skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been to Poland twice (Lodz) and didn't see any asian or black people at all, so I can only speculate that the asian man survived the 'cut' but the African-American did not because he would place the ad as being American.

Here in Australia we often get commercials on television that are made in the US then dubbed here, usually for toilet fresheners or other household products. You can always tell the difference because they're shot in soft focus and the colours look too saturated. They also tend to use the same four people to provide all the voice-overs: the Mum, the Dad, the little boy, and the little girl. They exclude African-Americans from those, too.

[UPDATE] My brother, who has in-laws in Poland, reckons there are some asian folks there now (migrants rather than children of migrants, as in the ad), but still pretty well zero black people.
Your browser will become like a chat client and there will be two main events that will interact with you in real time:

Browser events and page events.

A browser event will update the chrome, like toolbars, statusbar, etc, so your icons can notify you of events happening on your subscriptions.

A page event will update the content of the page you're browsing in real time, new posts or comments (like disqus), stock tickers, sports plays, etc.

That is the real-time web as I see it.
Is there any confirmation that Snow Leopard has fixed this?
One idea for a non-tech field where it might work: film!

All the prerequisites are there:

1. Loads of young people with good ideas but needing funding, advice and connections

2. $20,000 is enough to make a worthwhile full-length film nowadays (have you seen Primer? It cost $7,000.)

3. A successful yet cheap film can easily make back many, many times its production cost.

4. A single well-connected individual (the pg of film) could provide enough connections to give the films the maximum chance of being shown at festivals etc and eventually picked up for distribution. Alternatively, even the ones that weren't picked up for distribution could be marketed on DVD, and the fact that they were made as part of the "YC-of-film" program would attract at least some interest for them.

Foreseeable problems: the existing studios and unions might have a problem with it. I'm not sure exactly what they would do about it, though.

Conclusion: If I were a bored, well-connected Hollywood guy with money to throw around I'd be totally doing this right now.
"I supported the Pirate Bay and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"
We're not looking for contractors.
Review my Webapp: How to make ______? (food)
Voted you back up. Fwiw, I was trying to respond to the general sentiment that this was a free speech issue, and the quote made for a good place to do so. Thanks for clarifying your stance. In retrospect, I should have used less strong language--"utterly absurd" wasn't necessary, as I can see how one might regard it a free speech issue.
Minimum speeds aren't a good idea because of adverse weather conditions.
How to delete accounts from various websites
Like I said upthread: I disagree with your definitions, but debating malware terminology is silly; the terms mean whatever the antivirus companies and "researchers" say they do. You win.

The meaningful topic you can debate is whether OS X is more or less resistent to any form of malware than Windows is. I'll argue that there's simply no significant difference, and, respectfully, I think you'll lose with the opposing argument, but I'm happy to hear you out.
Do you get vertigo looking down your nose?
The False Promise of One More Feature
> Is there any incentive to not rip into companies like BusinessInsider did here?

Libel?
"Google is an Artificial Intelligence company. They just don't advertise the fact."
> to a hard drive in a safe-deposit box at a bank down the street

What's the problem with that? It's probably better than 95% of small businesses out there. No, it doesn't offer geographic redundancy and it might not withstand a killer tidal wave or nuclear strike, but for many businesses that's a moot point: such a situation would destroy their business outright anyway, to the point where their computers would be the least concern.

If they swapped out the HD in the box frequently (on a daily basis) it's not the worst idea I've ever seen.
Well, there were no tips in that article, so I'll give a real tip: Sleep 4 hours a day instead of 8 and you'll live 16.6 percent longer. Note: This strategy has a strict upper-bound.
I loved point cast!
You're kidding. Please, please tell me that you're kidding.
Backblaze. Very easy and well integrated into Mac OSX system preferences.
> Google will be dethroned only by superior search or by a combination of search and inference from the search.

Google can also be dethroned if someone else figures out how to do search outside the the search box.

Search and inference may be fundamental, but the search box is not.
Yes, there will be no net decline in the aggregate production of hydrocarbons, as measured in BTU's, for hundreds of years.

We are currently learning how to develop and consume natural gas, a so-called 3rd-generation hydrocarbon, with a carbon-to-hydrogen ratio of 1-to-4. Natural gas was considered a waste product well into the 20th century.

You have to take into account the fact that there are entire classes of hydrocarbons which human civilization has not yet attempted to develop.

For example, just this past week, the US DOE published an article in Science announcing the discovery of large methane hydrate deposits in the Gulf of Mexico.
This app is amazingly helpful. And as someone living on my own for the first time (and thus grocery shopping completely independently) I have definitely bookmarked it.
I started rolling like that when I got the Prius. You get some nice positive visual feedback when your instantaneous mileage maxes out.
I agree that it was irresponsible for him to use his knowledge and disclose a vulnerability to the public before giving a heads up to the entity in which the vulnerability impacts. Infact, I am for non-disclosure of vulnerabilities due to the fact that this is how script-kiddies thrive.

I go a step further and assert that due to his marketing background, he used this stint for his own marketing purposes - I guess this can best be summed: to each his own.
A pool of database connections is a collection of objects in the solution domain. A "customer" is an object in the problem domain.
Forget the text field. I tried putting in a specific dish first before reading the instructions, and was puzzled when it asked me what ingredients I wanted to use. I figured "what the hell, I just asked it how to make this dish, I don't know what ingredients are in it". I say replace the text field with a concise list of dishes.
Dropbox seems awfully slow at the moment, and I see this link pasted everywhere at the moment. Is it really killing their bandwidth?
You may not be aware, but John Mackey founded Whole Foods (in his garage, no less) in 1978. His identity is naturally rather intertwined with his company.
and eat lots of resveratrol
Of course, if it's wet weather, you'll want to increase that - say to a 4 second rule.
The "Welcome" pop-up appeared after I had already done a search and chosen ingredients. Then it would not disappear after I clicked "close" or "back to this recipe search". I am using Chrome 3.0.193.1 on Windows 7.
Yes, you beat me to this. The premise of the article is bogus. Both IBM and Microsoft are doing well. I also checked in WolframAlpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=microsoft,+google,+ibm
I like the way it returns a well-designed summary. I'll try to use it more.
Exactly. It would seem that one of the biggest problems facing the Internet and the growing dependence on Internet based services/applications is the fact that you are often fully dependent on (and at the mercy of) a single fallible system.

If our next generation of web services/applications relied on (is designed to be) a "cloud" based system, capable of dynamically switching between the multiple available services of a specific type, your users could rely on your service, regardless of what a single given service's stability or status is - one goes down, another one picks up. *trivial example: Think Twitter outages - if there was instead a redundant vanilla twitter-like messaging system, outages would not impact usability of its applications...

This said, I cannot help but wonder about the fiscal reality of such a infrastructure. In 'narrowing the delivered content more specifically to match the actual desired data' and 'its delivery mechanism' being hammered out, I can't help but wonder about the 'pay off'? Where is the mechanism that allows "content owners" to 'brand' and/or capitalize on "their" data.

But that is a different discussion altogether...
i really like the idea. i saw another site that lets you make something by specifying the ingredients, but didn't think it was all that great. i love this one! it's very usable.
my one big complaint is that on the second screen (e.g. http://www.recipepuppy.com/how/?tomake=green+curry) the "Find Recipe!!" button is below the fold. this was actually a big issue for me because i kept checking things and then hitting "Make It!!" and i'm all like "wtf?? this doesn't work at all. it's just clearing out the checkboxes. where are the results?" because I didn't even see the other button and realize i was supposed to be hitting it. even after i figured it out, i kept forgetting and doing the wrong thing
still. pretty cool once i got that glitch figured out. you are officially bookmarked my good sir
Having a list of popular dishes is a good idea. I think the real problem how clear the app is in describing itself. I will work to fix this.
Awesome stuff. I think the asking for ingredients is precisely what makes it so awesome. There are dozens (if not hundreds) of recipe sites. Yours is the only one I know of that lets you search like that. It gives you a way to tweak your search to fit either what you have or what you like in a way that you really can't with other sites. Kudos on doing something new.

However:

1. The URL/name is of questionable quality.

2. The pop-up box (which I got on a search results page, presumably because I have cookies disabled) is obnoxious. Get rid of it. No one likes pop-ups. Ever. Regardless why they're there.

3. The search box on the main page is a disappointment compared to the one you linked here. The combination of searching for a generic item (I used tacos) and then narrowing by ingredients is what you have that's brilliant. Play on that.
I got a little confused at the start. Eventually I figured out that recipepuppy.com/how is giving me something different from recipepuppy.com.

If I were you I'd get rid of recipepuppy.com/how and go straight to recipepuppy.com. It'd be worth having a few more "example" searches to give an idea what it can do -- it took me a while to figure out how to search for recipes _without_ a given ingredient.

The google ads are a bit too prominent -- they really get in the way. On my screen the results page comes up as mostly ads -- I only see one actual search result until I scroll down. I suggest being a little more restrained with the ads.
Audio doesn't have anything to do with it.

-5 dB is a ratio of roughly 1:3. -10dB is a ratio of exactly 1:10. If my Facebook SNR is -10dB, that means that the power in the noise on Facebook is 10× the power in the signal. (I'm equating power here to post counts, not squared words per post or something.)

That means I have to get some signal gain out of somewhere to extract useful information from Facebook. Which is true.

I don't know whether by "pretty freaking high" you mean "that's a lot of signal" or "that's a lot of noise" or what. It would be a terrible signal-to-noise ratio for audio equipment. Fortunately my brain is not a tube amp.
You might try actually reading Surowiecki's "Wisdom of Crowds". Once you get past all the hype and glosses on the book, and the book's introduction, you will find that the "wisdom" of crowds is restricted and only functions under particular conditions that rarely hold in the real world. But when they do hold "crowds" actually do function well.

Wikipedia does not satisfy those conditions. It seems to be mostly accurate for non-controversial technical information, but I wouldn't trust it much on anything.
this is probably a dumb noob question and maybe not the right place to ask, but how did you get new lines in your post?
all of mine were removed and as a result my response is not very readable
Sorry, this has been fixed(removed completely).
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Term sheets for dummies
Not yet, but it certainly looks compelling.
I like it. One suggestion:

It would be more useful to exclude ingredients, rather than choosing which ones to include. Ideally I'd like to immediately see the results with a list of ingredients in a sidebar. I'd then eliminate ingredients I don't have or can't eat (e.g. gluten flour, chocolate, milk), which would filter the recipe list.
Sure but it's only libel if it's not true. And, as the author of this post did, you're always free to update the post as the owners contact you and additional info is made available.
Leave a blank line to create a paragraph. I don't think you can have a standard line break, unless you post it as code (two spaces at the beginning of each line):

a
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That's really cool, thanks.

It would be cool if Google had an option for strictly numeric fields, and then auto-calc averages and distribution graphs etc. Without that restriction input, there is a curation problem, e.g. ages "19-30".

But google doesn't make any money from this, so it's hard for them to iterate as quickly as (e.g.) one of us could. I guess the deeper problem is: is there a revenue model for simple survey generation?

There's Wufoo http://wufoo.com/gallery/templates/surveys/business-demograp... (a YCer, no less). I'm sure they'd do a better job, but they won't let you get started without signing up. Google's little form tool is disrupting these guys, albeit at the very low end.
Thanks for your feedback

I have removed the pop up box, and I think I will come up with a better domain name for this type of search.
You can, but it obviously is not clear. If you hover over any ingredient on the results page a tool tip will allow you to "exclude ingredient"
Many people don't realize that, even if you can somehow stop instantaneously, you're much less likely to be hit from behind if you have time to gradually decelerate.
That was a very nice thing for you to do.
Awesome. I'm a huge fan of obscure languages.
Stalking: There's an App for That
It's not really economical to eat enough resveratrol to have serious effects. It's probably more realistic to do a calorie-restriction diet to duplicate the effects of resveratrol. Wait for the super-resveratrol undergoing FDA approval as a treatment for diabetes. It will certainly be available off-label as an anti-aging treatment.
I love the idea! Love it love it love it!

But please make the "Find it!" button appear at the top as well, so I don't have to scroll forever.
They aren't always glowing. But in my case I'd rather write about a startup I like than one I don't, so if there is a trend toward positive reviews that probably explains it.
It appears that not every comment may have the reply link for some reason.
Might I suggest http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3967/logonewcopy.png

In all seriousness, I think a nice open, fresh design would really help you. Something to really invigorate my appetite. I told you this the last time you posted, but I'll say it again, you might want to make your logo a bit more relevant. Maybe just a puppy's face with a chef's hat or something. The dog by itself isn't really working for me.
Sounds like they're using that marketing approach of visualizing just one specific user, and trying to maximize the experience and value for that one person. Apparently, real users will tend to align themselves with that idealized user. They're using that marketing approach, and it's working.

I think Guy Kawasaki talks about this, and it's also in Crossing the Chasm.
Well, let me put it this way.
I am not going to abandon my prof in any case, both due to respect and sense of legality and righteousness.
What I want is to figure out a way to make everyone happy, future investors, and both of us.
But I agree with yalurker, in the sense that: yes, this is something invented in the lab, only by me and my prof, and we want to sell it since it's so matured now.
The university is going to release the IP to both of us, and we will be paying the university an agreed upon share, it's 10% as we have been told.
So, really it's more like an issue between our shares that's troubling me so much. In a perfect world, he could have joined me in the venture and i would have gladly made it 50-50 (hell, i would have even gone for 55-45), or maybe i wouldn't have told my peers this and never would have been asking this question anyways, both to myself and to all of you. If only it was a perfect world....

I hope somehow we get close enough to the magic number, which would make everyone happy.
Good money for consulting - always an indication for a potential webapp.
That's No Vestigial Organ, That's My Appendix
Drop me a line sometime, my contact info is in my profile.
Stunning Satellite Photos of Earth
Let's make a nice vertical menu with 2kb CSS
In this post I am going to explain you that how to make a nice vertical menu with light weight CSS (i.e. 2kb). This menu is fully compatible with all standard browsers like IE6-7, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari.
Wow, are there actually females reading HN?
That logo is great :) Can I use it?

I eventually will give in to the design/domain name complaints.
Exactly. The VCs would expect the startup to spend the capital on growing the business quickly, and if that means hiring consultants and paying them a top rate then so be it. In fact, the startup would get in trouble with their financiers if they didn't do it.
Sure but at most shops the client will be charged about 3x the salaries of the developers - to pay for overheads and so on.
New IPO Listings outperforming blue chips
SQLite: A Lesson In Low-Defect Software (review/summary w/ working source)
In Defense of the MBA
The "hacking" aspect is that during the interview instead of mentioning you've heard the problem before you're supposed to pretend you're a genius who solved the problem on the spot.

Actually I think that advice is misguided, as in my experience when you tell an interviewer you're already familiar with their favorite brainteaser they're just as impressed as if you solved it yourself, and you don't feel dishonest.
Yeah go ahead. Just clean it up a bit, it's a bit pixelated because I had to scale things down.
Previous related discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633151 "How SQLite is Tested."
This is just spam, as is all this account's submissions.
Key advice for where to start:

3. Exploit irregular network topologies. In the last 90s, most people assumed that dating websites was a "winner take all market" and Match.com had won it, until a swath of niche competitors arose (e.g. Jdate) that succeeded because certain groups of people tend to date others from that same group. Real-life networks are often very different from the idealized, uniformly distributed networks pictured in economics textbooks. Facebook exploited the fact that social connections are highly clustered at colleges as a "beachhead" to challenge much bigger incumbents (Friendster). By finding clusters in the network smaller companies can reach critical mass within those sub-clusters and then expand beyond.
Um. Just had a look at Common Questions Part 1 (http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/Hacking_a_Google_...), and the first question is about substring matching.

Instead of giving a Boyer-Moore style solution (with sub-linear complexity), it gives the naive approach (with quadratic complexity).
This is awesome stuff, but the fact still remains that for a lot of software, it just doesn't matter if it crashes occasionally. I'm not saying you shouldn't test. I'm saying that not all projects (and probably not even most) require the same degree of reliability and testing that SQLite requires.
Microsoft: Prove you're human by reading and regurgitating an ad
> Showing strength in the face of oppression

I think that oppression is a bit strong of a word here. 'Adversity' might be better term to use. When you stand up to a bully on the playground no one says that you're "overcoming oppression."
YES. A MILLION TIMES YES.

Thank you for making a website that I never knew I desperately needed.

As for suggestions, I'd suggest pushing your content closer together. Right now your left side is crammed up against your left margin with a gigantic bit of whitespace in the middle before you get to the pictures. Pushing these together would help content flow.
Have You Discovered Your Breaking Point?
As much as I hate both ads and captchas, this is actually kinda brilliant.
I will definitely find a way to make this process better.
Very confusing. What niche are you trying to fill here?
We already have (though it is a fossil fuel) - natural gas (http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/08/the_grand_energ.ht...) - the equivalent of between 80-120 years of equivalent oil consumption (if we switched everything including consumer vehicles over). Conversion of existing vehicles while not cheap, is still viable and not difficult.
I think you're right that there's a serious problem with how OOP is described. Why that's so is a full topic in and of itself.

In the case of Alan Kay, I can't help but feel like he was trying to create one thing but actually created another.
Trueslant's been spamming the shit out of the site the past few days. I wish there was a way to sort domains by the average karma of submitters.
I remember being taught more like 7 seconds, but that might have been for freeway driving.
Ask HN: Who is applying to YC Winter 2010?
Are you applying to YC Winter 2010? If yes, have you applied yet? If not, why?
Most problem domains (or shall I more appropriately call them business domains?) have a small number of key abstractions that are crucial to understanding the domain. Coupling these abstractions with the right relationships between them is the essence of modeling the system in which a problem occurs and a solution is desirable. The key abstractions are going to be the same more or less irrespective of what your specific system in that problem domain will try to do.

Now, depending on what type of system you end up wanting to build (a real-time monitoring system, a web-based reporting tool, etc.), you will end up introducing other abstractions that represent computer science/software engineering knowledge. However, these will only supplement and not replace the abstractions that are rooted in the problem domain.

In short, if you see the solution domain as distinct from the problem domain, you will run into trouble with your system design.
You are the Coding Horror
When a Good Idea Works: the origins of Processing
Self-Proclaimed Multitaskers Aren't That Good at Multitasking
Why AT&T can't keep up with iPhone data demand
What are the full implications of 2/3 of the world pop using a mobile phone?
Thanks for clearing that up. FWIW, its a lot clearer on the root page. I hadn't realized your link was actually to a subpage until I saw another comment here on HN.

I would still like to see a more intuitive filtering interface, but I like the way it works from the home page a lot better.