skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi alain, Gabor from reMail here - yeah, I remember BTX in Germany which worked the same way. In 3.0, Apple will add in-app subscriptions which reMail might also use - they're simple and painless, and you can just click "no" if you want to use the service. Gabor
Network Demands Are iPhone Hang-Up
FlairBuilder - Interactive Wireframes and Software Prototypes
Its like the f'ing tobacco industry did for four or five decades. Once they realized the science is against them, they start spraying FUD out every orifice, delaying action for as long as possible.
'Star Trek' Writers Reveal Never-Filmed Shatner Scene
Yup, I believe that's what they're doing. The trouble with this approach is that IMAP servers are painfully slow for server searches. Very few of them build an index. Interestingly, doing searches against Gmail's IMAP is also dog-slow :-(
My lucky lotto numbers are 1,11,17,21,44,69
I've been working on a web app for the past year, and, I am a BizSpark member. Getting in to the program was a bit of a pain because a couple of their partners never got back to me.

My Dev box is Windows 7 + Python/Django courtesy of BizSpark. I use a WAPP stack (Windows, Apache, Python, PostGres) for production. And, for office stuff, I get to use Office 2007 Ultimate which is really very shiny. The MS office suite is really nice software.

Even if you're a primary Mac user, why not get the BizSpark membership and run whatever Microsoft OS you want on Parallels, just for Microsoft Office? It costs a hundred bucks after 3 years. What do you have to lose?
In fact, we are never able to bend the space and time to perceivale level so far. To bend the space and time we need to create a large gravitational field.

We bend the material, but we did not bend the space.
Wasn't Konfabulator acquired by Yahoo, not Apple? Also, I thought it was a Windows app ...
Ask HN: Review our startup, Philtro
http://www.philtro.com

We're a small bootstrapped team based in DC, SF and Ottawa who've built a semantic filtering system for Twitter. (Read: Philtro is a spam filter for Twitter) The concept is that you rate tweets with a thumb up/down action, we learn pretty quickly and immediately start filtering out the irrelevant stuff from your incoming twitter stream.

We're in private beta but HN folks can use this link to get immediate access: http://www.philtro.com/openinvite/351

Thanks in advance!

Paul
Silverlight "Out of Browser" (or SLOOB) is in the v3 beta. It has some pretty severe limitations though before it will compete with AIR (can't run chromeless, no tray icon support, subject to crossdomain issues as it runs in a browser sandbox, no webcam/microphone support, and more.

I think they're making a big mistake releasing a competitor for the world's best Twitter application platform by not supporting what would be needed to build a Twitter client with it.
Starting Out and Moving Up
(ARA) - Most people provide their cars with the right maintenance in order to make their investment last a long time.
I think the positive sentiment around Perl is because Perl 6 is getting closer to usable and so there is that "new thing" hype with Perl right now which generally start to go away when it starts to get put to use in real programs where the bugs and frustrations reveal themselves.

Nothing against Perl - this is just how it is with anything new and untested.
If I did this study, I'd grab a few days' worth of conversation from the mailing lists and IRC channels of each language, and analyze the tones there (perhaps only each first on-topic line per person per login—further lines would be biased by the conversants' attitude toward each-other, more than their attitude toward the language.)

Alternately, if I wanted a truly controlled experiment, I would grab a bunch of high-schoolers or college freshmen, filter out any that either already knew how to program, or didn't already know how to use a computer well, and then divide them into groups and teach each group a separate language with a pre-planned lesson (which would teach the writing of the same algorithm in each different language), recording the students' responses in much the same way as one would record people's reactions to a UI for HCI analysis.
It's fair to say that the chart is meaningless in terms of "what's a good programming language?". But there is clearly different sentiment about the different languages on twitter, and the differences are statistically significant. From a market research point of view, I think there's an interesting signal here.
MonaTweeta II: Trying to encode images in Twitter's 140 character limit
I would really like to see each Prism instance maintain it's own profile. Right now they share the browser profile so you can't have two Prism windows open with different Gmail accounts for instance.

EDIT: It's on the wishlist, nice! https://wiki.mozilla.org/prism#Wishlist
I've always been pretty amazed at the thought of a space world.

Great! 'cos you're living on one :)

Very far. We can't travel faster than light and at the moment not even close to it. We have vague ideas that warp drives might be possible, but generating, containing and manipulating enough energy to work in some of the suggestions is also currently unthinkable. We're at the stage of needing multiple unpredictable breakthroughs to get anywhere close, and that leaves travel to the nearest extra-solar anything taking many years.

Also, the Star Trek technology is very inconsistent, I don't think we are going that way. I haven't seen the new film (yet) but from the TV series, there are numerous questions. How come nobody else ever has Geordie-style visors as an option? Or any kind of optical or neural enhancement or display? Or any kind of body armour?

Why is there no nanotechnology anywhere except when the Borg turn up? Why isn't there an anti-Borg good cyborg species? They destroy entire star ships so frequently and inconsequentially that they must have tremendous manufacturing capability, but wouldn't that have more ramifications somehow? How come Picard has a replacement heart and Geordi a brain-connected replacement vision, and everyone can be rebuilt by the teleporter, but they all have wrinkles and age and die? Why don't they throw half the Enterprise away and replace it with a much smaller holodeck with simulated rooms? Why does nobody ever ask the computer anything interesting? Why can't Data improve himself or replicate himself? Or merge with the ship's computer? Why has nobody built a machine to pick up what Deanna Troi's empathic sense does and done away with the whole "Computer, where is x?" "x's badge fell off so I can't find them" thing?

Why is nobody sitting at home on Earth and using the magical instantaneous subspace communication to explore with unmanned spacecraft?

So, yeah - space: big, cold, empty. planet bankruptingly expensive.
http://top.searchyc.com/submissions
The “C” query combines C++, objective-C, C and C#. It would be nice to split this out in future work.

Indeed, despite the common ancestry, those languages (and the people who use them) are very very different from each other.
That depends on what you mean by space. LEO to Geosynchronous orbit is still a lot more than 1% of energy to orbit.

Anyway, orbit is only 17,000 MPH which is way to slow to go travel to the next star. Traveling at at 17,000 mph would take about 40,000 years to travel one light year. The good news is you slowly accelerate in space over a long time, so smaller high efficiency engines would work just fine. The bad news is the closet star is over 4 light years from earth.

So getting something the size of the space shuttle to the next star in 1,000 years would take 2x (168^2) as much energy as it takes to get to LEO. ~56,500 * 2.2 * 10^12J = ~10^17 jules for comparison that's ~28 thousand megawatt hours.
Entertaining anecdote? Panic's Audion story is incredible. Read it!
there were 150 tweets per language, but you're right lukas didnt say what the number of unique different people was per language.
You can do this on a Mac with

http://fluidapp.com/

which I believe runs on Safari/Webkit. It allows for Applescript and plugins.
Obviously, I disagree. Such a filter will exclude precisely the wrong candidates. That is my argument in the article.
Silverlight 3 will. And Silverlight is basically a subset of WPF, so that makes cross development easier (Same skills and tools to do both Silverlight and WPF apps).
No, but you can hackintosh hackintosh as a hackintosh, if you hackintosh.
i think you might have to be careful here... if i recall correctly, amazon's tos does not allow commissions to go directly to buyers.
Learning to program well in language X can actually be done using language Y, for some X's and Y's, especially when Y has the features of X.

So, I continue to argue that asking precisely for language X may well exclude better applicants - ones smart enough to program in Y instead of X!
Two thoughts:

1. It helps to define your terms. My definitions, and what I think most people unconsciously mean, are that "smart" is all about making the best decisions and "intelligence" is all about pattern recognition. When you break it down like that it's obvious why "more intelligent" doesn't imply "smarter". The benefit of intelligence is that you can recognize patterns that other people don't, which can make you smarter. The downside is: the pattern might not be real, the pattern might not matter, analysis paralysis, etc. All of which can make you dumber. There's always a trade off. The post sums it up pretty well with:

"Less sophisticated developers would not have gone down this blind alley because they wouldn't have a clue that such a thing was even possible, let allow be able to figure out how to do it."

2. Intelligence has very little to do with the ability to think rationally. Rational thought is a skill that has to be studied and practiced. It's also crazy hard. Really really insanely hard. It's hardness is massively unappreciated. Intelligent people who think they have it down because they're better at it then most people are just fooling themselves. Most people haven't even tried to become good at it, so being better then them isn't that hard.
<The median general salary is much lower than even the tech industry's supposed depressed wages>

My point is that it doesn't make sense to compare a skillset like engineering to the median. You'd need to compare it to the kind of salary someone capable of engineering would be able to earn in another field. Salaries for a field can be higher than the median and still be lower than they would be in the absence of an H1B program.

<Then why aren't people scrambling to become engineers like they did to become realtors or at least encouraging their children to become engineers?>

I didn't notice anyone scrambling to get their kids into the real estate business. But maybe the reason they don't encourage their kids into engineering is that they've seen that a similar or lesser effort in other fields would have a bigger payout?

<Also it's not clear to me why you bring in PhD and master's. Most engineers in tech don't have those degrees.>

I brought this up because it was used in the original article that promoted this thread. It is often used to justify the need for an H1B program.
Because the "tech startups" can lift the best bits of content from the "media startups" under cover of "fair use" without having to pay any of the costs. As long as the law fosters, encourages and protects selective content-theft, it's senseless to back a business that intends to create new content.

Why back a team of creators when you can back 2 guys who can write a program that can lift the best information from their stories as well as everyone else's stories at near-zero cost?

I doubt VCs dislike media startups so much as they dislike making obviously bad decisions. If we lived in a legal environment that said the guys behind Reddit had to pay royalties to the stories they linked to, things would be very, very different.
bzip2/gzip-compressed tweets anyone?
I say this in the most serious possible way. I hope in the next twenty or thirty years Russia or China builds a base on the moon and puts weapons on it. I'm not sure how useful weapons on the moon would be tactically, but at least a refueling/rearm station. You're right, getting to the moon was political. Sadly, the only way I can see to make it political again is the weaponization of space. Having another world power do this would jump start our space program in a drastic way.

EDIT: I apologize for the American bias in my post. When I say "our" I am referring to NASA. I think collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and/or the Russian Federal Space Agency would be good to some extent. Of course, this type of collaboration would probably prevent space exploration from becoming a political issue. And for reasons previously described, eliminating the politics from space exploration is probably a bad idea.
> I couldn't help but genuinely feel depressed that I wasn't born 500 years from now.

What does it mean to say you wish you were born 500 years from now?

Explain: what would have to happen for that to be so?
That doesn't look that lucky, I've never seen a lotto drawing that had 1 in it
IIRC gzip doesn't make sense under 500 bytes
Shouldn't you be making this a premium app then? I thought you could only do in-app subscriptions if it was paid to begin with.
I love the 140 UTF-8 char limit.

Of course, SMS, which is where this limit is from, is 165 7-bit chars.
wouldn't be nearly as nice if this happens to you and you have a penis, trust me.

it'd be like. first of all dude, you lost your PURSE? that's weak, man...

then it'd be like "ha ha ha you want to borrow money for a soda? no, sir this will teach you to keep a better eye on your shit and will stop it from happening again." <buys soda and drinks it in front of you"
No, UncleOxidant, it is definitely not "especially true for C++". There are plenty of powerful languages out there, many with more subtleties than C++, and longer roads to mastery.

No one disputes that C++ has a long road to mastery, but there are plenty of other languages for which that is true. So, C++ is not special in that way.
Did you experience the internet before ads? If not, you might be surprised by how rich the experience was.
I'm sure there are also plenty of people out there like myself who are generally aware that Cobol is a punchline for programming jokes despite never having written a line of it in my life.
On the other hand, I could use some more self-control to do actual work instead of reading through HN.
Several philosophers have quotes like "Man is not a rational animal, but a rationalizing animal." and "People don't want things because they have reasons, they find reasons for things because they want them."

I think Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard both have quotes along those lines. Not sure how many others.
Probably not, gzipped files have a header at the beginning.

$ cat tweet
"If you want to get laid, go to college,
but if you want an education, go to the library." -Frank Zappa
$ wc -c tweet
105 tweet
$ gzip tweet
$ ls -l tweet.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 scott scott 109 May 11 22:12 tweet.gz
$

Compressing very small files (or large files that are already compressed) can make them larger. There's a crossover point where you can pack more textual data, but it's probably a bit over 140 chars.
Maybe they restricted the study to PG-rated comments :)
Facebook Testing Payment Platform
Awesome. Another challenger in a market that doesn't exist.
Yes, but the key difference here is that you can download the Hadoop sources and try it out Yahoo's way yourself.
So, basically it's hard to make a quick buck?

But looking at history, while media-centric companies take a longer time to mature, don't they also typically have much bigger exit?

Also, what's your take on user-generated media vs. editorial?
They have given a number of talks about using Rsubyfor some of their stuff and have open sourced other Ruby libraries. They have been a pretty active contributor to the Ruby community.
This is one of problems with changing history in a "master" repository. In this case, it's necessary in order to fix a problem.

Odds are since they're reverting back to an earlier commit on the master branch, anyone who does a pull might not notice the change since they're "ahead" in their history which is okay from the standpoint of the pull (using merge). This will cause a problem for any later push since they'll place the bad commits right back into the GitHub repo. [I'd like to put together a test scenario for this to be 100% but I'm not set up for that at the moment.]

Doing a rebase will lead to the "unmerging" conflicts that they had encountered and caused all their frustration.

Everyone needs to be notified to move (rename) their current master and recreate a master tracking branch:

git fetch origin
git branch -m master master_merge_v2
git checkout -b --track master origin/master

This just solves the problem with the master branch. Any local development branch based directly off the master will need to be rebased. Or they can create a new development branch and cherry-pick.
The problem with this approach is that it looks like anytime you bend space like that, you create a vacuum-energy resonance that destroys the space-time structure you just created. I'm not a physicist and I've never seen anyone state this as a universal rule, but it has come up in the recent analysis of the warp drive (won't try to spell that A-guy's name), in Hawking's analysis of what would happen if we tried to drap a wormhole around such that we can use it to travel FTL, and a couple of other things I've seen too.

I always find it amusing when people look at these hypothetical designs and say "Hey, it must be possible!" Because what I see is a universe that absolutely hates FTL and will destroy anything that looks like it might achieve it with extreme prejudice, yanking the space-time rug out from underneath your atomic feet.
It's unlikely the small percentage of programmers who use twitter are representative of programmers in general.
Curious if this is healthy for startups in long term, to work like that crazy.

I always worry that i might over-burn the team by doing things like that. After all, startup is more of a marathon than sprint.
I challenge you to name another language that allows for arbitrary references to blocks of memory, while still guaranteeing that the data type of said references can always be correctly inferred

That's exactly the point! Allowing arbitrary references to blocks of memory means inferring types is hard! That's exactly what the FQA entry is saying! ... I'm stunned at how adamant you're being about this. Do you really think the author doesn't know about RTTI? Seriously, dude, you're wrong.
I also found Star Trek to be disappointing in its depiction of technological change. It is, at base, little different than all the other sci-fi depictions of housewives in space and Colossal-sized vacuum tube intelligences.

It's a common bias to overestimate technological and societal change in the short term, and underestimate them in the long term. Think of those McCarthy-era AI guys promising GAI in a decade: I bet you $100 that their vision for the next 4 decades was surprisingly conservative and unimaginative. The same men who imagined GAI in their lifetimes were most likely the same men who could not imagine the full societal implications of civil rights legislation.

I should expect the world in 500 years to be as unimaginable, complex, and alien as the world now is to someone from the 16th century. I hate to make an argument from fictional evidence, but there is no reason at all to prefer a Rodenberry future as opposed to an Egan future. The former is refuted by witnessing how pervasive and tempting it is to anchor future change on the present.

If Charlemagne and Shakespeare could understand the future, it's a bad indication for how realistic you are being.
One could always view tinyurl as a type of lossless compression for essentially limitless amounts of data. In that sense you can store as much as you like in a single tweet.
Not to mention that if you're going to talk about languages with syntax like C, Java should be in that list.
The research spans multiple decades and research groups. It's not like the results are published neatly in a single article.

If you really want to read the primary literature, you've got the name of the researcher and his university. PubMed is your friend.
Software is 20% technology and 80% psychology
Do you write software for a living? Or design hardware? Or maybe some of each? While the particular projects any two software or hardware designers do may be worlds apart, we can characterize what we do in the same way: our work is 20% technology and 80% psychology.
I'm attending UCLA this fall and I left the CS program 10 years ago. Do you have any advice as to what is an easier upper division CS class? I've taken CS181 and that was not that bad. I would be looking for something like that if possible?
How about the programming language with the fewest unhappy users?
Logisitics
Am I reading this wrong? It sounds like the article is complaining about decreasing, not zero or negative, profits from iPhone users, and wondering how carriers can maintain fat profits like the ones they get from text messaging. I'm not inclined to feel particularly bad about competition and commoditization making the telecom market more efficient.
Controlling for the same algorithm seems unbiased but isn't. Since different languages are suited to different tasks, all you'd get was a measure of how easily an untrained teenager could implement that particular algorithm in a given language. You could control for that by using multiple algorithms, though.
BugMeNot works on some walled gardens like nytimes. If that fails, mailinator works on some more (but not all again).
The Onion shuts down west coast print operations due to falling revenue.
Ask HN: Any good housing sites?
I'm looking around for a new place in San Francisco and all of these mainstream search sites just suck. Craigslist is full of spam, Apartments.com is a joke, Zillow is slow as hell.

Any Ycombinator companies in this space that have a good product?
> We're a small bootstrapped team

Are you bootstrapped, or merely self-funded-so-far?
I overheard a coworker of mine asserting "there is no strategic value to the moon". And I think he's right. There's no practical reason to put weapons on the moon, they work a lot better on the earth and with the cost of putting them on the moon you could just build more weapons.
It is hard for me to feel bad for newspapers when they have been slow to adapt to the changing world around them. NYT & WP have had plenty of time to come up with a better business model. Instead, they spent their time building useless registration systems to trap users without adding any real value to their user experience.
Voice Recognition Company LavaRock for Twilio Voice Apps
It was designed for real time systems, and evaluated in the context of real time systems. (Check out the academic papers.) "General purpose" just means it implements the malloc/free interface, and can be used in place of the standard on your system.

In the case that most people care about, I think something like TCMalloc (http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html) is more appropriate.
Just a small bug; as soon as I load the site it says "Logout successful!" even though I haven't interacted with the site yet.
http://www.housingmaps.com/ is a good mashup
Most people don't think like this.

Mice don't think like this either. The ones thinking are the maze builders.
Isn't bootstrapping and self-funding synonymous?

We haven't taken any outside money and have been working on this since the beginning of January. I'm on this full time and have been paying the other two from personal funds.
The ui is really nothing special, but that is by design. We want it to work with JavaScript off and to be easily crawled so that Googlebot understands the structure. Spiders and crawlers have yet to catch up with the times and still have difficulty finding their way through sites that use JavaScript for navigation.