skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Better"... according to a guy on the Internet.
I just dug into and can confirm. MIME is returned as text/html and browser reads it as such. still very clever.

It's actually kind of a good test of browser compliance in a sick way.
Just off the top of my head - I frequently pay more than is asked on Bandcamp and Humble Bundle. I once paid $20 for an mp3 of a song to its artist, even though it was readily available on youtube.
That project looks amazing! Much more mature and robust than my solution. Thanks for the heads up.
The evidence is the sub-prime mortgage brokers.

Or do you think that there is some invisible line of morals that separates one kind of person who lends money, from another?
Study Reveals Why Lefties Are Rare
"The best part: whether or not you apply yourself is under your control."

That assumes free will... It may seem an absurd topic, but it's far from closed [1].

[1] http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl (search "free will")
Which agency do you use? I need a J-1.
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Or just raise the wage base above the current $110,100.
I live in Leytonstone, a little under 2 miles from the stadium. My thoughts on this when I heard it where (i) The communication with the block residents might have been better (ii) That seems like reasonable thing to, given the balance between shrapnel potentially hitting my house and an aircraft hitting the stadium.

Moreover, if I were the authorities I would make sure that there was a big public kerfuffle about anti-aircraft missiles being stationed in London - whether they were actually going to be stationed or not. It may be security theatre, but not in the way that the blog author thinks.

And it may be deeply unfashionable, but the family and I are pretty excited by the prospect of the Olympics.
As a recent graduate with a few internships under my belt, I have seen plenty students come from abroad for internships. Although this was an awesome idea, I think it might only target smaller companies that do their own recruiting. Even for the smaller companies, this might not be the "best" approach. I agree with doing something more custom based for them to show that you are passionate, although it would be a much more time consuming process.
On the other hand, the bigger companies will want you to apply more directly.
Fast Natural Language Date Parser using Lex/Yacc/C
This is very neat! Have you considered putting the photographs under a license such as one of the Creative Commons licenses?
I upvoted dozens of stories, however the list only shows 10 stories which are also very old, none of recent voted stories appear on this page.
Are there major corporations already doing this ?
Downvoted for language, FYI.

"About 50% of my search traffic is already in the form of keyword searches pointed at IMDB/Wikipedia/eBay/Amazon site-specific search, so why not just wrap this up for me."

Do you like how DuckDuckGo handles this?
502 bad gateway. On the bright side, if you're overloading nginx with your weekend project it's going pretty well :)
It did actually uncover something. A huge leak in chrome for me. While this is running Chrome memory usage just climbs and climbs. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/586869/Screenshots/chrome%20leak.png
You aren't the only person having problems:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3885839
I'm curious as to what these "hackfests" you refer to are. Are they meetups from meetup.com in your area? I'm in a similar situation, a UI designer looking for a developer co-founder and haven't found any luck either.
You do realise they pay all taxes they are obliged to pay in every jurisdiction they operate in, right?
I am a student. How can I learn new things while making a TINY bit of money?
I'm just a student, and my goals aren't very high. "Get rich quick" schemes are ludicrous! I'm talking a hundred or two a month. Mostly I just want to learn. I'm not planning to go into business or startups, so I'm not looking for an enormous resume-boost either.

I'm overflowing with ideas but most of them are extremely complex and would require an enormous initial investment and months of full-time work-- while I'd love to pursue these in the future, right now I just want something interesting that will help get me by.

I'm not sure if I'm asking for (general) ideas or advice, so I'd appreciate anything you could offer.
Actually, I've done both. I purposely overpay a local restaurant that seems to be struggling and told them they should charge more. This isn't tipping a waiter, I get takeout and tip the store itself. And I've paid extra federal income taxes for several years by purposefully failing to take some deductions I'm entitled to and could easily substantiate.

This year I purposefully overpaid my business privilege tax to the township as well, and paid a special zoning fee for having a home office that I know my neighbors (who also have home offices) don't bother reporting and paying. I also donate money exclusively to organizations that are not registered charities even though donating the same money to a charity would net me cash back in taxes.

90% of people may rarely go out of their way to pay more than they have to, but it's not unheard of.
http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=dewiz

That should have all the stories you voted on + a more link at the bottom to browse older ones.
You'd be wrong. Plenty of money comes from unions.

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A

However, the point I'm making is that once we claim the democratic process doesn't justify the taxation side due to lobbying, we also can't claim the democratic process justifies the spending side.
Fair enough point on the language, I've toned it down.

As for DDG, kinda but not really. There is a fundamental disconnect between my everyday needs on a computer and the kind of needs that Big Search apparently inexorably must accomplish (and fashionably heralded by the industry in forums like HN), that DDG attempts to emulate.

Most of the time I want to access my trusted vendors (bank, shop, eBay, ...) and a search engine is supposed to be my entry page to achieve that. But say, as I just searched on DDG now for "The Art Of Computer Programming", I get (from my perspective) trusted results from Wikipedia and Amazon, mixed in with crappy spam from freebookzone.com and so on.

My point is that I don't care about that freebookzone.com link, it's a (difficult) problem my ideal search engine would not be attempting to solve.

I am DMW, I pay you $50/year because you don't try to spelling correct programming language identifiers, and for the privilege of you knowing that 90% of the time when I search for a book I want you to send me to Amazon UK, even if I'm connected from Estonia, and apply these rules because I told you them somehow (say, during signup). If your results are incomplete, then provide me with access to some separate deep web mining/ranking service, who I'd expect are paid a cut of my subscription to gain access to.
Move more than 1 unit with cubism.js
I'll probably take a karma hit for this, but I find it neither intellectually stimulating nor effective to talk about whether we're in a bubble, especially if it's fear mongering. If you want to convince smart people they're living in a bubble, do it with data and intellect. This one at least seems like a step in the right direction using specific companies and PE ratios, whereas the previous articles were pretty easy to dismiss with hardly any data to reference (Chris seems to argue against a bubble in this article, I just like that he's using data).

The only thing I can look at and agree with is that seed round valuations are higher. Can a bubble be created based on inflated seed valuations? That'd be a more interesting conversation to have. The A rounds are not trivial to raise--you still need traction, whether it's users or revenue.

If we are in fact in a bubble, what exactly are you going to do? Are you going to immediately start focusing on revenue, knowing that it may be harder to earn in the near future? Are you going to go out and raise your Series A/B/C right now given your 6+ months of runway left? Or are you just going to entertain the conversation? It doesn't feel like a very productive conversation to have unless you're actually acting on it right now.
I'm freakin' out, man!
Sex and Bitcoin
The family analogy is heart-warming, but scaled up to a societal/country level it can lead to destructive practices like nepotism and tribalism.
I'm experiencing the same problem (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3907370), my list of saved stories only shows 10 very old ones.
zynga has earnings. $87mm of pre-tax cash flow in the first quarter that was just reported. Zynga has had earnings/profits/cash flow for years.
im willing to travel from uruguay for the next one!
I don't know and that's not what I was asking - I tried to clarify that I was asking OP to cite where in the post that this discussion is about somebody argued that corporations pay voluntary, additional taxes.
i don't benefit from the bubble. it drives up the cost we have to pay to invest in companies. i pray for the day the markets tumble.
The author compares UTF-8 to UTF-16, while there are a myriad better encodings than both for different Asian languages.

For instance: EUC-JP in Japan, BIG5 in Taiwan, GB in China, etc. Different EUC encodings are variable-length and are a lot more efficient since they put common subsets in lower parts of the table for each language, close to each other so they also compress better, while allowing tricks for text matching and searches (not really necessary for web sites, but it's nice to use the same encoding throughout applications sometimes). Russian and Greek are also basically multiplied by two in size.

There are a lot of other considerations.

If you think a 30%+ saving in size (and latency) is not a big deal, then you're a lot more likely to lose to local competitors. Note that gzipped or otherwise compressed text makes differences even worse at least in the case of Japanese - where UTF-8 text gets de-aligned all over the place to odd byte sizes and compresses worse. Add to that the fact that Asians browse the net A LOT from the phone and have done so for much longer than westerners and in a bigger percentage, and you have your problem exacerbated even further.

There is a lot more to consider and like it or not it's not as simple as "UTF-8 for everything and everybody, ever!"
The best sign that we are not in a bubble is the fact that it's mainstream to think that we are in a bubble. This suggests that the possible overhype is already accounted for in the market price.

It's the equivalent of when your taxi driver starts talking about a "hot stock", it's time to sell.
Thank you mz. Looking at the other thread I wondered if perhaps all the stories I upvoted were killed, but that's highly improbable.
Either it's a bug or I don't have enough karma to use this feature ?
We took care of this potential problem a while ago in America: "No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.". I always thought that was one of the sillier amendments to our Constitution.
This is part of Microsoft Research's big talk archive: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/dp/vi/videos.aspx

The archive has many great talks. For example if you're interested in compilers:

A recent great talk on a radically different way to do compiler optimization: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=162...

Another one on using Datalog for points-to analysis: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=103...

There are awesome talks on nearly any computer science topic (and also non-CS).
This really caught my eye when I visited Wikipedia as a logged-in editor yesterday:

"Under the following conditions:

"Responsibility — You take responsibility for your edits (since we only host your content).

A huge number of I.P. edits, and not a few edits by logged-in editors, currently show no sense of personal responsibility.

"Civility — You support a civil environment and do not harass other users.

This is why I edit very little on Wikipedia anymore. If I try to edit on any subject that I actually have a lot of sources for,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellige...

I get into time-wasting edit wars, without even much by way of administrator enforcement of the existing civility rules.

"Lawful Behavior — You do not violate copyright or other laws.

Some of highest-volume "contributors" on Wikipedia, including at least one person who made it onto the Arbitration Committee, appear to have been serial plagiarists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spotting_possible_cop...

"No Harm — You do not harm our technology infrastructure.

"Terms of Use and Policies — You adhere to the below Terms of Use and to the applicable community policies when you visit our sites or participate in our communities."

A reasonably noble set of aspirations, but with number of active administrators declining in "unsustainable fashion,"

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Wikimedia_Editor...

and many of those administrators being callow and inexperienced besides, it's not clear how any of these goals can be achieved.
This might be relevant:

http://www.quora.com/the_edge/Intriguing-answer-on-Silicon-V...

Apparently housing prices are bottoming out (US domestic) and people are starting to get serious interest in San Francisco property (much more than normal). I remember reading somewhere that rents had a massive run up during the last bubble (where leases killed a bunch of startups - 5 year leases at 2000 prices during the crash).

From: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850170

Steve Jurvetson (DFJ Venture Capitalist) has this to say on whether or not we may be entering a bubble:

http://www.quora.com/the_edge/Long-wave-boom-and-bust-cycle-...

Who knows, with the JOBS act passed, and the consequent relaxation in securities regulations we may have sown the seeds of an unpleasant moment in the near future.

Anyway some food for thought.

JOBS Source:

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

JOBS Act criticism:

The Consumer Federation of America characterized an earlier version of the legislation as "the dangerous and discredited notion that the way to create jobs is to weaken regulatory protections"

Criminologist William K. Black had said the bill would lead to a "regulatory race to the bottom" and said it was lobbied by Wall Street to weaken the Sarbanes–Oxley Act.

"gutting regulations designed to safeguard investors", legalizing boiler room operations, "reliev[ing] businesses that are preparing to go public from some of the most important auditing regulations that Congress passed after the Enron debacle" and "a terrible package of bills that would undo essential investor protections, reduce market transparency and distort the efficient allocation of capital".
here's the math. it is not wonky.

market cap = ~$6bn,
cash = $1.5bn,
enterprise value = ~$4.5bn,
pre-tax earnings/EBTIDA in Q1 = $87mm,
annualized = $358mm,
enterprise value/annualized ebitda = ~13
This crashed my OSX Lion running Chrome, lost all my work and had to reboot. Just tested Firefox too, crashes as well. Safari doesn't load anything, just a bunch of PNG binary text? Might want to work on compatibility ;)
Duplicate. Same URL was already submitted by the same user yesterday. Flagged.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3905437
I have no clue what is causing it. I am not a programmer and I really don't know enough about the rules here. I just remembered the other similar post and happened to be able to find it because I happened to post in it. Maybe someone more qualified than me can help you figure it out.

Best of luck.
I am using Fedora on my laptop. XFCE desktop is a good environment. rpmfusion provides major "nonfree" packages.

For me everything has worked out of the box.
In the text it states that "Genius often comes from finding a new perspective that no one else has taken".

I think this is clear and people not even considered geniuses can also perform this feat. The defining part is that geniuses seem to come by those alternatives so easily, its just always there. So for example if we devote years to programming we can tell ourselves OK, if i have a problem invoke all my years of experience and look at this problem from many different angles, we can formulate and combine our thinking into something unique that even surprises ourselves because the combination of all the data we we know to get this new idea is far greater then adding the single idea's and pieces of data that we have. Over time we can build on that to get better ideas.

But if i say ok, i know the method of thinking like X helps me do great things when im programming and i try to do the same for say math problems, if i havnt had the experience no matter what I tell myself, i just can not look at the problem from different perspectives or if i do, its not such a great leap, its incremental. Its still step by step, A->B not to A->C, it still follows a logical thought process and we do not surprise ourselves by our solution

For the genius it seems after reading something once or by some method unknown (and having no experience) they can still have all those different perspectives. Then it leaves us normal people thinking, how did they get from A->C without going through the normal steps A->B->C ... this is specially the case when the individual is very young and has managed to soak that information without college or any formal learning ...
Cool, but I still think tabs should be as wide as the window when not stacked. Small tabs only make hitting them harder.
The way I usually say it is like this:

Communism works best between two spouses, a little worse with immediate family, a little worse with extended family, a little worse with orthodox religious communities. People can see the trend. As the number of people that get involved goes up the total number of connections goes up n + 1 choose two and the chance that you deeply care for them goes down.
College Dropout Became Mathematical Genius After Mugging
After sincerely giving the latest Ubuntu a shot, I've gone back to Fedora (running a pre-release build of 17, KDE) on my Lenovo X220.
Idea Intertia
Can someone clarify the whole charity tax deduction thing?
Unless tax is at >100% (or 50%?), surely there's no gain from doubling donations to benefit from tax deduction? Or am I not understanding something here?
Google's inability to get new software into user's hands is definitely going to be a problem going forward. I'm actually surprised it hasn't burnt them worse already. Take ICS for example.

Google is endlessly iterating their core service applications - mapping, navigation, voice recognition, gmail, places, and so on. With Chrome they are quite welcomely decoupling the browser (long overdue), though that is one of the only major dependencies on ICS.

The notion that the operating system needs to iterate for Google to move the base forward is not accurate.

Which is interesting seeing the focus on ICS, which makes me wonder whether we're past the point of diminishing returns. People desperately wanted each of the prior iterations because they fixed fundamental flaws in the operating system (e.g. slow runtimes, bloat, etc). From Gingerbread to ICS, however, is largely a "meh" affair on smartphones. Of course new devices come with it, but for the existing base it just isn't that compelling.
No it isn't. Any letter with an accent will take up two bytes. Most non-Latin characters take up three bytes, sometimes even four.
You know Palm (or was it Access?) bought Be (and BeOS) for reasons then (and, to be fair, now too) unfathomable.

Now they can say "That's what we intended all along" ;-)
This article looks like a really high-level approach to assembly based on a few incorrect premises.

Many of the sentences here seem to contain incorrect original research or oversimplifications of the concepts required to understand assembly.

For example,
"So, processors run something call opcode, which basically means binary. Of course, not all processors are the same, but, to preserve some measure of sanity, there's something called x86 which is a specification which gives some guidelines about opcode."

Additionally, Jumping to _start really isn't recursion in the sense of "calling a function from within itself," it's a jump to a named location in code- by the definition laid out in the article, loops are a form of recursion.

It's also a bit disingenuous to say that GAS (or AT&T syntax) is not meant to be written by developers, and that it was developed as a backend to GCC. While the latter may be true it does not necessarily reflect on the usability or accessibility of the language or the dialect.
Get any job?
This is the most critical observation. The Kindle Fire could have come with QNX and done well with the hooks into Amazon's media empire. That it came with Android is hardly a dire straight for Android -- it builds the same developer base, accustoms users to Android apps, etc.

This is yet another They Gonna Get You Google! article of the sort that we've seen since the days that Android was a pretty sucky wannabe. It is weird that -- with all the success that Android has seen -- people can keep with the same song list as if nothing as changed.
I think a lot of people have their difference of perspective socialized out of them at a pretty young age. My oldest son has a long list of differences from the norm. I was very tolerant if his oddities. Then I got really sick and a) actively avoided being inculcated with the conventional view of my problem and b) bounced a lot of ideas off my son, who knows way more science than I know and was never broken to fit the normal social mold. Then I gradually got well. So I think it is very possible to cultivate that different point of view.
Or have "value" exponentially decay over time (e.g. continuously & adding up to 50% decay per year. Which is equivalent to the value of a vote being 2^(year the vote is cast).)
Small UI note - when you focus the text box the hint text should go away. I found myself trying to select and delete the hint text since it wasn't going away by itself.
Back in uni I took a class on Intel x86 assembly, and I ended up writing a small program that would take two numbers as arguments to the program and add them and then spit out the result.

It would convert from c-style strings to actual numbers, do 32 bit addition on them, and then convert the number back to a c-style string before printing it to the screen.

For anyone getting started this may be worth a look, as I commented every single last line:

http://personal.x-istence.com/post/2008/02/03/addnumbersasm-...

(Do note, I also set up various stack frames, mainly so that I could do debugging of my assembly code in gdb)

Edit: This will only compile and run on FreeBSD and or Mac OS X due to the use of FreeBSD syscall numbers and calling convention by pushing parameters to the stack unlike Linux which wants stuff in register (see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/x86-...)
When you say "Student" what do you mean? High-School? College? (Under)Grad? Lower Ed?

If you're in college try checking around for intro web development spots or even student repair/IT work. While doing so learn how to code. This is under the assumption you want to learn more about computers and coding; I'm not positive exactly what track you're looking for under "learn new things."
.. same platform but none of the problems you experienced, perhaps you're using some old versions ?
As a not rich beleiver in socialism, I completely agree. But, are you sure governments really exploit the taxes for the good of people? Who is to say not paying taxes and creating jobs instead is not better than paying taxes to a government that's going to spend trillions on missiles and bombs?