skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Sunir,

I'm not planning to, but fire me an email (andrew@metalabdesign.com) so I can get your contact info. I'd love to get a coffee sometime.

-Andrew
A primer on Bézier curves
Code to 'stalkdaily' xss attack
I'd highly recommend GoDaddy's Domain Name Aftermarket (tdnam.com). I've gotten a ton of good .coms from there, one of which we recently sold for $35,000.
Induce another large country, e.g. India, to prefer baby girls.
Rich Skrenta: blekko.com will presumably launch in 3 months [video]
Puzzle: LgN algorithm for Index == Value
I recently learned about the Mosuo, which have no gender bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo
Weekly publication an answer for newspapers?
32 million disenfranchised men, unable to find a wife, and start a family in 18 or so years?

The stuff that revolutions are made of.
Great writeup though the title mislead me, I totally expected a RX-8 Driving around..

But very cool!
eBay is the most obvious, but Hulu and digg are good calls too. There's also Vevo, Toys.com and Dice.com to name a few.

Short URLs are great, but given the 4 char domains left you're probably better off with a longer and more memorable one.
Two huge reasons keeping developers on the iPhone -

(1) Ease of development - cocoa + objc isn't very hard, and often is quite fun. Its roots in smalltalk help in the appeal to ruby/rails people, and, let's face it, cocoa apps are just plain sexy

(2) Non-Apple / Android handsets have a terrible distribution system. Carriers are in the stone age and have no intention of budging one bit. I've gotten back evaluation reports from carriers with complaints like how their bottom-end, 25-character wide phone screen couldn't read text, thus they wouldn't ship on any phone. It's attitudes like this that scare the crap out of developers.
(I submitted this story). Much as I don't like the tone of the piece, I think the point about the traditional media focusing on competing on accuracy and not speed is valid. The question in my mind is, is there a large audience for slow, albeit thoughtful and accurate, journalism?
Extracting 10 years of USAspending.gov data into CouchDB
The simplest solution would be a large scale war. Actually, it is the only solution. Nothing good will come of this.
I've been using this for a few weeks now, and (besides AdBlock Plus) this is the most useful extension that exists for Firefox.
I think, saying who you partner with is not helping. "We partnered with Diamond Supply Co. to help skaters find a place to skate, anywhere." It's rather obscure the marketing message that you try to convey. After all, users don't care who you partner with other than how useful is the product.

IMO, if all the links are working, the iSk8 and Pic This are ready for launch. Take out the Coming Soon though. It won't be too late to put something there once you have it.

Maybe you want to add "contact us" link? At least, people know how to contact you guys if they want to.

And, i personally think, something like "We are focused on creating apps to make life quirky for ..." should just be in "about us" page (link somewhere in the footer).

Focus more on iSk8 and Pic This. Tweak the photo. Make it bigger. Make the marketing message more to the point and selling. That's my opinion. Good luck!
Disclosure: Part of my responsibilities at AWS include the AWS Public Data Sets program
The original Dubai article was very interesting and a good fit for HN, imho. This one feels more like a Reddit submission.
Why does it beckon retaliation instead of correction? If it is because he is correct then retaliation would seem like something only the immature or stupid would engage in. More enlightened souls would either point out their already standing agreement or would learn.

By the way, I did not read this 'Dark Side of Dubai' article you mention and I have no idea therefore what was said in it.
This is terrible news. If every other windows application starts using their code, you can expect hundreds of megs of RAM flushed down the drain on your system (each google updater process takes up about 10 megs). I hate this process always reviving itself after I kill it. Having multiple instances of it will be a nightmare.
I've heard this theory floated before. The people proposing it have a good point. They have to find something to do with all of these young men or trouble could emerge. I guess an alternative strategy would be to bring back monasteries. If this is too discordant with the official ideology of the state, they could send them to graduate school in science. ;|
Dance your way to successful ageing
Some run far more than a few times a year... for instance Dean Karnazes. He once ran 50 marathons in 50 days as a promotion for North Face. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/ultraman.html
While we're on the topic, this is an exceptional blog that covers labor issues in neighboring Qatar. http://qatar.livejournal.com/tag/rights
Yes. Vietnam needs to start working on an H-Bomb now. I mean that. The ironic aspect of it, of course, is that in modern economies, women are much more valuable to the old folks than men.
Creating a fairly-wide sea-passage through the continent (splitting it in two) would probably be easier. Plus it would generate a lot of new beaches and dive sites.
'iSk8' almost makes it sound like you're finding ice-skating locations! (Is "Diamond Supply Company" a brand a skateboarder would recognize?)
In the courtyard of Senior House...
Do you know any language where it's not bulky?
iPhone: Standard hardware specs, standard input mechanisms, standard form factor.

Nokia: Hundreds of different hardware specs to target, dozens of input mechanisms, wildly differing form factors.
your brother writes i will teach you to be rich? (http://iwillteachyoutoberich.com)
Actually, cultural preferences can change. This blog entry commenting on the NYTimes article mentions that both Japan and Korea have in recent decades begun to prefer daughters:

http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2009/04/boy-trade-in-china.php
"Only solution" is a bit harsh. What about homosexuality, or robots?
Seconding the feedback already here. You should use up more space to talk about and sell the apps; the content about your company could go into a separate place.
yup that's him
Well I saw the sea of dead posts about this topic here before I commented - I wasn't afraid of condoning the use of Microsoft software as much as one of those people would then maybe comment and start off something like that for a small comment I left in hopes that there might be someone else on HN that might find it useful. (And now I notice that more of the comments not-dead on this link are about Microsoft than the DreamSpark program itself...) I personally don't care what I use as long as I can use it for the task at hand, and I also don't care what others choose to use. I think that these tools that are normally fairly expensive now free for academic use to be a nice little touch, but then again I also appreciate that most commercial software is also available at low/no cost to students and educators.

What does bother me is kneejerk reactions to being against Microsoft for no good reason. So I use Mac OS X mainly, and *bsd or Linux for servers, and I contribute to an open source project. I still find a use for Server 2008 and Windows Mobile and more..
It's not a binary issue, and you can't just say A > B = problems.

There are ~1.3 billion Chinese, but let's assume the this issue covers 1/3 of the population. So it's (1300/3 + 32/2) vs (1300/3 - 32/2) which works out to 4350:4318. Now we might guess that there will be large numbers of men that don't ever have a relationship. But, what people forget is relationships don't always last. People die, or get divorced ect. So what ends up happening is women will spend a higher percentage of their life in a relationship and while some men will never marry this is "normal" and they can still have relationship with women throughout their lives.

If anything expect women to marry younger and female widows to be in higher demand than males widows. Granted, if the male to female ratio ever reached 2:1 there would be issues but this is still a minor imbalance.
While ES5 doesn't have ES4/ActionScript classes, some of the features it introduces (like Object.freeze) are explicitly design to support classical inheritance, and the ES "Harmony" project will probably build more classical OOP syntax into the next version, on top of the new ES4 semantics.
"Nothing can be done now to prevent this" That's not true. Nothing that wouldn't land someone in the Hague maybe.
I've been using this for quite some time. The best part is that it downloads people's rulesets for paging sites, so 99% of the time you don't have to set it up yourself.
The problem is most preventable in rural areas and the cities more to the west. Places like Shanghai don't have such an imbalance.

The more likely solution, as opposed to using them for wars, it they get used for domestic construction projects: highways, railroads, etc. This has already been the case.

China is working hard on this problem. Its illegal to know the sex of a child during pregnancy. Some get around the issue, but I have personally seen it upheld pretty well. I knew the sex of my child before he was born, in Shanghai. But I was only allowed to know because I was an American and was in a hospital that catered to foreigners. The locals seem to have mostly settled in on the fact that they aren't supposed to know.
I'm also a satisfied user of this extension. I find it particularly interesting as an example of how crowdsourcing can work not only for posting news, tagging photos, etc, but also for contributing simple code snippets which find the "next page" link.
The anti-war solution? Monogamy is probably out the window.

- "Full service" Chinese sperm banks (mildly nsfw)
http://www.inquisitr.com/20953/sperm-donation-in-china-comes...
- Special friends (like Japan)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070313230107AA...
- Robots

Better (and cheaper) than the alternative.
Very interesting.

However, this kind of thing: "Most significantly, when children are born, the father may have little or no responsibility for his offspring..." -- that's terrible.

That WP paragraph "Walking marriages" somehow reminds me of Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Harsh indeed.
Okay, I think I understand what you're saying. It certainly is easy to project the geopolitical status quo infinitely into the future, and just as certainly that is wrong. But I think financial centers shift slowly -- we've only really seen three (London, New York, and Amsterdam) in as many centuries. Moreover, the traditions and rules of the predecessors are often carried over to the successors, and we can probably expect this continuity to be even stronger in the future, given the greater degree of global interconnectedness.

So I guess what I'm saying is that it will be some time before we seen a financial industry like that of the turn of the 21st century, no matter where you look.
Using universities for "vocational training" is a bad route. Its what many employers want and some students want. A solid general university education is valuable even if you cannot measure its value in terms of your first few jobs.
Well said. There is no good reason to grow up so fast. You have the rest of your life to work. Spend as much time in university as you like. Take a year or two and travel after your done, it doesn't have to be expensive. Work is always waiting for you.
These are two different issues. Economies of scale are cost advantages that businesses obtain by expanding. Web Startup X starts out in a rented office with their content sitting on externally hosted servers, since they're too small to buy their own space/servers. At some point, they have enough users and cash that it becomes much more cost effective to build a datacenter and host everything in-house.

Youtube has gone through many of these stages, culminating in the Google purchase, and are now the big fish, with no more economies of scale left. They already have datacenters worldwide, and global name recognition. No matter how much they continue to grow, they will not become more profitable due to growth alone.

However, the other issue here is the exponentially rising value of computing technology, especially in bandwidth and storage space. It's why you paid $3500 for a 5MB hard drive in 1981 when you can get 200,000x the space for 2% of that price today. This fact, which has nothing to do with economies of scale, is why Youtube's profit should increase to >0 someday. The question is whether Google can (or will) wait that long.
Yep,

"they’ve already reached the point at which no greater economies of scale remain, the costs of the business will continue to grow on a linear basis." This is wrong on several levels.

YouTube helps Google reach even larger economies of scale. Granted YouTube is still going to end up as a net loss, but things like heath care become cheaper per person as the company grows. However, over the next 10 years hardware and bandwidth is going to get even cheaper. While moving to HD will probably eat most of that benefit, I still think YouTube will break in the not so distant future.
Given that the list is sorted you can just modify the basic binary search to do what your want. Choose the middle and then compare the index with the value - depending on the relationship look to the left or right and repeat.
The problem is that you throw this in your module, and then someone else defines another Array#to_sentence (say in some Natural Language module you require) and all of a sudden you've got hell on earth.

For more information, take a look at some of the discussion about Array#sum: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-04-0...
"The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil itself...

The one who raises the question against God in effect plays God while denying He exists. Now one may wonder: why do you actually need a moral law giver if you have a moral law? The answer is because the questioner and the issue he or she questions always involve the essential value of a person. You can never talk of morality in abstraction. Persons are implicit to the question and the object of the question. In a nutshell, positing a moral law without a moral law giver would be equivalent to raising the question of evil without a questioner. So you cannot have a moral law unless the moral law itself is intrinsically woven into personhood, which means it demands an intrinsically worthy person if the moral law itself is valued. And that person can only be God.

Our inability to alter what is actual frustrates our grandiose delusions of being sovereign over everything. Yet t he truth is we cannot escape the existential rub by running from a moral law. Objective moral values exist only if God exists. Is it all right, for example, to mutilate babies for entertainment? Every reasonable person will say “no.” We know that objective moral values do exist. Therefore, God must exist. Examining those premises and their validity presents a very strong argument. "

RZIM.org
go to stanford.. meet a lot of people.
Of course. iPhones are a fun platform well suited for a single programmer to spend evenings writing apps for. Nokias are a "serious" platform designed for "real companies" to devote teams of "software engineers" to develop software for.
Ask HN: Yet another internship query
Reposting this again, seems like now these posts are getting more of a response.

----

So, I'm planning on doing my own startup after I graduate, but until then, I want to work during the summer.

Last summer, I worked on REST APIs for the New York Times, but this summer it would be nice to work for a smaller company, doing something insanely cool.

Is anybody doing cool work with Ruby (or Rails), bleeding-edge web-tech, HPC/Clustering, or something else cool?

I've spoken to a few companies in NYC (where I am) but it seems like all the action is in the Bay Area - any companies there are especially interesting (um, I love warm weather). I've spoken to a few (mainly the big G) but I know lots of people in NY, but not so many in CA.

My resume is online at http://ben.kudria.net/resume . My email is ben at-sign kudria point net

(Helpful job search tips, or pointers to cool other companies also appreciated!)
On the former, investing in a chain of gay friendly bars or websites in China might be a good idea. It looks like the laws are getting a bit more lax in that area[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_China
good luck guys! I hope it will turn out great! :)
Analysts usually like to charge for that stuff, which means not publishing it freely.
Health care stops becoming cheaper per person at some number far below what Google has exclusive of YouTube. The same is true of most things.
That's a good point, and I think India and China will do well through it all. But remember that a lot of demand for manufacturing and production in these countries comes from Europe and North America. So while they won't dip nearly as low as, say, the States, it will still hit even these rising stars.
His grammar book is $161.42 - ouch! I bought the 50th S&W Elements. It is a nice little volume and has some good advice in it. There are certainly better style guides out there - no doubt. It's a guide, not a 6lb 1860 page grammar bible.
bool f(vector<int> v){

/* use 0-based indice*/
int lowerBound = 0;
int upperBound = v.size() - 1;

while(1){

if(lowerBound == upperBound) return v[lowerBound] == lowerBound;

int i = lowerBound + (upperBound - lowerBound) / 2;

if(v[i] == i){

return true;

}else if(v[i] < i){

lowerBound = i + 1;

}else if(v[i] > i){

upperBound = i - 1;

}
}
}
Oh yes, definitely, that option is there for us.

But sometimes when the immigrants(like me) have lived a major part of his youth life in a different culture and adjusted there with the society, people, etc, they tend to feel associated with the new country. (I think it all depends on the age you came to the country)

I think the US immigration system needs a new and improved modern look. I would not deny the fact that certain companies/people do exploit the H1-B Visa due to loopholes in it. This definitely brings a bad name to entire group and also puts into question the validity of the H1-B program and I am totally with my American Citizen's on that, but in certain situation they do need foreign talent. The H1-B program needs a fine tuning.
"If this is too discordant with the official ideology of the state, they could send them to graduate school in science."

LOLOL. Would be even funnier if it weren't so true:
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligenc...

A depressing statistic: "only 65% of MIT graduate students have had sex."
You need to sell the product not the company.

You need a bigger image of the product itself. Get rid of all the stuff at the bottom and put that in an "about us" link in the footer like already mentioned. Use the extra space to expand the images (they should be _at least_ 3x as tall as they are now though the width is good)

I like the clear pricing and learn more link but since the images are going to be a lot taller use the extra space you'll have on the right to point out the 3 main features.

The see in action link should work of course, with screenshots of relevant app usage, possibly with an embedded video if you have the budget to make a good video (a bad video can hurt sales, make sure it's good or don't put one at all).

Move the partner branding out of the main focus. People generally read from top right to left, then go back right and read on a diagonal. I thought the app was to find deals on diamonds or something until I read the description (reading text generally comes AFTER scanning large images). I would put the product screenshots on the left side and move the partner logo to the top right.

Good luck!
Surprisingly, India also has an unbalanced ratio, and AFAIK, the root problem is the same: cultural.

Sex Ratio: At birth: 1.12 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.098 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.061 male(s)/female

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/04/country_facts/main...
On programming language design
Any reason why this got downmodden? Just curious.
This is a binary sort. How is that interesting?
"So I guess what I'm saying is that it will be some time before we seen a financial industry like that of the turn of the 21st century, no matter where you look."

I agree. And, honestly, that could be a wonderful thing. Now that the New Gilded Age seems to be over, maybe people can cool their heads off and get back to reality...
Well the child doesn't have the actual father as a parent but he/she does have the males of the family. It's just a different way of raising kids as a community that we just aren't used to.
Ah yes, racism with a little "r". I shake my head at the "witty" folks of my home town. :(
Nokia: Hundreds of different hardware specs to target, dozens of input mechanisms, wildly differing form factors

Which probably forces developers to reduce everything down to the lowest common denominator.
You seem informed. You know if there've been any peeps on transrelational stuff since 04-05?
I think the world just wants fun stuff. Serious stuff sucks... it's hard to make and not fun to use.
For those that like these puzzles there's tons at TopCoder.com, spoj.pl, usaco, etc.
Why don't you do your startup now? You do realize that doing a startup does not result into instant success. So why not launch it now, so you have a few years to grow it to profitability.
Typo alert! You meant

int i = lowerBound + (upperBound - lowerBound) / 2;
Where did I get these vague ideas about split infinitives, beginning sentences with "However", and "which" vs. "that"? Answer: through hand-me-down versions of Strunk and White, who turn out to have been just plain wrong.

Actually, many of those bugaboos of English teachers in schools long precede the publication of Strunk's book as edited by White. Strunk would have learned his hang-ups from teachers who mindlessly passed on hang-ups they learned from still earlier teachers.
Wouldn't this also have an impact on China's morality laws? Maybe this will push same-sex relationships and all of the accompanying impacts (child rearing, financial planning, legal contract/consideration) to the forefront far faster than would otherwise occur...
Hookk - Micro Letters To The Editor
Perhaps it's just me, but I've always found the that/which distinction fairly clear and relevant. Consider the following two sentences:

1. Don't eat the apples, which are rotten.

2. Don't eat the apples that are rotten.

To me, the first one indicates that all the apples are rotten, whereas the second only suggests that some are bad and directs me to be choosy.

Of course, I know better than to assume that everyone follows this rule to the letter, but I do make an effort to get it right myself (like a good protocol implementor: liberal with input, strict with output).
iCantThinkOfBetterName

... (iPhone app)
Or, alternately, you could support scientific initiatives aimed at repairing aging rather than just accept the same boundaries to health and life that your parents and grandparents suffered under. The SENS Foundation (sens.org) and Methuselah Foundation (mfoundation.org), for example.

Don't we live in an age of progress, in the midst of a biotechnology revolution? You wouldn't think so from the way in which people are fixated on living within the health realities of fifty years ago.
We'll simplify the process to make it easier for companies to close the loop and get jobs up via JobSyndicate. We're still trying to fly below the radar, but I suspect companies that know of and are interested in HN will fit in well with our "alpha" program.

We've also got some new features coming soon that will make it easier for folks to find the right jobs through the existing ad. Stay tuned.