skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
since the URI is the API , there are two events possible right now.

onhover
onclick

http://onhover.hover.in/hoverlet/hover.in/crunchbase/yahoo will trigger the link is hovered
http://onclick.hover.in/hoverlet/hover.in/bookmarks/ will trigger the link when clicked

the other fun hack is that that in case you have an image inside the onclick anchor element, the event will be triggered when it is clicked since it is a child. this works great when you want to create a badge / share this implementation.
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Yes, if you're tired from a normal amount of sleep or have trouble sleeping, just go do a sleep study. At the very least it will rule out things such as sleep apnea, a lethal condition that you might live your entire life not knowing about.
Really? That's embarrassingly slow. Does it do better for QR-codes?

It'd be wiser to purchase a $100 barcode scanner for scanning a large collection of books.

You could also try a CueCat, if you can find one on eBay.
The triple digit interest rates that some international Kiva parters charge

holy f*&k! an even better scam than i could craft...loan-sharking poor people with the principle provided by an outside funder (i.e. "mark") who has NO EXPECTATION of recovering the funds?!?!?! shit these guys have it all over the mob
"Completely disagree. Freedom isn't binary. Everyone has to answer to someone."

i have thousands of customers, if one of them misbehave, i just ignoore him. i have couple of rude email/SMS that i don't bother replying.

but if you have only one boss(es) or a handful of customers, then that's very risky.

so freedom also include not having to answer to someone and it's not as binary as you want to make it sound theoritical
I'd like to see an iPhone hooked up to a model plane/helicopter. Now that it's got a compass in addition to the GPS and acceleromter, it's a potential autopilot with video capability. Poor man's UAV/cruise missile perhaps?
i'm only doing the theoretical angle. you can be sure if there is a website that offers handouts to anyone with a photo and a sobstory, someone is going to bust out the clipart cd and fabricate a legion of worthy recipients
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Ok, looks like I found a hack that worked. Clickpass logins should now work again.
Thanks PG!!

do you have any stats on what percent of users login with clickpass?
I'm a little late to the conversation, but I'll explain the reasoning. You don't want the hash and the bucket size to have a common divisor. A prime bucket size is the best way to ensure that.

For example, let's suppose you have a bucket size of 8 and a flawed hash function that produces multiples of 12 more often than other hashes (it can even be only slightly more common, but will still have an effect). Then the 0 and 4 spots will be used more often than any other.

Obviously, if you have a super awesome hash function, then it isn't a problem. Most of the time, making a hash function with good distributive properties is hard and makes the hash function slower.

There's also a simple universal hashing solution using prime bucket sizes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_hashing

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
I have no idea, unfortunately. These look like normal logins to our code.
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I would totally read this blog, dude.
I am not sure. According to the contract I own it, but I need the company to sell it. At the same time the contract expires in less than an year.
I will look into these and make an appointment. Thanks.
I would be interested to know how you secured your monitors to the drafting table. Do you adjust the tilt, or only move the table up/down?
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You might be right, or you might be suffering from "engineer's pessimism". I'd bet on the latter, and so would Kurzweil: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kurzweil/kurzweil_print.html
What valuable services have been started since 2005?

I ask because CA's current revenues can easily cover the services from 2005 even after accounting for inflation and increased population.
Sounds awesome, but also like an outlier.
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Do you accept the argument that this will not affect the majority of applications on App Engine? I had the impression that large numbers of apps were already exceeding the existing quotas.
My favorite line: "...the [social media] experiment seems to have yielded a result. Idiots rule."
One thought after reading this: Troll filtering is a big, wide open market.
to be honest, i thought the same. but it does have a lot of interesting facts.
Is anybody surprised that, with 600K+ followers, many of whom are already self-selected as "edgy" or "alternate" that some small percentage of them wouldn't be absolutely manical raving lunatics?

Trent could probably solve some of this with technology and create a self-policing environment, in which a core group of half-sane fans could administrate/police/censor to the betterment of all - There's a reason why Wikipedia's NPOV cabal and anti-vandalism bots make it a better place.

Likewise with keeping the community small (and hopefully self selected to be at least semi-lucid) ala the HN approach is also good.

Big, uncontrolled, and lunatic is a recipe for all sorts of wackiness and cruft.
Cancel the state pension plan and disband the public employee union. Then increase state services and lower taxes with money to spare.
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And there are plenty of places to train your algorithm
I think that's just the result of version 1.
I'd somehow never heard of retrospectiva. It looks great. Can anyone with experience of both compare it to redmine?
It's been around for years now, and it's pretty much an accepted utility across the board. Remember, carriers get to charge extra for the Blackberry data plan.
Indeed, TFA made just this case:

The Dancing Guy wasn't thinking, "I want to get a huge dance party going." He was thinking, "I want to dance!" With that in mind, here's... [lessons from this observation]
For 600/year you get the following and it's hosted.

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There are some obvious advantage of hosting your own.
Don't employees have to pay a chunk of their cheques into the State pension plan?
For Mac there's this: http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/antirsi/
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Agreed. The price seems too high for most startups to bother with, unless you're well funded. Maybe there should be a flat rate thing?
Thought this might be interesting to mention as a solution to the Trent Reznor problem.
Great piece. As far as social networking goes, this stood out:

> Anyway, we're in a world where the mainstream social networks want any and all people to boost user numbers for the big selloff and are not concerned with the quality of experience.
Both parts can be true at the same time.

The AppEngine team says they chose the quotas so 90% are free, so majority will not be affected. There are over 80,000 applications, so if even 1% of them are exceeding existing quotas, that's still 800 apps that are affected.
Er most of the links on this blog don't work and most of the posts I can see are just about the iPhone and related apps - how is this about Things to do before you Die?

Even more specific, how is copying out parts of the Wikipedia article related to seeing Flinders St Station before you die? They're not saying - "you have to see this place" or "you have to catch a train here" but just saying that the station exists. This just seems like SEO-purposed plagiarism - from what I can see they added nothing to the wikipedia stuff and didn't even attribute it.

Furthermore, the station is awesome but what does this have to do with Hackers?

Now finally - this guy is just spamming stuff like this at Hacker News at the moment. How do we flag a user as a spammer?
Actually I just joined less than 5 months ago, later than everyone else in my department save one person. But you're right; I do have a good boss, and my department has preserved more of the original company culture than many other departments.

I suspect that my experience is different from others more in the degree that it's officially sanctioned, not in what actually goes on though. I've heard - from several friends across several other big companies - that it's really common to have everyone spend about two hours a day working on their "real" job, and then the rest of the time either reading SlashDot or working on side businesses. After all, what's the worst they can do, fire you? Then you're in the same boat as someone who quits to do a startup, except that you can possibly collect unemployment. Most big companies are large enough that nobody knows what anyone else is really doing, anyways.
"advance in a linear fashion but rather at an exponential rate. It's the difference between 1-2-3-4-5 and 1-2-4-8-16."

Don't know, should I laugh or should I cry?
It also makes it easy to verify that he was right.
Thanks for bringing altlaw.org to my attention; lately I've been looking for examples of Clojure being used to do lots of string processing. I've found a presentation of the altlaw project here: http://files.meetup.com/1228907/altlaw-hadoop-meetup-2009-02...
I figured out the orbits in an inverse r^5 force field during a particularly productive nap in the winter of 1993. (IIRC, the orbits are closed, like those in an inverse r^2 field, but---bang!---they intersect with the center of force.)
Personally, I just find it to be a good way to find out about Canadian startups, especially since there are also regional lists.

For comparative purposes the absolute positions are out of whack since each company can be so different, so you're seeing a lot of apples-to-oranges comparisons. But if you can pick out companies in your specific field then it's actually not a bad way to gauge relative success as a benchmark.

For service-companies like Shopify and FreshBooks to come in at top 30 in this list is actually mighty impressive. Not everyone appreciates that, but I do :)
We're on a version way past 1... that has been the result for many years now. The second person on the Internet was probably a troll.
To me, it's pretty much the same as the carriers not being too fond of, say, mobile AIM. They still get their data plan cash, though. The sooner more people/services move to BBM, the sooner I can get rid of my outrageously priced text messaging plan.
"as I've learned more about the limitations of our understanding, our biology, and computers"

What specifically did you learn that stands against the singularity theory?

One thing that makes me confident that there can be machines that are as smart as the human brain is that there is already a proof of concept: the human brain.

Of course that does not prove that there can be machines that could be smarter than the human brain, but it does not seem too much of a leap to imagine it.
I guess one reason for the success of The Matrix was that it was essentially true ;-)

Edit: to explain, we DO live in a simulated reality, in reality we are stuck in a tiny space with some wires to the outside world. The difference to the Matrix scenario is that we carry the computers doing the simulation around with us (our brains) - or at least so we think.
You are saying I could have my little animal farm right now? A snip with the finger, that's it?
http://myprops.org/content/S.F.-is-gonna-be-broke-whether-yo...

Take a look at the list of San Francisco's top-paid employees. These numbers ignore benefits and pensions, which are fairly generous.

Chief of Police: $256,000

OK, tough job with major impacts on public welfare, must be hard to find capable candidates, I'll buy that.

Police Officer III $237,000
Police Officer II $230,000
PD Sarge. III $229,000
Lieutenant (Fire Dept) $225,000
(PD) Inspector III $223,000

Wait a second, guys

There are two major unions with members who do jobs which are quintessentially blue collar who are getting paid on the same scales that resulted in those. I love cops, don't get me wrong, but there is no way to justify $100k+ for a beat cop except through union capture of the budgeting process.

85% of Sacramento's budget is employee salaries.

In Oakland, out of a budget of about $415 million, police cost $212 million, fire $103 million, and debt service about $40 million. Want to know why they're in debt? Hint: look what they spent 75% of the money on. Those costs went wild in the last two California booms as the unions voted themselves gold-plated contracts, and they've successfully defended most of them even though the booms have busted.
To me it sounds like a reason not to have a debate with them on their own site and not to read other comments there.
A cool idea, way overpriced in my opinion, though. $24-$149 a month for "you moderate" packages? I could roll my own in almost any programming language in 1/10th the time it would take me to integrate with their service.

The MTurk services are a little more reasonably priced, 2.9 cents a comment is about what I'd offer the users directly.
I saw this youtube video of an early 90s broadcast about this thing called internet, and they pretty much talked about how great it is to have a civilized conversation, without trolls.

So early on it wasn't a problem, my guess is that trolls probably didn't really appear until AOL.
PySH is not bash.

/tmp/pysh > [[ -d test ]]
Unknown command: [[ -d test ]]
One thing to think about is that we don't charge at all for a certain amount of requests.

For some, you might simply blow through that. Happy to hear your feedback on what you think is reasonable.
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Hey look, here's a whole list of things you must do before you die!

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That's good news for me :) I'd also add that bootstrapping is easier because of the lower cost of living for the younger generations, as required necessities are very basic. Microwave dinners, running water, and electricity is more than enough (at least for me). For example, I have no problem sleeping in the floor for a few months as long as I have a comfortable pillow and a blanket.
Rule 30, what? The search terms that people find my blog under.
it's a clean, visually intuitive simulator - i am using it for a high school class learning logic. thanks for making it available

2 things i wish it had:

1) a way to save the state. sometimes students don't finish a problem in one session and there is no way to save the partially constructed network. and of course there's no easy way for them to give me their finished work.

2) a "T" cable to tie inputs together (for example to make an inverter from a NAND gate. it IS possible to connect both inputs to the same switch but while the result works, it doesn't look the way we usually draw gates with bridged inputs.

thanks again for a very fun toy
Sockpuppet accounts, probably. But that's why we have /classic .
If responses times are as low as 50 ms, it usually isn't a problem when it become 150 ms: people don't notice Similarly, if response times are 2 seconds, it doesn't matter that it becomes 2.1 seconds. However, when the response time is 400 ms, then it is a noticable difference when it becomes 500 ms. People notice that: the site feels more sluggish.

Now whenever I shop at Amazon, I browse around for a bit. It's not that a more sluggish site would cause me to abandon a purchase midway in the purchasing process, but it's rather that I might get annoyed at the sluggishness while browsing and postpone my purchase or take it elsewhere, where I can browse the available products at my leisure.

I think that is what they mean, but if the number is just based on assumptions about who intends to make a purchase, that also means the number is highly disputable. However, I think Amazon has enough data available to simply correlate response times with sales rates over a statistically signifcant period and statistically signifcant amount of sales. In that case, the number is pretty undisputable: if anyone has this kind of data, it's Amazon.
I haven't worked enough with languages like Haskell to know whether this is true, but isn't the compiler this tool?

I'd like to see studies as to whether statically typed languages mean less testing. After all, compilation is just an automated test for a certain class of problems, and with statically typed languages that class is larger than with a dynamic language, like Lisp. Larger, but is it more useful?
Basically, you just run the time to sale and how much cash you're processing and correlate that to time. True, it's not exactly causal, but Google found the same with I believe the quote is "1 second delay in search means $1M lost in revenue"
Funny, I just saw him play tonight. He always puts on a good show. He's from Pittsburgh and we got a particularly good setlist.

http://twitter.com/trent_reznor/status/2049368290 probably sums up Trent's feelings in a tweet.
In my opinion, the original quote by Aldous Huxley is more accurate:

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley]
Right, because everyone is serious all the time.
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I don't think it's normal in mainstream education - mainstream education seems to reward obedience and fact-memorization above all else. Critical thinking and creativity tend to be tolerated at best, punished at worst.

But difficult for difficult? Maybe it's because challenges can stimulate you to find new ways there. I like playing the highest difficult levels of Civilization IV - itself one of the hardest and most complex games ever made - because it forces you to keep re-examining and questioning your assumptions. Strategies that work on the lower levels get you stomped on upper levels, so you're forced to adjust to a whole new style of play and find solutions you never even thought about. Good for the mind.
HELP: I want to find a tech co-founder in Los Angeles
I live in Calabasas, CA (its in the San Fernando Valley if your familiar with L.A.). I am 23 years old and graduated last year from U of Arizona. I currently run a technology consulting company called Omni Solutions. I do basic web development, marketing, computer repair/maintenance, and other tech consulting. Its only me and when I get a big job I usually use elance, guru, or odesk to outsource the work.

But I hate it.. really, really hate it. Omni is just for spending money (while I live with my new roomates -mom and dad) and try pursuing the startup life. All I want to do is start a startup...in fact start a lot of startups.

I have created some basic sites using my limited skills in HTML and CSS (I have never programmed PHP, Java, ASP, etc). I have created a similar service to HARO with better matching and no media filtering (called findasource.org) and I am currently developing a craigslist style site dedicated to bartering locally.

But I am really looking for a local hacker to bounce ideas off of and start some businesses together.

I have read almost all of Paul's essays and one thing that sticks out is how hard it is to find a tech co-founder (especially when you are not in one of those tech hub cities). But I thought I might shout out my request to HN in the hopes that someone responds.

If you would like to talk - email, phone, beer, coffee, lunch (I'll buy), my email is

bryan (and then the at sign) myomnisolutions.com.

And if you have any suggestions for me to find a tech co-founder in LA, that would be great too. I don't even think there is a technical school close to me that I could solicit to. I would love if a Y-combinator clone started in Los Angeles.
Personally I hate licenses like this. At least this one has been approved by the FSF, but I have to look it up. I see no reason not to just use MIT/BSD if you want a short, permissive license. That way everyone knows exactly what they can do with it and programmers hoping to use your code won't have to beg the legal department to ok it.
a minor bug.

if a switch is connected to one input of an XOR gate but the other input is left free, the output is low regardless of the switch state. (same if switch is replaced by clock). Other gates (OR for example) work correctly even if one input is left free.

thanks again for a cool app
It always seemed like more of a cultural difference than a financial one to me. Don't you think that TopCoder could be useful for American high school and undergraduate students, who could be preparing for the IOI and ICPC respectively?
Fun fact: this year's TopCoder Open Algorithm Championship winner was a Chinese high school student who never qualified for the IOI.

As an aside, if you don't mind telling me, do you think your participation in the IOI helped get you into grad school at MIT? If so, to what extent?
Spot on and beautifully put.

On a related note, it never made sense to me that some first time entrepreneurs give it all up and become VC's.
Now the site make sense. A lot better than last time it was on HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=628257

Kudos.
Anonymity seems to play a larger role than the size of the group. Join any moderately active IRC channel and you are sure to see someone acting up eventually. A channel that I frequent with fewer than 50 people has a regular troll that bugs the channel almost daily and occasional racists.
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One of Kiva's featured United States entrepreneurs is working down the street from where I live. I dropped by and bought a sandwich because I was curious.

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