skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have an odd definition of fraudulent.

* Some people don't know how to put ringtones on their phone. Maybe their phone can only accept over the air ringtones unless they buy a special cable.

* Companies provide a service to send people ringtones.

* Both parties are happy

The (some might say) fraudulent bit is companies that get users to sign up to an automated subscription payment to get ringtones - eg "Get a free ringtone when you sign up" (Small print: subscription costs £3/month and allows you up to 5 ringtones per month).
The billing methods used by many ringtone providers have also caused lawsuits. They offer a deal -- "10 FREE Ringtones!" -- with subscription details about how you're going to get billed every month hidden in the fine print.
Python optparse example
They've yet to have their way with the cold corpse of Star Blazers.
F#: Pipelined Monads
I would wager that a "fit" worker is more productive than a sedentary worker, even taking into account the time for training.
The available columns are

Postcode, IntroductionDate, GridRefEast, GridRefNorth, County, District, Ward, UserType, GridStatus, Country, WardStatus, NHS_Code, NHS_Region, Long, Lat, OSRef, Update

You can already get the co-ordinates from a postcode using google maps. So I can't think of anything massively exciting you could do with this information. Maybe some sort of offline navigation app.
Monte Carlo Projections for the activity peaks of the H1N1 pandemic this fall
The Lack of Design Patterns in Python
It's indeed the starting point to learn the fundamentals - but becomes almost hilarious after step 4 when they begin to introduce Components, Adapters, Perspective Broker and other things without losing many words about what all that stuff does, much less how to re-arrange it for custom needs.

The best investment in terms of mindshare the twisted project could make at this point would be to simply sit down and write documentation.

Grab sphinx (or another tool that makes doc-writing fun) and start out by writing a page about each Class that is being used in these examples. Why does it exist, what role does it have and don't forget the link to the API doc.
Then I'd suggest to make a high-level overview, perhaps even with a little diagram, that explains how everything plays together in the various application types. Hyperlinks to the previously mentioned detail-pages should then work wonders for anyone exploring the project.

Writing good documentation is hard, but you only have to do it once. The lack of documentation on the other hand forces every new user to wrap their heads around innocent lines like this:

internet.TCPServer(79, factory).setServiceParent(
service.IServiceCollection(application))

I'm surely not the only one who put off learning about that whole Service metaphor and stuck with the simpler examples until I absolutely couldn't avoid it any longer. That's not the way you want users to approach your framework.
such a shame...
Prolog as a Text-Hacking Language
I realize there is probably no place for it in marketing banter, but it bothers me that they don't give the WebKit project any visible credit.
I recommend the even more capable Ncat (http://nmap.org/ncat/), which is a reimplementation of netcat by "The Nmap Project".
Why System.Windows.Forms.ListView sucks and how to fix it
How on earth are these guys going to prevent a user from reading all the credit cards from that couch-db via its json interface?
There are no question, it is so obvious - they make money by selling user's data to advertisers.
What exactly they are doing - extracting a keywords form profiles, creating tag clouds from conversations or perform a statistical analysis - it doesn't matter. Data = money.
"Mens sana in corpore sano" - a healthy mind in a healthy body
Flagged. Here hoping you are banned soon.
I met my current girlfriend on OKC (dating for a bit over a year), its a great site :)
Different. Literally.
Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp. (2006)
Really they have caught up to firefox without implementing new features.
Play Go, Chess, Sudoku and Dual-N Back.
Learn another language. Learn to play an instrument.
All this can make you 'smarter'.
I'll be honest, any blog post containing the phrase "It is in this way that I outsource my disciplinary duties to Nintendo." will get an upvote from me. I urge you not to abuse this.
How to Write a Logo Rationale
When presenting logo concepts to a client it is often productive to have written rationales to accompany each concept. This can help you, the designer...
I think this is actually better. This is the secret source which is referred to in order to create, but doesn't include, the PAF file which maps postcodes to addresses. The PAF file is however easily available, though under a licence, and therefore is regularly leaked.

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/jump2?mediaId=400085&...
"the utility has to buy the power for a predictable period at a price that is a no-brainer good deal for the family or business putting the solar panels on their rooftop."

Sadly, it is not a no-brainer good deal for the tax payer who ultimately pays for it. It is all well to have the biggest solar power industry, but what if it is all just virtual and breaks down once the subsidies stop?
Congratulations :)

I recommend this guy's baby diaries if you have the time: http://www.ironycentral.com/babymain.html

I just found them through the linked blog entry, and they're hilarious.
Related: the Free the Postcode [1] campaign is a public-sourced database of postcode data.

[1] http://www.freethepostcode.org/
Y Combinator blogspam... This is an unexpected development.
For Mozilla, removing or renaming libnullplugin.so worked. I haven't checked this with Firefox yet.
Interestingly, I remember one study that tested the effects of "brain games" versus exercise on the mental cognition of people as they age. The result of the study surprised me because it indicated that brain games do not seem to have a significant impact on the prevention of cognitive decline among the aged, but aerobic exercise did -- which, in some sense, aligns with this article.

Apologies in advance because I am having trouble finding the citation.

Edit: based on some searching, it appears that mental exercise does enhance neurological function among seniors. However, aerobic exercise has an equal or greater impact. I suspect combining both would be the best.
Manifesting the Mind
nope,that is a batch tool
for eg,a imagemagic is like ex editor
but i need vi editor
If you want the lowest common quality video, yes. Flash video performance and quality are noticeably lower, though, so it really doesn't scale well beyond YouTube-level video.

In practice, widely deployed beat better quality handily.
Yes, but the point is that it would be done on Facebook, whose user base is much larger and more connected.
Facebook is Profitable. Again.
Bilingualism has a major disadvantage:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648393
Parallel Programming: I Told You So
Does Profitability Matter for IPOs?
Speaking of building cars for celebrities, Did they ever find a suitable vehicle for Ellen Cleghorne?
Explaining Adobe's Weird Omniture Acquisition
Entrepreneurship and Generation-Y
The Banker talks about starting up businesses in Generation-Y.
It's worth plugging all the ways in which UK citizens can contribute to independent reverse engineering this info in a clean room manner:

If you've got an iPhone, Android phone or other GPS device:
http://www.freethepostcode.org/

If your house was built before 1940 then locate it on an out-of-copyright map:
http://www.npemap.org.uk/

Just type in your streetname and postcode:
http://postcodedb.sourceforge.net/index.php?p=submit

Identify the location of nearby postboxes:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/

You can see the results here:
http://old-dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/postcodes/

Click on the names of the three different sources in the top left to compare or use the + sign in the top right to switch the underlying map as well.
This was exactly the approach I took with an app about 4 - 5 years ago. Back then XML not JSON was the data transport format, but I kept it lightweight. The UI was built in the browser using XSLT to generate HTML. Additional transforms tied to UI events allowed filtering, sorting, etc. all on the client. IE, for all its other flaws, actually supported this much better than any other browser at that time and we were developing in an IE-only environment.

Business logic was on the server in stored procedures, which were exposed in a simple web service api so they could be called directly by the browser script logic. This also made it very testable because the stored procedures could be invoked by testing scripts that did not depend on the presence of any middle tier or UI at all. It also would have been a simple matter to build other client front-ends, as long a platform could work with XML and HTTP it could in theory be a client.

The XSLT to render the UI from XML could get a bit verbose but despite that it turned out to be a very productive way to work.

The downsides at the time were that IE was slow to render when you injected the HTML output of the transforms into the body.innerHTML property; this became noticeable if the generated page was large, but on the plus side this was a constraint against developing overly-complex pages.
Cutting back business travel could reduce profitability by 17%
I honestly can't decide if the news that many scheme implementations encourage you to not follow the standard refutes or supports my point.

Either way, good to know.

...gets back to work hacking in SBCL.
As a 14 year old guild leader you're directing a group of 12 to 50 year olds. I don't know exactly what that does to a person, but my feeling is that it's beneficial.

Holy crap can I offer some counterexamples. Some of which would skirt the boundaries of work-safety, such as the 14-year-old raid GM on Earthen Ring who reportedly made women engage in cyber-sex with him in exchange for privileges. Not at all limited to his own age group; the internet is good at effacing such distinctions.

I agree that many teenagers can handle responsibility sooner than western culture currently assumes -- but there must be oversight and consequences even then. The highest levels of MMO gameplay/politics, on the other hand, are pure Lord of the Flies territory.
Which means you're either refuse to use the way of communication your friends like or did not have many friends.

Facebook is not for communicate with a people in next block. It for links between countries and cultures (excuse me for this pathos =).
I fear we're both working from second (or third)-hand information here and it's time to do some homework to find out the truth, but let me add this one thought.

This may sound like a stretch, and Apple themselves have decided that it's not sufficient, but while the files themselves my not be encrypted the filesystem of the iPhone itself is protected from all but deliberate (and possibly illegal) fiddling by third-parties. In this way it's not completely dishonest for the iPhone's exchange client to report to the Exchange server that the local files are secured.

Like I said it's a stretch, but perhaps the original implementation wasn't pure malice/ignorance on Apple's part.
Then just wait until you discover ngrep! ;-)
It's often said that Java has been held back (feature-wise) by Sun's obsession with downward compatibility. This article indicates that it may be preferable to the alternative...

What's the point of new features when hardly anyone uses them because not only their own code but also most of the important libraries don't support the new version?
CIA
Facebook collects more intelligence than all agencies combined!

They give access of their databases to CIA and make a killing!

Sound business plan!
Mobile app sees science go global
I was looking for exactly this. Thanks for saving me the research time...
I don't think the article is about solar panels, not really.

It's how America doesn't produce anything anymore.

The USA is "Consumers 1.0" but 2.0 is taking over elsewhere.

The next leap in solar might not even be invented in the USA, it certainly won't be produced here.
Size doesn't matter. Utility does. If Facebook were to start completely over again against the current competition, I think they would still rise to prominence without much trouble.

What makes Facebook different, in short, is that while other services offer a place to talk, Facebook is built as a utility in a way other sites aren't. It's the new big communication medium. The people that use it are using it as a replacement to email and IM. That's a huge deal, because it suggests Facebook has the potential to last as long as email has.

Your suggestion that people abandon things all the time is countered by AIM, which has been the prominent IM service for a decade.
Awesome! Extensions being enabled by default in the dev channel is great news. I've been semi-following the documentation for it all and it's been improving at a nice steady pace (just like the browser :-))

Also, as mentioned from others it runs just fine on Linux for several months now so go ahead and try it! You'll realize quickly how you don't need all those Firefox extensions.
As a kid I was fascinated about historical games (even loose ones), like Civilization, the Total War series, Europa Universalis, Pharaoh, Age of Empires, etc.

Of course many of these games only have a loose semblance of reality associated with them, but I was aware of that! I learned a lot from those games, and more importantly, I was inspired to learn a lot more.

I can only speak for myself, but my world-view was significantly impacted by the history presented in these games, and the accompanying reading they provoked.
Writing Parallel Programs with Erlang
great point. that is a huge part of why YC works so well
Snake with foot found in China
netcat + ssh's -R and -L = unstoppable

ssh -D is also awesome for when you need a quick http tunnel.

Another trick I picked up is basically:

nc -l [port] | named_pipe | nc [other_host] [port]

That will tunnel things between two netcat instances, effectively setting up a tunnel. Replace 'named_pipe' with a shell and you have a quick and dirty remote shell.
Is the Resources panel not adequate? Granted, it does format the headers, but it does show the HTTP method, the request headers, and the response headers for the page and each resource.
That would steal focus away from Google's promotion of their secret magic sauce that they sprinkle on everything to make it better.
This article was published in 2006. Why is being posted again?
I recommend checking out socat (http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/) as well.
this was great. exactly what I have been looking for. I still have a few questions though...

function largest(){
return Math.max.apply( Math, arguments );
} <-- why is it necessary to run this function in the context of "Math". I don't get this...
I'm glad the OP posted it, I've never read it before today.
Don't worry, it will soon grow a (2006) in the title, so people will know it's obsolete.
I wouldn't call that major
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Ask HN: What's the coolest computer simulation you can think of?
Hello everyone.

I'm working on an open-source project called GarlicSim (http://garlicsim.com), which is a Pythonic framework for working with simulations. I've been working on it for about 6 months, and it's progressing, but what I want to have now is a nice example of a simulation to implement with it. I'm free to choose pretty much anything I want. It can be a simulation of physical solid bodies interacting with each other (like maybe a solar system), or of a road system with traffic lights and cars driving through it, or anything else.

So I figured I might ask here and get some nice ideas. Do you have any?
Glad that you get upvoted for completely missing the point. The parent was surprised that a custom, hand built car could cost $60,000 and have a higher power to weight ratio than a Veyron (the misspelling was accidentally carried from the parent).

Veyron:
P/W ratio: .24
Price: $1,400,000
Quarter mile: 10.2

Ariel Atom:
P/W ratio: .3
Price: $65,000
Quarter mile: 10.4

Ultima GTR:
P/W ratio: .333
Price: ~ $100,000
Quarter mile: 9.9

So the Veyron is only $90,000 (6.4%) worth of performance and $1,310,000 (93.6%) of something else. It is an overpriced luxury car that is fast. An Ariel Atom or an Ultima GTR is a 100% performance (aka "race") car.
I wish he still wrote this blog.
The title is politically loaded. There's something that article is trying to say vis-a-vis government subsidies and free trade, but it never quite materializes, at least I couldn't understand it. But I had no trouble understanding the political outrage it is dripping with.
With respect, old is not synonymous with obsolete. I find this especially ironic since we are talking about a post written less than half a decade ago talking about a language invented more than half a century ago.

Of course, if you feel that the post is obsolete due to progress made in Lisp since the post was written, I'm extremely interested in hearing how things have changed.
Tetuan Valley's Startup School dates and enrollment form
A very similar event took place between Buffet and LTCM.
I have to agree with you here. There are definitely extremes like this around.

Extremes aside though, that 14 year old GM is probably spending a fairly significant amount of time in the game. No doubt there's plenty to learn in an MMO social environment, but there's also plenty to learn in any team environment like sports.

There's also quite a bit of evidence that MMOs are addictive. Since most are based on an achievement system, they give the player a sense of accomplishment but also means time spent away from the game is time the character isn't progressing.

It comes down to moderation and supervision. If video games become the babysitter because you believe it's a safe learning environment for them to spend hours on end, then you're fooling yourself.

Pretty much anything is unhealthy when unmoderated, whether it's involvement in video games or sports.

The phrase tank an instance for daddy makes me think daddy has an online gaming addiction and rather than adapt his habits for the sake of his kids, he's involving his kids in gaming to feed his own habit. That may be a little harsh, but it didn't sound great to me.
Eric Kidd: Why Ruby is an Acceptable Lisp
Great opportunity for entrepreneurs in Spain
An interesting follow-up: Eric Kidd on "Why Ruby is an Acceptable Lisp"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=825809
It would seem that the last sentence of the article isn't substantiated by the study and sounds rather off the cuff. I wish they wouldn't make a sweeping generalization based on a specific study or two; the human body just isn't that simple.
Unlikely. Buffett's intuition that the deal for Barclays to buy ALL of Lehman is fishy, was probably spot on. And more information would not have changed his mind, and the insurance he might have offered to Barclays would probably have been to expensive for them to go ahead with the deal.
Finding the way through the semantic Web with HBase
I did it because I'd never read it before, and found it interesting.
Ask HN: Has anyone seen Shark Tank (VCs are sharks)?
I came to know about this show yesterday. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442550/

Entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to five multi-millionaire business tycoons called the "Sharks". The Sharks decide if they will fund the company and then negotiate on what percentage of the company they will get in exchange for their money. Before the show, contestants decide what amount of money they need to get from the Sharks. They must get at least that amount from a single Shark or combination of multiple Sharks or they walk away with nothing.
The Sharks are as follows:[2]

Robert Herjavec, who sold his IT security firm at the height of the dot-com bubble for over $100 million. Also on the Canadian version of Dragon's Den.

Kevin O'Leary, co-host of Business News Network's SqueezePlay, formerly president of The Learning Company, which was sold to Mattel for $3.7 billion in 1999. Also on the Canadian version Dragon's Den.

Barbara Corcoran, self made real estate millionaire who sold her company The Corcoran Group for $70 million in 2001.

Kevin Harrington, pioneer in the Infomercial Industry banking tens of millions of dollars in sales each year.

Daymond John, founder of FUBU his company has made record sales to the tune of $6 billion dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_Tank_(TV_series)

I am just curious to know HNers opinion before I check it out.
English is the only language that matters in today's world. The more fluent you are in it, the more successful you are likely to be.
Not all of them. But if you think I'm surfing without AdBlock then you have another think coming...
I agree. It was only written 3 years ago. Almost nothing changed in the last 3 years in the Lisp world. Maybe Clojure -- but there is some controversy.
Not quite. I would argue the total opposite in fact.

The cited study postulates in the discussion that Tip of Tongue events come from simple reduced frequency of use in any given word stemming from a much larger lexicon. There's no evidence at all suggest that there's actually a neurological disadvantage to bilingualism.

Also, it seems pretty counterintuitive to think that practice in an entirely new cognitive arena, something like a new language, could do anything but improve your ability to process language. If there's a paper out there I'd love to read it.
And those foreign entrepreneurs visiting Spain too!
Electric Guitar Dropship
I would argue that the permanence of reality is what makes a lesson stick. Without real consequences your investment is minimal, even as a child.

I think it's good idea to give your kids the chance to take real risks, with the consequences becoming progressively more meaningful (obviously you don't start with anything too harsh).
Every python has tiny claws, they are the last bits of what once were it's hind legs.

And genetic throwback mutations are fairly common, even in humans, extra nipples, etc. In summary, scary picture, walking snakes OMG, no interesting, or new, or valuable information besides OMG snakes with legs.
The article does not mention clojure, which is an acceptable Lisp.
I've tried to get people on here interested in the show before:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=761443

I think it's a great show and I really like seeing all the different business ideas. Most of the founders seem to make mistakes in the negotiations but I think there have been some pretty good deals on the show so far.

I definitely recommend watching it, either live or on Hulu, it's one of the best shows on TV and definitely one of the best reality shows, other than The Colony.
The article was written before clojure.
Drupal suffers from this same problem. Every time a new major version comes out, all of the existing modules break and have to be rewritten. With over 4000 modules (and roughly the same number of module authors), it's a serious problem.

What ends up happening is everyone keeps using the old version of Drupal until they're forced to upgrade or abandon it due to security concerns (old versions don't get patches from the security team).
Binomial Option Pricing with Pixel Bender
Why You Should Care About the Open Web
Hell yeah! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=825830
Try to get a job or start a business in mainland europe without knowing another eu language besides english.

Knowing multiple languages is extremely valuable.
It's of course a trade-off. I think the changes that made into Python 3.0 were welcome, and breaking downward compatibility was a hard but acceptable consequence.

It's a difficult matter: Let the language evolve and break things, or make it grow old and stale?

Careful ponderation should be made.
In most of those examples, you'd use telnet or scp or nmap.
It's better then most of the full that's on the front page these days.
Chrome for Mac is similar. Firefox is my main browser, but I give Chrome a whirl once a week or so and have yet to notice any deficiencies.