skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also love this game, I used to play the card-based version all the time. I'm just pissed off that you made it for the iPhone before I did!

Edit: whoops, I was talking about the OP's game! But, I also love your IRC client. I didn't know it was available for the iPhone, I'll have to check that out...
Rice professor sees probabilistic method revolutionizing computing
What remains comparable is how much humans need to eat in a day. So it could be meaningful to work out how many people a day's wage could feed back then and use that as a baseline to calculate the imaginary USD/DRI exchange rate.
great in theory, in reality you'll either both be doing it when the other is away or too scared to scold your partner.
An alternative to using a larger font is to use a smaller screen. I've been having a blast writing little stuff on my netbook in bed.
I wouldn't think that would be particularly interesting. Lawyers make a lot in our culture too.

What I find more interesting is the extremely high relative wage for Teachers.
haha, not flaming us for charging for an open source app? :)

thanks though!
basically: if you can't make forms as nice as wufoo ... use wufoo.
>I think that the point of the article is not to "Keep Your Identity Small", but to not be a jerk about it

Good point. The topics that can be discussed by a group are a function of the civility of its members. Some of the most interesting conversations I've ever had were about religion and politics with civil and mature people.

That's a high standard to ask of a group of strangers on the internet, though.
Rotational illusion
A central practice of Buddhists in 13th century Japan was to stab other people with swords.

Humans have wonderfully malleable minds.
I'm writing a translator that generates C code. I'll pass on the "make hard-coded strings look ugly" part.
I'm supposed to master an obscure language element, read through the source code of an open source project, refactor a method, run a static analysis tool, and do all the rest--all within six minutes?

I do like the idea for making hard-coded strings stand out, however.
It is interesting that you have marked a philosophy that moves people to lead lives of monastic asceticism as a philosophy that encourages a small identity.
Cocoa with Love: Breadth-first traversal of a graph of Objective-C objects
I thought Monaco was atrocious until I anti-aliased it. It's like an entirely different font - one that I prefer over all others now.
what happened to him can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Violent confrontation is more likely to occur in a fringe area: http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/fringe.html

Fringe areas are places "in between." And it is here that criminals usually operate. This is where you are most likely to be attacked, mugged or raped.

It isn't until you begin to consciously look for them that you begin to see how many you pass through each day. A fringe area is not inherently dangerous, which is why we don't normally notice them. There is no reason to fear them; it is what lurks there that you need to fear.

Fringe areas are usually places that you pass through on you way to and from the crowd. In the middle of the crowd, there are too many people for the criminal to operate safely. Too far from it, there is nobody for him to attack. At the fringes, there are enough people going through that the criminal can find victims, but not enough to effectively hinder him.

The main thing to remember is any fringe area is transitional. It is a place that we pass through on our way to something else

Davidson had positioned himself for violent victimization by walking alone in such a fringe area.

I was walking back to my hotel, the Hilton, down Ocean Boulevard. It's a 3/4 mile walk. Not a big deal, even with a backpack full of camera gear on my back. It wasn’t pleasant on feet that were sore from the day, but not bad. Mostly, I thought of if as a good way to unwind after a very full day.

As I walked under the trees by the civic center, I was grabbed from behind.

Events, such as conferences, provide easy access to victims: http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/fringe.html#muggers

Leaving an event/location

Any place that attracts large numbers of people is usually safe. Leaving such a place, however, is often dangerous . It is not uncommon for criminals to position themselves along the walkways to and from such areas. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that people leaving an establishment will usually head towards the closest parking lot.

It is a simple feat to position oneself along that route in a way where you can successfully mug someone.
Windows still doesn't come with a decent word processor or photo editor? And it takes 11 GB? All the other consumer-level operating systems have much more software, and take up much less space. I know there's been a lot of hype around Windows 7, but I just don't see why when I look at what we already have. Compared to Vista, maybe Windows 7 is an improvement. But compared to OS X or Ubuntu or Debian?
ReviewMe.com specializes in this, they do not promise positive reviews just a review.
Palm Pre: preDevCamp, Baltimore
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472378
Christianity has had 2,000 years to iron out the obvious contradictions. I am pretty sure that the more mature faiths are consistent if you accept their axioms.

I doubt you can think of anything that Augustine and Aquinas didn't. The dudes had nothing else to do but think.
Lock the doors kids.
Interesting news, although pretty light on the details. Also, why is the author so angry?
But do think a lawyer would get that fee every day? Or only once or a few times per month?
The big problem I see is that if you ever want to do something which has to be precise, you'll have to have two processors. Perhaps in the future we'll see chips with a "probability drive" in addition to the normal cores.

Now we've just got to develop an improbability drive...
What a major flashback. It's been only 9 years, and it feels like an eternity.
Here is another list, a bit different, with more goods and professions and with some additional commentary (though based on the same historical source):

http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/edict/

There is some interesting information, for example about soldiers pay and costs, exchange rates or about a death penalty for refusing to sell goods at the stated price.

Also silk prices have been crazy: 12,000 denarii for a libra of white silk and a whopping 150,000 denarii for a purple silk (use of which was regulated by the Emperor with misuse punishable by a death penalty).
Bigger text size is also good for not going blind. I've been coding with bigger text for a few months now, fewer headaches too.
Ah, fuck. Now I have to do a compare and contrast to the YC model docs.

[EDIT] Here it is: http://www.sachinagarwal.com/quick-compare-and-contrast-of

[EDIT 2]: Here's the HN thread on my submission of my analysis of the YC documents back when: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283469
Oops, I must have missed it while submitting. I deleted my post and posted it as a comment in the other thread.

There is some additional information compared to the one in pg's post.
Or just do everything twice - if it really runs seven times faster than "today's best technology" than it shouldn't be an issue.

It's a very interesting idea...wish they had more details in the article.
I don't quite buy his argument about why we need to keep things in unsafe format for a while. If that credit card app can't handle HTML-encoded stuff, how would it handle evil javascript?
Does anyone have any technical info on how this is accomplished?
There is no right way or wrong way in business . There is only one way - The way that makes money ..

If I told that I paid $50 to a review site and it brought me $5000 . Will you ask anybody if you should pay $50 to bring in $5000 ?

Big Corporation pay celebrities money to give favourable reviews and endorsments all the time . Nike will only pay Tiger Woods Millions to give a good endorsement . They would be fools to give Tiger Millions to give his honest opinion . Its business .. The only way you will make money from your products or service is to get good reviews . If you are asking people for reviews and they are giving you bad reviews you will never make money .. This is part of marketing ..
Your number one goal in buisness should be to make money .. If you will lose the $50 then its not a good investment but if you will make money then thats pretty much all that matters .. THERE IS NO CRIME BEING COMMITED.
Its just business ..
My hospital has an online portal where you can access test results and message doctors... so surely HIPAA doesn't completely prohibit such things?
Plus that would make HN's RSS not completely suck. ¬¬
Harper's.

The modern magazine is a wild mixture of topical essays, edgy literature, and book reviews. You really never know what you're going to get, but you can count on it being inflammatory.

As an added bonus, the (very inexpensive) subscription comes with archives access - everything back to the 19th century beginning.
My wheel may not fit your hub. While I agree that rebuilding systems is a bad idea, it's also very difficult to get every square peg to fit in the square holes we intend to put them in.

One of the bigger problems that could be solved now -- is coming up with a system that gives programmers more insight or code when they are working on a given problem. Until now, it's a crapshoot trying to find, say, a jQuery module that does tooltips in the way I need them displayed.
Yes it does. Try it. Google "raamdev" or "Raam Dev".
Can you provide support via twitter?
It is now a crime to do a paid review for someone? If so, can you point me to the law stating this?

If not, then you are making a big assumption and could hurt someone's business by blasting all over the internet "just how morally corrupt this person is".
If you can get more the $50 of sales from it then pay.

So long as your not paying for them to give you a positive review (it's a leap of faith I guess) then it's hardly a huge misdemeanor.
Google Scholar has picked up on Krishna Palem's previous publications. There should be a law that internet articles about scientific research have to back everything up with links to a journal article or something.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Krishna+Palem+probabilis...

For example, here's an interesting paper that talks about saving power by making AND/NOT gates probabilistic.

http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/TC.2005...

I guess there's an inherent assumption that that reduced power consumption will scale up to the level of "checking email and browsing the internet".
Charlie Rose interview with CEO of Nvidia
The Cost of Self Publication, Ebook vs. Print: One Person’s Story
Good info... horrible website design.
My thoughts exactly pretty much. I also think the atheist movement has become much better organized and more assertive, largely due to the net. The two probably whip each other up into a frenzy as well.
The meat, FTA:

Called Mission One and designed by hotshot Yves Behar and his firm, fuseproject, the bike is both beautiful and fast. At a top speed of 150 miles per hour, it would be the fastest production electric vehicle of any type. [...]

North says that because motorcycles are far more simple than automobiles, Mission Motors won't get bogged down like Tesla has. Its staff will stay small and nimble: It has a staff of about 12 right now. [...]

The bike will be powered by lithium ion batteries that will take eight hours to fully charge, and it will have a range of 150 miles. [...]

The price of the first edition, limited to just 50 and to be delivered early next year, will be $69,000. The company then will aim to sell another 250, at a price not yet set, before it tries to introduce a new, cheaper, more down-market model.

Long before then, the company will surely have some tight turns to navigate. Turn one is funding. The company raised $1.5 million from angel investors and venture capital firms. That's enough only to get through the next six months.
Project Euler number 3 in ruby
At first I thought "No", but now I'm leaning toward "maybe". If you can't reply in 140 characters, provide a link to more info. If you get the same question over and over, add it to your FAQ and tweet the link so that all your followers can see. It may be tough to keep up with it all, but if your customers know you are listening, they will keep the feedback coming.
Crime? No. But the whole point of a review site is the implicit promise to readers: "We will tell you whether this is any good or not". If what they actually do is to publish only positive reviews, for a fee, then they are deceiving their readers into thinking that advertisements are reviews.

Sure it's legal. All kinds of things are legal. Some legal things are harmful and dishonest, and should be exposed.
Homeless by choice (during grad school)
You're completely missing the point. There is a huge difference between illegal and dishonest. As far as I know, yes, it isn't illegal to pay for a published review but it surely is a dishonest business practice.

At the very minimum, this website is probably deceiving their readers by publishing these so-called "positive" reviews.
I ceded long ago that email is not a private communication medium. Even when the communication of the message itself is encrypted (which on Gmail it is), the messages probably sit as plain text on the email server. More people than I can count can read my Gmail messages - but the same is true for my school email, was true for my ancient Juno account, and is true for anyone using an email account through their ISP.
It might have taken more than a couple 50k/year employees to support the existing setup too; if the new software is better, it will free those people up to perform more productive services than resolving Windows Genuine Advantage problems.
You might have to do it far more than 7 times to converge on a suitably reliable answer... but perhaps precise recomputation could be deferred to off-hours, or lagged batch processing, or after disputes, etc.
How does that help you? The price of different foodstuffs varies wildly both in ancient Rome and today.
The Importance of Performance Management
Open source hardware, ie: RepRap, most likely.
I wonder where lisp falls in puzzle languages?
New programming language: Ioke
Featured at github:
"ioke is a new JVM-based language that allows the programmer to simplify code until it’s expressive and terse enough by folding layers of abstraction. Drawing on lessons taught by Lisp, Ruby, Io, and Smalltalk, Ioke uses the power of Java platform to make this kind of simplicity and elegance feasible for real world projects."
Interesting post Paul - you essay is exactly why today I decided to take another run at Practical Common Lisp rather than starting a blog about the Demopublicans and Republocrats (I can't tell who is who anymore...)bankrupting America as I was considering. I made that decision before I saw your essay.

I just hope there is a need for Lisp programmers after the uprising or apocalypse...
;-)
What differences did you find?
It's necessary for the business model, Amazon wants you to be able to search and buy books easily.
It's noteworthy how teachers were paid 'by the pupil'

Indeed, the Roman author Quintilian held teachers who insisted on small class-sizes in contempt, as mere "pedagogues" (by etymology, slaves who baby-sat children), and insisted that a skilled teacher could handle a large class by his rhetorical power.
p.s.
http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were...
"To compensate, engineers increase the voltage applied to computer circuits to overpower the noise and ensure precise calculations."

"Precise"? How about "correct"?
The tyranny of choice (with Rails) : It's our turn now
PHPBB Password Analysis
The power consumption angle is quite interesting - but I given the power saving they demonstrated wasn't really of an order of magnitude or more, then it might be hard to make it scale up to practical tasks and have errors worked out of it. Perhaps there are more savings to be made, but I would expect to see orders of magnitude less power for this stuff to be practical.
Identity is not the problem. And identity is always strong, and has to be strong to be able to achieve great things.

We are all very vulnerable when it comes to things that are rooted deeply in our own live (read: soul). So we behave quite aggressively when someone touches these things -- especially when we have been hurt there (and who hasn't been hurt in our violent times?).

If anybody is telling me that I should keep something small, and this thing is positive by its nature (like identity), then I already know that it's wrong from the beginning, and that the real problem hasn't been discovered yet.

So, keep searching!
Save yourself time, ignore the linked article (biased, angry, and irrelevant) and read the source:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/162/1017162/nvidia-...

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/103/1031103/nvidia-...
It's not exactly a replacement for 'the dragon book' but it certainly takes some of the mysticism out of compiler hacking.

If you have never actually made a language from the ground up, then please do so ! It will teach you plenty and it will also help you to write better code because you understand better what a compiler will do internally with the code you wrote. Another great source of insight is the 'produce assembly output' switch for your favourite compiler. Have a look at what the compiler does when it parses your code and turns it in to assembler ready to be turned into machine language.
wait, are you implying that what he did was wrong? karma-ically i thought he was doing good. spreading knowledge. equal opportunity.

the thief in the submission who threatened violence: now that's a bit much.
I've seen that difference up close, we had a math teacher in high school that was a fairly small, unassuming little guy. But he radiated a fair amount of power and whenever he lectured you could have heard a pin drop in the pauses. The year after we got one of the 'pedagogues', the grade point average dropped right through the floor and pandemonium was more likely than order. Same kids... what a difference.
Well, your friends aren't getting paid, and if you explicitly declare that you want their honest opinion, and that a bad review would in no way impact their relationship with you, then there's no ethical problem.

Ethics only becomes an issue where you're paying someone to be dishonest about your product.
Should you sell your company?
HN regular DaniFong is working on compressed-air powered vehicles, starting with motor scooters. I hope she can comment on Mission Motors' plans.
Hollywood seems unphased by piracy and the recession - biggest January ever on record.
Most floating point calculations are only correct according to a standard.
How is that possibly a recipe for failure?

Nvidia has a ton of great chipset makers whom have routinely produced stellar, incredible hardware. Intel has far more x86 experience, but Nvidia is no slouch. I don't see how they could possibly fail to produce a chip worth selling at SOME price point. It is only a matter of time before they develop the expertise to sell a chip at ANY price point.
George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch
Translate Marketing Materials: People Don't Buy What They Can't Understand
In an earlier post, he quotes Chuck Moore from
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/250530/-z_programmin... ---

I write Forth code every day. It is a joy to write a few simple words and solve a problem. As brain exercise it far surpasses cards, crosswords or Sudoku; and is useful.

On the other hand, Moore has also complained about modern user interfaces by saying that they "feature puzzle-solving".

So does Chuck Moore think that writing Forth is like solving puzzles or not? I'm not sure.
What worries me with alternate languages is not marketing but tech support.
I have my own domain too, in a shared server. But I set mine up to forward to my G-Mail account. How can one get a good mail interface if not through G-Mail?
2000 was about the time I discovered Linux. Looking back, it's jarring how much the desktop distros tried to emulate the latest version of Windows. I think the current distros are guilty of the same mistake. Rather than trying to advance the desktop environment, they (Gnome + KDE) simply reproduce the familiar behaviors of Windows and OS X. I can understand the strategy. But after 9 years, are converts actually being made, or would it be more effective to innovate?
As a biker, I'll raise the same objection I did on Twitter:

Electric bikes will be silent. Drivers don't see motorcycles. Riding one of these is even more dangerous than usual, because car drivers just won't see or hear riders.

That said, I still want one. But I'd armor up, which I never did on my Harley.
What I Learned At Davos: How Networking And Feedback Loops Can Make A Better World
the right way is "making money for a long time". plenty of dishonest businesses make a lot of short-term money. the really good players are in it for the long haul, which frequently means honesty, decency and sustainability.
I'm sure the EU who have took MS to task over Media Player and now IE would just love them to bundle a word processor or photo editor.
And what does it matter? If technology manages to solve scarcity people won't have to do any chores any more. If it doesn't we'll cope or die off. Either way being a luddite apologist doesn't really help anyone.
Exactly.

Think of it as "scarcity distribution" if you will. The typical food basket cost a different amount then than now. And there are plenty of times when most people could barely afford to eat (e.g. the early industrial age, when most factory workers were barely paid a living wage).

A good example of the differences that make this discrepancy so large is the price of salt. Just now, the department in charge of road gritting in the UK has announced that it's out of gritting salt, so they're planning to use table salt instead. Flash back two thousand years ago, and salt was so precious that it was used as a currency to pay soldiers (hence the name "salary").

Other commodities suffer from similar differences, not only with 2000 years of distance, but even closer to us. As pg pointed out, many things which are available today for a dollar were unthinkable even 50 years ago. All these discrepancies make it impossible to compute any sort of exchange rate between dollars and denarii. You can make one up in your head, but it's pure fantasy.
Ask HN: How is your startup's visitor retention?
I am very curious, how is your startup's visitor retention looking?

What steps are you taking to improve it?
Yes. That said, it was probably a mistake for C not to define standard fixed-width types such as int8, int16, int32, int64, uint8, uint16, uint32, and uint64. (This limitation is worked around via the <stdint.h> header file; however, that header isn't present in Visual Studio, so anyone who wishes to use those fixed-width types needs to manually download <stdint.h> and include it in their projects. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stdint.h )
I never said anything about a crime. Reviews are only worthwhile if they are honest. I believe that any site caught soliciting pay to play for positive reviews should be called out. Not sued, just publicly shamed.

It goes both ways, Belkin caught tons of flack for soliciting positive reviews on Amazon Mechanical Turk.
As I was going through the list I still don't feel any sympathy for these bankers.

The whole idea of budgeting for the majority of people is to make do with seemingly limited resources. It's what everyone does to manage their own money.

Why can't someone who is supposed to manage everyones money practice a little self restraint?
Incidentally, that site is wrong about why silk was so expensive. The problem was not lack of machines, but that in Roman times it was imported overland from China.
An As was a bronze coin.

http://www.coin.com/cgi-local/find1Coins.cgi?47261