skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His viewpoint on MS technologies is pretty dated and ridiculous:

"When is Microsoft going to learn the real lesson about simplicity of HTML? Instead, Microsoft is doing the same thing to HTML that it does to anything it touches: adding cruft to the point where the basic functionality is buried so deeply that most people can't even find it."

Has he ever heard of ASP.NET MVC?

"It's no wonder that users are switching to the web as the platform for everything that used to live on the desktop"

People are moving to the web? Hmmm...
Searchyc has a much more interesting top-list than News.YC does. PG should pull a Summize with Searchyc.
Anti-Abuse Bus Stop Ad Only Batters Women When Nobody's Looking
Open source the project. Then you won't just have to give it to one person.
He seems to have missed the point of being built on java.
why not open source it?
And? The word "personal" is pretty subjective. It's a personal detail that I know the words to several Death Cab For Cutie songs. An embarassing personal detail, at that. But it is not unlawful for a company to not hire me over it.
This doesn't really mean what the author thinks it means. IP traceback is a way of tracing spoofed IP addresses, but spoofing IP addresses is generally not useful as an anonymity technique anyway since TCP doesn't work. Also, many ISPs have already been blocking spoofed packets for years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_traceback
Media fees are discounted based on volume - if you run two campaigns, one which has a budget of $100,000 and the other $1,000,000, you will be able to get a significantly lower CPM rates on the $1,000,000 campaign as the publisher will want the volume.

Hence, this is not an apples-to-apples comparison - if both the TV buy and the Hulu buy were the same $ amount, then it would be more relevant.
Here you have conflated the concept of "private" with the concept of "personal", and then built an argument on the resulting misconception.

It stops being private when you publish it to the world. It doesn't stop being personal. Some public, personal details cannot lawfully be considered in a hiring decision. But most can. It is your responsibility to guard your privacy. It isn't your prospective employer's.
Again, body mass index is only a valid measurement if you know you're unhealthy (plenty of people are "athletic" but BMI tells them they're overweight). At that point, you don't need a semi-random telling you so. Body composition is a better measurement.
I will bring Michael Jackson back from the dead if you give it to me.
That's something slashdot got right- capping comment scores. There's really no need to give something 128 upvotes, it's just a pileon.
This guy is insane, everything he writes is a lame rant about how life sucks since the demise of Symbolics.

However, I will have to say that I was initially excited about Clojure and each day become more disappointed because it really does carry with it all the baggage of Java. I had vowed to avoid CLASSPATH hell the rest of my programming days and Clojure often makes me feel like I'm lying to myself.
I would second this opinion. Anyone who cares about the detailed information surely understands the need for simplicity, and will only be annoyed if you're intentionally misleading.
I'm not sure if we're splitting hairs or just talking past each other, but can we figure out why it is we care about the world "usually" versus "sometimes" or whatever it is you think is the correct modifier? What's the meta-issue here?
Real-time search: more contenders flood the field
Flicker (No, Not That One) Bares Its Stats In An Attempt To Get Rich
I doubt his record will ever be dethroned, partly due to changes in the musical landscape.

There's been a great divergence in musical tastes since the 80's, probably aided by the increased availability of "niche" music that would have had too small an audience to be profitable in the past - dollars that would have gone to the #1 album are now being spread down "the long tail."

Michael Jackson's popularity also seemed to cut across racial lines and some age lines in a way that doesn't happen anymore. Can you imagine the same audience listening to Mariah Carey and Snoop Dogg? Tren Reznor's fans listening to Miley Cyrus? Jackson had a genre-crossing power.
I agree, I'd suggest with Terms & Conditions there are:
1) people who don't read/skim them (the majority)
2) people who want all the details (a vocal minority)
So if your T&C's state something like 'we may send puzzle data to our server, where it might be stored' & you also have an FAQ on your website with the full details that should satisfy both.
Linux to be taxed (commentary)
Why not just open source your code (MIT-licensed perhaps), then give away the domain in one month to the person who takes it in the best direction? That would be easier than trying to evaluate people based on a HN comment and would almost guarantee a more fit selection.
I'd like to see karma points per view. As there are more and more people on HN, the views go up, and hence the upvotes. More, any comment posted at an unpopular time gets overlooked and sinks without a trace. Having karma per view would help to offset that problem, if not fix it.

Currently the time factor is doing a similar job, but I think page views would be a better value to use.
Divvyshot looks cool. You could probably use a tehcrowd-like mechanism to promote it or increase engagement within the app
XXMLML?
Age difference. A child born the day that Elvis died would be 31 today. John Lennon was shot when they were three years old.

For them, "The King" is a golden oldie, not pop music. They can't imagine that he was ever controversial, or even relevant.
This is so far beyond stupid it must just be some sort of posturing. UFB.
Printed text reconstructed from a recording of the printer's sound
JWZ ports xdaliclock to Palm WebOS by rewriting it in Javascript
Sure, but I don't think fear of an increase of heat deaths was an major concern in the climate debate. At least I never heard about it before the Lomborg talk. And I think he made it clear (if he is to believed), that heat deaths indeed are not a thing to worry about with climate change.
Folks who write Open Source software generally want that software to be used.

That's true. But the use of GPL specifically shows that they also wanted something else: to limit the behavior of those using it.

Thus, you can't put the blame squarely on Nintendo. They seem to have been forced to make the prohibition on open source because of the latter's licensing terms. The article mentions that the real problem was that Atari was stuck between GPL rules and Nintendo's agreements.

So if the open source community was less militant about restricting how its product can be used, things like this would be less likely.
Not to nitpick, but they said 6 cents per viewer per ad on Hulu, so if there are 4 ads per episode you would have to watch 40 episodes a month (1.3 shows per day) to get to $10 a month. Not exactly 10 shows a day. I could break that by just watching the Daily Show everyday and catching 1 major show a season.
Not the government, the scientists. Assuming that the government wants to make the right decision about climate protection. But you are right - that is probably too much to assume. Realistically they will only worry about reelection.
It's not apples to apples for a lot more reasons than that. A 22 minute show gets about 1.5 minutes of ads on Hulu, versus perhaps 8 minutes on broadcast. It's never good to be buried in the middle of an advertising block.

Also there's got to be a Tivo/DVR discount built in there somewhere, which I've seen almost no reporting on.
Microsoft are full of crap
Misleading linkbait. Flagged.
> Global warming will destroy the sea, the animals, plants and finally us.

Not only that, but I heard that if not stopped, Global warming would make cats chase dogs, Jerry Springer would retire, and leprechauns would roam in large bands across the earth, spreading death, destruction, and lucky charms.
Building schools, hospitals, libraries, etc isn't such a great idea. They don't need buildings, they need trained professionals. What they really need are teachers, doctors/nurses, librarians, etc.
I second the midwest vote. Viva Chicago! :)
Don't read too much into that - "Twitter spammers" are already keeping an eye on trending searches and posting unrelated spam content with high-ranking keywords. Your data will be skewed by spammers trying to ride the popularity wave.
Sarcasm tag asplodes
Will probably be dominated by "This is a repost; here's the original."
...a modern rediscovery of the eastern idea of Yin and Yang.
Fine, don't use Clojure. Myself, I'll get stuff done, and not whine about the fact that my laptop's BIOS is not written in lisp.
It's not fair for an employer to look in your private life; any more than it is fair for the potential employee to look at confidential company data.

Every time I interview for a job, I try to find out information from the company, particularly information they don't want released. Maybe I'm weird, but I get burned less because of it.
An omission of fact is a lie in a "strict legal sense" or any sense for that matter. Explaining the perfume smell on your clothes to your wife while leaving out the part about fucking someone else is an omission of fact... aka a lie. Try doing it under oath in a court of law and see what happens if caught.
If you see how long it took for MySQL to get features like views and stored procedures

I was using MySQL back in the 90s, and I remember their documentation. You didn't need transactions, they were slow - do it in your own code if you had to. You didn't need foreign keys, they were slow, enforce integrity in your code if you had to. You didn't need stored procs... You get the picture.

Baked deep into MySQL's culture is "if we don't have it, you don't need it" - even now. Feature-wise MySQL is probably 15 years behind Oracle - yet somehow its legions of fans are convinced it's on the cutting edge!
Curious to hear more of your thoughts (especially critiques) on the Kiva model. I'm helping out with Wokai.org, which runs a similar online microfinance platform for China.

http://moderator.appspot.com/#9/e=90c6a&t=wokai
Ask HN: Palm just gave me early access to the Pre SDK. What should I build?
What would you Pre owners like to see?

Predictably, Palm has promised to crush me if I release any information about the SDK. Otherwise, I would share more with you.
Vista might not be good but for actual users it is better than XP. But Vista is not revolutionary and it is actually not aging that well (my quick launch items on 64-bit, 8GB ram just stopped working or work randomly). Windows 7 is the same system so really it is just Vista with fixes.

After more people get a whiff of OSX it is all over. OSX is really the dream. Once they went nix and intel based (Apple) OSX is the power of nix with the best OS gui to date. Microsoft will be in a world of hurt if they dont' redo their OS from the ground up (it is a pile of legacy pain), they'd be smart to base it on *nix but never will.
"Interesting question though, temperatures were constant for more or less 1 Mio. years (thanks ice-core probes for that information). Why suddenly in the last 100 years or so do we see a difference if you look in the timeframe of 1900 to now?"

We don't. Temperatures weren't constant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.pn...

While the last decade may have peaked somewhat high, the fact that we are dropping back down would mean that other hypotheses such as "our proxy data isn't as detailed as we like" need to be considered.

"say ok who knows maybe the predictions are wrong."

No. The predictions aren't "maybe" wrong. I'm not hypothesizing. I'm looking out the window. (Metaphorically, that is, I'm looking at real observations.) The predictions are wrong. Right now.

"Does it makes sense to drive the Coal/Oil/Gas burning train? There is more waste coming from burning these than just CO2 you know."

This is terrible science. You're asking me to believe in global warming, because burning gasoline is bad. Why not... explain why burning gasoline is bad, then act on that, instead? Why not talk about ocean pollution or overfishing and act on them directly, instead? While climatologists are distracting us with computer-modeled chimeras, real problems are being neglected.

Start with the truth. Work out from there. That's science.
The author embodies Lisp's self-defeating idealism. Hurray for pragmatism, hurray for Clojure.
Wow, that was the most fappish programming rant I've ever read.

"I don't care if people are more productive! It's not the pure genius of Symbolics LISP!" WTF?
It's not nearly as bad if you're willing to be open and try non-conventional ways of meeting people, e.g. online. Sites like OKCupid have many women who are either intellectually inclined themselves (i.e. "nerdy") or are looking to meet a guy who is; this way, you are much more likely to find someone who appreciates and likes you for who are you than at a sports bar or a night club (whether in Bay Area, or elsewhere).
Think about the people PG mentions in his essay. Do you think any of those ever formulated the goal to become a "great hacker"?
Only if you want to ignore important aspects of your life.
There are a lot of old strongmen. Jack Lalanne, off the top of my head for one.

People die of old age when their lean body mass gets too low; when they look all skeletal. It's about that simple. The organs and muscles have wasted away too much and there's no power left. It makes perfect sense that people with more lean body mass will live longer. In contrast, endurance athletes are known to die young.

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...the Cooper Clinic in a paper published by Ruiz and co-authors found that cancer deaths are lowest in the strongest group.

Jonatan R. Ruiz and his co-authors tested more than 8,000 subjects aged 20 to 80 for muscular strength. They grouped individuals into three categories of strength and found that the age-adjusted risk of cancer was 17.5 per thousand in the weakest group, 11.0 in the middle group, and 10.3 in the strongest group. The weaker groups also had higher blood pressure, higher cholesterol, more cardiovascular disease, and more of them had diabetes. (Cancer Epidemiological Biomarkers Prevention 2009;18(5):1468–76).
If he got anything right, it's the "good enough" thing. There's a sense of reality in clojure, of compromises and of practicality.

There's also a sense of abandonment of some of lisp's dreams. There is definitely a break from the way lisp was, and it's clearly deliberate (defn vs defun for example). But at the same time, this _is_ a lisp for the XXI century. Old dreams needed to die for progress' sake.

I strongly disagree though about the importance of understanding everything all the way down. It's not a bad thing per se, but pales in comparison to being able to work easily with what others have made. Another compromise, and one well chosen in my opinion. The vastness of java space compensates more then a hundred times the lack of transparency.
Calling Linus a communist is a bit out of line. Apparently his father or grandfather was active in the party, but I've found no indication on line that Linus himself is communist. And in any case - isn't that being thrown in purely for fear-mongering?
Two words: stone soup.

The JVM is just a starting point, and a very good one for that.
According to popularist Ray Kurzweil, Silicon. According to others who play with DNA sequencers (hacking Ecoli bacteria etc.) .. carbon.

Some people believe its not possible to make silicon AI. Others do (memristor development, blue brain project etc.)

Let's see what will happen :)
We have had a few folks come to Bootstrappers Breakfasts that went the Nevada route because of encouragement by third parties. At least for CA companies it has always ended in no savings and in some cases worse.
Reforming American health care: Heading for the emergency room
I get the impression that most of it would be written the same with or without that bit. He mentions Google, which will only reveal public information, in the same manner.
"They cannot be expected to compete against free software," Roche argues, "in much the same way that African farmers cannot compete against free food shipments from European donors. People who say that end-users benefit from access to free or inexpensive software are missing the big picture."

It could be argued that free software actually stiffles innovation by increasing risk for software vendors and reducing revenue and rent generating opportunities for innovative software producers.

Imagine if Toyota gave away free cars or homes were free. Who would pay for them?
Pragmatic Theory, Commendo, Yahoo and AT&T hit the Netflix grand prize
ACK, scary .. probably just wanted to get attention.

- Reverse global warming
Would be very difficult, take 100k's of years

- World energy crisis?
Heh, fusion again?

- Antibiotics
Hm, recently Quorum Sensing between bacteria seems to be an interesting break-through of Anti-biotics research.
This screams "joke" all over the screan ;)
I just got out of an unsuccessful attempt to start a hedge fund with several other quants. I am looking for a new project to adopt and this fits my interest.

I recently started playing with a ranked Twitter search engine in Django and would be happy to combine both projects in order to create a more useful thematic Twitter-powered knowledge base type of project by combining the ranks and group belongings of each twitterer.
Some organisations make you take a drug test and a medical exam. I think this is scandalous, but looking at someone's Facebook is unobstusive in comparison.
Doesn't sound like a very good idea. How many people are really going to leave this app active, drain their battery, and eat into their 5GB cap? What if they go out of cellular range while seeding? Why not just host the files on a server that has vastly more bandwidth? I don't recall Apple DMCA takedowning any Jailbreak apps so it's not like a centralized distribution point is really a huge concern (yet) Perhaps I'm just misunderstanding how this is supposed to work because it seems like too bad of an idea to be true.
Couldn't you say "send the result to the server", and it could mean both things without sounding too scary?
"I don’t care if everybody really _is_ more productive in Clojure than in Common Lisp."

That's where the author lost me. I'm willing to entertain the argument that a hybridization of Java and Lisp is not nearly as effective as one would hope - but the universal ultimate goal is MAKING THINGS.
This must be a joke. I can't imagine how anyone can say this kind of thing with a straight face.
Am I the only going, "duh?" It was only a matter of time. I can things of a few reasons why web ads are more expensive:

1. People actually watch the web ads. They're only 15-30 seconds, so you don't have time to get up, use the bathroom, grab a drink, etc. It's a trivial amount of time that provides little opportunity to do anything else.

2. How many people watch the ads is more statistically trackable on the web. Who knows how many people are watching the Simpsons when it comes on? Someone could have just left the cable box on, someone might watch it through an antenna, a bunch of people could be watching it from the couch or one guy could be on the couch. How many people watched this show on Hulu? Well, we had 34,746 streams within the past week, and an overwhelming majority of them are probably one person at a computer.

3. You can decide if you like or dislike the ad. Ad companies can now be sure that they're not wasting money advertising Viagra to a teenager.

4. Hulu is insanely popular. It's one of the top-trafficked streaming websites last time I checked TechCrunch. People actually WANT to watch the show they're looking for, which, when joined with point #3, means the ads are even MORE tailored to the consumer. Convincing you to buy something you're already kinda interested in is way easier than selling ketchup popsicles to a woman in white gloves.

Summary: Web TV is finally getting the attention it has always deserved (since broadband became feasible for the majority of America, anyway).
Why not? Are sex and (not) bathing somehow different from other topics in a way that is relevant mathematically?
Being anywhere but right behind or right above the plate is going to make it difficult to tell if the pitch was a ball or a strike. Regardless of a dead center or offset camera angle, they are both from the outfield, which makes visually inferring when the ball crosses the plate a hard problem for our eyes to handle. Since pitches, even fastballs, have incredible amounts of movement, watching from a television means guess work at best. Thankfully, all baseball broadcasters have all kinds of camera angles and pitch tracking to show exactly where the ball crossed, and those features are used frequently so the viewer is rarely left in the dark on questionable calls.

Neither is optimal and I personally thought the offset camera did a far better job indicating the pitch was outside for the fastball pitch the article focused on (though the slider movement was indeed exaggerated). Then again, I have watched baseball from the offset angle all my life and it's probably just a arbitrary preference at this point.
To correct for karma "inflation", how about:

karma points of comment / total HN karma points at time of comment posting

In other words, rank comments as a % of total karma points at the time.
I have never heard any Clojure proponent encourage anyone to implement functionality at the Java level. I don't program in Clojure or Java, but it's obvious to me the idea is that the JVM is just the "operating system" for Clojure.
I'd go back to developing the startup outside of work. Go get some contract work that will pay the bills and give you more time to develop the business on the side.
You can also watch his presentation from RailsConf 2006. Wackiness and coolness are included.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7470881644241559852&...
Wow, it scares me that anyone thinks flag burning should be illegal.
Your arteries on Wonder bread
would, in fact, make sense to translate some of these risks into metrics, and have a nice heatmap to look at daily.
Sounds like a complex, error-prone solution that requires the devices and people to learn something new and doesn't solve the problem of not being able to see the person you're talking to.

"A nod-aware phone would make my daily communications that much more humane, and technology that much more human."

Even if you ignore the insurmountable downsides, it doesn't sound all that human to me.
from $2 to $80 or $90 is a big business when it's with tonnes, this explain why it's a dangerous work!
Is Execution More Important Than Vision?
I happen to have read both that book along with several on programming in cocoa (never done either professionally, I was just curious, so I claim no authority) and I thought that the systems (both what you can do with ironpython and wpf in general) turned out to be generally comparable in terms features, albeit grounded in differing philosophies and idioms. That said, what is the ideal to which WPF should aspire? If not Cocoa, then QT? Gtk?

I am curious mostly because I see a lot of this sort of nothing-new-under-the-sun critique of WPF, and while I have not worked with it in any great depth, what I've seen has been impressive enough to put doubt in my mind about such statements.
Its not just AT&T, its 4 groups working together including Commendo(http://www.commendo.at/), Pragmatic Theory(http://pragmatictheory.googlepages.com/), Yahoo Research(http://research.yahoo.com/), and AT&T Statistics Research Team(http://www.research.att.com/%7Estat)
Here's another relevant "MJ was a geek" link:

http://gizmodo.com/5303026/michael-jackson-gets-his-geek-on
SkyOS to Use Linux Kernel
Dude, you have your ethics, I'll have mine. Let's not split hairs. If a company wants to hire or not hire you as a programmer over the type of music you like, I don't want to work there and I don't care how they found out.

Can I be any more clear than that?