skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without taking a side here:

Think of the face value of the tickets as the "IPO" price. Friends and family get tickets at IPO prices. Immediately on release, the market sets the "real" price of those tickets.

Scalpers are just buying at the IPO price. If that's unfair, the party it's unfair to is the artist; they're the ones who got ripped off by an artificially low face value. On the other hand, just like shares can easily close below their IPO value, demand for a block of tickets can be low, which screws the scalper.

Whether scalpers buy and hold huge blocks of tickets is kind of besides the point. The tickets are, in theory, worth what they're worth. The scalper who refuses to sell at a fair market price should lose money.
Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list; $11k/day fine for linking
PHP vs Ruby
Which is better?
You mean that the contracts seem logical to you - when you just look at the relation between two companies.

But you aren't really looking at the total effect of these contracts. Derivative contracts "spread risk" but, as we've seen, they don't avoid risk. So what they do is turn the individual risk of corporate bankruptcy into the risk of systemic collapse.

That is called an "externality of production". Individual companies sometimes don't mind taking gambles that have a downside for people not otherwise involved with them. Much of governmental regulation is specifically for preventing these externalitie from impacting people - this is why banks are regulated, why companies must proper precautions handling toxic materials, why automobile drivers must have insurance, etc.

So, ultimately, these kinds of contracts are bad. They need to be regulated in the same way that banks are regulated and for the same reasons.
The comments above viewing threshold seem to be ok. The truly idiotic ones are buried. Digg might still have some potential.
They want me to do a web project, however I don't know which one is better, I mean Ruby on Rails or PHP
How to Write With Confidence
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While good design is important, I'd think twice about having a designer/cofounder. Look at this site for instance; design easily done by a developer, yet the service itself fills a niche and built a community.

As a side note, I've seen early design hires hold back the company in later stages as they tend to wield too much power over the product (often playing a pseudo product management role).

It's easy enough to outsource a logo and some paint. Think about your use cases and make sure the service caters to them but good product is often "designed" at the functional level.
OK - screw jottit then. It's set to 'anyone can view and edit' and i've changed the password to hackernews like 5 times.

Can someone recommend a similar site?

In the meantime -- don't even worry about posting the algorithm. If your bracket starts to kick ass, just email me with your description or a link to your personal blog post about it, and we'll have a writeup of the top performers. Or -- easiest solution yet -- just post it as a message in the Yahoo! group.
well holding up the 10Gbps connection isn't the problem really, i don't think it manages the balance pool as effectively as nginx. I don't believe haproxy supports unix domain socket balancing either.
These are likely above-average comments. The people who would take the time to look at this article and comment instead of skipping over it are probably going to make higher-quality comments. This article does seem to be slightly out of Digg's normal interests.
I live in "Europe" and I've never seen anyone watch TV on their phone before, despite it being free with most contracts. Also, no phone has a decent camera; even the Sony C905 (which is probably the best camera phone available in Europe) is mediocre as a camera, providing very noisy 8MP JPGs with horrible colors.

In a few years, a company is going to release a CCD that can shoot high-quality 720p video and decent-quality images and is small enough to fit in a phone. When this happens, I guarantee you that the iPhone will have it just like all other cameraphones.
AmieStreet doesn't reward you for discovering music early as much as it penalizes you for discovering it late. Even if in the long run you would end up saving about the same or more, it's a mental hurdle that's hard to get past.

Adding to this a bit, the brilliance of Popcuts is that I, musical tastemaker, now have a monetary incentive to wade through the all the new crap that gets pumped out at a prodigious rate these days, find the gems, promote them to my friends, and not throw them up on limewire or bittorrent. Popcuts is so frickin brilliant, honestly. I could maybe actually earn a living from this (okay, probably not, but I'm 14, maybe I can convince myself that I could), as opposed to just saving a few bucks. That's the difference between the two.
more importantly, digg's on the home page of hacker news.
I wonder too. I'm considering applying - still working it out with the cofounder as to our final decision about applying - and (as much as I'd like a girlfriend) I have a boyfriend who'd support me no matter what but can't move because he has a full time job where we are right now. Sorta complicated :(
Right, thought of the selection bias as I was typing, but the fact that those type of commenters are still there points to some potential, however dispersed.
I'm surprised that it didn't travel farther than 10km. There must have been 0 wind that day.
Damn, now its time to post lots of complex programming articles. Just no ERLANG this time.
Quick, everyone: Bury it!
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doesn't matter, when you are just starting out the tiny difference won't really matter...when you get big, you can afford to recode the entire website into the latest bandwagon language.

Since you are doing the work for someone else, you have to ask yourself about the relationship you plan to have with these people.

If you select PHP, they'll have millions of developers to pick from. If you select Ruby, they'll find it that much harder to replace you.
How about NO...

He ruined Hank Greenberg, one of the greatest businessmen in this country, and put AIG in the very position it is in today -- all for what, a shot at becoming the next Giuliani? It's utterly retarded. He is the classic "bad cop" who is off doing shady crap in his free time, punishing perfectly good law-abiding citizens as part of his power trip. I mean, really, Hank Greenberg was the squeaky-cleanest guy you could find; yeah, there were the backroom deals and whatnot, but that's called "the old boys' club," and nothing that was severely impacting the fate of the global economy. Leaving AIG in the hands of Marty Sullivan and his gang of idiots, however... Well, we see what has happened; AIG is now so impotent that it is used as a mere pawn by the banks and the Fed. Spitzer practically shouldn't be allowed to write about this without acknowledging that he created the problem.

The problem with politics is ... When Miley Cyrus says she will "ruin" Radiohead, we all laugh; when the Miley Cyruses of the political world say they are going to "ruin" someone, the power given to them by the people allows them to make inroads into doing just that.
when will people learn that you can't censor internet
http://stainlessapp.com/ - at version .5, an interesting Mac alternative.
There are a lot of big business that don't have a strong web presence in traffic. While the first example that it comes to mind is Wal-Mart, the anecdote I am going to share is from there, so they probably don't "need" Hadoop, but maybe it'll make their analysis faster and more accurate.

It's said that after Katrina, sales of peanut butter skyrocketed. I can't find a proper link right now to confirm this story, but it doesn't need exactness, because the theme is simply: There's a lot of data out there, how can we make sense of it?
Well this is a clusterfuck of a trivial civil disobedience protest and concomitant selective enforcement defense just waiting to happen.
Well I don't salute him at all.

Think about what he's doing. He is examining computers for illegal information. An illegal series of bytes. This is utterly insane.

You can make up whatever justification you want, but to me the very existence, the very possibility of existence, of illegal information is absolutely, 180˚ opposed to everything I believe in. As far as I am concerned, people like ErrantX are actively working to undermine free society.

The fact that many of these illegal files are simply scans of magazines you could apparently buy, completely legally, over the counter, in the 1970s, just adds that last twist of "We have always been at war with Eurasia" doublethink frisson.
I went with alphabetical order. Xavier FTW!
And that's assuming that all the bug gives you is the cut buffer. Who knows how they were actually led to implement the feature?
That was a good tip. I spent the last 5 minutes making her change direction all the time. In the end I could make her switch almost every time by focussing on her down-foot for a while, just as you said, and then slowly blinking (eyes mostly closed) until I hit an animation phase that triggered the switch.

Nonetheless still interesting how hard it is to make her switch. Right now, only 30 seconds after I lost interest, I don't think I could repeat the trick without re-focussing for a few minutes first.
Echodio (YC W09) Lets You Sync Your iTunes To The Cloud (300 Invites)
The problem with this thinking is that the serious computer users, the early adopters who are the ones that go out and tell the uncaring masses what to use, are increasingly on Mac or Linux. My parents don't use FF because it's better, they use it because I told them it was better and installed it for them. I'm on a Mac, I can't use Chrome, so the odds of me telling them to now switch away from FF (or of telling users who are still on IE to switch to Chrome instead of FF) are pretty low.
This would create a million apps far more horrible than even what's there now. Think the Windows "freeware" market.
There is no limit to the karma you should receive for introducing me to my new hero, Lawn Chair Larry.

'He was immediately arrested by waiting members of the Long Beach Police Department; when asked by a reporter why he had done it, Walters replied, "A man can't just sit around."'

What a quote!
Here's an outline of some of Dan Ariely's studies which I keep in Instapaper for when I need some extra fascinating topics to discuss with friends:

http://bookoutlines.pbwiki.com/Predictably-Irrational
I think the law states that you have to have stuff downloaded to your own computer for it to be incriminating evidence. So if you happen across some child pornography site and click away without downloading anything you haven't committed a crime.

Not sure, I just seem to remember reading it somewhere.
The mysteries of anesthesia
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I interpreted this title as meaning that HN was on the front page of Digg, and nearly had a heart attack.
Although that sounds correct, I suspect it's difficult to argue the distinction between an image download and an image cached by the browser to people who are extremely untechnical.
FTA: Currently, it is not illegal for internet users in Australia to click on the sites found on the web blacklist. The people targeted by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) are webmasters linking out to the sites that the government have flagged up as inappropriate.

This could all change, however, if a mandatory internet filtering censorship scheme is implemented – something that is being debated at the moment.

In case any Australian is reading this, you can bypass Internet censorship with Tor: http://www.torproject.org/
Gallery and Initial Impressions: iPhone OS 3.0
http://www.wikileaks.com/

I guess I've been taking linking for granted.

Could any HNers residing in Australia please add their thoughts to this? I could only imagine what would happen if the US did something similar...
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This image showing the flight and altitude path was particularly well done.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meteotek08/3337008176/in/set-72...
The Logistic Regression Markov Chain developed at Georgia Tech to predict results of NCAA tournament games does a good job at picking both upsets and late round game winners. A bit soft in the middle rounds.
A hundred new iPhone 3.0 features? Let's count 'em
I think the big deal about amazon is dependability, elasticity and the addon services for now.

They are the 400 pound gorilla. I can order ten 1TB EBS volumes right now and they will deliver in a blink. I'm not sure if slicehost can do that, yet.

They have CloudFront which lets me stop worrying about latency, even for overseas customers, at the flick of a button.

They have DevPay, SimpleDB, SQS and such which I don't use but it's there should I need it.

In terms of elasticity they truly let me pay for what I use. At slice I have to commit upfront to traffic and diskspace. Yes, up- and downgrading slices is possible but it's not nearly as seamless as with amazon - where you just do nothing.

For now I think the amazon markup is still justified. But you are right, if the gap widens too much then they'll start losing customers.
Same day as the record companies move on, I predict.
Website-infecting SQL injection attacks hit 450,000 a day
Let's digg it up, in case some entrepreneurs haven't heard of YC yet. Most of the people I meet in the valley still haven't.
www.kenpom.com has all the stats you need sons
I think I'm going to try something like this. I've always felt dirty when entertaining ideas of information marketing 'businesses', but if it works, it works. I'll see if I can do it all with outsourcing (minus the actual site), so, outsource the marketing copy, the product design, the customer service, the order fulfillment (or automate it), the marketing/selling.

It looks like the only trick is to A: automate it, B: get a targeted, under served niche, and C: get a good marketing copy made and an affiliate system. It will be an interesting experiment.

I'll report back after I'm making > $10k/month and living in Fiji.
Looting 2.0 (Or Why AIG Must Fail)
The mercury has to more or less be a special paste and be smeared in the right area. The surface tension of ordinary liquid mercury seems too high to get the alu "wet" otherwise.

I umm.. ehem.. went and maybe umm tired it a little bit after seeing this because it sounded so darn cool. The liquid mercury I've culled from old thermostats had no discernible effect.

Edit: I tried it on a piece of aluminum angle bar. I even tried filing it a little to rough it up. Nothing. Anyone else had any success?
I don't know about DanielBMarkham in particular, but usually, being a parent (especially a mother, but fathers, too, to a lesser extent) does change how you think about things, purely from a hormonal, biological standpoint. In many cases, it can change your whole value system. Whether you view this as insight or the loss of insight is another matter, of course.
Everything you experience in life is an anecdote. What does give you special insight? Something you have not experienced, but read about?
This just put Wikileaks on my daily toread list.

EDIT: I think Wikileaks could benefit from a Reddit / HN style layout.
Photography is strange; it exists solely to please the eye. One can say that the act of looking at it, is similar to how one would USE other sorts of information, and although that's not quite right either it serves well-enough (in reality intentions matter when talking about this issue, otherwise the cops that verify someone has CP are criminals themselves.)

So, that said, it's not the HAVING the information that matters, it's the using of it. If I have your bank account information on my computer it's not illegal for me to have it (I think), but it would certainly give me jail time if I used it to take money out of your account.
erlang now has a run queue per core as opposed to a single run queue, which will improve things, and they have also improved message passing characteristics and ets table locking optimisations.

the "problems" with >16 (and even >2) cores have not particularly been with the erlang runtime, quite often its an inherent problem with the application or at least the way its been written
Yes. Reading a solid scientific study will give you more valid insight than experience.
Australia also banned Grand Theft Auto. And kratom.
looks very interesting, i'm definitely going to look into this
But it's very, very costly to switch tribes for most people, so by the time they're thinking about that, it's too late.
For the past year or so the federal government has been trialling software they will make mandatory for ISPs to filter the internet. The industry doesn't want it, the public doesn't want (trials show it demonstrable slows ALL internet traffic), but they persist.

The relief we have so far is that we're reasonably confident they won't really be able to enforce a lot of things, including links. I'm personally confident that they will eventually find an excuse to 'park' the project, but the closer it gets the louder we need to be about censorship.

Our PM speaks fluent Mandarin. A very useful skill for global diplomacy, but a skill that when combined with censorship draws comparisons he probably doesn't like.
>In case any Australian is reading this, you can bypass Internet censorship with Tor: http://www.torproject.org/

Or VPN'ing through your VPS, googling for "start using CGIproxy", using an online translator, Google cache, archive.org, etc. See http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15013 for as much info on this matter as you should ever need.
In reality they would only quickly discover whether the applicant could be arsed to use google...
There are builds of Chromium for Linux. It's just in pre-alpha and lack everything except for very basic functionality (no tabs yet). So far, the omnibar works, pages render well, and it feels very fast.

Ubuntu builds repository to keep up on the progress:
https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
You just got HN blacklisted. Way to go.
Wee! Streisand effect.

Gottach love the effort of authorities trying to control information. It usually backfires. That's a good thing too.
Good wonderment, but I believe it wouldn't. I've broke one open before when I was about 15, I knew at the time mercury was dangerous so I opened the window and avoided direct contact completely (rubber gloves) and if you ever wondered, mercury does absorb into paper towels. The total amount was smaller than a penny, and I've forgotten to take my belt off before, left my phone in my pocket and even a few dollars in change one time, so I don't exactly see how it could set it off... or the airports I fly from are cheaping out on the security to save money, using sort of like a placebo effect like the fake cameras you can buy for $20 to 'protect' your home.
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I'm not sure if GTA was 'banned', but it certainly went close.

Actually, banned isn't quite the right word. Down under we don't have an (R18+) Rating for video games. This means anything deemed not suitable for the lower (MA) rating is not given a Classification.

...And it's illegal to sell a game without a Classification Rating.

It's a fine distinction, and not one that can be made about the internet filtering debacle.
Regardless of the subject matter?
they're tools in a toolbox. use the one that best fits what you're trying to do. you can pound in a nail with a screwdriver but its way easier to use a hammer.
It's a collaborative wiki, not an index of links (of which you can comment on) sorted by current popularity or similar means like HN/Reddit/Digg.
GTA IV was almost banned - they had to cut one scene to get the MA15+ cert.
So glad I'm not living there.
Right. And your free society would actually celebrate people that produce and distribute things like child pornography, hell, you'd actually sell your own children into the business, right?

I'm sorry but anarchy and freedom from coercion such as taxes are good things that we'd be interested in talking about as hackers, but you're coming out in support of child porn to support your claim of freedom. There is no doublethink here, child porn is wrong, that is objective reality.
It is possible that the anarchic nature of the present-day web is an aberration, a symptom of a new technology catching the authorities momentarily unaware.

The rapid innovation, widespread criminal activity, anonymity, and other hallmark features of the modern web will likely be tempered as regulation increases. However, humanity will still be better off for its existence than it would be without. It may be suboptimal, but it will not be the end of the world.
Agreed. How about making the fnid a signed cache of often used environment variables(instead of a random string), which could also be looked up via a more time consuming method if needed. Depends really on your traffic profile how much data could reasonably and cost-effectively be cached, but it could be a very sizable portion saved by retrofitting the current method.
Or here's something that works on a ton of machines, with no major rocket science necsessary:

1. ssh -D1080 username@host
2. change proxy settings to have http traffic go through a proxy running on port 1080
3. enjoy.
Wow. That was my first Reddit experience in a long time - I appreciate the links, because I wouldn't have come close to trawling through the conversational inanities to find the nuggets of perception buried in a shit-storm of self-flagellation.

Dear HN - I love youse guys.
What? It's bad for security bugs to be exposed to the public rather than to have people silently exploit them?
I recall a story about a case where a US government agency put a video file up on a server, linked to it in CP forum(s), and then traced the IPs of and got warrants for whomever downloaded the file.

The catch? The file was nothing but static. Their argument was anyone downloading the file was obviously thinking they were downloading CP, so the actual content of the file was irrelevant.

Can you imagine getting linked to that file, without context/with false context?
Honestly with the mere fact that for a flight to count as a flight the pressure differential has to exceed 2 PSI. Any metal exposed to mercury (by a passenger) is likely going to weaken in a radial fashion from point of contact, which means in a pressurized cabin, it shouldn't take long before the air pressure ruptures the leak and the plane would be forced to land due to depressuring.

I doubt this would do serious harm to a plane before landing. I doubt if this would even matter in an unpressurized cargo hold because I was always told it evaporated quite quickly at low pressures.
Would a reading a scientific study give me more insight into how to better painter, programmer, car driver, hockey player, or parent than actually doing these things? Reading about anything bestows more insight than collecting anecdotes (experience) in it?
The Cliff Notes version is as such:

- College admissions is a horrible, flawed process.

- Standardized testing is a horrible, flawed process.

- Education is being treated like a commodity.

- It's not the school you go to; its what you do with the time that you are there.