skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, you're right. I should have paid attention. It just so happened I was reading that thread immediately prior to this one.

In any case, for those just finding this one, there is a link to the previous article now :)
They were hosted free on github and/or rubyforge. He had to go in and actively delete them. If he had done nothing, they would still be there right now and there wouldn't be all this kerfuffle.
Intresting! Also that implies his real name is K. Roford (I went to the University of Utah as well, so I'm familiar with their naming scheme).
Ask HN: Auto-upvote when commenting on a story?
What do you think about HN automatically up-voting a story once you've commented on it? I've seen stories with several comments and not a single up-vote. If a story is worth commenting on, shouldn't you want others to see it?

P.S. Why do stories and comments start at 1 point? Shouldn't they start at 0 points, since that first point doesn't count towards your karma total?
I'd have been impressed if it were a real app.
CBS and Pepsi bring video ads to printed page
DailyBooth (YC S09), 4chan and the importance of context
False. Counterexample: Brainfuck. There's nothing about Turing completeness that includes the ability to make system calls.
I haven't used Linq to SQL except for to play with it for a few minutes. It seemed like a very capable ORM, but I sensed that the IQueriable to IEnumerable conversion may cause some headachs.

Linq to Objects, however, is freaking amazing. C#'s functional and querying features are like Python's generator expressions on crack, speed, steroids, and acid. Absolutely love them.
Something about that story is very Kaufmanesque.
Haha! Pisses me off too, just like people that adjust my car stereo!
Angel Investors Become a Little Less So
"You might have very curious scientific people at the level just before Marie Curie, i.e. very scientific and interested, but knowing nothing about radioactivity."

Marie Curie and her contemporaries had no warning the material they were dealing with might have been dangerous. In the case of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, there would be clear warnings.
Now wouldn't it be hilarious if Zed Shaw and _why were the same person? I know, they're not, but damn..
read your bio. interesting topic, good luck.
Zed Shaw(and many others) may not agree with what _why did but what _why did was well within his rights and hence there is no reason to disrespect him. What disappoints me is that Zed shaw(and some in the original thread) quickly declaring _why a dick. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it - Voltaire". Where is that spirit ?
From what I heard, people said _why is a machine that constantly crank out code.
Thank you John. This was truly a beautiful tribute to a great hacker.
I think there's a beta of the haptic inhale API somewhere.
Dummy spit? What?
They even admit as much in the article... the headline was crap but thems the times we live in :-(.

Think about a credit card company that makes a credit line marketplace... consumer banking will see major shifts in the next decade (wild predictions!).
Once you're good enough, the tactics melt away and you just think about the strategy. This is true with any competitive game. It takes a long time, and a lot of effort[1] to get to the level where you can have this "fairness epiphany", though. Strangely enough, a good documentary on the process exists in the form of a manga/anime series, Hikaru no Go, following a Go player as he is first guided through games, then plays, struggling, himself, until he finally has the epiphany and realizes he needs no help from a computer (or, in this case, ancient spirit) to make him better.

[1] http://www.sirlin.net/ptw
Giant Robotic Cages to Roam Seas as Future Fish Farms?
You're all a bunch of suckers
The advantages of International Standard Date and Time Notation
I agree entirely. While I'll miss _why, he had the right to do what he did and I'm a bit offended that people would presume to tell him otherwise.
This brings to mind, Arthur C. Clarke's ultra short story Quarantine.

http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/learn/html/e.8.2.html
because it's about a business trend =)
We've used Strophe to implement a pure-javascript/html chat like this (with an XMPP server on the other end, and jetty handling proxying of non-blocking asynchronous comet long-polling requests to the XMPP server).

XMPP supports this natively via its HTTP binding specification, and there are free open source servers such as openfire that will work with Strophe out of the box.

http://code.stanziq.com/strophe/
http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp
I'm sure this comment will get lost in all the clutter, but:

I, up until today, didn't give two shits about ruby. I know that I had heard of this craaazzzyyyy "Ruby on Rails" jazz from about a year ago, and I know that people talked about it all the time, but I grabbed onto my python, looked the other way, and called it good.

Now, I want to learn ruby...

This guy seemed like he was all about teaching people Ruby, perhaps this was an attention grab?
Good work (not necessarily "hard work" ;-)) pointing out Zed's hypocrisy.

I love how _why considered code art. I loved it when he wrote out his code by hand and animated the background of the text. It made the code seem magical, which it sometimes is.
The Future of Aging Decelerator Drugs
Holy crap this is a disaster!

This guy is one of lord high masters of the geek art crafts and sciences.

Where ever you are Why, I hope you're all right..
Sounds really cool, I'll take a closer look tomorrow- I'd love to hear about the use-cases, if only for my own curiosity.

I certainly meant no disrespect, I was only trying to make sure I understand what you do, not impugn the service in any way. From what I've seen, building an internal framework out into a public-facing product seems to be the best way to do it; It ensures you're developing for a real need, not an imaginary "average customer"

Your explanation of the market levels, and where you integrate makes a lot of sense, thanks.
It might be helpful to add something to the page about why you're better than the competitors, even if you don't directly name them.

Thanks again for the explanation, and I hope things work out really well for you.
I understood what the article was saying, but it seems I didn't understand what you were saying. If I understand it now, you are saying that to prove his case he has to not only show that entropy can't directly decrease by, essentially, undoing the process and getting back to the original state, but he also has to show that entropy can't decrease by the system ending up in a state different from the first, but yet which is also of lower entropy? It seems to me that you are correct.
Oh, I know these are very low power. But even if each board only takes 1 watt, if you've got 40 of them you're talking the same power consumption as a laptop CPU, but with a much longer distance for power delivery.

But I'm still curious exactly what the power is, what the resistance of the power connections are, etc.

As you said, it gets more interesting when they're not in a backplane, so I wanted to figure out what the constraints are.

Someone on one of their blogs linked to http://www.xmos.com/ which is also pretty interesting. It's a single chip with 4 cores, each of which can run 8 threads. And it takes care of all the switching between cores or even between chips.

It doesn't have all the same features as this board does, such as the dynamically switched power/signal pins, but same sort of idea.

Edit: In fact, the modularity of this is one of the more interesting aspects of it to me. I'd like to see how they're switching pins between signal and power dynamically. But, there's no schematics that I can find.
> Once you're good enough, the tactics melt away and you just think about the strategy.

That just isn't true. Remember the famous game where Kramnik got mated by the computer? It is impossible to play chess without ever searching the game tree. Different players search it to different extents, but there's nobody who is so good that they know all the tactics in a game by instinct.

By the way, thanks for linking to that site. I saw that "playing to win" article a while ago, and was really impressed by it, but then I forgot the title.
Demo day was never about first look or press. It has always been about investors.

It is unlike TC50 and DEMO in that respect. Though it does give some marginal press.

Edit: I half think press should be banned from the event. I always found it annoying giving details that only investors should hear with press present.
True - I use hpricot every day.
Looking for a cofounder
Hi, I've wanted to get a startup going for a long time, I tried doing some projects with some friends before, but we have different goals, so it didn't work out. I am a good programmer, fast learner, very motivated, and passionate about programming and startups. I'm living in Boston, but am in San Francisco for the next couple of weeks. I have a a couple of ideas I've been thinking about for a while, but could also work on something else if its the right opportunity. I'd like to meet up with some people in the bay area and talk about, see if the chemistry is right. Maybe we could start on a small project together and go from there.
Please contact me if you are interested and we can go into more details. my email is jason AT rubynow.com
Using the world "eulogy" makes me very uncomfortable.
Yes, 11 of the 24 (according to Dave McClure)
http://twitter.com/davemcclure/status/3411897983

TechCrunch only covered the 13 which have launched.
Myths About Sleep
Hmm, here I thought I was gonna get a $600 US-China flight+, but looks like their international options are rather limited.
Frege's Logic, Theorem, and Foundations for Arithmetic
I remember checking the Guide just for a joke, and on the FIRST PAGE I learned something - that you can delimit ruby numbers with _ for commas - 3_600 is a legal 3600 to ruby.
Why? Do you have some issue with death?
'Dummy' means 'pacifier' in some places, so 'spitting the dummy' literally refers to the temper tantrum of a baby.
Hence, to 'dummy spit' is to throw a massive, immature temper tantrum.
One of the fashions among chess players in these days of computer dominance is to talk about how chess is actually all tactics (or, as they like to put it, all "calculation").
"i love working on an obscure book. people cling to ideas,
because they're supposed to be vouchers for a million
dollars. no, write an obscure book. build something
outside all that pressure. i guess treehouses for kids
qualify." - _why 20 Sep 2004
That said, I don't think this is really a justified criticism we have here, pending further details.
Reciprocal System of Theory
As far as I can tell, Talkinator's ads come via Google AdSense -- so your heuristic could prevent you from taking seriously many sites!
I really should start making a list of things horribly broken in Django. By design.

I write off and hack around problems almost daily.
What a lot of puerile drama.
Unless you're already nearing 65, in 20 to 40 years software will be in everything. I'm sure you'll be able to find something to do with your skills.
Interesting; even though all repositories have been wiped from _why's Github accounts, the hpricot wiki is still alive: http://wiki.github.com/why/hpricot
I hope it stays that way, I wouldn't be able to figure out how to use it just by looking at the method definitions.
No, garnished paychecks, among other things, are a consequence of defaulting.
If you have any kind of toolbar in your browser (e.g. are using Firefox with Stumbleupon or WebDeveloper toolbar) hide 'em to maximize browser-rendering real estate.
This reminds me of that story about people disappearing in real life. _why had some really cool projects. It makes a little more sense looking at him as an "artist" I guess, but aren't hackers sort of artists too? I always thought the dichotomy was a little artificial myself...

Although, hackers are associated with more utilitarianism and art isn't always functional. Sometimes hacking is for the sake of hacking though, just like art.
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He changed his name to _when and is working on perl 6.
Sorry, it's Australian slang, I didn't realise.

Well, those "pending details" don't seem to be stopping the soppy eulogies and reposting of the guy's old blogs, etc, like he just died a tragic death. I felt the need to counterbalance with a healthy dose of scorn.

Let me share my estimated likelihood of the various scenarios:

0.1% - why is dead and the actions are that of a script
0.1% - why has been maliciously hacked to an unprecedented degree
99.8% - why has, in fact, spat the dummy, and thrown all his toys
right out of the pram

I guess time will tell which turns out to be the case.
But by changing the context of a simple imageboard, it’s overtaken a stalwart of internet culture (see chart) and got people talking

You should be using the domain 4chan.org instead of 4chan.com: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/4chan.org+dailybooth.com+4c...
IGF meetup tonight for entrepreneurs seeking co-founders
It depends on what you're doing and where you're going. I suppose that might be reasonable at a big state school with relatively low tuition for a CS degree, which makes sense at this website. OTOH, if you're going to a private school or a professional school, your part time job doesn't amount to squat compared to tuition.

In almost any imaginable scenario, you have it worse today than some 50 year old had it in the seventies.
Just a small note - you should not explicitly set the visibility to "visible", set it to the empty string "" instead. This way you don't overwrite the default property if it was something else.

And you can skip the blinkOn variable by:

blinks[i].style.visibility = blinks[i].style.visibility == "" ? "hidden" : "";
I think it is reasonable to keep them separate. Replies are often arguing against the merit of the original premise, or simply offering an opinion. Upvoting says you think a story belongs on the front page to be viewed by more people. They are not directly correlated.
I think he's wrong.

The problem is that he only sees a single market, and that's the high-end market that competes with Apple.

Competing with Apple sounds good, but it's hard. The Pre when announced had a huge advantage over the iPhone which has largely faded away in a matter of months. Apple have the development team, the advertising money, the branding, the fashion, the R&D department, and the connections with suppliers to get hardware features before a small-player can. You're doomed to be forever playing catch-up.

What's eventually going to happen is that most people will want a product that's almost as good for a lower price, on a different network, or want something in particular that's different to what Apple are offering. In the long-run, that's Android's differentiator, as Apple aren't going to want to cut features in order to compete on price, or offer a variety of specialist features such as a physical keyboard.

Finally, I hardly think telling people to wait for the 2nd generation means that people will be "waiting forever". So far, only a single manufacturer, HTC, have released Android handsets, and both the G1 (HTC Dream) and G2 (HTC Magic) were undoubtedly rush-released and flawed. The trickle of much superior second generation handsets has already begun - the HTC Hero was released last week, and the Samsung Galaxy i7500 is supposedly out next week in the UK.
There are a lot of very arty people who are programmers. Just look at the people who started Pixar (and I am not just talking about Steve, but he definitely qualifies). They were scientists (PhDs) and they loved art, and using the computer to generate it. And in those days, that meant knowing how to code.
...especially if they were the same person in a Fight Club kind of way. Zed sleeps and _why comes out to play... or vice versa.
In the UK, we understand that University College at Oxford is part of the Oxford system. Same holds true for both Jesus and Trinity Colleges. The university system, founded well before you Yanks got your footing in the world of academia, was designed to incorporate several colleges under a university system (thus the term "university" and not just "college"). Same holds true for our friends at Cambridge, consisting of several university colleges within the university system of Cambridge (check for yourself).

By indicting the U of M University College as sub-par, one would assume you are assailing the reputation of the entire University of Maryland as a whole. At least that's the way we view it from our perspective on academics here in the UK. Does the quality of education in the American collegiate system really degrade so dramatically from one school to the next? I thought Americans pride themselves in the quality of college-level academics... Thoughts?
Googling "kroford" returns a few results related to Star Wars, and the server is named "deathstar". I thought that at first too, but now I doubt it.
Thanks, that was a pretty basic error of me to make! Corrected the post...but I hope the rest of my insight still stands ;-)
Why Israeli veterans make great entrepreneurs
That would be a very, very pointless waste of time and energy for the teams that created essentially as-good (or in some ways better, some ways worse) implementation as the winner, but for some reason didn't get chosen because there can only be one winner.

They would have been much better off putting that kind of work into a project that has residual value in that it isn't overly similar to anything else out there (i.e. the winner), and look into funding from a source that respects their time and effort rather than imposing arbitrary and onerous busy-work of this variety.

This is an example of "competition for the sake of competition," the error of elevating competition (or anything else) to almost metaphysical status. Competition has many benefits, but is not a good thing ipso facto.
Agreed; this is fairly useless on its own. However, the TC blurb says:

"In the future, the company plans to offer a list of alternative flights so you can quickly rebook once you learn of a delay."

I think the real application of this is going to be purchasing fully-refundable tickets, then switching an 85%-likely-delayed flight for an 85%-likely-on-time flight, for a 72% chance of making the right call.

If enough people do this, airlines are going to end up cancelling entire flights when everyone switches their tickets. This will mean they either A) offer cheaper flights on the cancelled-then-rebooked "new" flight for anyone who might need it, B) offer discounts if you DON'T cancel, or C) raise the prices of refundable tickets so high that you will go to another carrier at the outset.

Better information for customers inevitably leads to more competition and lower prices.

Of course airlines are barely surviving as it is, so this kind of thing would (eventually) kill off some number of stragglers.

On an editorial note, I say good riddance. As far as I'm concerned, the entire airline industry can go out of business for not standing up for their customers. I don't want to be physically molested or scanned naked, deal with "freedom baggies", a lack of water, taking off my shoes (note in other public venues you MUST wear shoes due to health codes), power-tripping morons, people rifling through my luggage, stuff stolen out of my luggage, late luggage, damaged luggage, "lost" luggage, showing my ID, showing my ID to 3 different people, mission creep leading to arrests for NON-safety-related issues, "behavior detection" specialists looking to harass nervous and/or agitated individuals, "no fly lists", quasi-police-powers bestowed upon flight attendants so "interfering with a flight crew", e.g. arguing with a stewardess, is now a federal crime; a hundred other things, all capped off by secret laws which heretofore had always been held to be unconstitutional, but now we aren't allowed to know what the laws are, pertaining to aviation security.

Finally, if you want to know if a given flight will be late, the answer "yes" also works about 85% of the time.
when I tried Google alerts (asking it for references to my name), it would alert me to pages published (by me, which is how I am sure when they were published) months ago, so the signal was drowned in noise.
Snow Leopard...a lot of upside for $29.99
And a visitor counter.
Thank you. Before you bunch of women get too hysterical, you might want to take a look at this.

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/08/11

I'll just assume _why is vacationing in Europe.
Athlete could be disqualified over gender doubts
The task would not be what you would work on if you get in. It would only be used to help evaluate teams.
Come on, its not even a Friday today, its just a tool that looks pretty and makes no sense.

Oh yeah, very suitable for HN.
not a lot. I tend to develop blogs for US based audiences where there is more traffic and more monetization options. The only downside is that occassionally people think I've only got Aussie traffic and are not willing to advertise with us until we can prove the US traffic thing. Other than that there's not been a lot of problems
Put it in feature requests. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 And no, I comment all the time when I don't upvote, like right now.

Stories start at one point because you automatically upvote your own story.
happy to have a meet if there's a genuine interest in it.
A Conservative’s Road to Same-Sex Marriage Advocacy
Speaking of a still-alive person as if they were dead is a reasonable taboo. To do so casually creates a lot of potential for damaging misunderstandings.
As is the wiki for Shoes (http://wiki.github.com/why/shoes)... I don't know if they were forgotten, or this was on purpose to help people who were going to keep the projects alive.
you're right - topic is a factor both in terms of the traffic you can generate as well as the options to monetize.

A blog about a band is a tough one to make money from. There may be opportunities to monetize by promoting products from similar bands as well (ie: if you like Megadeth you might also like this album from.... ummm.... Britney Spears). Otherwise there may be advertisers looking to get their message out to the kind of people that like a certain band (if the band has a tight demographic following).

Ultimately though - some topics are hard going. They attract audiences that are not in a 'buying mood' and as a result affiliate promotions and even advertising can be tough going.
I've added a 2nd post to this series with 10 more tips - hope it's helpful - http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/08/20/10-more-amazon...
very interesting. I wonder if this architecture would make for a good mpp database appliance - something that is lean and very focused and somewhat power hungry!
Huh? KKK members have every right to express their racist attitudes, but I'll still call them dicks. "You have every right to do what you did" and "I think what you did was an asshole move" are not exclusive statements.
Hiding what's exposed in a shared library
Takes the top 3 google results and associates semi-arbritary categorys to certain words.
According to the damninteresting.com article linked above:

"WIPP is not scheduled to be sealed until the year 2038, and Yucca Mountain may be operating well into the 24th century; so humanity still has a little time to contemplate its warning to the future."
If you read the post it mentions that apps like self control are imperfect because you have to keep telling it which sites to block. RescueTime has a huge part of the internet already categorized and scored as distracting or not and lets you tune those settings in broad strokes - so if you go to a site you've never even heard of, if it's a distracting site you'll be blocked without having to have entered it.
> "the people who think the guy was raving mad and immature."

haha. which one are you talking about?