skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how common that is. At my school, most people finish their last final on Friday, go to graduation on Saturday, and leave town on Sunday.

It is a college town, though.
Maybe your missing the point and the youth are convinced of something you don't understand. There a plenty of cases of radical shifts in government and views because of what seems like simple actions and mistakes by a previous government. This should be interesting to see what happens but also serve as a warning to some of the other parts of the EU of what may come if they continue to act in a certain way.
Try to make something funny...maybe a video...or something..fun is always viral.
People are looking for a way to kill some time. I think this is highlighted by allowing visitors to share conversation-links with others..

Still, the problem remains the fact that it's difficult to get an initial userbase that makes sure there's always something interesting to read about on there :)
I noticed your post yesterday in the thread about company names and I tried out a few conversations with Tjetter. I saved a couple of the URIs:

http://tjetter.com/#3JcS

http://tjetter.com/#3Jdz

It's an interesting concept but I wasn't sure what to do at first. What do you say to a person without any context? In each of the conversations the other person inevitably asked if I was male or female. I think it would be easier for people to get involved if there was some starting point, like a question. Get people talking about a topic, even if just to disagree. Something to get them going.

As a more general answer to your question, Chris Wanstrath's talk at RailsConf today/this week is a good read:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=596172
A Better BART Kiosk Interface
Two UC Berkeley School of Information students redesigned the BART kiosk interface using Flex 3 an Arduino and AS3Glue.
Seems like there was almost no fact checking done on that article. They have now misdescribed 2/2 incubators I know about. The other one is Georgia Tech's Venturelab which funded us: http://www.gtei2.com/2009/05/a-new-take-on-incubators.html
Most github links appear to be code dumps, not projects (or, at least, what I would consider projects).

My definition of a 'project' includes documentation, stable releases (ie, tar/zip archives), issue tracking, mailing lists -- these things seem to be perennially missing from most github projects I encounter.
I use slicehost and AWS.

I wish AWS offers EC2 instances with less ram like 512mb and 1GB.

I was going to try Cloud Server from Mosso(http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers_pricing.jsp). But its outgoing bandwidth is too expensive for 22cents/GB.
That's not a constructive reply. It should be obvious to you that I know that. My comment contained an implicit guess at the purpose of the survey.
I don't think the concept needs to be more viral. And I wouldn't know what to make a video about in order to promote Tjetter; are you suggesting something along the lines of a webcast of recorded conversations?
It's not all about books. The inclusion of a PDF reader makes this a big deal. In many schools, everything you need to know for a class is in the instructor's PDFs.
Twitter's U.S. traffic down post-Oprah
That sounds off. Any sources?
Sean Tevis lost his election, but he's not done: Option 4.
You hit the nail on the head - most of my instances are windows because I'm using them to run a small piece of windows software on demand. Didn't know there was a difference. Here's hoping they get a bit quicker as time goes by (maybe there's just not a large enough pool of them yet).
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LLD is a doctorate too (Doctor of Laws) - the next step up from the LLM (Master of Laws) - to be a solicitor or a barrister, one needs at least an LLB (Bachelor of Laws).

I (almost) decided to study law once which is how I know. I was so enamored with Cole Turner (Julian McMahon's character in 'Charmed') I very nearly decided to pursue an online law degree, since Cole was a lawyer. Who knows. Maybe I still will one of these days, but since all my experience is in SQA, it would not be the most logical thing in the world in the long run I don't think.

But anyway, LLD is also another kind of doctorate, along with Ph.D. MD, DDS, DVM, etc.
I've always wondered if pg is wary of "familiarity breeds contempt".
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LG GD330 enables it to be carried around everywhere very easily. This is a consideration to take into account especially when you are the kind of person that must take their phone everywhere. gsm slider phone is a great way to stay in contact with
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Every language must balance expressivity, performance and utility.

I think PHP strikes a good balance, and Recess definitely has the best performance I've seen out of any ActiveRecord ORM in PHP.
Well, I'm sure you could find a gazillon race conditions. And you know what ? Most of the time it doesn't matter.
This is a strange article to give much attention.

He states that he doesn't actually know how B&H is doing financially so there isn't any proof that they are a successful business other than his description of personal experience. He states that they are not open for business as much as they could be which I would find annoying as a customer. The site shuts down that often? You gotta be kidding me.

Any business trying to compete on thin profit margins and/or is too dependent on loans to keep their business running is certainly not going to thrive in this economy. Unfortunately, I don't think customer service will be the deciding factor for many companies right now.

But yeah, as far as personal experience I avoided Circuit City too as the only experiences I had were so negative. I wouldn't say other stores like Best Buy have any more than a tolerable customer experience on average.
Maybe I'm a pariah here, but I like PHP. Especially when I have teachers cramming C++ down my throat. But Ruby is a great language, too. I've had my fair share of fun with both.

I think the thing to remember is that as programmers we should be language agnostic. This is because we need to chose the right tool to get the job done. Granted, most times we can just choose our favorite language; however, there are times when, say, PHP would do better than Rails, or vice-versa.
Apologies for the wording of my comment. What I mean is that you don't have to worry about libraries for languages a lot if you can use the power of your OS ecosystem (especially, *nix one) in your application (considering performance and other limitations).
You mean that dude's name isn't "Related Content"? :)
I think you misunderstand viral. It may be virally shared, but it's not viral by its nature. A viral app is an app like skype or paypal, as they only get useful when the other person uses it. An app like facebook, you interact with the other person over the site, as the person who invites you is 'there'.

Your app is just a 'share this amusing link if you like' type site. It's not inherently viral app. Change it in a way that people want to invite people, and also to stay there. Then it will grow on its own.
To be explicit: the attacker was given trusted access to the password database on another site and violated that trust. The fact that the site used poor security and that Jeff was stupid enough to use the same password in two places doesn't mitigate it.

I was expecting the answer to be that Jeff somehow revealed his real password publicly somewhere, not that this idiot stole it from a database that he had trusted access to.

This would be grounds for instant dismissal or even legal action in my book.
Thanks for your reply, I'm going to think about how (and whether) to prevent the whole ASL-thing on the site.

Excellent read btw, the link you pointed out to me!
Seems reasonable to me?
I don't care for PHP because it's interpreted vs compiled, debugging is a pain and it muddles view and application logic! Separation of concerns is one of the key principles of software engineering. Also, library support is much better in Java and it's generally a more mature language. I really want to write my logic separately and unit test it against mock objects and this is harder with PHP. My preferred stack is Java server talking to jquery front end.
Sweden is "falling apart"? Way to exaggerate... Here's some Nordic news in a similarly credible vein:

- Finland's population vanishes entirely due to suicides and domestic knife violence

- Norwegian language extinct due to general sulkiness

- Iceland disappears into the Atlantic under the weight of Kaupthing Bank's debt

- Danes eat too much fatty foods, explode leaving a greasy stain on EU map
It does add another party to the transaction, but the question is which is more likely to fail. I've made many TinyURL links over the years, and while TinyURL is (and those links are) still around, quite a few of them point to pages that no longer exist.

My suspicion is that the very sites that tend to produce absurdly long, semantically unhelpful URIs - the ones people want to shorten - are the sorts of sites often not designed around guaranteeing the permanence of an URI. Smaller news-media sites are a good example of both behaviors.
Yeah, I don't really have a problem with the editing standards on Wikipedia. The article mentions that the changes where almost immediately reversed several times.

Right now encyclopedia companies seem to be operating on accuracy through obscurity, believing that if they control who edits the textbook, the results would have an acceptable level of accuracy. And that method can get good results. But that also means open encyclopedias will be viewed as more inaccurate for awhile, which means the errors are more public. I'm sure that everyone has had teachers complain about the accuracy of some textbooks, but those errors don't usually make news stories.

So I see hoax edits as somewhat comparable to a programmer intentionally putting a back door or easily exploitable code into open source software. The attempt could bring up problems with the code submittal process, and I'm sure that most well-run projects would quickly fix the error. But if the media got a hold of the story, it would not help convince technical managers and CIOs to take open source software seriously.
I find reading the comment feeds of users with high karma to be very useful.

But if someone gets high karma by writing an RSS reader and autoposter for TechCrunch, that doesn't mean their comment feeds would be more insightful.

IDK, maybe it's a bad idea. I just think it would be interesting to see average karma per comment post and read those people.
Really we should have adaptive compression so that the CPU and network usage is balanced. Too bad it may require "rampant layering violation" to implement.
I agree often you want two people plus the background.
You missed "great people around him".

The distinction is not essentially vacuous: it's possible for the learning of "how to do independent research" to be itself largely independent, e.g. Edison and Einstein.

I said I don't recall Larry talking about this anywhere - can you show where he does? Specifically, about how doing the PhD helped this specific person to learn to do independent research. I'm interested in this.
Question marks, an easy way to create hyperbolic headlines?

Google offers a free, unbundled, high-quality product in a ravenously competitive marketplace. To call it a monopoly is to mock the very concept.
How is it "highly viral"? If it was highly viral, surely, it would acquire critical mass by itself (that's kind of the definition of a viral application)
What is your company if you don't mind me asking?
> What to Submit[1]:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

If you think any of the pages you've mentioned are interesting and would spur conversation than I think you should submit them.

If HN readers disagree they won't up vote it.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
US Trustee moves to convert SCO bankruptcy to chapter 7
Ok, gave it a few tries, every conversation is terminated as soon as you reply "male" to the inevitable question! So option one is probably get 5000 girls on there!
You'll probably like http://manybooks.net

The site's maintainer also designs very interesting covers for many of the available texts; the gallery alone is worth a visit: http://manybooks.net/personal_covers.php
Well, there is: One that doesn't express your viewpoint well, for example. It depends on precisely what you are trying to accomplish in writing it, of course.

Mathematical proofs require a lot of creativivty, too. There are many different ways to prove a given theorem, and it takes quite a bit of imagination to come up with one.

I'd say the main difference is emotional. Being creative in the humanities requires a certain emotional madness, which can be especially debilitating. Scientists and mathematicians mostly just need to be obsessive, focused, and good at ferreting out hard to recognize patterns.
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Ccons - interactive console for c (built with Clang/LLVM)
Review my project: TweetSip, Reddit/HN for your Twitter links
Ok, I might have used the term viral a little to easily.

With regard to the inviting: an attempt to this end is made in enabling users to tweet their conversations. This would allow their followers to eavesdrop on their particular conversation in realtime. Why would you want a lot of eavesdroppers? Hmm, good question ;)

So something else for people to invite others..
Were you referencing this: http://xkcd.com/378/ ?
My guess is that the average artists and writer is LESS creative then the average scientist. If for no other reason, then because the barrier to entry is much lower. Do you need anything besides attitude to be an artists? And science is hard and intensely creative work. And for that matter, so is engineering.
Is that the same thing as Doctor of Ministry?

Guess it depends on your definition of 'sacred'...
Proposed Peer-To-Peer Law Sparks Animosity
Also, slides introducing it here: http://fizzysoft.net/personal/ccons.pdf
"Why aren't the big boys already doing it?", "Because I'm smart enough to be doing a PhD" isn't strictly an answer, but I get the gist now (conversation is rarely strict, anyway.)

BTW: my advisor was slightly drunk too. in vino veritas (in wine truth is)... to a point.
Well, for most everybody it does, actually (sending back-to-back SMSes). Maybe some providers/phones don't implement these things properly, but these are specific situations which should be handled in a different way.

I like Twitter's character limit for shaping the communication, but URLs shouldn't be included in the character count. Ideally, the receiver should send their short message with an HTML link, and Twitter should figure out what to do with that based on the receiver's capabilities and preferences.

That may include sending the full HTML, a bit.ly version, dropping it altogether, or breaking it up into multiple SMSes. If you're using SMS with Twitter, then they have your cell phone number and (thus) know your provider, so this isn't a monumental task.

This all makes me wonder: if you have an SMS enabled phone which is capable of following URLs in a browser, can't Twitter just SMS you a link to the full tweet (HTML links and all)? If not, just fucking drop the URLs since they're useless anyway.
Probably just the most common example used to describe chaos theory - the butterfly effect.
I'd say the main difference is emotional.

Yes, and I'd go further and say that it is specifically a much greater then average empathy intensity which leads to great and moving art.

And that can hurt emotionally just as much as being an elite athlete can hurt you physically.
You're not wrong. I am less than enthused about this, since I enjoy above-average hearing (and have leveraged this professionally for the last decade as a sound tech). I already have to put up with enough noise pollution: this is about as attractive to me as laser-based iris scanning would be.
What is the difference between this and actual Twitter?
Sigh. They just don't get it. http://thepiratebay.org/
This is just the links, not all tweets. Also discussion is with all people who have seen the story in their feed instead of just the people you follow.
If the average comptetent programmer in the US started getting paid $120k (or more) instead of $80k, you better believe the "labor shortage" would end in a New York minute.

The labor shortage has everything to do with keeping wages deflated by exploiting a market-correctable short term issue, and little to do with any long-term structural problem.
> People are looking for a way to kill some time.

You think so, eh? Look at the apps coming out that track your time, that let you restrict yourself from killing time, etc.

On what basis do you make such a proposition? (I'm not busting your balls here, I'm genuinely curious.)
"Never Waste a Crisis."

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This article is actually rather interesting; it doesn't fall into the trap of redefining "monopoly" to mean "big company I don't like".

(Google-hate keeps flashing me back to the late 90s, which is funny because it took Microsoft's loss of relevance and power - despite escaping meaningful anti-trust proceedings - to stick GOOG with the role of tech bogeyman.)
I'm lost. What is it he's doing that I'm donating for?
I think one of the points of the article was that companies are not willing to take someone not fully qualified AND train them proves there is no shortage. If there was shortage, a company will be willing to go out of the way to hire someone. It's much cheaper to hire someone with the just the right skills, and since a company can do that (even with some work for the hiring manager) and get someone further supports the argument.
I guess it doesn't affect that much...anyway, it seems this is quite a new component/plugin so I can't say for sure what is affecting or not. We just have to test :)...
This needs a public-facing page for everyone's votes (wait a minute…). Let them see and interact before allowing access. Right now, nobody will use it because the splash page gives no indication of what the actual application is like or how much activity is behind the login wall.
Actually, I'm using that right now. I've used priv in the past so it's not quite so foreign. I'm finding chrome+priv actually usable.

Still waiting for something a bit more "on the fly right click" configurable, for my ADHD moments. =)
Because of my model (Dell XPS M1330), integrated Ethernet port does not work. Wi-Fi does. Card reader only reads SD. But OS related? VMWare Fusion works great, TextMate, integrated Apache too (in 64 bit). MySQL 64 bit also works great, PHP. I use Xcode just fine, iWork. So far, everything I've tried.
You're kinda right here...
My understanding is that the main "cute" vs. "science" design issue in Spore was whether the character animation/simulation system would directly influence the performance of the creatures. Early on, presumably, creature performance was directly driven by the simulator, and some of the staff liked the challenge of trying to find the creatures that performed best in the simulator.

There are a number of problems with this gameplay dynamic, however. The big one is that with a complex simulation you have little control over the performance maximas and minimas. What if, for example, the simulator decides butterfly wings are a universal detriment? At that point, you might as well remove them from the game, since no one is going to use them. What if the simulator decides that there is a "best" creature design, and that it is a three-mandibled octopod? That will become the design that most players use.

You really don't want a "best" creature. What you want, ideally, is a rock-paper-scissors stalemate, so that players try out multiple designs, each of which has advantages and disadvantages. This is hard to engineer with a simulator. So, instead of using the simulator directly, they built a separate creature interaction model that they had more control over.

I think this was the right decision and that choosing the alternative would not have significantly improved the game.

http://sporedum.net/2008/11/05/will-wright-on-science-vs-cut...
you can just print the PDF - and free dinner is as hacker as you get
"Disposable Soma" theory of aging: in species subject to high levels of predation or death due to other random events, it may be more adaptive to pump energy into reproducing rather than fighting cancer and otherwise maintaining the body.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=V5Ff8eAwO...
I'm an original Kindle owner and I hope that they backport the pdf viewing software. Pdf conversion using mobipocket creator gives mixed results.

Also, I purchased some technical books via Amazon where the images appear to be fixed resolution. For example, when I resize the text, the illustration still stays small.
Sometimes the text in these illustrations are barely readable.

If I purchase the new Kindle, I hope that they will reconvert some of these books so it can take better advantage of the screen real estate.
Despite being told it wasn't a touchscreen I tried to click on individual stations on the map multiple times. People are focused on the station they want to go to; if you show it to them, it's going to be staticky for them to figure out they have to focus on something else.
I'm not assuming any such thing about "causation." This is an empirical issue for which you seem to have been very much misinformed.
It's actually fairly astute. The reason "expanding Germany into the territory of neighboring countries we don't like" was so popular to Germans was because Germany (then and probably now) is fairly dense. One of my friends studied in Germany. One of his professors said something like, "Germany has never had enough land. We tried expanding once but it didn't work out so well."

It's easy to imagine the Netherlands having the same problem. Of course, emigrating to a less dense country is an easier solution.
The sidebar has links to the complete essays. What a treat to get to read something personally penned by my alma mater's president!

(I also cannot help but read the essay in said president's voice and cadence, which was rather... unique)
This is an impressive design. The partitioning of decisions into paged chunks, and the associated visual representation of that space makes destination entry easy. Common choices appear early on in the system ("get me to the airport"), and decisions have appropriate defaults ("purchase multiple tickets" automatically adds another then presents options to add or remove tickets). I've always been attracted to good information design, and this is some sweet candy.

Poor design in large organizations (BART) generally comes from the top, but BART would be lucky to get off their laurels and use this design.
Also reported on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=563786
which in turn points to a New Scientist article,
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227035.200-our-ears-...

In that they say:

There are a number of problems that must be
dealt with, he says. In subjects that have been
drinking alcohol, for example, emissions are
deadened. And different drugs alter the amplitude
of OAEs, as do ear infections or wax build-up.

The grant application is here:

http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/E015522/1
Linode service is fantastic, and its by geeks for geeks.
The user interaction analysis on the page points out that people in transit stations don't have the same preconception about interface. In a noisy, dirty, worn out environment, people presented with a durable looking machine with shiny labeled buttons tend to use the buttons and not the screen.
Will Wright designed Spore, not Sid Meier.
How many people attending?
Founders are still employees though.
Or like Paul Graham's blog:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070102025129/http://paulgraham....
What would you suggest for the public page. Internally everyone's page is different. Maybe a screenshot?
Lift (Scala web framework) picking up momentum
Obligatory codepad.org paste to confirm it:
http://codepad.org/LOZdQd81