skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should have been more. In fact I predict it will be more... the phrase "death of a thousand cuts" comes to mind.
When deciding on how formal to make it, just ask yourself: Is this the sort of video that would be appreciated by the sort of company I want to work for?
Smooth sort is better than mergesort, offering in-place sort that approaches O(n) as the data approaches sortedness (lower bound is O(nlogn)). It is, however, very complex to implement.
Anywhere with a fuss-free homeschooling statute.

As the children grow older, it's a good idea to look for a place with strong advanced curricula for secondary school students, such as UMTYMP

http://www.math.umn.edu/itcep/umtymp/

and PSEO

http://www.ohe.state.mn.us/mPg.cfm?pageID=797

in Minnesota, the PSEO clones Running Start

http://www.k12.wa.us/runningstart/default.aspx

in Washington State, Youth Options

http://dpi.wi.gov/youthoptions/youthop1.html

in Wisconsin, or other similarly named programs in a few other states. Especially cool is to have an explicit high school for the gifted such as Montgomery Blair

http://www.mbhs.edu/

in Maryland or Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

http://www.tjhsst.edu/

in Virginia or one of the several state "governor's schools" for highly gifted learners. Some families move to Reno, Nevada for the Davidson Academy of Nevada

http://www.davidsonacademy.unr.edu/

but so far I haven't tried it.
Writing Linux Programs in Raw Binary
Top New Zealand Start-ups for 2008
Looks like it's Websense indeed (and I'm revealing the institution):

http://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov/ArchLib/AT/TA/AccessCo...
The only thing good about a large project that is specced that still goes wrong is that the developers can feel good about it not being entirely their fault.
Quite the opposite. As I said, I felt that I was oversold on the climate from my arrival in October till late March. Then, uh, wow.
Just don't do what Aleksey Vayner did: http://www.veoh.com/videos/e1336748NgyMqyG
Here's a great interview I linked to last time there was an entanglement article on HN: http://www.signandsight.com/features/614.html

And Eliezer Yudkowsky linked to his own explanation: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/spooky-action-a.html

The HN item was: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276058
I don't know why I have this idea to create something similar with twitter. I know someone out there will be amazed by the idea as long as it is TWITTER-related. Think of this - Twitter Username Suggestion Service.
Entrepreneur or Intrapreneur?
There is probably more than a little of that.

Then there is the fact that when you're attempting to pull off a genocide of your political opponents so you can get at the oil beneath their land, letting in white do-gooders to build them cool new houses is not exactly #1 on the to-do list.

Plus, any improvement in their living conditions just means the West sends your poor impoverished people less money that you can steal. Look at, say, aid flows to Costa Rica ("not a basket case") vs. pick-your-favorite-usual suspect. If you're a tyrant, miserable people are a rich national resource.
Progress report - the Top NZ online start-ups of 2007
This is very clever, especially given that R&D was cited in articles as being in the crosshairs.

There's a stereotypical Microsoftie that only knows MS tools and doesn't care to expand their horizons or stay educated on new trends in the larger industry. However, there's a lot of talent locked up in Redmond that could really innovate if not bound by MS corporate strategy. Getting your entrepreneur-centric product in front of these eyes is a brilliant idea.
I'd just be natural and to the point, don't brag and keep the jargon to a minimum. Don't forget what happened with this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_is_Nothing_(video_r%...

And in an excellent parody of that, Michael Cera gives a good example of what not to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAV0sxwx9rY
And raising them to be emacs contributors, even more so!
Interesting. So, kindof like a new domain every 20 minutes :)

Here is a prototype ticker with a new AVAILABLE domain every second: http://hotnamelist.com/ticker.html
Right now I'm going through quals so...

I come into work at around 9. Sit away from the rest of my lab and code until my battery dies. Then I let my macbook fully recharge while I try to get through as much of my reading as possible.

Rinse and repeat.
I guess, if assembly mnemonics are too readable for you you can write the machine code in binary. I guess the most interesting part of this is the stuff required to let the loader know what to do with your binary blob (i.e. what the linker would normally do), the rest is just looking up opcodes. Sadly the latter is what the author focuses on.
Hey, it is like Ask HN post. If you think that you are asking a cool question, then, just submit it like you do like now.

Most importantly, you get no penalty on submitting lame stories.(I am not saying that your stories are lame.) And, that's why there are no "down vote" button for stories submission.
The RSS shows every submission which gets at least one up vote. So most spam doesn't make it to the RSS, but a lot of other cruft can pass through depending on if at least one person liked it.

At least, that's how I've seen it play out.
Why use garbage collection
USPTO overturns patent for virtual subdomains
Near family is my wife's primary deciding factor.

Near a lot of opportunity is my primary deciding factor. I grew up essentially on a farm in a small enough town that we had no (and they still have no) stoplight. I'm very thankful for what I was given, and I take pride in my blue collar education/skills, but I was the only computer geek in my school, and while we were only a few minutes from a city of ~500k, I never built a social circle of people who shared my hobbies. I'd like my children to have the opportunity to experience a lot of cultures and be able to seek out situations that will allow them to excel at whatever skills they have.

Fortunately my wife's family is in a big city, so we lucked out. :)
No. A new twitter Username every 20 minutes.

Or, you can create a twitter account that will update a new domain everyday and ask people to subscribe to the account.
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The Wired White House--A Pictorial Evolution of the POTUS Web Site
This is my only grumble with WuFoo; ... the only option up from the ‘free’ is the $9.95. May not seem much, but ...it’s certainly overkill...

It’s not a cheap option by any means

Funny, if you told me I could double my leads for $9.95 a month, I'd have kittens. But thankfully I expect most of Wufoo's customers are closer to me than they are to this guy. (Note: if you are developing a SAAS, please don't let yourself be persuaded to price targeting people who would complain that doubling their revenue did not justify $10 a month. Some people just don't pay money for stuff -- fix problems for the people who do.)
New Screenshot of Jolicloud Netbook Operating System
And no bribe was offered? Undertaking a project in an area like that without being willing either to shoot or to bribe government officials strikes me as naive.
Architecture For Humanity are doing very interesting work in the area of applying alt (and mainstream) design solutions for people in need, worldwide: http://architectureforhumanity.org/
The genius behind the Google 20% time; It isn’t the time
I'm planning to start letting people use code snippets to customize stuff, actually.
Perhaps it's best to limit the number of laptops in the Whitehouse. People tend to lose laptops containing sensitive information...

Though surely the NSA could provide them with pretty damn secure laptops.
I believe part of the White House site was running on a Lisp Machine at one point. From what I can find online it sounds as if it continued to be till 2000.
"In a given week"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/quotes#qt0386869
Ask HN: Review my Forum - The Cal Forum
I created a forum for the students at my university and just wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions on how to go about improving it and making it better for the community.
Ask HN: How do you get new freelance jobs/contracts?
Just curious how you guys get your freelance jobs and contracts. Word of mouth? Advertising? Self marketing (i.e. blogs)? Job boards? Other?

Curious to hear what you guys out there do.
Some people just don't work well with numbers, whereas if his plan was priced relative to something he valued his perception might change e.g "Double your leads for less than a couple of pints."
IPhoneLinux: Get Tux on iPhone
Riskmasters Know How to Prioritize
Awesome, this would give hackers a great way to show off their skills!
> Maybe now they will be able to focus on creating competitive software like they did in the late 80s.

I hope not!

I'd much rather eat their lunch while they eat their dogfood...
actually one of the best times i find is between 4 and 8 before going to work!!! (problem is during my luckiest days i wake up no earlier than 5)...

the world IS quiet, you are just fresh from a good sleep (even if it is only 4-5 hours) and man the zone is like there never before... ofcourse if you are NOT a morning person then it wont be for you (lucky for me, i can be a morning or a night person when necessary!)
Here's what I know and it seems pretty obvious: if a subversive is looking to move information between him and his cohorts, they will make it nearly impossible for the NSA or any other national organization to either: 1) locate messages or if they do, 2) break them.

(Sorry, but unless the government has figured out a mathematical backdoor to standard RSA-style encryption, any nefarious organization can just add a few more bits to their encryption to stay ahead of the code-breakers and their hardware.)

I'm going to assume that real subversives are going to go to extreme lengths to ensure their communications aren't compromised.

The government isn't stupid, they know this. So who the heck are they listening to?

It leaves us with communications by folks who want to use their 1st amendment rights to talk about anything under the American sun, and will most often do it in clear-text as it passes through routing equipment.

The parsing and archiving of this type of information -- is what is truly scary:

"See this note you wrote to someone else in 2005 talking about 'overthrowing rabid monkeys', well you wrote it, so off to the dungeons you go! Muhaha!"
Correction

Web Forms Doubled this guy's number of RFP(Request For Proposal)s
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/obama.blackberry/inde...

This article explains Bush was forced to give up email, and instant messaging will not be allowed in the Whitehouse due to security concerns.
The RSS file is a snapshot of the frontpage. Sometimes 2 points is enough to get onto the frontpage, but not always.
"\n" - One of the Web's Tough Problems
Can as many things possibly come out after bush than came out during bush?
I'm surprised anyone submits an RFP with a from that long. I prefer a simple name, email, and message field instead.
Nobody else will promote you until you promote yourself. If other people on HN don't read your blog or use your product you won't ever make it on here unless you kick start it yourself. Once other people are aware of what you are doing, you'll probably need to self-promote less.

Remember the golden rule, if you give people stuff that's relevant to them, you are giving them something of value It's ok to promote yourself if you do that. If you aren't you are spamming.
Dude! Why do you have to post spoilers like that? Yeah it's far from a new release but still!

I haven't seen it yet and it's on my Hulu queue. Thanks!

Argh!
Amazon offers way to keep track of things you want to buy at other stores
Patents should be allowed, but the laws much tighter, and the benefit to the public in the long term much clearer.

- Fees should be higher for independent prior arts searching

- Community involvement in prior art search before granting of patent

- Use it or lose it

While he is at it :), there should be a proof of concept demonstrated in some way, again increasing costs. I'm sick of time machine and cancer cures being patented.

There should also be a requirement of legibility, so that people unskilled in patent law can replicate the invention.
Over a week ago, I put in a feature request to give users a karma point daily just for visiting the New page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433004

Another idea is simply to display the number of new stories submitted since you last visited the New page:

new (26) | threads | comments | leaders | jobs | submit

Edit: A third, less obtrusive option is to use an asterisk:

new* | threads | comments | leaders | jobs | submit

Perhaps it only appears when a given number of new stories have been submitted since you last looked at the page. Like, say, 20. Possibly user-configurable.
Now, with real-time GC systems comming to light and mature GC implementations in VMs like hotspot and conservative GC (boehm GC) for languages like C, I think the correct question is why not to use GC.
Welcome You Fine Google Notebook Users
I'd love to see this happen in the Valley too. The amount of companies who have been bleeding the wrong people because of management politics is astounding. I'd love to see some of those people use their packages to bootstrap some startups.

If you par down your lifestyle a few months at corporate pay is probably at least half a year of "ramen living".
I really like this idea to put a number next to new, making it feel like an inbox. People will end up clicking it based on their need to "empty the inbox" built up from email management.
Traffic analysis is a GREATER danger to innocent bystanders than recording calls, because it is all hearsay and unproven.
if they tap my phone calling for a takeaway curry then it's obvious I'm innocent. If they just log that I call that number and later somebody they are 'watching' calls that same restaurant (because their relative works there) then I am secretly linked to that person in some database - this doesn't get examine in court - but I now have 'links to terrorists'
I would also add:

* If you're going to sue someone for patent violations, you have to go after the largest company in your industry violating your claims.

* Big companies don't get to sue smaller companies
It's opinionated, but this article serves as a good FAQ for people who might be asking what language should they learn.
Sorry, my bad. Upon carefuly re-reading your original post I can see the point you were actually making, rather than the one I thought you were making. I completely agree that there is nothing special about Lisp-class languages rather than those of other classes. In fact, I would go further. Having implemented a small Scheme on .Net and also having read thru most of the Clojure code on the JVM, I'd guess that the OO/statically typed nature of both platforms gets in the way of Lisp-like languages more than those of other paradigms. So, in effect, I may "more than" agree with you.

>> You're saying, in effect, that a language with s-expression syntax needs the extra boost of being on a popular VM to make it.

Actually, my guess is that all future non-DSL languages are going to need to be built on a popular VM/framework in order to succeed, because of the advantages I listed in my earlier post. A DSL can get by without a popular platform because, by definition, it doesn't extend beyond its narrow scope and thus doesn't need access to a broad range of libraries. Also, DSLs don't tend to be performance sensitive and therefore don't need the compiler optimizations.

What I was really responding to was the fact that you are the co-author of Arc, and I was (wrongly) seeing your post in that context. My apologies for confusing the issue, although I do think that the point I'm driving at is an important one.
Words that describe Evernote: Brilliant. Effective. User-centric.
Done!

HN Toolkit: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

Install and turn on the 'Show new items at bottom of main page?' option.

Let me know if you have problems.
Yes, I was agreeing with you, just didn't say it well. The automatic TWITTER is a great idea.
Right, but then you'd be telling your Serious Business Clients (TM) "Please, don't consider us an important vendor for your business, we're too busy looking for table scraps from unemployed college students who price everything in terms of beer".

If you have to rewrite your web copy to explain why $10 a month is cheap for a revenue-generating B2B application you have made a catastrophic error in your target selection.
I was actually thinking the same thing recently, and I'm fairly sure most people here will respond with "wort of mouth" and recommendations. There are few things you can do to get more work that will help you more than increasing your network of people.
Best Business Books 2008
Ask HN: Question about Heroku
So I just started my first ever rails app today and am using the new Heroku garden. Poking around with it now but does anyone know if there is any syntax completion or correction that you can enable? I would love to be able to view all the available methods and things of that nature following a . since I am just getting started but see no such ability.

I know I could install rails on my own machine and use a better editor but any way inside of heroku to do this?

Thanks
Ask HN: Is this (S3 on GAE) something people want?
As one of my side projects, I've written an S3 wrapper on GAE (google app engine). I had abandoned this based on lack of interest from the few people I contacted but thought I'd check with the community to see if anybody here would find this useful before sending it to the recycle bin.

The problem: You have super-critical data on s3 and want to have better uptime than s3 currently does because of the nature of the data (say medical records).

The solution: You now have another s3 implementation on another cloud (GAE) that you can seamlessly switch to (repoint dns). There will be periodic syncs between amazon's s3 and GAE's s3. You've essentially added a couple of 9s to the reliability of S3 and get to reuse the same code you have written against s3. The caveat is that it's not free since you've doubled your data storage costs (amzn + google).

There are some serious limitations with GAE (1 MB limit), reliability etc. But those should go away eventually.

I can set up a demo quickly if there is interest. I'll probably be working on another project fulltime soon. Let me know if you want to run with it too.
There are sociological aspects to this phenomenon. I would hazard a guess that Facebook has gained significant older and recently web active members.

You don't pressure your mom and your aunt to join Myspace so that you can communicate with them more easily. Your less cyber savvy contacts who just don't text can easily deal with facebook.
And It Begins...iWork '09 Trojan
The first of many? Some say it all depends on market size. Others say that the Mac is an impenetrable fortress of digital nirvana. What do you think?
I somehow suspect there would be more comments on this post here on HN if anonymous comments were allowed.
Job search app iJobs rises to Top amidst Job Cut news
Yeah, same here. During the day I usually only get small things done, if at all. Only after 10pm, sometimes closer to midnight, I really manage to zero in on a task and work it through. Most of the time I'm either done or get tired at around 4am. Sometimes I'll churn through till 9am without even noticing.

This style of work tends to occassionally push my sleep cycle around in funny ways. After intensive "sprints" it's not uncommon for me to have a week where I wake up at 6pm in the evening. That seems to be my recovery mode then, I don't get anything done in these weeks.

But sometimes, towards the end of such a recovery week, I notice the same thing that you mention. As I slowly adjust my cycle back towards the accepted norm there is often a period where I get up between 2-4am and many of these days have turned out amazingly productive, too.

Sometimes I wish I could just sustain either one of these rhythms (either getting up very early or getting up midday and working late) but for some reason I'm always slipping towards the "recovery state" after a few weeks. I guess that's my body's way of telling me when to stop...
Wow, I didn't realize it was possible to make yourself unemployable for the rest of your life
There's a source directory included in the tarballs.

fasm is a pretty well known project, I think.
Yes indeed. I am very embarassed.

(I deleted my post before seeing your reply.)
> The analysis of metadata -- signals intelligence -- is NOT covered under the consitution.

I suppose it's also okay to perform routine warrantless searches on dwellings, as long as they're only sending a robot in to sniff for certain chemical compounds. It's just an automated analysis, and the only time a human would see the results is if there is a positive hit, at which point there's suspicion for a warrant.
It's a forum. There are six sub-forums. It has the school colors, which is nice, but the orange is distractingly bright. Is there something else that I'm missing? Do you have integration with class listings, or club directories, or sports calendars? If you do, I have no way of knowing, and would be unlikely to register.

Without any of these things, you have a forum with 5 members and no topics. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to review.
Pick PHP if you're very concerned with being able to find a quick, cheap online host for your web-app and you don't want to bother with learning another language (or with learning how to deploy web-apps in other languages, which really isn't very hard).
Craigslist. Try and get a local client first it helps. You can start building your network from there on.
Do an incredible job with your current clients
The first of many? Some say it's just a matter of market share. Others say that the Mac is a impenetrable fortress of digital nirvana. What do you think?
DEAR GOD NO! Please don't do this, most of us already have enough inboxes.

The only thing I like about non-time-series sites like HN is that it just isn't in their nature to ever be something inbox-like. It's the sole saving grace of having a voting system, especially with vote-ranked threaded discussion -- it keeps it from ever being something I have to "catch up with" regularly.
You don't really learn PHP so much as catch it.

Like a disease.
Haha, so weird. First comment ever and it's in a meta-HN thread. I call shenanigans.
What do you mean? Digg's decision to build their own ad team in-house?
Agreed.

". When we heard the news, we immediately began work on a Google Notebook import tool. "

That's showing your users you care right there. Kudos to Evernote, you just gained a new fan.
Indeed, looks like an entry for HN was activated in Websense today. See another report:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=445678
What version of GHC (or of the libraries) do you have? (Either String) should be a monad as specified through Control.Monad.Error:

instance Error e => Monad (Either e) where
...

I didn't consider Data.Map.fromListWith; I didn't know about it. (Thanks.)
I've only been freelancing for about 5 months, but so far I've just been referred into work from my friends on Twitter. My first job, the client approached me through my site - ever since it has been followers on Twitter who need work done themselves, or who have recommended me to whoever they know that needs a developer.

I think this has probably been helped to some extent by networking with a lot of these people in person at meetups. There's no substitute for coming across as a nice guy who is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about what he does.
Yes, it's important to note that the only previous way of getting a quote from him was directly contacting him. A lot of people don't want this. Also the forms makes it explicit what his costs are and what he is capable of doing.
(psst: whoosh!)