skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would take you up on that Pho if it was at Pho24 on Pham Ngu Lao, right near De Tham, District 1 HCMC Socialist Republic of Vietnam :-) How about a few Bia Babas with ice at GO2 Bar, outside, going through a pack of Viet Marlies, then a walk to Guns and Roses to hustle the locals over the free pool table and skip before we get hustled back for all we're worth. We can end the nigh toking up a fat one outside Allez Boo and chatting with passers by.

Feel free to bring along a Fortune 500 CEO, but please make sure the guy can shoot a mean 9-ball and can hold his own drink.
Wow Patio, thanks for the kind words! I agree, it is a fantastic market filled with passionate customers. I hope I can find a cofounder with half as much enthusiasm!
For sure. I think one of the big problems with the original article is that the fabriacator of the project did the comparison and failed to see the suggestion that was being made. Probably not on purpose, but plenty of folks ran with it thinking they could have all of 'cheap, fast, reliable'.

They just got 'cheap', reliable comes at the expense of using multiple of these units and fast looks like it is going to be impossible without striping across multiple setups like this.

Interesting for an extremely narrow use case (long tail storage, think backup services, video sites, photo sites).

Outside of that maybe useable with some adaptation but not 'as is', besides that it is not as though their machines are up for sale, the figures they quote are mostly after all the r&d is already factored out, if you had to do this for a one-off, just cutting and folding that case would cost a pretty penny.

I'm fairly sure there is a market for a device that is a more robust version of this.

Probably at a 50% or so premium compared to the one they showed you could get a wider spectrum of uses and a bit more robust construction.

I would have bought one three months ago, now I had to settle for 20T or so in one 4U box, for a price a little over half of what they quoted in the article.
Los Angeles hackers ? Are you out there ?
I know I'm not the only one ...

Yet I've met precious few in the last couple years, and while they remain my close friends, none currently have the liberty to seriously contemplate doing a startup. Life always seems to intervene.

Do I really have to move back to the Bay to find people like me ? Or are there others here who are ready to fill out their YC apps, but wish they weren't alone ?
Former MySpace Exec Allen Hurff to Launch SoCal-based Incubator
Depending on the opportunity cost of your time, yes.

Short introductory messages are, however, useful for screening out people. After that you can go long. Even with a narrowed down pool, you're wide enough that being able to message the entire pool rather than a subset should be the more effective option.
I can answer some of these from my poking around. I have a Kindle DX.

1) Yes, the browser proxies through amazon.

2) I'm not sure what you mean but you can pretty much pull up any website you want.

3) Not sure about this question.

4) Yes, each device is tied to your amazon account.

5) I think someone inside Sprint or Amazon would have to answer this.

6) There are hacks to attach it to a PC in USBNET mode.
The statistical analysis is not very thorough.

For example, while the population might be evenly split between men and women, that doesn't mean that there's an even split of driver-hours between men and women. In my observations, men drive more than women. Like, when a heterosexual couple is driving somewhere together, it seems to me that in a pretty large majority of couples, the man drives most of the times. It's also probably that white people drive more on average because they have more money than blacks and latinos on average. (Though I'm not sure how the averages compare for asians.)

Anyway, I'm not sure that the demographic stats mean as much as he claims.
Glass microbiology
Thanks for the response. That does make sense.
Well, it's more interesting thing than I've ever done. I usually stick to the more touristy type of jungle treks through Thailand or Outback walkabouts in Australia that a million other people have done. This is pretty unique.

And, to be specific:

o They booked the flights

o They're taking the time out to hit
all of those airports.

o They came up with a theme "Stories
from 30 days of flights"

o They put together a website - clean graphics,
nicely laid out fonts.

o They're reaching out to JetBlue Executives,
promoting themselves, getting a nice HN exposure.

Most of all, they are fearless in their promotion and execution - They had an idea, said "Let's do it", and then, THEY are ACTUALLY DOING IT. The difference between "I've got a great Idea" and "I DID my great idea" is difficult to exaggerate.

And, an important part of the experience of course, is completely ignoring the naysayers, the detractors, and pushing onwards.

I'm actually very interested in seeing how it all works out.
thanks diN0bot. Please shoot me an email, would love to hear about the CNC.
Why Doesn’t Google Consolidate Login Procedures?
jetBlue had better be careful, unless they want their website redesigned. :)
Thanks for the feedback, will keep that in mind for next time!
hah. coolest cards ever. (not particularly practical, but business cards often are not.)
I think you're probably wrong about that; more security practitioners are familiar with OWASP than with any other security advocacy/advisory group.
This advice is all wrong. The real key to success is to show a photo of yourself in front of your uber-expensive sports car, which is parked in front of your grand mansion, and somehow mention your net worth is more than seven, preferably eight figures. The rest is merely the inevitable.
I know your bingo card creator is your baby.. but.. have you considered applying with him? When all is said and done, the upside seems larger in the physical goods space.
Don't sweat the haters. If there's good feedback in here, use it. If there's not, forget it. Do your thing and have fun.

I always seem to meet interesting people when I travel, especially sitting next to them on the plane. I'm really looking forward to seeing how you incorporate the experiences with your obvious knack for slick designs. And I only noticed your site because of this experiment. So you have one additional fan exactly because you're courageous enough to try this and be open about it. Enjoy!
Just xml files in a horribly tall folder hierarchy, you mean. Hand-editing xml (especially with a foreign schema) is retarded.
Whoa, just the link texts are already informative.
Hm are you happy with your DX? I've been seriously considering getting one.
Here's what I sent her (quoting):
"Only a year on the books and the California hands-free cell phone law is virtually ignored. I see people everywhere and every day driving and talking on their cell phones. There seems to be three types of people; those who do not use a cell phone in the car at all, those who use a hands-free device, and those who don’t. I was wondering why so many people seem not to care if there is a law?"

Respect for traffic laws is regularly degraded by feel-good measures like unreasonably low speed limits, obvious speed traps that have nothing to do with traffic safety, 20-mile-long highway "work zones" with no workers but plenty of cops, "traffic calming" devices such as unnecessary stop signs and obstacles, and countless other signs of governmental indifference to drivers' everyday concerns. Traffic laws are treated as optional because they are often completely unrelated to safety.

"Is it because they think the ticket is so cheap? Is it that their chances of getting caught are so low?"

There have been numerous studies suggesting that hands-free devices are no safer when driving. This is undoubtedly because when it comes to traffic safety, your presence of mind is far more important than where your hands are. Perhaps more drivers realize the truth of that idea than you might think.

I violate the hands-free law frequently, but never in a context where I'm likely to need the missing brainpower. I wouldn't behave any differently with a hands-free device because I know it would still be hazardous for me to do so, based on my own driving abilities and general absentmindedness. Michael Schumacher can use his phone anywhere he wants, but I'm too easily distracted to get away with that!

I think it was Jaron Lanier who defined virtual reality as "the place where you're at when you're on the telephone." Virtual reality, whatever it is, doesn't sound like a good place to be when you're driving. My suspicion is that hands-free laws don't work for anyone except legislators who are pandering for votes and/or desperate for revenue, and cops who are always looking for excuses to stop people who aren't doing anything wrong besides driving in the wrong car, in the wrong place, and/or with the wrong skin color.
Nice homepage but all the links are 404s.
So what generalizations can we make from these plots? Instance and rule based methods learn better? Random forest seems to be especially reliable.
Google China Boss Kai-Fu Lee to Resign
Amazon: Google book deal possibly illegal, definitely bad
Given the struggle that Google is having here in China, and all the hullabaloo surrounding his hire with Google in 2005, this is pretty big news, actually.

Google is doing much better here than in 2006, but it's still all uphill for them, and for a company that doesn't work with people much, has required lots of changes in the way they do things.
Was he taking pictures while driving to conduct this survey?
Especially when you signed away all those rights in the developer agreement (or so I've been told).
Video of new Android Market
You still can't ask how is BSD from a BSD guy and ever expect negative results...
>>>>It's not easily indexable by search engines.
>>Neither is AJAX content.

You typically wouldn't load your entire layout via Ajax.
Hotaru no hikari naruto - Buscar con Google
I love your Joolme idea (great name, too). Teenage girls are an underserved market (online, at least) and I can see its potential. I have 2 sisters that used to buy costume jewelry all the time. Even as adults, they still do.

The potential problem I see is the social aspect of trying on the jewelry physically and "chatting / giggling / discussing" it. You alluded to some aspect of social design but will it be enough?

P.S. - you might want to do a private registration on your domain names, unless you used a pseudonym or a friend's name :) [edit: since you want to remain anonymous]
Stupid me tried to start an hour before it ended, found out about it at 4:30 and didn't get home until 5:00. I don't really do these competitions so took me about 2 1/2 hours but still those guys are fast. Here are my thoughts on the problems:

A) Trick was to reverse the problem. Instead of checking if different permutations of the test cases matched the dictionary, see if you can build each dictionary word out of the test case. My python solution finishes the large input in about 6s.

B) Nothing tricky here, like others said it just required some debugging.

C) A dynamic programming problem. Work backwards along the reference string finding the solution to each 'subproblem' using the solution for the character following it. Ran the large input in 0.5s.
This is a great way to go about getting cofounders. Love it. Good luck.
Here's the deal: I really like your ideas ... what bothers me, however, is that I can't tell much about you from this blog.

It's curious that you're hiding your name (I guess if you're worried about losing your current job, that's understandable). A little more personal data (maybe even a picture) would be nice.

If I was going to get in bed with a co-founder (figuratively speaking), I would need to know more than those bullet points. I'd even go so far as to say that it's more important than the idea itself.
Your cut-boxes idea is best. I would suggest removing the other two slideshows/presentations because I feel they weaken your overall pitch. Investors want to know you're focused, confident and dedicated to your idea. They wont necessarily get that impression if you're offering a download of your brain. But good luck!
I too have frequently wondered why I can't adjust settings for such things. I also have wondered why I sometimes I have to re-login to groups when I go there, even tho I am currently using gmail in a different tab.

Even more than that tho, I would like to see a modern ident protocol, preferably one that is tied into a PKI and cryptographically secure. Then I wouldn't have to care about this.
Securing the .edu top-level domain with DNSSEC
I'd find #3 more interesting if it were the 'Threadless Tees of Jewelry'
Try: +clojure
Semantic fail
Well, I mean, it's like asking a coffee drinker what they think of coffee.
most SSDs are the standard 2.5" form factor and have the standard sata interface. I just bought a ssd and swapped out the hard drive. (In fact, the drive is still in the garage; it has the windows install the laptop came with, so I can use it to, for example, activate my 3g modem. The modem works fine under Linux, it just needs to be activated.)
Physicists working on something close to relativity, mechanics, E&M or QM (not including foundations of QM) can agree on 99% of what they talk about.

Systems biologists can't, nor can climate scientists, oceanographers, ecologists, geophysicists or astronomers.

A few fields (namely the ones taught to physics majors) have a simple unified theory that every sane person can agree to. The rest are messy, much like economics.
Whatever happened to 'hybrid' hard drives? it seems like you could get a big win if the drive reorders writes in the cache, but it sounds like hybrid drives were mostly a flop.
Because I had been out of school several years working, I had nearly flunked the course in HS, and I needed the review. For that matter I have been gradually working through another precalculus text recently for a review, it has again been too long since I have actually used much of it.
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If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The upside you speak of can't offer me anything that I value which I don't already possess, but the changes in my life I would have to make to have a shot at it would cost me dearly.
The main problem with using a proportional font for terminals is that so many programs use spaces and tabs to align text in different rows to better convey the structure of the information they present.

A secondary problem is that the control sequences that tell the terminal where to move the cursor are all defined in a grid-based coördinate system - if the terminal receives a "move the cursor down one line" sequence, its new position will be different depending on whether you choose to conserve the horizontal coordinate measured in characters or in pixels.

Of course, it would be perfectly possible to design a terminal whose control sequences made no such assumptions, but the DEC VT100 and its multitudinous offspring have been with us for a very long time now, and probably always will be.
That's possible especially since I'm not a 'security practitioner' and I'm essentially talking about a subjective personal impression - that it's taken less seriously, is less reported and incidences of specific vulnerabilities or exploits in specific apps are not tracked in the way they are for operating systems and major applications. This may, in part, be because in the case of web apps fixes are immediately available to all users. On the other hand, you can head to the RoR download page right now and click your way to downloading the current vulnerable version of RoR. At no point will you get a suggestion to check for recent security advisories or patches.
I'm really bored with this guy's continual attempts at blatant self-promotion. Just because you make a new domain every time you write a blog rant doesn't mean your writing is more interesting than the average Tumblr.
The tech bubble (1995-2000) might be a better example of a bubble not created by the government.

Nevertheless, I think it's fair to say the government did play a major role in the housing bubble.
What about his trade theory was both novel and true (honest question, one I've asked before and that no one has answered http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=669831)?
Exactly! It's storing up plastic (which you can get petroleum from) and metals etc if/for when it's too valuable to leave sitting there.

If you're interested Mike Munger an Economist talks about these ideas here: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/07/munger_on_recyc.htm...
I appreciate that Fwix using geotargeting to dynamically display its homepage.
StraighterLine sounds as close as you can get to David Gelernter's "Tracks and Clusters" concept within the framework of traditional courses and credits. See Gelernter at:

http://edge.org/q2009/q09_9.html#gelernter
I think it might have to do with different teams in google having different views about how security on their different projects might have different needs.

- Letting each team have their own policy is a good idea because it allows the people who built it ; to protect it.

- The only people who notice are those who are over thinking it.
The funniest part is that its not just 43 flights. They're visiting 43 cities, and taking 90 flights!
Hairspray london
A message oriented musical that become an instant hit. It seems like people were just waiting for something like this to see. The heart of this award-winning songbook is about Black folks' no longer satisfied with being separate but equal. Though somehow it didnt seem to attract the Black Americans.
Yes what makes socialism/communism authoritarian is that it's almost always non-voluntary (ie they make you join the collective or else).

Exceptions to this are Kubbitzes (sp?) and small voluntary communes, which have their own problems but at least you can leave them!
Callmeed, I completely agree. The quality of the cofounder is paramount. My goal is to find people who are interested in the concepts and then share more info about myself. As I mentioned on the site, my current job is awesome and I'm trying to fly under the radar a bit. Great point though.
I'm usually the first person here to jump to 37s' defense. I know some of their people, they're hometown heroes, and I use and like their products.

This is hard to defend, guys.

It is literally the-simplest-thing-not-to-fuck-up. Nobody's asking you not to have security vulnerabilities. In fact: nobody's even asking you to fix vulnerabilities. We just need a reliable way to communicate with you about them.

If you're selling accounts on a web app, you need:

* A security page
* With a PGP key
* And an email contact
* of someone who will write back
* who knows what a security vulnerability is
* and who will write back quickly.

That's it. Do that, and you're not a punch line. If someone dumps zero-day about you onto Twitter, you're already two steps ahead in the PR war, because you had a reasonable process, and the researcher ignored it.

Bonus points --- things that are trivial to do, but that nobody's even asking you to do:

* You can assign special issue numbers to vulnerabilities, to make the researcher feel like an XSS disclosure isn't the same thing as a bug in your online help.

* You can thank researchers privately, and let them know that you'd really like them to keep disclosing thing to you --- you could even give them (wait for it) a phone number.

* You can do what every vendor with a real security team does, and keep a public web page thanking people who have discreetly disclosed vulnerabilities to you.
Good call, I doubt many people would go to the trouble of checking that out, but better safe than sorry.
Suspicion
>> How we'd override "pass" boggles my mind.

> An expression that does nothing. Putting `''` in a function is equivalent to `pass` in that it lets the parser do its stuff. `pass` could be a builtin defined as `None` and the behavior would be the same as today, without a keyword.

The net behaviour would be the same but actually referencing None in the function body increases the refcount of None and immediately decreases it again.

>>> def foo(): pass # no function body, after all
...
>>> def bar(): None # reference to None
...
>>> def frob(): "" # docstring
...
>>> import dis
>>> dis.dis(foo)
1 0 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
3 RETURN_VALUE
>>> dis.dis(bar) # incref, decref
1 0 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
3 POP_TOP
4 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
7 RETURN_VALUE
>>> dis.dis(frob) # see "1 (None)" instead of "0 (None)"
1 0 LOAD_CONST 1 (None)
3 RETURN_VALUE
>>> foo.__doc__, frob.__doc__
(None, '')

I admit the difference is merely an academical one but saying pass is not special is not true.
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The real issue is that there is no discussion happening between Apple's AppStore approval staff and the developers

From outward appearances it doesn't look like the AppStore reviewers are even talking to each other! Each one is zealously applying their own capricious interpretation of the policies to deny apps.
Ask HN: Review my prototype - http://cluud.in - real time local search for SF
To scratch an itch, I built this prototype (http://cluud.in) for a local search system that leverages twitter. It allows you to follow "locations", rather than trends or users, like twitter and other services currently offer. What do you think - the design, idea et al? and what would make it more useful and make you come back to use it?
I don't think any useful generalizations can be made without information about the CPU and memory usage of the algorithms.
Where by "decent" we mean "leads the industry in". =)
Oh and its pronounced "Clued in"! Cheers.
PS. Direct link: http://cluud.in
The next frontier of the Turing test. Money talks.
Thanks! Yeah, we are working on launching. Site is less than a week old and is just an inside joke. I'll be sure to post here when we are alpha. (Of course with some invites for anyone from HN)
In finance, MM stands for millions. It can also be MLN.
Don't trust any data that comes from outside your app (urls, querystrings, http request headers, databases, files) and you'll be right.

Perl's Taint Mode enforces this automatically. Don't know if any other languages have it? http://www.webreference.com/programming/perl/taint/
My Observations:

* Instance-based methods can adapt to any kind of pattern if you have enough data. This is a well-known result in machine learning -- the interesting question is simply how much data do you need?

* It's quite remarkable how well RBF SVMs do in almost all cases. They even outperformed a 2nd degree polynomial kernel SVM on a 2nd degree polynomial!

* Logistic regression is pretty terrible for anything except "easy" data -- simple linear data.

* Random forests are sometimes ok, but tend to prefer axis-aligned data (at least in his formulation).

* Meta-point: all the tests shown are with "clean" data...i.e., there are no "wrong" training examples. This is unrealistic, and in practice makes a HUGE difference for some of these methods. E.g., a lot of the rule-based methods get demolished by even a little bit of wrong data. In contrast, SVMs have a slack variable that can tolerate some amount of noise, and would probably shine even more on such data.
Is there any significance to the "=3D" in his code, or are those the same as the normal equal "="? Thanks.