skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty meaningless -- there's already a THRIFT interface which allows easy job creation and control as well as HadoopStreaming which allows access to creating map-reduce jobs for anything using stdin/stdout.

This has dubious benefit, and just adds another unnecessary layer into this process. I'm not sure why this is news.
The word "eponymous" has two meanings: "Something named after a person", and "A person after whom something is named" (both in English and in the original Greek word from which "eponymous" is derived).

I don't think it's much of a stretch to broaden the usage by replacing "person" with "piece of software"; in which case it would be entirely valid to refer to "the eponymous framework" in the second meaning of the word.
Oops, I changed the software to ignore votes from newly created users, but in this case I'd already manually subtracted them. I fixed it.
This web app sounds relevant
http://www.famundo.com/

I haven't used it.
Simple method would be to try and load content from often blocked domains and see if it loads properly or not using js. I did this a while ago and measured the 6% firefox users using adblock.

For example:

// cb = function to call with result
function detectAdblock(cb) {
var tt = document.createElement("div");
tt.style.display = "none";
document.body.appendChild(tt);
var i = document.createElement("iframe");
i.src = "http://adv.foo.com/ads/-adspace?ad_id=&affiliate=&advert=678";
var foo = i.style.cssText;
tt.appendChild(i);
window.setTimeout(function() {
cb(foo!=i.style.cssText);
}, 200);
}

This works because adblock is pretty primitive and just checks for keywords in the iframe src, and if there sets the visibility or display css style etc.

To get around adblock, you can proxy through your own domain, and stay clear of showing the ads in iframe/image/flash. Use js to put them in with everything else as text links which perform far better than any other type of advertising anyway.
The lesson here is simple: leverage pirates to gain critical mass.

YouTube did it.
iPods did it.
Justin.tv is doing it.
In addition to idioms, libraries and best practices, there are also paradigms to learn. Learning OOP/Functional/Whatever _properly_ takes time and practice.

Company hiring is torn between the grand-corporate interest of having good long-term employees and the project/manager's pressing need to fill skill holes _last week_.
I have never been comfortable advertising myself as a geek because to me there's no way to distinguish oneself using that word without coming across as a wannabe or fanboy. You don't crown yourself smart. When somebody today tells me they're a geek my private reaction is "what specifically are you a geek of?" If it's "social media" then I'm starting to lose interest because there are no skills involved. I'm thinking "for chrissakes Shaquille O'Neil is on Twitter." If these people want tech cred they've got to lose the "Hi, I'm Bob. I am a big social media geek." Although I suppose today that gets you more female admirers than "Hi I'm __, I'm a hacker working on a project that __."

Words evolve. Language corruption is a well-documented phenomenon in linguistics. The word geek is a good example. Geek started off dodgy then it turned edgy and now that it has become so popular its connotation bares little resemblance to the original. Another example is the word awesome which used to be reserved only for truly magnificent, spectacular things; over time the edge dulled and we now refer to things as common as potato salad as "awesome."

For an interesting lecture on language evolution listen to John McWhorter: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/142733/Audio/Lectures/Story%20of%...
Isn't this one of the announced features in the 3.0 firmware?

Edit: nope, just headers apparently
By nature only a small subset of ads will be engaging and fun. If all ads were "that good" then they'd all be equally mundane. Ads are an arms race for attention, it's not about being better, but better than the rest.
Am I the only one who thinks these prices are really high? I appreciate the free 2GB you get, but I think $10/month for 8GB extra is just way to much. I can get a VPS with 20GB of disk drive for that. With something like $25/year I wouldn't mind at all, but for $10/month I expect a bit more than 2->10GB.
Energy and the Internet
We've been talking about potentially hosting something like this at our offices (SEOmoz). However, while I love Hacker News (the article content), I get the sense that much of this site's audience is very anti-SEO, and that bias might prevent higher attendance (simply because of who we are).

But, if I'm wrong, and there is interest, we'd love to do something here (or underneath our offices at the Elysian Brewery on Capitol Hill).
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-c...
Wouldn't it be silly if a grown man got a bit of mud on his shoes and yelled "OH NO" and ran out of the room to the nearest washing machine to get his entire suit cleaned? In my experience, these are the actionscript-only coders, the people who only ever learned higher-level languages. They'll spawn a whole new object just to store a temporary number, or other silly things. They don't think it's silly, though. They don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
I actually was looking at this recently. There used to be some foolproof ways to identify ABP, but they removed them - as a bug fix IIRC. They definitely don't want to be identifiably.

But there are a few heuristic methods, basically just loading an image from a blocked domain (it's a sure thing double click will be blocked), waiting, then checking the DOM to see if the element has been removed. Not fool proof, or specific to AdBlock but good enough.

I have a couple of detection demos (including flash block) here:

http://dsingleton.co.uk/code/firefox-plugin-test-suite/
VCs don't like content businesses.
That is the Web's default. It's users that make the conscious decision to over-ride the fault by installin AdBlock.

FWIW, I never block ads because I'm happy to have free content and pay an ad tax.
Denmark did that recently. It is really just a poll tax.
He's been Chairman and CEO since 2005:

http://www.sony.com/SCA/bios/stringer.shtml

From the article:

We can no longer say that we're right and our customers are wrong. We can't build only what we want to build.

It took 4 years to learn this valuable lesson.
I have most of the code written but I want to make sure I'm not coding in a bubble. What do you guys think of the idea and format?
There was some discussion on Reddit recently about ABP usage figures (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8j4c7/we_create...). My rough estimations came out at 6% of FF users having ABP installed, sounds like that was about right.

Out of curiosity, what kind of audience does your site have? Particularly tech savvy?
Correct, memorize better != think better.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601190
"Last month the BBC Internet Blog said that if, in the future, 'some people stopped receiving live broadcasts at all, stopped paying their licence fee, but continued to consume television programmes, solely on-demand' then they would consider having the Government extend its TV licence fee to cover Internet access too."

This is basically what's behind the iPlayer, IMO. It's not wildly useful for TV (I use it for radio mostly) because the quality and speed are often flaky. But it does give the BBC the opportunity to say "people are receiving our shows without paying the licence fee, and that's not fair, etc". It just won't wash to say "people are using YouTube and we're not getting a cut" or "more people are using online video rental in preference to our output and refusing to get a licence" so this gives them the "in" they require.

I wouldn't mind if the BBC's output wasn't so poor. They have nothing of the quality of The Wire, The Sopranos, BSG, etc. Cheesy soap operas and reality shows seem to be the kind of "high quality original output" the BBC aspires to. I'd almost prefer to do without broadband than pay them for that crap.
Not every other UGC site relies almost completely on plainly copyrighted content. Examples include: Wikipedia, Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, WordPress, Yelp, etc. Scribd is a good example of a startup taking the JTV path and I think they are scum too.
Yeah, here's a good description: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/live-from-apples-iphone-o...

They have an "All" button in their UI, but don't be fooled: It stands for "all headers" :-)
Yes, I know. You're arguing that not all classes have vtables. I'm arguing that there's no reason that they can't, save for efficiency concerns. And if you're so concerned about efficiency that vtables are a burden, then you're already in a situation where an interpreted language is inappropriate for your needs.
My view, as an outsider who has never raised money for a startup, but that watches the industry with a level of professional interest is that media startups aren't an obvious sell for investors. Why? Content. They need users and content to sell. So, Flickr is obvious, but random new content based startup, not so much.
With tech startups, it's different - there's potential for value add to the bigger fish. An obvious sell-by date.
isn't this rather risky? eg: couldn't Apple simply decide to do this and they could? is this a 3rd party app, eg: exit mail, enter remail, search, re-enter mail?
The author takes a popular claim and lambasts it without ever actually addressing it.

First is that the greater fool theory suffices as a valid business model--that the fact that founders can get rich by pawning off an overvalued asset to a hyped up market is a business strategy. It is surely one way to make money, but it isn't a business model.

The secondary claim is that these businesses -- such as Twitter -- will figure out their business model at some point in the future, which is as good as having one today. But if there is any risk that they won't find profitability before cash runs out -- and we have seen before that this can happen -- then that isn't true, and the premise that the potential for the discovery of a business model is as good as having one today doesn't hold.

The best defense offered is this:

As to the business model, there are many, many ways to monetize access to hundreds of millions of consumers with enough money for a smart phone, computer, and enough leisure time to spend on social networks. Are you kidding me?

But of all the "many, many ways to monetize" the audience, none are mentioned, which would have been the most credible piece of the article.
Or Apple could choose to buy them.
Windows 7 won't have the impact that Vista had
Apple hasn't had the best track record of acquisition over internal innovation thought. There was coverflow and a few others sure, but lots weren't acquired...

remember Konfabulator?
Pretty tech savvy yup. Like 75% of so firefox users.
I think you're right about the sell-by date too.
Northern Italy is not exactly hot during the winter either. At that time of year, you hang stuff next to radiators, or on them, if you're in a hurry!
The article is something like "Illuminatus" or "Da Vinci" Code for Nazi-Fans. Many interesting and known facts without connection get woven together to support a rather weak story. Even the author doesn't really believe it. The whole truth here is somehow like a sentence which i have read repeatedly in the last weeks on this board:

Correlation is not causation.

(I tried to write some arguments to support my conclusions. But i deleted them. It would have become too long. Go out, read some books on this topic. The facts are much more complicated and fascinating than this dumb conspiracy theory.)
Ask HN: Stark Trek - How far are we?
Seeing Star Trek last night (a great movie, btw), I couldn't help but genuinely feel depressed that I wasn't born 500 years from now.

For you physicists, and those knowledgeable about this sort of space development, how far do you estimate we are from becoming a universe like that of Star Trek? Sure, it's just a movie, and apologies if this may come across as a silly post, but I've always been pretty amazed at the thought of a space world.

I'm not a physicist by any means, or a person who has any significant grasp on physics theory, but hopefully this post will spark some interesting and educational (for me) discussion about physics, the future of space development, and how far we are from making significant steps towards space societies.

EDIT - Just to clarify, I'm speaking more to the technological side of achieving such societies, and less about the social dynamics, etc.
Like it or not, I think this will be common in countries that have publicly funded programming. Germany (where I live) has had this for a while.
Mobile phones are thankfully not included.

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/mobiles-exempt-from...
I will not tolerate ads, but will pay money to be able to access certain web sites. I see the purpose of Adblock Plus as being to force site owners to provide an alternative (e.g., subscriptions, micropayments, whatever) to ads for people like me. So, the way I would like Adblock Plus to restore the balance to be more fair to site owners is to refrain from blocking ads on sites that give the surfer some practical way to contribute to the cost of the web site without being exposed to ads.
Please resist the temptation to describe corporate pathology by means of bad analogies with medical pathology. You're making me cringe.
Terrible headline.

It's the only choice Amazon has at the moment. It's not Amazon sending a message to Apple or anything of the sort.

In short: Who gives a shit? Apple doesn't.
the least they could do is post a link to the code on github to help out a startup -- why use google code?
Now you're arguing something different. Just because all classes can, doesn't mean that they do, or that a general purpose tool (like, say, a garbage collector) can assume that they do. It's not a question of efficiency, it's a question of what the language allows. If you're saying "everything has to have a vtable", then you aren't talking about C++.
A lot of advertisers don't want to reach those people though. They want to get their brand in front of influential 20-somethings, not to get clicks, but to generate brand awareness.
I doubt you'll find a complete guide for all the stuff you're looking for. I just google the individual questions. It's pretty much how I learn everything.

Or try http://www.experts-exchange.com/ I've never signed up for this but I see them come up a lot in search results.
But Gmail does support non-gmail accounts as well. You could argue that it's easier to get a Gmail account than to install yet another application on your iPhone, not to mention that Gmail will continue to be free for the foreseeable future.

At first glance it seems like you have a product that could be interesting only to Apple, if they can't easily add the functionality themlselves and the build vs. buy math works out.
Summary:

Lessig thinks Declan's criticisms (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601234) of his old book are mostly fair. Lessig's own position has changed, and if he hadn't been urged to do so, he wouldn't have responded at all.

Lessig has been reading libertarian authors over the years and has become more strongly libertarian himself. He even shares the view that "governments as we know them are hopeless."

But Lessig recognizes that technology is on a collision course with politics. Technology developed today for commercial ends can easy become a tool of power and force tomorrow (think AT&T rolling over for the Bush administration). So Lessig believes we should pay attention to the technology we are building.
The odds of a healthy individual becoming ill from drinking water in pristine wilderness is actually extremely low. There is really no evidence for your assertion that you will automatically become ill from drinking unfiltered water once. My understanding is there is little risk if the water is not under upstream human or livestock use.
http://www.wemjournal.org/wmsonline/?request=get-document...
You need to take Star Trek and the reality it posits within the context of its time. Star Trek was initially pitched as "Wagon Train to the stars"; think back to the westerns of the 50s/60s and you will see a lot of similarities in narrative structure as well as the idea of roving "law enforcement" wandering around a lawless frontier dispensing "justice." The basic problem is that if technology progresses along a line similar to what the TV shows and movies suggest then there is no way that society will remain in a late-20th century stasis to match the shows/movies.

There is some good "hard" sci-fi out there that you should read if you want some interesting suggestions regarding "what will life look like in X years" and I will let others jump in with some of their favorites (e.g. Vinge, Bear, Stross, etc)
Bart doesn't go to Silicon Valley, just to Millbrae. Even in SF Bart only goes through the Mission and downtown. If you don't live and work near Caltrain then public transportation between SF & the south bay is more or less not an option.
Personal cloud software solution
We're still trying to get back to the moon, haven't built a nuclear power plant in decades (US) and our bodies fall apart in zero G.

I doubt we'll be touring other planets in even the next 100 years.
They'll more likely ignore you, notice their CPM is low, and make the ads more intrusive for the rest. Well done you.

If a site is using intrusive or irritating advertising, don't visit it.
Theoretical question (loosely related) if it is ethical to remove adverts from "free" websites is it ethical for those websites to ban ABP users from the site?

How far does that argument go?

(I am not sure my position on it TBH, thought I would throw it out to you lot).
Just to clarify, is reMail a standalone app also meant to replace Apple's Mail on the iPhone?
I think they won with blueray.
explain to me why a news site nearly completely bankrupt is wasting time and energy on hadoop apis???

hadoop is very cool, and yes the nytimes has lots of data, but a company on death's door should probably back off the geek-masturbation projects and focus on the bottom line
The future is weird. Asking how many discoveries away from reaching Star Trek is like asking how many Ivy League degrees you need before you turn into Obama.

The whole space opera thing is fairly unlikely. It's more likely that the world we'll be able to simulate in our own solar system will be much more interesting than any world we'd be able to visit outside of it.

The future depends on what you extrapolate; Star Trek goes from trains to planes to space; right now, lots of interesting fiction goes from PCs to ubiquitous computing to uploads. Whatever's next is unlikely to resemble any of that in any way.
Ask HN: Is an API for iTunes app store a good thing?
http://www.Yappler.com/API

I'm working on an API for Yappler, an iPhone app directory. I also have video demos and tags for many apps. The API will give developers access to all that content.

I don't want to code in a bubble. Is the proposed format a good one? Is this something the community would want?
I like the fact most websites are free.

You know what pisses me off far more than any advert in the world? The fact you have to register to read an article on the nytimes website. Can't be bothered. If the web can't monetize through advertising, expect far more moronic walled gardens.
There has to be a huge war before Warp gets invented. When it does, that will lead to contact with the Vulcans and the rest follows from there.
And yet we went from the first powered flight to landing on the moon in 66 years.

Its 106 yrs (nearly) now since the wright brothers first took to the air and barely 40 since Apollo 11 touched down. So I'd suggest that 100 years is an age to fix those problems in :)

The issue is, I think, that we lost interest in the moon and stars. The space race was driven by politics and so we got there by sheer force. Then it all slackened off again. But I think the next generation will have grown up with enough modern Sci-Fi to think "I wonder if...." and hunger for the sky :)
Mandatory reading: http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/log/?m=200904#30
Ack. I deleted my comment just as you replied, apparently. I decided to put my reply in the edit of the original submission.
Does Time Machine work with cheap external drive enclosures?
I'm not having much luck with it.

On one initial backup attempt, it got stuck early on.

On another attempt, it thought the disk was unmounted even though it seemed fine to me. Getting it to back up again at this point was extremely slow.

So I'm rebuilding the spotlight index in the hope of improving the situation.

Anyone have similar problems like this?
Space exploration as portrayed in "Accelerando" by Charles Stross, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_(novel), seems far more practical than portrayed in Star Trek. In Accelerando interstellar spaceships are the size of beer cans and full of electronics.
We already have all of the technology we need for a spacefaring society, and probably have had it for some decades. Our economy is stuck in a local maximum, where there is no short-term economic benefit to going there.

Read Zubrin's _Entering Space_ for details.

http://www.amazon.com/Entering-Space-Creating-Spacefaring-Ci...

For example, the original Orion project had a means of traveling to Saturn in a year. (Using nuclear bombs to power a spacecraft.)

The various studies on space colonization are also interesting. T.A. Heppenheimer summarizes some of them (in particular, the famous Stanford Summer Study) in his book "Colonies in Space."

Interstellar travel is another thing entirely, though.
This is a convenience layer, and it comes with a way to run your map/reduce without having to have hadoop on your dev box.
I think the main problem with the Star Trek scenario is "faster than light travel". Of course, traveling faster than light really isn't possible however most of the alternate mechanisms proposed, e.g. worm holes, etc. don't seem that feasible either.

I think more realistic is that man gets a toehold on space by being able to harness resources from other planets / asteroids. If people can become self-sufficient in space, perhaps generation after generation, we can creep out further into space.

But it takes a big initial commitment and it's unlikely we'll ever resolve all the problems on earth so I'm not sure how much of a priority it will be.
The idea that you're protected by the DMCA is your opinion and not a legal fact.

How do you know they haven't consulted a lawyer about this?
Remember we have lots of other hacker news type of organizations here in Seattle as well.

SaturdayHouse groups.google.com/saturdayhouse - is a weekly meetup at various peoples houses.

Hops and Chops www.hopsandchops.com/ - Dave Schappell (Teachstreet) weekly startup drinking club. Linda's on Capital Hill.

Startup Drinks seattle.startupdrinks.com - A monthly meetup devoted to people with a startup habit.

Six Hour Startup Group - www.sixhourstartup.com - A bimonthly hacking attempt to launch a project in six hours. (I organize this event).

STS - http://www.seattletechstartups.com/doku.php The meeting is at the UW this Wednesday.

And Lunch2.0 - www.seattlelunch20.com/ - Vists lots of local startups.
To the guy who created, kind of lame that it looks deceptively like Twitter. Otherwise, whatever. Are you really looking for a "review", it seems like you know what you want to do. It works nicely, though.

To all the picture complainers, complain to Twitter.
Just remember also that 'to effect a change' is the correct use of effect as a verb. That gets you to 95%.
Tried to watch the ferret nest channel and it just loaded forever!
If star trek taught us anything it's that we're a plucky race that can do almost anything (provided we overcome our violent history).

But I'm judging the next 100 years on the past 20. We did squat compared to what we're potentially capable of. NASA lost about 50% of it's unmanned Mars missions. What a joke.
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