skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is a huge gap between your friends that you talk to every day, and long lost strangers you havent seen in 20+ years.

The Cynic: Yeah, you care enough to stay in touch with one, and not so much in the other case. Sure, it might be kind of fun to catch up, and in some cases renew a friendship, but generally if you'd cared, you would have stayed in touch anyway.
Github seems to already be quite on top of Bitbucket. But both can live together nobody has to win or lose.
Then it should say [pdf] and not [scribd].

The latter is to a proprietary web document viewer for PDF files.

The link provided is directly to a PDF file.

One is most definitely not the other. As much as some folks may wish it, Scribd != PDF.
I wonder if this is related to the GSOC 2009 project?
http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2...
"Text based and code numbers? That's like my insurance company -- but half of their software now has a GUI. (I'd also put my bank in there, but they got rid of their text-based system two years ago.) My optometrist and dentist both use paperless systems with pull-down menus (no code memorization) and intelligent forms. But the local hospitals? They seem to still use text-based entry forms circa Windows95. Sounds like old technology to me... It's enough to make a guy sick."

Whether an application is text based or GUI has nothing to do with how effective it is.

Paperless, pull-down menus, and intelligent forms can be programmed either way. In fact, many text-based systems are much more effective than GUIs because they are simpler; the user never has to worry about the mouse.

I have personally "deconverted" 3 large scale systems from GUI back to the original text based system, then enhanced those systems to do what was needed. In each case (which flushed over $10 million down the toilet), the PHBs thought the move from text to GUI would magically solve all their problems.

Too bad those PHBs knew nothing about systems analysis, business processes, or project management. Apparently, neither does OP.
to generalize:
1. people often over optimize because they mistakenly believe that every feature matters.

2. If your time is worth $50 an hour researching ways to save $40 for an hour isn't worth your time.

3. the harder a time you have deciding between two things the less likely the decision matters. you're having a hard time because the two choices have similar utility.

and of course this is all just a subset of the larger skill of prioritizing in general. I find a useful exercise is when deciding to invest something (time, money) jot down a quick list of other things you could be doing and see if any of them are obviously better.
I can't believe this article didn't mention the raging battle this show had with the censors...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM

;-)
/* fun only /
#const HellIsAHotAndFieryPlace=1
while (HellIsAHotAndFieryPlace)
printf("The end is near\n") ;

/ yes it did make me laugh when I read it in Atari St user */
The simple fact of the mattter is... just make a blog post: "TC sucks ass" and make it good. It gets voted up, and vuala unofficial ban since nobody gives a shit.
journalism majors are supposed to pass basic statistics right?
Google Maps recommends kayaking across the Pacific Ocean
Why don't we print out all of the TC posts over the last year, publish them into several volumes, distribute to all the "YES" voters, and then we can have an extravagant TC post burning party? I can coordinate snacks.
edison's invention inspires thousands of academic thesis -- the reverse is not true.
Please accept my apologies - almost 2 years in Japan has put an end to my capacity for writing proper English. I did intend to say that people seemed to be as intelligent (or not) as they were when I had started reading this site.

The education piece, as you mention, is (at most) a once-a-week ego-stroking event. It has become a pattern by now, with people more interested in defending themselves than "reaching the truth". I'm going to lose Karma for this, but how does that differ from the long tradition of promoting a programming language as the "be all end all" when the rationalist position is that each language has benefits and disadvantages? I submit that there hasn't been much of a change.

As for the lack of rhetorical skills, I cannot argue either way - I don't recall having read an article where someone accused someone else of making an ad-hominem attack (my own choice of stories differs from your own I suppose)

I'll agree with you on the "productivity porn" though. Much like some local tech events (like Tokyo 2.0), there does seem to be an excess of stories where people talk about "getting things done", without necessarily the evidence of anything actually being done.

Thanks for clarifying, and I hope you weren't offended at my original message.
Banning TechCrunch would be awkward for pg.
He thinks he is so smart, but has not yet realized that what the media portrays Twitter to be is not necessarily what the users perceive it to be.

Edit: to clarify, it seems to me he based his assessment of Twitter on what the media writes about Twitter, not on real knowledge of Twitter.
College conundrum: Less out-of-state students
Governments don't have this issue. Raw data from government should be posted on the web. We've already paid for it, after all.
The problem isn't TechCrunch as a whole. It's just that Mike has stopped caring so he's constantly gaming the system just to create drama. In effect he's personally become the new Valleywag.
The question involves both. Can the cancer spread to new sites fast enough to escape dying in its present sites?
"Are we going to be treated equally when we fail?"

I don't get this. You think men don't get problems if they fail? And why do you even ask, how about trying it out? It sounds as if you don't even want to try it because of all the prejudice.
It is possible that "black" and "white" are in the same synonym network, perhaps linked by words like "ash". That would be amusing. Someone can check it on WolframAlpha.

The networks are "non-overlapping", because of the definition of a synonym network. You start with a seed word, and grow it until it stops growing. The English language is finite, so K must be finite. The example network containing "black" is large, so K is expected to be small, (unless there are a few large networks, and many tiny ones).

Finding K is not difficult at all.
Pick a word, "black". Create the synonym network containing "black"and all words linked to it through the "synonym" relationship. Mark those words (roughly 26,000 of them) as "covered". K = 1.

Pick any other word not already covered.
Grow the next synonym network. Mark those words covered.
K = K + 1

Repeat until there are no words left.

K is the number of synonym networks.
I for one am with him on this. Just yesterday deleted my second FB account, just don't see the point of it. This whole social networking thing feels like high-school all over (might have sth to do with connecting to old high-school people, but not just). Generally, I find those messages about who thinks what about what and does what right now, eh, embarrassing. It's like a 3-year old saying "look at me, Mum". Still, I don't think they will fade. There is a large segment of humanity that enjoys just this behavior. I also think there is a cultural element here, although this is simply a hunch, no data on that.
'Winners are very often believers in dreams,' Felix Dennis
It's difficult to give a scope of the possibilities. An autonomous 'remote control' car has been mentioned above. Other types of robots. Musical instruments. Burglar alarms.

Take a look at the exhibition section of the arduino forum: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=projects
Also the projects from the "Designing with Microcontrollers" class at Cornell University: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/FinalProjects...
Actually this book is not anti-singularity. It defends the idea that intelligence and self-consciousness can be attained by a machine, but says that we're still quite far from it (more than 1993+30 as the paper predicts).
My favorite was from another article where they claimed that all programming languages were tailored towards male ways of thinking. If that would be the case, why not set out to create a programing language tailored towards the female way of thinking. I for one would be really curious to see that.
exactly, I have various levels of "connections",

for my close friends facebook / twitter is useful for passive information, they might say they watched a film and it wasnt great, I dont discuss every film my friends have ever watched, but I would take into consideration their opinion.

For friends that I dont live nearby, I can keep track of what they are up to, say hello once in a while, and not lose track of them for 20+ years, then when they or I have time to go visit I know where to get in contact.

I have people that I meet through the work I do, I want to know what they are working on, if they are working on something cool that I am interested in then I find out.

for people I dont even know but seem to consistently talk about things I am interesting in then I dont need to ask for them to send me a weekly update email
Hi , I am Argentinian.
Some savers who sued the banks had their money back but not due interests (my personal case).
IMHO the French commenter is right , US recepted lots more imigrants and way more technicaly skilled ones (Tesla is a great example of turn-of-centrury ideal inmigrant ,he was an electronics guru and workaholic).
I think that failure of importing/training enough technicians was far more important factor causing the "stop and go" development of my homeland than the disastrous political cycle.
Also an early comercial success in the first wave of globalization set the stage for too high expectations.Turn-of-century Argentina had the same chance to achieve superpower status as Sudafrica or Australia.
The future of my country is not grim we are a young vibrant country wih lots of hackers (and nobody want to blast us with nuclear weapons).
Will never happen. pg and YC get too much free media exposure due to techcrunch covering YC companies.
Oh, no, I'm not offended. I was just refuting what you said because I disagree. No worries at all.

You're right, the language stuff is almost exactly the same thing, except (in theory) HN people know a lot about programming languages.

The education stuff, and the economic stuff, and (god forbid) the design stuff, people know practically nothing about, and rarely bother to educate themselves. People just want a forum for venting their personal opinions and promulgating their pre-existing worldviews.

(In my opinion, true hackers -- the technical type, and every other type -- have fluid worldviews and don't invest much in defending their own egos in the face of conflict.)

HN does not promote moderation or rationality (e.g. "everyone should use the tools that make them most effective and not argue about it"). No popularity contest can.

It devolves into a place where people come to be reassured that they are, in fact, great, and the things that they are weak at are unimportant, and the things they are strong at are the most important things in the world. Metacognition disappears.

Cycle:

Founders: This place sucks! Let's start a new place with only the best.

First Wave: This place is so much better! I can breathe free with like minds! Yay! Let's tell people about it.

Second Wave: Dude this is like better than that other place. My Ruby linkbait isn't so lost in the news.

Third Wave: RON PAUL!!

All communities like this decay this way without very, very careful tending... and to do that careful tending, one must have an excellent understanding of social dynamics, human nature, and social skills in general.

Thus all developer-centric news sites are doomed! ;)
Life Size Katamari
Hey,

my test results are the following:

[root@server test]# tcrmttest write -port 1978 localhost 100000
<Writing Test>
host=localhost port=1978 tnum=1 rnum=100000 nr=0 ext= rnd=0

......................... (00010000)
......................... (00020000)
......................... (00030000)
......................... (00040000)
......................... (00050000)
......................... (00060000)
......................... (00070000)
......................... (00080000)
......................... (00090000)
......................... (00100000)
record number: 200001
size: 6928736
time: 22.460
ok

[root@server test]# tcrmttest read -port 1978 localhost
<Reading Test>
host=localhost port=1978 tnum=1 mul=0 rnd=0

......................... (00020000)
......................... (00040000)
......................... (00060000)
......................... (00080000)
......................... (00100000)
tcrmttest: tcrdbget: error: 7: no record found
record number: 200001
size: 6928736
time: 21.996
error

[root@server test]# tcrmttest remove -port 1978 localhost
<Removing Test>
host=localhost port=1978 tnum=1 rnd=0

......................... (00020000)
......................... (00040000)
......................... (00060000)
......................... (00080000)
......................... (00100000)
tcrmttest: tcrdbout: error: 7: no record found
record number: 100001
size: 6928736
time: 22.692
error

how can I reach the 1M put/get?

Looks like TT is around 2-3K records / sec in read/write.
I've tested with all kind of table structures (on-memory hash, b+ tree, disk based hash, b+ tree, table, etc). and it was the same speed all the time.
Spain wants open source on school laptops
Then Twitter might be for you, it is not as enforced as FB - you don't have to pretend to be friends just to follow somebody's timeline.
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I'm reading it in an rss reader, and likes it, it's tech porn. I can live with banning, but I hope for the sake of the readers here that banning be overruled when they come up with some really interesting stuff, which may happen.
That makes me a voter for moderation of TC, but against rigid banning.
agreed. ultimately it is a good opportunity, if you know how to take advantage of it. but there are no easy, sure-fire ways to success.

hot weather is climbing in the charts, btw. especially in europe.
That hardly seems like a fair assessment, given all the work Kildall has done.
An Arab-Made Misery
Netbook powered by 8 AA batteries
I too agree this is a silly one. But I really wanted to test my feelings with HNers. And I knew that people still could answer this the natural HN way - "Not up voting".
The Google@Omgili Debate: Will it ever be good enough to become your homepage?
this is awesome! way to throw yourself into a project!!
Agree. That's why I'm with HN.
I agree with you, but the @replies does make sense in my opinion.

The URLs and linking messages to a longer SMS should've been done a long time ago, but... they say they have a plan for Twitter! (I doubt it though!)
yup, turned out to be a Javascript bug!
Not really sure why some one would choose to use AA batteries on a netbook.
I've always disliked the idea that the defining aspect of being humans is that we suck.
This mashup seems to be trying to provide a service to combine search results with people's chatter. I think they need to rethink many of the aspects of their design - mainly, how to get it to act more real-time!
margin-right: 5px (CleverCSS) vs. :margin-right 5px (Sass)

But it is nice to see a Python implementation of such an excellent tool.
I think there's "something" here. To summarize the answers to the question I've seen so far:

1. File/print server. Very real use-case.

2. Control motors, device controllers around the home that can be connected via USB.

What if a 40$ computer had wi-fi connectivity? What if one couples it with wi-fi sensors such as http://www.aginova.com sells and wi-fi enabled device controllers. What kind of apps one can build given such as combination?

Now, first one is obvious and clearly valuable use-case. What about the second one?
Why We Freak Out at Freaks
Quote from the article: "This allows the Gecko Edubook to be easily configured to the end-user's requirements and gives the opportunity the Edubook to be assembled or retrofitted locally. These batteries can be easily sourced and replaced as required."

I think the main advantage is that these batteries are cheaper and easier to replace.
A coming world that's 'a whole lot smaller'
> You can argue all you want about how order-of-operations makes things unnecessarily complicated

That's not what I'm arguing. It's okay for that complexity to exist, I just don't think that exposing it to the end programmer is by definition a good thing. If you have a fixed set of infix operators then you can have a well defined grammar. If you have an extensible set of infix operators, then you need to make major changes to your grammar to prevent ambiguity.

The way infix operators work is a decision the language designer has to make early on. Bolting on a way to create new infix operators in Java (not that you're suggesting that) would be a disaster. I agree with you that sacrificing the "just work" aspect in the name of strong typing (OCaml) or in the name of uniformity (Lisp) is a bad trade-off.
Don't eat the Marshmallow yet (TED)
It's just like "street racers" who badmouth each other's cars because it has this, or doesn't have that. We programmers also succumb to primate instincts that subconsciously have us perpetrate verbal aggression on one another.

However, it is worthy to note that real racers spend their time honing their skills or gathering resources in preparation for actual races. It has been noted that some of the best street racers drive like grannies most of the time, because they're saving all their resources for when it really matters.
You know, it occurred to me if you're committed, you could just vote up all the other stories. Same effect.

There's flagging, too, of course.
Sokoban Solver in Prolog
And you can get generic rechargeable batteries from a variety of manufacturers.

Edit: Or a battery pack like described in the article.
if the erp nullifies the employees' initiatives by shifting responsibilities, then the erp loses maybe because there's no mechanism to take risk.

in the spirit of tfa, erp encourages mediocre users. so, the company with users who have to take responsibility wins.
Alan Kay: Worlds: Controlling the scope of side effects [pdf]
Just out of curiosity, would you happen to have a link to the article? I'm genuinely curious as to what makes a programming language "male oriented".
I wish more laptop manufacturers would do exactly this. Most power-packs are just pure obfuscations for the purpose of extorting money from consumers.

How about a "dustbuster" style hand-vac with replaceable batteries? That would be awesome!
At any rate, you agree with the parent. The reason used to sell the war to the populace is not the same as the reason the war was initiated. So, even if most were fighting for the former reason, the reason that matters is the one that started the war and compelled those who started it to find another argument to sell it to the populace.
AND/OR - if you think its a biased reporting then you may also comment about it everywhere (HN, Techcrunch, etc.) - though you may have to provide more details about why you think its a biased reporting, this way you'll gain creditability and put techcrunch on their toes about their own prestige and reputation ...
"I’m not surprised to see my cousin use such things as she’s a “people person” - she always wants to be a center of attention - that validates her existence. Don’t get me wrong - I don’t condemn her"

well, as long as he doesn't condemn her.
Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say
When a portable phone's battery runs out, it's cheapest just to buy a new phone!
Well to be fair to you I am Canadian. This point of view could be entirely American?
computers are idiotic. society worked before computers were invented.
Perhaps all news.ycombinator.com needs is a hide link like reddit has so that these stories don't take up mindshare for the folks who don't want to see them.
Well, I've not been employed all that long, no-one's waved a study at me, and I don't know so many girls in my field that I can figure this out just by talking about it to other people (I'd have to talk to an equal number of boys as well, but for some reason they're a lot easier to find).

I already have one (fairly minor) failure under my belt. I seem to have got away with it. I'm still in my job, still working on the same kind of stuff I was before, and no-one told me not to bother my pretty little head about that bit because I'm clearly not so good at things like that.

Yes, I think everyone gets problems if they fail. But my worry is about second chances, and blocking off areas of computing for other people.

Someone I know made an off-hand comment about every girl who has worked in this department has worked on the UI. I don't know if they've ever had a girl on the build team. I don't know if they've ever had a girl working on the really low-level stuff. There certainly aren't any at the moment. Is there an underlying current of 'girls are better at the touchy-feely UI stuff'? Do girls overall really tend to work better with UIs? Am I comparing teams with a high turnover with teams with a low one? Am I trying to generalise from too little data again?

So, let's have a hypothetical opportunity for me to go and work on some arbitrary low-level stuff. Maybe it's to do with networking protocols. And maybe for one reason or another I'm blindingly obviously no good at it whatsoever. Will this affect my ability to go into unrelated areas with similarly few past examples of successful ladies later? Will it affect Alice (who knows not just about networking protocols, but also basic cryptography) when she is hired next week? Will she then have to work harder than Bob to persuade everyone that she is competent in that area? Maybe I should play it safe and work on something that is less challenging and that I know I can succeed at. After all, if Alice fails as well, then Eve may be looked over entirely. And that would make me feel really guilty. So the penalty for failure is higher.

Of course, there's a good chance there is no bias whatsoever. And I'm fairly likely to take a few risks. But you don't need actual bias for this to have an effect. If there is enough fear of bias you'll end up with too much risk-averse behaviour, and thus under-performing ladies.
Oops.. I think I just voted twice for no & once for yes.
Apple said to be building $1 billion server farm
How about removing the from/@to/urls/tags from the message and place them outside as metadata?

Cleaner messages, better service.

(As an example try a search on any subject, say iPhone, and see the clutter and noise, hard to read)
we all read the site so why bother posting it here too?