit: Not to mention the unreliability of 'More' (/x?) links to still exist when you get round to following them.
(un)classroom: Learn PHP and build apps in your browser
Moore's law only describes silicon processes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_law

It has nothing to do with computing architectures.
You can actually remove traumatic memories using drugs but it has to be done very soon following the traumatic event.

It is in fact an arena of medical ethical conflict between those who advocate it and those who (properly, in my view) don't.
HandleOpenURL: Shared Interapp Communication on iOS
Hmm, I am not sure I agree with the second part of your statement for a few reasons. E.g.

1. Relative utility of the upside. It is not the absolute value of the outcome that matters per person, but rather the relative value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility

2. Other incentives (fun, interesting work, wanting the "startup experience" etc.). These dont always exist, but often they do and people value them.

3. Passion for making an impact. Some products are really exciting to work on. Not everyone is in it just for the money.

I think in general my personal bias would not be to hire people who think purely in economic terms about e.g. their work ethic. Obviously, you want all the people who take the risk to work with you at a startup to do extremely well, but you don't want people whose primary thought is "well, if I make 2X more I will work 2X harder" as there are lots of ups and downs at a startup, and sometimes it is unclear what the outcome will be.
I sure am the author. email sent :)
By taking this legal action Facebook tries to protect itself in the long run. Imagine if it becomes more common to hand out your account to HR. Quick enough, people will avoid connecting with each other on that platform and move to a competing platform where nobody is watching them.
Impressionist alpha 1| A visual editor for impress.js
Balances the goodwill they generated by coming out against employer requests for Facebook accoutn passwords, I guess...
I use an android phone without service. It doesn't require anything different. You can delete the dialer shortcut if it bothers you.
Japanese surveillance system scans 36 million faces in seconds
I don't see anyone creating anything with an 8-track or VHS tape except as a novelty because it would be painfully slow and the quality not up to par compared with what we have now. It's only useful if he's creating stuff and earning money/fame/fulfillment or whatever rocks his boat. But as 'investment' for some future date when he decides to use them he might be better off investing the money pending that future date which brings us back to square one.
Hmm, the other day I was talking about exactly this with a coworker. This being that transistor cost is not getting exactly cheaper when you factor in R&D and complicate the manufacturing process.

I think Intel will be able to bundle a "good enough for playing AAA games in 1080p with maxed out graphics" video processor into the main CPU in about one/two years, maybe less. Those CPUs will be more expensive that the tinier (in transistor count) ones. This will happen around when they hit 14nm. NVIDIA will go out of bussiness or become a niche company dedicated to vector processing for scientific computation or heavy workstations, and maybe a small player in the ARM market with their Tegra architecture. Maybe AMD will go the same road, making something similar to Intel but using their ATI technology.

Bonus 1: too bad, no more Singularity mumbo-jumbo in less than two years.

Bonus 2: I am one of the few that believes ARM will never be relevant in the desktop/laptop/console/gaming segment, because of what I think Intel will come up with.
Mostly because being clueful takes time and will not increase their income (decrease it, if it will have any effect).

an Upton Sinclair quote fits here: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'
It's not 'closed' vs. 'open', it's business man vs. engineer.

Apple has a few core development projects they offer for free. Darwin and Webkit to name a few.

The root issue is: Steve Jobs would never understand why you would do something that makes no business sense. Linus would never understand why you wouldn't give something away for free if you could.
Problem is, they aren't going to have comparable yields at the same time. The newer tech will have a lower yield.
What to do with an old iPod
Damn, I just wasted 1 month rewriting a password hashing app.
housewives with a start up-applying to yc, feedback please
Hello hackers! My best friend/business partner and I are applying for this session of Y combinator... We have a truly phenomenal start up idea, not trying to sound obnoxious, but it's a goodie ;). The thing is, we are not technical really at all. Our parent company is called "Ambitious Housewives" because that's what we are. We're 30, married, and we have kids (she has a 7 year old, and I have a 6 year old and a 4 month old...) BUT we both have built home based businesses, and we are entrepreneurs! We have been hard at work trying to raise capital, but it is difficult in Calgary, everyone is SO oil and gas focused. We want to get in to YC SO much, where people will TRULY understand our vision... Just wondering, what do you think our chances are of being selected, given that we are not in tech?
how is it different from freebsd jails or containers in linux?
I wouldn't agree with that characterization. GPL terms only apply to redistributors. If you receive GPL software, it's yours. It is only if you want to do something that copyright requires you to have permission to do that the GPL actually kicks in. If you never redistribute the software, the GPL actually lays zero constraints on you.

This is in contrast to conventional EULAs, which forbid you from using the software until you agree to them (basically forbidding you to "receive" the software), and forbid you from any form of redistribution. The case hythloday cites is a EULA issue.

There's nothing abusive about how the GPL uses copyright law. If you violate the GPL and redistribute the software anyhow, that simply means that you are redistributing software without the consent of the owner, which is a very direct copyright violation, not a strange penumbric emanation or anything.
Then they will require that you give them two passwords.

Or, to crib from jwz: now you have two problems.
Show HN : Analyze Redis Memory Usage
I agree that there are contexts where calling a woman a "girl" is demeaning and condescending. This is clear. And I think labeling a word as "demeaning" requires one of two things: a subjective component (the response of the person at whom the word was directed believing the word was demeaning) or an objective component (the intent of the speaker of the word intending it to be demeaning). I think if we agree with this, it isn't hard to fabricate examples where calling an adult female a "girl" is, in fact, demeaning.

Now if we agree on that, then to make any absolute claim that calling a woman a "girl" is demeaning then we must either make some universal claim about the intent of all those who use the word or a universal claim about the reaction of all those that hear it. I think either of those claims might be overreaching. Or maybe I'm just setting the bar too high.

We obviously live in different parts of the world with different social expectations for language use. Beyond a certain point, arguing about when it is ok to say woman or girl is just pointless bickering over divergent cultural expectations and nothing more.

I respect your viewpoint, you have definitely made me think. I now consider myself a Level 3 misogynist (up from 1).
If the insurance writer did their due diligence and realized the big single customer was MegaUpload (and what a large portion of MU's users were doing with the service), they would've been insane to write an insurance policy. I really don't think MU going down in an investigation falls under the category of "unforseeable." It was always a question of when, not if IMHO.
Get a copy of this book: "I will teach you to be rich" by Ramit Sethi. It answers all your questions and has information on more.
Ask HN: Is there a simple tool to turn a website into a PDF?
In particular, a user manual: http://www.gaiagps.com/wiki/gaia_gps_user_manual
I'm always going to favour PhoneGap over Trigger.io because of PhoneGap's plugin community. It's also relatively easy to make plugins yourself- I've been hacking around at adding the Spotify API recently. Being a paid product, it's unlikely that Trigger.io are going to get the same level of support from hackers that PhoneGap has.
14 cool, but off-beat inventions
Consumers Will Save The World (If You Give Them Points)
The arc90 one stood out to me as the best. Borrowed the concept of roles and turned this out. http://www.call-em-all.com/About/team.aspx
I regretfully do not have an iPhone yet, but I have always wondered why Apple handled ring tones that way. I never understood the reasoning behind charging $1.29 for a song and then charging another $1.29 to make that song also into a ringtone.
Yeah, I wish they mentioned their business model somewhere. Without an explicit mention we need to worry that they are selling kids info, possibly including GPS location since that is obviously sent to their website.
The Economist Debate on Airplane Security
Unity 5.8 out, ready for beta2
Yup. The 'build it' approach assumes that having a blueprint means you're the best person to do the job.
Do you really think a million people used Megaupload for backups, when the service was nearly completely unusable for that task?

Do you think they were zipping up the contents of their own systems and then uploading them daily?
Off topic: I live across the river from MIT. I work in asset management and worked for an angel investment fund. I'm working on a startup at night. If you live in Boston and want to meet for coffee email me.

I'll meet anyone from HN, even if you just want some career advice for working in asset management or just want to talk about random stuff.

My email address is my hn username at gmail.
Entrepreneurs, Are You Solving Real Problems?
In addition to what jamii said, you can also have multiple write servers (called "transactors) and can join data between them. Furthermore, that transactor isn't serving queries, so it can have higher write throughput than a traditional database.

Assuming hot failover, it's a perfectly reasonable approach for pretty much all places a traditional SQL database was reasonable before.
Thanks for the contribution. One suggestion: a link back from your Github page to the demo page...I wanted to send the Github link around.