skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it in a couple niche blogs, and once you master it, it's quite versatile and useful. It does have a learning curve and you need exp in WP and PHP to shorten said curve.

A buddy of mine did a writeup on it and he is a much better user than I am: http://bit.ly/nicksthesispage

[Edit] As full disclosure he does have aff links to thesis but it's still good info.
No, I'm not. Are you? I can't argue against an invented hypothetical.
Typologies of Intellectual Property: Visualization of US Patent Office Data
Not sure I agree with this. My startup (Frogmetrics, YC S07) hasn't tried to sound big or small. Our site focuses on the service we provide, in concrete language with a clean design. We don't try to sound bigger than we are, but we also don't play up our smallness with a bunch of cute catchphrases either. We've been pretty successful so far at getting big customers, and I think we'd have done less well with a more "startup authentic" aesthetic.

I think the better lesson is to tailor your messaging to your target buyer. If you're selling to a level III coder at a big company, put the message in a form (s)he will like.
Thank you. That made my day.

You should make stickers, with a picture of turing. Across the bottom it should say: "Dude deserves a KCMG".
Location in a Cloud
You go off and be intellectually curious in the kiddy pool then. I'll stick around the deep end, even if there might be sharks sometimes.

And contrary to your pronouncements about its nature, Hacker News is not any sort of kiddy pool.
When was the last time that you heard a car company bashing a competitor's safety performance?
Most "marine" batteries are sort of a hybrid starting and deep-cycle battery. I think they're essentially a starting battery with thicker plates. They're built that way because, on a boat, you need a lot of current to start the engines but you also use the batteries as your sole 'housekeeping' power source from time to time (particularly on sailboats when the engine isn't running).

Real deep-cycle batteries would be better, but they're more expensive. Something like this http://www.usbattery.com/usb_solar_p1.html would probably be optimal; it's designed for use in alternative energy systems where you charge during the day from solar cells and then discharge during the night. Very heavy plates.

A cheaper alternative, which I've seen some people use in UPS systems, are wheelchair or golf cart batteries. Both of them are true deep-cycle designs, made for sustained loads.
I'm going to feel real dumb explaining this to the firemen.
Invented hypotheticals work so well with sarcasm.

Point was, yes, I completely agree with you, the brand name of a degree means less than what it is assigned in society-- but our opinion will most likely diverges from a potential employer.
When every applicant, qualified or not, has a degree, many recruiters stop caring whether an applicant has one or not.
What Your Startup Should Copy From 37signals
I am a potential employer (and have been responsible for hiring technical candidates for years), but I'm not a hiring manager at Fortune 500 company.
I'm going to start using "TA;DR". Brilliant.

Also, I hope this guy doesn't need to look for a job any time soon. I'd never hire him after reading that kind of rant online.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470695
I've always been of the opinion that human existence will end because of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, through the continual change of various forms of energy into heat. Looks like the black holes are with me on this one.

But I don't really know what that means. Some questions:

How much will the average temperature of the universe increase? Since energy is neither created nor destroyed, there's a finite amount of it in the universe, so there is an absolute maximum (average) temperature, if all of it were converted to heat (Nobody's holding out on us with a _preexisting_ infinite energy source, right? (How would that work? I'm not really sure. But it would definitely obey the no-creation clause they stuck on the universe.))

How long will it take? If it takes even a few billion years, we'll probably have wiped ourselves out. I guess I'm contradicting myself... let me qualify my belief, then. As long as we haven't gotten to us first, then the increasing entropy of the universe will do us in. =P

I think that last one largely depends on universal efficiency, ie the rate of loss-to-heat of various energy conversions. (Sounds like black holes are pretty bad. Converting up to 40% of mass's kinetic energy to heat... talk about heat pollution! (But wait. Heat is kinetic energy on a molecular scale, right? So really that conversion is just large-scale motion to small-scale motion. I guess that's actually a definition of entropy: Conversion of cohesiveness into even distribution. Or random distribution, I should say.)

I think I should stop now. Apologies for rambling. =)
Maybe people will disbelieve they'll get paid if the amounts are unreasonably high, but they can expect a small amount to be thrown away on a test like this ?
> But for that to be possible you first have to know that you are dead right ?

That's the point. If a persistent troll is aware of their banishment, they will just create another account and continue causing problems. The only way to kill a troll is to starve them to death - and they feed on attention.

If this person you're asking about didn't make any trollish comments, then it's unfortunate they were killed. It's also possible they made a trollish comment and later edited or deleted it.
I'd recommend PDF TextStream for anyone that needs to pull data from pdfs - http://snowtide.com/PDFTextStream
Is it foolish to invest in a company that is so invested in an ancient 60s catalogue? I look at what they haven't touched for their movies and it seems like all B tier franchises.

Has Marvel created any new IPs the last 5 years that anyone is excited about?
Its a pretty good themem which I use myself, but I wont use it on any new blogs, as it has been used so much that no matter how much you customise it, I can take a look and tell you that it is thesis.
If I had a time machine, I'd do something much cooler.
An ICBM Economy- global competition and the missile shield of travel
What's Your TED Topic?
My anecdotal experience has been different, in a saturated market it makes an easy bar to implement.

But even then I should say, that the degree bar is likely a lot more relevant for entry level jobs then for more experienced positions.
I was on my way to post exactly that.
Seinfeld's "close talker": Damaged Amygdala?
I up vote 1 in 20 stories because I only like 5% of what's posted to HN. Looking at new submissions is mostly a waste of time, but when I am board I will occasionally take a look. And I expect most regular HN readers act the same way.
How long until someone posts that the "future of CMS" is actually a centralized index, with the data existing wherever it makes sense? Kind of a personal card catalog.

FWIW, that's exactly what I'm working on.
Wow. I'd just like to thank everyone that replied to my inquiry. Lots of great ideas and great resources.

OT: This post would make a good argument for links/comments being a good metric to test for submission worth.
And he said exactly that in his previous post: "So the number one reason my startup failed was: I was distracted by a cool and shiny feature that didn’t solve anyone’s problem."

http://www.teabuzzed.com/2009/08/the-number-one-reason-my-st...
Startup for sale on eBay (and it’s a great deal)
I can take a look and tell you that it is thesis.

Is that a bad thing? Do most users notice, or care?
Evaluating easiness, performance for django/RDF, etc
Greetings,

I need to quickly evaluate easiness of building and running an application with semantic vs semi-semantic vs relational DB management tools.

How long would it take - for a django/python, Java, C or Lisp professional - to create
a very simple API - just a twitter-like or google-like box for entry of words with prompts from my DB, to be placed in a separate table that could be queried as a part of the database?

How much would it cost?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Irene
Twisted's manhole does exactly this. SSH into a process!
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/SSH-with-Twisted/3/
Without the useless link page: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/08/microsoft_confirms_corrinne...
Why is Google using Solr for search?
Hmm, so why point out gender, especially when combined with superlatives? Kind of undercuts the effect.
The Normalization of Marijuana
That's a pretty cool idea. A web-of-trust problem would have to be solved: the various systems that connect to the system would need to trust each other's internal reputation systems. You'd have to prevent people from inflating their total reputation by using a single site with an easy-to-game reputation system. Some interesting challenges in there :)
Bad crowd-sourced journalism makes you dumber. Good crowd-sourced journalism makes you smarter and saves you time.
Interview w/ Elon Musk on The Valley Girl Show
I might vote on 1 out of every 100 things I read, and usually it's not because I like the story, but because I want it to get more comments.
You're asking me about the existence of ultimate truth. That's a little above my pay grade (although it doesn't stop lots of folks from attempting it!)

I'd rather put it like this: according to the best I know, Turing was treated unfairly. I do not believe it is moral to treat somebody this way. (Morals, to me, are inherently personal)

Looking at my own life, I find things that I feel are immoral to me yet I allow them to happen anyway: modern slavery, the narcotizing of our youth with technology, or genocide.

When I see things in the past that I find reprehensible or immoral, the interesting question to me is: how did moral and ethical people at time feel about this? Why was it allowed? It seems that understanding these people for who they were -- warts in all -- is to respect them and try to understand them.

The moment I step back and start applying my values totally to another age, I stop individualizing the people who lived there. They become puppets or cartoons for me to lionize or demonize depending on my personal values.

Take Jefferson and slavery. Jefferson is one of my heroes -- he lived very close to my house, and I admire his thoughts and works. He was the brilliant author of the DOI, and more importantly, the Virginia Declaration of Human Rights.

Yet at the same time he allowed slavery -- kept slaves, in fact. There's even proof that he sired children by his slaves. What to make of that? Was he a genius? An evil slave-holder?

The truth is that he was person, who lived in his times and did the best he could. He knew slavery had to go yet couldn't figure out for the life of him how things would change eventually. He once compared slavery to holding a rabid wolf by the ears: you don't dare hold on to him, but you don't dare let him go, either.

Looking at these conflicts in people is how we identify and learn from what happened. It gives history depth, and it give us a little humility.

Looking back through history, and applying just a little bit of that humility, it seems totally obvious to me that a hundred years from now people are going to be doing the same to our generation. And I don't like it. The things I've done that are immoral I did for what I thought to be good reasons, likewise these folks with Turing. The people of this age, both good and bad, deserve our respect because that's the way we want to be treated by future generations.

It's not a matter of being right or wrong. It's a matter of all of us being human, and respecting each other for it.
"butthurt"? really? is this a serious article?
A note of caution. The power output from a UPS while running on battery is not a pure sine wave like line AC. Its an approximate sine wave consisting of a collection of square waves. This output is generally very noisy (i.e. has a lot of high frequency elements). The output is "close enough" to a sine wave for most electronics to run but the high frequency noise is damaging to the input circuits because they generate a lot of heat. This problem is worse on the low-end UPS's because one way to cut the costs is to save money on the DC-to-AC converter and accept more noise on the output line when running on battery. The higher-end UPS's (particularly models that are designed to run long term) have higher quality DC-to-AC converters which is why they are more expensive, not due to just larger batteries.

One final note, this project seems like a really uneconomical use of time and money.
Intelligence is expressed in the quality of ideas, not the quality of words. An editorial could be written using 5th grade vernacular but also express ideas associated with post-grad work. This is just another sensationalistic article.
Cassandra and Ruby; A Love Affair?
The next post in the Kirk Haines Key-Value Store series focuses on Cassandra!
I'm not exactly sure what legwork you're talking about for the 'consuming' sites. From what I understood of the description, the KaBadge site is the sole repository of badge information, with consuming sites pulling from that data when displaying a user's information (hence the API). As such, consuming sites will simply access that user's full or partial list of badges (possibly sorted by importance, or order of acquisition, or a genre system?).

A consumer might have to do specific badge checks for restricted sites like the WoW forum example (I agree that I would never use this feature myself, but I can see some value in it), but they would clearly know exactly what they were looking for beforehand.
Sorry, Venture Capital Needs To Be Regulated Like Everything Else
VCs: Don't regulate us
I feel like you're using child similes to the exclusion of actually reading other people's posts. You keep saying that everyone else are "Kindergarten teachers" playing in the "kiddy pool," but I believe that real men--real adults--are capable of disagreeing with each other without ascribing their differences to a deep inner flaw in the other man's personality. You have provided no evidence or argument to the contrary.
Especially not for a job where he actually had to support users.
Your description of these two algorithms sounds accurate; I think your point of confusion is with the term "deterministic."

The fact that packrat parsing is based on search-and-backtrack by definition means it is not deterministic. Deterministic parsers never backtrack, because they are designed have enough information to always make the correct choice, by using lookahead.

One important distinction between the two is that a parser based on search returns the first parse tree it finds, but that might not be the only possible parse tree. If you have a well-defined order for the alternatives, then it will always return the same parse tree, but the grammar could still be ambiguous and capable of returning other parse trees also. PEGs sidestep this issue by defining away this ambiguity, and saying that the first parse tree is the ONLY parse tree -- this is the difference between PEGs and context-free grammars.

With deterministic parsers, on the other hand, the process they use to build their tables ensures that the grammar is not ambiguous. So when you get a parse tree back from a deterministic parser, you know it's the only possible parse tree for that input text.
Going cold through an RFP process is playing to lose anyways, edw519.
Or my favourite: a virtual machine with a snapshot of it's state just after the install of all your necessary programs, HDD set to read only (like you can do in parallels) and used from there...
Tired of competing on price? Change the rules
What's sad about this comment is that it's dominating the HN comment view on this article, and has nothing to do with the article.
The sad thing is, I mostly agree with what he's trying to say: IT guys aren't assholes, they're just doing their best to keep the whole damn network infrastructure of their workplace from tumbling down around them. He's clearly chosen to identify himself with the "fuck everyone who disagrees with me, I'm a badass sonuvabitch who doesn't care what they think" persona, but it's just a poor platform for communication. It works for satirists like Maddox (thebestpageintheuniverse.com), but you need to be able to respectfully disagree with people on the job, you know?

Honestly, he actually seems like a pretty cool guy. I think he's just a little bit Zed Shaw.
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The commentary, of course, is much more worth reading than the status updates themselves. Interesting to see how old-fashioned conversational techniques make the transition to social microblogging.
http://isitruby19.com/mysql
Ask HN: How best to heal your body?
I've moaned in the past at off topic posts on hn, so feel slightly guilty that I'm now asking for similar slightly off topic advice, but here goes. Hope you think of it as being in the "body hacks" bucket. I really value the advice you guys give, so any would be really great on this question.

I broke my hip on Thursday whilst skating, and it's going to be a long recovery (3-6 months). What things should I do? Has anyone here had a long recovery from something?

Things I've started thinking about:

* Should I modify my diet to make sure I'm getting 100% of the nutrients, calcium etc needed to fix bones quick? Any particular things you think are really important? I've read some places that a balanced diet is more useful than a calcium rich diet? Also read that caffeine is bad since it can make you loose Calcium?

* Should I do regular gentle exercise, or mainly rest :/

(Tech details: I had a dynamic hip screw+plate for a Intertrochanteric Hip Fracture)

Oh and while we're at it, is there any device I could buy to watch the bones healing (X-Ray add-on for my camera? Perhaps not X-Ray since it's harmful if used too much? Any other technology?). Watching a time lapse video of my hip healing would be simply awesome :) Or at least would give me something to do and focus on for the months ahead...
How I Did It: Dallin A. Larsen of MonaVie
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LG KP500 Cookie Brown an affordable handset with touch screen technology that doesn’t skimp on great features. As with all the latest touch screen devices. A fun gaming experience is guaranteed with this never-before seen level of interaction.
WinPdb well let you do this. It lets you start a process, and then attach a graphical debugger to it over TCP. Then you can let the process run, break and examine whenever you want, set break points, conditionals, etc. Great for debugging things like FCGIs, FUSE plugings, etc.
If you want to be the gravatar of badges, you need to make it just as quick and easy to implement.

To that end, you should have your partnering system working as soon as possible. Ideally, it should be as easy as clicking "become a partner" and copy + pasting some simple parametric URLs into your app (or something of that nature). Show someone how easy they can implement badges in less than 5 minutes.

I also agree with one of the other posts here, you should take reputation system management workload off the shoulders of your partners. Right now someone else does all the work and you get the benefit. It would be nice to be able to ping your system every time a user does one action towards the goal of some given goal.

Starts to sound a lot like conversions and goals in Google Analytics, doesn't it?
I see this going in stages much like blogging itself, where you are trying to prove to yourself something really initially, then at some point you realize that, but you keep going with it. Eventually you gather too many friends to make sense of what is relevant, and you lose complete context of what you should or shouldn't put in there, and then you repeat all of this, or sometimes you just wind up either trolling or spamming with your status. Just my 2 cents!
I've been keeping an eye on this project. It's maturing nicely. However, for those doing exclusive iphone/webkit dev, check out: http://paularmstrongdesigns.com/projects/basejs/

It's much more lightweight and designed for said platform.
Card Sorting: Pushing Users Beyond Terminology Matches
This is only true for degrees that are easy and/or economically unjustified. For the forseeable future, I don't think this applies to someone majoring in molecular biology (for example).
Sorry about that. Not my intent. I actually upvoted the article because I did really enjoy it.
Learn from your peers in industry, sure, but make sure you take the lessons to heart and make them your own rather than just engaging in blind cargo cult imitation.
Just be patient, good luck. Don't break it again in the same way.
Kabadge, The FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) of the Social Internet.
Please keep us posted. I've had informal discussions with a mate about just that idea; I'd love to see what you come up with.
Ruby Hoedown 2009 Wrap-Up
I thought I was the only one bored of those "friendly" company that use cool expressions to talk about themselves (ex : "we kick ass at what we're doing, woot!", "no more boring meeting! yay!").

I don't want to be friend with a company or a product, I just want it to look pro in what they are doing. Does your dentist says "I clean the crap out of your teeth! giddyup!"?

Maybe when that "we are friendly" trend will be over, the smaller companies will have access to "big" companies not because they try to sound bigger than they are but because they are pro.
I know we have some big time Perl folks here... Can anyone give a synopsis of how the CPAN approval process works? It's been held up as the gold standard for just about every new language over the past decade. Having only consumed resources from it, I've got no idea how things get into CPAN to begin with.
I think the comparison with housing is interesting, especially given the social status implications. RE: tuition vs. CPI, I think it has been pretty well documented that tuition increases have far exceeded CPI, at least over the last 20-30 years.

It would be interesting to also examine what educational institutions will have to do should they come under pricing pressure. If tuition has to go down, how can they increase revenues from other streams or cut costs?

And as Howard Lindzon alludes to in the comments, is there a social cost? Is there an important element of kids achieving quasi-independence in the shelter of a university setting apart from the educational material itself, and if so how can this be replaced?
Why did Apple drop ZFS?
Using Django with the django-piston project (link below) enables you to create a very easy web REST-based API.

Using the javascript library jQuery and delving into its copious amount of plugins (autocomplete example link below) would enable you to have a responsive AJAX interface for a text-entry box.

You wouldn't need django-piston to get the AJAX aspect of what I mention above to work, but it somewhat simplifies getting results in a JSON format, and allows you to easily add in new API calls at a later date with its familiar format (well, familiar once you get used to it).

Links:
django-piston: http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home

jQuery: http://jquery.com/

jQuery autocomplete example: http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm

AJAX definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)

JSON definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
Sorry, I think the problem has more to do with USA Today readers than fear of debt.

When the first bubble burst, a lot of people went back to school to finish their degree or get an upgrade. In essence they made money when there was a lot of it around and went back to school when there wasn't.
Please do not try any X-Ray experiments on yourself, unless you want to neuter yourself!

As regards to dieting go with what your body tells you it wants to eat. As to focus learn a new computer language or contribute code to an open source project.
Nice. You insinuate that I'm childlike and not a "real man" for insinuating things about other people. Love your style, brother Pot.

-- Kettle
A New Language for Phone Networks