skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Alex, long time no speak! Here's some quick feedback.

I have an incentive to collect these images and occassionally share them with friends. However, I don't think I have an incentive to start doing it on a group basis. This alone prevents me from using the site. I think the danger of this far outweighs the benefit that groups bring (getting cliques on the service in one shot). I think making this an individual thing and giving an option to share is a better way to go.

Also, I don't think I'd mind if the images I collect show up on the front page anonymously. This gives huge incentive for people to come to the site and just browse. I know you have public groups, but the group thing doesn't work well for me.

Keep on trucking!
OpenSky,Skype interface gateway, Who needs it?
Why on earth should one be in the Bay area if you seek to do a startup ? People are creating successful (web) companies all over the globe...

It may help in some respects, but in others it might actually be detrimental.

One of the beautiful parts of working via the internet is that you can do it from just about anywhere. Plenty of start-ups and open source companies work without a formal office, the founders are where ever they were living before they got together and formed a company.
Oh please. Contracts get modified in bankruptcy all the time -- in fact, the inability to modify mortgages is the exception. In a standard business reorganization all contracts are capable of being modified by the judge or by consensus of the creditors. There's really no good reason for homes to be an exception and it's one of the more direct ways to keep people in homes. Frankly, this is probably better for all of us considering the massive overallocation of resources to housing investment and the current existence of too much housing stock. Either we help people stay in them and they cover a percent of the mortgage or we kick them out and sell the house to... oh wait. Yeah. I'm more scared of the knockon effects of allowing a massive devaluation in housing than the potential knockon effects of judges modifying mortgages in bankruptcy just like they modify all other obligations in bankruptcy.

Further, Phil was talking to people with $2 TRILLION to invest? Um, maybe, but that's 15 percent of US GDP. Pretty rare air there, and the idea that all these people (and perhaps Phil, too) weren't simply talking their book is nonsense.
I'd have to agree with the thrust of the article. Although it does not clearly state it, adsense is probably flat because of signficantly increased competition in the pay per click market.
How about an Obama vs. Coburn "stimulus" debate?
Why the "Twitter Elite" are Screaming Bloody Murder over TweeterGetter
Wait, the people who figured out how to capture all the money out of the existing system don't want to see that system changed? I'm confused... it's almost as if they were speaking in their self-interest.
Haha. I had created something fairly similar to Snipd a while back called CommonplaceLog.com (a commonplace is basically a 15th century scrapbook).

I've since abandoned the project but it's still online. Cool to see someone pick up the banner though.
Hilarious Google StreetView Maps
Everyone post your favorites!!

Mine is here:

Lowdermilk St,
Espanola, NM, United States
I like sexy women, but I hate the picture of the floozy in the lower right fixed div. It says, "Stripd views sexy as drunk, dumb, and missing shoes." What word do you think comes to anyone's mind after "knock-kneed"?

But this may be a better idea than trying to rid the Internet of ads (the Stripd alpha business model).
I'll fix that once I get back home. Good eye.
Yes, but the sectors are small, and the sector will pass beneath the head again on the next disk rotation. You would have already needed a full rotation, now you just need two -- it's still O(n).

With flash the blocks are much larger, and you don't need to seek over the whole thing to read one bit. The R/W disparity is far larger.

Plus with Flash there's a rich ongoing history of using raw controllerless devices that don't present a uniform interface to the OS (like MTDs), where you implement a lot of the controller logic in the filesystem, something that was never totally true for hard disks.
Viewstate never really bothered me, if you are building pages with so many controls that it becomes a problem you should probably think about breaking that page up into multiple pages.

I do agree about ASP.net ajax though. That is very cumbersome to work with. Jquery with asp.net mvc is a much needed improvement.

They just need to come up with a better ORM imo and they will be set. Activerecord just seems a whole lot cleaner than Linq to me.
Blaming a framework for your own poor use of it is like blaming McDonald's for your poor diet.

ASP.NET is a great platform. WebForms could be better, but is perfectly capable of lending itself to good design, clean/semantic markup, and light-weight AJAX if you use it well.
People have the right to live where they want, it's true. I don't advocate changing this. Taking into account their probable choices and the social results of those choices is just good policy.

As for history, you should read up on it. We made concerted efforts to assimilate new immigrants. Assimilation happened because we pushed it.

We don't do this any more.

As for monoethnic communities, it's my understanding that the defaulted houses tend to be strongly clustered together. Combine this with the natural desire to cluster, and we get insular communities with strong foreign allegiances. I'm just not sure that that's a good thing.
63 members of Congress actively use Twitter (list)
Barry won the election. No moar debates for him, sorry. And I didn't vote for him..but..if I've already won, the time for debate is left to legislators.
It says they have a hidden bar, but what's the point if you're just going to store the alcohol on the floor anyway?
Icon Design Tutorials
In AU I'm seeing less jobs advertised on Seek than late last year.
Unfortunately the writer makes it seem like all Asp.net developers use just the visual designer and the pre-made tools.

How did you reach this conclusion? I don't see any mention of the visual designer or pre-made tools in this article.

I agree with this article; the abstraction sucks and the framework gets in your way more than it should.
I think the private option is important for certain pictures - possibly of yourself/people you know? - but I think you're right, a public setting would be valuable.
the application form is probably shorter too
With that much money in 1900, you could buy a housemaid. That means you would never have to clean another toilet. I take that.
Not 'totally true', but it was a lot more true in the past than it is today, logical block addressing on harddrives (especially PC drives, scsi and other non-consumer targeted drive architectures much less so) is a relatively new thing.

In the past the host did a lot more of the work that has now been offloaded to the drives, since IDE basically the whole controller moved off host onto the drive. The reasons are simple, tighter integration and lower costs as well as a uniform interface to the drive, no matter what goes on physically inside it. Nobody really cares! (well, drive manufacturers obviously do, but consumers will treat it like a black box, it either works or it doesn't, no much point in figuring out how it works).

So, flash in this sense is roughly where harddrives were in the times of the early winchester, you present a pretty rough device to the outside and the host has to know a lot about how it works to make it function.

SSDs are already changing this, the controller is built in now and the interface presented is very close to the one used by a normal harddrive, in fact most are indistinguishable. Even most usb sticks and the larger cards do a good job of hiding the gory details.

That full rotation business is not quite the whole story by the way, plenty of drives nowadays do not need to see the 'whole' track in order to do a simple read or write of a sector, they can optimize for that to the point that the sector will be just about ready to be read from or written to by the time the drive head arrives above the track.

Most drives try to avoid that situation as long as they can though, and most file systems do too by picking a block size that is a fairly large multiple of a sector.
The real story here is that OAuth has much wider and far reaching implications than just Twitter apps. I think we've reached the high-water mark of the number of logons and passwords we'll need to keep track of. I see a future not that far off where everything from Credit and ATM transactions to your Facebook and HN logins are all handled by OAuth.
"Check out his code: http://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/tree/master It's really clean. "

It is decent certainly, but nothing very ground breaking (imo) which is what "wizard" would imply. In no field of endeavor I know do we call people "wizards" for mere competence. The term is (imho) reserved for people who do ground breaking things / display astounding levels of competence/performance. Iow, someone isn't a "wizard" musician just because he knows his scales.

You express this much better as "their code accomplished really new things, as opposed to finding better ways to do old things"). May be we just understand "wizard" differently, which is completely all right.

"Norvig wrote some good books, but I never really got the sense of how he approaches a problem from them, although I did like the AI stuff quite a bit. "

I learned quite a bit from his python code, specifically some of the AIMA code, and also his spelling corrector (http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html) and sudoku solver (http://norvig.com/sudoku.html).

How I learn from such examples is (1) I read the writeup to get a basic idea (2) I write my own version (in python for the spelling corrector example) and (3) see what differs between my version and the "wizard"'s.

Specifically to answer your "I never got an idea of how he approaches a problem from them"

Firstly, I wasn't speaking of Norvig's books but his code.

But let us speak of books- Have you read Norvig's "Paradigms Of Artificial Intelligence Programming"?. The whole book is essentially Norvig programming "blow by blow" finding mistakes and reversing design decisions and so on. I found it very useful to get some insight about his thinking and programming style.

Also Norvig does have some interesting thoughts on how to code in http://norvig.com/luv-slides.ps [postscript] where he talsk about how he iterates between an english description of an algorithm and (lisp) code till he gets it right.

All the people I mentioned (PG, Norvig, Carmack, Torvalds) are top level programmers (vs being people who make living from selling - in one form or another - programming methodologies telling other people how to code)and have publicly available "wizard level" code to learn from.

Robert Martin does write publicly available code - as does Kent Beck with Junit- so all due credit to them but most other agile "gurus" know jack all about coding at least as evidenced by their publicly available code. That said, I don't find Martin's code to be particularly inspiring as compared to the other people I mentioned. I find Martin's code to be competent but not "wizard level". I agree that this is largely a subjective judgment. YMMV.

As I said in my earlier post, I largely agree with your original point.
“fact that diesel cars are usually more efficient...”
is true if compared to a gasoline combustion engine. But there is no simple comparison on efficiency between the 2 different technology battery vs gasoline.

My take is the other way. Loan several billion dollar to any of the big three is not doing much. The cash burn rate they have will eat the money quickly and just to survive. Since the first oil crises in the ‘70 any of the Detroit companies had lots of time to spend R&D money on alternative power train solutions. They decided not to do a lot for multibillion dollar revenue companies other than building bigger and bigger SUVs. Japanese car manufacture by now have some lead in hybrid and battery technology and a small company Tesla has in my opinion a better chance to compete in this segment.
I think the examined time frame needs to be wider. I've always noticed an upswing in hiring after the November/December holidays.
Hang in there. Graduate recruiting is cyclical and has lag, which are combining right now to make for tough conditions for milk-round applicants. If you dont get what you want now then start targeting the off cycle recruiting processes as as soon as you hear of their markets picking up. Once these companies see conditions improving they will be scrambling to hire all the people that they were no-so-long-ago scared to hire...

(Companies doing milkround recruiting (i.e. large companies, including consultancies and banks) typically set their targets for # of hires in advance of milkround cycle starting. (In my experience, this would mean setting numbers in September for the cycle that is 'on campus' in Dec-Feb). So it's no wonder they are down - they set numbers when everyone was very scared.)
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Oh Please, your worried about a massive devaluation in housing. Almost everyone admits housing is currently overvalued, everyone refers to it as a housing bubble.

I'm concerned that housing values will be stabilized at an above market rate with the help of my tax dollars making it more difficult for me to one day purchase a house of my own.
You should consider the ability to embed this as part of a website.
If the government did nothing companies such as JPMorgan would nearly go bankrupt. The investors at the top would be responsible for bringing down 100+ year old companies. On top of destroy legacies, they would personally lose a serious amount of money.

The difference is that there will be consequences to their actions; they and the majority of the country will suffer. With that precedent, would it be likely that it would happen again?

From my impression, the main goal tends not to be whether they can come out of this with a much better system instead its how the they can reduce the amount of damage that will be done.
I think that anything that would save money would be OK. I work for a certain, very large SaaS company that saves companies on certain expenses (for real!) and we've seem to seen an uptick in business.
wanted to highlight this:

"commoditization of your offering, and a sign that your marketing department is not very creative."
Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications
When can I use a given Web feature?
Yeah, he should run a couple thousand simulations like he did with the election and see the range of values. I agree that it is far fetched to make those long waves based on only the last two recessions.
He specifically mentions having experience with Oracle. This will make PostgreSQL easier to learn.
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Does anyone else see the irony here? Big corporations, the very pinnacle of capitalism, are lobbying the government to take control away from the market that spawned them.
Current trends lead me to believe that seeing it in marketing handbooks isn't actually very far off. Albeit, they would have to do it subtly to avoid all kinds of "moralistic backlash."

The bikini-clad women may induce riskier, gambling behavior; essentially, they increase the likelihood that you part with your money.
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~span/Publications/bk08nr.pdf [1]

It's a tried and true strategy for tech shows. I don't know about Las Vegas (CES) and Berlin (IFA), but in Tokyo and Taipei, definitely so. E3... goes without saying.

[1] IIRC, this isn't the paper that demonstrated this, but is the one I have handy in memory.
Yeah, I'd take the coffee mug.
Facebook's Value: $3.7 Billion and Dropping
Nice improvements.
Obviously a bit off topic, but his graphic representation is astounding. Though not quite a Tufte archetype, I gleaned more insight from the image than the article. Very well done.
Offering Developers Startup Equity, A Dialog
Dear Libertarian Types (of which I consider myself one)

Please stop arguing against the Obama strategy. There’s nothing you can do to stop it and its failure (if it does fail) will make your point better than if you wrote a billion blog posts. Beyond that if he does succeed you could write a billion blog posts saying he was wrong and they aren’t going to convince people.

One way or the other it’s out of your hands.

More importantly...you have a bigger problem. Right now there are a lot of people out there arguing that libertarian principles got us into this mess. That is simply not the case and arguing against that is where you should be putting your effort. Because assuming President Obama does fail you’ll want people to be open to libertarian principles in the future.

Fiscal policy is like a game of chess right now and you should be looking three moves down and not at the very next encounter (which you already lost almost 3 months ago)

Sincerely,

Tom
The problem is with this article is that the author doesn't realize that the main interest of open source apps for most people is that they are free and that they provide similar functionality to proprietary ones, otherwise they wouldn't switch.
As a side note, I dislike the term "government money," since it makes it easy to forget the the money ultimately comes not from the government but from the people. "Taxpayer money", on the other hand, has a pejorative connotation, since it is often used derisively. Maybe "public money"?
Ok, I see. Oracle's implementation of SQL being closer to MySQL's would be the reason then I assume, I don't have any Oracle experience.
Windows will give free upgrade to 7 for some Vista users
Diagram of My Post Concussive Syndrome Speech Disorder: A Malfunctioning Word Queue
Last Monday I was in a car accident and suffered a severe concussion that didn't manifest symptoms for 24 hours (weird, I know). Since then I've periodically lost the ability to speak. I go from normal speech to slurring, to mute. Its being looked at, but the reason I made this thread is because... I realized that it is exactly like TCP packets overloading the sliding window, or a web server with limited resources getting too many requests: overload the throughput on the queue and everything after that is lost.

So I made a diagram tonight when I had a bad episode to prove I can still think.

When things are bad, and I fill the shrunken word queue, I can't speak until it self empties. Full empty seems to take between 30 seconds and one minute, and seems to happen at a linear rate. However, if I limit myself to the actual word queue/minute throughput, I can speak continuously for a longer period. Normal speed speech very quickly fills the queue though.

Strange, but accurate. If my mind is a Turing Machine, my word queue is malfunctioning and is too small to hold enough words to speak normally.
Lessons from Lucy
Cuba Launches Variant of Linux, called Nova
Except for that the money doesn't come from the people, since it is fiat money as opposed to money being collected via taxes.
Maybe. How about repossessing some of that money that got removed from the economy by the people that got us in to this mess in the first place.

Makes you wonder how much of that '2 trillion' came out of the system in an illicit way in the first place. After all, all that money missing must have gone somewhere.
OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2
SimpleJPA, JPA for Amazon SimpleDB
No, it's not socialism to control the pay of employees; however, "the US government 'investing' more money in these banks" is socialism.

Essentially, it's a form of normalization of classes and we broke capitalism through state control. While we don't have a pure form of capitalism, we are become more moderate, where we are heading towards socialism/communism on the politic-economic scale.

Furthermore, please do not downmod because you disagree. Though the socialism comment was in jest, I was not grossly off-topic. Please read the community's comments regarding karma.
The bigger the bubble the louder the pop
World trade falling fast
It's a collective action problem.
Sometimes storing session data serverside is clunky, particularly when you have multiple servers; a classic, reasonable approach in that case is to MAC the contents of the cookie with a 256-bit random key, and then AES-CBC encrypt the cookie with that same key. But I agree, for this app, there's no reason there should be structured data in a cookie.

As for the room IDs --- randomizing them is a fine bit of rubber-chicken security. I think it's a good idea. But the right solution is to allow users to erase the chat logs, and to verify that users have access to a given room before dumping all messages starting at message ID 0.
Amen, brother. Speaking the truth.
Now I feel like shit for not renting a car and bringing you pie.
We are going to learn, one way or another, that government can't fix our problems. Government causes problems, they don't fix anything.
Nobody in my company (there's quite a few of us) gives a shit about the SvN blog; we use Campfire because it works, it's private, it has strong access control, great searchable transcripts, and file upload/download.

I've ragged on 37s here before, and I don't like being put in the position of sticking up for them, but I really think this meme about how 37s sells everything because of their "popular blog" is getting stale. Obviously, the blog helps them, but it doesn't hurt that they know what they're doing.
Here is your state issued car.
They are both good. What matters is your background, requirements, and timelines. Checkout my post for a detailed article on what to look for in a framework.

http://blog.shopfiber.com/?p=90
Anyone who's saying "let it all fall down" either thinks that they're outside of the drop zone, or has a serious martyr complex. Their argument is that making (other) people just bend over and take it is better for the overall economy (i.e., them).

I don't think these people should care about destroying legacies (a company shouldn't be sacred just because it's old, that's pointless sentimentalism), but it seems that they would care about losing a serious amount of money, so the obvious conclusion is that they see themselves losing more in the bailout (the article says as much).

The important question is: do we believe them (they are pretty good with money, after all), or do we try it another way? I personally think we should try it another way, but (from my current relatively comfortable observation post) that's probably more out of curiosity than any reasoned belief.
The Market Prevents Itself
Kick-starting the economy
All my brain needs is pie.
The AP Reveals Details of Facebook/ConnectU Settlement With Greatest Hack Ever
It's not that technology is heroin, it's that heroin is technology. And technology cuts both ways.
I don't think big corporations are the pinnacle of capitalism; the phrase "corporate bullshit" exists for good reason. They can be bloated with bureaucracy, have pockets of people that are paid do essentially nothing, be wrung through the hands of executives who make a personal killing while the company goes down in flames. They have a tendency of morphing away from providing real value and into preserving their own existence by any means necessary (see: lobbying the government to take control away from the market that spawned them).