skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am guessing that the only change made here was removal of the comment point value, no sorting changes?

I ask only because if this experiment becomes permanent its good public knowledge.

EDIT: I meant to include my thoughts on the change. If this change was made with the mindset that "friends" will automatically vote eachother up I think its probably a mistake. My reasoning here is that the voting up will still occur regardless of the value shown or not, if anything it might promote people to vote someone they like up just to contribute to the magical score thats hidden away. If they were to see that the person already has 10 votes its possible they might feel that was enough value already assigned to the comment.
I think you could solve quite a bit of it just by writing your own CAPTCHA (instead of using a public one that there's already exploit code for.) There's a PyGimp script you can tweak here:

https://spideroak.com/code

Won't stop the people who proxy your CAPTCHA on another site, but the people doing that probably have more valuable targets.
The author's bleak conclusion on music's future on the web is an interesting one. As popular as this media is, it really does seem to be in trouble with a lack of innovation and huge legal barriers.

With a vast majority of sites simply scraping copyrighted work from YouTube, the RIAA essentially has this industry in its pocket (a massive take-down campaign could crush these startups).

The only real solution I see is a complete rebuilding of the industry. It will take time but bands can be weened off of the whole "million dollar contract" thing--just like us Entrepreneurs are breaking away from traditional VC models.
Almost none. I've been reading HN for about one year, and Something about the minimalism of the layout and lack of signatures makes me just read the comments and not think about who wrote them.
Remote control to turn off (or blow out?) loud booming car stereos in the car next to you at the light ala tv-b-gone (or maybe car-b-boom!)
I believe that was a pun. "Adjust your sales".
"Computer Science" encompasses fields that do depend on experimentation and are concerned with real implementations. There's more to Computer Science than theory.

Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=690798
concur for patio11 - in fact, upon reflection, his is really the only username that ever pops out at me.

I tend comment on HN without consideration for usernames.
The man page has a much better description:

sl is a highly developed animation program, which corrects your miss typing.
Last update in 2006 :-(

Then again, you could kind of guess this was doomed to failure for commercial passenger use: no windows. I doubt we'll see more than incremental improvements in aircraft design for another decade, especially not from Europe; everyone loved the look of the Concord but it never made money. Too bad, because quieter aircraft are a Good Thing.

edit: thanks for that update Boris, good to hear.
Peninsula database vendors (startups) try to slay Goliaths
Here are six steps for debugging.
I looked at the link and couldn't understand a thing what exactly is RMS or author's problem again. The "article" is more of a collection of links and quotes joined together by some rant. Domain name is quite telling as well.

I have seen RMS in person, I have heard his inspirational speech (that was in the days we battled EU software patents directive), I respect him as an activist and as a Hacker. I also donate to FSF.

But I'm way too tired of all those internal OSS scuffles that RMS seems always to take part of.
19 job openings at Aster and 5 at Greenplum, Wow! Good bye recession!
mechanical_fish
I now typically only choose recommendations that it thinks I would rate a 4 or 5.: Probably a very sensible policy, and I bet a lot of other people do the same. Unfortunately, this seems likely to cause some skew in the recommendations since the recommendations engine (and the people working to improve it) will seldom find out about any severe underpredictions it makes.
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It's like 4 chords and a drum beat.

Do you really need to give credit for that? (I know legally the answer is likely yes, but I don't think it should be).

Imagine if we had to give credit for each 4 lines of code that had already been used by someone else :/

Or a painter who had to give credit for a certain way of drawing a beard.
which sort of defeats the purpose: Only if your purpose in subscribing to them is to be able to watch the newest movies, rather than the best movies or the ones you'd enjoy most.
1. no windows. Did they account for the extra drag once the windows get added?

2. A very wide-body plane like that, is problematic. You are going to have very wide rows (like 12-16 abreast), and the people that are in the rear-sides, will experience very unpleasant "roller coaster" effects when the plane does sharp turns, as they are so far from the central axis.
Even then, I remember seeing ads for lessons by Gata Kamsky in the back of Chess Life about 8 years ago.
Agreed. I had to check the date on this article to make sure it was really from 2009, and not 4 years ago.
Sure he's not... He just has a tendency of taking things a wee tiny bit overboard, such as accusing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of not giving a damn about helping the millions in Africa: http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/richard-stallman-expert-in-the...
The question is inaccurate, because you're really asking which usernames we can recall. ;-) That's often an order of magnitude smaller than the ones we can recognize. The only way to test who we recognize is to MRI us, show us a bunch of usernames, see if the recognition centers of our brain light up.

That said, here's who I can recall off the top of my head:

YCombinator principals: pg, rtm, jl, tlb

Famous people: joshu, pmarca, paul, jeresig

Semi-famous people: aboodman, tptacek, cperciva, lisper, jrockway, ojbyrne, epi0Bauqu

YCombinator founders: sama, dhouston, ivankirigin, tipjoy, spez, aaronsw, mattmaroon, AlexS, SwellJoe, brezina, fallentimes, brett (at least, I think it's that Brett...the SlinkSet founder)

YCombinator company employees I've hung out with or otherwise interacted with: aston, dfranke, gaborcsalle

Folks I've met in person since moving to the Bay Area: lacker, litewulf, iamelgringo, abossy, timcederman, gaius

Prolific posters: nickb, rms, wheels, davidw, mechanical_fish, DanielBMarkham, edw519, swombat, patio11, raganwald, pchristensen, staunch, byrneseyeview, llimllib, ryanwaggoner, Alex3917, menloparkbum, DaniFong, dcurtis, unalone, masklinn, apotheon, plinkplonk, mynameishere.

(Yeah, I cheated and looked at the leaderboard and a few comment threads for that last one. The original question was recognition, not recall though.)
This is top of the head so no promises on spelling. I remember cpercevia because he had a really great proof from a post your proofs challenge I did a while ago. edw519's comments seem to stick out for me about technical stuff. Byrneseyeview has delightfully provacative stuff, a little edgy but generally sensible and well thought out. RMS only for the whole getting kicked out thing, it was big enough at the time to stick with me. Nostrademons because I was interested in how his game-clay thing was going to work out. And logicholeflaw because we're old friends irl.

So on the whole it seems like I notice on part expertise part random. I don't vote much though so I don't think name alone gets me to click that up arrow.
Waterloo has a very strong CS program, albeit it can be a lot of work, and the campus life isn't great. If you want an intense undergrad CS experience, I think U of T and Waterloo are the best two choices.

That said, I think you should also consider the quality of campus life: I went to Queen's, and I learned much more outside the classroom than I did in classes -- I don't regret going to a less intense program for my undergrad.
Quote from the site:

There are (and will be) times when the first few bytes of the NAND contain the correct information for the OMAP to think that there is a valid boot program but the program is actually broken. This can happen when trying new boot programs that don't work or for some reason the NAND become partally erased. When this happens the OMAP will begin running the broken program and never make it to the MMC/SD card thus turning your system into a brick. Fortunately there is a small button (#25 above) that when pressed, will reverse the device boot order (i.e. it will start at the MMC/SD then try the NAND). This allows a simple method to recover the system by using a normal flasher SD.

Sounds like there are still a few issues to take care of, but all in all I am very impressed. This is great work, especially when you consider that they pretty much designed everything from scratch. The device is still sort of ugly and the most notable omission would appear to be keyboard support (perhaps they plan to make an onscreen keyboard.)

At the moment it is still more of a game console.

The software section of the site is limited, but there are lots of fascinating pictures in the hardware section. Definitely worth a look!
A Burst of Technology, Helping the Blind to See
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814632

Once parallelism enters the picture, our analysis must change. We have to weigh communication costs as well as computation costs, and sometimes we actually want to pick an algorithm which would, in a sequential world, be significantly slower.

In short, what "computer" you use can change how your analysis should proceed.
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Being Keith Allen's daughter helped too.
The article is correct. It's the same attitude that with any form of competition that was deemed a matter of national prestige in USSR: popularized by state throughout all outlets, industrialized through a ranks of special schools and training facilities, and usually devoid of fun that was initially behind the whole thing.

You'd have same approach with sports, ballet, or even high-school level contests in natural science. If there'd existed a world-renowned competition in crosswords, rest assured USSR would have had a nation-wide network of crosswording schools that would've enlisted talented kids at age of 5, three state-approved categories of crossword-manship (and one for juniors) and crossword solving discretely featured in every third motion picture.

But I digress. If you ever got to being a candidate for, say, a national senior-school physics competition, you'd be transferred to region's best teachers. They would train you like a circus dog, showing you the tricks and running you through hundreds of assignments encountered in previous years, with no focus on the essence of physics. Granted you'd know a lot about pulleys and levers and displacement, but it wouldn't make you any good physicist.
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I was just wondering this the other day. Back in '99 or 2000 it felt like a music revolution was in full swing. Music labels were ignoring p2p and everyone was downloading.

Now, it all seems stale. I love Pandora and similar services, but they've hardly broken open the doors of the music label oligopoly. I

It seems the ridiculous lawsuits is working. And artists are still more than eager to give their music away on mySpace, etc.

Where's the future of music?
Do you mean as individuals outside of HN, or as people particularly worth reading here? If the latter, there's maybe 20 or 30 people whose name will make me stop and read something I might otherwise skip. But I tend to see the comment first and afterwards note 'oh, xxxxx again, of course' My favorites are those with whom I have constructive disagreements, or who'll take time to tell me why I'm wrong about something.
Just an FYI - this is old news from July 29, 2009. YHOO stock tumbled 16% by July 31, but has subsequently recovered to within 1% of its July 29 value.
If he used the actual sample from the song then it's more likely:

- 4 chords
- a drum beat
- a $5,000 microphone to record the guitar so it sounds like that
- a $3000 keyboard to make the piano sound like that
- $10,000 in drum gear to get them to sound that way

etc. etc. etc.

I symapathize with people who want credit for samples. A lot of work and money goes into making pop music pop the way it does.
Also, this means one less search API available. Yahoo BOSS with unlimited searches was a godsent, but first the capped it, and now MS will eventually make it disappear.

It may not be good news, but it's news and something people here should know. How it gets to the top of the front page with 2 votes... no idea. Slow day?
last photo in the set referenced in your link shows numerous non-humorous protest signs and there's also anti-G20 sign among CMU guys.

but my guess would be that CMU guys and gals were just having fun. you can't really take this stuff seriously, G20 leaders probably weren't even in the line of sight with protesters at any time!
Seattle 2.0 Startup Day Attracts MSFT Employees, Entrepreneurs
Let's see. You "ComputerGuru" and a random blogger "NeoSmart" (without even an about us page) versus BBC and LA Times.

Your post and the blog post is completely out of context. Stallman quoted on his BBC article a 7 page LA Times investigation.

"Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation"
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,2533850.st...

The Gates Foundation has poured $218 million into polio and measles
immunization and research worldwide, including in the Niger Delta. At
the same time that the foundation is funding inoculations to protect health,
The Times found, it has invested $423 million in Eni, Royal Dutch Shell,
Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Total of France — the companies
responsible for most of the flares blanketing the delta with pollution,
beyond anything permitted in the United States or Europe.

Indeed, local leaders blame oil development for fostering some of the
very afflictions that the foundation combats."

Stallman's article doesn't even emphasize it as much. Its abstract reads:

To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point.
What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system
of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies,
imposes on its customers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm

Edit: formatting.
pg. I regularly visit his threads page. I wonder if he thinks that's weird.
I was there when they started gathering outside of NSH. It was meant to be a parody of the other protests.
Well there's software that can help with that ;) But yes, I love the execution, a great combination of serious argument and witty presentation. Another few years of Autotune development and we can have plugins that render HN as opera.
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I am no more likely to type "sl" instead of "ls" than I am to say "mu" instead of "um." Getting the current directory listing is often the first thing I do when I switch back to a command prompt, even if I don't need it. It's an involuntary reflex.
Not that I really care, but I'm sick of some of the bogus pro-filesharing arguments. Downloads don't equate to lost revenue? Maybe not exactly, in that not all downloads represent a lost sale, but my monthly CD budget went from about $50 to $0 after Napster came out. I know I'm not the only one.
Aha, but what if those cultures persist over countless generations? The degree to which one fits into one's culture partially determines one's reproductive success. Wouldn't this weed out the genetically poor distance runners while advantaging the genetically good distance runners?
Read this and tell me whether it says "Mono and de Icaza are evil" or "I think Mono is the wrong approach and here's why":

Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C# by Richard Stallman

http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

Some quotes:

"This is not to say that implementing C# is a bad thing. Free C# implementations permit users to run their C# programs on free platforms, which is good."

"The problem is not in the C# implementations, but rather in Tomboy and other applications written in C#. If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them too. That doesn't make them unethical, but it means that writing them and using them is taking a gratuitous risk.

We should systematically arrange to depend on the free C# implementations as little as possible."

Also related, the next news article:

http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono
Exactly. As the movie "Looking for Bobby Fischer" made clear, we in the US live in a non-chess culture. Like mathematicians, chess players and honor-roll students in high-school are ignored while jocks get lots of attention.

Belonging to a subculture can be empowering for people who aren't world-class out of the gate like Bobby, but that's only available for a very small minority in cities. Elsewhere, there's little heavy competition or opportunity to evolve.

The US gets it's ass handed to it in international math competitions because math, as with most intellectual endeavors in the US, gets no respect. The news proves everyday that 2/3's of us are clueless about most things that developed in the 20th century.
I'm having some problems on giving attention to usernames. Most of the things written over the Internet is anonymous for me. Until I really want to give attention to what is written and if it's a credible resource and check sources. If something is anonymous than it's not credible default. So this leads me to not recall usernames. I'm a bit sorry about this.
Avatars would really help me.
Grooveshark looks nice! Pandora's been recycling the same songs too much for my tastes lately, and I'm getting bored with it. I also wish I could easily access the "station logs" later.

I like the fair use policy on the copyrights page a lot.

Are you really going to be able to let users drive to the exact song they want to hear, even after critical mass builds up? Seems too good to be true. I always assumed that was how Pandora managed to keep the heat off (by not letting users pick the exact song when they want to hear it).
I certainly understand your pun on Lilly Allen's song yet I must say that we can't really complain about artists complaining about pirating. Sure Lilly Allen might have gone a little overboard, but its a valid complaint.

Artists need to be paid just like everyone else. The fact that they get paid so much more money than most of the rest of us do is irrelevant. It doesn't mean we are entitled to steal from them. If you are pirating music then you are cheating the artist. And if you enjoy the song why steal it? I mean you can probably buy it off iTunes for 99 cents to a $1.29

That said, I must admit that I enjoyed Dan Bull's song. It is funny, but I don't think that pirating is funny.

We can't force everybody to go open source, and we certainly shouldn't complain when other people complain about getting their work stolen and distributed without getting any benefit from it.
There are good reasons why conventional aircraft have their engines on separate pods. They get clean airflow, whereas in the Silent design a wing/body stall would also disrupt air intake to the engines giving a sudden loss in thrust just when you need it most. Not to mention the extra difficulty of maintenance and inspection. And the fact that chunks of ice separating from the body fly right into the turbine.

I could live without windows. Have a few cameras connected to the LCD screens in the seats. Should save a lot of weight and drag.
last news is that in January 2009 NASA joined with funding as part of it's own studies http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?cha...

so I wouldn't write this off yet.

quote from the article: "NASA has not consulted the airlines to gauge their interest in the hybrid wing/body (HWB) - its generic term for the BWB. Instead its research is driven by internal studies that indicate the unconventional configuration is the only way to meet the aggressive environmental targets it has set for "N+2 generation" aircraft to be available around 2020."
Microclimate keeps this one a bit behind others in the area, in addition to the region running a bit late this year. But will try to be there on the first day they open up the Golden Delicious to picking.
I am more likely to type ;l or la by accident but la is an alias for ls -a so that sort of works :)
That's a big 'if'. He said 'cover version' which I take to mean he played and recorded it himself.
i have recently been proficient in

* javascript - jQuery, OpenID, OpenSocial, mootools, prototype

* php - MySpaceID SDK, php5.2, Drupal

in the past i have been proficient in

* c# - anything but asp.net; directx, memory marshelling, desktop, server

* java - applets

* c++ - visual studio MFC

* c embeded code, signal processing, etc...

* visual basic 5-.net2
Whether intentional or not, that is enormously misleading
> If you ever got to being a candidate for, say, a national senior-school physics competition, you'd be transferred to region's best teachers.

This is not a bad thing. It is completely the opposite to some Western ideals to ensure that everyone gets the same (bad) education. I think that the motto for a lot of guys on the left is that if everyone is kept behind no-one loses.

What is incredibly interesting to note is that Russia and several eastern bloc countries perform better than the USA in math (school age – according to OECD TIMMS test). Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trends_in_International_Mathema...

This is quite shocking since the USA spends a lot more on education and is a few times richer.

> Granted you'd know a lot about pulleys and levers and displacement, but it wouldn't make you any good physicist.

In all fairness, the USSR did produce quite a few excellent physicists. Per capita it probably outranks the USA for Nobel Prize winners in Physics.
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Exactly. Even nowadays how many people have window seat on a widebody? some 20-25%. AVOD and external cameras can do wonders, I really like setup on Emirates.

Other problems are solvable too (aircraft is not meant to accumulate ice, you know ;) and airlines will buy anyway if fuel savings are that good in real life.
Organic avoids the heavy hormones and antibiotics from regular milk. You can definitely get non-homogenized organic milk though. You just have to shake it before drinking. Avoid Horizon brands (see the Organic Consumers Association reports on them for details.) HTH.
They're asking for the wrath of St. Postel with this.

To co-opt a piece of a public internet standard that was arrived at through the work of lots of people is really beyond the pale.

Godaddy ought to be boycotted over this, simply take all of your business away from them referring to the filing of this patent as your reason for closing your account.

I'm pretty sure that if enough people do it they'll wonder if this is such a good idea.

This besides the obvious fact that they are even able to file this is utter nonsense, they ought to be rejected on the spot and fined for filing a ridiculous patent.
Obviously Netscape created a revolution. The "duct-tape" approach allowed them to iterate quickly and deliver Netscape 1.0 to the masses and change the world.

However, the rapid success of Netscape was very much due to that the basic architecture and protocols of the web was already designed by others. I give Netscape credit for the <img> tag, but apart from that, almost anything Netscape designed on their own were ill-conceived disasters from <font> and <frameset> to <layer> and JSSS.

So I think the correction to the duct-tape approach is that it works best if somebody else already designed the basic architecture, e.g. if you are copying an already established product. It does not seem to work very well if you have to design something original.