skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're talking about HN (news.arc), I'd prefer gravity control based on site and submitter in the form of a simple list of patterns and weights I could set in my profile. That way unpopular things that interest me would stay in my view longer and popular stuff I don't care about would vanish sooner.
FluidDB domain names available early and free for Twitter users
"social media consultants"?? Now I've heard it all...
Try asking one of the workers there for a specific book. I was at my local library today (in Chicago, IL, US) looking for a specific book on design patterns. They didn't have it but were able to order it for me. I should be able to pick it up in a week or so. After I finish with it it'll be available at the library to any future person that wants to read it.
Ask YC: Increase in number of tech startups?
I remember a speech by PG on how the number of startups is increasing. Are there any numbers to back that up? Trend or government reports? Anybody have some data on this perhaps?
He was a celebrity a long time ago, and I doubt he made >2.5 billion from a TV show.
It's my fault for not being clearer, but you guys missed the point of the post. I'm not asking for advice about procrastination issues (I have some, but they're not that bad) and the general subject has been done to death already.

The point is that given that a lot of people have this problem (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446924), here's a suggestion of something new to try.

Of the comments that do address the specific proposal (of shame-based noprocrast), there have been two objections. (1) Some people say they're not influenced by anybody else's opinion, or shouldn't be. I call that self-deception. (2) Others say it would be better to just stop procrastinating. Of course it would. That's like prescribing "sleep" for insomnia.

I still think it's a cool idea that would make for a fun experiment.

Edit: by the way, while I've facetiously emphasized the shame aspect, I don't think that's all there is to it. Lots of people have noticed that if you make a public commitment to do something, you're more likely to follow through. There's a lot of experimental data on that too.
Definitely comming. Who else from HN is going to be there?
Remembering what we like: Toward an agent-based model of Web trafﬁc
TC link already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448348
Looks like its not canvas either, but svg.
Yes, OSS such as LINUX are great textbooks.
Neural Networks Virtual Study Group
Runescape
Here is the highest complement I can give to any computing science paper: it reminds me of certain Edsgar Djiksta's writing.

Here are some of the particular lines that catch my attention each time I read this (I end up seeing this presentation every year or so, through some link or forum or another):

"When did you last see an exciting non-commercial demo?" When did you last see an exciting commercial one ? It's all crap, not just the academic side. I quit the ACM because I got tired of reading "X 3.0 is the new X 2.0" articles. Remember back in the early days of shareware, when you could write a DOS program that did one thing, like a mortgage calculator, and it would get passed around all the BBS's and become famous for a couple of weeks ? Most current programing is just that, but they are re-doing the one-off fadish programs for the newer platforms, web and smart phones and etc.

"Instead, we see a thriving software industry that largely ignores research, and a research community that writes papers rather than software." I'm not sure this is that special to computing science. I think educational and research institutions quit mattering so much several decades ago.

"Linux's cleverness is not in the software, but in the development model, hardly a triumph of academic CS (especially software engineering) by any measure." I think the development model is very important, as important as the assembly line and interchangeable parts is to automotive engineering. One can design the best car in the world, but if it can't be cranked out at the rate of one every 10 seconds it will never matter in the world.

"invention has been replaced by observation" This applies to a lot of academic stuff theses days. At certain conferences, there are papers presented that are nothing more than graphs of the number of papers in that field, a kind of pitch to convince people a particular field is the new hot thing. I suppose they include their paper-about-papers in the next set of numbers for the next paper-about-papers.
IE NetRenderer - Browser Compatibility Check
I can't prevent you from using that definition of "scripting language" but I don't think it has much in common with the usual meaning of the term.
That's interesting. The thing that stuck with me from that talk was when he was asked about Google App Engine. His answer was that Amazon has had a policy for years of not talking about competitors, not because they want to be evasive but because they don't want to take their focus off customers. Attention paid to what competitors are doing is attention not paid to what customers need next. I was deeply impressed by that.
And the watchers watch the watch on the watchers...
Ask HN: programming and science related podcasts?
I'm looking for some interesting pod casts to listen to while traveling. Anything interesting really, especially science or programming related but not limited to those.

Also, any suggestions for good podcast software for Linux? Command line based would be ideal (I really don't see the need for a GUI on something that simple).

Any ideas? What's on your mp3 player?
I agree that theory is more appropriate than specific tool training at university, but it's an exaggeration that web technologies are necessarily an afterthought.
Freezing the content of the main page to update at a fixed rate makes sense.

The comments won't work as well if they aren't done in real time in the current format. One possible solution would be to add a separate section for active comment threads. This might serve as an acceptable way to slow them down, or keep them visible longer. However, the real time comments are a large part of what makes this site addictive, but it's also what provides a fair amount of the value.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX-JHz7NToE ?
I thought "success coach" was the worst I had heard. So many smut peddlers.
No, because education is an important marker of social class. Where you went to school, for how long, and what you studied defines who you are and where you belong in the social hierarchy in the United States absent aristocratic relations or extreme wealth.
Doesn't look like it does. That would be a good feature
1) Not even to their own family?

2) Because I had to go to shop to pick up some Foo and meanwhile wanted her to get some money from the machine that was next door..?

3) um, ok. If you say so.

There are tons of reasons. I'm talking about how the world works right now. Not a hypothetical world that may or may not exist in the future.
Anyone who builds a twitter following that large and isn't actually famous clearly has major issues... as evidenced by this total meltdown over something as silly as a caching bug.
I (relatively recently) studied at a UK university (among the top 10 according to league tables: a classic "oxford reject" university) so I'm not sure how transferrable my experiences are to the US education system. The UK's isn't quite as expensive ("only" about 1/5 to 1/6 of median gross income in tuition), but I certainly did notice that the majority of students seemed to be there primarily because their parents wanted them to, and/or because their secondary school teachers had basically tuned them towards university. Not because they were genuinely seeking the cerebral stimulation of their studies. The open days, etc. were also geared towards that attitude: parents, your kid will be safe here and is practically guaranteed a respectable middle class job after graduating; kids, it won't be so bad, look at all the non-studying activites you can do!

I'd actually have to include myself into that group: I was basically pressured into studying physics by my parents and my physics teacher. Studying CompSci or EE or whatever never was on the table in the first place, after all that would've been an investment into the stuff that was causing me to go to bed late and doze at school, not for what I was winning prizes at school and beyond. Equally out of the question was not attending university: that's not what upper middle class kids do.

Now halfway through my degree, I became self-aware and figured out that it was all crazy and it was all just leading me into the rat race, so I decided to try to make the best of the remaining time, but most students never did - they graduated and applied for jobs at companies that were recruiting at the university or they followed in their parents' footsteps. (FWIW I discovered I loved maths almost as much as programming, so I ended up taking as many mathsy modules as possible - unfortunately the university weren't flexible about this so I mostly did them without getting credit)

I have to say I doubt asking the students is going to make much of a difference. You might get better bars and sports facilities at the universities, that's about it.
Usually, there is. Can you give us more information on your situation? What exactly irks you about your window environment? Can you give us an example?

If you are running Linux, try switching to a Tiling Window Manager such as Ion or XMonad. Tiling Window Managers maximizes the use of screen real-estate. Imagine partitioning your screen into adjustable frames and each application you run resizing itself to fit each frame. That essentially is what a TWM is. That way, you don't overlap windows for different applications and you can keep your icons handy. Does that help?

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

If you want to see your icons, try putting them on your taskbar. I don't know what you mean by 'gadgets', though.
My recommendation here is: Zelazny, Gene - Say it with charts.
The rule of life:
Runescape xor ____________
Yeah, and nobody ever reported about that bag of rice that fell over in china yesterday. It's a media conspiracy!
That device. The one to stab people in the face. Over the internet. Where can I buy it.
Programming Related podcasts that I keep up with:

Software Engineering Radio: http://www.se-radio.net/

Rails Envy: http://www.railsenvy.com/podcast

This Week in Django: http://thisweekindjango.com/

FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/FLOSS
Station responds after reporting on girl who quit college because of Linux
Seems like a great idea. Would be cool to see more of these...

Of course C# seems like a horrible choice for learning about this sort of stuff, but maybe that's just me.
Man, I wish I knew what our government was really spending those insanely high tax rates on. Plus, the economic downturn is sending governments across Europe on spending sprees that I fear I'll be paying for for the rest of my life. (oh and that state pension I have to pay into? Yeah, doubt I'll ever be seeing any of that)
I think a few of these YC-inspired funds (to put it politely) have died after just one or two rounds. Example: YEurope, their website still mentions the 2007 cycle.
Vista, Action Script 3 and Flash 10 Debugging - how to output a trace.
Tested it on a few sites and it appears to be close to real-time. Still sucks that there isn't an easy way to do these browser-shot type of tools with sites that aren't live on a url somewhere though. Not much to be done about it I suppose.
Where did you get the idea that people lend ATM cards? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22lend+your+atm+card%22

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22lent+my+atm+card%22
You might want to add support for UK universities, just check for ac.uk as well as .edu.
I'm curious, what was the job that required this certification? Why would the employer require her to take this useless course?
The Math Factor podcast
Is Angel or VC Financing Best?
Suse Studio: Linux customization for the masses
Because I had to go to shop to pick up some Foo and meanwhile wanted her to get some money from the machine that was next door

If you were buying something from a physical shop, you wouldn't need money from a machine next door, because shops can give cash at the register from the customer's bank account. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22would+you+like+cash+with+t...
I followed the instructions and tried it. I had to enter my credit card number, but supposedly it won't be charged. I also will have to figure out if my ads are really running or not by tracking my traffic. I will post here again if it is a scam or doesn't work.
My first summer job while at University was with a small company in the west of England, Micross (http://www.microssautomation.com/index.php), writing industrial laundry control software, in Forth, targeting Windows NT. We used the MPE Forth system (http://www.mpeforth.com/), which was highly extensible - when you needed to add more of the Win32 API, you'd edit various files that shipped with the package and recompile the entire thing :)

The company had standardized on Forth throughout their operation, so regardless of the hardware you were using, anything from a PIC-based counting system to the Windows servers, you only needed to know one language to understand the code. Clever stuff.
Fixing Tightvnc's Alt+Tab (a.k.a. re-implementing Alt+Tab)
I accept that most people (including most people who deny it) care deeply what other people think (in many but not all areas). Many people care so much about it that they will sooner hurt their children than do something in public that they think their neighbors disapprove of. A few bright lights such as Feynman care what other people think only in a more limited fashion.

But so what? People can and should try to better themselves. Consider a person who is pursuing the honorable goal of caring less about what other people. I think he would not want to participate in your public humiliation plan; it would harm his progress.

PS I also don't like to see people humiliated. I think being sensitive to suffering, and not embracing plans to cause it, is a good trait too.
He made and lost fortunes over time in real estate deals. It depends of what period you're talking about.
Not hacking related, but I found the More or Less podcast quite interesting. It's by the author of The Undercover Economist, and focuses on the same issues as the book.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/moreorless/

It's off the air for a few months, but you can still access some back-episodes (unfortunately, not all of them).

Edit: for software, I use rhythmbox.
I find that the "burn bridges" argument rarely applies in real life unless it's a small community.
A good compilation of programming podcasts at StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644/what-good-technology...

I enjoy Geek Speak for basic tech news discussion: http://geekspeak.org/

This American Life is not science or tech, but I love it: http://www.thisamericanlife.org
Yeah, these distributed courses are a great idea.

There's a bunch of free textbooks online, especially for CS and math topics. I'd love to see online communities develop around the textbooks for like-minded people to form study groups.
SLIME, perhaps.
I don't understand why the HN community isn't more supportive of these YC clones. It's simple: the more clones the better your odds of getting money and getting your startup off the ground.

Also, it theoretically could be better to be a "big fish" in a small pond than to be a "little fish" in the big YC pond.
check out the phoneloser's podcast it's really cool. the leader RCPB is crazy. they say he's the one who killed jon benet ramsey. he hijacks phone networks and stuff, he's kind of like a kevin mitnick.
Man, Jobs has advanced a lot since then. He seems a lot like a college geek in this video.

I think this video best proves what I like to say about Jobs' presentations: it's not always that he's best of show, though he's had great moments. Very often it only seems so brilliant because he so often reveals monumental products.
I have never used Forth but it seems like a really language. It combines very high level constructs with the ability to be embedded in systems that barely have an operating system.

Now, if they could solve the problem that every Forth system is customized by the Forth programmer and so the entire language lacks standards, it would be amazing. Also, if you could add enough syntactic sugar to make it look sort-of like C or perl, you would have "the next big thing".
Launchbox in DC.

One of the founding partners was just appointed head of the FCC.
I hope they get detailed on spending. I always hated it when "modernization" of schools and hospitals means using a $2000 LCD to display the lunch menu.
They will no longer be used as a means of distribution but rather products or art to appreciate on its own merits for the subculture of people that still obsess about something like that. Cultural artifacts of antiquities.
Uh, no. Certainly not connected to anything that could possible access security sensitive data.

I can tell you for sure that defense contractors do not even have internet access from secure areas. Everything has to be screened and brought in on CD.
Higher Education and Human Capital
Or buying entire sets of computers...usually from Dell.

I mean, Dell's fine, but seriously, it's not like they're going to dealcatcher to find the PCs for cheap. They get them cheaper than "official" retail price, at a bulk order price.

And then with a new set of computers, elementary schools don't know what to do next. Word process and web browse...

Oh well.
Mac turns 25, but Kurzweil's Singularity awaits
Ah, so apparently PG didn't go with the unix integration he mentioned once.

Your Java interop looks good, yet the code is a bit more verbose than the equivalent in Java. Also, can Arc lists and hashes be used as Java List and Map collections?
I think the article doesn't really take into account that the student body also affects the return one might get from higher ed. This is argued here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448588.

It is more likely that higher ed is not going to burst like a bubble. Instead, demand for it will scale back down gradually to a point where the return those who get a higher education is worth the price tags. For it to be like a bubble something like a phase-transition in the way a college education is perceived would be necessary. However, it seems more likely that this perception is bound to change slowly and gradually instead.
Leave engineering and the hard sciences, though, and a lot of courses are just mind-bogglingly trivial to pass.

the problem is that everyone wants to cozy up to the hard sciences because it makes you look more legitimate. blatant scientism has infected higher education.
I would argue that it does. More abstract concepts often (and especially in this case) elucidate a concept with wider application. General relativity gives us insight into a possible model of our universe. Godel's incompleteness theorem gives us insight into all complex axiomatic systems in all possible universes. The difference is definitely there and an argument can be made (up to senses of aesthetics) that one is better than the other.
Want to make your own judgment about Steven Chu (US Secretary of Energy)? Watch this.
Ask HN: What security software/configurations do you use?
Would like your opinions and information on best practices/software/os for a home LAN. Also, do you use traffic monitoring sofware?
This just warms the heart.

I have to side with the reporter here. From the comments it looks like they're getting a lot of digg and reddit traffic (hell of a lot). It serves as a strong reminder of why I left those sites a long time ago.

http://xkcd.com/386/
"noprocast" in the settings has been wonderful for me. The only thing I'd change is add -1 karma when you click override :)
ah yes, they may have not finished first in the 'money' or 'career' race, but they could sleep better at night.
Valid point as that is, I don't think thats what Godel was talking about. I am trying to work through tthe constitution. I think the source of dictatorial authority will be either Article 1 section 2 clause 1 and Article 2 section 1 clause 2 (along with some other pripheral ones) or through the judiciary using Article 3 but this needs a lot more work on my part. Its a nice pet project.
I found a really good tech bookshop in Delhi - right on Radiv Chowk between radial 2 & 3 on Connaught place. The same books you might find in a european book store but at a fraction of the price.
New Hulu Widgets with In-line Video Play (Family Guy Example)
Records do you give you room for much higher resolution album artwork, but the best produced CDs sound better than the average record. The average record sounds better than the average post-loudness war CD.

HD-DVD/DVD-Audio sound decidedly better than CD/vinyl assuming you have a sound system high end enough for it to matter. There's nothing inherently better about analog, unless you're talking about copies of the original analog master tapes. (There was a company selling a subscription to a service where you would get copies of analog reel-to-reel tapes)
>Have you looked at how Newton presented the results of calculus in the Principia?

No. But I did now and in the light of the new information I would like to rephrase myself: you shouldn’t do calculus without algebra.
Boring. Can't we find something more interesting. How about subverting the requirements for voting for state legislatures so that the voting requirements for the house representatives are automatically changed and then senators were originally appointed by the state governments...

If we are going to be conspiracy theorists (or something similar) we should at least try to find some interesting conspiracies.
"I prefer to see monads as fold + tail recursion"

I don't think this is accurate, monads are orthogonal to both folding and tail recursion. Monads are types representing computation, and providing the operations `bind' and `return'. They're much simpler than many imagine at first.

"... and without the latter, it seems you need the mutation that Common Lisp encourages."

I agree that when using looping constructs other than recursion, it is often required that a counter or accumulator be mutated. Common Lisp does not encourage _general_ mutation, however, and the standard functions and macros illustrate that.
Your Genetic Journey
your public humiliation plan

don't like to see people humiliated

I hope your namesake had more of a sense of humor than this, or I'm going to have to lower my opinion of the pre-Socratics.
How to Lose Traffic and Alienate People
Not knowing a lick of Haskell, these sorts of articles always make me wonder whether it makes Lisp look like Blub.
Although Google probably won't help you here, you can help yourself. If your campus traffic shares an ip or ip range, you can just tweak your site to not show the ads for those sites, which should be pretty straight forward.
Nesheim Updates "High Tech Startup"
I'm using Windows 7.
Study Sees an Obama Effect as Lifting Black Test-Takers
I hadn't seen that. Amazon is a puzzle to me. They do so many things right, yet I keep hearing that it is not a good place to work.
Microsoft’s Chris Early, head of Games for Windows Live, among the layoffs
I was thinking the same thing as well. It would be great to see more of these done in different languages for various topics.
That's only four why's, and it doesn't address why the employee suddenly needed a table.

Which means it may not be the "root cause", either, and the offered "more tables" solution may not help.
My point was that the Python sketch based on the tinned food turned into the e-mail SPAM meme. The sketch was the basis of the e-mail term, in other words, in computing folklore, by saying that e-mail SPAM comes with everything. I'm not sure if Wikipedia lists it, but you can find this meme explained.
Was anyone else surprised by the rock concert -like reaction of the crowd? Where did this presentation take place? Who made up the audience?