skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So losing the data you enter into some lame AOL web service because you forget to check your email for a few weeks qualifies as an apocalypse? After watching fat insane Brando in Apocalypse Now and buff ass-kicking Aaanold in the Terminator flicks, this "coming datapocalypse" doesn't seem very scary.
I'm quite excited about this product. It has wi-fi, a touch screen, keyboard, and video out.

See http://pandorawiki.org/Pandora for full specs.

It really is handheld, like a Nintendo DS. If you don't believe me, take a look at this image: http://openpandora.org/images/comparison.jpg
I would likely purchase some other product from a band that I like- say, a T-Shirt (which in turn advertises that band) vs. buying a music download that I could get for free. But the idea is the same- I am still supporting the musicians with my wallet.
Auto sales down 35 percent; the economy must be in pretty good shape
How the newspaper industry tried to invent the Web but failed.
Looks wrong to me. If you're after climate/temperature data it's out there.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past_...

Both from a google search:
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=graph+global+mean+temperat...

ps. Your source sucks.
GRE is a test of your perseverance, tenacity, ability to stay focused and work towards a goal more than it is the test of how well you speak/understand/write English.
Great Article. The guy had balls.
What's the original source on this?
Looks the same to me, except that I do not see any stories about New England Patriots post-season results this year.
Paul may be referring to these seminal posts:

The Only Thing That Matters:
http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the-pmarca-gu-2.html

How much funding is too little? Too much?
http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/07/the-pmarca-guid.html
Increased CO2 and warming will change weather patterns, including wind and rainfall, so it's possible to have localised cooling while still having a global temperature increase.

The other hypothesis that I've heard is that increased CO2 could lead to more evaporation, which means more rain and snowfall, which gives you increased albedo and then cooling. If there's enough delay in that feedback then you could potentially trigger an ice age/mini ice age, but I haven't seen any modeling so it's hard to say how likely it would be.
Well its pretty clear to those outside the industry as well as in it that this is totally a fashion industry - we behave like spoiled prima donnas at times. Can you blame them? Zed only makes this more obvious to them - they wouldn't look much deeper into what he says anyway.
Well I think his audience is "corporate programmer" types isn't it? cause what he says is just confusing to the rest of us.
Butler gave him a shopping list of equipment he'd need to get started, including a new laptop, military-grade crypto, and an antenna.

Out of curiosity, what's a "military-grade crypto"?
State of the Elephant 2008
"29 years Starcraft will stop working!"

As I was reading the article, that was precisely the game I was thinking about- what if Star Craft stops working! Disaster- but perhaps StarCraft II will be out by then- and hopefully it will work!
Rather crazy online logic test
Anna Schwartz - Bernanke Is Fighting the Last War
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122428279231046053.html?mod=...

"The Fed," she argues, "has gone about as if the problem is a shortage of liquidity. That is not the basic problem. The basic problem for the markets is that [uncertainty] that the balance sheets of financial firms are credible."

Reading NY Times for their business/economics opinion is like reading Playboy for the articles -- curiously unsatisfying.
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Personally I don't see who can compete even now. Zed's blog is the only blog RSS feed I have in my reader. Nobody else has earned the privilege so far. Everything else in my reader is corporate stuff like HN or arstechnica.
It sounds like quotes from old interviews.
What about the _rare_ student who don't have a facebook account ?
I'm in Hong Kong, if you're in town we can catch up with a couple other startup folks... email me simehome at gmail com
This kind of reminds me of the 'Mr. P and Mr. S' puzzle.

In case you don't know it, there are two numbers (m,n) between 1 and 100. Mr. P is told the product (m * n) and Mr. S is told the sum (m + n), but neither is told the original numbers.

Then they have a conversation that goes like this:

Mr. P: I don't know what the numbers are.

Mr. S: I knew you didn't know them. I don't know them either.

Mr. P: Oh, now I know what they are!

Mr. S: Me too! I know too!
wow - I've got the first few easy ones - but that's getting pretty insane..

How long does it take people to finish?
A conversation with an iPhone pirate
They weren't phished, Twitter's admin tools were hacked: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/monday-morning-madness.html

Ouch, not exactly confidence inspiring. It's also sort of ironic that one of the headlines under "Twitter is Del.icio.us" is "Governments use Twitter for Emergency Alerts, Traffic Notices and More - Government Technology"

Imagine the havoc that would ensue if a large number of people were following some government's emergency alerts on Twitter and someone were able to gain control. It would be pretty easy to incite panic.

Or if the attacker didn't like a politician, like Obama, he could post subtly offensive comments as the politician.
I remember hearing stories in undergrad about code written on paper and mercilessly reviewed so that it would work perfectly the first time it was compiled. Can't remember the specifics and may have been an urban legend -- but this is the closest thing I've seen recently.
Or just do what I do, get a hosted Exchange email service. Then they give you a copy for free. You could cancel after one month and get a copy for $8 if you don't want to keep it.
Is it me, or is education being on the bottom uplifting? I feel like we'd have a serious problem if it were on top.
I do think it would be a good thing if users became more sophisticated. But if your business model relies on people significantly changing their behavior, you're fighting an uphill battle.
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honestly, i am not very sure if this really _is_ HN material. however, i am very pleasantly surprised at the smooth communication from the developer, and the subsequent ease in getting info out. far, far better than the typical vitriolic outburst that is very common...
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"it would have been available anyway."

Yes, but not legally- some have a moral aversion to breaking the law.
In 2003, in fact, the year after this data was taken. (That was when I took the test, and I had the writing section instead of the analytical, LSAT-like section. Much, much easier.)
For an Apple fanboy you're not very well-versed in Apple history.
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2009/jan/05slide11-want-to-...
Write your own! :-)
Religion > Education ... interesting
ooh a flying wing ! i have tried this a number of times myself, and it works great indoors. however at the two extremities, i generally fold into a canard like thingie... works fine.
Linkedin shows a Charity Majors working as a sysadmin at Linden Labs.
In this situation one normally considers getting a job of some sort.
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Or someone on your payroll on the inside.
He mentions that they "just launched Gmail". Guessing 2004? Not sure why it's appearing 5 years later though.
i like making stuff. consuming less actually helps me be more creative, feel more satisfied, live more customized, and earn practical skills.
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The worst property management you can go through to find a apartment or home. They rent to people that do not have the best credit in the world, and then charge them a VERY HIGH deposit.
is.gd would be my choice
# Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do.
If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce
things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen,
and they don't happen in the way they said they would.

I miss this aspect of Google. Android and OpenSocial were announced months before they had an actual product.
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That's an expensive way to write software.

Modern AAA computer games have at least double the code size, are produced in a fifth of the time, for the price of roughly 1 year of the NASA group's budget.

This is why we need NewSpace. It would actually be better to fail more often and more cheaply.

Of course, that's impossible for a Congressionally-funded organization.
Last para confusers price elasticity of demand with income elasticity of demand/ What you eventually say could be interpreted to mean something like Giffen goods, which I am sure is not what you meant.:

http://moneyterms.co.uk/price-elasticity/
http://moneyterms.co.uk/income-elasticity/
http://moneyterms.co.uk/giffen-good/
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Me too. Somehow I aced the verbal section, with a moderate amount of study, starting ~6 weeks before the test. I think it might be because I was raised without a TV and so read a lot as a kid. The questions at the end of the test (it's adaptive, computer administered) seemed to focus on the exact nuance of similar words.
Thanks for the advice - I subsequently did that. But I have to point out you know nothing more about my situation than what I said in response to your comment.

Just like GitHub are investigating possible outcomes of their situation - in my situation I was perfectly able to survive on my means and dedicate 100% of my time being top of my year, building a strong reputation within the school of IT and working on my own tech projects that just happened not to be money making exercises.
Git was not used, SVN was. If Github existed at the time and for free, I can think of a couple projects I built at the time that I would could have used it for. I still strongly feel for certain classes of product, a free version for students would get them hooked early - but it's a choice GitHub have to make themselves.
I hope I've provided counter points to the "all students can afford this" argument and points for why a free student license should exist.
And the jury's out on any correlation to my success.
Israel Holds "The First Governmental Press Conference Ever Held On Twitter."
Normalizing the distributions would not change the rankings by much.
FreeBSD has been my desktop OS since 5.2 or so and my go-to server OS for much longer.

Pardon the generalization, but the BSD users I know aren't particularly vocal about it unless asked. Not that I mind. Being told how much better everything is on <x> OS is annoying
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I don't think this is true in neuroscience -- GREs are more than a formality.
"If the goal of communication is having other people understand you, why would you deal in words that are notable precisely because they are difficult to understand?"

Once in a while you meet someone else like yourself and experience pleasure communicating at high baud.
Split an input text using javascript
Split an input text using javascript
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FTFA : "In March 2008, Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails released the first part of Ghosts I-IV via BitTorrent, and released all four albums under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license."

So how would it be illegal to get it from some file-sharing site?
we can do something like this in Delhi, but hopefully hackers only :P. I am not impressed with the barcamps which are usually sales pitch for companies.We can have some workshops to do something cool.

Dipankar Sarkar
me@dipankar.name
What a great idea. It may take all my strength to resist getting sucked in, damn you! And I was just telling someone how refreshingly boring Hn has been lately.
It's hard to feel bad for an industry that has done things like this:

"So intense was the industry's devotion to videotext and so rampant its paranoia that some other medium would usurp its place in the media constellation that the American Newspaper Publishers Association lobbied Congress in 1980 to prevent AT&T from launching its own 'electronic yellow pages.'"
Do they make any revenue off of all that traffic?
When I do a search for the string "test" (without quotes), the returned JSON's 6th entry is

Student's t-test - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

When you visit the clickurl Yahoo's servers return 403 Forbidden

Search for "javascript", the returned JSON's 4th entry is:

About JavaScript - MDC

For which the yahoo clickurl serves an invalid SSL certificate.

I haven't had issues getting the JSON results, but with visiting the results I get these errors a significant amount of the time, which ruins the experience of having a faster search interface in your browser. (I've responded to the Yahoo engineer with these examples as well)
Patelravi_000
Thanks. Nice to have a sketch of the thing's structure. It's a finite state machine, where the 'attributes' are the states, and the code is the transition rule.

Test harnesses for this -- hm.
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He covered his health in that speech, but according to this CNN piece he was pretty misleading.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.f... (Scroll about 1/4 of the way down)

If he's going to talk about his health, he should be more straightforward than this.

I think once you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, your responsibilities to your shareholders mean that you need to be more forthcoming about your health than he has been.
Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!! I was just in process of configuring yet another Windows box just because I failed (after a year of trying) to find a way to deal with my ~5K of photos on a Mac. I tried everything imaginable and nothing came close to Picasa, so finally, finally google has come to rescue us!

Ugh... I can't remember when was the last time I was so happy about a piece of software... I only wish Apple could find more talent in Silicon Valley, apparently all their serviceable engineers are busy on Safari and OSX without anyone adequate available to work on iPhoto and Finder.
will be there at proto :)
Why was this downvoted? I'm asking a legitimate question.
I can't even begin to describe how happy I am that it's not Mac-like, i.e. not dumbed-down to idiotic Apple UI idoms. I have an IQ above 50 so I don't need "OSX-style" UI for retarded Oklahoma children, thank you very much google for not ruining it. It works exactly as it did on Windows which is... like a hundred years ahead of iPhoto. I'm sorry kids, but Apple should be learning from Picasa how to make usable UIs, not the other way around. I hope this trend of ignoring OSX's idiotic idioms will continue.

I don't have to go back to Windows anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a day... Christmas came late for me this year. :-) I'm sitting here, typing this smiling like a baby.

If google wanted to charge $1K for it, I would have paid it.
It's already free for open source. If someone wants to use it for a commercial product, they shouldn't mind paying commercial prices. It's not as if $7 a month is a fortune.

What you might want to do, however, is give people a free trial period of say 3 months.
Debunk misses the point of original article. It was a cache performance test. You'd expect almost identical performance in C# and C++ for the reasons the original author explained.

Original author responds:
http://systematicgaming.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/performance...
So who's going to write a Prolog program to solve this?
Probably because it's explained on the video page:

http://vimeo.com/2723800

If you are still having trouble try:

USE: cusec2008

start-presentation
No, I'm not. I got a Mac about 6 months ago, and while I read things I find interesting about the company, I don't go out of my way to read biographies and the like. So from what I'd read, Jobs was demoted and he chose to quit rather than stay at his position.
Ceteris paribus, sure. But if the field of education attracted better talent -- provided better rewards for excellence -- a lot of our other social/economic problems might be lessened. Sadly, it's not our A-team or even B-team educating the multitudes...
Make a 'cusec2008' directory in the distribution's `work' directory, and put the .factor file there. Open the factor runtime, type

USE: cusec2008 start-presentation

and then hit enter. No, not the most user friendly of processes. But I suppose it's the price you pay for being the indiest of indie.
"organizing the world's information"
the total scores for the scientific disciplines are consistently higher than those for the humanities and social sciences;

Economics scored #4 and it's not a science. That blows away any credibility this might have.

Economics does have equations and an analytical approach, but its empirical foundations and usefulness are quite dubious, compared to say, civil engineering, or medicine. I would think that medicine would require a very high degree of empirical rigor, and it must be put into practice every day.

This isn't a list of what occupations are useful or even intellectually honest. It's ordered by complexity of abstraction.
Clarification: the range is _exclusive_. Neither number can be 1.
The reason is that the two children are different dimensions in the probability space. Both (one-kid, other-kid), and (first-born, second-born) yield the same space, and both will give a 1/3 answer.
Using local hooks with Git to have better commits (Something not used much with svn)
Or, more likely, if you are well versed in the vagaries of obscure vocabulary, chances are you'll be better at putting together the less complex words.
Djikstra's reply is pretty cool:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd06xx/EWD666.PDF
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A) The writer of this article made a mistake.

B) It's a special device Max used to get some extra cash out of his non-technical partner.
You don't have to go out of your way to read biographies. In Jobs' Stanford commencement speech, discussed and linked many times here on HN, he talks about being "fired" from Apple. He also discusses it in Cringely's "Triumph of the Nerds" documentary. Given that Jobs himself publicly acknowledges that he was fired, I'd be interested to know what it is you read that claims otherwise.
"John Munson, a software engineer and professor of computer science at the University of Idaho, is not quite so generous. 'Cave art,' he says. 'It's primitive. We supposedly teach computer science. There's no science here at all.'"

I'll give him his clever phrase, despite being technically false. What we create with our knowledge of computer science (our programming) is not the same thing as computer science itself.

This is an interesting way to think about programming, though. Compare it, for instance, to metalworking. The craft itself, clearly, is distinct from the science of metallurgy, but at the same time they have evolved alongside each other. I wonder if programming and computer science will go through a similar progression. As metalworkers just were learning to manipulate metal, we bit-twiddled and hand-assembled; as metalworkers evolved their tools and meticulously forged their creations, we created compilers but still hand-coded our programs. The next big step in metalworking was the automation of their craft via factories; is this way code will go as well? Will we simply guide computers as they produce their own code? And what advances in computer science would be necessary for this to happen?

Edit: Please forgive me if my history of metalworking is slightly incorrect, I just realized I mostly pulled it out of my ass.
This is unnecessary; the solution is fairly straightforward, although it would have been more elegant if the problem constrained question 20 better.
# I would rather have people think we're confused than let our
competitors know what we're going to do.
People interpret "one kid is a boy" as "first-born is a boy" in my example above (i.e. they selectively choose which kid is the "one kid" -- the one which is a boy), which yields 1/2.

People seem to be good at enumerating the "probability space" quite well. They just don't understand why the dimensions are what they are.
Ah ok - yeah, I've hit that issue in testing before.

I'd be surprised if 2038 was the reason though - most certificates are very conservative about expiry.

You'd never have a cert that lasts to 2038 as there is a high probability that the cert would be cracked well before that date (i.e. even if it's brute-force, likely computers in "n" years time will be able to crack it).
"Just open the IntuiType alphabet menu here, scroll to the letter you need, and center click to select. And click again to capitalize, and repeat this process for each new letter. Couldn't be simpler."

By my count, that is 5 steps. On a keyboard, assuming a touch typist, the step count is reduced to 1: push a button. I say that a keyboard is much simpler.

To me, touch typing on a keyboard is much more natural than the hunt-and-peck (sorry, scroll-and-click) method of text entry that the MacBook Wheel uses. I am more productive touch-typing.

However, I can see the benefits of this on-screen keyboard display. Hunt-and-peck typists don't have to constantly shift their attention from the keyboard to the screen and back constantly. However, for touch typists, I can't see any immediate benefits.

"It remains to be seen that the wheel will catch on in the business world where people use computers for actual work and not just dicking around."

So wait... we aren't supposed to be doing work on these? Is this supposed to be only a toy?

"With a price tag of just under $26,000 for the lowest-end MacBook Wheel..."

That is one pricey toy!

The new MacBook was designed with simplicity in mind. There must be a point where design becomes too simple. It must have been designed for a very specific subset of users.
Don't get me wrong--I'm paying for food and rent--just for many (most?) it's covered in their loans/scholarship/whatever. I guess I wasn't thinking about people who work at the same time, though. (My school requires everyone to be on a meal plan and to live on campus or prove that they can live off campus, so I forget that people at other schools have to worry about it.)
This is fascinating! I love that the solution requires balancing every answer with every other answer, so that at time it appears nearly solved but one offset number ruins everything else.
I would have thought that too, except there's a bunch of certs with expirations all the way up to 2037 at which point they abruptly stop (except for the one 2040)...

http://tlrobinson.net/skitches/Keychain_Access-20090106-0009...