skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks pretty real to me, that simulated universe, and that is quite possibly all that matters.

Everything else is philosophy, CERN is concerned with physics.

If they get it to work (and I'm pretty sure it will work, they have a pretty good track record there) chances are that they will discover some interesting new bits of data that will get us one step closer to a UFT and a better understanding of how all of this began.

That's worth some money, more in my opinion than another useless war or some lets-make-jobs project.
Eliminate an explicit deadline. It may affect the applicant pool at first, but subsequent iterations should be normalized.
I'd like to see how it compares to Self and SBCL.
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I wouldn’t say “ends justify the means” is accurate here. Morality’s a tricky bag no matter how you slice it but one thing most ethical systems have in common is a belief that harming others to benefit yourself is wrong. So, for example, if you’re my boss and someone offers to pay you a million dollars to fire me even though I’m a good worker that would be wrong. Even though you would gain far more than I would lose. Because you’re causing harm to me in order to benefit yourself.

What I was saying is that it’s justified if the benefit is to society. This is based on two principles that are pretty much accepted across the board as far as ethical systems go. One, you are part of society and there’s nothing immoral about defending yourself against harm. Two, societal benefits are in the macro so even if a company is only causing a little harm per person the amount of harm prevented adds up.

So in my eyes and in the eyes of most ethical systems publishing these documents wouldn't be justified even if Techcrunch gains more than Twitter loses. Unless there's information in those documents that would benefit society as a whole (or if Twitter was causing great harm to someone else and it would be stopped by revealing the documents)
there may be empirical evidence for your claim but I don't suspect one can easily group programmers into these two groups so readily. As an example Stallman himself has written some pretty good code, for instance emacs.
What the Hell is Going on With Twitter's Security?
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This is what's profoundly wrong with this Arrington character. What an awful, tabloid approach to defining news. New reporting is, quite simply, doing the legwork to bring stories to your attention.
They might not have come to your attention for any number of reasons - distance from the source (too many nodes between you and it for it to get carried to your ears by your social network), original source too small/obscure, information not meme/viral enough (too complex? takeaways not clear? relevance to you is difference to relevance of all the potential, necessary carrier nodes it would take to reach you), you need your information filtered because you're too plugged in; privacy / legal status of the source is just one reason why you might not get information.

Whether a news outlet should carry that last set of info to your ears or not is up for debate; but to see his role as binary - advertising/PR newswire vs. broadcaster of leaked private information... well, how sad.

He's not alone of course. Tabloids have been operating on basically just that model for eons. With the occasional fabrication when they can't get enough leaks to fill the inches.
Is there any reference if the hacker stole the password to an account in Google Apps for Your Domain?

I use it and there are pretty much no password recovery options:

Please contact your domain administrator to help you access your username or reset your password.
It's a public policy exemption. A greater good call by a grateful society would not punish TC for its crime/immorality if it deemed the leak to be of sufficient value to public interest. That's a risk the publisher/whistleblower takes but it's only a risk if there's an enforcement/judgment process in place, or else TC faces no such risk and can publish anything it damn well likes without having to estimate the value to the public interest of its actions.
Which, quite frankly, is what they frequently failed to do in the past.Their judgement is suspect, to me at least, even if they've never been punished.
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He 'guessed' the password for Google Apps.. The wheedling out of passwords was done for Yahoo! email accounts, which offers an abundance of ways to get at forgotten/lost/'wanna-get-me-one-of-those' passwords.
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good thing copyright was invented. human beings made little to no progress before it. without the incentive to copyright no one ever invented anything.
Zed has what is known as "open source remorse"... he should be honored that people respect his code and want to use it in their apps... doing so was (in hindsight) a risky proposition b/c he abruptly stopped supporting Mongrel after a petty (and embarrassing) spat with others in the Rails community.

Fortunately, Phusion stepped in and wrote Passenger which now handles most Rails deployments.

Bottom line: Zed is a talented hacker but he's maybe 1 in 100, not 1 in 1000 or 1 in 5000. If he hadn't written mongrel someone else would have, and he'd just be another anonymous guy with a chip on his shoulder and a bit of DHH envy :)

Any work should be fulfilling in itself, and one should wish to do it with or without pay. I think the MIT license is the one that best embodies coding as art, and I have tremendous respect for people with the balls to license their code under it.
I Love Python and would use it more if it were easier to build stand-alone, compiled native apps from it (I used Python many years before the phrase 'Web 2.0' came about). I use pyinstaller right now and have use py2exe in the past to build native, end-client distributal code, but now I just use C++ for those cases.
I refuse to click this link and give TechCrunch my pageview.

This is really simple. Act in a manner that you would like everybody else in the world to act like.

Aside from that comment, I'm not joining this circus.
Dustin continues to impress me. Wondering had he try more 'counter-intuitive' suggestions like:"You must not follow me at Twitter"?
I wonder what they were supposed to be doing when they wrote this paper instead...
If you have a table that you basically always query by primary key, then Oracle offers a 'Hash Cluster table' which uses a hash instead of an index locate the data. It generally makes PK looks up very fast, but it has downsides.

1. You need to know roughly how many rows the table will have, and the row size at table creation time.
2. Oracle will allocate all that space at creation time, and so a full table scan will take a long time.

So long as you know the deal with them, hash cluster tables can prove very efficient for the correct problem.
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Wow, If I was Twitter, I'd feel raped.
Ask HN: Review my idea - iwearyourtshirt.com
Hi guys,

I'm off travelling later this year with my wife, it's something we've been dreaming of doing for many years and are now finally after five years of hard work clearing debt in a position to make it a reality. I really want to make this an amazing experience, so I was hoping to try and raise some extra cash by auctioning off the advertising rights to my chest for a whole year.

I see it as a win win situation - I get some extra cash for my travels and the winner gets some serious exposure to potentially millions of people over the course of a year (both online and offline).

What do you think? Is it something you would be interested in using to promote your startups?

Thanks!

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I have been on this site for like a long time, but could someone explain thoroughly what is it that they are funding, how it really works, do they get any percentage of the company in return and why would anyone want to be funded by Mr. Graham?
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Very uncomfortable feeling, when an SF writer has to think of new story ideas, because his current "outlandish" ones keep coming true.

The curse "May you live in interesting times" begins to hit home?
Also consider that if you have a 100M row table and the column has only 4 values, but those values are highly skewed (ie 3 values are 99% of the rows, 4th is 1%), then a function index on the skewed column can be very useful:

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The null values are never indexed, so now you have a nice small index that is good only for finding you 'needles in the haystack', so long as you put that case statement in your queries.
For some reason this article made me make a mental connection between the looters in Atlas Shrugged and patent trolls. Both use government licenses to extort money from productive organizations.

The absurdity of some software patents, which are analogous to patenting a new legal argument or a particular sentence structure no one has used before, means I have to live outside of the law in order to do what I love: writing software.
Announcement from Xobni already posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=705107
I was intrigued by the title, but the writing has a "self-help" quality that makes me question the value of it. Personal development websites seem very meta, as they often blog about systems they use (or just thought up, who knows?) to be more productive while blogging.

A bit more on topic: that does seems like a terrible way to leave a job. Burning bridges and what not.
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What's the difference with http://iwearyourshirt.com/?
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Firefox, actually. (Which is the new program-with-a-million-extensions.) I just use gmail for mail these days, though I would probably go back to mh or mutt if I started using a client program again.

I've never found an RSS reader I've been satisfied with, though. I was working on one at one point that had an interface like mh, but I haven't gotten back to it in a while.
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I have a small project in the napkin stage and it seems like I could do it on Joomla with ease.
Scalability is not an issue.
Has anyone got any practical experience with it?
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The Application Form link (http://news.ycombinator.com/apply) still results in:

"Sorry, but applications for summer 2009 are now closed.
Check back in a few months for the application form for winter 2010."
Poll: Rate my startup ideas
Hi,
I hit upon three ideas for a web startup, and now I'm not sure which I should follow through. I'm currently unemployed, so monetization potential is an important consideration. Ideally, I would like to be able to see some cash within 6 - 8 months of launching.

I am basically a programmer, so I would like to know which idea is the best to start working on. Also, I'm bootstrapping this, so initial cost is also a consideration.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to help me.
1. A personal virtual assistant: I first envisioned this as a sort of internet butler, through whom you can perform a vast majority of your interactive browsing, such as facebook/twitter updates, email lookups, movie recommendations and stuff. however, I initially dismissed this as a halfbaked idea. Recently, I read a few articles on Siri[http://www.siri.com/] and I figured that something like Siri would be a better way to go about stuff.
The most appealing thing about this idea is that I can easily monetize it by charging a yearly subscription fee.
2. A global browser add-ons handler: I got this idea when Google Chrome (the browser) first released. A lot of people said they were sticking to firefox because of the lack of add-ons. I figured that, if I could build a local proxy server software (something which sits on the users computer), then I could intercept the packets from the browser and could manipulate them to include the functionality of a lot of extensions. The end product should be capable of installing an XPI file, without the need to make any changes, and provide the same functionality in browsers other than Firefox.
3. A facebook/twitter game: I hit upon this when I was playing monopoly with a couple of friends. It's based on the premise that rather than own a monopoly in order to construct houses, those who own places in the same colour group can form a joint venture and split revenue earned from this. In addition we could also borrow from the bank, build stuff other than houses and hotels etc. I figured this one should be easy to monetize as well (primarily through virtual goods). However, I am not a graphics designer, so I'd have to hire someone else to help me out. Also, I'm not really sure of the prospects of adopting a long running(duration) game like monopoly to a facebook game.
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Even if a user knows that you can’t put a ‘person’ into a folder containing ‘places’, the operating system doesn’t – it’s just data

I think there is a major innovation to be had here. currently tagging is just used to make searching for files you've saved easier. i envision a system where the software knows how certain tags interact (and learns new ways via usage) and suggests connections for you. think of the netflix algorithm, but working to suggest ways to automatically organize your data on your desktop.
Can't help directly, but I'd love to see a discussion, as it's been on my back-burner radar for a while.

Seems an active community: "Last stable release": 2009.06.30
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla)

Also in wikiped: a fork from Mambo:

"Joomla! is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web Application Development framework. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.

"It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database system to store information."
In my experience, I built a site a few years ago with Joomla and it worked well for a simple community site, but seemed difficult to modify or expand. I personally recommend Drupal as a base CMS, it has a sharp learning curve but it is infinitely extensible and powerful.
Yes, this is what Michael is pointing out and he is somewhat right. Otherwise, if something negative leaks out of the company, they might just call it confidential and nobody could publish it...
I think I could agree with airing a companies' dirty laundry if it was dirty enough.

Techcrunch would have mentioned it if they found anything that was more than vaguely interesting, so I feel confident saying that they don't have anything big enough to justify this violation of privacy. Techcrunch is dirtying it's name for private information that is not even newsworthy.
Alas, being good in mathematics spoils the fun.
He wears a different shirt every day for a year, I wear the same shirt every day for a year.

So on http://www.iwearyourtshirt.com the winning brand would get massively increased exposure.
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There's a list of hacks here:
http://musichackday.org/info/Hacks

I particularly liked the Music Zeitgeist which analyzed the lyrics of popular songs from the 1950s to the present day:
http://zeitgeist.cristianobetta.com/charts/decade/1980

The "best hack" prize went to Music Bore - an automated DJing system:
http://musichackday.org/index.php?page=MusicBore
This research group has made a great deal of progress since the writing of that paper. They have repaired much larger programs (most referenced here are unix utilities) using many more (100s) of positive test cases. As someone who is in a position to know a bit about their work, I find it very exciting.

As some comments seem to have slightly misinterpreted the work, I'd like to clarify that the genetic algorithm does not find undocumented bugs. One needs, at minimum, a negative test case and some number of positive cases to begin the repair process. While the ga's fitness function attempts to ensure that no new bugs are introduced, this is of course impossible to establish with certainty. As the number of available and independent positive test cases increases, the repair becomes increasingly robust.
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Don't forget genuine analysis, especially in the sense of placing things in context, historically speaking.

That's something that's hugely missing from the "tech reporting" (ha) of today. Almost no one considers the things that came before.

For example, I saw no one else comparing Google Wave to OpenDoc... or even remarking on the old command-line tool, talk/ytalk. Both of which are extremely relevant to Wave as a product.

Shame.
Replace "lifestyle change" with "societal change," more like. The "software" that runs society is bad.

Of course, the country's GDP increases every time somebody pays excessive healthcare costs. It would decrease if laws were passed banning noxious substances like trans-fats or high fructose corn syrup, even though society would be healthier.
'twitter' seems to be more effective than 'Twitter'. ;o)
I was thinking more in terms of an open semantic dictionary containing the top-level concepts most often used by SN and business.

The key point is that it should be open to all applications.
does anyone else get bummed out when there is an article on some really cool discovery and there isn't a picture of the damn thing?
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Thanks a lot.

"With the plans starting at $5 a month I imagine you aren't using amazon EC2 to host the virtual machines. (I'm assuming each user has their own VM)."

You are correct. The paid plans will probably not be on Amazon EC2. We're looking at dedicated servers for those accounts. Have fun with the site. If you enable email alerts in your account profile, we'll let you know when the paid accounts are available.
How big is simple? 100? 1000?
I'll go look at Drupal. Thanks.
Have you paid Twitter money lately? Then you're not a customer...

Govt comparisons fail -- this is Twitter. Dumping toxic waste comparisons fail -- this is Twitter.

Likelihood that Twitter is organized enough to sell access to private messages, or any actual saleable product? Extremely low.
What is "news", and what is "unethical"?
The amazing nature of humanity, and business, dictates that most people are not you.

You must be shocked daily at what other people choose to spend their money on.

I make a living off this very fact, because nobody else in my field has the balls to presume that people would spend money on their stuff. (And I can shout about it all I want on HN and know that nobody will ever use my "secrets," because they'll never believe it.)
It uses the multiprocessing package, which is new in Python 2.6. From the docs:

The multiprocessing package offers both local and remote concurrency, effectively side-stepping the Global Interpreter Lock by using subprocesses instead of threads.
http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html
Building a mail system into a single-threaded text editor seems a bit silly to me...

Why's that? The (not gnus) mail system I use on Emacs will hang the Emacs process for a few seconds sometimes when I hit send while the Emacs process talks to my ISP's mail server, but that is the only way the mail system's single-threadedness ever really bites.

When I check for new mail on my ancient Pentium III system, the Emacs process hangs for less than a second or 2 usually.

Those delays are nothing compared to the time I waste waiting for Firefox to do something.
It would seem to me that you are effectively treating society as this single entity and saying that so long as an action benefits that entity then it is moral even if the action itself would be considered immoral in another scenario.

However society is not a single entity, but rather a collection of individuals that can be affected by an event in different and often opposing ways. To some it may be beneficial, but to others not so. Sure the group that benefits may be in the majority, but to ignore the minority group and declare that to "society" the outcome was good is to ignore the different views and interests that make up a society.
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To see the difference between "for the benefit of publishers" and "for the benefit of consumers who read what the publishers create" you just have to ask which applies to retroactive copyright term extension.

That to me is the act of an entity that is "intent on trading our freedoms for money".

I'd say that similar is true of any rich industry that lobbies for laws to protect their outmoded business models. Isn't a tax on imported sugar a minor loss in freedom that results in a major increase in money for certain groups.
This is what news organizations do though. Fox, CBS, NBC, if they receive documents they would publish them too. Why is TechCrunch different?
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That picture of a lion is definitely not a picture of a lion, no-sirree.

You can do the same sort of thing with roman letters making them pretty impervious to OCR too. Arabic does appear to be designed more as an art form than as a script though.

edit:typo
Obviously english is probably not the author's primary language (given the tld), but the number of typos makes it almost unreadable...

(The lack of any new or interesting content doesn't help either)
VOTE WITH YOUR FEET! MOVE ON UP!

Give me a break, your page view doesn't mean a thing.
How about: "People who follow me on Twitter live longer, happier lives and have three times as much sex as the average citizen! Follow me now!"
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tl; wrnw. (too long; will read next week)
8 hours of Windows 7 Amazon sales outstripped Vista's entire pre-order period.
Wearing the same t-shirt all year? Have you considered the smell? It might backfire for the company advertising on it ;-)
I deleted my post because I thought it came across overly negative. I don't want to discourage people or sound like some grumpy douchebag. It's true I have my doubts about the market segment, but don't want to just pour cynicism on everything I see. So I deleted my post, too late!

By the way, Aerons are not the default chair at most companies , and I doubt Outlook costs $300 per seat. Search does suck though; I just didn't think it sucked enough to make it worth the bother. The founder says he's had 2 million downloads, though, so what do I know.
Cant agree with the spellings thing.
Yeah the content is probably uninteresting.