skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redirects to "Reverse Engineering". I assume you wanted this (google cached version):

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:mAp2zxYhBnoJ:en.wikipedi...
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Perhaps we could have a filter that detects if a particular user consistently submits links from a particular domain only. I wonder if it'll work (maybe it targets too uncommon a special-case).

Really, we do need a way to custom-query news.yc so we can see the effects of prototype filters. Any way to do it already in existence?
Usability: Make the URL textbox bigger and autofocus it on load. Give the OGNX labels a bit of rounding to make them look like buttons. Give them some highlighting when selected. This will keep people who don't know better from getting annoyed with those little circle toggles. Submit goes on the bottom-right. s/custom alias/alias, add a hover or question mark to it that explains what it's for. Add some overlay js/ajax to give me the new link without having to go to a new page.

Design: Align your header's (logo, speech bubble) width with the google-advertisement-banner-footer width to make the middle stand out. What's up with affiliates? Put that junk into the box right under the banner. Your copy/link/share link colors are ugly. 2 lines of text max in your description.

Copy: Comma or exclamation after 'Congratulations', period after 'others'. Some of your wording is unprofessional. Don't try to be funny. Some bosses won't look kindly on a site like this just because of your language. For example, your http://isnsfw.com/44dfs6 'porn star' might get hit by someone's work filters and get your site blacklisted.

Good plan. Go find some decent sfw url shortener sites, see if you can set up mutual linking with them ("Have something sfw to share? Try [random friend]"). And do you realize that your source of revenue is under the fold on 900px height netbook screens? Many college students use those.

(When submitting, put your comments into the the actual post, not into a comment. Title should also be 'ask hn, feedback on nsfw-friendly link shortener isnsfw.com')
PPK - Javascript events on mobile web browsers [video]
Tee Hee, it's Fox 69. Actually, I didn't even know that stations like this made it out of the single digits.
The Palm Pre has not been released yet. The word on the street is that it will be out just before the next iPhone is announced.
OpenVZ is a thinner virtualization layer. everyone shares the same kernel. It's resource separation isn't nearly as strong. On the other hand, it is also more efficient. you can reasonably expect to get more total performance out of a OpenVZ system than the same system running xen, but the problem is with OpenVZ, if one user is hogging resources, that user is much more likely to effect other customers than they would be under Xen, with it's non-shared ram and stronger CPU scheduling.
Funny, I didn't hear of it until I was on HN :)
Above link is part 1; it gets into mobile phones at about -26:00

Part 2 is here http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/04/ppk-open-web... and it starts off right away in mobile browsers
Nice example of generating word of mouth buzz (viral message + good trigger), makes a lot of sense if distribution is a major issue for your product - ie. your market (and competitors) are more active offline...

Not sure if they can keep it up, though.
He instantly destroyed any chance at credibility with his senseless bashing of Microsoft.
I get that feeling from wireless printing.
He lost me at "[Microsoft] has never had a single brilliant idea in its entire history".

Criticizing the company is one thing. Pointing out the flaws fine. Anger at bad behavior fine. Even laughing at dumb mistakes, that's not gonna rile me.

But denying the brilliance of the company and people who built the powerhouse that is Microsoft? That, my friend is a far better candidate for number one in the list of top ten geek business myths.
I guess at least it will be far easier with mutations than in a strict pure functional language.
yeah. I need to do that. The billing system badly needs work. We improved the provisioning system a bit yesterday, but we still have a backlog from this attention. Fortunately, I've got plenty of capacity, so the only problem is the setup.
Isn't that the entire point of the filter process? Some of the stuff gets voted up, some gets voted down. The submitter gets feedback on their work.

What's the point of the "New" heading if it isn't a firehose of stuff that the community on HN think might be interesting? Why would I be annoyed by whatever appeared there?

Now when yahoos keep voting up material from the same famous people (and I'm not referring to PG) then THAT kind of fanboy stuff gets annoying -- much more annoying that somebody who likes writing and wants to share.

I write one article a week or so. Most of it is technical. So I submit them here. Sometimes I submit other stuff.

But I don't worry about how much material I'm submitting of my own vs other sites. There's nothing magical about "discovery" In fact, it's really not discovered at all until the community decides they like it (or not). That's the entire point of why the board exists.
Heh. Nice. I remember when ec2 came into public beta I thought it was going to wipe the floor with us VPS providers. Their prices looked good at that point in time.
Why not just return the visitor to the previous page (if it exists)? If it doesn't exist, Google seems to be the best bet.
Don't forget that typing on the iPhone sucks no matter how "smart" they claim the keyboard is.
Downvoters, please explain what is good in the article.
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I don't get why so many people see Microsoft as antonymous to innovation. When it comes to innovative companies, nobody's bought more of them than Microsoft.
Wrong. The original Curve was launched at the same time as the original iPhone (give or take a month)
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Etherpad is pretty cool, too.
As a placebo it makes sense, but my GF once went to a doctor whose office looked like the homeopathic section of a health foods store. There are quite a few doctors pushing this stuff out of ignorance or purely for financial gain. In the case of the doctor I mentioned, I think it was (willful?) ignorance.
Awesome, thank you for the tips! I'll check them out...
My read of that was not that Microsoft wasn't a brilliant company, they just did not have any brilliant product ideas. Instead, they took ideas from others and did brilliant marketing.

The point being that a really amazing idea is a very small percentage of what it takes to make a really successful business.
So...can I browse links that others submit? By category?
It would make more sense if the button was labeled, "I can't; I'm under 18!" I can't imagine many working people would be thrilled at the latest Pinnochio news.
I have a very similar rule in my life. People can either give you energy or drain it. True friendships of course involve both good and bad over time but it is the net that counts. If someone in your life is constantly leaving you feeling drained, it is better to let go of them politely, regardless of how wonderful the relationship once was. Once you figure out a person as a source or drain of energy, it's very easy to manage the relationship from that point on. Most people just don't feel comfortable coming to such conclusions.
This was a point I kinda commented on to Fred a few weeks ago, and I was surprised that Sarbox isn't a main concern anymore.

However your point about 'cheap or easy' is precisely what may help the IPO market credibility. If it were cheap and easy and everybody could do it, we would be back to the bubble (in theory). With the right tools and people who can work with it, the companies that truly are ready for IPO can make it work.
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Generally speaking, an "asshole" is someone who is excessively inconsiderate and self-centered. No evidence is provided to support this assertion. I didn't down vote you, but your comment is essentially an unjustified and unnecessary personal attack.
What ideas have increased your productivity the most?
If you don't restart to update the plugin, theres no point in updating in the first place. So its still forcing you to restart.
Wolfram has got to be a liar, right? Hand-curating trillions of pieces of data?
"Wolfram says that trillions of pieces of data were selected and managed by a team of experts at Wolfram Research, and that these experts also tweak the information to ensure that it can be read and displayed by the system."

If 100 experts each curated 1000 pieces of data a day, it would take them 20,000,000 days to curate 2 trillion pieces of data.

Has WA been in development for longer than I suspect, or am I missing something here?
perhaps label the button as "edit map" then....I had the impression that "Save Map" means to save the map at its current state, a la MS Word.
Against the letter, but not against the intention. As with the law, TOS's necessarily have shortcomings, because they cannot possibly cover all circumstances of every individual case. It would be nice if they didn't just flaunt the letter of the TOS in his face, but would explain why they do not want users like him. That would be a fair warning to others. As it stands, it's anyones guess what is and what is not allowed.
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Thanks for the response!

I'm reasonably familiar with OpenVZ and other "container" approaches (zones, jails).

It sounds like there's a missing abstraction layer, or maybe just fewer administrative tools for these container approaches than the built-in-at-time-of-creation attributes of a true virtualized guest.
The patent system is supposed to increase innovation, but there's a suprising number of adverse feedback effects from an increased rate of innovation which distort the patent mechanism:

- succeeding innovations are more likely to occur within the lifetime of a patent

- the patent office can't keep up, so it reduces the time for review

- the time to issue (3 years and counting) becomes a huge problem for small inventors, while being much less of one for trolls

- the number of patents covering an integrated product increases. At this point it is impractical to actually
check whether you are infringing one

- The standard of unobviousness, the crucial criterion of whether a patent serves the public interest, is related to the state of the art. But as the state of the art changes more quickly, this becomes more difficult to define, and
also more difficult for patent examiners to keep up with. (And the validity of a patent may be decided by a court which has even less chance to keep up).
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The above is fundamentally false; SimpleCDN is now desperate; and I would be suprised if any of the above is true.

I am NOT a CDN customer; I have no accounts with any CDN or streaming hoster. I write reviews and publish them on the Web.

I was evaluating the lower priced CDNs on behalf of several clients, and an online pulication -- as he informed your founder. Valid credit cards were used, and the $15 trial was closed when we discovered that the storage costs were so high (this is not made clear on the SimpleCDN web site), the funds disappeared very quickly. SimpleCDN control panel was not working, so we called their support to terminate the trial account. But since we couldn't reach them -- they continued to charge us until more than $30 was used up for what we thoughout would only cost $15. SimpleCDN did not send any bills or emails after they sent email confirming that they closed the account. So their claim that the tester owes SimpleCDN money is 100% false -- which they will be forced to admit when this matter is fully investigated (and it will be) by real authorities.

Note: SimpleCDN watches this board very closely -- making false statements about a person who exposes some of their mispresentations and failure. Threatening law suits against people who they have not even billed. The so-called "attempt" to use another email address was in fact the tester's referall to SimpleCDN -- who they accepted (figure that).

I would not take my word for it -- I would check out SimpleCDN's sales, support and NOC for yourself. Perhaps they think that voice mail is a Network Operations Center. If so, they should tell the public, and not front an industry-compliant CDN. From the post above, it is obvious they are unethical, not above criminal slander. This is exactly what they would be jailed for if they falsely reported the above fabrications.

Stand by -- the entire set of emails and tickets will be published on a major industry blog. Let's see if SimpleCDN is foolish enough to atempt a SLAP lawsuit against respected authorities and journalists.
I apologize for the personal attack. However, the author insulted, without much argument, so many groups at once (geeks, Microsoft, people that appreciate the value of ideas, Ph.D.s, etc.) that I would claim there is some ground for calling him an asshole.

I still think a community should listen to people with insight more than to people with money (especially if it isn't his own money, as in the case of a VC).
It's so important for highly respected, heavy hitters like Andy Grove to weigh in on this issue. When patents become weapons and products become targets, the creation of real wealth becomes a chump's game. In this sense, the analogy to derivatives is pretty brilliant. Opportunistic, sure, but pretty damn insightful as well.
I disagree strongly with your statement that the 5 star system is
"exactly the same as asking someone "would you use/watch/go/buy-from this product/place/movie/business again?". "

In fact, I think this is exactly where the complication arises from. I agree that that is probably a close approximation of the question one would like to have answered, but asking people to give a rating out of 5 stars certainly doesn't ask it. Not only that but it actually muddies the water somewhat when aggregate data is spat out as an answer.
All I did was quote what he said.

The paragraph is about ideas. If he meant product ideas I would hope he would say so, but no, he includes "Page rank, text-only ads, massive parallel implementation on cheap hardware" in the brief bit of Google worship. Only one of those is a product in the simplistic sense.

Hate on Microsoft all you want, but failing to recognize their ideas is gonna be a little limiting is what I gotta say.
It isn't wise to depend on it for your livelihood, but in this case he wasn't. He invested some time in it and reaped benefits. It may well have been a profitable investment.
No... we're debating this feature at this point. It's NSFW material, so should we be listing all the NSFW content out there or should it be more private for you to share your NSFW content?

I'm torn on this one, what do you guys think.
He made mainly good points. It is true to say that Microsoft isn't innovative. They buy innnovation rather than spawn it. It is true to say PHD's aren't an automatic respect earner, in fact they aren't really useful unless you are doing something specific with them (of course you could always argue how the soft skills are important, you should already have them if you have undergrad anyway).

Other than the MS thing (which I think is right) I don't see how this guy is far off the mark?
Also, thanks in general for your HN participation and frank and open discussion of your hosting business. I find it really interesting and also helpful the way you classify different types of hosting needs and potential good hosting fits, ( that are not always your own company ;D ). Very cool!
Optometrists are 90% small businessmen, 10% doctors. They make most of their money off of glasses frames, contact lenses, and random junk in their stores. Homeopathic/organic/natural crap is huge, at least in California. His eye doctor is just following market trends.
See also how to run PHP on GAE: http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/run-php-on-the-google-app...
> Functional purists will tell you that mutable state is ALWAYS bad.

Really? The functional programming people I know tend to say that unsegregated mutable state is bad. That's why Haskell has state monads: so you can build a wall around the parts of the code which have mutable state, and present a purely functional facade to the rest of the code.
No, it's not daunting, complicated, nor scary. And it's bookmarklet for adding bookmark is very similar to this one. Now, really, why whould you use this over delicious?
We don't have any current plans to support the Twitter API. That's just because no-one's asked for it. We'd have no objections if someone filed a feature request on our issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/jaikuengine/issues/list or sent us a patch to add Twitter API support.

We also have our own API which is supported by a few apps.

Open sourcing the XMPP support is dependent on the AppEngine team's release of the XMPP API. However their roadmap: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html says they'll be launching XMPP support sometime before the end of June 2009.

We don't currently have any migration tools although the JaikuEngine API exposes the complete history of every post a user has made and so does the website. It should be relatively simple for a user extract all of their data out of any JaikuEngine instance. We'd like to make this even easier but we're still thinking about the most user-friendly way to do this.

If you set up your own instance of JaikuEngine then you can use the Remote API: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/remote_api.html to easily extract all your data out of AppEngine's datastore.

In general my advice is that you sign up to both Identi.ca and Jaiku.com (as they're the single biggest instances of both Laconica and JaikuEngine) to get a feel for how the two systems work. Not only will this give you an understanding of how they compare to each other but you'll see how they differ from Twitter and be able to interact with the respective development teams.
These "myths" (which I don't think are even myths anymore) apply to male and female.

I hate the way people still insist on seperation via gender
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Remember that guff about, "This DNA test is supposed to be correct, all but 1 in 50 billion cases, but this is meaningless, because there are less than 10 billion people on the planet."

Arrrrgh! Sometimes I think maybe we could do with some "illiterocide."
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why does all new data have to be hand-curated and why just 1000 pieces of data a day?

it says it makes use of lots of public data sets. i'm sure there's some implicit trust there.

thats not to say that there isn't exaggeration happening. probably is. i'm just saying, lets not throw them under the bus just yet, either.
He didn't insult phd's or geeks and depending on how you look at it he didn't insult MS.
Medium complexity for a hash table is O(1) and when your keys are single bytes from [0..255], a good stdlib implementation shouldn't be far off from that.
In other words I just found his "not in the same ballpark" remark to be an exaggeration, although I understand where he's coming from: I am learning Haskell at the moment and oftentimes I ask myself how practical the pure functional style can get.

And what's up with this passive-aggressive attitude?
Python calls them generators. Haskell lists display somewhat similar behaviour.

Although I still have to learn a lot, lazyness by default brings more benefits than it costs IHMO.
Latency and FPS are orthogonal.
The entire book is windows specific.

That's pretty disappointing to hear since I've already ordered this book and the only instance of Windows I have is a VM that I use for browser debugging. Given the chance I'd probably still buy it, but now I'm not as excited about it getting here.
Thanks so much for submitting this. I would definitely like to hear peoples thoughts and or suggestions.
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You could make it an option to set a link as 'private' so it doesn't enter the global listing.
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lol you may need to look a little closer.

the ebay auctions he links to set an affiliate cookie on the user's browser. they are getting paid $xx per new ebay user signup and/or a % of whatever purchases that user generates in ebay (they don't even have to buy a car... anything else in their ebay shopping cart that is bought will contribute revenue to the owners of the site)

you may think it's crappy but with 500k unique visitors, there's a decent amount of loot that was made
Maybe news outlets ought to list numbers in scientific notation a la 1e6 instead of million and 1e12 instead of a trillion. That way you can just add the exponents without all that pesky multiplication and division.

But we'll need to change the name to something different from "scientific notation." It sounds way too sciency to be palatable. My money is on EZ-Numero.
With Erlang, a similar effect could be achieved with the process dictionary:

> erlang:put(1,1).
undefined
> erlang:get(1).
1
> erlang:put(1,erlang:get(1)+1).
1
> erlang:get(1).
2
> erlang:put(2,3).
undefined
> erlang:get().
[{1,2},{2,3}]

It's limited to a single process and thus doesn't break the 'no-shared-memory' model. It also lets you access and modify data without copying it, so the closest implementation of such a function would need to be defined that way and would only return the final list.

Of course, this breaks the idea of 'purely functional' which is what the author found problematic.
Besides, that's just changing the argument, it's pretty dumb to think they don't have great product ideas too, lol, e.g. Microsoft Research?

But then we get into that happy place where there is no new idea under the sun. After all, we can take apart just about any 'new' idea and find a rich lineage. It is in only the most rare of cases that anything is truly new. It's the fruition of an idea that's usually the thing that is recognized at large, and that is often not at the origin anyway.

Hacker News articles cast an eye on the fruition of business ideas often enough to say it's predominant here. And that's what this post wants to be about. No matter which way you put it, FAIL ;-)
Can you implement your own Data.Array.Diff in Haskell or it's just a standardized fallback to C? I'm on chapter 6 of 'Real World Haskell' and I honestly don't know yet.
What is dishonest about the current systems?
The dishonesty (wilful or otherwise) arises from allowing the 5 star system to proxy for something that gives users something meaningful with which to base their decision making.

And what makes it look like an opinion system could be honest?
I said an opinion system could be made more honest. To be clear, I'm not suggesting that the people voting are misrepresenting their position (the users are dishonest) merely that the 5 star rating system that purports to tell us something of value, doesn't (the system is dishonest).

Honesty comes from simplicity and it's my opinion that aligning online recommendations systems more closely with "real world" models is not only purer (in that we'll have a greater innate understanding) but probably more accurate and more helpful as a decision making aid.

As for the Netflix Prize, I can't help feeling that it's not much more than asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Just checking MySQL from that list:

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/h...

http://www.maubi.net/~waterson/hacks/hdbc-mysql.html

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/h...

Nop, not ready yet...
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