skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you.

This sort of product is what I love about Google. Ridiculously simple, easy, and useful. It is a tiny effort for such a huge company, but it saves me having to work with my own charting libs for various little projects.
Very hard to understand what it is about, but good luck anyway!
Coal gasification is actually a reasonable way to get high energy content fuel from something other than petroleum.
Time to bring back the hand crank!
Holographic Algorithms:  Sort of like quantum algorithms but for classical computers! [pdf]
"At the heart of the computation is a process
of introducing and then cancelling exponentially many computational fragments. But unlike quantum
algorithms, these holographic algorithms produce classical polynomial time algorithms. So far
this method has produced some exotic algorithms for problems which were not known to be in P
previously, and minor variations of which are known to be NP-complete or NP-hard."
Naming probably mattered more in the era of phone books and neon signs: if you didn't recognize the name as relating to the service you wanted, it counted against the name.

These limitations aren't present with a URL; a short meaningless name is probably better than a long meaningful one.

An interesting recent phenomena is companies replacing their trusted names built up over many decades with a short, catchy, meaningless one: the rebranding of Washington Mutual to WaMu comes to mind.

A better article on the same topic from the Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11...
NYC's New Apple Store Previewed
I think he meant 'online retail'. Actual retail isn't growing at 20%.
Seeed is a place to discuss the business of web applications
Actually, MIT has need-blind admission AND guarantees to meet 100% of all admitted students' financial need (as determined by FAFSA). I got well over $120,000 in scholarships without which I couldn't have gone.
I like to think they've more or less stuck with it. :) There are definitely forces at work that try to water it down by, for example, introduce proposals to dumb down the core curriculum. The good news is that most MIT trustees have sense enough to know that these things will only devalue their own degrees. :P
Walked by last night. Article neglected to note the spiral, glass staircase that is going to have iphone junkies snapping naughty pictures all summer long...

Place is big, open and fits in well with all the galleries in the neighborhood.
Good, I hate having to fight through throngs of tourists to get to the big piano in FAO Schwarz...

It's interesting that Apple's brand fits in all of these distint neighborhoods. SoHo, Meat Packing district, and Fifth Avenue... Next up, Alphabet City and an outlet in Shea Stadium!
Upmods for a simpson quote ! All you hackers just pretend to be high brow intellectual types. Deep down I know you still like the simple things in life ;)
i think most programmers intentionally dress down because it is almost as if they hurt their intelligence as a human being if they cared too much about anything as worldly as clothes, cars..(anything material). So they just do the bear minimum.
Holographic Algorithms: New family of algorithms probes the boundary between easy and hard problems
"What prompts me to write on this theme is a new and wholly unexpected family of algorithms that provide efficient methods for several problems that previously had only brute-force solutions. The algorithms were invented by Leslie G. Valiant of Harvard University, with extensive further contributions by Jin-Yi Cai of the University of Wisconsin. Valiant named the methods "holographic algorithms," but he also refers to them as "accidental algorithms," emphasizing their capricious, rabbit-from-the-hat quality; they seem to pluck answers from a tangle of unlikely coincidences and cancellations. I am reminded of the famous Sidney Harris cartoon in which a long series of equations on a blackboard hinges on the notation "Then a miracle occurs."
Can't we discuss that here?
"The Pay by Touch saga is a cautionary tale about what can happen when investors allow an entrepreneur to have too much control, experts said."

I would say its more a cautionary tale about investors giving an entrepreneur too much money. 600 employees before turning a profit!
How long has this been going on and how well is it publicized? A dozen years ago when I was applying to colleges, I really wanted to go to MIT but tuition was more than my mom earned a year so I didn't even apply. That's great if other good students can avoid missing out like I did.
Just seemed like is has/will have some interesting content people might be interested in. I didn't mean it as a replacement.
Jeremy Shoemaker on Branding
Here is an impromptu interview at PubCon 2007 with Jeremy Shoemaker about branding.
The only Presidential canidate with his own botmaster!
Hence the additional "for startups" qualifier...
Why Open Source Software Sucks: Software Simplicity Isn't Simple
But the goal of the OLPC project isn't to make money/salaries/increase export share in any way. Its to give computers to third world countries where people have little to no access to them. Microsoft trying to sell XP with these laptops - which doesn't seem to make much sense, since they're supposed to be cheap - wouldn't help the project in any way. So basically, it seems like any market share/income they might make wouldn't be much and would come at the expense of the very people the project is trying to help, and so yes, it would 'seriously blow'.
you are right! i should have went with a while loop
> I would be willing to bet you that they have no interest in becoming a service economy.

I completely agree with you. More so, I believe China (and other developing nations) is pursuing a knowledge economy. We were pursuing it too, until neocons like Brooks took over 7 years ago and got us stuck in the middle of the transition.
Obligatory contrarian links:

Peter Norvig: "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years"

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Joel Spolsky: "Lord Palmerston on Programming"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LordPalmerston.html

Which is not to say that you can't learn enough about (e.g.) FORTRAN in 16 days to say something about it. But I could probably learn almost as much in 16 minutes by reading a couple of Wikipedia articles and an essay or two.

I don't know FORTRAN myself, but I'm pretty sure the advantages of the language are hard to appreciate unless you're the kind of person who has not only read "Numerical Recipes" cover to cover, but also knows exactly which pages are dead wrong. In other words, you have to be a mathematical physicist whose entire career depends on the quality of your machine's math library. I don't think you can really get into that mindset in 16 days.
BitGeek - why do you think that?
I remember running autominers in RuneScape that would automatically move your mouse and click - but I had no idea people were doing stuff like this. Pretty cool.
Programming is hard, let's go scripting - State of the Onion 2007
Does Open Source software really suck, though? I'm much happier with my Ubuntu system with Firefox, Open Office, etc. than with my OSX (Leopard) system. (Of course, that might be because Apple really messed up with Leopard, but I digress.) Given the state of my networked machines running Windows vs. the networked machines running pretty much anything else, I doubt I'll be using any software that I have to purchase for a while.
That was going to be my college thesis but I got shot down by the man.
TomTom's Partnership With Google Will Lower GPS Prices - Or Make It Free
isn't to make money

I have a feeling...I haven't looked into it...but I have a feeling that most of the associated vendors are making a profit on the thing. I can't imagine an assembly plant saying, "Sure, we'll sell at cost because your heart is (allegedly) in the right place."
You know a very large percentage of Simpsons writers went to Harvard, right? ;)

from http://www.02138mag.com/magazine/article/1517.html (via google):

> I myself have spent the past 19 years working for The Simpsons;

> indeed half our writers are Harvard graduates.
And that is why I let my wife buy my clothes and always ask my daughters if my clothes match before I leave the house. Sometimes I complain but those pictures are enough to scare me straight.
This is half of a debate that Gabriel and Steele did at OOPSLA 2002. Steele's half is at http://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html. Since this was a debate it's difficult to tell how closely these pieces match the authors' personal views. In fact, if you take out the words "failure" and "success" then they're hardly contradicting each other at all. Gabriel's biggest complaints are about OO cultism and static typing, as in this quote:

[O]bject-oriented languages have succumbed to static thinkers who worship perfect planning over runtime adaptability, early decisions over late ones, and the wisdom of compilers over the cleverness of failure detection and repair.
New GTA IV Trailer:  "Move Up, Ladies"
Verizon offers bonus content for NFL fans
It worries me that when the XO will be able to run XP, we'll see the same stunts pulled with the XO as we saw with Classmate (see Mandrive and Nigeria).
I agree with Matt. If you are going to use a word from another language, don't do it because it means something relevant to your business. The only people that will know it means something are people you meet and share the story of your name with. Vast majority of your customers will have no idea of your name's meaning.

ie. last year over summer vacation I would see kijiji ads behind rickshaws all over Bombay. Only now I know it means something. Before this, I always thought of it as a lame name. Knowing it means something makes it slightly less lame--but not a whole lot.

It's much better to go with a memorable name versus a cryptic name from another language.
What is a knowledge economy, exactly? The Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_economy) is a whole bunch of bullshit. Knowledge economy seems contradictory to me, because information is free.
You said everything I could say about it :)
I like the idea of a digest. I was recently thinking about how smartly edited digests might be increasingly important.

On the landing page -- "focussed" should be "focused".
Apple sub-notebook to retail for $1500, 3G iPhone by June - report
Startups: Challenge the Market Leader, or Ride With It?
So is it Mooses, Moose, Meese, or what?
So, when do we get rid of the mouse? If anyone knows about designing for human-computer interaction
The Handwriting on the Wall
Its fine for the associated vendors to make a profit, there wouldn't be any conflict of interest there, but it would be bizarre / disappointing if the OLPC project was trying to make a profit from the XO (which I'm pretty sure it isn't).

Why can't Microsoft just keep its greasy mits off!
"Human races are evolving away from each other"
Is Beacon Inflating Facebook's Visitor Numbers?
I think it's less 'intentionally dress down' and more just a logical consequence of caring more about abstract and technical problems than impressing people. It's not as if they refuse to care about worldly things like clothes or cars, they simply don't because there are other things they care about more.

I can see it in myself based on my environment and current goals.
Honestly, who does any of that stuff. I mean, this is not informative to anyone who reads hacker news.
I'm using amcharts. I'm glad Google is doing something free, but part of me would rather support the little guys.
Steganography Is Now Much Easier (with google charts)
Life is a self fulfilling prophecy...
I'm all for Atlanta-area startups, but...

What the hell does it do? I've read the elevator pitch three times and I can't figure it out.
Pogue isn't arguing that names are life and death for a startup, he's just pointing out the obvious: Given two sites that do reasonably similar things, the one with the "catchy" name is going to be remembered.

I think there is a tendency here to conflate short with catchy. In my opinion, there's nothing catchy at all about any of these: Etelos. Iyogi. Oyogi. Qoop. Ooma. Some of it may be a function of personal taste, but I think there's plenty of room for improvement.
"You secretly hope that someone else will come along and relieve you of the sales function."

I don't think that's a sign of doom..heck, you can openly hope someone relieves you of the sales function, and it still may not be a sign of doom.
It's either Flash or hacked together Ajax.

Or Microsoft is perfectly happy to sell you on Silverlight.
It is a memorable name.
Hey Facebook, WTF? Stay Away From TechCrunchers
There's One Thing That Can Slow Apple's iPhone Growth
Yeah, I thought it was a load of fluff too.

Top Three Signs Your Startup Is Doomed

1) All the founders quit
2) The company goes bankrupt
3) You're not actually in a startup
Tafiti is gibberish too. Any word I haven't heard and can't squarely place the language of is gibberish to me. And given that like 8 people who own a computer have ever even heard of Kiswahili, Kijiji is gibberish.
He bought like CardService International that is a good one to own, he should have just chucked the whole fingerprint scanning idea and improved the companies he bought with the investor cash... if he wasn't so unstable.
Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia
Boring Stevey Status Update

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/boring-stevey-status...
insubstantial and fluffy? three kids and an iguana?

Is this a thinly veiled diss at YC?
Could we have a way to flag headlines with an un-needed editorial?
maybe you can direct all those "will code for food" programmers this way. i don't know of many startup companies who aren't trying to hire...
Actually #2 is relevant.

"2. When asked how you will launch if no investors are found, your mind goes completely blank."

Sadly I suspect a large number of Hacker News readers are more interested in getting VC funding than they are in bootstrapping.

--Denny--

http://www.StartupForLess.com
The correct answer is hanging the King.
Am I the only one who harbors a secret (and shameful?) yearning to wear a nice snazzy suit to work every day, instead of jeans and a t-shirt?

I'm a physicist rather than a programmer per se, but I'm sure there must be others like me out there somewhere.
True, but that was an extremely lousy way to poll people. Everyone is going to be a saint in public.

Edit: I just wanted to add that I would totally have sacrificed everything to save those 10 people.
This is symptomatic of the pervasive ivory tower mentality. Good UI design is about being intuitive for your users. If almost all of your users use the back button as an undo, then make the back button function as an undo, and make it do that well.

This is the same Gmail, "we'll force people to use tags even though they want folders because we think tags are better" mentality that makes non-hackers scratch their heads in wonder.
I know a computer science major who is gay and is totally into fashion and stuff. If you saw him on the street you would've never guessed that he can compile and deploy enterprise applications. He recently graduated from college in Boston and now works at Cisco Systems. He's a friendly guy, and a reminder that not all programmers live by stereotypes.
it's very easy to just throw out that acquisitions are of inflated value as well, but as someone who's been in several acquisition discussions with big name tech companies, i can guarantee that these companies don't take the value of a million dollars lightly. these companies are either making strategic acquisitions that are valuable for the tech or hires (valued at low millions), or the user base or customer base, or a multiple of their revenues.

but the one thing these companies are not doing?? "ooh, shiny startup! here's ten million dollars!"
Stevey's Blog Rants: Boring Stevey Status Update
How do you create a Facebook network for your company?
Can You Trust Wikipedia?
German Magazine Stern analyzes Wikipedia's accuracy/updated status with latest Britannica encyclopedias, concluding that Wikipedia is not only more updated and relevant but that it is in fact extremely accurate. This doesn't come as a surprise to most who are familiar with how mediawiki works though. Its just good evidence for those professors who think wikipedia is the curse of the devil.
This has been brought up before. But if you use gloves of nontrivial thickness (I am from Montreal), then you pretty much can't use any phone with gloves anyway.
Some of the things you said I could not agree more with. After the countless time spend trolling around YC, Slashdot, Engaget, Gizmodo, Techcrunch, programming, all that jazz...the knowledge that gets picked up becomes obsolete in a small amount of time and well, staying entirely on top of things all the time can really be more trouble than its worth, especially if you're a student who needs sleep, or if you don't stay on top of classes and work.
I'll be very surprised if Microsoft can get anything but a very very stripped down version of XP running on XOs 433MHz processor at any sort of reasonable speed.

Maybe it will be based on MinWin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinWin
And you have some sort of app to reverse this?
New Ready Lisp for Max OS X (10.5) available (SBCL, Aquamacs, SLIME, libs)
Almost as good as expertsexchange.com
I feel like if either:

1. Given the spelling there isn't one obvious pronunciation of the name

or

2. Given the pronunciation there isn't one obvious spelling

the name probably isn't he best choice.
Oh come on, there is so much rubbish. Maybe in the US the better stuff gets there but I see tons of the rubbish.

Maybe this is like japan was seen post WWII - as inferior "clone" makers, but then things change. Maybe, I hope so.

I certainly have no problem with China "doing a Japan" at all, so it not out of fear or anything (which is probably the fuel behind the "talking points" I guess you are talking about). I think it would be great- a big, peaceful successful country producing great products that make life better, what's not to like !

Well its only anecdotal, but my log book of consumer good that fail about 18 months into use from basic fatigue problems and general shoddiness would say otherwise (all made in china). But then again, we don't have a choice now.
Suggest your work network here http://facebook.com/help.php?tab=suggest then, be prepared to harass support for a few weeks until they finally push it out =)
Task Chair Alternatives- different ways to sit
This is a good thing! It will strengthen XO's perceived position relative to the several other light-laptop projects.
Hard to tell how serious he is. I personally think that TC is boring and I'm not a regular reader. But as a reviewer their impartiality is a strength. If people think that negative FB press is sour grapes then the reviews become worthless. Again, not sure if he's kidding but he's treading on dangerous ground.
He is definitely intending to be sarcastic, see the comments.
Um, no it's not. He is serious in the part where he talks about losing an employee, but he is clearly kidding about the negative facebook info.
To the extent that he is not kidding, this is a really bad idea. Facebook obviously have a lot of allure as an employer, get over it. If TC is losing talent to them, that is their problem, not Facebook's. The idea that Facebook should refrain from hiring away any other TC staffers ("or else!") is ridiculous, and doesn't reflect well on Arrington at all.

(TC jumped the shark 9 months ago, anyway...)
This is interesting?
Yes, I think we're saying the same thing.
OSX apps don't always get this right.

Happened to my wife yesterday - she was trying to use the BART
website to print herself a one-day parking pass. She was using
an OSX 10.4 powerbook with Firefox and choose Save As PDF.
Unfortunately something went wrong with Firefox at that moment
and another modal dialog appeared.

This dialog unfortunately obscured the first one but for some reason
did not have the focus. She freaked out because now she couldn't
safely quit the application and she was afraid that she wouldn't
be able to get back to the site without having to pay again.

Luckily the number for her parking pass was visible on the screen
so she recorded that and called the help line.

I don't think this is a browser issue, and I think the only solution
is to insist that all modal dialogs implement the ESC key as Cancel.
The vi editor got this right 30 years ago: you should always be
allowed to press ESC to get out of whatever mode you're in.
If anyone is inspired by this to give people the opportunities we take for granted, I think Acumen Fund (http://www.acumenfund.org/) has the best plan for using money wisely to help long-term solutions for the world's poor.
I used to wear a suit to work. Gets tiresome after a while. Now I dress how a like. Not a slob, though I am a member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Rubyists. All in all, I like being comfy, and suits fail me on that.
Perhaps, but often there is truth in jest.
if you have employees to loose, maybe?
i kind of like fusion charts. i think rescue time uses them, and ive seen them in alot of places.
India:Get Email in your non-GPRS Mobile !
"She attributed the greater share in the United States to earlier and more effective intervention by American schools to help dyslexic students deal with their learning problems."

Couldn't the reason dyslexic people become entrepreneurs rather than "corporate managers" just as easily be because they don't do well in school, and thus don't have the same risk/reward profile due to fewer opportunities being available to them? Same thing with immigrants, they don't have the credentials to get the jobs they're qualified for so they end up starting businesses in hugely disproportionate numbers. I think something like a third of all new jobs are created by immigrants.
"Holographic Algorithms" method threatens collapse of complexity classes (P could = NP!) 
Very Interesting!
They're coming out with avatar figurines for Rock Band (the new sequel to Guitar Hero). Saw one the other day, and it looked just great -- bigger than the WoW ones, and cheaper, too.

3D printing has come a long way, and this is just the beginning!
Games like World of Warcraft now install spyware on your computer whose purpose is to try and catch the kinds of programs the guy used in the article.

If I were going to do this, I'd try and find a way to run the games in a virtual machines and have my hack software run outside it. Since that software would be free to generate arbitrary memory and i/o state changes, I can't see that the spyware approach will really work for long.
Wikipedia Sued For Nazi Sympathies
The good thing about suits is that they match. And they might not be that bad if you can get the shirt on size to large: That way the tie still look good, but it wont strangle you.
In this case it's called looking at the link. YC seems to truncate the intersting part so you need to examine it manually.

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=200x125...
The correct answer: The king is wrong, but his actions are his responsibility, not yours so you are not guilty of murder nor should you sacrifice yourself.
Sure. I'm not saying that sloppy writing is a necessary condition for candor. But it's a near-sufficient one.
there's a reason they'll code for food. if they were competent they would code for stock options. (except that you could go hungry trying to eat your stock options)
Wikipedia Sued Over Nazi Plot
The Germans are getting their leiderhosen in a twist over an alleged nazi plot behind the scenes at Wikipedia. According to sources, a left-wing German politician has filed charges against the online encyclopedia for brandishing too much nazi symbolism and pro neo-nazi propoganda.
Evolution in the species "companies"