skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the language implementation was much more impressive: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zfbv3mHcYrc/R_cAAN-Jc2I/AAAAAAAAAZ...

So close to BNF, and so clear in its deviations. Would be nice if I could use something like this to extend Python or JS and compile to them...
If you're paying $18k for one mic, one keyboard, and one drum set, I have a nice bridge I'd like to show you...
Meet the man who sells $89 million of diapers each year online
If enough isolated incidents point to the same cause, they're no longer isolated, no?
Broker vs Brokerless Messaging
Not really. Although that's a funny thought.

I'd go for a system that enforced a payment based upon a baseline # of listens on pandora, last.fm or youtube.
Microsoft need no pre-recorded video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30686429@N07/sets/7215762233008...
People who like the simplicity of the Memcached protocol will enjoy hacking a client library for the super fast Beanstalkd message queue.

http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/

Sure, it's non-persistent and similar things could be hacked with the viciously fast Redis DB or other Key/Value DBs, but it's fun to telnet into a message queue and issue plain ascii commands :-P
http://rememberthemilk.com uses this to find out where I am, so it can show me tasks due at my current location.
I think this goes back to whether newspapers are selling their content or the medium. From what I recall, the general rule of thumb (used to be?) that a newspaper gets a third of revenues from advertisers, a third from classifieds and a third from subscriptions.

The much broader problem that affects all of the above has been that readerships have been in decline - in some cases rather steep decline. Further, from the supply side of the argument, the supply of media that's available to advertisers has broadened considerably because of the internet. But there's always been demand for valuable content - and that's what I would suggest has been a problem. That for quite some time that demand was captive - people didn't have alternatives.

Now they do, and now they're looking elsewhere. Even when the businesses in the retail, auto, financial and real estate sectors come back, traditional media won't - it's been in decline far longer than this current/past recession. This I think has a great deal to do with the value (or lack thereof) that people see in traditional media versus the alternative sources they can find increasingly available because of the net.
Anyone want to help test my Ajax chat (Erlang)?
It's not very full featured, but I just wanted to see how well it works with more people in it.

Any errors? Let me know.
Working hard is overrated
maxmind, quova
Several job boards use GeoIP to show jobs near you first
http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570

oh and

http://google.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fjustin.harmoni...
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I stand corrected, since I mixed up the Cato institute with the Heartland institute. I'll take my brain out back and shoot it later.
But he choose to highlight the profanity, not the remarks you point out. He told us which remark offended him, and it was an impersonal one.
+1, awesome analogies.
Doesn't the orange dot work for that?
StrongVPN.com GFW'd as China's 60th anniversary nears
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I'm experimenting with not displaying comment scores. The orange dot is an alternate way to help users find high-scoring comments. More details here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979
I spent a few months trying to ferret out incorrectly priced options. The truth is...there are 1000s of hedge funds, not to mention Goldman Sachs, who have mathematicians on staff who will beat you at every turn. Unless you find some as-yet uncounted variable, like the moistness of the ferns in Ghana as they relate to next month's Cocoa crop, forget it. Everything is priced in, and even-odds is the best possible bet.
Google (try a search for e.g. 'pizza delivery'). However if you have the appropriate cookies set, I believe it will use a remembered location rather than your IP-derived location. I don't know whether to consider this a feature or a bug.
The assistants were unrealistically disobedient. And when the computer fell there was like nothing plugged in the back (but somehow it messed up the game).
Very nice! Look forward to hearing more about it.

I did have an issue where the server would fulfill my connection with no response data, and the client wouldn't re-open the connection to the server. This happened a few times, and it was right around the time someone was mentioning unicode, so I figure you might already be on this one.
-1 for 1and1.
I registered domains with them, and due to their confusing control panel/cancel/transfer process I lost control of a few of my domains. go with some good ones like gandi/moniker, or if you're cheap, name.com/godaddy(if you can wade through their ads)/namecheap.
but DONT EVER TOUCH 1and1.
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Sometimes a change in scale is a change in nature as well; what this type of data bus means is that you can synchronize the entire state of the device with other devices on the same physical bus in fractions of a second. This opens up new opportunities of all sorts.

Given the proliferation of virtualization, even for mobile devices; it should be possible to carry around on your phone a workspace of fairly sizable dimensions and in human terms seamlessly copy the entire state of that workspace to an external host, manipulate it there (think Surface or Minority Report style interfaces, or VR, or specialist transforms that require vast amounts of computing power) and then sync the device with the updated state (and either purge or archive the copy).

No more progress bars!
He probably means hundreds of competing TCP connections across a single link, which is common in the Internet (or in your LAN if you use BitTorrent).
If it's a post with a lot of discussion, it'd help with one or two more levels of "good post" indicators.

Maybe making the default text color slightly more grayish and the "a bit better than orange dot" have #000 text, and for the exceptionally upvoted posts also make the "pg 26 minutes ago | link | parent | flag" header bold.
yeah, mochijson:encode and unicode, fixing that :)
I haven't seen anyone do anything I've found really useful. Most are like this one, that tells you how long the sun is over the horizon based on where you are: http://mersol.se/
I believe actually that 'this' points to the global object.

So if there is no obvious thing for this to point at, it'll point at the global object. Its just implementation detail that in browsers it points to the window object.
worth it for the jesus puppet. everything else was pretty tiring.
oops, sorry. yes, the first line would define a "class instance" variable.

btw, I didn't show the attr_accessor meta-programming sine it hides the guts of the excercise.
RMS sees everything in Black and White.
Hence he is very Sensitive.
I'm a lazy bastard and didn't read the complete article but isn't mutability pretty much of a "NO!" in Haskell? I mean, it was Haskell folks who even wound up implementing monads just to emulate mutable state without actually having to be mutable.

Or are they finally going to look for the sweet spot in the middle of two extremes on the im/mutability continuum...
AdultFriendFinder. All their ads guess my location and try to convince me that there are lustful women in my neighbourhood who are desperately looking for someone like me.
I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs also plays a good role in producing good chess players.
Technology isn't the silver bullet of health care.

Let's first allocated more time for each patient visit, support long-lasting patient-doctor relationships that give some perspective to the patient's health outside the imminent symptoms, and treating patients as complete psycho-physical beings instead of merely malfunctioning organisms.

Then we can discuss and welcome technology.
How many Acorn offices did these guys actually visit in total? How many times were they able to get advice from Acorn staffers, and how many times were the filmers reported to authorities?

I totally agree that we need more investigations like this, and that this investigation certainly seems to have uncovered some interesting stuff, but I also get the feeling like there are some pieces from the story that are missing, and I wonder a little if that isn't maybe a general problem when these kinds of sting operations are carried out by activists with a strong political agenda.
To me this article shows the problem and not the solution. Think about how he starts the article. He says...

"Here’s a sobering thought: I can walk into any local car dealership and buy a $30,000 piece of merchandise, leaving nothing behind but my signature — but if I show up that same day at the hospital, unconscious after a collision in my new car, there’s not a soul in that emergency room who will know what medications I’m taking, what allergies I have or where my living will is stored."

But then he goes on to list a bunch of technologies that don't fix that problem (sorry, if you come in unconscious from a car accident the doctor isn't going to be able to pull up your HealthVault account in the Emergency Room). The problem with much of the technology currently being put out there is they aren't looking at the problem and tailoring a solution to it. Instead they focus on theoretical goals ("Health Care needs Social Media") and no one ends up using their products.

The truth is Digital Health Care has a lot of hurdles to over come but it's the stuff that can't be fixed with a fancy website like getting hospitals wired, creating common formats that medical machines can use to deliver info and establishing a global identity system so even if you're unconscious you can be treated properly. All these things require hard work and collaboration not just slapping technology together on the web.
The problem with banking is the lack of regulation. See Canada as an example, we have 6 banks and no bailouts. The free-market does not work all the time and banks are not like other companies - as such, they should be heavily controlled by regulation to ensure stability and access to finance.
ROFL this you on here? The latest Twitter Worm
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> This means when writing systems above a certain size perl is not a good choice precisely because it takes time to parse.

> I like perl, but maintainability has more aspects than just following community conventions.

I think you contradict yourself.

In my experience, maintainability has a lot more to do with naming conventions, the use of abstractions, the use of metaphor to understand and express concepts of the problem domain, testability and coverage, repetition, the use of language and library idioms, consistency of expression, unit boundaries, and encapsulation of code and concept than language syntax.

> I don't know where you got the dislike of Algol....

I don't dislike Algol, but I believe that there's a strong tendency in certain circles to believe that Algol-family syntax is so obviously right (or pervasive) that jumping between languages in that family is simple.
Nice, but it has some issues including random disconnects.

Is it open source?

BTW, #startups on freenode is a more permanent solution for those interested in talking with other HN'ers.
Although some services like StrongVPN may be convenient, the solution I've relied on over the years is doing my own tunnel through my own server in the U.S. I usually use a dedicated server in the U.S. But this works with just about anything you have SSH access with. Just run SSH from the command line like "ssh -CND 9999 <your_server_name_in_your_ssh_config>" and setup FoxyProxy (Firefox extension) to use port 9999 (choose any high port you like) for the SOCKS tunnel.

There was a blog post making the rounds a month or so ago promoting another VPN/proxy service similar to StrongVPN. All I could think was all those poor non-techies will sign up for this and it will soon get blocked. You are correct that the GFW will not block port 443 for ALL IPs. So your little unknown server serving up SSH connects on 443 (I don't use that port) is the safest bet you've got.

This has been a big year for anniversaries in China. It will be interesting to see if things ease up soon.
Perhaps allow comment score over a certain karma and/or age, just like the ability to change topcolor and downvote?
A webapp based on a browser bug on visited links color
Each photo was a bit more harrowing and intense than the previous one. I enjoyed reading a photo essay about lions in which I really had no idea what to expect in the next photo because it wasn't coming from a traditional travel magazine.
That makes sense in theory, but our company has dozens of WordPress sites. Once you have more than a few, managing software and plugin versions becomes exponentially more challenging.

I'm in the process of upgrading all of them to 2.8.4 and installing the necessary plugins and params in the config file so they can all be "auto updated" in the future. I plan on having my VA manage them from there.

However sometimes strange things happen - for example, I auto upgraded one of our sites the other day and the whole thing broke and only rendered a blank page, so it's entirely possible my VA will break one or more sites even using the auto upgrade functionality.
Uses MochiWeb for web server, ErlyDTL for page templating (Erlang implementation of Django Template Language).

http://code.google.com/p/mochiweb/
http://code.google.com/p/erlydtl/
Recording a drum kit in a professional way can involve as many as 8 microphones, each one requiring a preamplifier and effects. Add in the cost of the drums themselves and the hourly rate of a session player. 18k may be an overstatement, but it's a nontrivial cost.
Yeah, people are having fun trying to crash it. Had a unicode problem earlier (with mochijson).
I tried to post a comment with HTML but I just ate it without any indication.
You do not appear to limit message length, or the limit it too large.
Ask HN: What's your keyboard of choice?
What model keyboard do you guys use? I'm starting to feel some minor pain in my hands and was considering getting this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823109066
I read it a couple of weeks ago, I can recommend it.
Any suggestions for more comic books like these?
From Pullman, Washington, I have gotten AdultFriendFinder to claim I am in any of Post Falls, Idaho, Couer d'Alene, Idaho, and Overland Park, Kansas.
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Just set limit now to 256.
Try: http://ipinfodb.com/
They offer a free geolocation API and even their SQL DB is free.
That's damn right. Clearly definied priorities can save a lot of time..
The function:
setTimeout(30, function() {
myHotDog.getCondiments.apply(myHotDog);
});

can actually just be:
setTimeout(30, function() {
myHotDog.getCondiments();
});

apply is definitely useful but it just makes the code more verbose in this case.
X += x++
No offends, but nothing to be proud of. Have you thought of taking some basic musical training and learning to play an instrument? I think it really helps to develop the musical taste and helps to understand and enjoy music deeper, which improves your life in many ways.
The last few MS wireless keyboards/mice I've used seem to have ridiculously bad range even on full battery. The worst part was it's not consistent. You can be typing a sentence and go back and notice every 5 or 6th letter just isn't there or duplicated. The only way I could get it to work reliability was to have the wireless transceiver practically touching the keyboard itself.
This is significantly important for those of us who'd consider an iPhone, but can't buy one because it doesn't work at home. I actually prefer this to a UMA solution, as the model of phone is irrelevant... I fail to understand, however, why this is limited to a particular test market. Shouldn't it be available wherever people have a good broadband connection (such as cities with - ironically - Verizon's FiOS?)
I don't know. There's working hard and then there's looking like you're working hard. I'm guilty of falling into the latter and learning how to work effectively. Conversely, this guy works hard but seems to be effective:

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090901/the-way-i-work-marc-lor...
I fear the future. Once countries start compiling a blacklist of secure VPN providers worldwide and block these IP segments. Everyone will start building their own VPNs on SliceHost / Linode / RackSpace Cloud Servers. Then these countries (China) will start blocking SliceHost / Linode / <insert your fav VPS provider here>

I don't care much about using Twitter / Facebook / social apps. I have no doubt that I'll become a victim from further IP blocking. I won't be surprised to find my website on SliceHost GFW'd in China in the near future.

As I do most of my online business with China, hopefully a Chinese company will duplicate SliceHost's services here.

- UUuMing
It doesn't seem to work on the iPhone.
Try http://ip2location.com/ . They've been around for quite sometime and IMHO it's more accurate than maxmind.
It does nothing to help their credibility that they are basically riding the coat tails of another firm, called Strategic Vision Inc. (the firm he is challenging is Strategic Vision, LLC), which is something Nate mentions in one of his posts on the matter. That right there ought to serve as a pretty big negative indicator of credibility, but it doesn't seem to matter much to the media, if they even do enough research to notice that they aren't the "real" Strategic Vision.
Assuming their answers are all honest & display competence, I've found that the quality of questions a candidate asks are a better long-term indicators of likely success.
Ah.. finally! StrongVPN's OpenVPN Client can connect to HK server now. Not sure who changed what on which side (China ISP vs StrongVPN) but I'm glad it's working now!
I think all successful people are guilty of this at some point. When people feel like they are up against the wall, they feel like they have to be constantly fighting, even though sometimes it just best to take a step back.
But for those of us who aren't Crick and Watson we have to supplement with a healthy dose of working.
Well, no. With the numbers I can get a sense of how quickly a comment is being upvoted by looking at the time it was posted. I can also compare a comment's total points to the those of surrounding comments for an indication of its relative worth.

These things aren't perfect measures, but I find them useful.
Wow! I didn't know that Watson was so cool!
Very true. Healthcare is at a point where everyone thinks "Oh if we just added this..., healthcare would be so much better." This is flawed thinking which leads to over-spending and products which leave something to be desired.

The only constants are the patients and the physician, therefore technology should be built around that relationship.
Don't disagree with that assertion, but we have to realize that doctors need technology too. In an age where imaging, more molecular and genetic oriented diagnostics, etc are going to play a more important role, you need the tech in place, otherwise you're not going to be able to catch up, both from the provider side and the patient side.

At our health system just the simple fact that every entry recorded into the EMR system is available to others, who might not be in the same building makes the whole process so much more efficient. Now if I could access those records equally easily (which is where HealthVault etc come up, then we're in even better shape)

We should all carry ID's with our medical records and diagnostic profile in them in some form or other. That's also very useful tech and the kind that EMT's or triage nurses can leveage in emergencies.

There's a lot that's wrong with healthcare, but tech is going to be part of the mid to long term solution. In the near term there are systemic issues to be solved, at least in this country
Sounds like fun. I wonder though: if all he wanted to do was maximize his net worth, would he be better off hiring a statistics graduate student who knows R and training his replacement so he could go start another company?
Hey admins, have you considered toning down the shade of orange a bit? It's pretty distracting right now, compared to the neutral colors of the rest of the page.

I'd suggest using something closer to #ff9955
Ask HN: is Catarina Fake hot or not?
I see this story over and over again. Someone successful worked really hard and succeeded. They go on to say "I've learned that you don't have to work hard to succeed"
It's true that comment-score information is interesting, but is it interesting for the right reasons? People are hardwired to have a morbid interest in the thinking of the tribe. Even if hackers consciously try to avoid paying undue attention to the opinions of the tribe, the subconscious instinct is still there.
I look forwarding to hearing what they really did 2 years from now. My guess is a) They worked obsessively/freaked out/panicked and are possibly successful or b) Hunch was a total failure.
Hmm. It's more like someone comes back from a long wilderness trip or a hike through Europe and they go on and say "I've learned that you don't need 30 kg of luggage". Or someone who's built a good relationship saying "I've learned you can choose not to be jealous or dependent".

I've seen all four combinations of frantic/measured and smart/stupid startups, and I think that measured + smart is the way to go. But I also think that this is one of those lessons you have to learn from experience.
Worst. Advice. Ever. She has confused overworking with working hard.
Agreed completely! People have wrong faith about working hard that it would help in bringing out something useful and cool. One should clearly know why he is working hard and is it really worth to work hard for.
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Hmmm, when did that ever stop Apple before? 3.5" floppies and FireWire come to mind. :) At this point though, if Apple uses it, it is a standard. Touch screen smarphones come to mind! :)
Isn't that long hike still really hard work? Doesn't that relationship still require really hard work?

Just cutting out the stupid make-work doesn't take something from being ridiculously hard to being easy.
It's just an experiment. We should encourage pg to mess around all he wants -- it's his playground and we stand to benefit from experiments (and the downside isn't disastrous).
Regarding the Watson and Crick reference: it helps when you have other people like Rosalind Franklin working through the nights doing X-ray crystallography and taking the "pictures" that shed the real light on the structure of DNA. It leaves enough time to write the papers, do the PR, and get the credit. And, I guess, there's more than enough time left over for "chasing popsies."

http://webweekly.hms.harvard.edu/archive/2003/4_7/student_sc...
First, Watson and Crick were hardly entrepreneurs so the comparison is totally unrealistic.

Secondly, every single successful entrepreneur succeeded by working hard. It's easy to say "work on the right things" but my feeling is the "right thing" only emerges because you are working hard.
My grandparents were buying sheet music and playing and singing the songs themselves.
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Which JS engine allows you to call setTimeout like that? Isn't setTimeout(expression, timeInMs [, args]) the right way to go?