skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely. While I haven't done much with the JVM-based languages, I've spent a lot of time dabbling in obscure programming languages (it's a fun and often very educational way to procrastinate), and many language problems are fundamentally social: spotty-to-nonexistent documentation, tutorials or references that are three versions out of date, important libraries on websites that look like ghost towns ("last updated jan 17, 2004"), etc. can kill a language, or at the very least encourage the idea that it's abandoned. A language without a community of people to answer questions, etc. is going to be very hard to use.
I find it frustrating that most people spend a quarter of their life just going to school and you essentially can't do anything that useful until you are at least 25 or so
I see no reason for secret banking other to subvert laws. Secret banking is an enormous global problem which at its worst enables terrorism and drug trade. At "best" it enables the very wealthy to not pay their fair share. I hope these new changes are the tipping point and within 10 years, there will be no tax havens.

If you have a problem with being overtaxed, the only respectful approach is to be active in managing how your government works. Subverting the process only makes things worse.

And a "good" lawyer should never cover for crimes. It truly is not their purpose and perverts their privilege.
I have both the iPhone and a blackberry on verizon and I can confirm hands down that verizon is far superior to att (I'm writing this on the iPhone now and it's auto complete turned att to AT&T... Lame). FYI, I live in NYC but when traveling nationwide have had the same experience.
Yeah, never try cooking a rising-crust frozen pizza in a microwave... really doesn't work. However, I bet these machines would reap a fortune in college dorms as an alternative to frozen crap.
Cool website. Can you compare what you are doing to NowPublic, http://www.nowpublic.com?
There's pretty solid evidence that fructose is particularly damaging if you get it in large quantities without much fiber. Eating fruits is fine, but HFCS is dangerous.

"A high flux of fructose to the liver, the main organ capable of metabolizing this simple carbohydrate, perturbs glucose metabolism and glucose uptake pathways, and leads to a significantly enhanced rate of de novo lipogenesis and triglyceride (TG) synthesis, driven by the high flux of glycerol and acyl portions of TG molecules from fructose catabolism. These metabolic disturbances appear to underlie the induction of insulin resistance commonly observed with high fructose feeding in both humans and animal models. Fructose-induced insulin resistant states are commonly characterized by a profound metabolic dyslipidemia, which appears to result from hepatic and intestinal overproduction of atherogenic lipoprotein particles. Thus, emerging evidence from recent epidemiological and biochemical studies clearly suggests that the high dietary intake of fructose has rapidly become an important causative factor in the development of the metabolic syndrome."

http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/5
Excellent idea. I've been looking for something like this for a while.

One criticism I have right off the bat is that it is too busy. A lot of news sites are like that and maybe there is a reason, so it may be worth it to spend a few days working on a way for the user to change the layout if he chooses. (I use Twitter's RSS feed because I can't stand the custom backgrounds.)

That's only a suggestion, but here is something else to think about if you want to hit the US or Japanese markets: figure out how to filter tweets. I'm neither familiar with your site nor Twitter's API, but I imagine you could filter tweets on a term like @seenr or something like that. It benefits the user because they are posting to their personal tweet domain when they see something incredible but they are also posting to a news service. It's a great start, keep it up.
No kidding. I felt like a failure at 20 because I hadn't accomplished anything or gotten rich, yet. Now I'm 35, and I still haven't. :/
It would also be cool if AT&T had some kind of VoIP/mesh software for the iPhone. That would allow them to benefit from the mass assembly of their customers, and maybe even reduce their infrastructure requirements for the event (rather than increase them).
No information is better than misinformation.
Thanks for the valuable remarks. You are absolutely right about getting content from Citizen Journalism. We are working on different ideas in this regard.

The organizers are the "owners" of the sub-domain in the sense that they can moderate the news coming in, change settings and control look & appearance.
Ask HN: Twitter As A Platform?
Straight forward question and I would like the opinion of HN: Can you build a successful product/service based on Twitter?

We've seen Kevin Rose launch wefollow.com recently and there's more mashups coming you'd suspect but can it really spawn compelling services?

I have some ideas, and leveraging Twitter's user base would accelerate growth and exposure, but i'm not sure if relying completely on the API is the right way to go about it.
Yes.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
Try one of those mind training games for a couple of months and you'll see how lame this kind of study is.
I would actually recommend taking a look at Flash. With ActionScript 3, you can write your game a very functional style - arrays have map and filter operators, you can get events and pass them through chains of filters, etc. And then you can just publish your game on the web for everyone to check out.

And by the way, you won't be able to do pure functional game programming in any language. At some point you'll have to bottom out in modifying display state - whether opengl calls, or directx calls, or flash display list changes.
Well, you've stumbled upon some of the deep problems with nutrition information dispersal in the US. Many regard the FDA/USDA to be largely corrupt in their handling of health information, due to the many conflicts of interest and ties to pharmaceutical companies and food industry.

Making it illegal for farmers to label their beef as mad-cow tested is one example of this. The way trans fats are labeled in the US compared to Canada/EU is another example. In fact, in most of EU trans fats are not acceptable food ingredients. In the US, they're acceptable ingredients for vitamins. A third example might be the silence regarding the importance of sunlight and vitamin D as a prevention for many forms of cancer.

Regarding "these statements have been evaluated by the FDA" -- it's actually illegal for supplement companies to make anything that resembles a health claim about their own products, even if it's demonstratively true.

In general, the big problem with health information in the US (as you've demonstrated) is that it's inaccessible. There's plenty of industry and financial interest in it remaining inaccessible. So, you'll have to do more than glance at a website for 30 seconds and drawing the fast and easy conclusions.

Finally, the Life Extension Foundation is a non-profit with a 30 year history, and one of the most respected health and wellness research organizations world wide. Googling around will demonstrate this.
I'm also 20 and I've been on HN for a while now, I believe the reason I stayed here but at no other news site is that everyone tries to give an intelligent point of view, and the people who don't often get modded down. I've said things I was sure would get downmodded and ended up getting a couple of points for because I made a good but not necessarily popular point.

I've read so many comments here that I've completely disagreed with, but they always give a valid point or opinion.
Simple usability suggestion -- add an orange footer line to comments pages. There is no visual indicator that I'm at the bottom of a page; I frequently find myself pressing page-down in futility.
Although in all honesty Naughty Dog used Lisp to write their own compiler from a Lisp-based DSL into highly optimized Playstation assembly, and then wrote huge chunks of the game in that.

Which is a little different from wanting to learn functional programming by writing a game. ;)
If you don't feel like reading The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic (the sequel that completes the story) then look for the DVD of The Colour of Magic (it originally ran as a double-bill made-for-tv movie, the first was CoM and the second part was LF).

There's also the Hogfather, a book released later in the Discworld universe, that got turned into a double TV movie. It is a much more faithful reproduction as they had more time, which in the case of the Hogfather was truly necessary.
http://www.tweetlater.com/ are making money.
That is not what I meant.

Your post is sarcastic and belittling.
mixmax's post is curious and intriguing.

When I said "just for giggles", I said it with curiosity in mind, not sarcasm.

> "I'm too tired/busy."

I hope you feel better.
"I don't get it - taxes are a percentage of your overall income... so how can you have to work 6 months for taxes?"

Well, if the percentage is 50%, then...

More concretely, in Maryland, my last paycheck had about 31% taken from it before I got it, and there are many places with higher tax burdens on the state and local levels, even in the US. Add sales taxes, property taxes if you own a house, and you could easily get to 40% in the US. We're constantly hearing about how much higher taxes are in many other parts of the world, so 50% doesn't seem unlikely for some countries.

The only reason that we can afford this much government, of course, is that we're all so incredibly rich by the standards of yesteryear that the losses have been sustainable so far. We'll see if that continues to be the case (my bet is that it will).
where does search end and explore start? Will this be the new face of search?
AFAIK a femtocell can support fewer than a half-dozen phones; you'd need a ton of them to handle the Austin Convention Center. It's not even clear that such density is possible from an RF engineering perspective.

OTOH, T-Mobile is fine and the wi-fi works well (which is impressive with ~3,000 simultaneous clients).
Why don't you filter out the MLM scammers?
I don't see any on the street outside.
This entry in how the unthinkable unfolds doesn't seem to fit with the others in that same paragraph (because the others, while unthinkable, are consistent with experience), and stands out to me:

Digital advertising would reduce inefficiencies, and therefore profits.

Other than people exploiting inefficiencies through having a monopoly, I can't think of one case where reduction of inefficiencies also reduces profit. The problem is that those who thought that were willing to make changes, as this article points out, but not the kind of changes that would exploit the increases in efficiencies.
So true, It is a known fact among the chess players that the ability to calculate ahead peaks at the age of 27.
Can someone explain how this article isn't self-contradictory? On one hand, "In January, Americans saved 5 percent of disposable personal in­come, up from 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007" but on the other, "We also need to start investing again".

Where are those additional savings going? Barring folks stuffing the money under their mattresses, it must go into some investment instrument, which means it's going into either equity or loans to businesses, or into banks where it goes into loans to businesses or consumers (other than banks building up a buffer against the risks they're finally recognizing). If those loans go to consumers, they must obviously get spent. If we're talking about any of corporate equity, corporate debt, or bank loans to companies, all three of these things are investments in future production. The only discrepancies should be those bank buffers, and any investments going overseas. Money always gets spent, it's really just a question of how quickly, and on what.

Also, "Last year, Delaware ... saw new incorporations drop by 25 percent [relative to what?]." Well, at least part of this is our own doing. This has been going on for several years, but new incorporations have been down for several years to the costs and risks that were added by Sarbanes-Oxley. See, e.g., here http://www.nysun.com/opinion/reclaiming-the-market/46366/ and here http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb042/is_2003_Nov-Dec/... . So it's not clear how much of this effect is due to the current drop and how much is intentionally self-inflicted.
It's effectively worthless because it needs to be qualified so heavily. Dropping the qualification (as will happen sometimes) makes it more like misinformation, which is worse than worthless, so it averages out to zero...

"The median poll selection of a HN visitor who clicked on a poll which was on the front page on the following weekdays (and national holidays in the following countries:...) was..." etc.

If the information content is sufficiently hard to extract usefully that it would be easier to redo the sample in a sensible way, then you could call the sample worthless. (A bit like uneconomic oil reserves).
The obvious, technical reason for all this was skirted by Prachett, but never addressed directly: a "witch" is, by the oldest definition, a woman who is "in communion with" or "consorting with" (sleeping with) a devil or demon, and that is wherefrom she takes any power she may possess. A wizard has no such requirement--his magic is actually of an internal nature.

To put it another way: all magic--all power, really--actually comes from men, and more specifically, from their "wands" (ahem.) A woman doing magic is just serving as an avatar or proxy for her boyfriend's "will." Further, because she is committing a carnal sin by not being married to this creature (by definition: you need a priest, and no priest will marry you to a devil), she starts off on the "evil" side of the line, even if she wants nothing to do with it.

Then there's the whole matter that she's "draining his willpower for her own purposes"--mythology tends to discretize single creatures into multiple over time, so "witch" and "succubus" were likely the same idea. Even if she was sleeping with a perfectly good Wiz, she'd still be a vile temptress.

That all seems more in line with medieval European folklore to me.

(Of course, the question of what happens when someone marries a wizard is left unanswered; it's usually assumed that wizards are too ingrained in their world of rites and formulae to go a-courting, but what if a girl were to just love them anyway--like I'm sure the wives of many mathematicians today do? Would she gain "legal" access to his magical energies, or is there some sort of biblical clause against that? In fact, would the wizard be allowed to marry at all? Would a priest condemn Merlin in his time, even in his role as the king's advisor?)
Fried jellyfish are surprisingly good, crisp on the outside and slightly chewy in the center. I kid you not.
It's interesting to see how Pratchett thought about this over two decades ago, given that I have read most of his Discworld books. There is a sharp contrast between witches and wizards in his work. While in many ways his witches do the "dirty work" and the wizards sit in the university, the way it's presented is such that the witches are about helping people and getting things done, whereas the wizards are a bunch of doddering old windbags in slippers who don't really do anything at all...and when they do, they usually screw something up pretty badly.

Granny Weatherwax (a witch) is easily one of Pratchett's best characters. (She shows up in Equal Rites, and then again in Wyrd Sisters, which is a sort of retelling of Macbeth...and in several books since.)
True some of the time, but not all of the time.
Hey, I am definitely tired, but 'belittling'? Not at all what I was aiming for, sorry if you perceived it that way. It was just a random comment about the fact that people's 'computer age' might be determined by what sort of environment they started out with.
Samsung: Solid state will match hard drive price
What sort of human-machine interface are you using?
My impressions of OS X after about a month of use.
I don't think it's as good as Win 7, but it's pretty close.

Issues (some of which can be addressed by third-party software):

* no reasonable way to write to a CD (!)

* read-only NTFS

* installation of apps can be confusing to people not familiar with macs

* no reasonable way to uninstall software along with its data

* disk volumes (dmg files) can be confusing to people not familiar with macs

* not clear whether installing a virus checker and/or firewall is important to people not familiar with macs

* window management not as nice as win 7 although Exposé is very cool

* strange that closing the last window of an app does not quit the app

* pdf files are not shown in the browser window

What's better than win 7? The unix-like shell. You can get this with cygwin under windows but it's nicer to have it built-in. Also, the remote shell login is easy to enable under mac. Not obvious how to do this with windows.
I have to say the most intruguing stat is the under 20 group. I would imagine one or 2 but nearly 90 people seems suprisingly large.
I wouldnt have expected that many people finding an interest here at that age.

(Hypocritically I probably would have found it interesting at that age :D).

EDIT: Im 22 incidentally.
So, doesn't that just mean that a statistically significant portion of the regular HN users would have to respond?

Of course, you'd have to figure out how to define "regular HN users" and what would be a significant portion of them.

If this poll were to get that much response, it would also tell you something interesting: that HN users respond to polls in statistically significant numbers :)

So, voluntary response polls are not worthless if enough people voluntarily respond to them, but this is a tricky problem.
Oops.

Sorry, then. I take back what I said earlier. Your first choice of 'abacus' sounded sarcastic to me. I guess I shouldn't judge so quickly.

In that sense, I think the idea of how someone got started in programming is an excellent poll topic.

EDIT: I was not trying to imply anything when I said "I hope you feel better". Please don't take it the wrong way.
I know nothing of the technology itself, and I would love to hear from an expert. But to speculate:

If the femtocells are to work in an urban environment, they'll have to work with many to a city block -- or even single apartment building. That is, about the same density as wifi access points. I can see 7 SSIDs right now from my kitchen table; from the roof of my building I can see 20-something. (Of course only a fraction of these are usefully connectable.)

So why not a femtocell in the ACC everywhere there's a wifi access point? That would seem to mirror the best case for deployment once they're for sale to home users.

Or at least a half-dozen in the corners of the venue? So at least a few people can report back about islands of good coverage?
> I see no reason for secret banking other to subvert laws.

Replace the word “secrecy” with “privacy”. I think there are a lot of good reasons to keep your personal banking details private. For example – in my country there is a law that the bank have to inform a government department if there is any deposit above about $1000. Thinking of donating to a political party?

You must show proof of fixed residence to open an account (even if you always have a positive balance). How would a poor person without a fixed address (as defined by government) open an account?

> and drug trade.

Because people voluntary give money to buy drugs and people voluntary sells drugs. What is the problem?

> at its worst enables terrorism

It is a stretch to blame private banking for terrorism. Terrorism will occur regardless of banking laws.

> At "best" it enables the very wealthy to not pay their fair share.

If there was a flat tax regime you can (maybe) try to make that believable. Why is it that rich people pay a higher percentage of their income in tax? It is simple – ten wolves and a sheep deciding who is for dinner. The whole idea of progressive taxation is the mob taking what it wants because of its majority – there is no inherit “fairness” in it.

A politician buys the vote of the poor with the money from the rich (coerced through taxation).

> If you have a problem with being overtaxed, the only respectful approach is to be active in managing how your government works.

In my country there are 4 million tax payers and about 14 million people receiving government “grants” (this will probably quadruple in a year's time in a plan to give everyone a “basic income grant” (BIG)). Is it fair that 4 million productive people subsidise 14 million unproductive people? Is it fair that a young tax-paying couple puts off having a child – yet their tax dollars is used for other peoples' child grants?

> And a "good" lawyer should never cover for crimes.

A “good lawyer should always act in their clients' best interest – whatever it may be.

In summary my argument is as follows:

1.There are plenty of reasons why banking should be private.
2.IMHO tax evasion by overtaxed people (i.e. when the tax percentage is progressive) is not morally wrong.

EDIT: Downmod all you want.
Bingo. That "trance" is exactly what good long-form salesletters do. That's why they out-convert anything else. It's hacking for humans, and it works.
First, moving averages do play a role in some (profitable) quant systems.

Second, I never said that the rats couldn't create a positive return, but you could model the rats behavior quantitatively and develop a system, but that's just bringing it back full circle.
I'm actually releasing one in 1.5 weeks, so we'll see how it goes.

I've also done affiliate marketing and that's done well also.

But I view this as means to cash rather than means to a true business. More like a springboard, I suppose.
Why would you call it poisson?
> So, doesn't that just mean that a statistically significant portion of the regular HN users would have to respond?

No. If 50% of HN visitors voted but 99% of those over 40 didn't (due to whatever confounding factor you like - say embarrasment), you'd still wouldn't be able to extrapolate from the sample to the category of "HN visitors".
Nah. I turn 44 soon and I still have to do the math to figure out how old I am cause I just don't think about it much. "Lay ordinate and abscissa on the century. Now cut me a quadrant; third quadrant if you please, I was born in '65"

Wonder how many know what that's from :-p
We are more focused towards providing platform to media houses and other entities (political parties, activisits etc) to enable their citizen journalism arm. This has certain advantages. For instance it provides vertical filters for stories and builds communities around the content.
Think of it as analogous to bling. If you wear lots of gold, drive a sports car, etc, you're showing you've got enough cash to blow it on non-essentials. If you're self-deprecating, you show that you have enough status to waste it by downplaying your achievements.