skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_export...
You are right, I got carried away a bit here.

The article reminded me of reddit storing my password in plain text, which wouldn't go unnoticed if their code was open. [yes, I know they eventually released their code, which was very kind of them]
Don’t Drink The 151.im — The Latest Facebook Phishing Scam
Scala on Google App Engine
It's possible, but the meaning is slightly different. In "...my uncle, Jack, off..." you're clarifying that "Jack" is your uncle. In "...my uncle Jack off" you use "uncle" as a title. In the first example you could replace "Jack" by "Mr. Sparrow" or "that fellow over there", which you can't do in the second example.
Google Releases New Version Of Protocol Buffers
Complexity is a wonderful thing and there are many complex phenomena which arise from simple rules. But unless you can make predictions that agree with observation and experimentation... it's not Science. The nexus between Physics and Complexity is very interesting and beautiful, but it's not necessarily very useful. If Physics were "digital", many symmetries would likely be violated, and that can't happen. The discrete world and the continuous world are entirely different beasts, and though I appreciate Wolfram's efforts and his recreational NKS stuff, it's a few millenia away from being a new kind of Science.
I understand Twitter now. It's really dumb in a lot of ways and everything it does could be done without the poorly-built centrally-controlled Twitter (tm) service.

Here's the power: Google and ATT both addressed the problems and did so succinctly, quickly, in the same place, and in an easy-to-understand manner. Superb.
Is your browser holding you back?
I've observed you are totally negative about their attempt (you post similar negative comments here on HN). At least they are trying and I won't judge if I don't test it first. Also, from what his says it's obvious that they do realize it's a long term project.
Promotional Tool Sets 
The best promotional items are those the recipients are glad to receive. Promotional tool sets are a great advertising media even when your company has nothing to do with home handymen or construction.
That list says that Norway's public debt is 52% of GDP.

(It puts the UK at 47%, and the UAE at 22%.)
Kindle 2 vs Reading Disabled Students
The way it is understanding and interpreting the queries I find amazing. Seems like a big step in AI (to the public at least).
The results are equally interesting, i hope it can live up to the hype.
It'd be a lot more interesting to me if I could browse at least the station list without signing up - as it is, I'm very likely to look at your page and then say "huh, that might be cool" and drift back to iTunes before I bother (realizing that you may not want this to change until your private beta period or whatever you're calling it is over).
Wish you'd add "(not Growl)" to title.
What a silly headline! It's annoying enough that Techcrunch posts its own misinformed analogy on the Google outage (really, packets were only rerouted: there's no way you'd end up in Hong Kong instead of SF; the journey would just last a little longer), but worse that it makes an attempt to sensationalize by blaming an entire continent.

I wonder why Techcrunch doesn't stick to its "expertise": finding and reviewing worthy new startups and applications.
Beautiful Collection of Yoga Wallpapers, Pictures, Photo Gallery
Here's a question for you guys: If there was an easy platform to teach others, do you think there would be enough collective interest in putting together lessons/courses on programming?

We at www.nixty.com are building out this platform and there are obvious areas where there will be pick up (homeschooling, skill development [ie., photoshop] etc.), but for a while now I've been wondering if hackers would actually collaborate and create a sort of Hackers U.

There is a guy who frequently posts/links on HN to different lessons on learning python and other languages. I think that is great, so it is nice to see some initial movement in this area.
The Coming Depression in Commercial Real Estate a/k/a Cheap space for startups
This would be really great to drop into groovy to do quick ANN's to quickly make a prototype of some software.
This is the ideology that has been slowly and quietly ruining America and the world. Innovation has nothing to do with entrepreneurs. Innovation happens when craftsmen, not businessmen, find better ways of practicing their craft. The people that built/are building the technologies that are radically improving the lives of the public do so out of a drive to build. We don't need more Carnegies, and we _certainly_ don't need more P.T. Barnums. We need Benjamin Franklins.
I flagged this article, since the primary source has already been posted. TechCrunch's commentary doesn't add anything, so there is no reason for this article to exist.
Some time ago I had a hunch that karma followed a powerlaw, so I mapped the leaderboard out in excel - and sure enough it looked exactly like a powerlaw graph.
Employers, Here's How You Can Create a Bike-Friendly Office
Likely hypothesis -- three thousand third party application developers who use google web services just got phone calls regarding application speed issues.
The early adopters will probably those who need it for medical reasons: blind, deaf, brain/nerve damage, prosthetic limbs, Alzheimer's, etc.
Actually, the finance category seemed like less of an advance than much of the other stuff. Google and Yahoo produce charts and comparisons like this already, as far as I can see.
I also think users will catch on. Maybe not immediately, but google and wikipedia were also just for power users at first. The benefit is so great, and it is so easy to use, that people will talk about it on forums and explain how it works. They may not at first use it as their general knowledge tool, but they will use it for the information they want most.
This is incredible if it's built on New Kind of Science (game of life, etc - see Hackers by Steven Levy), but if it's just entered by hand, then it's merely useful.

One thing I can forgive is that you have to learn what you can do, you can't just sit down and use it. You need to read the manual.

I also totally dug his English accent, except for the term 'math' which show's he's mostly American. ;-)
A career in transition: 5 questions for Gina Trapani - Manage Your Life on Shine
I posted some poor humor about a company. You respond with personal name-calling. That is unfortunate. It's a real shame on you for stooping to a personal attack, but I'll get over it :)
marketing ploys aside, cool video, little dose of inspiration and while google voice/grandcentral has been sitting idle for years this company as been out in the market acquiring customers and making money, so more power to them.
"Change the world" is only part of the equation. But what drives the hacker entrepreneur day to day? It's the adrenaline and focus supplied by the promised emotional payoff of a completed mission. Any veteran of a website launch knows what I'm talking about. This is why we're entrepreneurs, and it's the subject of this humorous video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgNyoxpENXc

And no, it doesn't ask you to shell out any $$.
Is it me or does it seem that when you are something like Google there should be a process to prevent just this sort of thing?
I still don't get twitter. But it seems like it's turning into something large public entities have to have a presence on. And the character limitation keeps it from turning to a complicated public image/branding/market problem which could keep companies from participating.

But I'm still not sure what the value for John Q. Public is in twittering or tweeting or whatever.
I think that's the idea behind answers.com ask.com and instructables.com and wikipedia. People have a lot of free time, hackers included. I think a central hub where senior hackers can teach younger hackers is a noble and profitable idea.

So receiving content for free will be the easy part.

The hard part will be sorting through the 50 entries for how to start programming in Python and the 5000 entries for best text editors to use.
in a previous post about marketing, i placed a quote from bill hicks that if your in advertising, kill yourself.

i like this guy, though. he's not marketing scum.

this leads to my question: are there terms that distinguish between what this article is promoting, this idea of marketing and the more common ideas: 'public relations'/edward bernays/manipulation? Something other than 'being cool' vs 'being a jerk'?

if not, if both are just 'marketing' - then a terms should be made to distinguish the paradigm difference.
27075/1632636 = 1.65%. Am I missing something?
Fossil: A standalone and distributed Version Control, Wiki and Bug-Tracking system
From the author of SQLite.
The problem is, for these single-developer shops, the work has to be fun. If you have to start making games you don't like, you might as well go get a job working for someone else.

It's funny, the way to run a successful business is to be insanely good at giving customers what they want. OTOH that means you're working for them now.

A lot of indie game developers are more like artists. They want to make what they themselves like. Luckily, a few of them can find a middle ground doing what they like (mostly), and satisfying customers.
Just one issue where the publishing morons are so brain dead. Audio versions are available for the blind and dyslexic, but the number of titles is limited and it usually takes a week or more to get them through your library. I had to do this for my daughter.

Commercial audio books are very expensive, but the quality is probably much better than Kindle, so that market is not affected by any read aloud software.
Yawn. It's a press release about yet another JS benchmark. Where's the beef?
"Pessimistic downer crowd"? I thought we were above personal attacks here. This is more of a "downer" action than engaging in a little poorly placed humor. I was poking fun at an idea, whereas you're making a bunch of personal judgments which is rather disappointing and unfortunate.

Did you miss my post where I said it was a bad attempt at humor? Shame on you for trying to make me personally feel bad.
Ever watched any Ghost in the Shell?
"A Collection of Reviews of ANKOS and Links to Related Work"

http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_reviews.html

I have read the book, right when it was first published. I don't deem myself competent to judge Wolfram's arguments or his critics' arguments, but I did think the lack of scholarly citation of prior literature was more than a little off-putting.
"Predictions are nice if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying the bare fundamental mechanisms of nature." -- M. Mitchell Waldrop
Degenerate behavior like old age, education and accidents?
Google OpenID API - taking the next steps
roger wilco
Yes, but everything has bugs.

http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog44/presentations/Monday/Gill_...
Shouldn't that be [pdf] in the title, with a second [scribd version] link? If nothing else, it would've gotten me to visit the link sooner that way -- I hate scribd.
From the same folks who created SQLite and not coincidentally all data is stored in a single SQLite database.
I agree – Oslo, a fishing village? Please.

Technology wise, Norway is way up on the list. Most of us have 20mbit ++ directly into the wall, a diverse open source environment, a subsidized media channel which delivers lots of their TV shows via BitTorrent in 1080p/720p, etc.
Motorola called their watchdog module a COP in the 8 bit lines.

National still makes MPUs (http://www.national.com/appinfo/mcu/) and IP (http://www.national.com/analog/compactrisc/architecture)

I've never seen a natsemi micro in the wild, however.
Announcing ofono.org,an open source telephony solution.
There's nothing ruinous about holding the entrepreneurial spirit on a pedestal. It's the entrepreneurial spirit that drives innovation, whether it's inside the R&D department of a massive corporation (one can still be entrepreneurial while an employee - it was entrepreneurial ism that brought us Gmail), or someone's basement, or a few friends in a loft on the east side of Milwaukee.

That said, one cannot completely dismiss "business" as a skill. Management, business direction, and market "intuition" are all skills, and when properly used, they give the necessary direction to the true creators: engineers, craftsmen, etc to allow them to excel.

What would Woz be without Jobs?
Is there anyway we can purge scribd from the internet? Can we pay them to take the site down?
First Autonomous Non-Human Boards Airplane - gets window seat
Amen! Unfortunately, it seems popular "Western" culture is inspiring lots more Carnegies and Barnums than Franklins. But how can a shift in culture be brought about?
We're a 5 developer team and we recently switched from Trac to JIRA. I haven't spent enough time with JIRA to comment on it in depth but it seems pretty nice.
The good news is that it's trivial to remove the DRM and have your web browser read the book to you. I doubt this is illegal, as a law that intentionally makes something unavailable to a disabled person is probably a violation of the ADA.
Without specific anecdotes from his experiences running his company, this reads like a chapter from preachy marketing book.
You're absolutely right, but I think rabidsnail was trying to say there's currently a glut of business and marketing types.
sounds like a lot of money could be made by allowing an engineer to "undo" a routing update
I agree. However, how can the fundamental mechanisms of Nature be explained if we do not confront theories with observation and experimentation? Physics is a fortunate field because the beauty of the mathematics is a good indicator of whether a certain theory is correct or not (excluding the Standard Model ;-) but other fields of the Natural Sciences cannot afford that luxury. I don't want to start discussing the Philosophy of Science because I am not qualified for that...
Good idea. Updated the link title.
For validation purposes, I don't think Growl is the right answer anyways.

If there are 4 things wrong with an object, the user will forget the rest of them by the time they've fixed the first one or two.
Is America becoming an empire?
It doesn't get people interested in the space program, it just makes them think they can't do their jobs competently. The space shuttle is a disaster of a project.

The reason people aren't interested in the stuff NASA is doing is because it's not interesting. The whole space shuttle and IIS are complete boondoggles that derailed the space program. People care about the Mars Rover or when actually experiments take place that discover something, but just doing your routine job isn't new anymore.

IMHO, NASA should no longer exist, perhaps a new organization could replace it (hopefully privately funded) that could be allowed to take risks and try new things without the massive bureaucratic overhead and political games.
It's perfectly possible for something to be illegal and at the same time for the workaround to be illegal. Law as it exists is not code, nor is it necessarily consistent.
Also, I say this a strong supporter of space research. I can't wait till we can travel to distant planets.
New [scribd] links?
Given the recent arguments about whether scribd are evil for using the DMCA's "online service provider" non-liability clause(s), I find it fascinating that HN is apparently auto-creating mirrors of copyrighted content on scribd. Was this in the works before that thread?
Breed better software
Isn't it just a website?
Yeah. Honesty is nice. Owning up to failures is extra nice.

The twitter fiasco of first removing a feature because it was "confusing" [according to them] and then backtracking and saying that it was removed because of engineering problems was interesting to watch.
The thing is that routes aren't (usually) hard-coded anywhere: they're computed by each individual device, and while requests to perform the computation can be triggered upstream, there's nowhere that has a "one true" view of the network.

You could theoretically say "at time T1, everyone save your current tables" and then sometime later (when you were confident it had propagated everywhere) say "at time T2, revert back to your tables as of T1" but you'd have to assume that no devices had joined or left in the intervening time; in practice the only way back is to trigger a new computation and return to an approximation of the earlier state.
If you're into systems programming, read the paper! http://www.ksplice.com/paper

The process they follow to apply a patch is:

- compile the kernel without the patch, but using certain options (-ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections, to produce location-independent code). This is known as the pre code.

- compile the kernel with the patch and same options, producing the post code.

- perform a binary diff between pre and post to figure out what changed; extract the changed functions and package them up into their own module.

- perform a binary diff between the running kernel, known as run, and the pre code. This is the run-pre matching stage, and it has two goals: to verify the assumption that they are fundamentally the same, and to get the symbol addresses out of the running kernel. (Since pre was compiled with slightly different options, run and pre don't match up perfectly; the paper explains how they can safely differ.)

- use the symbol addresses learned during run-pre matching to patch the post code

- stop the machine at a safe point (no functions which are being updated can be on any thread's call stack)

- load the post code into the running kernel as a new module, inserting jump instructions at the beginnings of obsolete functions being replaced.
Don't panic! Read

"Most Scientific Papers Are Probably Wrong":
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7915
Aa marketing ploy with an underlying purpose of selling stuff isn't necessarily lame. The video is good and does not mention them. This is a fair mention and I love the idealism that it promotes.

There is no shame in the fact that great causes are sponsored.
MySpace as a Media Distribution Platform
Exactly. GE may have the resources to safeguard data on its own servers better than Google could, but the average small/medium business almost certainly does not.
Here is the related post from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607234
Some Googling has revealed a little more information from Greenstein:

http://www.pokerroad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6953
Quite welcome! If anyone has more links, please share them. I'm trying to learn things like:
http://www.divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodReverend
http://arctrix.com/nas/python/bpnn.py
The "Make your mistakes visible" advice seems to have merit based on the offered axion:
"Telling the truth even when you don’t have to is good evidence that you’re trustworthy."

But I can't think of any marketeers that have taken this advice. I wonder how effective it would be if Microsoft ran a campaign saying: "although we enabled user account control by default to increase security, we admit that it came across as 'chatty and annoying' for most users."

Such a strategy may be especially useful to reduce impact of a competitor using a mistake in negative marketing.
Agreed. Nothing much to see there. Most are social networks which are not even 1/10th the size of orkut or facebook. Disappointed that they didn't feature dimdim, zoho , slideshare or cleartrip which are indian companies or have strong indian connections.
> So, to be clear, the prevention for diabetes is: Exercise regularly and remove all refined/processed foods from your diet. Don't cut out antioxidants.

Or, just have a simple operation and cure it for real (type 2 anyway):

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2009/2554683.ht...
No, but you can download a document viewer, quit complaining, and read the pdf.
Sure, but even if something is faulty I would guess that they have a way to test these updates on only a small portion of their network/traffic (at least much smaller than the 14% they said was affected).
I think they are a YC company so I think we'll be seeing more of them.

But I've mentioned here before that I would PAY for a website which would do the oposite of scribd, turn Docs and PDFs and Flash and what not into plain HTML. Fast, no plugins required - awesome.
"Becoming"?
The issue of grains is a really striking example of how people (up to nutrition professionals and medial doctors) engage in group-think when the facts don't fit preconceptions and aren't convenient. As far as I can tell, grains, including corn, whole wheat bred, and rice, are pretty unambiguously bad for health in practically all respects, yet many people cling, with strong emotions, to the belief that they are healthy foods.
IE8 and the X-UA-Compatible ruletree
Bill of Rights, Sixth Amendment:

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial...and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him..."
It's worth looking at the philosophy behind Io (Ioke's inspiration) as well:

http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/git/checkout/Io/docs/IoGuide.h...
The automatic [scribd] links have been around for a while - I'm pretty sure I've seen them for the past few weeks at least, maybe much longer. Scribd is a Y Combinator company.
Please check out my startup Hybir before our public launch. 
Fellow Hackers.

Please Checkout www.hybir.com

The product is Hybir Backup which is a full online backup service. It is windows only for now.

The site has all of the relevant information.

Comments and Questions are encouraged.

If you would like a free trial use HACKERNEWS as the promotion code.

I have lots of exciting news I have been unable to share with community just yet. But if you are where I was a year ago. I was told "NO" so many times I thought it was my nick name. Just keep going it is well worth it.

Thanks,

Rasch
Hacking Founder
i major in advertising at the university which started the first advertising department of any ;)

much of what he's saying is taught in the books--the emphasis on making a connection. the ironic thing is that 99% of all ads and marketing suck, so you interpret that as a flaw in advertising schools. it's the classic debate of "suits vs poets." suits just want to do something to get your attention, they don't care if it's obtrusive. poets want to go crazy, but stay relevant and humorous. not like a joke, which gets old. but they want you to look at their ad or campaign and ask "how did they do that" or laugh and want to see it again. part of marketing is about making a connection with the person on the other end. it's ironic that the more you try and "define" these silly things, like advertising, the less personable they become. it's like the academy is trying to create some science around what started and flourished as an art form.

there are scum everywhere, especially in advertising. but the top schools don't teach you the crap tactics that car salesmen use. it's just like any profession, you have good ones and bad ones. but yeah, it makes you want to say go kill yourself to the people who put zero effort into the whole thing. it becomes too much about sales and numbers for some people, and that becomes obtrusive and annoying. advertisers almost always get flack because they're seen as carrying out the corporate mission of increasing profits further. but believe me when saying that most companies' best advertising and marketing campaigns were created on the brink of product destruction, not as an attempt to generate enormous masses of profit.
>solidify its business model?

no, wait, MySpace has a business model? really?
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