skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will exercise the day I can check my body into a version control system. Until that day exercise is a waste of time since you must do it over and over again.
Except at Amazon right? Theirs is patented!
you don't have to be "smart", you have to fit in. economics is a self-referential discipline. there is no real standard of truth or verity or validity of a theory and hence a lot of bickering even about fundamental questions. and so, there are "schools" of thought. whichever is the current flavor of the month (or rather decade) will carry one of its own to the "highest prize". in terms of hard to get, i'd argue the so-called clark medal is harder. anyway, economists try to act all "science-y" and serious but the fact is, those who arguably understand economics very well (say a soros) and those who win fake nobels are not the same people...
aww i'm sad. i was working on a dope wars clone for iPhone :( are you guys open source or just free as in beer?
This is not the world's first conversation game; there are many others. The best one I know of is a text game called Galatea, by Emily Short. The entirety of the game is a conversation with an animate statue. It's very complex and pretty interesting and fun to play, and there are many endings. http://www.wurb.com/if/game/1326
>> Google knows what sort of things I want, and it reminds me from time to time.

Maybe they know what I want. But they don't know if I'm not in the mood to be bothered with ads.
Someone said it best, I can't remember who it was: "It's like knowing a fabulous sculpture is hidden inside a block of marble, and all you have to do is remove the marble that isn't part of it. It's an encouraging thought, because it reminds you there is an answer, but it's not much use in practice because the search space is too big."
Learn Objective–C on the Mac (Learn Series)
Eric S. Raymond speaks heresy.
And perhaps even more interesting - who gave money to the clients to spend on such unproductive things? It's the client's money that pays for everything in the end, of course.

I'm sure it's human nature to fall for flattery and impressive displays of wealth, but since most of this money comes from institutions of various kinds (many of them owned or controlled by governments around the world), there should be a at least a decent amount of checking what the money is used for. It's one thing to waste your own money this way, but quite another to waste other people's (sp?) money.
Brain Images Reveal the Secret to Higher IQ
Venture Capital E-Card
The MIT probability class targeted at EECS students is 6.041. It is on OCW. It provides a solid foundation in probability with an emphasis on applications (rather than proof). Statistics is but one application of probability and is not heavily emphasized by the class (at least when I took it). That said if you understand 6.041 you'll understand statistics without much more work. Good luck and have fun!
> I only finally purchased a house in an attempt to get away from a series of noisy apartment neighbors.

Why not rent a house actually?
Google has killed a bunch of unprofitable projects recently. Lively died with 6 weeks' warning, and users who wanted to save their 3D handiwork were told to do so by "taking videos and screenshots of your rooms". I don't blame Google -- they don't owe anyone continued development of a money-losing business line -- but it happens.

And that's with Google still making barrels of money and not yet facing significant antitrust action for using profits from search to underprice products in other markets (like cloud services). With a few unprofitable quarters or lawsuits, what's the guarantee GAE will continue in an attractive form indefinitely? What if they decide they have to maximize revenue from developers locked-into the GAE platform? (Or what if the core team leaves to do their own startup?)

Even a tiny risk that another company could yank your platform out from under you on short notice, for arbitrary reasons having to do with their business needs (and not yours), may be unacceptable. AppScale mitigates that risk -- a lot.
529 Asset Protection and Plans
Being a heat exchanger I assume it uses small tubes with tight turns. Probably not great for hair.
Another non-story. A repeat of what ESR has been saying for some time now, with the standard rebuttals.
I liked this Lecture "Basics of Probability and Statistics" by Mikaela Keller, IDIAP Research Institute.

http://videolectures.net/bootcamp07_keller_bss/

ps: She is cute. :)
See: Global-warming discussion. ;-)
A question that must be asked before investing any time in adding to an existing application: would it solve an existing problem? The Right Thing isn't always necessary and often not worth the time.
To run EtherPad, why would you need to do more than their suggested command line:

root@localhost$ java -Xmx512M -jar enterprise-etherpad-1.0b4.jar

???

As a LAMP guy, you could surely use mod_rewrite to map that EtherPad server to whatever other urlspace you'd like.
It's only heresy if you bought into the religion in the first place.
Sony Ericsson TM506 – Say it with style
The phone has on interesting appearance with a fabulous other screen display that has a caller ID. The best part is that you don’t require to open the phone much.There is a memory stick slot that transfers files and data to a different device.
Windows Marketplace for Mobile to charge developers for application updates
WOW! This is awesome!
Not "human life", post-WWII American human life.
Import Japanese Mitsubishi Canter Trucks
The Mitsubishi Canter is a line of light-duty commercial truck from Mitsubishi Fuso, Japan known for their outstanding robustness, superb fuel economy, and impressive maneuverability.
Nokia N96 16 GB Unlocked
UNLOCKED NOKIA N96 IS A MULTIMEDIA POWERHOUSE, This unlocked GSM phone is perfect for keeping your music, movies, and pictures all in one place. Large flat buttons and the dual-sliding mechanism allow for greater ease of access to the phone's laundry list of features.
I think it would work something like this

1 SDR = 1.3 USD + 1 EURO + 80 YEN + 0.5 GPB + etc

It isn't perfectly stable but it isn't so dependant on any individual currency. Even if the USD halves in value then the total impact is less than 25% on the SDR. And presumably the other currencies would increase to offset much of the impact.

As currencies changed in value over time you would probably need to re-balance the percentages. I'm not sure how this would happen.

EDIT: This page actually has the current ratios http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/rms_sdrv.aspx
In my town, you do all that in high school. By the time you start uni, you either have peers from school or peers from outside school who you found because there were no other weird people in your school. There's nothing special going on at uni and whatever there is is perfectly accessible to everyone else.

I'd say the connections in my extended social network are 5% through high school, 1% through uni, 10% through doing random stuff and the rest through friends. That network provides me with a more or less steady supply of jobs, girlfriends, cool dudes and assorted adventures. And, it's part of the real, permanent world and not some expensive fantasy camp that you have to leave behind when the vacation's over.

Maybe things are different here, but if it works for us, it can work for anyone, and economics may soon force the matter.

If people want to hook up, get high and party, they'll make it happen wherever they are and whatever they're doing, so they might as well be doing something useful.
I'm all for anonymity but adding layers like this just slows down the whole download process...
I feel vindicated. Only days ago I was arguing that this was an ad area!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=523481

As I said in that comment, this is a masterful rollout of ads. First, they're building up our interest over this area by putting interesting things there, and then they will start putting real adverts there.
why pay for something like this when you can download MoonEdit for free ( http://moonedit.com )

just saying.
If it's easy to make something incredible, this post should be, and it's not. It's ok, but it's not incredible.

(Except in the original, literal sense, because of the fact that it's not in the colloquial sense.)
Ring Tones Information
A lot of people do not realize that there is a way to get free cell phone ring tones and also to make your own free cell phone ring tones out of songs
This is awesome, it's one more burden off the AppEngine team's shoulders. When I talked to them 6months ago, they pointed at 'AppDrop' as their answer to this, and I could see the disingenuity in their eyes. Some dude spent a couple hours doing that, and probably spent more time writing the blog post than working on it.

Now they have a substantial option. I was surprised to see HyperTable support -- it's a solid piece of work, and plays to my biases a lot better than HBase.
It's not necessarily about keeping your cards close, but about not spending time to polish+publish your cards as libraries :)
Environmental Correctness For Our Projects And Programs
For many years now, the debate over global warming and environmental consciousness has raged. This debate has become deeply embedded into the political consciousness, especially in the United States, but also elsewhere in the world. One thing is for sure: this debate will continue for a long time to come, and it will be a long time before any claims are proven indisputably accurate. So, the question is, how can we incorporate environmental correctness into our projects and programs?
no code is faster then no code.
Stanford Video Lectures On The Brain
Prioritizing Elements with Numbers
Good book for understanding the current economic crisis?
I imagine many HN readers wish they knew more about how we got into this economic mess. If you've read a (recently released) book about the cause of the economic crisis, please share the title and why you recommend it! Thanks
What's So Hot About Chili Peppers?
Photographs of the Economic Crisis
Are you primarily looking for a technical cofounder?
Well, HTTP doesn't really have versions other than as a shorthand for header defaults. For example, Connection: close handles implementations that assume HTTP 1.1, iirc.

An Expires header would help a lot for arc-generated pages served in response to requests that aren't associated with a logged in user.
I am sure here is only me from Baku, AZERBAIJAN. :D It is eastern Europe
Joe, this rocks. Thanks a lot for sharing your code.
Meltdown by Thomas Woods:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1596985879/

It clearly and accurately explains the real causes of the "crisis" (hint: it's not unbridled capitalism).
Yes, Israel - Palestina conflict seems also be a bit about water...

Although there might be some other issues as well.
jbrun you found a very good article, it has lot of points that are very similar to that of my own. Thanks for posting this.
I believe you. Hence I put in the title in parenthesis '(Or so it is claimed)', perhaps it is just a marketing buzzword, who knows?
Absolutely the best by far. I know you said no older books, but this one gets it down to basics, and always seems to be an example of "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it," is

Henry Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson
http://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understa...
> That's what I thought.

You thought that privacy requires anonymity. It doesn't.
TweetRex launched: Twitter friend recommender built on the Directed Edge engine
Summary: By importing a year's worth of food for one person, you save the 1,000 cubic metres of water per year that would be required to grow it. Thus, you import 1,000 cubic metres of virtual water (perspective: you only drink 1 cubic metre pa). Lesson 1: you need a cool pitch to sell your thesis/product.

my publishers pointed out that predicting an absence of war over water would not sell. Lesson 2: not every cool thesis/product has a market.
But why are oil and water treated differently? After all, serious interruptions of food (virtual water) would also stop highly developed economies in their tracks. It seems a crucial test for his thesis, but he doesn't clearly address it.

Is it just that trade in oil is more easily controlled because (1) it has few sources, and (2) the economy of a country that sells food is itself hugely dependent on those sales? (that is, symbiosis is the best foreign policy?)
FS performance benchmarks for new file allocations
Purpose-Built Languages
Any issues in the UK definitely fall under the umbrella of "but not due to the lack of freshwater sources."

Building on that do you have any sources for problems in the UK. I can recall a couple of occasions, perhaps in the last decade or so, when hosepipe bans were either considered or implemented but I don't recall it having any effect on our quality of life.
Xbox LIVE uses a similar approach.
It is not heresy, it is common sense.
Have you seen the release date?
This was the basis of the "open source" split from "free software".

His examples are interesting, but of course don't apply to projects that were closed in the first place (adobe/google/microsoft/oracle/ibm - anyone making serious money from selling software). And for closed source projects, dropping the GPL would also change the game as a whole in other ways, perhaps unexpected.
Someone must own those homes. Then, is the article suggesting more corporates/govt/funds become homeowners and gen. public pay them rent?
When too many gen. public rely on rentals would it not lead to oligopoly of few who own the homes?
Summer of Code: It's About Passion Not Experience
Hole punching firewalls is almost as old as NAT itself, but it's still really useful.

Got HTTP access? Tunnel a command to the server over HTTP and punch the ports

Of course if someone simply disallows access to the skype servers it breaks this approach, Or having a special NAT setup.

All and all hole punching is a cool subject.
It does bring up an interesting issue though - what if someone did set up a botnet, then used it for a generally beneficial purpose... sort of a modern-day take on robin hood...

This would be quite different to SETI or other similar distributed-processing apps, as it spreads itself without user intervention / specific installation.
If this was used for some useful purpose (eg auto-mirroring content based on current traffic) I could see some very interesting possibilities.

However - the temptation to subvert it for nefarious purposes once it is up and running is likely to be too great for it to last long...
Tim O'Reilly: Books That Have Shaped How I Think
People in Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand can't get 25oz (minimum needed to survive) of water a day? Even with water restrictions, I find that hard to believe.
The ones provided by Brightbox. I'm under the impression that they should work on Debian seeing that Ubuntu is based on Debian. As far as I know they work out-of-the-box without even having to run the Phusion Passenger installer manually.
Perl 5.6.2 all the way up until 5.8.8. On Windows XP, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu Linux. Same results everywhere. Perl threads only work for apps less than 2000 lines. Go beyond that they'll blow up.
Must be flooded. It hung for me for a while...
It takes a while to pull the data from Twitter. It actually runs around 500 worker threads spidering Twitter, and once the count gets up high some of the requests start timing out, so yeah, the whole process takes a bit.

Unfortunately, since it's a limitation in how fast we can pull data from Twitter, just throwing more hardware at the problem wouldn't help much. Performance may get better as we have a large portion of the Twitter graph cached.

We expected that it'd be a little rough today when it first goes up, but on usual days it should be able to handle a more casual load.

We debated if we should post it here since we were pretty sure it'd swamp the connection, but probably things will level out a bit by the end of the day.

Edit: Now it's hitting the VM pretty hard since once all of those threads are actually pulling, well, data, things slow down. I may set up another VPS with more RAM here in a bit and do a DNS swaperoo. We'll see how things go.
Do you think there are any benefits doing it against currencies rather than against a basket of resources?

Money serves two purpose: store of value, mechanism of exchange. If inflation kicks in, people with government backed currencies that are easing will be caught with their pants down.

I've been thinking about this on a small scale recently. Now there's no systematic reason you couldn't have your cash held by a bank in terms the GS commodities index (http://www2.goldmansachs.com/services/securities/products/sp...) and then convert it to local currencies at the last minute - either when you're paying your bill or getting money from an ATM. They could manage the risk of moving it into and out of currencies (so that they have liquidity to service people at ATMs) as part of their service.

I spent my first year in London operating like this against AUD - being paid into an Australian account and spending from it on Visa debit. (You're subject to foreign exchange risk, but actually that's just a perspective thing. You're subject to it when you've got pounds via opportunity cost, you just don't realise it.)

China is doing a crude version of this at the moment - converting USD into commodities countries at a rapid rate. But if they want to get a new currency, why not peg it against tangibles rather than building a new castle on already shaky foundations?
The main point of ESR seems to be that it is economically bad for companies to close the source of their product, which is not very true considering apple has very good success rate with both MAC and iPhone. He has not give examples of his "study" about companies which lost because of closing the source of some open source software. If lawyers and corporate bosses are afraid of GPL, let them be. How can you justify removing of GPL just because lawyers and corporate bosses who never contributed anything to free community are afraid of it?
The implicit constants in the O() expressions are different.
I've read a whole lot about Haskell, but still haven't fired up ghc for fear of spending too much time playing with it. This post makes me even more interesting to play with it, but even more scared that I will like it. I'm afraid that I will like it because I am afraid I will run into stuff like this when it is too late.

Unrelated comment: do any other Haskell fans know of a solution or debugging strategies for this problem?
In the US, perhaps. Maybe the ladies are just courser here in Europe but get a few of them together and they're usually coming out with language that'd make me blush.
Ask HN: Efficiency of StumbleUpon advertising ?
After having watched SU's demo of their ad services, I am impressed in a sense that it's based on a simple model which just cannot not work.

Does anyone has an experience with them ?

Specifically, what are the visitors they send to the advertised pages like ? Are they of the in-and-out variety that spends mere seconds on a site, or do they actually look around (assuming there is something to look at) ?

Thanks
There has been news about it but it has not been given much coverage. Christmas eve last, it was reported by AFP and Xinhua (Chinese Govt. Media) that China was trying to create conditions for the yuan to become an international settlement currency and would use the yuan in transactions with neighbouring economies on a trial basis:

http://www.marketskeptics.com/2008/12/china-makes-yuan-inter...

I link to a blog and not the articles because I think the blogger makes some great commentary. He also gives his incite to yesterday's news in the first link on the right. Definitely worth a read.
According to the article the April 1st is chosen because of the IPRED legislation that is going active on that day (see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPRED)

I know TPB has pulled some nice stunts when it comes to April Fool's jokes but because of this correlation I think they mean it. Even though the date isn't ideal... But I stand by my prior statement, that I will only believe it when I see it.
Seolemon - A search engine Optimization blog
A SEO blog helping you understand the complex methods of search engine optimization.
This really encourages my team and me to continue developing a major engine that'll parse content. It's so awesome that this product was built, but I'm not sure how popular it'll be. From my perspective, it has extreme pottential.
How to layout forms
WOW! IN my opinion Google is the best company ever. I don't mean this just cause of their products, nor there awesome work environment. Google has extreme pottential and really they make us all happy when they launch a new, cool feature.
The incompatibilities that have hit hardest are for the modules that use C language extensions. This can't really be helped for such a major change to the underlying structure.

The ruby language changes were mostly included in Ruby 1.8.7, and so most "pure ruby" libraries that worked there also work in 1.9.
What is even more surprising: getting mongrel and DB libraries to work is just a case of a simple 'search and replace' of a couple of things in the C language components of those libraries.
How to Avoid Shedding Problems In Your Iguana
It's a completely different way of thinking about your data, so there is no question why they don't converge. Django's ORM has a more relational (read traditional) approach, and SQLA tries to have you forget about tables at all. While it is still more powerful Django ORM is catching up with each release.

In fact, with aggregations released in 1.1 you will be able to compose 'group by' queries without resorting to internal query object modification, and there will be very few queries that could not be expressed conveniently in Django ORM.
Read the "Cartoon Guide to Statistics". It's no joke. Rather, perhaps the book that explains statistics in the clearest way.

http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Guide-Statistics-Larry-Gonick/...
Recommendation on startup resources?
I have seen many books and resources on startup. However, I haven't really seen a area that actually teach you how to start a tech startup from ground up (especially the technical side).

Thank you in advance. :-)
What is the difference between Raymond's proposed non-restrictive open source software licensing plan and unleashing software into the public domain? It seems like the authors of such software would have absolutely no control over their software under these licenses, effectively forfeiting their intellectual property rights.
It would be nice to submit an image as the search query and have results ordered by color histogram euclidean distance. Result pics would be of similar color and would probably often contain similar objects.
I'm also a European who lived in Cali for over 10 years. I used to not care about the community in the beginning, but lately I've been really enjoying doing community work, helping and donating to the local schools. I feel more home here now than I ever felt "back home".
I guess America changes you.
Just curious, what will happen if China and India joins EU?
>> "As a plain old lamp kinda guy, I wouldn't know the first about servicing Java requests."

Lamp wouldn't know the first thing about doing a real time 'comet' service like this ;)
Try the UNSW YouTube lectures with Richard Buckland, one of them mentions "problem solving" through abstraction, targeting and planning; and may well be what you're looking for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1I7WKncE64
I don't really understand esr. I can't reconcile the elevated discourse of The Cathedral & the Bazaar and The Art of UNIX Programming with the constant self-praise and trolling in his blog and elsewhere. He's just too smart to be that way.

My instinct is to disagree with anyone who speaks in those tones, until I take time to really dissect what he said (and then disagree on better principles!).
Beyond the Money: Some VCs Provide Startups With A Competitive Edge
Nokian Z Summer Discount Tires
More Than Just Writing a Check