skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He'd been in business for an awfully long time already in 1995. Where's the evidence to suggest he was so ridiculously unpolished after all those years?

Nobody says "No! No! No!" to an interviewer over and over again.
Before he gets confused, you mean 'safe', not 'save'.
At first sight of the title, I thought this paper would be about chromosomes.
I think the simplest way to fix this particular problem would be to just direct to a "recording buffer"--like voicemail, but an operator can come in at any time when there's one available. There will have to be voice recognition so they have a screen of what you've said so far; if they had to actually listen to the buffer, they couldn't listen to you. However, if the line has since gone dead, or you're just babbling incoherently or something similar, they should be able to listen to the start of the buffer (while still having you on in the other ear.)

On reflection, though, this probably isn't possible; if voice recognition could understand these people to any degree, there would already be priority-triggers based on certain keywords (fire, seizure, etc.) and I'm sure these haven't yet popped up. What could work is if you had a pair of operators for each caller--one who comes in on the call-in-progress, and the other who listens to the buffer and tells the first (or types into a shared display) any additional information they need to know. The buffer operator could then go on to another call, though perhaps having two available operators for each call might help reduce mistakes. :)
It's actually not that good a point. Using JQuery you can get a web app as low as 1k so slow connection isn't that big a problem.

1k is still a pretty unpleasant wait when you're looking for 'instant', and unfortunately, if I exit Safari to use another app (which I often will), Safari will very likely need to reload that page.

Web apps can integrate into most of the iPhone's features like contacts (notable exceptions being location and camera).

Web applications can't integrate with the address book, actually.

The other stuff he mentions like p2p, mDNS, etc... are very specialized applications that to the best of my knowledge only work on unlocked iPhones (I could be wrong though I know bit torrent has been banned from the app store)

The P2P I was referring to is WiFi/Bluetooth zero-configuration phone-to-phone 'networking', for magically connecting applications on two or more phones. It's pretty neat.

A web app is never going to work for edge case style applications but for the majority of web sites it's probably a good idea just to spend a day customizing their site for an iPhone (I've become fond of iWebkit: http://iwebkit.net/) rather than buying a mac, learning objective-c, etc...

I really don't think they should be considered 'edge cases'. There are so many ways that the user experience is better via integration opportunities, speed, and native look and feel, that I don't think anyone should consider a mobile webapp to be a viable replacement.

Webapps are a reasonable substitute assuming nothing else is available and you can't afford to produce a proper application, but I'm not convinced that you'll spend more time and money producing a native app than you'd spend producing an equivalently high-quality webapp alternative.
They're not back,they never left :)
But later on he switches gears to "they" instead of "we".
Kinda makes sense considering all the bullshit that Microsoft pulls.
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The site is a bit slow.

"Inmates have got lots of time on their hands.
What better way to make use of this resource
than doing handicrafts?
Creativity pays, especially when it facilitates
escape. These examples bear witness to man’s
love of freedom."
This is one big problem with Python libs and evolution of the versioning. The best default support you can get is 2.4 even at places like Joyent due to Redhat and RHEL and other package systems. It is unfortunate.

I was hoping stuff like Django, SQL Alchemy, Google AppEngine and even Unladen Swallow to focus more on Python 3 btu there is so much vested in older versions. If everyone could just get to 2.6 or 2.7 at least then new frameworks and old stuff can run for a while.

But python evolution is a bit held back by situations like this. That is one problem that Ruby, .NET etc dont' have and as a Pythonista for the last few years, this is concerning.

Google AppEngine may be adding python version support soon. There should be an easier way to have parallel python libs and switch between them per app.

Hopefully this is a focus soon.
OK. Wasn't clear in the wording.
Richard Feynman on Physics: 4-part lecture series (videos)
Anyone actually still uses l0phtcrack? I remember using it back in the days, but now with rainbow tables a "stupid" bruteforce is simply not cutting it.
One of the Python GSoC projects this year is a Python 3to2 tool that lets you convert Python 3.0 code to work on 2.x. Once this is implemented, the major projects (like Django) can switch over to 3.0 without having to put work into 2.x branches, and that should provide critical mass for normal developers to switch over too.

Here's the proposal: http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2...
I agree. It seems like LinkedIn is uniquely appropriate in terms of online searches, since it was designed with professional jobs in mind.
You just reminded me of some other great Feynman videos I had bookmarked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=677323
I think that real time data is most definitely very interesting, and an area ripe for exploitation at the moment. However, I don't feel that in the majority of cases for people searching on google or any other search engine that it matters a great deal. Real time search and search in general only overlap so much. Good article otherwise.
ARToolKit
An example video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTsdh9TdzgM
Stallman thinks he lives in a black and white world, when in reality it's all shades of gray. His zealotry is getting tiresome (for me).
Version .6 of SqlAlchemy will support Python 3.
That's an important issue.

I would suggest having a backup to a large call center if the wait time is over 30 seconds. The remote call center could have priority to "escalate" to the local call center and share information. Integrating it so the local call center could see what the remote site had typed and replay the message if the caller stops responding would also improve that system.

Set things up as a distributed system so each site would accept incoming calls if they had excess capacity and give remote sites access to local conditions. So you can handle large sudden spikes without excessive staff.

The other option would be to try automatically handle some calls using location information while the caller is waiting. (If you are calling about the car crash at _ we are sending an ambulance. If you need further assistance please stay on the line.)
From HTML 4 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2):

The attribute value may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z), digits (0-9), hyphens (ASCII decimal 45), periods (ASCII decimal 46), underscores (ASCII decimal 95), and colons (ASCII decimal 58). We recommend using quotation marks even when it is possible to eliminate them.

From HTML 5 (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#attributes):

...the attribute value, which, in addition to the requirements given above for attribute values, must not contain any literal space characters, any U+0022 QUOTATION MARK (") characters, U+0027 APOSTROPHE (') characters, U+003D EQUALS SIGN (=) characters, or U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN (>) characters, and must not be the empty string.
System and method for creating exalted video games...
Abstract: A video game method and system for creating games where ideas have consequences, incorporating branching paths that correspond to a player's choices, wherein paths correspond to decisions founded upon ideals, resulting in exalted games with deeper soul and story, enhanced characters and meanings, and exalted gameplay. The classical hero's journey may be rendered, as the journey hinges on choices pivoting on classical ideals. Ideas that are rendered in word and deed will have consequences in the gameworld. Historical events such as The American Revolution may be brought to life, as players listen to famous speeches and choose sides. As great works of literature and dramatic art center around characters rendering ideals real, both internally and externally, in word and deed, in love and war, the present invention will afford video games that exalt the classical soul, as well as the great books, classics, and epic films—past, present, and future.
"Hopefully, even projects like Django could move to 3.x for new releases while supporting 2.x on an older release."

Not really, no. There are two things going on here.

First, many people seem to have a different view of the Python 3.0 migration process, when compared to what's been discussed and planned for by the Python development team. Put simply, nobody who actually works on developing Python expected that this would be a quick transition, and mostly they seemed to expect (and plan for) large projects taking at least a couple years to get to the point of running only on 3.x. That's why there will be a Python 2.7, and possibly a Python 2.8.

The other thing is simply that many end users can't do a quick jump to 3.0 installations and will be pretty upset if they lose new releases of software as a result. So "we're jumping to 3.0, too bad if you can't" isn't an attitude we can take. And, honestly, most of the operating-system vendors aren't going to be there with packaged 3.x Python and packaged 3.x libraries anyway.

So what we're doing is a process of deprecation: one Python version per release. Django 1.1 will be the last release to officially support Python 2.3, Django 1.2 will be the last to support Python 2.4, and so on until we hit Django 1.4 (hopefully) sometime next year. At that point we'll only officially be supporting 2.6 and newer in the 2.x series, distros will have had time to catch up, major installations will have had time to lay out upgrade plans and we'll be at a place where a 3.x port is far simpler to undertake.
How Acer took over the PC Laptop Market
I've read the Feynman lectures on physics, but I had no idea there was actually a series of videos as well.

Great find.
Anyone know what version of Python Mac OS X Snow Leopard will ship with come September?
I didn't mean to imply that projects would want to migrate right now; it will take quite a while before many projects choose to make that transition.
This will help not only soldiers but also those civilians who are prone to fractures. I have a friend BTW who because of bone disease has experienced over 100 bone fractures.
Lots of upside here and little downside.
Is Tomboy the only application that uses Mono?[On a default installation]
That seems a bit extreme to include the Mono framework just for a notepad.
It should probably be noted, however, that the original article's suggestion to "avoid doing SQL queries within a loop" is still a good one. Granted, this isn't PHP-specific, so perhaps this wasn't the right place for it. Furthermore, on small traffic websites (which, as other commenters mentioned, are probably the target of an article like this) likely wouldn't see a significant speed up, given the low query volume. Nevertheless, minimizing trips to the database is a good idea.
Experiences with investment and business visas?
I'm inpatient to startup in the US (preferably SF bay area). While I would prefer to convert my h1b to get residence, with a greencard, it seems this could take a few years.

Has anyone here successfully come into the country on investment or business visas to start a company? Have you managed to get residence along the way? I would hate to put my heart and soul into getting a company off the ground but then not be able to stay..
Because C is so old that all those patents have already expired?
What torture, I hope some crazy medical innovation is made that helps your friend.
I agree with that, (he believes all software should have to be open-source, I believe) but I also agree with this post.

This post is not saying "we shouldn't make anything relying on any non-free software because all software should be free software." It's a pragmatic post saying, "look, it's likely that all of the man-years going into C# free software will be lost when we can't run that software on our machines. So write it in something that we'll be able to use on Unix forever." If someone chose a proprietary framework with official implementations on Unix systems, this post wouldn't say that those are bad as well.
"If you're not pissing off at least 50% of the people you meet each day, you're not having a good day."

Arbitrarily deleting messages based on you reader's behaviour is a recipe for mediocrity.
Stat crunching and visualization of baseball data is immensely rewarding if you are a software developer and baseball fan. I'm learning more about statistics than I will ever learn as a web developer. The existing knowledge base is huge (sabermetrics) and growing every day as people develop more interesting measures of performance.

As soon as I find time, I hope to start reading about monte carlo simulations and implement one using existing MLB data.

If you anyone is interested in this stuff, google sabermetrics, baseball databank and retrosheet. Cool stuff and the community looks like it could use a solid dose of high quality OSS software. It seems a lot of experts in the field still use MS Access and Excel to model their information.
I could be wrong, but I got this from the book "Asset Protection" by Adkisson and Riser (well known attorneys in this area):

Under state law, having a registered agent in the state of incorporation creates nexus sufficient to allow the corporation to be sued in that state. This fact alone may affect the decision where to incorporate. A jurisdiction where jury verdicts tend to be very conservative may be preferable to one with a reputation for runaway jury awards. The cost of defending a lawsuit may also be a significant factor in this decision. Defending a lawsuit in the owner's home state will be substantially cheaper than defending the same lawsuit across the continent [or as one person here says, across the world]. This may be a factor in deciding where to incorporate

And you can always be sued in the state in which you are operating. So it seems that you can be sued in both states.
An Interactive Database of Ideas
> I don't get it. Why is the GNU Project developing their own C# implementation but is seemingly anti-Mono?

Did you read the article? Having a free C# implementation is important because it allows people to run their C# program on free platforms according to the FSF. However, writing and distributing apps in C# is not encouraged as people might get sued. RMS points that he has nothing against mono or any other free C# implementations (proof is that GNU has its own Portable.NET) as it allow people to move to a free platform.
Some of those benchmark results were surprising.

And some of the interpretive comments were more so: saying "little difference" when there was a 2:1 difference.

The fellow does say he continues the work and is open to feedback, so perhaps some of you with more sophistication about benchmarking can check it out?
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I'm 90% done with a Rails app for social book summaries. It allows people to search for books, add a short summary (less than 500 words), and choose their favorite summaries for each book. Over time, each book will have the highest rated summary attached to it.

I'm not trying to pull a Fahrenheit 451 and diminish the value of books, I just got really annoyed during finals last semester when I was trying to look up book summaries for books I had already read to refresh my memory and everything I found was longer than necessary. I just want something quick and simple.
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The press contacts at WFU are at bottom of summary. If you can't find the email of Dustin Wood at WFU, ask the press contact to forward your request for a snail-mail reprint of the article.

Better ask soon, the popular press will probably whip up this story and deplete his reprint copies soon.
That women mainly want high-status men manifests itself by a pretty flexible view of physical attractiveness. I wouldn't be shocked if women thought that the most attractive men were similar in appearance to whatever alpha males they most admired.
More information:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127212101.ht...
Fair call - I had various friends and acquaintances in mind who use separate identities to behave in ways that would have unwanted repercussions if those identities were ever reunited. Some examples are moonlighting, sock puppetry, and whistle blowing.

One thing about pseudonyms - it is in your audience's interest to maintain the ruse as they benifit from it's existence.

PS: Posthumous diary service - if someone can create a trusted service that provides timed key release - so many services can be hung from it.
The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics
"Webapps are a reasonable substitute assuming nothing else is available and you can't afford to produce a proper application, but I'm not convinced that you'll spend more time and money producing a native app than you'd spend producing an equivalently high-quality webapp alternative."

I'm sorry but are you kidding here? You think a web developer who already has experience in all the tools used to create a web app is going to spend the equivalent amount of time learning a completely new languange, platform, developer tools et al AND THEN using them to program an app. I'm sorry but that's really a ridiculous thing to say.

(and I don't mean to be rude but really, who voted this comment up? If you don't know how software development works you shouldn't comment or vote on posts that involve it)

As for the rest of your argument,AT&T's Edge connection downloads at around 25KB. So a 1K page (which you claim causes an "unpleasant wait") would download in 1/25th of a second even on a slow connection.

As for the rest, my point still stands. Everything you spoke of requires a cracked iPhone which the great majority of people don't have anyway.

For the record, you're wrong below but I can't reply to you and I don't know why. But the short of it is anyone who is ACTUALLY a developer knows there's a lot more than picking up a language to development (though again there will be time to pick up the language and that will be time a web app developer wouldn't need to spend). You have all your tools including your editor, unit testing tool, etc... So again you're wrong. And yes there might be overhead to a web app but at 1k it's still going to come down in about a second or two. And Latency, this is the first link I found off google: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/atandt-customers-seeing-s... I don't think .91 seconds is going to kill anyone
"Publication does not affect your rights under patent law."

True, but letting Mono flourish for as long as it has without taking legal action against it opens up a can of worms that can screw with future action against it. Patent law recognizes the idea that implicitly letting someone infringe and not doing anything about it until it's most profitable for you/most damaging to them isn't the way the game's supposed to be played.

Add to that the fact that patent suits are the global thermonuclear war of the technology industry (the only way to win is not to play), and I'll be surprised if anything serious ever happens.
I don't think this could ever actually work. If you've already lost 2 followers, then your tweet is already out there in the timelines of your followers. Those who are going to see it, probably already have. Those who aren't, probably weren't paying attention and never will anyway. There are already services that tell you what you said that made people unfollow you -- so you can delete tweet manually or modify your tweeting behavior (services like: http://www.tweeteffect.com/ and http://twitterless.com/ )

Twitter couldn't remove it from timelines until people refresh, and I'm not sure if third-party clients cache tweets, but if they do, then you'd never get your problem tweet deleted from those timelines either.

I guess this feature could somehow block people from retweeting your tweet? Maybe... I suppose. But, uh, most people don't retweet things that made them want to unfollow you. So that would be a silly feature.

What Twitter SHOULD do, instead, is fix their delete function, which leaves deleted tweets in Twitter search. Or provide a quick edit function (i.e., editing available for 90 seconds after tweeting) so people could fix typos.
So, if your target audience is investors, TC is probably the best possible place to be. If you actually want to sell real products, TC is probably not useful. We've been on TC once (alongside some other YC companies), and VentureBeat once (dedicated article), both very nice articles, and we were happy to have the coverage...but our best sales day ever during our first two years was when someone linked to our site in a comment on Slashdot (we've since reached a point where we regularly top that, but we still consider it a really good day when it happens).

I tend to be suspicious of companies and investors that only look to the various mouthpieces of the valley for their news. There's a whole world of business happening every day that TC and the other valley rags have no awareness of. That's OK, of course, as TC has its niche and serves it well. But, if you're not looking outward, you're missing a lot of opportunities.
Ask HN:why has the dollar not collapsed?
Its hard for me to have a theory for why the value of the dollar did not collapse on this crisis, and if that will happen in the near future.
Yeah, the real-time web cheerleading at the end of the article was really off-base.

someone looking for info on the case will just type "michael jackson death" and find it anyway

Exactly; the real question is how long it took for the news to appear in the main Google index -- at what point would googling for "michael jackson heart attach" produce useful results? I would guess very quickly after the TMZ update.
I'm sorry but are you kidding here? You think a web developer who already has experience in all the tools used to create a web app is going to spend the equivalent amount of time learning a completely new languange, platform, developer tools et al AND THEN using them to program an app. I'm sorry but that's really a ridiculous thing to say.

As a software developer, Objective-C is just another imperative C-derived language (a pure superset of C, actually), with Smalltalk-decedent OO features. It's not (or shouldn't be) an alien experience.

My comment assumed a baseline software developer proficiency. If simple high-level webapp development is all you've ever done, then of course -- writing an Objective-C application will be more difficult. Perhaps that's a good reason to write one.

As for the rest of your argument,AT&T's Edge connection downloads at around 25KB. So a 1K page (which you claim causes an "unpleasant wait") would download in 1/25th of a second even on a slow connection.

In addition to failing to account for additional resources (the page won't be 1K in total), you forgot to account for latency (there's quite a bit).

As for the rest, my point still stands. Everything you spoke of requires a cracked iPhone which the great majority of people don't have anyway.

Nothing I've mentioned requires a jailbroken phone for any purpose.