skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were a man of titles and wealth from a family of the same, and you overheard a lean stranger say to a man of some skilled employ to you: "The best servants burned down estate once..." how would that make you feel?

...Especially, if you knew that was true?

Keep feeling; invert class.
; Ignore the most recent 5 comments since they may still be gaining votes.
; Also ignore the highest-scoring comment, since possibly a fluff outlier.

(def comment-score (user)
(aif (check (nthcdr 5 (comments user 50)) [len> _ 10])
(avg (cdr (sort > (map !score (rem !deleted it)))))
nil))
For more info, Google "Motorola Droid", which is apparently the name it will be released under for Verizon. I think I'm going to be a Verizon customer fairly soon...
I credit my mom for making me take all business classes as electives. I wanted to do something like physics but she made a good point that if I wanted to run a business one day, I probably should know what Accounts Receivable means.
Traditionally, BFx stands for "Big Fucking x".

For example the BFG 9000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_9000
A phone running Android 2.0 will be in users hands(according to my source at least) in the next 30 days.
The work required to satisfy needs grows more slowly than population. Wants, however, have a way of keeping pace.
Maybe something like that could tell me when I'm close to the grocery store that I need to buy milk.

Wait a minute... Firing up the Ycomb application right now ;p
Successful entrepreneurship is a lot about perseverance & passion is the only fuel for perseverance
Ray Kroc of McDonalds a classic example of perseverance backed by passion

No passion equals low perseverance - dima chances of making it
This is a fantastic example of attention to detail. One of many reasons that all of Omni's products are such high quality.
From my experiences, if we assume that Youtube's bandwidth costs are similar to what Akamai charges for an extremely large video site

There's an "Akamai markup" which is a well known thing that Akamai charge for the heritage (somewhat analogous with the so-called "Mac-tax" except the Akamai "tax" is agreed to exist). A better comparison would be CDN pricing for Limelight or CDNetworks, the other two big players. It's worth bearing in mind that a lot of peering contracts for major carriers (but not necessarily Tier 1 - for example BT, Telefonica etc) depend on having a backbone - Akamai doesn't have a backbone, their backbone is the internet.

Also Google only do HTTP, so no Flash RTMP or Microsoft streaming which you effectively subsidise with an http product from a CDN.
This really only works with old eggs, where the temperature differential can help separate the albumen from the inner shell. To quote the master:

"...the best guarantee of an easy peeling is to use old eggs! Difficult peeling is characteristic of fresh eggs with a relatively low albumen pH, which somehow causes the albumen to adhere to the inner shell membrane more strongly than it adheres to itself. At the pH typical of several days of refrigeration, around 9.2, the shell peels easily. If you end up with a carton of very fresh eggs and need to cook them right away, you can add a half teaspoon of baking soda to a quart of water to make the cooking water alkaline (though this intensifies the sulfury flavor)." (On Food and Cooking (2nd Ed.), p. 88)
Neat, thanks to the creator for this one.
Yup, Skype had that half a decade ago. Problem is that if there's a big Windows update that everyone installs, a large portion of your network goes down.
Google has a lot of fiber and plenty dark fiber. But peering is not free bandwidth. A lot of people peer and depeer ask Cogent and Sprint :). Fiber is not free, power to routers is not free. But a headline like that will get you more clicks and use more bandwidth.
Uh, what?

T-Mobile had 1.6 pushed to the G1s and the MyTouch 3Gs a few weeks after the SDK was released.
It's really disappointing that the most impressive demo of genetic programming is so old...
I remember some time ago I saw an infomercial advertising an egg peeler. Most things you see on infomercials are crap but this one seemed brilliant. It punctured a hole in the bottom of the egg and sent a bunch of slightly compressed air into it which exploded the eggshell outwards and completely peeled the egg. I would have totally gotten it if I cooked eggs (or anything else) at home. I wonder if that works on fresh eggs.
Wow, this is another of those ingenious inventions which result from the fact that a system realizes: I can and will fail, and if this happens, bad things happen. and thus, they built a gigantic doomsday "machine", which then lowers the probability of such a failure. Such systems always make me happy :)
I wish Android could decide between white-on-black-background or black-on-white-background. I like the dark style, but it doesn't seem to be consistent. It is even less consistent on these screenshots.

Also, will the release builds finally have multitouch?
English has idioms. Not every sentence means exactly what it says.
It is disabled by default on every Intel system I own.

But anyway, if people are using unstable Linux scheduling algorithms, I bet they are OK tweaking their BIOS settings, too.
There's some talk that Eclair may have multitouch:

http://www.androidcentral.com/multi-touch-coming-android-20-...
You might enjoy the book "How To Be Rich" by J. Paul Getty; he touches on the subject a little bit.
Selling a House Fast – What Are Your Options?
Why don't we have easy life-logging now? I don't get why you'd want to do this. Sorry I just don't get it. Why would you want to record your whole life, especially on a pendant-cam that would be bouncy and pointing at something irrelevant half the time.

If a lot of people would want something like this, I must really be getting old and out of touch.

I guess it might appeal to the types of people who keep diaries or journals now. I'm not one of them, and neither is anyone I know. Do you keep an audio record of your whole life now? That's been feasible for a long time. Why not? What about video would make you start?
You can peer quite heavily without a fibre (or any) backbone. Akamai peers heavily but has no backbone.

Power is a major issue in datacentres here especially ones in large cities. I also wouldn't be surprised if Google use software routers instead of hardware beasts that cost as much as a house.
There's some discussion of this in Starbucked, i.e. why Starbucks stores open across the road from each other. Part of it is if people are already going to that location for coffee, having an extra Starbucks and shorter lines will incite them to go more often; the illusion of choice. I don't really recall the rest of the reasoning as it seemed somewhat spurious, but the fact quoted in the book, that when a Starbucks opens across from another they both do better business than the solo shop, is quite remarkable.
I was actually going to counter with just the opposite response. Much like todays computers, I don't think most people are looking at an iphone and wishing it had more processing power/speed.
Not that that isn't nice to have, but nobody cares. it's all about what the device can do, and how well it can do it.
I think that for current use, that is 70% software/UI/design 30% hardware & network.
No, not if you don't mind loosing a lot of money, then it its okay.
> how do you benchmark that?

By getting statistics from the scheduler itself: how long did the process have to wait before it started executing. Also by looking at global effects: run N mplayers at the same time and look for dropped frames ; run an app that maps similar amount of work to N children and measure the run time ; measure the time needed for compiling [big project] with concurency == number of cpus ; ...
There's also FreeImage which works well with Image Science (a lightweight alternative to rmagick). It's what I use in almost all my production environments when I need performance over a ton of features.
They actually don't use HTTP, they use RTMP, try it yourself: Load up a Youtube video and scrub to the middle of the video. It will load to that very point even if it hasn't buffered that far yet.
Have you heard about Space Rangers ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Rangers_%28video_game%29
You're right you don't need to own fiber to do peering. But google has a ton of lit and dark fiber. http://www.voip-news.com/feature/google-dark-fiber-050707/
This reminded me of the game "Creatures". The artificial lifeforms the game revolves around use complex neural networks (with a few interesting twists).

"Creatures can learn a simple verb-object language, either via keyboard input from the user, or by playing on a teaching-machine in the environment, or from interactions with other creatures in the environment." http://www.cyberlife-research.com/cyberliferesearch/Creature...
Correction: Jeff Atwood doesn't know what anything is.

Despite his enthusiasm, the man is constitutionally incapable of Reading Comprehension. If you're lucky he'll get a glimse of the truth in his final paragraph, contradicting the rest of the post and telegraphing that the the whole thing was a waste of time for both of you. I used to think he was intentionally trolling his audience, but he's really just dull-witted.
That 'thin' scripting layer has been used to program some pretty impressive stuff in the engineering and architectural world.

Anyway, some more examples then:

http://www.cliki.net/Application
..on Sholes?
Generally with CDNs you get charged per GB until a certain amount. Then it'll depend on your specific contract whether its GB or Mbps; there's no hard and fast rule.
I might find myself doing the same soon, we're getting a little sick of eggs....

But I hope they didn't throw them out because they thought they went bad.
MIT's recently developed autonomous, robotic helicopter
"I don't want to sound like I care overmuch about political correctness"

"... But... I do want to write a blog post calling out Jeff Atwood, because it makes for great linkbait."

Describing someone as borderline autistic is, as others have said, an idiom, a throwaway expression, not one meant to make a reference to real autism. It might be slightly un-PC to some, but that's a question that you claim you don't want to address.

I think this is a decent article, but a slightly dishonest starting point. You write well, you can do better.

Edit: I'm willing to accept that perhaps you honestly misunderstood the expression. In that case, I withdraw my accusation of dishonesty.
They use HTTP with an addition in their servers similar to this plugin: http://h264.code-shop.com/trac to do HTTP scrubbing.

Google also used Akamai for its Google Live broadcast which indicated that their network couldn't do RTMP (at the time).
I'm not saying (I don't want to jeopardize any relationships). Take it for what it's worth.
[Disciplanner] It Adds Up
Didn't the hobbyists respond this way: LOL!

Not sure if I am remembering my history correctly.
The average inflation is even actually 2,33% per year. Take tenth root of 1,26 . But you are right, not bad.
james gracefully holds cocktail glass with both hands? now if he had other hand around woman's waist, that I would understand :)
Really? The Apple Clock program's Alarms seem to work in the background for me.
MyZoox.com scores well on Killerstartups
MyZoox is something akin to a cross between a social networking community and a marketplace where services of every denomination can be sold and bought.

Read more: http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-Networking/myzoox-com-market-your-skills-post-projects-online#ixzz0U8mEeEVc
Ask HN: What kind of web host for a project portfolio?
I'm thinking of putting together an online portfolio of miscellaneous coding projects and demos. This would partly be to share with people and partly to show off to potential employers/clients. Traffic would be very limited unless something gets enough attention to be slashdotted, etc.

I'd be satisfied if I could post static web pages, images, and JavaScript and Flash content. Server-side scripting support (PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby) and database access would be a nice-to-have but not a necessity.

What sort of web host should I be looking for? Though I don't intend to turn this into a blog, is there perhaps a blog hosting platform that would support this?

Thanks for your advice.
Before it hit the local ssl? You'd have more to worry about than a keylogger then.
The upgrade to windows 7 was no more "arduous and punishing task" than upgrading to Snow Leopard.

Windows 7 never wiped out all my data when I logged in as guest or deleted all my Flickr photos.
Ah, but don't forget LA County's outrage at Master/Slave designations.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
I am confused as to what is amazing here. GTK+ has had its own C-based OO system for years, and it doesn't require any extensions. (It is better in some ways and worse in some ways than the system described in the article.)

Honestly though, if your problem is complicated enough to need objects and blocks, and you are using C, you probably picked the wrong language. C is for the critical sections of video decoders, not for entire applications.
Still better than TechCrunch...
I had the pleasure of doing some genetic programming research last year. It was lots of fun.

The most impressive use of simulated evolution that I've seen recently was a paper which describes the evolution of proteins, how this evolution mirrors a simulated annealing algorithm how this behaviour forms species.

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/1869.abstract

For genetic programming in general there was a paper in Science this year which is beautifully written and describes how physical laws appeared in the output of a genetic program applied to experimental data:

http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/natural_laws

If anybody is interested in genetic programming the following free book is very practical:

http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
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Fixing bugs 100M miles from home, the story of the Remote Agent bug
Who was the guy at MIT who had camera, wearable computer, projection glasses etc. with him at all times? I've read long time ago (more than few years) via Slashdot about how he got in trouble with security often, but I can't remember who it was.

Anyway, if you read the article it is the same tech licensed from MSFT.
Not really. It demos very well, but it's a difficult area, and there's not much real-world application (like most other a-life projects).

The guys working on EA's Spore considered evolving their creature animations, but opted instead for retargeted animation generated by hand. http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/28338.page

There are also procedural animation techniques, where you have a fixed skeleton and you are trying to find an animation that satisfies user-specified constraints, but that is really more of a motion-control topic.

I recall a professor of mine saying that Karl Sims's project is a popular choice for a final project in his advanced graphics course, but he tries to discourage it, as it turns out to be deceptively difficult to implement in a semester, even for particularly capable students.
I'm sorry, but you are just wrong.

He's an extremely talented writer and pretty good developer. He blogs about stuff that interests him, he often presents the newcomers point of view, he rarely claims to be an expert on the topics he's writing about. And sometimes he gets it wrong, but he sparks lots of discussion and more people are enlightened.

I honestly don't understand the why people think it's cool to dump on Jeff Atwood.
Yeah, I need drawing, not thumbnailing. But ImageScience is pretty nice.
There is the beauty of BFS. It's not meant to be sold, nor it's not meant to be in mainline. It's just Cons scheduler. He wrote it because he had to upgrade his kernel and wasn't happy with its scheduler. So he wrote a new one. This is the very essence of Linux imho. From hackers to hackers without extraneous corporate bullshit like PC-speak etc.
No word on mAh, voltage, or current capacities. I have a battery in my watch that lasts "thousands of hours". Could this power my phone or my laptop?
This letter was written quite some time ago, it's certainly not an attack on open source never mind a continuing one :p
So it's a scheduler on top of the kernels scheduler. Sounds ingenious...
S'all good. :) Definitely not intentional, though. Also, added a link back to them.
short and to the point. "Dive in deeper" is very important.
No, not all global banks, and not even all the banks in the U.S. failed. Many smaller banks failed, and some large ones were failing as well, but each case was different and it was all due to system wide chain reactions. Many U.S. banks were fine and even refused to take TARP funds. The difference is that the FDIC is poised to counter small banks failing, but not behemoths like AIG, where (taxpayer) gov. funds are the only answer.
Apple's alarm clock program works regardless of which app you currently have open.
Nowadays modern C/C++ compilers would complain about that right away (uninitialized-value). Even if you have warnings turned off, then certain compilers would catch this runtime.

And as the below(above?) poster said - there is syntax highlighting. It's not the greatest example of failure.
The bit about "Microsoft blinked" is more complicated than that. The period where they blinked and Linux took off was one where they were distracted by a US anti-trust case. Then when they got ready to come back in force there was a European anti-trust case with large enough fines to actually get their attention.
This is a symptom of autism:"complete inability to understand metaphor."
Most users also probably have their own favorite subset of Word.
If you're at work, no, it's not about clever problem solving. In my spare time though, I prefer to solve bigger problems than parsing CSV files into databases.
A fourth example:

A game where you try and assassinate your friends by setting imaginary time bombs to go off at a particular location when you think your friend will be there.

Of course it could also be built on top of something like Loopt or BrightKite if you and your friends compulsively check in everywhere you go.
Exactly what I came in here to say. If I said I got free housing, you'd be quite disappointed to learn that by "free" I meant that I owned a home and hence don't pay rent.
Nice. I hacked something like this into nginx a while back via kestrel but a native module is better by far. Assuming it's up to the high expectations of nginx stability, it's going to further cement nginx as the proxy / lightweight webserver of choice.
Are you suggesting that std::string, or as my not-so-friendly c++ compiler likes to call it

std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::basic_string(const _CharT*,
const _Alloc&) [with _CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>,
_Alloc = std::allocator<char>]

is an improvement? :-)
Can 222,375 women deliver a child in 0.000040472 months?
I like the uva onlinejudge, spoj is pretty good too: http://www.spoj.pl/
Because it's 'compromised' by surreptitiously convincing the user to give you the password.
Ola Bini has done something similar with his blog posts about Ioke.
A Narcissist’s Playground: The Harder They Fall
> Why would you want to record your whole life, especially on a pendant-cam that would be bouncy and pointing at something irrelevant half the time.

Family videos are bouncy and pointing at something irrelevant half the time as well.

> Do you keep an audio record of your whole life now? That's been feasible for a long time. Why not? What about video would make you start?

Omni-directional mikes would pick up too much; directional would be inconvenient to aim. Video is vastly easier to navigate, since we think spatially and visually - how do you scroll through an audio recording? With video, you get feedback as to where you are temporally, especially if there's movement from place to place; with audio, you just randomly fastforward hoping to get nearer where you want to hear, if you can even recognize progress towards or away from the clip you want. (An example: I have a video of a boardwalk, versus audio, and I want to look at an encounter. Will it be easier for me to find that encounter if I can look at the video, or if I just have to listen to random ambience & chit-chat?)

Further, video picks up written material, it will pick up gestures and body language of speakers, and, incidentally (and importantly for the hard-of-hearing, like me) makes spoken language much clearer because you can do some lip-reading.

And remember the practical uses thought of for lifelogging; how would an audio recording help you in traffic court? Some background noise, a screech, a honk, and a thud is worthless. An audio recording might pick up your child's first word - but not also his first step, like a video would.
The people who run that infrastructure can also help run other infrastructure, or the bandwidth can be used for more than just YouTube. That reduces the cost more.
Made this more clear in the title. Should still provide some context to the improvements claimed in today's release, and a hard set of numbers to compare the new implementation against.
Big list of advertising networks
Talk with your friends in facebook using Facebook
Great summary and some interesting ideas - especially 3x5 cards, no schedule, and structured procrastination.

While I agree with his point on structured procrastination - sometimes the most inspired work is done while avoiding something else - it's also important to balance that with focus. I find my focused procrastination valuable and my scattered procrastination frustrating. Procrastination is rarely productive when it means bouncing between four things (reading HN, hacking on a library, writing a blog post, and buying a book at Amazon).

Procrastinate in serial, not parallel.
Consider that JSON has features Lisp does not. Like a tiny implementation, very wide language interoperability, being purely a data language (sandboxed by design), and not being Turing-complete (time to interpret is automatically bounded).
I don't know how you can go from a single case to "That is all poppycock." Hedge funds are thirsty for information; it's not unprecedented for him to have been a legitimate operator who fooled himself into thinking he could get away with one big illegal trade.

This guy's net worth was five times that of Boesky -- could he have gotten away with five times the chicanery, especially after enforcement was stepped up thanks to Boesky et al.?
There's a whiny male here, and he's not a Battlestar Galactica character...

I read SF books almost exclusively, and my favorite author is a woman: C.J. Cherryh, who writes really, really good stuff, including more or less manly men who get things done (and more or less womanly women who also get things done).

And I'll take some relationship drama over vapid Star Trek technobabble any day, thank you very much. Ultimately, SF is not about technology, it's about people and where technology might take them and how it might change them.

The author knows that too, he just doesn't want to admit it. What does 80s Starbuck flirting with girls and smoking cigars have to do with technology? absolutely nothing, that's what. What the author apparently wants isn't science fiction, it's Conan the Barbarian, in space!
I hate to jump in and sound like Mr. Politically Correct, but I actually felt embarrassed while reading that article. A gay man adds a gay character to a series, while continuing (if not even emphasising) the hero's use of knowledge and skill in resolving problems (yes, as a man, getting things done)! OH NO! RELEASE THE DOGS!

It's annoying because I definitely do believe that sci-fi is getting 'watered down' with 'relationship drama' (see the recently launched Stargate Universe as an example - if one were prone to puns, it could probably safely be called "'Lost' in Space"), but I can't help but think the tone of the piece suggests something of an ulterior motive for its vitriol.