skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone likes to talk about the immortality that comes with proving an important mathematical result, but it's rarely that easy:

The first publication on the Mobius strip was written by a guy named Listing, who did the same work as Mobius at the same time. I have to warn you that googling "Listing Strip" is slightly NSFW.

Kalman was only the popularizer of the Kalman Filter.

Grassman, who invented vector spaces and developed a lot of linear algebra, only got credit posthumously.

Some people, like Fourier, only inspired the theory named for them. Modern theory is so much more general than classical theory that entire careers can be built by translating an old mathematical idea to a new domain.

Sometimes, a new idea gets labeled as an extension to an existing idea if it so much as resembles an old idea. For example, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation was Bellman's work. This is dangerous if you're after immortality -- there are very few ideas in math that aren't even slightly hinted at in the works of: Euler, Gauss, Jacobi, Hamilton, Lagrange, Laplace, etc.

Sometimes, though, the new guys can usurp the old. When set theory being laid down as the core idea in all of mathematics, the mathematicians who reformulated ideas in rigorous set-theoretic language often got the new names. That's why we now have the Haar Measure instead of the Hurwitz Invariant Integral.
I think Twitter is probably a better place for this kind of speculation.
Indeed, but there are two qualitative differences: the GPL's terms are fair, and those who get sued for violation are actively making money out of the copyright infringement. So are some music and video pirates, but many more are just inclined to share, same way I used to put songs on cassette tape for friends in the 1980s.
Do you seriously Wolfram Alpha is trying to compete with Google? They'd much rather get integrated into Google, ala Google Calculator.
I make chili, curries, soups, stews..
Facebook's latest raise to cash out employees is disgusting
Smoothie for breakfast (or any other meal). It's easy to digest and can be full of good nutritious stuff, so you get a nice boost of energy. And you can even drink it while coding.

I currently use: banana, frozen fruit, whey protein powder, greens powder, almond milk, water, and ice. No added sweetener needed. Just requires a blender and about two minutes to assemble ingredients.

One caveat: Depending on what you put into the smoothie, it might not be that inexpensive. But it's a great way to get fruit if you otherwise wouldn't eat any fruit during the day.
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I think Wolfram Alpha is an elaborate advertisement for Mathematica.

No, it doesn't compete with search engines, but it will fail for the same reason that Microsoft search failed as explained above.
yup, why compete when you can get acquired.
Sure, so when the record companies collapse and there's no one to distribute their albums or pay the recording costs, then what?

I'm just going to throw this out there without going into a lot of detail at first. I'm not saying you're doing this, but why does anyone assume that music funding should be at the level it's at now? Maybe some of the resources that go into the music business would, and should, be directed elsewhere. There isn't enough space here to list all of the possible alternative uses.

In other words, artificially propping up the record industry is costing us dearly.
Nomination for bizarro post of the week :)
Gosh, I'm spending barely $450-500 for a family of three.
Unsalted nuts. They store really well. Walnuts in particular have plenty of calories but if you have too many in a day you'll be overloaded on omega-3, which will make your hands and feet swell painfully as pressure is applied; the blood vessels in them start breaking too readily.

So nuts aren't the bulk of my calories, but they help make everything else taste better.
I agree with the other poster that said you underestimate the difficulty of distribution.

Consider cases that may be closer to home:

Which do people use more, Windows or Linux? Which one can you get from your computer supplier (let's not bother with the 0.0000001% of computers that come with Linux)?

How do most people on Linux get software, install from source or a package manager? Which one involves a middleman? Same answer to both, the package manager.

How do most people get food? A grocery store or farmers?

Middlemen are a very necessary part of society. It is simply impractical for everyone who wants food to have to personally get it from a farmer. No farmer has enough time to sit there and sell food to everyone who needs to eat, and no one has time to get all their food directly from the people that produce it.

Similarly, you CAN go searching MySpace and SoundClick and CDBaby, hoping for a gem (and I have found some), or you can turn on the radio, hear something you like, drive to Target and buy the CD. In order to find a complete library worth of music direct from the artists, you have to spend all your time searching for music. The artists would also have to spend all their time promoting and wouldn't have any time to actually make music.

Your CMS is just another middleman. Even if you steal music, you're using a middleman, the P2P network. People who steal music don't even make the effort to get it from the artist directly.

YouTube is just another middleman in your video example. Here's a question. How did you find that YouTube video?

The very fact that you're on Hacker News means you aren't opposed to middlemen. Hacker News is a middleman! There is very little original content here. It's all links. It's a one-stop shop for stuff you COULD find on your own, you just don't have the time to. Where's the direct hacker-to-news relationship?

Now, Hacker News doesn't charge for their service, but if they did, breaking in to get the current article list without paying would be no different than music theft. And yes, it is theft. I don't care what the legal term is.
I can honestly think of very few things that are a better value for $10 than a CD.

...in fact, I can't think of any.
I can see why he's upset, but the reasons behind this kind of thing go way beyond Facebook. Why single them out?

To answer my own question, I guess they're a particularly annoying example.
And make no mistake, pirates don't have a soft spot for independent artists. See:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001201.html
I think piracy actively harms free content producers, and without it free copyright would be a lot more prevalent and of higher quality. I wrote this blog post elaborating on it a bit, but didn't think I made the point all that well: http://greendestinyonyc.blogspot.com/2009/04/if-piracy-didnt...
It sounds like the author has a bit of a double standard; she wants to be left alone, but is admittedly "challenged" by situations in which the people around her are, in accordance with their own nature, indisposed to talk to her even were she want to them to do so (the scene at the cafe in Linz).

This sort of reminds me of some of the discursive space surrounding flirting and sexual behaviour in public. "I want them to want me - but only at a distance, not for real," or, "I just want to feel sexy, not actually get into anything," or, "Look, but don't touch." Same sort of logic, minus the arguably prurient focus.

In other words: look, lady - shit or get off the pot. You want to be an introvert? Fine. In that case, don't subconsciously demand to be fighting off eager companions with an umbrella all the time so that you can feel "besieged" and whine about how you wish people wouldn't be so presumptuous about your purpose in traveling.

If she's an introvert only comfortable among extroverts who won't go away, there's a deeper psychological issue here.
I am interested in the bulk cooking phenomenon.

I have only recently started, so I cannot really comment on what recipes are best.
Yah but at the same time, they never explicitly said you'd be able to do things with WA that you couldn't do with Google.
Really? You can't think of any better use for anyone of $10 than buying a CD?

That's OK. I'm sure others can and will come up with something.
In the mildest of possible voices, I'd like to suggest that the reason some facebook employees might be GODDAMN PISSED OFF is because they've seen a smaller subset of employees cash out previously. Just my random guess. Or something. Maybe something involving hiring lawyers, and pursuing lawsuits, and things of that nature.
The article "Caring for Your Introvert," from the March 2003 Atlantic is a good, and more nuanced, discussion of introversion. There are also links to two followup articles.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch
How about when you're growing but trying to avoid making extra hires beyond the founders (or still trying to find the right people) and you can buy things to save some time that you're very short of.
What you need is a full text search engine with faceting features. Solr or Sphinx should fit the bill.
There might be something here:
http://www.appsamuck.com/
During the week I mostly eat: egg whites, beans, frozen veggies, fresh veggies, almonds and blueberries. Sometimes I make chicken stir-fry. On Saturdays I eat whatever, usually going out, or to a BBQ, or to a friend's house. On Sunday morning I usually go out to brunch and then the rest of the day it's back to the basic stuff listed above. During the winter I often make turkey or lentil Chili. Most of it is pretty cheap except for the almonds and blueberries. However, I'm just feeding myself so it's still not that expensive.

I used to eat anything and everything but I found that too many carbs and cheese made me get fat, and "crash." Most meat makes me feel sluggish. I'd eat more fish if I had more confidence in my ability to prepare it.

edit: I also have a banana for breakfast. very cheap at Trader Joe's.
I should've been more specific. I can think of nothing I've bought for $10 that has produced more lasting value for me than certain CDs. I do not, of course, mean that buying CDs is more important than buying malaria medicine for dying children in Africa. Honestly, I think this was implicit. I mean when I compare things like... a few pairs of socks... lunch... a keyboard... and ATB's No Silence. There's just no comparison. Lunch is satisfying for 15 minutes. A good CD is satisfying for a lifetime.
Perhaps when the opportunity cost of building is greater than the actual cost of purchasing. This frequently is true when specialization or large scale production makes the producer more efficient than someone who does not have those attributes.

For example, when it's time to eat you buy prepared chicken from a store; you don't spend a few hours every day tending a small coop of chickens and bring one in every week.

A counterpoint to this is companies that are funded with a high valuation. Investors expect to see a return on their investment and don't want to hear "we left the money in the bank while we try to find and hire a person that is capable of building something we could purchase". The seed/self funded case and overcapitalized case both have "have to build" == "get to build", but in one it's 1==1 and in the other it's 0==0.
Sometimes i cooked Chilli Con Carne. It's easy and last long. Healthy too. http://proven-great-and-simple-recipes.blogspot.com/

I put any "great and simple" recipes that i found in that blog. So, yes, i like your site idea. It definitely would be helpful for someone like me.
the amount of time saved by having them cook it isn't always advantageous considering you have to drive there

Depends on where you live. There are 20 restaurants within 2 blocks of my house. Also, I don't own a car. Everyone's situation is different, but I'm pretty certain it's both cheaper and healthier for me to eat out than cook at home.

I use $1/minute for estimating my time value. The "cost" really comes down to taking a walk vs doing dishes. I like walks better.

Burritos at El Castillito are a personal favorite, even though it's a 4 block walk: http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-castillito-san-francisco-2
I didn't mean to downplay his determination and brains, sorry if it seemed that way.
One important distinction to make is:

Are you considered a contractor or an employee?

I'd recommend talking to the legal department, or contacting someone you know in IP law(an actual lawyer, not some random HN reader).
That sounds horribly unethical.

If there was future litigation between the two sites, this would look very bad.
There are three primary aspects of a balanced diet to consider:
(1) starches: in my experience, rice is the cheapest per calorie, when purchased in bulk. Other good choices in this category include pasta and barley.
(2) vegetables: getting a variety of vegetables is important in one's diet; I typically get frozen, since I can't get to a supermarket often enough to get fresh. Note that vegetables should typically be either green or carrots to qualify; in particular, corn is a starch.
(3) protein: your body can't function without consuming several amino acids you don't produce. My typical protein source is cheese, as this is cheaper per serving than meat. Also in this category are beans, soy, and tofu.

A typical meal where I live on the east coast (by which I mean, 80% of my lunches/dinners) consists of:
$0.30 to $0.40 of pasta (1/3 to 2/5 of a pound, dry),
$1.00 to $1.25 of vegetables (1/2 pound),
$0.60 to $0.90 of cheese (2 to 3 servings),
and occasionally seasonings.

Add in milk and cereal for breakfasts, plus costs of variations on this theme and occasional extras, and my monthly food budget works out to around $160.

Edited to indicate amounts associated with given costs.
Yeah, if I were Oracle I'd definitely throw away a native Linux filesystem in the late stages of development and start porting some goofy jock-ware from an alien kernel. But I'm not Oracle and so they're foolishly carrying on with their insane scheme: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/2880
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Sadly, whenever I see that the site is thisisgoingtobebig.com, I hesitate to click. I can't say this article has changed my mind.
OK, but how is that relevant? I assume you don't expect everyone to value a CD at $10 just because you do.
I think 18 is a fine age to get a credit card if the student knows what they are getting into, but the way cards are being pushed on campus worries me. I've watched people fill out forms to get a free gift (eg. a flash drive), completely oblivious to the fact that they were signing up for a credit card. Granted, it was pretty dumb of them to give away that information without knowing what it was for, but the credit card companies are complacent.

I agree with the last paragraph as well.
Yeah... other FB have already cashed out. Plus maybe the people pushing for this have tons of stock they are threatening to sell to someone else, like the rogue craigslist guy did to Yahoo!.
I wouldn't make personal assumptions like this. I might be a DJ myself. ;)

Regarding the study, the results are in line with my expectations. Several of my friends are DJs and other art-loving people, who all download and buy massive amounts of stuff. The correlation between P2P downloads and buying strikes me as natural.

There's no doubt the major labels have played a pretty rotten game and also got the Internet completely wrong.

I want to see services that allow us to sample and listen to music without paying for it, allowing people to sample a large number of tracks and hopefully buy a fraction of those. I'd love to see decentralized distribution in such a way as to pay artists more and encourage creativity.

But I don't think piracy is the answer.
Ever heard of .TEL domains? They're the perfect solution to this problem...
there is a difference between "cheapness" and "having no money." points #5 and #6 (at least as worded above) indicate having no money, which is fine, but it seems to me that the best place to be is to have money but to be cheap.

there are times when money is very helpful, the trick is to have the money but only use it when it is really needed.

having no money is just the simplest way of forcing a startup to be cheap, but that is not necessarily the best state for a startup.
We just created a binding (http://bit.ly/4oqYJg) for Io (http://bit.ly/UZNf1), that we use in our crawler for http://stylous.com/. So far we are very happy with it.
Everything that follows is true.

A college friend of mine had an interesting take on food.

Breakfast 1: Egg in the Blender with some OJ. It's fast. It's cheap. Plus, you feel slightly nauseous all day and save money and lose weight!

Breakfast 2: Bowl of Grape Nuts. Eat quickly with lots of milk. It sticks to your ribs, it's fast, it's cheap. Plus, the Grape Nuts swell up in your stomach, so you feel all full and bloated so you save money and lose weight!

He also once went bonkers when his girlfriend broke up with him, took lots of LSD and ended up grinding his teeth in the asphalt of the middle of the road in the dead of winter in New England and had to be dragged back in the house by a bunch of guys. His reason: it felt really neat on his teeth! So as far as his advice goes, take it with caveats.
Even introverts require some social interaction. They simply require much less social interaction than extroverts.

I didn't get the impression that she was complaining about people not interacting with her, but simply illustrating that all cultures aren't as extroverted as American culture.
Wolfram Alpha is not a web search. Google is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake
Yes, it's setting up the respective CNAMEs, A-records, MX etc. for these services.
I live by the coast and right now I can't even catch bait in a cast net. If I had to live off what I caught I would be starving.
I don't see Wolfram Alpha and Google and competing at all, but rather as complimentary services. Wolfram Alpha looks excellent for research and specific maths/science related queries, whereas google excels in general search.

If they can get their content to a respectable level for any given subject area, eg physics, I can see Wolfram Alpha becoming a valuable tool, worth paying a reasonable subscription to use.
I found cooking in bulk leading to eating in bulk.
Sorry, but they've earned it. Facebook is raking in cash and users. It's turned down acquisition offers that could have rewarded early employees. There's little reason to doubt Andreesen's assertion they could be profitable if they chose to, or doubt current management's projection of profitability in 2010.

Facebook is still strategically deferring other goals in favor of growth, going for maximum expected-value rather than being risk-averse. That's the right choice for their investors, who have broad portfolios.

But Facebook still wants to retain and attract excellent employees who are, quite rationally, more risk-averse. Otherwise, employees with vested but nontradable shares could only "diversify" their personal portfolios by leaving Facebook and earning other compensation elsewhere. (Or, by making private sales to third parties, a complication neither employees nor Facebook likely prefer.)

The blogger's analogy to his own situation -- where he's working so that his company "survives past the summer" -- is absurd. Do what Facebook's done, and then compare your situation to theirs.
Actually, I think that spending some time cooking is a good distraction, and breaks are good for productivity.
My three favorite hacker dishes:

Toasted ham, cheese, and grilled veggie sandwich. Dice up an onion, pepper, garlic, and whatever else you like. Heat a little oil in a fry pan for a few seconds, toss in veggie mix, stir while heating until the onions change color. Take off heat. Cut open the fresh french bread you bought earlier that day, add ham, cheese, and veggie mix, top with a sauce if you like it, heat in toaster oven until either the cheese melts or the bread ends up toasty (your call). Takes less than 15 minutes to make, cheap as sin, tastes great and is fairly healthy for you. (Alternative to sauce: splash some soy sauce on the veggies in their last five seconds in the pan.)

Or, get the cheap cuts of beef that no one in American uses for anything, grill them in the pan with your veggies (beef goes in last after the veggies are done), add a bit of soy sauce and stir, then serve over rice. Goes great with a fruit smoothie because it is VERY dry by itself. Again, 15 minutes or less.

Then there is tofu. Buy a small brick of it, dice, heat with a veggie/beef mixture as described above, serve over rice and garnish with salsa. (I'm told by my family that this recipe is the only way they have ever "tricked" their kids into eating tofu.)
It was eBay, not Yahoo.
Why stop at average karma, we can also print a little histograms (sparklines) of comment karma, I bet the target audience of HN would love it :)

Another way for front-page ordering would be (total karma * exp(-beta * age)), you can tweak beta for time decay.
Get rid of it.

sudo echo "127.0.0.1 tcr.tynt.com" >> /etc/hosts
For a quick snack or breakfast, I like having Applesauce (or apple slices) with fat-free cottage cheese. It's filling and easy to make.
what's your preference: borrone's or hobees?
I don't think Wolfram Alpha should be compared to Google as much as it should be compared to Wikipedia.

That being said, I don't think it's particularly fair to judge this genre of product on the first day of its initial release. I believe that over time, the developers will likely improve the algorithm.
Ask HN: The HN karma paradox
Am I right about any of this?

It appears that a comment which makes a point that's already widely accepted, whether true or false, tends to get more upvotes than a comment which is more controversial - again, whether true or false. The controversial yet true comments are usually more interesting and valuable. (Maybe that applies even to false controversial comments.)

Fortunately, I think most people here care more about saying what they want to say than about getting more upvotes. So I'm not saying something needs to be fixed or that I have a much better idea. Still, I think it's a reason to be cautious about taking someone's karma score very seriously. Forgive me if I'm just saying things you already know.
My name is deceptive, I don't actually live in Menlo Park. Brunch is usually at Zazie in Cole Valley.
Lebanese food: http://tasteofbeirut.com
ah yes... thanks for the correction!
Monday:

Breakfast: 8 Egg Whites Scrambled with a breast of chicken + 3 slices of cheese + 3 glasses of Orange Juice + 5 strawberries

Lunch/Dinner: Protein Bar/Crackers

Supper: 2 steaks with baby tomatoes + 3 glasses of OJ

Tuesday:

Breakfast: 2 English Muffins + 2 slices of cheese + 2 Bratwurst sausages + 3 glasses of OJ + 5 strawberries

Lunch/Dinner: Protein Bar/Crackers

Supper: 6 pieces of beef tenderloin + coleslaw + 3 glasses of OJ

Wednesday:

Breakfast: Pita bread with chicken breast/coleslaw/cheese + 3 glasses of OJ + 5 strawberries

Lunch/Dinner: Protein Bar/Crackers

Supper: 2 pieces of steak with green peppers + 3 glasses of V8 juice

Thursday:

Breakfast: 8 egg whites scrambled with spam , 3 slices of cheese + 5 strawberries + 3 glasses of V8 juice

Lunch/Dinner: Protein Bar/Crackers

Supper: 2 pieces of chicken breast with radishes + 3 glasses of V8 juice

Friday:

Breakfast: 2 English Muffins + 2 slices of cheese + 2 Bratwurst sausages + 3 glasses of V8 juice + 5 strawberries

Lunch/Dinner: Protein Bar/Crackers

Supper: 2 steaks with cucumbers + 3 glasses of V8 juice

Saturday:

Breakfast: Build something out of whatever I have in the fridge(either scrambled eggs or muffins) + water

Lunch/Dinner: Bar/Crackers

Supper: Mince meat snacks with water.

Sunday:

Breakfast: Protein Bar

Lunch/Dinner: Protein Bar/Crackers

Supper: 2 pieces of chicken breast with baby tomatoes + 3 glasses of OJ.

And I have an extra protein bar every day after exercise.

Cooking is a breeze, I just bought one of those indoor grills, so all my meat is grilled w/o worrying about it. The only time I use a frying a pan, is when I'm making scrambled eggs.