skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I somehow believe according to personal value of Facebook (read none) that it's aiming for its peak. It is a time waster in the time where constructivism is a necessity to overcome all present issues. Just take a look at the feeds, it seems to me that it is social gossiping and social gaming rather than anything to do with friends. As (an older) student, I can see the trend that most students are falling in the already mentioned time wasting. Those that graduated though, I don't even see them on Facebook, they are busy doing something, working, building and using their time with physical friends and family.

Facebook's crowd will always be difficult to monetize. I am already pissed of by the banners I see around (never ever clicked one), so the only reason I go there is to notify people of something from time to time. It really has taken the functionality of an Address book, and hell it is annoying climbing up that www for a small piece of information. The board of Facebook says that if they placed more ads they could start earning a lot. I say if they do that, I am a goner same moment. Same if they try to sell me something.

Valuing Facebook in 5 years? Ridiculous. I doubt it will even exist in 5 years in the form of today. I see a major shift in computing coming up in the next few years, and Facebook and Google and all those disconnected clusters of multiple identities merged.

Value of Facebook currently is (-) minus all the money they've spent. I doubt they will ever compensate for that. Investing in Facebook though is a good scheme to launder money.

I also see the next bubble. Overestimation and over-expectations of "startups" and websites that will never create value. I see a clear shift to desktop computing again away from the ill-responsive web.
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Nice article, I know I for one can give these issues little thought when coding at a higher level of abstraction but certainly necessary knowledge for performance critical code.
I disagree about the short term bump part.

Quant trading algorithms, like most stochastic trading approaches, lose their effectiveness over time as the market internalizes them and as knowledge dissipates naturally (not necessarily through leaks). The best of the best individual quant trading algorithms have a half-life that does not exceed one month. And we're talking exceptional here. Also, at any given time many, many algorithms will be running simultaneously; complementing, overriding eachother as necessary.

So there's a lot of churn overall. The code that someone picks up in this way contains a single snapshot of this transient trading strategy, not particularly useful to run on their own. You're right that, what really sucks for Goldman is that someone could find some basic patterns inherent to their trading platform and trade "against" Goldman.

The catch is that this sort of maneuvering happens all the time. Sure it's going to be painful in the near term for the Goldman quant guys, but they don't need to start from scratch necessarily.
There is quite a difference.

Einstein swore that his very own equations dealing with quantum mechanics had to be wrong because it described a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement, which goes against all logic and seems impossible. This led him to believe that the equations were almost right, but with an error somewhere. To quote him, ""I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will, not only its moment to jump off, but also its direction. In that case, I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist"

It wasn't until a few decades later that we observed quantum entanglement in a lab... showing that the equations had in fact been right, even though Einstein had thought they were wrong.

The story in the op is a little different. A weird phenomenon is observed but unexplained... now an equation explains it, but you have to wonder if the equations were made to fit the observation. The best way to test this is to use the equations to predict some unknown and unobserved outcome, then see if the actual result meets the expected result.
I wasn't involved in the real estate side of things so I don't know how we got the space, but I did work for a company that had machines right on the trading floor of almost every exchange in the world. So, I think the answer to your question is probably, yes.
Thanks for the headsup, I hadn't realized how elegantly Vimeo solves the problem.
The question is: Is their "bashing" of the local government justified? Is your "bashing" of Ikea justified?

To me it seems Ikea is not in this for any political games: it wants to make business, within moral codes it has set up for itself, that should be reasonable to everyone, even you. You on the other hand seem to be in this out of hurt national pride. That is not an argument as compelling as the first.

It is not difficult to understand that Russians do have a hurt national pride, looking at recent history. But don't take it out on Ikea - they're not the one at fault here. Take it out on the corrupt local government. That would be more constructive, and even build up some credit with Russia's current skeptics.
3. The MATLAB code reads the input data from a MATLAB .mat file (which only MATLAB knows how to read and write). The Mma and Python code gets it from a text file.

But which are the "native" formats for each environment?
The best co-founder you'll find has these three qualities:

- serious about starting a company

- smart

- gets things done

The last two are attributed to Joel Spolsky (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html)
One of the comments asked about how each engine handles updates, which is an interesting topic to me.

Unfortunately reproducing the results would be somewhat difficult: while zooie open-sourced the code (http://github.com/zooie/opensearch/tree/b03e41ab04a480edd66c...), the test twitters and trec content aren't as freely available.
HN bug report: truncates text after escaping entities for HTML
I think users would love to have the option to access millions more apps/sites/content.

Flash is indeed searchable, and indexed since flashplayer 9.
I'd agree with that, my thoughts are if your employer doesn't provide the people it lets go with a cushion (advanced noticed or severance pay) then the employee who leaves is in no way obligated to do something the employer wouldn't do for them
Already discussed and dead'd:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=682022
At its best, it's a window into how the world works. Most of the Internet tells you what is happening - HN is one of the few places online which dives into the why. This is mostly restricted to the intersection of tech and business, but that's fine.
I don't think anyone suggests (for serious websites) that log files should be abandoned or ignored. On the contrary, script based analytics - which do indeed offer significant value that's ignored in this article - should be considered supplemental or complementary to more traditional methods.
However, hydrogen will not pool like gasoline. If it doesn't ignite, it will just fly off into space. This mitigates some of the risk (i.e. if there is an accident, a fuel leak will either kill you quickly, or it won't)
I'm a compulsive arguer. I love to pit my ideas against reality. HN gives me the opportunity to argue with intelligent, thoughtful, articulate people on a large scale.

To an extent, this is what I do on my blog too. But it's a lot cheaper to write a comment like this one than to write a whole blog post.

As a start-up CTO, I also use HN as a "pulse feel" for the start-up/tech community. It's important to be in touch with the communities that you operate in or near, and HN largely fulfills that purpose for me.
If they mean the words how I understand them, you can explain something without making accurate predictions.

If I walk by a box and it falls over, I can theorize the the wind did it. That "explains" what happened. But it doesn't make my theory true.But say I predict that next time I pass it the wind will knock it over. So I walk by it again — it doesn't fall — then my explanation is incomplete.

That's why we require predictions. The real test is how accurate they are.
Furthermore, lead-acid (car) batteries are extremely easy to recycle (and are valuable; you almost always get a trade-in discount).
I'd suggest Scheme, just because the SICP videos make learning it easy and fun (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...). And, once you get the functional concepts, Haskell and/or Erlang should be relatively easy.
with HTML5 going forward the "flash is needed for videos" idea is going to vanish...
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Of course too much waste is produced. And of course, when I said throw it in a bin the back-yard, I left out the details of how manage a compost heap - but do you tell people to put gas in the car before starting it? I am unsure how large metal objects generate methane in a landfill. Generating methane from organic waste is not a particularly efficient form of energy production.

Reducing consumption would be a good first step. Proper product design for maximal recycling and bio-degreadable components would be a good second step. Apartment buildings could easily have digesters. You could easily have them spread out throughout a city. Until we have electric trucks with a clean electricity grid (not very common in the US), you still have a transportation issue.
Believe it or not, I'm more interested in the people here than the content.

I wholeheartedly agree. As a matter of fact, I was reading the RSS feeds exclusively until very recently (2 weeks ago). A friend of mine then told me I should check out the discussions that take place on the site. I'm so happy I followed his advice. Generally, the discussions are at least an order of magnitude more interesting than the articles themselves. That's the reason HN is my browser's homepage now.
Well, Groovy has never been "sexy" (in a CS sense) in the way Scala or Clojure are perceived to be.

Despite that (or perhaps because of it) my experience has indicated it's in wider use than either, and it has some enterprise-y backing (SpringSource) so I expect it's not going away.

Both Scala and Clojure are attracting people who weren't originally on the JVM though, which (again anecdotally) I don't think you can say of Groovy.
"Hard to predict" is an understatement. For all we know, extracting energy from wind and waves could counter the recent perceived increase in hurricanes and tropical storms, or it could restore weather patterns to what they were prior to deforestation.
What I love of the iPhone not supporting it (and in one year of using the iPhone every day I never needed flash) is that it is a good argument against flash, to be used with people not understanding the other, more sensible, arguments against flash. So: We can't use flash! Otherwise we have a problem with iPhone users.
A Python pickle would be comparable to a MATLAB .mat file. For Mathematica, you'd typically either make a text file containing Mma code (e.g., with the Save function) or write binary data in some proprietary Mma form with DumpSave. I'd guess the latter is faster and makes smaller files, but I've never checked.

More realistically, though, in any situation where you're seriously trying to decide between Mma, MATLAB and Python, your data will be coming in in some "neutral" format and you'll need to parse it. So the Mma and Python code is much more realistic than the MATLAB code.

(But perhaps when the author actually needed to do this, it happened that the previous step had been done in MATLAB. That would explain taking input as a .mat file.)
precisely, facebook just turned 5 years old a few months ago
Facebook's crowd will always be difficult to monetize.

I have ad-blocking turned on on all websites, by default, so I don't get a good sense of what advertises on Facebook unless I happen to see someone else's Facebook feed (as, for example, a family member's) on a computer without ad blocking turned on. It all looks like schlock.

What I have seen on my own home page feed on Facebook is a small number of some of my more remote Facebook friends who go absolutely NUTS over the Facebook quiz applications. I enjoy posting links via the Facebook link application to webpages on the marketing tricks and security holes embedded in Facebook quizzes. (Many thanks to HN readers who post some of those links here on HN.) I'm trying to use positive peer pressure in my circle of Facebook friends to make it uncool to respond to Facebook quizzes at all, and I'm gratified to see that several of my friends immediately put all my new links about the perils of Facebook quizzes up on their personal Facebook feeds.

So I think this is the problem: sophisticated users will not only not fall for the schlock on Facebook, they will try to educate their friends about the schlock. I don't know if Facebook has a revenue model that overcomes the cost of serving up lots of pretty pictures and videos to unsophisticated users. (I don't think Facebook is anywhere near as technically savvy about reducing bandwidth or running server farms as Google, but I could be mistaken.) It may be that a lot of the users who have the highest-quality conversations to share will jump ship and find yet another online community--that has happened many times since the 1990s, and I always follow the flight to quality.

And, yes, I agree that sometimes Facebook has appallingly poor response time. That might get a lot worse as the user base expands.
"Similarly, I'll be more likely to say "hire" to the Eagle Scout, triathlete developer than a candidate who bludgeons me with all of their "accomplishments"."

That line struck me as a bit off base. My father works at a corporation where they were looking at hiring a security engineer. His boss wanted to hire a guy who had leadership qualities, and one candidate was on a basketball team that went to nationals. His boss was excited, and really wanted to hire this guy. The other candidate was fresh out of college, had a security background, skills and passion. The candidate wasn't nearly as well received, but he did end up getting the job.

Would you have hired the basketball player? I'm curious, not flaming. I legitimately want to know why accomplishments in the field are less important then those outside. I mainly want to know because my resume is chock full of things I've done in the field. If I need to change that, I definitely want to know ahead of time.

I for one could potentially list my BSA rank and efforts, but I'm not sure what business value that has.
"Never tell people what to think about stuff. Tell them about it and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." (To paraphrase Patton.)

Thanks for the thoughtful comment bmelton. I very deliberately restrained from commentary to focus all the attention on what I really wanted to say: the picture.

I tend to overindulge in commentary and analysis, but I believe that even more than as filters of news, the true strength of reddits is in analysis filtering.

I also submitted it to Reddit, where it's had some success too. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/8yhay/what_if_yo... (and has proved quite controversial.) But the most striking thing is the different quality and spirit of their comments to those from here.
Note that Data Land Software (host of blog) sells an "interactive web log analyzer"
...and my impression is that FP and OOP are complementary rather than mutually exclusive. But I only have basic understanding of FP.
Oh...he was a quant...ok, makes more sense now. So, that implies that the code he stole likely contained trading strategies.
And the zeroth?
I think this is a good idea to first learn the basic functional concepts using Scheme and the SICP videos (heard a lot of good things about the videos and the book). I'm learning Haskell (I'm a C# guy) and some things are a bit difficult to understand if you have an object oriented background. I think I'll have a look at the SICP videos, too
This generalizes to a principle that all law students ought to learn in law school, or in their summer jobs during law school. A very typical form of new business partnership is the "brains-money" partnership, in which one partner provides the brilliant new business idea, and the other partner provides the capital. What is typically found in such partnerships is that the partner with the money controls the direction of the development of the partnership. That's not really terribly surprising to anyone who has ever formed a start-up.
That's why you have swizzling in textures (grouping close pixels (left,right,up,down) in close proximity).
E.g.: The blog post linked in the article specifically mentions that Aleynikov left his $400,000 job in New York for a $1,200,000 job in Chicago.
I did find lot of books/resources for Haskell and Erlang too.

If it were the usual programming languages (PHP, Ruby, Python etc), making a choice is relatively easy. For functional languages, I'm not sure where to even begin.
Collection of New PHP Open Source Content Management Systems(CMS)
The RaycastTerrain sample

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc835725(VS.85).aspx
Did you learn Scheme and then moved to Haskell, or directly started with Haskell?
A contrary point of view would be that if the incremental improvement in performance of a variable-speed wiper is worth one cent (or one dollar, or whatever) over the performance of a constant-speed wiper for each driver on the roadways of this country, it makes perfect economic sense for the pioneer who brings about that improvement to enjoy a license fee that car manufacturers pass on to each driver for the duration of a patent. Patents don't last forever, but they are intended to be lucrative enough to get someone out of the starting blocks to DO something about implementing a new improvement.
I've been thinking a lot about this over the weekend. Any bets on what's next?
They just have another metrict for "better explaination". It's less like Ockham's razor, and more like "attention catching".
A market for G-rated (kid-safe) social networks? 'My Secret Circle'
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My folks came to Maryland in 1660 or so, on the first colony ship. They were Catholic (illegal at the time in Britain) and looking to start somewhere more Papist-friendly.
Yes, we intend to do this as much as possible in the future.
I'm the person who made and posted "Hacker Hacker News." I didn't intend to say that science, math, and programming are really what this site's about, or even that they are better than anything else. I wasn't trying to make a statement, just a Web site. I can see how the name would imply that, though, but you all know how hard it is to find good domains these days. :)
But the hierarchy is broken by the ability of one node, err, person, to participate in multiple hierarchies at once at varying levels. This turns it into more of a graph of relationships with hierarchical elements, and while it's true you can't understand that without understanding hierarchies it is equally true that you can't understand the dynamics if you only characterize it as a hierarchy.

One way of expressing America's still-unusual social flexibility is that we have many valid social structures and it is very easy to move between them; there have even been some studies on how that works. Contrast this with the other extreme of "grow up in your home small town and never leave", for instance, where there does develop a fairly strict universal hierarchy.
The USB monetization model:

"...charging $19.99 for one My Secret Circle USB key, or a "B.F.F. Pack" with two keys for $29.99."
I think it can last longer than a couple months. I worked on some relative value trading algorithms in connection with work that a b school prof was working on, which got picked up by some of the major HF players. It continued to work for a couple years before the correlations faded away.
Yes. Alas, most of the automagic type inferences we are used to in FP languages (Hindley-Milner) does not play too nice with OOP's class members.
I'll add the timezone (PDT). It's updated whenever I run a command to update the HTML and scp that to the server. Nothing automated about the process yet.
Open Source and the Cloud: Where’s the LAMP?
The pleasures of rereading books
I am not an expert and it's been a while, so please feel free to correct me.

There are two contexts the string theory is talked about. First, it is by most considered the most promising theory of fundamental interactions (a.k.a. the theory of everything in press and blogs.) Second, it has been shown about ten years ago that there is an equivalence between some version of string theory and some field theories. The second part makes it possible to use string theory for calculations in quantum field theory. It is not related at all to whether string theory is indeed the correct fundamental theory. (It also means you can't kill string theory: even if some other theory, say loop quantum gravity, is the correct fundamental theory, you can still use string theory for calculations in the quantum field theory.)

As far as I understand, the new results the OP mentions are derived using the latter technique, i.e., applying string theory to obtain results in regular field theory. As such, it has nothing to do with demonstrating physical reality of string theory, at least not in the most obvious sense.

The original article: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1174962
I directly started with Haskell, but had some difficulties with the functional concepts! this is why I second the idea of michael_dorfman. I think it will help you a lot to understand everything better. and I personally like video lectures a lot. not that I'm lazy and don't want to read, but sometimes, when something is explained visually or by a specialist in the specific field, you just get it better in your head :)
Yeah, that's exactly the Bayesian classifier library that I'm using. I'll have the code up in a few hours.

edit: source at http://hackerhackernews.com/hhn-20090706.tgz
I'd like two. ;)
6. Bots (spiders) are excluded from JavaScript based analytics

To me that is actually a benefit of JS based analytics programs. When I check Google Analytics in the morning I don't want to see how many search engine bots and scrapers hit my site the previous day. I want to know how many actual human beings used my site instead.

Also, and this is probably obvious since it's been pointed out that these people have a vested interest in log parsers, this article would better be titled as "10 Reasons Why Web Log Analyzers Should Be Used WITH JavaScript Based Analytics." I would argue most people serious about tracking traffic use both anyway but those that don't should see the benefits.
Everyone on the planet basically has aspects of one or all of these categories

...perhaps that's why 9 out of 10 new businesses fail. i think everyone will have 1 or 2 maybe 3, but too many = toxic.
I'd definitely second SICP if you've never done functional before. It teaches you functional concepts almost without you even realizing it.

OTOH, if you are really interested in being truly pure, it's hard to beat Haskell. Real World Haskell is a great intro for that language, and it's free online.
I think HN will last more. There is a reason, HN is not a business like is Digg or Reddit, so I bet Paul Graham will try do to his best in order to take the site useful and don't attract noise here. The other sites can't do too much if the metric is "more garbage but much more pageviews", here instead there are no deals to do, nor ADS to serve, so the site can be adjusted just in order to maximize the quality over the time.