skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the guy should have just hired a few people to go through his hate email daily and respond to everything.

The other half of the website's ingenuity could have been intelligent responses to senseless bantering.
They look like they're at the steepest part of the sigmoidal curve.
This has already been done and much better at that. Don't give props to someone copying anothers work a half year after the fact.

Credit and originality goes to : http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolut...
Another all Flash site, yuck. What if I don't have Flash installed/enabled?
You are getting into weak territory here.

Since (I imagine) that you advocate free movement of capital & free trade, it really doesn't make sense to point to Americans making up losses as consumers and/or investors. Unless the 'loss' is pretty negligible, which I don't think you can really argue.

The theoretical replaced workers themselves are worse off. They are in less demand & lost their theoretical job. If you assumed they made the best decision for themselves & that was MS, then taking that option off the table disadvantages them.

Since trade & investment are relatively free while immigration is relatively restricted, investors & consumers are international citizens while employees are Americans. The US is huge, so that's obscured. But try to think of this from the perspective of a European mid-size State.

*Anyway, I agree with your overall point. Economic arguments against immigration are equivalent to economic arguments against trade or investment. The losses are local & very visible. The gains while greater, are international & often hidden. There is a net gain & it is spread around by reciprocation.

Since immigration is so restricted today, the greatest 'free' market gains to be made are through freeing immigration, not investment or trade.
Gattaca is an underrated classic. Andre Niccol's other movie The Truman Show is even better.
Anyone else make it to the part when she said, "This point in time will self-destruct, now." CTRL+W
Truphone upgrades its iPhone/iPod Touch application in the next 24 hr
Like what .. because I think its better to have fewer cusomers but offer something of benefit to the businesses .
As a funny aside I know the guy who actually built the little dog that does the back flip. The guy is a fun loving hacker type who loves to go caving around the world is really into http://www.wfmu.org/ etc. Basically the direct opposite of the supporting charter.
Yelp's got a lot of space for improvement, you can do well here.

For example: the iPhone app doesn't let you write reviews. The best time to write a review for a place is when you're there. But Yelp wants me to go back home and log in through a desktop to do that. EPIC FAIL.

Do some use case & scenario analysis, and you should do well. Consider plugging into different parts of peoples' lives. E.g. Facebook and the iPhone. A facebook app that browses reviews of people you know, and lets you invite people to a restaurant for dinner could do pretty well.
Man. That's kind of awesome.

I guess it's kind of odd that my only gripe is that it doesn't do any sort of screen size detection before displaying. I probably SHOULD complain about the information overload, or the inconsistencies in box sizing or some other silly thing, but I ... I like it. Inexplicable.
I have the Apple TV and have cancelled cable as well. Greatest thing about Apple TV is that my wife and her sister - neither of whom have any patience for futzing around with AV or computer equipment - can easily figure everything out and happily watch TV/movies whenever they want. Also, LOVE watching podcasts on a normal TV and being able to control music playback in the living room via my phone. Video podcasts have replaced the time I used to spend randomly flipping through channels.

I think the only thing that's really missing from my current experience is an easy way to stream live video to my Apple TV (without breaking the simple interface). It was a bit of an issue during the election. I would have paid to have had access to a CNN or some other news channel other than one of the broadcast networks, though PBS served us reasonably well.
'"conservative" is about far more than just taxes.'

I explain why there's a lot of definitions of the term, and your response is to... explain why one of my lines was wrong?

'If you want to compare government spending and fiscal responsibility then Democrats are by far the more "conservative" party.'

Do you live the in the same world I do?

Now, you might think I'm going to take exception to the idea that (D) spends less than (R). In fact, my incredulity is prompted by your "by far the more". From where I sit, neither party seems to have met a spending bill they didn't like, except briefly by the (R)s in the 90s which they quickly seem to have gotten over.

(And whatever credibility the (D)s may have had on this issue just got squandered these last couple of weeks, with this "stimulus" bill that, even if you accept Keynesian economic theory, won't do a damn thing to help.)

That's actually my point, there's significant things called "conservative" that haven't been tried lately, small government merely being at the top of the list.

(Oh, and part of the reason I said "make a real definition" is to head off things like saying conservatives are "anti-environment". Nobody of any importance is "pro-pollution". (I don't know of anybody, but it's best to be careful with absolute statements.) They just disagree about priorities or effects. That sort of thinking leads to letting demagogues make up your mind for you.)
And cost far less. It's not just the 50 million it's also the pilot, fuel, etc.
I think buying 100 HP Halos would be a better expenditure than one of these planes (not to mention the pilot/staff/maintenance/fuel that will be spent on this thing compared to the upkeep of a Halo).
It's a top 10 list with 11 entries. What more could you expect.
I would so the real number of flights would be closer to infinity because the cost of maintaining and flying a private jet across the country is more than the cost of the first class tickets. Also the interest / depreciation on that 50 million works out to ~3 million a year which is 2,000 / 12 people = 166 first class flights by it's self. Double that if you only average 6 people.
Gates predicts 10 years of woe
YouTube uses a Flash embed to stream videos from their servers. It's their own proprietary player SWF, but anyone could theoretically create something similar. Flash (the software) contains built-in templates for such a thing.

But this requires the Flash plugin, hence the desire for a <video> element and such (as we'll see in HTML5).
Yawn. Sometimes, code is both messy and perfectly functional. At that point, the best thing for the business/community is to spend time thinking about something else until you need to make changes to that chunk of code.
I have a Blockbuster Online subscription and love it. When I decided I wanted a movie service I went looking at both offerings and I ended up deciding on BB because of the in-store exchanges. I'm willing to bet I'd be on Netflix if I lived in a bigger city that didn't involve me driving past a blockbuster on my way to work every day. With Blockbuster for movies and Hulu for TV, I just throw away all those Time Warner ads I get in the mail trying to get me to bundle my internet.
Clay Shirky describes that online communities have a natural life cycle in which they start off small and vibrant and then dissipate as they grow larger. The perpetual problem is to achieve a persistent high signal to noise ratio.

I suggest that a platform which allows persons to independently form communities around common interests (when then could generate their own news feed or journal) will allow new group formation and allow each group to control what is or is not an acceptable signal to noise ratio in their group.

For instance, 'Nuclear Physicist News' might not resemble 'Hacker News,' might not resemble 'Recent findings in Biotechnology.' But all of those groups should be able to exist, fail, and be formed again on a single platform.

What makes the platform part important is that my single identity carries through all of the different groups I participate in, allowing me to participate in (and read) more groups, more easily.

In some ways this might be better described as a protocol than a platform and it could theoretically exist in either form. Part of the reason I want to communicate with persons more technically gifted than I is about whether or not this would exist better distributed over many servers with only a single unified protocol (..ML) or like facebook/your-favorite-social-networking-site-here.

Here's a restatement of the problem: social networking sites do not currently facilitate high level discussion.
Sounds grim, of course, but without downs we couldn't experience ups.
Getting your head out of the cloud
Feedback on musicnow.fm - music video player
I'm looking for feedback on musicnow.fm, a site for streaming music videos from youtube. A couple of features to note:

- simple playlist creation using drag-and-drop
- fast search and playback
- uninterrupted listening

The site was built using several JS libraries (YUI and prototype), the youtube APIs, and Ruby/Rails.

Thanks in advance and happy listening!
Q: How do you know if you're a hacker?
A: If you get chills during that scene.

I did, but I didn't know what it meant at the time.

My dad on the other hand wouldn't stop talking about it during the drive home afterward. He was a mechanical engineer at West Point and it got him going on the laws of thermodynamics and the time he calculated the condensation point of a drop of water on a steel pipe and realized that engineering is no different from magic at a certain point.
Essential Strategies For Creating A Successful Web 2.0 Product
But it can't beat "Young Einstein" in number of geniuses: Edison, Darwin, Marie Curie, Rutherford, Freud and Einstein himself.
Good to see Sneakers in the list. Most of the popular hack movies are in there and luckily I have seen almost all of them.
Army of Darkness.
Talk to robg. I think his venture and yours might have some overlap and he might be open to your ideas.
Stanford Entrepreneurship Conference 2009
"2 years of woe" would be a more accurate headline for what he actually wrote.
ʍouʞ oʇ ʇǝƃ oʇ ʇuɐʍ noʎ ɟı ˙ɔd4ɔd puɐ ʍ4ʍ ƃuıop ǝʞıl ı ˙sǝƃɐssǝɯ ǝʇɐɥ ʎllɐǝɹ ı ¡¡sʇuǝɯɯoɔ ǝʞıl ʎluo ı ˙^‾^ sɯɹoʍ ʎɯɯnƃ ɹnos sɐ ɹnos sɐ puɐ ǝlɔısdod ɐ sɐ ʇǝǝʍs sɐ ʇsnɾ ɯɐ ı ˙ǝɹɐ ʎǝɥʇ sɐ ǝldoǝd ǝʞıl ʇsnɾ ı ǝsnɐɔǝq ǝɯ punoɹɐ sǝʌlǝsɯǝɥʇ ǝq ʇou oʇ ǝldoǝd ʇuɐʍ ʇuop ı ˙ǝɯ punoɹɐ ɟlǝsɹnoʎ ǝq ʇsnɾ ǝɯ ʍouʞ oʇ ʇǝƃ oʇ ʎɹʇ noʎ ǝɹoɟǝq puɐ ˙sƃuıɥʇ uʍo ɹnoʎ ǝsn ʇou puɐ sƃuıɥʇ sǝslǝ ǝuoǝɯos ʎdoɔ oʇ pıdnʇs ʇsnɾ sı ʇı ˙ǝldoǝd ɹǝɥʇo ʎdoɔ oɥʍ ǝldoǝd puɐ sǝʞɐɟ ǝʞıl ʇuop ı ˙ʇı ʎɐs ʎǝɥʇ ǝɹoɟǝq ǝɯ oʇ ʎɐs ɐuuoƃ ǝɹɐ ʎǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ ʇnoqɐ ʞuıɥʇ ʇsnɾ puɐ ǝƃpnɾ ʇou oʇ ǝldoǝd ǝʞıl plnoʍ ʇsnɾ ı ˙noʎ ʇɹnɥ ʎlsnoıɹǝs uɐɔ ı ˙ɟɟo ǝɯ sǝssıd ʎllɐǝɹ ʇɐɥʇ puɐ pǝʇuɐɹƃ ɹoɟ ssǝuǝɔıu ʎɯ ǝʞɐʇ ǝldoǝd ǝɯos ˙ǝq oʇ ǝɯ ʇuɐʍ noʎ ssǝlun ɥƃnoɥʇ uɐǝɯ uǝʌǝ ʇou ɯı ˙ɟɟnʇs ʇɹɐʇs ɐuuɐʍ oɥʍ ǝldoǝd ɥʇıʍ sǝnssı ƃıq ǝsnɐɔ llıʍ ı ˙ɥʇnɹʇ ǝɥʇ ʍouʞ llıʍ noʎ puɐ ǝɯ oʇ ʞlɐʇ ˙dɐɹɔ ʇɐɥʇ ɹoɟ ǝɔıu ooʇ ɯı ˙pǝƃpnɾ ǝq oʇ ǝʞıl ʇuop ı ˙ ǝɯ ɹoɟ ƃıq ʇɐɥʇ ǝɹɐ sƃnɹp ˙ʇuɐʇɹodɯı ʇuǝɹɐ ʎǝɥʇ ˙ʇı ʇnoqɐ ʇǝƃɹoɟ ʇsnɾ ı uǝɥʇ ʇnq ǝɯ ʇnoqɐ ʞuıɥʇ ǝldoǝd ʇɐɥʍ ǝɹɐɔ sǝɯıʇǝɯos ı ˙llɐ ʇɐ ʎʞɔoɔ ʇou ɯı ˙ǝlqıssodɯı ǝɥʇ ɟo ʞuıɥʇ ʎllɐnsn ı puɐ ɥɔnɯ ooʇ ɯɐǝɹp ı ˙uooɯ pǝpɐɟ ɐ ɯı ˙ɯǝɥʇ ɥʇıʍ ɐɯɐɹp ʎuɐɯ ʇɐɥʇ ʇou ˙spuǝıɹɟʎoq ʎuɐɯ ooʇ ǝʌɐɥ ı ˙ǝʌol ı ʇɐɥʇ sʎnƃ ʎɯ ɹoɟ sǝɥsıʍ ʇsǝq ǝɥʇ ʇuɐʍ ı ˙spuǝıɹɟ ʎɯ puɐ ǝɯ punoɹɐ ǝlqɐʇɹoɟuoɔ sı ʇɐɥʇ puǝıɹɟʎoq pooƃ ɐ ʇuɐʍ ʇsnɾ ı ˙pɹǝıʍ ʇsnɾ sı ʇɥƃıɹ ǝɟıl ǝʌol ʎɯ ˙ǝɯıʇ ǝɹɐds ʎɯ uı pɹɐoqǝʇɐʞs oʇ ǝʞıl ı ¡llǝɥ ǝɟıl ɹnoʎ ǝʞɐɯ ʎlsnoıɹǝs llıʍ ı ˙ɥʇıʍ pǝssǝɯ ǝq oʇ ǝʞıl ʇuop ı ¡snoıɹǝs uıʞɐǝɹɟ ɯɐ ı ¡¡¡ǝƃpnɹƃ ɐ ploɥ uɐɔ ı ˙lɹıƃ pooʇsɹǝpunsıɯ ɐ ɯɐ ı ˙ɹɐʇınƃ ǝɥʇ ʎɐld puɐ ƃuıs ı ˙˙˙˙ıɥ
This is part of Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford, and is open to "members of the greater Stanford community", which basically means everyone.

http://eweek.stanford.edu/2009/
More popular schlock that's easiest to remember by movie consumers. "Real Genius" should have been on the list; the computers in the movie were supplied by none other than Symbolics, as mentioned in the credits.
I'm still nostalgic for Cold Fusion Studio 4. That was even back before Macromedia bought Allaire, but still today it would rank as the second best development environment for HTML and Javascript (after VS.NET, but only because it has a good debugger to offset its lame HTML & JS intellisense).

Then they folded it into Dreamweaver and ruined it completely by version 5.
Worse than worse. I stopped reading when I saw they put "Hackers" on #1.
Writing Simple JMS Client Applications (Not)
Yeah, real "simple".
The writer is from Ireland. What does someone from Ireland think someone from California sounds like? I suspect they think a "California accent" is pretty close to the "non-regional dialect" that U.S. newscasters use.
I still think asm is essential to know. And I'm not even an old fart. Knowing assembly makes it far easier to rationalize about what my C programs are doing, how things will perform, what the machine actually does, and so on, even up into my Ocaml code (which is what I tend to work in for much of my code these days).

Even C doesn't teach you about cache behavior, register spilling, calling conventions, and so on.

Plus, it helps to know assembly massively when you're in the embedded domain, or whenever you're close to the metal.
Oh, I'm glad to hear it fizzled!
Spotted in the wild — the Google Web Drive?
- Huge library of high quality components

- One of the best available development environments (Visual Studio)

- C# is much better for structuring your code base for large teams and long lived projects

- If you're really using a database, SQL Server is way, way better than mysql.

I prefer Rails myself, but I manage a team who prefers .Net, and I can see the advantages.

I agree with other posters, Webforms are horrible and wrong, but MVC could make .Net one of the best Web dev platforms.
Say an executive saves 400 hours a year by flying private. If that makes him a few percent more effective in a company the size of Citigroup, it's worth it.
How exactly do you pay off $50M with a private jet that also incurs significant costs of ownership?

I mean there are commercial flights to just about everywhere in the world at very frequent intervals. How can one or two hours offset possibly make such a difference?
What's the difference between trolling and satire, then? Where's it stop becoming a social statement and start becoming a case of merely provoking argument thoughtlessly?
3.0 is not backwards compatible.
Whether to use 3.0 or 2.x depends upon the libraries you want to use. Some library writers are holding off the migration to 3.x until 3.0 is included as default in the popular linux distros.
This is a reddit article. And not one of the better ones.

It's even from the NY Post. Ick.
I wish to restart the conservative party. no religious crazies allowed.
I just need the backing of a few billionaires and Ron Paul's help.
(Looking back on this, mentioning Rails seems to not make any sense, but the reason is deep in my fuzzy subconscious: there's a Montreal meeting for Rails called Montreal on Rails)
Senator Wants Microsoft Job Cuts to Target Foreigners
140it: Condense Ur Text For Twitter When It Won’t All Fit
Micro-Boat Walks the Walk--On Water
In my book, saying things that make sense counts more than not saying "ass".
Drexler: Self-Assembly for Nanotechnology
Value and Job Creation = World Change
They embed their movies using the Flash Video format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video) which is a container format for multiple audio and video codecs. These are licensed by Adobe, and indirectly to purchasers of their software. Because these codecs are bundled with Flash, to get iPhone support, all the videos had to be transcoded into Quicktime-friendly formats.

Generally, there are licensing fees for each codec (e.g. H.264) which are licensed by software companies for use within their products. The open source implementations of such codecs are in a legal grey area, as technically compiling them means you should pay for their licensing.
if you are into netflix, hulu, and other streaming stuff (nbc,cnn,etc) I highly recommend checking out boxee, http://boxee.tv/ it has a great user interface and works with the apple remote.
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There is open-source software (mencoder) which will convert videos into formats playable by the Flash Player. However, all such formats are encumbered by patents with expensive licensing fees.

Either YouTube uses these formats without a license, or they pay up. They may use commercial encoding software which includes a license, or they may use an open-source encoder and pay for the license separately. YouTube is a big target for a patent infringement lawsuit, so I'd guess they do pay up.
I think it would be great to see a day when the relative abstraction distance between Ruby and C is negligible compared to the available programming abstractions. A day when you can tell computers what to do in English, and when commanding the machine via any articulate and pedantic programming language is thought to teach one about the fundamentals of a computer.
+1 on Boxee.

I had a Mac Mini sitting around so I threw Boxee and that takes care of everything I need. I actually had canceled my Netflix account and Boxee convinced me to set it up again since I can stream instant movies from there. It's awesome.
I second "Odyssey 5", great TV show.
Fair enough. I find it's easier to pretend the driver doesn't exist unless it's packaged, and do whatever I would otherwise do.

If you were using debian or ubuntu, they removed the firmware from ALSA for legal reasons. Ugh, I know; it would be nice if they warned someone. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/26294 or http://forum.soft32.com/linux2/Bug-434592-alsa-firmware-load...

However, I wouldn't expect anyone else to figure out which package to add either. But for you and I, this is at least a step up from recompiling.
I suggest that a platform which allows persons to independently form communities around common interests (when then could generate their own news feed or journal) will allow new group formation and allow each group to control what is or is not an acceptable signal to noise ratio in their group.

It almost seems like you've never heard of Yahoo Groups.
Does Apple Really Own Multi-Touch?
Ask HN: What LaTeX resumé template do you use?
I'm looking to update my resumé, but I want it to look a little nicer.

I was thinking about compiling a PDF in Photoshop instead of writing it in LaTeX. What do you suggest?

Rails dev, here.
Upgrading to Flash 10 helps a lot, actually.
$10000 crossplatform mobile app development contest
I think the dangerous term here is, pack.
Why do wind turbines have three narrow blades, but ceiling fans have five wide ones?
If you work from home and feel lonely, which is apparently this guy's entire argument against working from home, get a hobby.

I go to the gym every day right after I wake up. It's a great way to start the day and there are other human beings there, although I don't actually talk to them as I am not there to socialize.

I have a hard time rolling out of bed and working all day after a while, so it's helpful to have a way to "work into" the day.
Ask HN: Funding my app myself
Hi everyone,

I'm with a small team of people and have enough funds to fund about 1,000 hours of work to get the application built. That's nearly double the number of hours I believe we need.

The product we will be building is a web app for businesses and I think will be popular (based on design feedback I've received from target market). We have free and paid plans. I'm predicting about $500,000 in revenue over 2 years after launching.

My question is this: I'm going to self-fund this but am writing a "term sheet" and wondered what I should put on it?

I also wondered what percentage of profits should I be paid back in?

Also, I was wishing to make a profit from the risk I'm taking on, so any thoughts on a percentage I should be paid "over" what I invest?

I'm going to talk to my accountant about my tax implications. I'm including a clause that says I get repaid from profits from the company. Thanks.
I actually live near the Stress Factory and, small or not, it's actually a great place and pulls some big names ever so often — Chris Rock being one in recent memory, but Russell Peters is another who did a few shows there.
The Argument for jQuery
So myself and my other frontend developer I work with have been sold on jQuery for a long time. We have been talking it up for months but typically, we have to sell this to "the people in charge". (See another of my submissions for my feelings about where I work.)

I am writing up the reasons we are building with jQuery and why we want to use it site-wide. So I'm posting my argument below, because I would like to get some other folks' opinions about this and turn this into a mini-document that other developers in our situation can use in your own companies.

(unfortunately HN comments eat tabs and spacing for breakfast.)

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The javascript written to enabled dynamic interactions within our site is written with the jQuery javascript library. The intent is that jQuery will become the standard way we implement javascript across all of our site.

The benefits provided by jQuery

a. Ease of development.

i. Code written with jQuery is more compact, easier to read, and more maintainable than javascript written traditionally to do the same thing.

ii. It is possible to quickly achieve required results using jQuery that might take 10x as long to achieve with standard javascript code.

iii. Using jQuery does not prevent us from using regular javascript where necessary. jQuery is written in javascript simply makes it easier to do most things.

b. Automatic cross-browser functionality

i. jQuery is designed to get rid of cross-browser differences between javascript implementations.

ii. Adding/removing events and DOM manipulation are things that are easy with jQuery that require excess code and development time to have them function the same in all browsers traditionally.

c. Advanced UI features

i. jQuery comes with many built-in visual effects.

ii. See http://docs.jquery.com/Effects and http://docs.jquery.com/UI for examples.

d. Excellent overall performance speed

i. Thousands of users of jQuery have helped to contribute code and fix bugs in the library that have made it very fast compared to other libraries and traditionally written javascript.
Regarding Iron Man: It is hard for me to suspend my disbelief when movies feature world-shatteringly advanced artificial intelligence and yet pay no attention whatsoever to the obvious implications of such technology. Forget the silly flying suit!
A Touchscreen Interface for 21st Century Musicians
Report: Steve Jobs Is In The Office Today
Shoeboxed makes filing your company's taxes easier by organizing your receipts
"You can drive a car with your feet -- that don't [sic] make it a good idea" -- Chris Rock
Pension fund? Oh, you mean that ponzi scheme of Social Security?

Also, most Americans are in more debt than they have assets. They are not capital holders. Don't conflate holding some currency with controlling the means of production.
Primarily for two reasons: difficulty in comparison between charts, and because comparing area is more difficult than comparing length. The Wikipedia article has good background information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart
Apple Granted Multitouch Patent
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

Text of the patent from the US Patent Office