skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah who knows how much damage has been done to pop music by people who can actually operate the various machines and instruments needed to create it. Because if there's one thing that pop music is lacking these days it's a general feeling of vapid, amateurish, imposterism. Because every time I hear an autotune on a vocal or see American Idol playing on the tv I thank god that I'm not having to experience the music of nerdy dullards like Led Zeppelin or Aretha Franklin. Oh wait, that's the exact opposite of my opinion.
Invalidates the best practice of "separation of content from presentation".
Hacker groups, as this is Hacker News :)
I'm not entirely convinced that's the same thing. The examples don't match up. Maybe, though!
There are some links to other user groups from the tpc site as well. Notably the Tokyo Linux Users Group and Ringo (mac users group).
(a) not grumpy; funny, or, "with an actual distinctive voice"

(b) you forgot to put "extremely awesome" in front of "blog post", which you mistakenly wrote as "article"

(c) "health problems" meaning "lost his jaw and esophagus to complications of a cancer operation"
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In my opinion it is. I have anticipated this downturn for the rich historical perspective on depressions it will offer.
I can't believe nobody here has mentioned PDL, the Perl Data Language: http://pdl.perl.org

Admittedly, i think R and PDL do different things... (I have never played with R).
This was when he was just running a dictionary attack on a random Twitter account, before he even had any idea he was hitting a privileged login.
Hopefully that means banks competing for deposits, which should lead to the interest rate on my ING account to go up.
Yes, NumPy does the same.
Isn't analog TV transmitted on an FM carrier signal? An FM receiver receiving two signals of the same frequency should synchronize on one, or possibly oscillate between the two. So it seems like his antenna is placed exactly where the two signals are in phase, making them indistinguishable to the receiver. Maybe he could put the signals out of phase by moving his antenna to the other end of the roof?
I second that. Fark.com uses flat comments and it makes it incredibly easy to pick up a discussion of interest at a later time.

Vs Slashdot.org, Digg, Reddit, or Here where a story can have twice the (possibly even insightful!) comments yet the last comment on the page is still the same from 6 hours earlier.
The code that generates it might have those things separate.
Save it. PG feels that HTML is simply object code. The argument that standards would make his life easier is not one he accepts. (Regardless of whether this is true or not)
I'm not the most religious guy, but I think that posting ads stating that THERE'S PROBABLY NO GOD is probably a good way to get Him to show up in interesting ways in the responsible parties' lives.

Also, I find it lame that anti-religious movements would resort to proselytism.
One validation error on the entire site is hardly a joke.
>Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Chomsky may be a bit of a nutcase (which is how I interpret your tag of hardline radical liberal) but his analysis of the Bush administration's propaganda seems spot-on, in the linked article.
Slashdotter on the value of ideas versus execution
Limiting attempts is a great way to allow people to remotely execute a DoS on your admin site. They can keep you out for awhile before you block them. If your company has a password lockout policy, keep guessing the CEO or CIOs password constantly for a few days and the policy will be changed pretty quickly. The other suggestions are good.
Mathematicians Land Top Spot in New Ranking of Best and Worst Occupations in the U.S.
Hi, I'm a sophomore and I'm curious about what you plan to do.
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In the life science space, R dominates research informatics. A large chunk of molecular profiling methods and techniques use R, or quite often the Bioconductor package, http://www.bioconductor.org/ (from Gentleman's group). Most commercial bioinformatics apps also implement a number of methods using R and provide ability to implement R-based classifiers, etc.

In the clinical space, it's all SAS. Pretty much the de facto standard.
The exact URL to connect to when the server is running is:

http://localhost:8080/teampostgresql
Here's a Yahoo BOSS mashup that does this without any semantic technology: http://bossy.appspot.com/qa?query=who+started+ycombinator
Ask HN: Average Screen Resolution?
I'm designing a Facebook app, and wanted to know - is 1024x768 still the standard to design for? Is there somewhere with stats on this?
A2 hosting is green web hosting company
A2 hosting is now offering web hosting services to both US & canada market, and also offering web hosting services to international users. A2 hosting is a green web hosting company, and offering carbon neutral web hosting services.
And if the attacker doesn't care which userID they compromise, so they spread their guesses over all userIDs?
that's an awesome quote - can I borrow it ??
I'd rather be Westinghouse. He didn't invent much but, bought the right's to Tesla's invention, successfully commercialized those and ultimately prevailed over Edison..

Interesting question - How do you look at yourself?
Scientist -> Engineer -> Entrepreneur
'Cybergeddon' fear stalks US: FBI
Aside from separation of content and presentation as mentioned, it creates serious accessibility issues and page bloat, among various other problems which we in the standards movement have tried to impart upon fellow developers for years. I encourage you to look into these issues. Here's a write-up I found from Mozilla, but there are many: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/The_Business_Benefits_of_We...
Surely that would be snake hydrogen, if we are being picky. Isn't he trying to solve the "oil problem"? ;)
This kind of structured data is the next wave, you shouldn't associate "semantic" with W3C's semantic web stack. That's just one possible vision. Microformats is another. The reality is probably somewhere in between.
Some people here are advocating jumping to a PhD with zero work experience. I think this is a bad idea.

Getting a PhD involves very focused research. You want to make sure that you will truly love the field before you go into it.

I strongly recommend that you take an R&D job at a well-known company if you can. These large companies often sponsor research with top-notch universities. You might be able to use these relationships to get in. My company's sponsored research with Stanford allows me to work with a professor and grad student there. That can't hurt during the application process.

Also, many of these large, research oriented companies will pay for graduate education, although that will probably drop off as the economy tanks.

The only downside to getting a job at a large, research oriented company is that these places are often cube farms that epitomize office space and dilbert comic strips. I guess thats why you leave after a few years and go to grad school
Augmenting Page Rank with a new metric
Tracking the percentage of people that see a site that then link to it. Can spot up-and-coming sites better.
I love the subtle british humour. I wish some of my professors had been like this.
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This reminds me of all of those services for annotating the web, but as far as I know none of those have gotten significant traction. Perhaps everyone just prefers referring to things by using just normal language, instead of a special tool to select something explicitly. If StumbleUpon included an annotation feature, maybe it could catch on.
http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/02/15/s3-outage-we-werent-...

or maybe this: http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/01/30/amazon-s3-outages-sl...
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There are already open-source router firmwares, it wouldn't make much sense for Google to try this. One of the well-known ones is XORP: http://www.xorp.org/
You don't lockout the account, you lockout the attacking client, typically by IP address. It still allows the attacked accounts access from non-attacking IP addresses.
My biggest gripe is that the white margins on the right and left are totally screwed up in desktop browsers and especially on the iPhone (forcing it to be zoomed out). Because of the way the site is built in tables, the white borders just waste whitespace and it annoys me to absolutely no end.
Ask HN: Do we need a way to search our "saved" (upmodded) stories
I often don't del.icio.us stuff I read on Hacker News because I know where I read it and it pops into my "saved stories" page. However, after being here for a while it's getting increasingly hard to find stuff I want later.

Any chance of a search within your saved stories?
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Just tested this on one of my sites. 48 errors. Damn. Wish I had 48 middle fingers to respond with.
still needs some work...

http://bossy.appspot.com/qa?query=what+is+the+capital+of+flo...
You probably won't have much space if you're going to be a little widget on someone's page. 1024x768 is a safe bet, but most laptops have higher-resolution; low-end macbooks have 1280x800 default.
Sparklines: Nice ET graphic idea
found while reading: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=422512
Is it just me, or was this article not very well written? I felt it was all over the place. It brings up S, then mentions that S isn't open source. It mentions open source and brings up things like apache, the web, and Microsoft, I don't see how it relates much to R. Though, I'm probably spoiled due to the usual quality of news I get here.
It's funny, I was just thinking about this a few days ago, and it's been on my mind for a while. I went through my entire school life not exerting significant effort but mostly "succeeding" anyway; I could cram for a test the same day and still ace it. I was never at the top of my class, but I was always in the top ten.

Even then, I realized that there was something wrong; I found it easy to get good grades, but because of that there was little to motivate me to really excel or do something extraordinary, so I never seriously tried. My first dream (the one I've had since grade school) was to be a writer, and I told myself that I would finish my first novel at the age of 14. Ten years later, I haven't completed it. People make excuses to others, but mostly we make them to ourselves; I adjusted and re-adjusted that deadline in my mind until it became meaningless. Similarly, I've entered contests and things, but usually procrastinated and didn't really put a whole lot of effort into whatever I did. I realize now that, yes, those were mostly just excuses.

I sort of regret it now, and I'm seeing the repercussions of my not having any self-discipline and real drive. It's too easy to get into the "good enough" rut, as I think I'm currently doing even now that I'm working. I do fine as a programmer, and my current developments are easy enough that I can still deliver good work even though I do things at the last minute, but really, it's shades of high school and college all over again and I really need to stop.

I would like to get out, though, and I suppose actually trying something out on my own and owning up to the risk of failure is a good idea. And yet, I still have no idea where (or what) to start.

I wish epiphanies came as freely and as conveniently as excuses, but then that would miss the point, no?

/rant
I had a job interview where the guy told me my first task would be to code a neural network. I said that honestly he would be better off using one of the hundreds of open source versions already out there. He said "We don't use freeware here". That's when I knew the job wasn't for me..
The World's Greatest Chess Scam Happened Aboard The Titanic
I just read it out too. Amazing creation as a whole.

The toughest thing was i could not scratch out the 'not-possible' options to think more clearly. I took me a little more than an hour.
Google's actual claim:

Google Checkout users click on ads 10% more when the ad displays the Checkout badge and convert 40% more than shoppers who have not used Checkout in the past.

This strictly describes Checkout users' behaviors. It says almost nothing about the net effect of adding Checkout to your ads or site.

For example, the claim that Checkout users "convert 40% more than shoppers who have not used Checkout in the past" is even compatible with the theory that Checkout deters conversions among other users -- leaving the Checkout users' conversions "40% more" only by comparison with a depressed base.

Yet the article headline and opening paragraph change the interpretation to a much stronger claim. Google marketing may be banking on others' sloppy reading comprehension.

(Perhaps Checkout does help, but their marketing material has enough weaselly wording that I have doubts.)
...Google should be paying me money...

In a way, aren't they doing this by covering the credit-card fees?

But also: is there any doubt that if they became established, this subsidy would someday end?
Yes, but I'd gladly let a designer loose on my css, and an editor loose on the content, but neither of them will go anywhere near my code.
"... Do we seriously need to open up the god debate on HN too? ..."

Yes, unfortunately.

The foundations of (biological) science (evolution) are under attack by advocates of 'belief' systems. Everything you take for granted generated by scientific backed knowledge is the result of 'provable' ideas and to go backwards as a result of pressure for people with feeble unsupportable, kooky ideas has to be defended. MMR immunisation vaccines not taken in the mistaken belief it causes Asperger Syndrome ~ http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax/ the Pope declaring "The Pill cuts mail fertility" ~ http://www.google.com.au/search?pope+Vatican+says+pill+cuts+... what about Dinosaurs & humans co-existing ~ http://www.creationists.org/mananddinos.html The examples go on and on.

As a hacker it's good to have and practice a skeptical mindset. Otherwise you'll end up like this poor sod, "Quadrant falls victim to its own reasoning" ~ http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/quadrant-falls-victim-to...
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That assumes that there's extra work in coding to standard. In fact, it's quicker to do so.
Not always, no.
As you pointed out, Usability Post is one of my favorites, and SvN is clearly a leader.

Boxes and Arrows (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/) is also pretty rad.

I keep an eye on Subtraction (http://subtraction.com/), Khoi Vihn's mostly personal blog, too. He's the interaction designer for NYTimes, second to none...other than our own Loc Ngo, of course.
how are you keeping people honest? How does your system know that someone was hired and its time to charge?
Ask HN: An acceptable cross-platform GUI toolkit?
It's interesting but disappointing that there's no standout "winner" among desktop GUI toolkits. Among other things, devs want to write software that runs on their favorite GNU/Linux distribution, but that also runs nicely and is easily installed on MS Windows and Mac OS X. Here are the arguments I hear against some current popular toolkits:

* GTK+ -- Has lots of moving parts. Difficult to build/install on MS Windows. Some say it's too closely tied to X11. Doesn't look enough like MS Windows on MS Windows. The LGPL licensing is very successful though, as demonstrated by the fairly large developer community and by its use in Gnome.

* Qt -- Either GPL your software or pay the licensing fees. Also some don't like having to deal with C++ if you're required to ever look under the hood. Nice that it comes in one big piece though.

* Tk -- Some have referred to Tk as a vistigial GUI appendage from a bygone era. Also it depends upon Tk. This one would be a hard sell to get everyone to agree on.

* wxWidgets -- Complaints are that it looks too much like the MS Windows API, and also that it's too big (being a wrapper around lower-level GUI toolkits).

It would seem that we (the free software community) should just bite the bullet, list out the basic requirements for a successful GUI toolkit, and go ahead and create it. I'd dare say that the requirements might look like this:

* Written in C. C is fast, portable, and everyone knows it. Corollary: keep it simple (like Tk) and packaged in one piece (like Qt). Having a half dozen different pieces all bolted together (like GTK+) in the name of modularity only makes it harder to create easily-distributable cross-platform apps. 2nd corollary: be careful not to tie it too closely to X11.

* Keep it simple so it's easy to port to Windows and Mac OS X (Cocoa). Corollary: simple and easy to build too.

* LGPL licensed. Most camps can probably (at least grudgingly) come to agreement on this, and it's worked pretty well for GTK+. Works for free software and for commercial apps, and tends to build nice communities.

* Can easily be made to look like MS Windows on MS Windows, and Aqua on Mac OS X. I really don't care if it's themable or not, but for wide adoption, it had at least better be able to easily make itself look like MS Windows and Aqua.

* Easy to make bindings for Python, Ruby, Perl, etc. I really do not want to write GUI apps in C, but I don't want it so fancy that you have to do acrobatics to mate, say, Python, to it.

* Simple and easy to use (like Tk).

Anyone working on or know of that cross-platform GUI toolkit? Because that's the one I want to use, and I bet it's the one a lot of devs would also want to use.
Remarkably poor writing for someone who has invented a good half of modern technology.
Satyam Chairman Resigns After Falsifying Accounts, Shares Fall
It's still only testing the ability to perform a particular test. Intelligence is so much broader and is only generally correlated with these types of logic tests.
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I don't get that criticism at all.

It's a Slashdot comment. He's going to spellcheck it?

Either he did the stuff he says he did, or he didn't. The people reading his post can figure out what he's trying to say.
most/all the top 10 positions fit the profile "things your manager does not understand and looks stupid if he refutes you." Many programmers have mastered the art of confusing management. I can see how mathematician tops that!
Helpful article on consulting?
I remember coming across a really helpful guide to starting a consulting business here. Except I read it while my friend was driving and didn't save the link. Could someone point me to the article? Thanks.
Shoes has been more and more impressive lately. I'm not sure about ports or equivalents in Python and Perl, but people are doing great things with it in Ruby.

http://github.com/why/shoes
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html
Might be this one.
I find the opposite is true. At a big company I could always tell myself "In the end, you're not making the decisions. It's not on your head if it doesn't work". Working at a startup, either I succeed or I fail, but there aren't any excuses unless you literally get hit by a bus.
sIFR degrades gracefully and is accessible. I recommend that you read up on sIFR before recoiling in "no, it's FLASH!" horror. And yes, typography is important in design.
Can anybody confirm any of his claims?

I would think that somebody who came up with that many new products could get something to market.

On the other hand, he could be one of those stereotypical tech geniuses who completely suck at business.
"The future of powerful computers is probably a hybrid of various processing units, memory architectures, and special purpose hardware. We're going to need software abstractions to deal with this complexity." (from Me <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419717>)

This is exactly the sort of stuff we're going to need. "GPU and CPU computations can be freely interleaved with the type system tracking the two diﬀerent modes of computation." (from the article)

This sounds promising... I'm going to give this paper a careful read.
Hey, at least their story isn't as silly and they didn't get as much funding as the Catholic Church.
This is actually more like "the entire physics community speaking in unison" which is slightly more formidable especially when they use actual math rather than just making stuff up a la Lord Kelvin.
Actually, I have loved Firefox awesome-bar ... I remember reading the article, so just typing word 'consult' into the bar got me the URL!
Though it may be hard to find - if you went to too many articles with 'consult' in its title.
Satyam Computers' boss resigns, admits fraud
I recently met a first year PhD who would be very well "over the hill." Top-tier school. There's motivation for ya.

Of course, it could be an exception, but I'm sure admission was granted without respect to age. As far as I know though, luck was a big determining factor, and as such, I would look at a lot of these things (particularly if you aren't a monstrously strong candidate) very lightly.
Why yes, I did run out of ability to run on ramen around the same time I got my first girlfriend - but the causation of the correlation was reversed, that is, I ran out of ability to live without a girlfriend, which up until that point I'd been doing effortlessly.
My First Day Working a Full-time job (at my startup)
Nice!
Will it also work for donations?
Like Paypal donations!
My guess is yes, but reading some more ...
Here's the letter he wrote to the board and stock exchanges:

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news_html_files/news_attachment/...
Perhaps I'm the only one who thinks so, but running a sustainable business is rarely accomplished by relying upon a popular aphorism that is itself a false dichotomy, which, were it even true, would still not shine very much light on the many complexities of "success."

I find this saying particularly irksome because "execution" is a catch-all term that people use to place blame where it often doesn't belong. (The biotech company Fluidigm had to cancel its IPO recently. Did its executives "fail to execute" a plan to guard against declining economic conditions? Really now.)

There are far better ways to analyze successes and failures in business.