skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asteroids. No corporation driven by quarterly returns will spring for that, but there is an enormous amount of raw material there. If we had a very cheap source of propulsive energy, it might be profitable to transport it back.
Is there a better 75% recommendation for fonts when you don't need web-safety? (For example, when you're taking plaintext and printing it.)
I don't see how it's stealing.. You (as a web developer) don't have the power to require me to display any part of your HTML. Would it still be wrong to disable stylesheets on an obnoxiously coded page? I realize it's a bit different since ads (in theory) make money, but the principle is the same.
Considering that these same companies (AT&T and Verizon for instance) haven't figured out how to properly price and build out the hardwired data network, it shouldn't be a surprise that they're having issues with where wireless is going.
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Be happy you weren't born 500 ago instead!
Star Trek Economics - How Replicators Would Impact Market Economies
Hunter-gatherer-pastoral society- You are probably right. I would like to see some more scientific information on the subject if you have any.
There's a rule-of-thumb when it comes to prototypes that this sorta toes the line on:

Don't make the prototype pretty when the backend isn't done.

Ken Arnold has an at-length discussion of the effect (http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=52241).

Balsamiq is great in that regard, since all of the UI controls have a handdrawn look that lowers expectations and keeps people focused on the mockup as an early-stage proposition.
With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books
"Unfortunately the web as we know it would largely not exist without advertising revenue."

That is my point. I liked it a lot more before the commercial web took over. Once, the web was 99% content. Now it's a real effort to find anything worth reading.
I don't so much care about whether you think it's reasonable that we prevent a company like Microsoft from locking up 95% of a 12-figure market by creating and enforcing overtly anticompetitive contracts to keep competitors out. Just as long as we're on the same page that that's what we're talking about, and not some harebrained scheme by an up-and-coming Assistant Attorney General.
Smug Haskell weenies: coming up strong on Smug Lisp Weenies!
A couple bugs:
- The signup screen showed two forms, and showed the error form when I filled and submitted via the top form.
- The slider hid all tweets and wouldn't show them regardless of position of tweets and the category navigation

A couple thoughts:
- This may work better as a client versus a stand-alone site.
- It would be nice to know when it starts filtering, and when you are training it. A simple "Great, now we can help you find more of what you like" or "We have filtered your tweets for you" would be great.
I guess he's wondering whether your business plan involves taking funding, or whether you're going to make it entirely on your own.
Google News Gets An Update. Still Sucks.
Facebook Payment Platform To Enter Testing Soon. Only 7 Months Late.
Yikes, don't think any of those places looked like somewhere I'd work.
Why should I stop? I'm not losing anything. Just because you other suckers want to view ads doesn't mean I should.
Indeed. For one thing, who says the people tweeting about a language actually use it?
Not to mention some really, really bad journalism. Time for both to go.
Right, whoops—I noticed that but forgot to correct. There should be an array of programming tasks, with each language having one task that is considered the "easiest" to do in that language (thus N tasks for N languages.) Each student should either attempt all tasks in a random order, or only a single, randomly selected task.
No, you can link to limitless amounts of data in a single tweet. Storing is very different.
The internet is mainly a set of protocols and business rules humans created. Space exploration has to tackle rules the universe created. Much different story.
What languages do you have in mind?
Automatically tagging audio files using supervised learning on acoustic features
11 Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface [video]
Anyone subscribe to this?
Ask HN: Is a hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism?
I really am not trying to start a "fire fight" over Objectivism, but it occurs to me the individualist nature of the prototypical "hacker" is consistent with the values of Objectivism - self-reliance, work for one's own rational self-interest, don't "conform", etc.

(Full disclosure: I am a member of the Objectivist Party - http://www.objectivistparty.org)

Both from a personality standpoint of "individualism" and from a more general logical thinking/epistemological standpoint ("A is A") it seems to me that Objectivist values and beliefs are Hacker values and beliefs, or, at least, a "hacker" is statistically more likely than the average person to gravitate towards objectivism.
We need this like politics needed the American flag pin.
I thought that atherosclerotic had passed from analogy to just flat-out insult.

I like making you cringe.
All that does is reference it by name. The data is stored externally.

There's a pretty approachable section on Huffman encoding in SICP, btw. Data compression algorithms can be really interesting.
Probably the same bug. It says "Thank you, invitation sent." on the home page.
"Does anyone here, like me, really appreciate Feynman's just the fact's style of writing?"

Of course! The problem with this approach is that professional writers are paid by the word, and it's easier to write fluff than come up with more ideas. This is symptomatic of the greater issue: mainstream culture's preference for quantity over quality.
Wanted to point out that you can get a secure 10x12 private workspace with wired internet and a window for about $400 at Activspace in the Mission. It's a new building with stuff like an internal courtyard with BBQ grills. The building caters to artists but when I looked at a space it seemed like a good percentage of people did things like flash development.

http://activspace.com/mission-2.html
Fear is the mind-killer
Ah, you're right.

We've been talking to a bunch of different angels and VCs over the past few weeks but haven't taken it much further than that (yet).

We've got a couple of ideas on how we can start pulling in some revenue on our own but the starting point for that will be a (relatively) solid product UI that improves Twitter's signal-to-noise ratio.

That being said, I'd seriously consider taking on some outside money if it comes with some smart folks that can help us improve the product and introduce us to their friends. :)
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Could we wear this as pin?
I believe nreece's point was that cloud computing is normally defined as using virtual servers. This is not to push uptime and connectivity issues onto a third party, like shared hosting or colocation, but to ensure connectivity in case of unexpected demand (i.e. your site getting slashdotted).

If Tonido was a cloud computing solution, a large amount of demand would cause it either to magically launch a new Tonido Plug, or alternatively use the resources of someone else's unused Plug server.
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Are you doing some strange caching?

I get a 'Thank you, invitation sent.' when I first hit the page.
I sense sarcasm, but, being slightly young, don't get the reference to American flag pins. Could you explain? Thanks.
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This is just asking for a bunch of territorial squabbling about who is a real hacker and who is a poser. Arguments about identity tend to produce lots of heat and very little light.

(As to Eric S. Raymond and his incessant volunteering to speak for all hackers: No comment.)
>Is a Hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism?

Short answer: No.

Long answer: No, because it involves working with a closed-system that depends on taking a number of premises for granted.

A hacker by nature wouldn't constrain themselves to the limitations and premises that an outsider presents to them.

The Randian abuse of rudimentary logic (A is A) and pretension to being holders of the one-true-faith has worn on my patience over time.

This is it. This is where I draw the line. You people have invaded every intellectual space that you have no place in nor any relevancy to. Now you come here, my sanctuary where there is nothing here of any relevance to Objectivism.

Take your (albeit pseudo-godless) cult of personality elsewhere. Hackers aren't interested.

What you're doing here is making a common psychological mistake.

Premise #1: I believe A.

Premise #2: I who believe A, am smart. (lol)

Premise #3: I have discovered smart people.

Leads to:

Conclusion: Being smart people, they must therefore be inclined to discover this one-true-faith I am endeared to!

The worst part about this, is I dislike a great many things that the Objectivists are also against, (Plato for example), but their fanaticism and near-AIPAC-esque-media-reach tests my patience.

Some political notes on Objectivists:

Mainline Objectivists are extremely pro-war and are in support of the US using its military force to promote US economic interests and hegemony.

Peikoff was strongly in favor of partisanship in the middle east and in backing Israel, even at the expense of human rights amongst other things.

A particularly astute LewRockwell post:
(Mind you, LewRockwell has the people who should be supporters of the Ayn Rand Institute and yet aren't. Hrrrrm, maybe there's something to this...)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/raimondo1.html

Libertarianism/Liberalism is something hackers are inclined to, but it behooves me not to insult the title to say that they would be inclined to your dandy little war orgy.

No thank you, and please don't advertise here again.

Edit: Here's just plain a good site demonstrating their myriad sins.

http://ariwatch.com/index.htm
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They could save tremendous bandwidth if safari could manage to keep the pages in memory. It seems to want to reload the page whenever I switch between tabs.
The Web Browser Address Bar is the New Command Line
User Generated Quests and the Ruby Slippers
I saw this today in person. It looks... quite awesome. Of course, all you really want is to see it go off.
Some American politicians have a habit of wearing a small pin in the shape of an American flag on their lapel. It is an on-again, off-again fashion which became seriously on-again after September 11th. The presence/absence of a flag pin, and stated reasons for the presence/absence, was a political issue in Obama's presidential campaign, among others.
This is barely "good to know" information, without any other use, IMHO.

I think programming languages fanboyism is just like videogame console fanboyism - you could argue day and night why this or that one is better, but in the end I like my thing and you like your thing.
Haskell probably has a long road to mastery. That said I think it might still be shorter than that for C++. it is hard to think of a language that takes longer than c++ to master. Interesting!
I especially like it when you're making a case for something and make some generalization as part of it, like so "And just as the sky is blue, we know that X"

Then somebody replies with something like "But at night time the sky is black"

So you're either playing "let's find the nit" or ignoring the troll.

If you ignore, they feel vindicated (!) that they've corrected you. After all, critical parts of your argument are based on falsehoods!

I'm getting better at ignoring.

I can deal with long posts, as long as the tone is "Is this what you said? If so, I don't understand how you would account for X"
Wouldn't even need to go that far. All it would take is a greasemonkey script to remove the meta tag. Problem solved.
There are two business models for content: paid content and advertising. Both were tested. What else should they do?
I don't care for the NYT's editorial stances or reporting for the most part, but they've really been pushing the envelope in terms of using the newspaper's website as more than a paperless version of a dead-tree product. I could point to any number of their news-related projects. The election had a number of great ways to present election results. Their Faces of the Dead feature was also... how to avoid breaking the etiquette here... I'm going to go with "technically well-executed".
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I suppose another question would be- how many technical people want to spend all day screening applicants?

I've been to interviews which were more or less well designed quizzes that could be administered by non technical people, with the answers evaluated by technical people later. That seemed better than the alternative. I do know one interviewer who always uses "what do you think are the three best books on software development?" You get some interesting answers to that one.
I just wanted to point out this tangential comment from the article, which contains a really good point about data persistence:

"But in an orthogonal scheme you save it all, indiscriminately. The problem is not so much that it's bulky, though it is, but that the volume of semantic meaning that you are now committed to maintain in near-perpetuity is vastly increased. That turns out to be very expensive. The problem of schema migration as new versions of objects were developed (due to bug fixes or feature enhancements) proved effectively intractable."
There used to be an incredibly disturbing full-store video billboard in midtown Manhattan. It looked like the windows and glass doors of an ordinary - if somewhat close to the sidewalk - office, except the perspective was skewed (which it had to be, existing on a flat video screen and all). I don't recall what it was advertising.

I've been seeing a lot more of these plastered-over storefronts lately. It feels sort of like living inside a big plastic product that hasn't been unwrapped yet.
I made it my favicon just so rails stopped dropping that whole class of errors into my logs
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A minute to sort 1TB on a system with 11TB of ram?
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Any current business model on how to make money?
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It does certainly look like that, but I think that this could turn into something alot cooler, something alot more than Dropbox.

I'd imagine that this will stay Ubuntu-exclusive and will start to act as a 'your-computer-in-the-cloud' sort of thing where you can plug your Ubuntu device into the network and have all of your apps and data instantly available.

Ubuntu-only-ness will let the dev team concentrate on making sure that the default Ubuntu apps will sync perfectly and it's open-source nature will let people write other clients that concentrate on other devices.

FWIW, this is all wild speculation. I think that Shuttleworth already knows what the market is like and I'm sure he's taken Dropbox/rsync-users into account.
Perhaps they also need to consider discount office space for fledgling hacker business...
It's also explicitly not asking for that. I quote from TFA:

> When you put the glider emblem on your web page, or wear it on clothing, or display it in some other way, you are visibly associating yourself with the hacker culture. This is not quite the same thing as claiming to be a hacker yourself -- that is a title of honor that generally has to be conferred by others rather than self-assumed. But by using this emblem, you express sympathy with hackers' goals, hackers' values, and the hacker way of living.
but is there a site for free audio sharing? YouTube without the video?
If I was going to this level I'd probably just use Flex itself. I also think that Balsamiq has the right concept in terms of level of detail.
I am allocating dollars to the things that are most likely to pay out. Standard portfolio allocation exercise.

The problem is that it's hard to get any payout at all if the growth doesn't fit certain parameters.

It doesn't mean these aren't good business to be in. It's just hard to want to make a very illiquid investment.

I'm not sure that UGC and editorial control are in opposition.

As my background might imply, I'm fond of user curation...

(We need a better term than "user")
Last time I checked, the NYT registration system didn't actually charge you anything -- it just added a hoop you had to jump through to see their content.
I started using the web around 1995, so I guess that depends on what time period you are referring to. I certainly didn't use it before the first graphical browsers appeared!

I guess my point is things like Gmail, flickr, last.fm etc would struggle to exist on subscription only. Perhaps we can do without them all though?

Also, I agree with the poster below with regard to finding content these days, it can be tedious. A search on a subject can find pages of aggregators, e-commerce sites and little in the way of true content. I don't find this the norm, but it happens.
Hopefully this gets added to the Twilio API some day, but in the mean time, this looks like a good service.
does anybody have any opinion, good or bad?
This is so common as to probably not need someone to call it out. It's true enough, but what does one do with that knowledge? Some of the folks living in these other worlds some of the time also manage to live successful and productive lives outside of the other world. I'd be more interested to know what's different about the two types of people. Is it a matter of degree or are they two entirely different types of people?
In somewhat related news, William Shatner is my favorite actor (and person) ever.
there are 12 000 startups in BizSpark. most of them are doing web facing software apps. do you think they are all wrong ?
A good programmer can program. It's as simple as that.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to imagine a posting that honestly says "We just need people capable of abstract thought."
Awesome. Now I need a patch of it for my backpack, along with my nerd merit badges.
Helvetica Bold for headings, Times New for body text.

If you want to get fancy, Gill Sans and some variety of Garamond respectively.

If you're printing code or data, Consolas is a very pretty monospaced font, followed up by Droid Sans Mono, Lucida Typewriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, or Andale Mono.
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While we launched the beta today with file sharing, our plan is to make Ubuntu One much more than a file sharing service: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/8843
"Ubuntu One provides shared synchronised storage and databases for developers: you store your data and Ubuntu One takes care of making it available to every other person and every other machine you’ve shared it to. In addition to this set of simple APIs which you can use to get synchronised data, Ubuntu One also offers services built on top of these: work with your users’ contacts to make it easy to share information with other people, and build services on top of all these APIs which work everywhere, both from the web and from the desktop."

-elliot
https://launchpad.net/~statik/
Sure, you also just need 3600 machines.
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To obtain a laugh from the following perl code:
1)run
2)obtain output
3)run output
4)repeat 2-4
#!/usr/bin/perl

$x = <<'LOL';

#Meaningless chart/data is meaningless

$x =~ s/\x67less/\x67ful/g;

$x =~ s/((7less)|(7ful))(.+?)((7ful)|(7less))/$5$4$1/g;

print "#!/usr/bin/perl\n\n\$x = <<'LOL';\n${x}LOL\n";

print $x;

LOL

#Meaningless chart/data is meaningless

$x =~ s/\x67less/\x67ful/g;

$x =~ s/((7less)|(7ful))(.+?)((7ful)|(7less))/$5$4$1/g;

print "#!/usr/bin/perl\n\n\$x = <<'LOL';\n${x}LOL\n";

print $x;
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Makes a great bumper sticker too - http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6499/glider.jpg
:)

(edit) converted to jpg
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Sounds like a neat project for Google App Engine.
I read it just now. Jeff Attwood is great as usual.
Quines are fun and all, but I'd love to see a polyglot quine in Cobol, C, Haskell, Prolog, and Brainfuck.
Allusion to Dune :)

Fear is the mind-killer
congrats to LavaRock! This could be huge for Twilio since many people I speak to seem to view voice recognition as an adoption hurdle.
I've always been entertained by the juxtaposition of Rationalism and rationalization.

How many rations could a rationalist rationalize, if a rationalist could rationalize rations?
Yay, how cool!
If hackers use the glider, what are Game of Life enthusiasts supposed to use?
you must support terrorism _and_ love Windows.
Question: Do you do pair-programming at work?
Totally agree!

One of the most annoying things is when you see a design that is called a "prototype" but it looks like a BADLY done final design.

A prototype needs to CLEARLY be a prototype and that is where balsamiq is awesome. If it does not look like a prototype, then I won't know what elements of the design are bad because of your TASTE in design and which are bad because this is a PROTOTYPE.

In general, EVERYTHING in a prototype should be up for judgement IMO. Don't want people to be judging the colors? Don't put it in the prototype! Don't want people debating how the checkbox should look? Don't spend time delicately designing the perfect checkbox!
a) Duplicate post and
b) Completely incorrect anyway

I hoped we'd put this one to rest last time - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598513
Sighs that my quine is so 1999...
Never thought this would be famous in "Hacker News" coz this isn't quite the latest news :D

No offense to the people who didn't know about it but isn't this kinda old news to the people aware of the Hacker Culture?
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That's not likely to be a great big secret in these parts. :)
Now if you excuse me, I gotta go and try submitting the "Hacker Manifesto" to Hacker news ;)
I thought Apple hit a billion downloads. How is that broken? I can certainly see why some developers find Apple's approach difficult. But Apple is hardly a monopoly (yet). If you don't like Apple, do something different.
First of all, I am no expert in psychology, and most of my exposure to it was through readings in AI courses.

For a good example of a milestone in modern psychology, consider the Rescorla-Wagner Model--an attempt to model classical (Pavlovian) conditioning in a quantitative manner--which essentially implies that organisms only learn from unexpected events. It not only predicts the degree to which an organism would react to stimuli, but also compensates for something called the "blocking effect," which occurs when something stimulates more than one association and one of those associations overpowers a weaker association, prevent conditioning of the weak association. It is similar to the Widrow-Hoff Least Mean Squares (LMS) learning algorithm that you might learn in a neural networks class. This model is something that has been tweaked and tested under many different conditions and experiments, and the results have been distilled through thorough statistical analysis.

The R-W Model is one part of a dramatic change in our understanding of learning that has occurred in the last couple decades. For a summary of some of these results, Rescorla has an article published about 20 years ago called "Pavlovian Conditioning: It's Not What You Think It Is," [http://jsackur.free.fr/classiques/Rescorla1988.pdf] which should be pretty accessible.
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