skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long after the point, but I explicitly stated, ".. not in that it shouldn't have been posted, .." The line 'having much to do with tech' was also referring to the human capital he was talking about, decidedly _not_ the article itself. I agree with the premise of the article, and agree that the signals being missed are germane to all entrepreneurs and businessmen, but I expressly meant that it isn't as if in the reshuffling of human capital we'd see another massive influx into the technology sector as in the first dot com bubble. That's what I was talking about, not suggesting HN turn into Digg. Apologies if the first line was misleading.
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Sorry for the ambiguity...I meant to say: how do you know that they bought it after Twitvid.io launched?
If you don't set up sessions for users working with wget, curl, etc., you'll also lock out a lot of legitimate users who want a scriptable interface to your site. This goes double if you don't offer any sort of official API.

Refusing to initialize a session for non-browser UAs just invites abuse via agent masking by malicious users, while locking out innocuous and acceptable uses by your real users.
A critique of "evidence-based medicine" (UK's NHS approves acupuncture)
Money quote:

It’s a phenomenon that’s very familiar to economists under the name “Goodhart’s Law”. Basically, Goodhart’s Law says that “any economic relationship which is used for policy purposes, ceases to be valid”.
Ask PG: Bug or feature in HN code?
I notice that any time I respond to one of your comments, I get sent to the page that shows all your comments after submitting it, while for everyone else, I just get sent back to the top story page. Just curious as to whether this was intentional.
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Nothing beats Rememberthemilk. Its UI is very well designed and has integration for many services/devices.

My only complaint is pro version doesn't offer much except syncing.
I'm apparently too opinionated to survive long in insane environments,
but I did intern for a company that, in Java, did a couple of really
disturbing things:

1. Every Java exception that can possibly be thrown from a method must
be caught, logged, appended to a new Java exception, and re-thrown.
Fully 2/3rds of the code base was this sort of make-work.

2. They followed the traditional naïve model of distributing a system:
break it into functional units, and put those on different machines.
Win! Well, except that now every single query needs to talk to six
machines, all of which need to be up.

3. Their system, running RMI, was of course implicitly multithreaded,
because that's how RMI works. I didn't see in the codebase any real
attention paid to this, so I asked about it and the project lead said
"the two guys who know threading aren't in at the moment, but we'll
schedule a meeting Tuesday when they make it in" on a team of thirty.
Needless to say, the resulting system was a complete mess...
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I learned of the Fisher-Yates shuffle as the Knuth shuffle, but apparently both names are used for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle
Ask HN: What's the name of that site?
It's a web 2.0-ish news website. The interface is black and gray, very Mac-esque. The logo is a hole with a light glaring out. I believe it had some sort of digg-like feature set where users up stories. Thanks in advance.
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Actually kuro5hin.com did the same thing several years before.

I have said in the past that reddit's early marketing blurbs sure seemed similar to digg's. But I never really meant it to be taken as a substantial criticism. Everyone copies (and more importantly modifies) other people's ideas all the time.

It's not like google was the first search engine.
Yes, and it isn't good news for twitter ;-)
Natural Language Processing in Google Wave
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MS bought Powerset in order to bring Bing to market (just like they bought QDOS to sell to IBM as MSDOS).

PowerSet uses:

Natural language parser from Xerox Parc http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9940887-80.html

Apache http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-core-user/20...

Puppet server farm admin tools http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/WhosUsingPuppet

Dell servers running Linux http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-Sept...

Wikipedia entry (as indexed by PowerSet) : http://www.powerset.com/explore/semhtml/Powerset_(company)?q...

I'm sure there are more smoking guns out there. I found the above with Bing !!! (cross-checked with Google)

So is SCO going to sue MS for purloining "their tech" ??? Should be enough dough to get them out of bankruptcy.
Ooh -- I found out about one of these clowns earlier today: http://www.metafilter.com/82187/Susan-Hires-A-Boss
It depends on speed and attitude. It's entirely possible, if a plane is flying fast enough, or in regions with strong enough wind shear, to overstress the airframe. That's why there is this thing called "maneuvering speed", it's the maximum speed you can fly where the wing will stall rather than rip off. If you fly faster than that, or if due to wind shear your airspeed suddenly finds itself above that, the airframe can fail either due to severe turbulence or just due to maximum control deflection (though the latter may be electronically limited on an Airbus, don't know about that).
Have you ever heard of "bread and circuses?"
1. I'll give you that since it doesn't really effect the point I was disproving -- that government is need to print and regulate currency.

2. That is the incorrect conclusion to draw, they didn't want to accept dollars because the new that the government would inflate their value away as every government that has ever existed has done without fail.
Why link to TechCrunch when they add nothing to the story?

http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/
Actually, this is even better than a normal post since I can terminate early without reading the rest ;-)
I've seen this Somalia argument appear again and again, I do not know who started it, but it is fundamentally flawed. It takes the notion of respecting civil liberties and providing minimal federal government and replaces it with a failed state ruled by war lords.
Only if you're digg, or Google Groups.

Honeytokens work incredibly well for everyone else -- spamming is a game of finding easy marks. And there are enough easy marks out there that spammers would rather pack up and move on to the next target than deal with a determined engineer.
You can't outsource Passion. Marketing is the business! Product development is just the starting blocks for the marathon. If you don't want to do marketing then partner with someone who has passion for your product and make sure they have skin in the game. Better to have 50% of a great business than 100% of a lousy one. If the product is great, then marketing makes the difference between has-been and great.
I was barred from using recursion because it would confuse people. My response was we should fire these people. Authority won.
The probability calculation is incorrect, you can't just multiply the numbers. This should be obvious from the fact that if we wait long enough the probability according to that expression will exceed 1.

If I have a probability of throwing a 6 on a dice of 1/6, throwing 6 dice doesn't give me a probability of 1 of getting (at least) a six.

The correct calculation is:

If the probability of one meteor hitting an airplane is 5.7e-13, then the probability of it missing is 1-5.7e-13.
For no plane to be hit, all of the 750e6 hours * 125 meteors/hour must miss. That probability is (1-5.7e-13)^(750e6*125)=0.948, ie the probability of at least one hit is 5.2%.

The answer is close to the same, but that's just luck. If the probability was higher, it would be increasingly off.
Having just spent the last year of my life on a team building a meta-search, I'll try to act unbiased. First of all for most people, ita isn't exactly user-friendly. Secondly in the meta-search arena, they're not comprehensive. There are prices available from the Online Travel Agencies that can beat the direct airline prices.
>> Promote code that's indented 3 spaces instead of 2: rejected by QA.

I understand that QA rejected it if the coding style stated that 2 spaces should be used for identation.
We take a little pride in that our design was developed independently from (but informed by) kayak (we think it's better in some ways). Personally I spent an inordinate amount of time on various cues around our slider handles just because user testing revealed that a lot of people didn't know what to do with them.

If you want to see really close copies go try fly.com or the recently launched trax.com. They're blatant ripoffs of the kayak design.

Products with the same function are often going to converge to similar appearances. Just look at spreadsheets, word processors, etc.
I have used an alternate shuffling approach in the past of my own naive creation, which is to go from 1-N items, each pass selecting a random number to swap the current position with. This would not require counting over missing items (those copied to result) on each loop. What is the flaw in this approach I wonder?
You know, the original idea of a university was to research stuff in three areas that weren't covered by other institutions of society at that time: philosophy, medicine, law.

What about that?
Are you future-focused or present-focused? The marshmallow experiment.
Have you checked http://edc.usgs.gov/? Seems like they have quite a bit of varied data.

But this is likely not very low resolution.

Another source might be: http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/geopad/topograph...
I just tried responding to a random comment made by PG, and on submissions I was taken to... Noodles comments page (http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=noodle)

I deleted the comment right away.
http://txt2re.com/ is one of the loves of my life.
Hate to be 'that guy' who cites chapter and verse of PG, but before Viaweb there was Artix, which is now the leading example in an essay entitled, "Why Smart People Have Dumb Ideas":

http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html

Times changes, and certainly with each year more categories could make sense for web sales... but art is still a uniquely hard market to automate... for the reasons PG mentions and others.

Are art buyers frustrated with current options, and artists eager for a new outlet?
Some people have no sense of humor...
Your favorite music startup?
I've been thinking lately about some ideas I have had and would really like to do a startup in the music space. So I'd like to pose a question to the group: what is the music startup you are most excited about currently and why?

I will start the discussion by saying I am really excited about what popcuts is doing. Incentivizing fans to get in on music early is brilliant, and truly benefits the artists as well as the fans who discover them.

Looking forward to your thoughts!
Here ix today's article sharing stories of Chinese opinions: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8061483.stm
I thought for a second you were describing the place I used to work at. Only it was PHP, and the database was a 'free' version of a commercial database which was already several years out of date when I joined...<shudders/>
Thanks for pointing out the error in his math. But I think you got something wrong too - thrown off big error on his part (~4000x). The correct calculation is:

p(one or meteor strikes) = 1 - ( (1 - p(strike of any meteor))^ (total # meteors) )

(assuming statistical independence, etc).
p(strike of any meteor) = 5.82e-13
(total # meteors) = 3000 * 365 * 20 (for testing over 20 years)

p(one or meteor strikes) = 1.3e-5 = 0.0013%

The error of multiplying 720e6 hrs (the total # of flight hours) by 125 meteors/hr is that it does not give you the total number of meteors in the time period (which is what you need), it gives you a number ~4000 times larger (because at any one time, there are ~4000 planes in the sky...)
they exist. i work for one. the engine was built as we developed worlds on contracts for clients. once we got it to a certain point, we started licensing it out.

we term it a platform, as its something to build with an upon. all of the projects we've seen require extension and addition to the basic model we've defined to customize it for the project at hand. but we've baked in things that make doing so trivially easy.

http://www.electrotank.com/corporate.electro
To contrast, at my school a teacher dropped a bottle of mercury while showing us how it ran away from heat. They cleaned it up with a mop while we played with it.
Having a shortcut for something like ssh is so Windows...
Man, that makes it even harder to affect change because she literally has the guy by the balls.
I think what he meant was more something like this:

$row[6] = $src?str_replace($src,($table[$src]?$table[$src]:$src),$row[6]):$row[6];

[Edit] It's not quite so clear when it's not in English, methinks.
In school I started calling that CS student demographic "gamer scum", and the term gained some currency among my friends and coworkers/faculty -- students were allowed to work on games for their projects, but they were cajoled and were not expected to succeed.

I do admit to developing a fighting game once as a project, but it was with physical robots!
$200 is not a modest price drop to the vast majority of both Americans and iPhone users. And the evidence is that most of the features were gloss (3g, for instance) and the app store didn't come into its own until well after it was selling like hot cakes.
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It seems like the general solution to these problems is "teach the boss that their friend may just suck."
This seems to be extrapolating a lot from the original results. The study was done only on baby names. When you name a person, you have to consider the effect it will have on the person's whole life. So it makes sense to avoid names that are trendy. They'll sound stupid 50 years from now. I don't think people evaluate social networks or other products the same way.
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yes, we do have it worse. much worse. I have heard many times "sorry no h-1bs, we don't do sponsoring etc". The other thing that is upseting, is that i can't just quit my job and work on my own thing for few months at get something started.
By definition I am intenured servitor.

And it affects my mobility a lot, and my maximal output.
BTW, I am not underpaid, i am actually paid well, but I probably could do better. There is a tacit knowledge that as an H-1B you can't ask too much money, as the company that is hiring you, will have to spend money on lawyers and paperwork and other government bs to keep you here.

(and not all H-1Bs somebody just landed from india/china with a thick accent. Some of us are very high skilled and well integrated in society. I have been in this country for 11 years (finished high school and college), yet i am not that close to green card).

Frustrating, and it hampers mobility and economic output of an individual, and also the more junior/average american dev who wants to move up skillset wise.
I'm also confused by their own summary: "According to the results, the quicker a cultural item rockets to popularity, the quicker it dies. This pattern occurs because people believe that items that are adopted quickly will become fads, leading them to avoid these items, thus causing these items to die out."

That seems to me to describe the psychology of non-adopters, not peak adopters who drop the service/item quickly.
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Indeed; it's also considered a factor in the banking crisis, where once ratings agencies' tiers were written into bank regulations the inventives to game them became overwhelming.

For example -- http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/12... -- where the first comment also mentions "Goodhart's Law".
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I've used that method too. The flaw is that it is biased; some permutations will be more likely than others.

Each shuffle will consume N random numbers between 1 and N (inclusive). This gives a total of N^N equally probable N-tuples of random numbers, all corresponding to exactly one output permutation.

But there are only N! possible permutations, so some of the N^N N-tuples must share the same output permutation. Since N! does not usually divide N^N evenly, some permutations must be more probable than others.
I don't even know where to start.

Google spreadsheets does not look like Excel that much. The only thing in common between them is the button bar and a fake menu bar, but all of that was present in Mac applications well before Multiplan took the shape that inspired Excel on Windows 2. I would even risk that a lot of that was taken from the Xerox Star series.
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"Advertising that their application is incredibly insecure?"

No, weegee is referring to this story which was deleted as spam apparently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=638494
It uses sonar. Radio would be useless under water.
If going with the iPhone/Android app what would your pricing strategy be? Charge more seemed to be a popular answer for a desktop app. Does this still hold with the online market place that allows users to more easily comparison shop?
Couldn't agree more with this article. For a more rich analysis, I'd recommend checking out Disrupting Class by Christensen and Horn. All about how disruption is going to transform education.

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Dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642243
Love it. Improves navigating city streets beautifully. More open areas see an improvement too but not by as large a margin.

One feature I'd still love to see is to control the zoom level with the mouse wheel. Especially with the Pancake, I found myself accidentally zooming in, and having to search for the tiny zoom out button.
circa 2002, if you only use jdk 1.1.8 ,I think MS visual J++ is one of the best Java IDE.
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I suppose it emits both in radio and sonar, right? What if the airplane crashes over land?
I'm curious why no one posted Etherpad. :-/
> I've been discouraged from putting code in reusable modules because it would mean one central location for everything to break. The rationale was that if every routine was copied and pasted where it was needed then introducing an error in one place would not affect other places.

Ha, I've run into this one as well. Blew my mind, they actually thought of this as smarter because it avoids any single point of failure in the code, like a battleship where there's a spare everything. Some people are just too stupid to be coding.
> I understand that QA rejected it if the coding style stated that 2 spaces should be used for identation.

I reject your comment because you used two >> to denote a "quote" instead of a single >.
Seems to have some overlap as mentioned in other comments - buy why the need to compare the two? Why not just add both to your toolbox and gain the features of both?
This is slightly OT, but since the article seems to imply that chiropractic care is quackery, I have to ask: What do people have against chiropractors? Do most of them suck or something? I've only got experience with one family practice (mother/daughter), but my relief has been quite measurable and very significant at times.

Antidote: A few years ago, something strange happened in my back while standing for the morning SCRUM meeting and I could no longer stand without searing, intense pain. I was almost-literally carried into the chiropractic office by a coworker and came out walking and feeling like nothing had happened about 20 minutes later. It's not magical and obviously doesn't cure all ails, but to say it's junk seems to reek of improper study or prejudiced "debunkers."
Test it yourself

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

I think the next bubble to burst is any name starting with QU

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=QU&ms=false...

...just like happened to the letter "D" back in the 1950s

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=D&ms=false&...

Also, I don't like where this is going. Just getting started with the parabola,

http://google.com/trends?q=4chan&ctab=0&geo=all&...
Universities aren't going to disappear completely. The strong ones will survive through adaptation - witness Stanford and MIT vis-a-vis online courses. The stodgy, bureaucratic, state-supported universities risk becoming the do-do birds of higher learning. Current fiscal stressors may be the thing that drives the weaker universities into extinction.
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I've worked at a place with CD-R versioning scheme but without the Tim equivalent.

Although the backups were pretty important because the founder was paranoid and insisted that we put the hard drives and swap space of every machine through 25 runs of shred at the end of each day.
This is a shot in the dark but were you talking about this project on HN a couple days ago? http://almost.at/