skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You mean I have to go to this ad-infested site and follow this long list of instructions? All for something I'll use once and forget about?"
If the alternative is that the spec is developed in a vacuum and takes longer to finish, I'll deal with some imperfect documents. Those will happen anyway.
Sure, where and when?
They're not measuring weight anyway -- they are measuring mass. Maybe I'll write up a blog post with a picture of how mass spectrometry works. It's a fairly common homework problem in intro EM courses anyway.
I guess I just expect a sort of cooperation between customers and businesses. If I noticed that the place was crowded and people couldn't sit for lunch, I'd either buy lunch or head out if I was just drinking coffee. Now if I was drinking coffee and eating snacks and such, I'd figure I was spending as much as a lunch customer, so I wouldn't worry about it, but really, I try to be a good customer to good businesses.
the boston lug website is here: http://www.blu.org/
Giant Rogue Ocean Waves Surprisingly Common, Satellites Show
Great write-up and kudos for sharing the code.

Mix-panel looks great and I'm excited to integrate it into a couple of our rails apps. I think it will be especially useful for people like me who run marketplaces/payment-aggregation apps. If I can get better data on our customers' customers' buying behavior, that will be a win-win.
He missed the most obvious contended to the iPhone, namely the blackberry. In SF at least, you see occasionally Android and Pre's but the overwhelming majority of smart phones are split between iphone and blackberry. Depending on where you are in the city the ration changes, but its obvious that neither the Pre or the Android phones have really made much of a dent on the dominance of those two.

Maybe the next wave of Android phones will help promote that line, and maybe the next version of the Pre with a battery that lasts the whole day will get it into more people's hands, but until then, the world of smartphones is split not into the choices that Steve made.

What the HN community feels about Apple is largely irrelevant to Apple. We're the nerds that buy the early adopter products, Apple appeals to a mass market that doesn't give one hoot about the app approval process, all they want are their games and new shiny things ever summer.
I wonder if interference between these waves might contribute to the formation of giant rogue waves:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0810_040810_...
hi shafqat. I'm actually a programmer turned primary teacher so I don't code for a living any more. Like most hackers however I usually have a side project. Nothing at the moment but I'm getting lots of travel related ideas thanks to this trip. how long have you been in thailand?
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This may be a bit before your time, but "back in the day" we used gopher for our online document (i.e. text file) browsing and distribution. The web/http existed, but the text-mode clients were a bit more difficult to use than the gopher clients (interesting factoid to consider: gopher was introduced _after_ the first http clients, but until Mosaic hit the scene it was the dominant tool for online text/document navigation.) The data, primitive though it may seem to most people now, was already online and in use but was not being accessed via http browsers. When the first GUI web browsers hit the scene they provided a significant improvement over the text-mode gopher/http clients everyone was using so the uptake was very rapid. If the GUI web browsers could not deal with existing gopher protocol and document-space I doubt they would have taken off as fast as they did.
So that's where I parked my spaceship.
any answers here? I am at a dead end..
Wake me up when they implement SVG and canvas.

No, they don't care about HTML5 no matter how they spin it.
My friends who have allegedly done this report that restoring the phone to a point where it can get officially serviced has not been a problem. One has allegedly done so multiple times.

And I think if its the type of problem such that you can't even restore it to factory, they're not going to be able to tell either when they fix or replace it.
Seems like the forms are IE6+ only as mentioned there. I'm on firefox 3.0 on ubuntu 9.04 and can't view those.
There's a fine line between derailing and simply not helping. The process is going fine without them and they're only shooting themselves in the foot by not putting their two cents in.
Its all about the developers (as Ballmer says). You'd be doing your part to channel effort away from this awful system into a third party that does not censor or cripple your hardware's functionality:

Check out this bit from Slashdot yesterday:

"The 4-month-old Cydia store is yielding notably higher sales for a few application developers than Apple's AppStore, and is reportedly running on over 4 million Apple iPhone devices, with perhaps 350,000 connected at any one time. In this store, developers are distributing applications they've written that push the limits of Apple's normal AppStore policies, with software to add file downloads to Safari, trick applications into thinking they're on Wi-Fi (for VoIP), and enhance other types functionality. You'll also find the popular Google Voice application, which was recently rejected by Apple."--http://bit.ly/199gAh
Which is more likely?

1) Bing engineers came up with a dictionary + algorithm to determine anti-MS content (as opposed to pro-MS content) and applied to the results....

2) Or bing just gives kinda crappy results for most queries?
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Why do you post images instead of pictures? This is the web you know.
Thank you for the article. Now to get off my butt and implement it.

P.S. I really love your writing style (easy to read, funny, informative)
There are prediction markets that work fine with play money; the Hollywood one is famously effective and one of the oldest, last I heard.
If you know an unemployed law grad who's passed the bar, there's a good living to be made merely just customizing these forms for new companies. (I actually begged Yokum to have WSGR do these forms [Wilson has done YC/term sheet docs, but no incorporation docs] for this express purpose.)
Downloaded the Word docs and opened just "fine" in Open Office using Firefox 3.52 on Mac OS X 10.6.
This starts off as a somewhat dull Netflix rant, but turns into a sublime masterpiece of drivel:

'While "meh" may seem to imply disapproval or disinterest, it is actually a sophisticated response of veneration, a celebration of something's ability to be a part of the anonymous formlessness philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy calls "whatever."'
Ask HN: using dependency diagram as the primary way of browsing code?
XCode, as any other IDE I know, shows you the source files as a hierarchy of files and folders - a tree. Recently I realized that a better way to browse the source for me is a dependency diagram - a directed graph (this graph should be also be acyclic if I did everything right). So, I have a couple of questions for my fellow hackers:

1. Are there tools that help build and visualize dependency graphs? In particular, for Objective C but any other language is also interesting.

2. Are there IDEs (or IDE plugins) that use dependency graph as the primary way of browsing code, in lieu of the directory structure?
I hooked an old PS2 wedge barcode reader up to a Sanguino, so that it could store a bunch of barcodes, and dump them into LibraryThing.
no, its not clear at all, the failing is with Google for preventing what you call "gaming the system", and your analogy is flawed for the same reason. Using your analogy lets say you hire a security firm to protect your most valuable asset, then you get robbed. Who would you blame? Clearly the answer is a function of both.

However, I'm not even convinced of that Scribd have managed to game anything. Can you provide a link to google search results that backs up your claim?
Hey - Not a programmer (SEO), but I've been looking for one to hook up with in Thailand. Live near Phuket but will be in Bangkok next weekend.

Silentmind - I'm looking at travel projects as well :)
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Microsoft has a well-known strategy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. As one of the other commentators pointed out, they followed a similar model in the ODF Vs OOXML fiasco. First: do not join until late in the game. Next: complain loudly about features and options even though they were fully aware of their existence and had many chances to get in the game to influence them. When told that it is too late or that their comments do not make sense, react by introducing incompatible or proprietary stuff that no other vendor could possibly adopt due to its closed source nature. - Result, the so called standard is rendered a little less "standard" because of Microsoft's refusal to play nice. The software development community loses out and Microsoft goes back to its "business as usual".
The nature of Microsoft's comments here makes it clear that this is the second step, namely "complain loudly" that they are unhappy about some of the tags. This will go on for a while, until they will just start bundling proprietary stuff with IE 9.0.
The world is unfair. Everybody is stealing my favorite things to hate.

I have been single-handily hating Java since 1996 and never, never took a Java job. It felt so f-ing awesome coding C with Python and laughing at Java groupies up until around 2004 when hating Java became mainstream. Ridiculing Java is so uncool now... everybody is doing it, no need to engage your neocortex in this activity anymore: it's like breathing. Ugh.

Facebook "platform" was awesome to hate but only for a short while: in less than a year everybody stopped loving it and the cave of Facebook haters got too crowded. I don't even remember the name they used for that "platform" anymore.

Then the iPhone came out, a 100% closed and proprietary little cutie. Then the DRM-crippled Kindle! It felt like being a kid in a candy store for a while: those two were awesome gifts to a serial crippled tech hater like me. It's been so awesome not owning these two and bashing them all over internets! And suddenly I'm not alone, the beach is full of fatties and the water is muddy. Hey you're all, get outa here and go zoom some maps with two fingers, dammit!

Ugh... Only Flash is left as the last bullet on my list of things to hate. And the camp of Flash bashers is growing uncomfortably large. It is getting increasingly difficult to find a universally loved crap to loathe. Even not owning a TV, an all-time American love affair, is trendy!
When are you around in Bangkok? It seems there is something of a community out here, but I'm not aware of any previous meetings.
This was in the news a while ago, I recall they said that it was already affecting the design of ships that had not had their keel laid.
The best I could do so far is to make a "rule" for myself that files in the list can only reference other files above them, not below them. This seems to preclude formation of cycles, but is still too coarse.
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Everytime hurricane season comes, they start their red alert propaganda on the news alarming people about how the oil supply from the gulf will be reduced therefore oil prices will go up.

After hurricane season, prices should go down, but no, it never happens.

Then on winter oil prices will go up again because you know, heating consumption increases, but it never goes down when the scorching summer arrives.

Then the middle east.

Then chavez.

Then... [insert alarmist propaganda here]
The post about the source of the earth's hum made me wonder whether there is a relationship between its cause and the rogue waves. Interference between the earth hum waves?
You'll do more to awaken Apple by not using their device at all. Not only is that -1 for them, it's +1 for one of their competitors. Not using the app store deprives them of very little money (even if you spend $100 at the app store they are netting just $30). Not using the device at all is a loss of thousands of dollars (partly AT&T, partly Apple, but both companies will take notice very quickly if people start dropping like flies).
There is the semi-weekly Beercamp meetup, which vaguely overlaps. It is largely composed of the English-speaking Barcamp community. Not sure if that counts.
Even if you didn't have the JS problem here, you have the fundamental problem of not having trust anchors. You get a key over the network. How do you know it's the server's key?
I've spent enough time working on this thing :)

Make your window smaller and reload. It will only show as many cameras as will fill the page. Refresh to get a new random set.
No, it doesn't; that's why you're supposed to use java.security.SecureRandom.
Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=637804
See previous comment, re: XOR encryption. It's all about levels! Get 95% of the value of this level with 1/1000th as much code.
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On a similar note, any YC folks in Singapore. Just moved back here, would like to meet new people.
The Sequoia investor completely dominates the video, so take a look if you are interested in that perspective.
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I remember products from Tachyon (http://tachyon.in, the makers of QuillPad) using Python. Some of them are even open-source!
What a weird little subthread. urandom and random are both CSPRNGs --- the same CSPRNG, in fact --- the only difference between them is whether the device blocks to fetch more entropy. Go ahead and use /dev/random if that question freaks you out. Either way, don't rely on mt_random.
Want a poster? :)

The timing attack thought is great; would love to have an easy target for a classroom demo. Thanks!
CFlow does what you want:

http://www.gnu.org/software/cflow/

It's primitive compared to the stuff you find in with more reflective languages, at least Common Lisp and Smalltalk, or for that matter binary analysis utilities like IDAPro.

But, theoretically, you could do that only with C-like languages and binary executables: i.e. languages that have a "program entry point".
I've been playing around with webpagetest.org for the last hour or two and the results are really quite good (in other words, there were a lot of optimizations that I overlooked).

For instance, here is HNs report: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/090808_21KF/1/performance_...

(not sure if that link works when published), it suggests that HNs .css files do not have their cache headers set properly.
Its bad advice because people denormalize the wrong tables. They'll actually slow queries down by denormalizing a table with a few rows into a table with many rows - which makes things slower.
And perhaps "Cash For Clunkers" will get credit?

But seriously, it seems like "success" in economic terms these day means "postponing the day of reckoning till your successor is in office" and failure means the opposite. By that token Greenspan succeeded but Bush II failed.
Because if you're going to do that - why not drop the SQL and the ORM altogether? Most shops at that level aren't doing analysis on their production SQL anyway - they dump that into a data warehouse. So why not do your CRUD on NoSQL and dump that some place ppl can run SQL on it?
We would need a place that can seat several people comfortably in a discussion format which has drinks.

My wife and I are wracking our brains but I think the upshot is there is no venue in Bangkok which is easy to find, serves drinks, and is quiet. Also, wireless Internet access would be nice. I'm thinking about a cafe.

Starbucks on Lungsuan road is nice. If you'd prefer to support the Thai Man instead of the American Man then the True coffee shop in Siam Paragon is also nice. The nice thing about Paragon is, for YCers who have already made your millions, the Ferrari dealership is conveniently located right there in the mall.
Yeah it is sweeping. Tim Hortons has the same sign in every one I've ever been in.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Tim_stores_wik...
There was like one guy asking questions at the end of his Yahoo talk, too, and that guy was just saying "don't use Google's library, use Yahoo's!".
You mean like ASDF's :dependens :serial clause?

http://common-lisp.net/~mmommer/asdf-howto.shtml

http://constantly.at/lisp/asdf/ [manual]

I am usually thrilled about everything Lisp, but ASDF .. let's just say ASDF if fun fun fun.
If you are not gzipping, this will give the most benefit for you efforts. Pretty bogus title. Could have easily been 100% if you had it running on your local machine. The things your mentioned are yslow recommendations.
Perhaps my favorite:

It's not paranoia if they actually are out to get you. -> May be paranoid.

http://translationparty.com/tp/#651845
I wouldn't call that drivel- obtuse maybe.

I think the reality is it's important to care about how many of the eyeballs who watch your movie, listen to your talk, or try out your new product are glazed. That is the percent of people who bothered to respond vs. the total number who responded.

With Netflix (or IMDB reviews) I would rather watch a polarizing film where the majority of viewers felt they needed to voice their praise or disgust than one that illicits a non-response.
I had considered a LUG, but I only have one computer, and I'd prefer not to dual boot. I'd prefer a platform-agnostic programming group, if such a thing exists.
While some of what you say is true, Ritual did indeed cover their power outlets because there were servers running whole startups there, much of the rest is not.

It's pointless getting into each point, like the obvious error about Reverie. Do you really think Craig asked them to remove the WiFi? Just because he's there a lot? And besides, they do indeed have free wifi. As do many places in the Inner Richmond.

And where did you get the idea that Blue Bottle is the most financially successful coffee shop in SF? Their kiosk in Hayes Valley is definitely popular and has a line of 20 people most weekends, but that's a function of the fact that they are trendy with the cycling community and how long they take to make the coffee. If they were half as fast any other coffee shop they'd not have those lines.
Does Justin.tv have a non-Flash way of viewing streams? While creating one without Flash is awesome, it's still annoying to have Adobe's horrible Flash implementation crash (and or bloat) watching two-three hour streams.
I wish somebody have published a Canadian version of such documents :)
ok, that's one place...
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How are other markets solving the market maker problem?
For me the most insightful idea was toward the end when Michael Moritz said that it's easier for small b2b companies to get a foothold during a recession, because during better times the big companies won't even listen to them. The idea being that during a recession big companies become desperate to get better results for less money. I hadn't thought about that, but it definitely seems true, at least in my case.
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This is a great article for users of ANY editor. I'm a vim user and got a lot out of it.

Even more, many of these tips are abstract enough to be applicable to users of almost any complicated software tool, particularly ones used for hours a day.
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In Xcode, look under the "Design" Menubar item.

http://edr.euro.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conce... looks like a decent introduction to the menu (note: I don't use this menu and only skimmed this doc, so no promises)
Poll: What is your gender?
I'm kind of curious how the division male/female is on HN, so if it doesn't offend your sense of privacy...
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Note that the array_accum user-defined agg described by that blog post is built into PostgreSQL 8.4 (it's called array_agg(), per the SQL standard).
same old story...people manage to keep advancing despite the yoke of heavy taxation, government takes credit for every inch plowed.
It ain't over till the fat lady sings.

The economy is basically a chaotic system that is impossible to predict. It's kind of like the weather: More than a few days out you just don't know since there are so many variables and feedback loops.
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Now that most home computers have are powerful enough, I definitely think that 3D in the web browser will get more popular, and that a standard will emerge. Director/Shockwave has been around for a while, and naturally has been adopted by more users.

Unity is a lot more powerful, and includes a physics engine and shader support. I don't know how much Shockwave supports those things, if it does at all, but I'd imagine Unity is a lot more focused on advanced features. It's not the Source engine, but it's advanced enough to build stand alone and console games, with the web as one option for deployment. I think it boils down to how much users really want realistic physics and other high-end game features in a web game, and that's hard for me to say.

There's also Google's O3D, which is also very powerful. Right now, though, it seems to be just an experimental Google Labs project, and not a real product.
I am not convinced the approval process is 'evil'. Capricious? yes. Opaque? You bet. But not evil. They have made some dumb decisions that are getting a good amount of press coverage in tech circles, but the general iPhone user doesn't care about most of that.

I also don't think the article's author made a good case for iPhone development being as bad as gambling. Writing software for any platform can look like a crap-shoot from the outside. But success depends on a good product and a market to be served. Many of the iPhone apps are neither so that makes it more difficult to determine what the chances of success are.

I think that iPhone development has a higher chance of success than for any other current platform. You have a audience that is willing to spend disposable income, and a place where they can easily find apps to serve their needs.
Hollywood Stock Exchange is extremely effective with play money but that is because the people playing on the site are all part of the same industry and there are actual ego issues and incentives to make it to the top of the leaderboard.
this recently appeared here in HN. emphasis on stainless steel tho.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/04/the-future-of-fabricati...

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