skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't downmod this guy(gal) in to oblivion just because (s)he didn't say too much or you don't agree... Especially in this thread. This should be reserved for trolls. I think a nice 0 or -1 (to discourage pointless comments) would be fine but (s)he's already at -3 when this is still a pretty new submission. Don't hop on the bandwagon just because.
While how-to lists hardly see the light of day (the front page) on HN, I had hate to see one like this go unrecognized.
I think they're missing a cycle on Japanese -> Japanese, since the stereotypically incomprehensible language here is "Japanese to a foreigner".

(Usually when "Its Greek to me" gets translated in movies, though, they end up going for "I totally do not understand." or something equally generic.)
Write an airline reservation system for $1
MySpace to offer email addresses to users
This is why I think censorship is impossible in today's society. The instant an event happens news of it will spread virally over the Internet faster than any agency can block it.

Welcome to the new world.
I agree, and if I ever witness a tragedy first hand, I hope my first thoughts won't be to post a pic on Twitter.
Thanks for your comments unalone,

Embedding games on your site will keep users engaged for longer and give them deeper, more interesting and addictive content.

If the users want to spend longer on a piece of content, they wont opt out just because that piece of content has been embedded.

It's also great for the developers to get their games out to a larger audience.

In general, setting these games free can only be a good thing for game developers, game players and publishers.
The price of prejudice
I tip my hat to MySpace. Losing traction to a competitor putting out kitschy services (i.e. Facebook and it's many applications)? Put out a service that actually revolves around what your users care about and use. I know personally quite a number of people that use MySpace and Facebook as a means of communicating with close friends, as opposed to traditional email; often which is reserved for more professional or less personal communication requirements.

Already though, I can tell there are going to be detractors "People wont take an @myspace.com email seriously" but I truly believe the idea behind this is to capitalize on connections already made, and simply remove the abstraction of a profile page to talk to the people on your friends list with much easier access.

MySpace just jumped ahead of the curve.
That's still way too high (after conditioning on the nature of the murders). Most all female serial killers are angels.
but do we really need a clear distinction between the two? apart from political agendas, how is a suburb, with the same facilities (eg mall, shopping centers, amenities etc) that different functionally from a town??

i mean at the end of the day it does come to supply and demand (for beneficial real estate).. suburbs are where people move out of the city to... or rather suburbs are what the expanded regions of a city are.. as demand for a particular location grows (along with the number of inhabitants), the demand for infrastructure grows (further fuelling demand for the said location?)..

the article talks about what to do about the "communities we are left with"... last i checked population is RISING.. unless we have found ways to live magically in thin air, demand for housing will rise (not taking into account short term abnormalities like the current financial slump)...
Ask HN: Any goal setting sites?
Can anyone recommend a site for following and mesuring goals?
Ones and zeroes can't be controlled absolutely all the time.

"...Sun's UltraSPARC II workstations were crashing at an alarming rate. The inability to initially locate the
source of the problem created significant customer dissatisfaction issues for Sun. The root cause of the problem was finally traced to IBM supplied SRAMs that were experiencing high upset rates due to charged particles causing soft errors in the memory system. Ultimately, not only did Sun switch memory vendors, they also designed new error checking and correcting logic and implemented it across the entire cache architecture."

from:

http://www.actel.com/documents/SER_FAQ.pdf
You are right, particularly about legal documents, but there are ways to go about it. Translating the text of a web site is not a huge amount of work. One important thing is to use a native speaker conversant with current usage in your target country and s/he should have some knowledge of the problem domain, law, medicine, as appropriate. A good place to look for translators is at a local university with a lqrge population of foreigners.
Salesforce.com comes to iPhone
I think you're missing the point. I'm not saying we're more or less intelligent or capable than the last generation, nor am I blaming them for things like IPv4 (I mean really, it sure sounded like enough address).

We grew up with different tools, ideas and starting points though. To say we take the work of previous generations for granted is ridiculous. For one, it's a sweeping generalization. But what's more, it could be said about every other generation. The old saying about "standing on the shoulders of giants" rings true here. We're all building on the work of others.

Sure, there's nothing about your age that physically stops you from learning new tools or adapting to the world. If you can't adapt, it's your mindset that needs fixing.

Our world has been shaped from an early age by the Internet, and that will have profound effects on what we do with it from here on out.
the techcrunch comments are strangely positive, either you must be doing something good or techcrunch started moderating comments better :)
You are absolutely right about the futility (atleast by the non-shareholders), but media is all about emotions!!!
I agree. @myspace would also offer a gorgeous lock in to users to their social network.

I've always been suprised social networks didn't offer email /just because/.
An old question but has Google manage to do well with any of its acquisitions? Youtube and Blogger are still running on their old momentum...
They've been concentrating on other things, I think. I know Tom Fulp was focusing on first Alien Hominid and then Castle Crashers (which is a really fun game btw). Their PDA game is surprisingly fun as well.

I think they have other things in the works, but it seems like they're moving in the direction of console games, rather than online flash games. But all the same, I figured they still had a ton of traffic.
yeah but in this case the shovels are being given for free (the SDK)... so that is out of the equation...
Rolls-Royce: Britain's lonely high-flier
I use Google Docs Spreadsheet with a few custom formulas.
You either haven't got around to reading his VALIS trilogy or even heard of his last work, Exegesis. While you probably dismiss him as paranoid-schizophrenic or a hack of a sci-fi writer, it is this dismissal for why you can not logical contest this statement. PKD was far from a physicist but more of a mystic, much like Einstein whom was physicist.
Do you want to work at Facebook?
How branching policy enables review-before-checkin for distributed teams
teapot: a new lib for responding to Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol requests
Ensure your teapot-based web application conforms to HTCPCP/1.0, the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, with this new piece of Rack middleware
Is game design copyrightable? Everything I've heard about this game is that it's a clone of several others.
2010 Toyota Prius - A Even Less-Thirsty Prius
While using Vista, one experiences programs that expose Vista controls. Some others show XP-ish controls, while some others still look a lot like Windows 95/98/2K and, still, there are others that break away completely (Office 2007, Nero) and present a completely different user interface with weird shaped windows and menus that look like nothing else in the OS.

OSX is somewhat better organized, but, still, programs, even Apple ones (Safari? iTunes) have a variety of looks that get presented without much coherence. Apple is too guilty of this.
MetaFilter also works this way. Self-policing is a big part of the community [1][2].

There is a even a whole section of the site devoted to discussing internal stuff (called appropriately MetaTalk [3]).

Sometimes I miss something like this on HN - a separate space for meta stuff.

BTW MetaFilter is the only other online community I'm aware of that has quality on the level of HN (despite being even larger - over 56,000 registered people).

[1] http://mssv.net/wiki.cgi?SelfPolicing

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaFilter#Moderation

[3] http://metatalk.metafilter.com
Shipping journal Lloyd's List said brokers in Singapore are now waiving fees for containers travelling from South China, charging only for the minimal "bunker" costs. Container fees from North Asia have dropped $200, taking them below operating cost.

Industry sources said they have never seen rates fall so low. "This is a whole new ball game," said one trader.

Perhaps trade could be encouraged to healthy levels by subsidizing importation.
What will your first thought be? This guy was a passenger on the ferry that was heading towards the plane to help, so what was he supposed to do, jump into the river and try to get there faster? Fashion a makeshift paddle and help propel the ferry? Seems like posting a picture of the plane to twitter is a reasonable response when you're standing around watching rescue crews do their job.
I know pre-optimization is the root of all evil

Doesn't have to be - try turning it to your advantage.

If you need some inspiration, have a read of (fiction): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_Slowness
They totally gutted my beloved MeasureMap, GRR!

And the Jaiku people are very angry.
I can definitely relate to this article. Having been a corporate drone for most of my working life with my level of motivation at my latest job at an all time low, and now being recently laid off, I feel like this is a giant opportunity for me to try and start something on my own and my level of motivation to take advantage of this opportunity has never been higher.
How the Web is opening up our democracy
Chef: configuration management done right
The same argument can be made for any other generation - the real engineering that happened back in the 70s for ARPANet was actually depending quite a lot on the generation before it (transistors, dielectric research, the ENIAC and computers that came long before them)...

My point still stands: every generation has incredibly difficult engineering challenges to overcome. Yes, it all builds on top of each generation, but there's no reason to denigrate the accomplishments of one generation or another.
There are few providers of Satellite Internet here in Australia - in fact if you're in an area that doesn't get DSL coverage the government subsidies it.

Probably work keeping in mind there are two main varieties - one where the uplink is over a standard modem connection and one where the uplink is over the sat link. The former tends to be a lot cheaper for obvious reasons, but means you need a landline.
Interesting points! We are using a naive Bayes classifier right now, and we're working with some social aspects, especially as they relate to Latent Semantic Analysis. We've considered doing a mini Netflix Prize for further improving our algorithm :-).

We've also done a lot of tweaking to get the current filter as smart as possible (thanks PG for your thoughts in A Plan for Spam!) Tweaked things like the number of interesting words to count, weighting of title vs body, etc.

We'd love to talk with some machine learning experts, drop me a note if you are one!
I estimate that I've written about half a million lines of C code and I will have to strongly disagree with that.

Manual memory management just isn't that much of a big deal once you are experienced enough with C to organize your software into modules (usually individual C files with one corresponding header file). You just encapsulate the creation and destruction of elaborate data structures so that it's easy to verify that everything is cleaned up correctly.

These days I program mostly in Java and I spend a lot more time tracking down memory leaks than I ever did while I was programming in C.
umm why are all mentions of PHP being downvoted? i might not understand completely, but that seems like a puerile thing to do.
An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows
Machines became faster, but not more intelligent.

Is a human brain not a machine?

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/node1.html

Q. Are computers the right kind of machine to be made intelligent?

A. Computers can be programmed to simulate any kind of machine.

Q. Are computers fast enough to be intelligent?

A. Some people think much faster computers are required as well as new ideas. My own opinion is that the computers of 30 years ago were fast enough if only we knew how to program them. Of course, quite apart from the ambitions of AI researchers, computers will keep getting faster.

Q. What about parallel machines?

A. Machines with many processors are much faster than single processors can be. Parallelism itself presents no advantages, and parallel machines are somewhat awkward to program. When extreme speed is required, it is necessary to face this awkwardness.
Image Mosaic Generator
Those are some great books, just finished them a few months ago. I really liked the idea that all the higher life forms actually lived outside the galaxy rather than in it as well as the higher technology that only worked well outside it as well. Go too far into the deep and shit stops working, the speed of light is too limiting.

I do wish there were more about the godlike intelligences that emerge. The godshatter idea was pretty cool too.
Jet Ditches in Hudson; All Are Said Safe
Take chess as an excellent example

Why not take speech- and facial- recognition as examples?

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/node1.html

Q. What about chess?

A. Alexander Kronrod, a Russian AI researcher, said ``Chess is the Drosophila of AI.'' He was making an analogy with geneticists' use of that fruit fly to study inheritance. Playing chess requires certain intellectual mechanisms and not others. Chess programs now play at grandmaster level, but they do it with limited intellectual mechanisms compared to those used by a human chess player, substituting large amounts of computation for understanding. Once we understand these mechanisms better, we can build human-level chess programs that do far less computation than do present programs.

Unfortunately, the competitive and commercial aspects of making computers play chess have taken precedence over using chess as a scientific domain. It is as if the geneticists after 1910 had organized fruit fly races and concentrated their efforts on breeding fruit flies that could win these races.
Facebook lets you send email, not receive. I've always hoped they'd make an email system, if only because they've shown themselves to be experts at avoiding clutter.
Yes, but that was because nobody could institute a 30% tax on all sales of gold.

:)
i guess the (small) issue with facebook is that you don't get a "unique" handle at all, easily changed, I guess.
Worst Microsoft Video Promo Ever, Take 2. Just Cover Up The Mac With Stickers.
Polymorphic functions are naturally self-documenting. What you are describing is not polymorphic.

The paper "Theorems for free" describes this: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.38.9...

Here's an example... let's say a function has type

[a] -> [a]

Just by looking at that type, the function has a number of properties.

1. The set of items in the result list are a subset (non-proper) of the set of items in the input list

2. Membership in the result list cannot be determined by the values of the members in the input list... ONLY by position

So, some functions that fit this type and therefore fit these properties...

1. id

2. reverse

3. tail
I must admit - I fly a reasonable amount - and I'm usually somewhat cynical about safety procedures (slides, lifejackets, etc)... This story has certainly turned that around.
Lets Go Deep - Ballpark Home Run Statistics From The 2008 MLB Season
It makes no sense that "signing up for an account" is reason enough to be looked at by Facebook. You should get reviewed based on qualifications, recommendations, and the people you actually know.
Though it's a real shame to lose the dodgeball name. I've found that software projects take on a life of their own, and even if you fork or recreate it at some point with a different name you risk losing that original feel, though you also have the opportunity to create a new and unique feel for that software project too.
On the other hand, if a good fraction of users were to get theirname@facebook.com, then the rest had variations on that theme, suddenly sending email to people would be much easier.

I'm happy with my @me, so I guess I won't worry about it too much.
I don't know if there is anything wrong with merely taking a picture, but posting it online right away when you aren't exactly sure what happened yet isn't sensitive to the families of the potential victims involved.

When I turned on the news earlier, a cameraman was chasing a lady on a stretcher even though she was covering her face, obviously to avoid being shown... During 9/11, the news showed people jumping out of the towers...

Just because we have the technology and response time to bring these moments to our living rooms in real-time doesn't mean it's appropriate... you know?

EDIT: How many tragedies does the tech industry need to get over the fact that we have cell phone cameras with web applications that let us converse about them in real-time? Do you really think these tech journalists care about the victims involved?

http://techblips.dailyradar.com/story/real_time_terrorism_ca...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/mumbai-attacks-...

http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/28/mumbai-twitter-sms-tech-int...

I'm not going to mention names, but when I see some of these tech journalists get all riled up about the real-time web every time a tragedy occurs it makes me sick.
Brilliant. Borrowing storage idea from book/CD inventories I have have seen.
And if you read the comments you find out why suit sleeves dont have button holes, except for doctors.
Interesting problems and apps that try to change the world rarely intersect with things that have a high profit-per-effort ratio... Projects like this have a much higher probability of making a tidy profit and probably not much of a chance of making enough money to fund space travel. Nothing wrong with that.

I personally don't like a lot of popular software (from FB apps to MySpace to Flash games), but engineering for the masses clearly works.
Would you ever hire someone like him? Or recruit him as a co-founder?

I'd think twice.
A pretty unique collection, worth a look!
Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist
a couple comments:
- had a connection error the first time I tried connecting (worked on refresh)
- good job on community (toplist, latest comments, and prominent links to blogs work well)
- a submit story form should be on the first page
- registration should be optional to submit story (spam shouldn't be an issue since they'll be voted down by registered voters)
- not sure how you're algorithm works since a 6 vote was under a 3 vote
- hard to find information that interests me (hot tags list? articles divided into categories?)

hope that helps.
When Wired digs for their year-end filler stories in 2019, this video/commercial will make the list of "10 Worst Ads of 2009 (Before the Age of Instant Viral Peer to Peer iPhone10g Marketing)"
Stowe Boyd is showing his lack of a tech background here. The recycle symbol is 1 byte longer in UTF8 encoding and nobody on Windows can read it. I call Fail.
Telefonica does satellite inet access in Spain. I remember prices to be quite high some years ago. You could check their site and see how they fare now.
Django meetup in NYC live
Would they have eventually thought of this anyway? Then the extra value is that he thought of it sooner. Also - he could have tried to negotiate, maybe go through a third party (I talked to a guy at company X who has says he has a great idea for our site) to get compensated. If you give up your idea without any agreement, you are losing any leverage you might have.
EMusic Says Data Supports Long Tail Theory
You don't need a REPL to step through a program.
Leaving off the XML declaration is common because having it there causes IE6 to run in quirks mode. Although it's probably safe to say HN runs in quirks mode on all browsers.
I missed this thread, but I'll add another Common Lisp annoyance: the way DESTRUCTURING-BIND is inconsistent with destructuring lists in LOOP. Specifically, I want to bind to NIL for variables I don't care about (rather than having to explicitly ignore them) and bind to heads of lists rather than always the whole thing. I've been meaning to check out the open-source BIND macro and see if it does any better.
As opposed to a small hologram? :)
Maybe fast, efficient, long-distance, mass transit will save it?

Though I think we shouldn't have them in the first place.
"Meanwhile, we’re poised for a revolution in participation, not just in consumption, thanks to the Web. People talk, share, and talk back online. According to yet another study by Pew, this one in December 2007, one in five U.S. adults who use the Internet reported sharing something online that they created themselves; one in three say they’ve posted a comment or rated something online."

It's an interesting article about a new model of political participation.
Yahoo’s Bartz to earn $1M plus bonuses, options
And that man would absolutely love it if Java had a type system closer to Hindley-Milner with type inference. But, given the reality of Java, generics become undesirably verbose.
Thanks. It does.

Algo works on radioactive decay a la Reddit and HN.

Anonymous submissions are very possible. Ok.

Where would you stick the story form? At the top of the list of most popular stories, like how FB has the form at the top of the profile page newsfeed?
great lead, will check it out now - thanks!
The shape of the data matters particularly when you want to scale beyond that initial single server, which is especially relevant if performance is weak.
http://43things.com not sure about if you can measure the goals.
My startup is located here in Honolulu and I see those commercials all of the time on TV. I always figured since Hawaii is always low man on the totem pole that sort of technology was already in practice around the rest of the country. Guess not! Pretty cool beans.
In fact, you're likely to receive a friendly correction on severe grammar or semantic errors.
Calvin and Hobbes on economic bailouts
Q&A: How to Survive a Plane Crash
The Zen of Twitter Support
yes - with an emphasis on friendly.
I wonder if it will be more effective to use SOV in graphical presentations like PowerPoint.

Company A
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Company B
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Acquire
Agreed; way better than the usual lists.
If you break a hologram to pieces, every piece retains the original image.

Sweet, so if you break the Universe... oh wait.
Despite what the article seems to imply, S-O-V is also the most common standard word order (in number of languages, though almost certainly not in number of native speakers, given that both English & Chinese are both S-V-O)
Thank you so much everyone!
Theory: How Apple prepares Wall Street for Jobs’ farewell
You can easily lose the big picture by stepping through each line of code, especially if your program is heavily iterative or even mildly threaded. You can miss the forest for the trees or the trees for the forest; the middle ground is elusive at best.
The US Department of Defense should be renamed to the Department of Offense.

War talk makes me sick. The only benefit I see from it is the necessary advancement of nanotechnology, which will hopefully help in bringing the singularity to speed.