skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have to be lying. There is nothing special about those @replies - if anything, it would be more difficult not to show them than to show them.

They are still running the regexp to replace @twittername with a link anyway (because it works if the @username appears later in the tweet).
correct me if I'm wrong but the age of the father matters much less to the developing fetus than the age of mother, no?
I guess I am also assuming you are of the male gender.
He must not be aware of how much his bitterness towards Stallman shines through, because he doesn't bother to either justify it or apologize for it. The natural arc of the essay, starting with his "feeling of impending doom" and proceeding to the innocuous reality, seemed headed toward an ending that addressed or explained his initial negative expectations. Instead, he takes mean-spirited and irrelevant potshots at Stallman's social skills. Bizarre.
Hmm what is more honorable, for the employee to stay until the employer leaves .. or for the employer to stay until all the employee leaves?

If you followed his advice as far as interview questions go, as an employer, you would be screening out the best candidates -- those who are bright enough to figure out that you are trying to squeeze unpaid overtime out of them, and who have other options and sufficient self respect to reject such underhanded methods.
You know what's more awesome than Mathematica? A free Mathematica with toppings (curated, structured data.)

I hope they release a good API or just a formal query language, so I don't have second guess the NLP crap.
101, actually.

At 100 you can't, at 101 you can.

I know because I just hit 101 =]
Agree many of the commercials are funny. To be clear...I bought Macbooks for myself and my wife in 2006 because I was tired of being XP support for her and her IBM laptop. Her Macbook regularly kernal panics. Sometimes when trying to connect to Timemachine, sometimes when Firefox absorbs too much memory.

The BSOD is not a thing of the past, but is drastically reduced since Vista SP1, and I haven't seen one in RC candidate of Win7, though we've only had that for a little bit. I was running build 7000 of Win7 on a netbook since it went up, and had no problems.

I love my Apple products. I would love for them to focus on the doing of cool things and less on things that could be refutted. Great example of this from MSFT - why are you showing me an ad with a woman looking to do video editing. That felt like a pretty false premise, considering what you get natively with OS X.
It looks like they announced they will be making a concession to bring back at least some of the old behavior:

http://blog.twitter.com/2009/05/we-learned-lot.html

The jist: they're bringing back the old behavior only when the message starts with @username (and hasn't been created clicking the reply icon).

It sounds like they made a technical change which trumps the actual message content with a piece of reply-to metadata, which is either explicitly included by the client or parsed by their infrastructure.

Previously I believe it was "dumb" and didn't examine anything, and it was up to the client to filter based on the content of the message when it came to showing half-conversations.
How about just googling it?

"ua 941"
But it seems as if the new users vote on similar things as the old users, that is the interesting thing?

Although it might be fun to create HN/postmodern where only votes from accounts less than a year old are counted, and compare that to classic?
That was my comment and as soon as I posted it I realized my mistake of not mentioning that the military/industrial complex typically doesn't make money off of training teachers or the like. It is much more common and easier for them to build buildings and reap the financial rewards that way. In a perfect world; if our tax dollars are going toward rebuilding a country; they would be used for "services" like training teachers and other things that would truly benefit the area in the long run. Unfortunately the current system is setup for money laundering and profit so my hope is slim that real progress will be made in these areas.
pretty cool nate - is there anyway you can hook up mechanical turk to it and get some A|B testing out of it? or is that not the point?
The point is that calling a function is much more expensive than comparing a single byte. You'll have to fix your stack, jump to another location, check the first byte, unwind the stack, and continue your program.

EDIT: A quick test shows adding comparison of the first byte reducing execution time here from 2.6 seconds to 0.6 seconds.

(this is in reply to tptacek, I can't reply to his post?)
That's because of the 1935 #fixreplies
To be honest, I don't know if it spins up or not. I'll tell you what it sounds like though. It sounds like a helicopter when the pilot turns on the engine and it starts revving up - for maybe half a second - then a loud Click! like a camera shutter - and then it starts to wind up again for another half second followed another Click!

Don't know if that's a good description really but it's the best I can do. I'm really not a hardware guy. My guess is that this description indicates it does not spin up but hopefully you can tell me?

You're probably right about it being an expensive business. Another reason I don't want to hand over my drive is: Who are these people? And how do I really know what they are going to do with my private data?

Did you say "recent backups"? Ha. That's funny.
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Ask HN : HN opensource implementation .
I was looking for a simple social website open source implementation . Site like Hacker News .Is there any open source implementation available if I want my own HN like site . I love the simplicity of the site .
iPod Touch sales growth more than doubled year-over-year last quarter, and Apple has sold 37 million units of the iPhone and iPod Touch
Ask HN:  Do you relate to the masses?
In browsing the Amazon topseller list, I get the eerie sense of being completely out of touch with the zeitgeist:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_dp_ts_b_1

Are you at all in tune with what most people think like and desire?
Oh, I really hope not.
America has a more puritanical culture than any other Western democracy. This is more an expression of that truth than any other, and the fact that it gave the AGs something easily identifiable to vilify, rather than doing their real, hard jobs.

The only ones who lose are those who depend on the site for their money -- or their kicks.
Yeah, his "only boring people [go] to heaven" comment acknowledges that RMS has the higher moral ground, and that seems to be the basis of his resentment. For someone who pretends to be okay with the moral compromises he has made -- and God knows we all make moral compromises -- he's pretty touchy about having them pointed out, no matter how politely.
I know I probably shouldn't do this (for fear of getting down-voted), but... the basic problem with twitter is it's severe restriction on n
We don't need more doctors
I think what you will not see is your friend's tweet @stranger in your timeline, which you didn't by default anyway.
All is still visible on the profile page, hence stranger's tweets are not affected.
How does it look if you set the cutoff to before the move from "Startup News" to "Hacker News"?
Maybe my analogy was poor, because I think that your final paragraph meshes well with the idea I mention in my last paragraph -- I don't think we're actually disagreeing.

That is, the use of BRCA1 for a particular cancer treatment could be patented. But BRCA1 itself is (under my proposal) still fair game, both on its own as well as in other treatments that differ sufficiently from the patented one.

As you say, lemons should always be fair game. I can patent its combination with metal strips as a battery; that still leaves you free to patent an alternate use, e.g., as a cleaning agent.

What I was trying (poorly, it would seem) to get at was that the fact that we can observe an example of a mechanism or process in nature should not make something unpatentable. Seeing a stick balanced across a stone might give a caveman the idea for inventing the lever; the fact that nature prompted that invention doesn't invalidate it, I don't thing (although there might be questions about obviousness).
Covered better here, with comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607085
MR tools, especially high level wrappers like cascading (which gives you capability to do easy joins on Hadoop) are very good for building indices for query. You can use these tools to process the (log) data once and load the results into a scalable db like Hypertable (or even MySQL if the results set is small) and query them.
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Understanding health-related searches
well the idea is that the tool would be checking the updated flight status every few minutes while you're on the plane. so I need a data feed, not just the ability to look it up once.
I would have to release the spider as the project. The trouble with that is users will still have to host and server over 350,000 images. They'll also need a server to run the spider from. Most hosts wont allow that.
Put another way, there is incentive to be honest and accurate in your advertising unless you think of yourself as very similar to a used-car salesman or someone who regularly lies on online dating sites.
I know I probably shouldn't do this, but... the basic problem with Twitter, as it relates to discussions, is it's severe restriction on num
Doesn't this make sense? The people who are most likely to vote are those who feel like they're part of the HN community, and those people are much more likely to be old-timers. I guess this is somewhat surprising if there are many many more newcomers. What's the ratio of new voters to old voters?
Exactly. He's specifically targeting his methods to hire one of the most harmful people to a software shop -- the ones that burn up lots of hours writing bugs, and spend even more time hacking around them.
We see that in analytics all the time.

"The numbers are being collected, why would I need somebody to analyze them?"
As interesting as the web application looks the APIs would take this to the next level.
The source code for HN is included in the Arc distribution.
Poll: What software development methodology does your startup use?
My general feeling is that software development methodologies are used by large companies to manage their software development processes. While startups, in order to remain lean, do not burdened themselves with the overhead of methodologies. In order to find out how much of this is true I would like to ask HNer's: what development methodology does your startup use?

Even if you do not completely follow a methodology, select the option that is closest to what you use. If your methodology is not a poll option, comment on what you use, the size of your team, how long you've used the methodology and how successful it has been for you.
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Giving them the benefit of the doubt, it's possible that both are true. They may have been pondering user experience when scaling needs pushed them into making a decision.
I've had three experiences with Macbooks that panicked more than once. Once, I had a funky VPN kernel module installed. The other two times we replaced the memory and solved the problem.

Of course Macbooks can crash. There's very little Apple can do about defective parts and physical damage, other than to very effectively service their gear, which is something no PC OEM has figured out how to do.

Macs have an intrinsic reliability advantage over PCs. It isn't that their OS is more reliable --- it isn't; in fact, even inside the kernel, Win32 is more resilient than OS X. It's that for 99% of its users, Apple is the sole supplier of both hardware and system software.

Within the OS architecture that OS X and Win32 share (monolithic kernels with driver code running as native unverified instructions in ring zero), and given the current state of the art, there is nothing Microsoft can do to negate that advantage. The only thing that can happen is for Apple to fuck it up, by sourcing crappier parts than the average PC OEM (not happening), or by providing poorer support than the average PC OEM (not happening).

Sorry. I don't think these commercials are lying, even though the comparison isn't "fair" to Microsoft.
I'm talking on the level of game dynamics and what economists have studied. I think you're talking on the level of joe-sixpack's emotional associations with those examples.

No thanks. I want the discussion on the level of the former.
The virus thing is getting a little old, five words sum it up to joe sixpack, although he sometimes has to take a couple minutes to think about it till he fully gets it.

"Ever heard of dodo flu?"

(I guess it should be tasmanian tiger flu or something? eh)
Riiight. You were in such danger of being voted down when you came out against software patents on Hacker News.

I don't like software patents or RMS; can't there be a sane middle ground?
When we assert Apple's hardware prices are higher than PC prices, we can avoid a long and tedious argument by citing the vendor, configuration, and price that we're pitting against the current Macbook. That would also result in a number (an "Apple tax"), instead of a naked assertion.
Seems to me there are more Reddit-type comments submitted lately. It is something I have been very conscious of, much stronger than a hunch or gut feeling. I'm curious as to why you tried to measure this - do you still suspect a drop in the mean quality of the HN clientele despite what the /classic page might suggest?
The decrease in quality could be due to less good stories on the new page and not newer people upvoting. That is, newer people may be just as good at upvoting, but the real issue is that so few people upvote from the new page. If true, this change would further the problem because even less real votes from the new page would be occurring.

To test this possibility, randomly reserve some of the places on the front page for new stories (perhaps in the bottom half). Then more people would be looking at and potentially upvoting the good stories from the new page.
This argument doesn't mean anything. Who cares why Mac users don't have to worry about viruses? They don't. Houses in Kenilworth, IL have a lot less to worry about from crime than do houses in the Edgewater neighborhood in Chicago, but that's not because the houses themselves are intrinsically more secure. Would you argue someone should move to Edgewater instead of Kenilworth if they're worried about crime?
I think they are out to become like Google for a very technically and numerically inclined subset of the populace.

If this is not all just rigged demoware, then he will succeed, and he's going to make a killing! He will benefit from the same incumbency factors that Google enjoys now, and he'll be a leader in the industry he is about to create.

If it's rigged demoware, he might fall flat on his face.
My company has created a free App Store API that we'll be releasing to the general public when we launch our mobile analytics in early June. If anyone is interested, you can find my company's URL in my profile and add your email to be notified when we launch.
hey man! been a long time. you raise an interesting point, and i have thought about it, but not very long and with no real conclusion. like even summarizing ryan singer's github nav redesign:

http://ninjasandrobots.com/throwdowns/2

he actually ends up with a couple explorations in there.

or like the new guy at 37s. here's his backback redesign too:

http://jasonzimdars.com/svn/backpack.html

and he's got a couple explorations in there too.

not sure what to do with that yet. not sure if its a do 1-many of after designs? people can now of course just create many new entries with the same before design over and over. obviously not the most efficient. still have to think about this one and see where it goes.
You're right, but this is such a "meh" microoptimization. Compared to the cost of a real memcmp(), a simple function call is below the noise floor.
Hehe, touche in hindsight. I don't know what I was thinking, but I do tend to expect worse for remarks like that, given the heavy VC presence.
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!"

I guess there's ONE thing in there I can relate to.
edit Just read the original post, and the poster there makes much better points, basically noting that Aid can't be divorced from the overall security plan, or it will be wasted. Restating this as "Don't build schools in Iraq" is, IMHO misleading link bait.

Two points in opposition to this,

#1: Most charities and NGO's that build schools also include yearly stipends to fund teachers and supplies. I don't have a cite for this with me, I'll track down a reliable source later to be sure. I know for instance that Greg Mortenson's does. Most also do independent audits every few years.

#2: In many of the most isolated areas, even if they 'know how to build buildings', local custom requires gender segregation, and building a girls' school isn't a budget priority, but if someone else pays for it, families will gladly send their children to school.
Some areas of rural Afghanistan and Pakistan have had skyrocketing rates of female education once additional schools were built.

As with any foreign aid, throwing money at the problem isn't the answer (and lucrative large-scale construction projects rarely are either), it's how the aid is deployed and used. The most effective aid organizations are almost without fail also the ones that require the most accountability from recipients.
If something would exist or not exist to exactly the same degree whether or not you were ever born, it's absurd to claim ownership of it.
oh no! drop in karma =(

harsh, but i guess that's fair
Yep...actually a pretty trivial example of Fourier analysis.
Even worse, this is a topseller list of people who still read books.

Which is probably a minority of the US population nowadays.
Sorry, don't care about the artificial distinction. Know it probably better than you, and don't care at all.

And if you don't care about it effecting your business, then you are an entrepreneur who needs to wake up.
These are great points, and your analysis is sound. I am giving an emotional response to a commercial, which, unfortunately, is how advertising works. People will emotionally respond to Apple consistently saying their machines don't crash. I'm not suggesting Windows never crashes, but don't make claims that aren't true. This is why I would prefer they stay off the slippery slope of "what is lying anyway" and instead focus on tangible, measurable data about what you can do with the product and platform. If the notion of "what is a crash" becomes a subjective one, it's hard to buy into a large marketing campaign predicated on it. Just my humble opinion...
The list is an aggregate, and most people probably would only have an interest in a couple of those. It's probably skewed towards new books, too; the sales for things like fad diet books probably drop off quite quickly. Long-term sales might be more interesting, as well. (Speaking as somebody who worked in a public library for about six years, people are more likely to grab something intriguing on a whim if it's free.)

Also, there is no "average" person, just aspects that pop up more frequently when you combine characteristics of lots of people. Individual people, even people you might at a first glance consider shockingly mundane, have their interesting sides. People viewed as a group are like stones that have had most of their interesting scratches and edges polished off.
This is really interesting. Apparently, they are learning what artistic characteristics of a photo defines "aesthetically pleasing" by using the ratings on photo.net as a training set. They can thus apply these characteristics to new photos to rate their quality.

They are currently designed to support only color professional photographs. I wonder how this would fare for other types of art. I uploaded the Mona Lisa, for example, and it was ranked very poorly.

Kudos to the professor leading the project for using Weebly: http://ritendra.weebly.com/
Mathematica itself has a rich plugin (packages) model that extends it to particular domains. It's a very important part of the system, sort of like extensions make Firefox.

Perhaps they'll open Alpha up in a similar way to help make it comprehensive. Can you imagine how powerful this thing could become if third parties are also developing for it?
(Commence eyerolls from people who've heard me play this card before) Before - Matasano - I - led - a - project - that - bucketed - and - baselined - entire - tier - one - ISP - backbones - that's - now - deployed - at - every - ISP - and...

The "gigabytes of data" thing doesn't mean anything on its own; you have to consider what you're doing with the data, and what the operating constraints are. I don't think this argument is very compelling. For instance, could you retrofit the ircd source code (leaving everything in IRC protocol) to handle Twitter's work set?

I'm sure Twitter could be optimized quite a bit from where it is today, but it isn't one Rails neophyte's side project anymore; there are very smart people with lots of resources working on it, and I'm inclined to believe those people when they say parts of the problem are Hard. Haven't you ever been surprised by how Hard a simple-looking problem turned out to be?
It's called the Ballmer peak - see http://xkcd.com/323/
Scarcity is infinite. Post scarcity is, as they say, not even wrong. Totally meaningless.
Free and cheap, I don't know... but I would build it using Flightaware.

http://flightaware.com/
Pricing, fyi:

http://flightaware.com/commercial/flightxml/
I'm not sure why you were voted down, as that's exactly what she should be doing. Study groups are good too, and there are usually private tutors available for a price.

One of my regrets about college is not taking more advantage of office hours.
> Who doesn't like ninjas AND robots? :)

Cowboys.
How about editing your post to say, "Nothing I wrote here is true, but it's how this commercial made me feel". Because from where I stand, except for Apple's high memory prices (which... aren't germane to the commercial), none of what you wrote is true.
You reacted better than I did, then. I was positively repulsed.

The hypothetical dialogue he provided between the candidate at employer suggests what he is really looking for here: people who are honorable. But it has to be his definition of honor, which is entirely image-based and self-sacrificial. You make a spectacle of the duration of your presence at the office, and you make eloquent speeches about the spectacle you will make of yourself. Keeping up the spectacle requires long hours, tangible evidence of disciplined behavior, and political maneuvering.

The spectacle doesn't matter, what you accomplish does. And what you accomplish is not linear with the number of hours you put in. In fact, figuring out a correlation is damn near impossible, because of variables like the type of work, which hours were worked, what distractions were present, and how much subconscious thought entered into all of this while not actively working. I'm probably missing several other variables, but the idea is there.

This article amuses me, because outside of possible questions in interviews, there is absolutely no indication of what the potentially employee does outside of posturing and preening. The entire article seems like an exercise in the very same sort of posturing he would like to see his ideal candidate do during the interview, along with enough handwavey, fearmongering bullshit to panic people into doing what he says. If we want to know why more people are becoming entrepreneurial, this gentleman's ideals are one of the catalysts.
That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.