skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see how it's advantageous to let people know his age, it certainly is getting "impressive" comments here. But personally I'd rather see my own work stand on it's own merits, then afterward reveal any amazing facts.
it's live:

http://www.reocities.com/
Why would you not factor in the design? Goto NewEgg.com and price out some nice Lian-Li cases. They're expensive. Yes, you can get a junky finger slicer case with loud fans and tacky lights for ~$50 but that's not what I want
http://anyvite.com/events/home/cmyqg0gwxx

Just got it. Prayers answered!
Based on a quick run-through of the site, this looks absolutely amazing. I've been following Processing and openFrameworks for a bit, and this looks far more intuitive and mature.
Will definitely add a features list then, I was thinking I was already overloading the user a bit on the homepage but having a separate link to a detailed features section means those that want more information can get it.
Just showing that $100 is outrageous for a wireless mouse and keyboard.

Here's one for just a hair more with solid reviews.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126...

It's not hard to find reasonable quality at a good price point.
I wrote this app about a year ago after a friend and I had a conversation about how we regularly passed up lengthy articles we'd find on the internet because we didn't have the time to read them in full.

I really want something like synop.it to exist because I routinely forgo reading really long articles out of a lack of time or patience. Most articles I read I feel could be summarized in a few bullet points quite nicely (TL;DR). Whe we first launched it was picked up by readwriteweb.com and we had some decent traffic. We were promoting it by summarizing the most popular articles on digg and reddit and posting a link to the summary in the comments which often resulted in a lot of traffic.

Anyways, we kind of let it fall by the wayside but I want to start promoting it again, but I wanted to get HN's opinion on the whole idea first.
IPTEC Dome Camera - IPD-338
IPTEC IPD-338 dome cameras are truly superior quality. Super High Resolution colour cameras with the latest advance Sony CCD. Designed for surveillance application where a high definition image and color reproduction are required.

They are furnished with a 3.6 mm fixed lens offering 92° viewing angle.
Spoiler warning

When watching this the first time the facial expression at 2:29 clearly gives away the outcome. The pinched lips is a classic poker tell for discomfort in honesty. While in a poker game an experienced player can hide or mix in false tells, this completely jumped out at me.
Then understand that you're not the average surfer. The problem with web geeks (especially UI web geeks) is that they presume their love for cleanness and elegance is a universal desire for all web users - this is simply not true.

Obviously I can't share any proprietary data here with you - but I work for a company that runs one of the largest sites anywhere - and our UI is kind of ugly, and definitely very busy. It is also the optimal UI - and we have teams of people relentlessly testing alternatives day in and day out. There's designing to your own aesthetic, then there's designing by user input, then there's designing by real live data from tens of millions of people.
We'd be more than happy to set up a free account on our recommendations engine to track / recommend gems for folks. I think for the social discovery element of things to work though either gemcutter would need some sort of tracking element that it associated with clients that were pulling down gems (on the server side) or the gem client would need to communicate directly with the recommendations server. Hmm...
It's eye-opening to try "Blind Search", which submits your query to Google, Yahoo!, and Bing simultaneously, and displays to you the three sets of results without (at first) identifying which is which:

http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

I was amazed to discover that I was consistently choosing the blind results from Yahoo! as best for my own searches.
Don't need to be celibate to go extinct. Remember Nixon? Hoover? They used to run America from colonial times until... well, know any Quakers?

"Although official Quakerism may not have abided the activities of many of these feminists, the Quaker belief that "in souls there is no sex," and the opportunities provided Quaker women to preach, hold meetings, and write epistles, gave rise to the high percentage of Quakers among the "mothers of feminism," including Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Abby Kelley, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul."
Also the - minus comes handy to exclude similar terms or phrases. Yeah, this feel just like Altavista.
why is this better then http://pingdom.com ?
I'm going through the hiring process now so from my perspective:

Keep your resume short, and tailor it for the specific job. If the job doesn't say anything about a specific skill, take it off your resume (unless its a general skill like UNIX) - include no more than 6-10 skills. I definitely include skills and don't think it's tacky in our applicants, but it is tacky to include a huge list of acronyms and makes people think you actually know less (less about more, instead of more about less). Cover letters are nice, but in my view they are just a paragraph to know how well the person speaks english (many hackers don't speak english well). I like short, casual, cover letters ('hi, saw the post on craigslist, heres 4 bullets why im good for the job, hope to hear from you soon, DONE.) Number one thing for me is to keep in concise, don't make the reader read through a giant paragraph description of your work, just bullet points and tailor the bullet points to the job (you're trying to say "heres my experience at abc123 corp. and heres why its relevant to you").

cover letter is exponentially more important if you aren't replying to a job posting, and less if you are (we use craigslist so get a ton of applicants and we weed people out based on bad english in the cover letter, but we dont really see many cover letters so good that they sway us positively)
Always remember the goal of a resume is to land an interview not land the job. Your resume should make the employer want to meet you and learn more about you.
When I was learning Ruby an exercise I'd put myself through was to solve a problem as best I could - that might have involved using a while loop for example. Then I'd iterate over the problem, Rubyifying it as much as I could. Sometimes I'd get stuck and have to ask for help, and sometimes I'd just spend hours getting it wrong, but it really helped me understand the nuances of Ruby.
I actually still do this from time to time to keep my hand in, and I usually end up learning something new.
Regardless it does not always do what they want.

Let's say each of 100 tasks has a 50% chance of stalling for 30 seconds and 50% chance of taking 0.01 seconds, and then they need access to one of 3 resources. If the stall is totally random then the request for the resource does not happen until after a random number of threads finishes.

Writing multi-core code does not have to be hard, but you can't abstract away the problem. You need to understand the dependency flows and code around them.
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Religion. I was born & raised a devout Baptist Christian (and creationist). But in the past 5 months, I've read about 50 books and hundreds of web pages and decided that agnostic atheism [1] and evolution make more sense.

Hopefully I didn't just devolve this into a religion argument...

[1] "Agnostic atheist" == I can't say for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I will live my life on the assumption he is not there.
So, like the Archive Team?

http://archiveteam.org/
Yes, I feel. And the so-called black SEO is the cause. All those sites with keywords in hostnames spoils the result.
This is amazing.

Computers are fantastic at deductive logic - taking a set of data and performing operations according to a ruleset to get something useful out of it. But they've been terrible at forming the rules themselves up until now.

If we can give computers inductive abilities then that's worldchanging.
Things You Didn't Know About Sexual Biology.
A slight tangent, but something that surprised me: The [] operator literally is just syntactic sugar for pointer dereferencing and addition, so that the following equivalence holds:

a[b] == *(a + b);

The surprising consequence of this is that the following is legal:

int foo[] = { 1, 2, 3 };
int bar = 2[foo]; /* yes, this evaluates to 3 */

because

*(2 + foo)

is legal, and + is commutative. This works for both pointers and arrays. I haven't worked out a practical use, though I suspect the C++ metaprogramming crowd might have. Obviously the equivalence only holds on the native types in C++ as [], + and * can each be separately overloaded.
I'm a fan of Programmer's Notepad. http://www.pnotepad.org/
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Ditto. Pretty simple to install and configure. Looks decent, and works for me. Has some minor issues, and could use more integration with other tools. But only took a few minutes to set up on my LAMP server.
It's still a lot safer to diversify and not just buy stocks in real estate in your country. Better to diversify it at least a bit by splitting the money e.g.
50% Nordic Real estate
25% European Real estate index
25% US Real estate index (E.g. Vanguards' REIT Index VGSIX)

Ps.
I am not living in the US either.
That's extremely unlikely to be xmonad -- it is more symptomatic of writing status to a pipe that is never read from (in an external status bar).

Either way, we'd certainly love to know more, since this has never been reported before.
Are you kidding me? Statistical AI is the hottest thing in computing now. You might have heard of it as "Machine Learning".

However, you wont see any of the human emulators that were being conjured up in the 70s and 80s. The new AI is in the business of synthesizing massive data into intelligence.
> To fix links pointing to old GeoCities pages, we provide you with a small Firefox Greasemonkey script.

This is a nice touch.
Great idea! My wife was just lamenting over the loss of her highschool web-years. Hopefully they'll live on through reocities. Nice design too, especially considering the time crunch.
http://www.amazing-green-tea.com/theanine-and-caffeine.html

Many people reach for a cup of coffee when they need to concentrate. People with flagging focus might, however, get more bang for their buck with a cup of tea.

A 2007 study conducted by Doctor Foxe found that theanine and caffeine synergise to boost the activity of brain neurons.
welcome to the party competitor :)
Ask HN: Review Our (StackExchange Based) FOSS Community Site
I can't speak for any of you, but I'm kind of tired of answering some of the same basic questions about Free and Open Source software over and over again. Newcomers are asking and certainly deserve answers to their questions both basic and profound, but too little is currently being done - in our view - to help us all out in answering these questions and preserving the answers. Unless you're happy w/ the current siloed maze of mailing lists and community forums.

Enter FOSS FAQ (http://www.fossfaq.com). As an unrepentant fan of Joel and Jeff's StackOverflow, I'd been thinking about trying to replicate some of the features to tackle the problem of FOSS questions and answers. Then they made StackExchange available as a SaaS application, saving me the trouble.

What we've done then is to spin up an instance of StackExchange aimed at the wonderful world of FOSS. I figure it they have one for Magic: The Gathering, open source software probably deserves it.

It's already been shown to a limited group of open source folks, and features contributions from names you might know like PostgreSQL's Josh Berkus, Eclipse's Ian Skerrett, Palm/Mozilla/Google's Dion Almaer, Bill de hÓra and others.

So for the HNers in the audience that have an interest in FOSS, any thoughts? How could we make it more useful for you?
This is a competitive product I guess. I have used pingdom for years and most of the development of this product has been to satisfy me as a developer and what I want out of a monitoring product. I always found the interface of pingdom to be cluttered and clunky and the information I really wanted was always lots of clicks away. I admit though that the good things about pingdom I have tried to incorporate into this product.

The unique aspect of this product is the individual analysis of data and suggestions/alerts before your site goes down. It will warn you if things suddenly change on your site, something that I don't think any other sites do.
To your original question: yes.

But in this case, he's not exactly flaunting it: it's in his bio which is ok. Plus, he's 17!
Abi did an awesome job, he did the whole thing under 5 hours.

I have no idea how long it will take to process all the raw data, it's spread out over a whole pile of machines right now, I'm pulling it in batch by batch to integrate it in to the main site.

But it's as close to a 'drop-in' replacement as I could think of.
my first thoughts:

boy thats an ugly website. especially the coming soon icon. why so much white? show me the product. show me the product.

at a guess it seems like you're solving 3 really hard problems: news reading [like broadersheet], news publishing [content cms] and citizen journalism [like windycitizen or whatever].

can't wait to see it.
Not sure what your point is, but I deleted my comment because I decided it was off topic.
Financial derivatives have no real relationship with mathematical derivatives.

Indirectly they do. Option prices are derived from the underlying price as well as the implied volatility, time, and interest rates.

So when certain parameters change, the price changes. And that is a relationship with a mathematical derivative. The change in option price vs the change in the underlying (delta) is the first derivative, and then you've got gamma as the 2nd derivative. And so on.
This is great advice if you have a profitable company. But if your company is not yet profitable and there is a risk it could be boom or bust, and someone is offering you guaranteed money buying it out, sometimes you have to make the sale.
Hi, jacquesm.

Huge props to you for taking this initiative, but are/were you aware of Archive Team and our process of backing up Geocities since April? We found ways around the bandwidth limit months ago, and will be mirroring/distributing the data as well. We own http://geociti.es, for example.

We're somewhere in the 1TB range of data, and we're still finding new stuff, by the way.
I am not a big fan of the gemcutter.org website. Not unless I am missing the point of the site, the site looks like a searchable alphabetically paginated list of gems. Search results are sorted alphabetically rather than by relevance. Being able to categorize/tag gems and search by category would be very helpful. Searching for gems on github is a much better use of time than searching through an alphabetically sorted list. Integrated gem documentation on the site would also be a plus (please do not use the default rdoc if this feature is implemented). The Gemcutter.org site does not have the functionality I would expect for something that is to be the defacto gem host.
> Here’s a quote from Expert C Programming:
>
> There is one difference between an array name and a
> pointer that must be kept in mind. A pointer is a
> variable, so pa=a and pa++ are legal. But an array
> name is not a variable; constructions like a=pa and
> a++ are illegal.

That's deep.
The late Roman empire, thanks to Theodosius: The Empire at Bay:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=of...

I used to have very unclear picture of the late empire. Without thinking about it too much, I bought into the pervasive idea (probably due mostly to Gibbon) that the late empire had lost its Roman mojo: that it had become barbarized (what does that mean?) and worn out (why then?). Now I have a higher opinion of the late empire. They lost largely because they faced harder problems. The empire was depopulated, partly no doubt due to epidemics, and the barbarians on the frontiers were a greater threat than they had been in the time of Augustus.

I'm only half way through the book, but it's already the best thing I've read on the period. It would be worth reading for their revisionist view of Adrianople alone.
For those interested, the language used wasn't entirely obvious. It's Sleep[1], and it was also created by raffi. "Sleep (as of Simple Language for Environment Extension Purposes) is a procedural scripting language inspired by Perl and Objective-C," which is, frankly, exactly what the source looks like.

Seems very interesting.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_(programming_language)
Being a little smarter on the client side can help a lot here.

If you store and retrieve an object only to server # (object.id % numservers), you don't face this issue. (Obviously you could use a better hash than %.)
I think I have 2+T all together right now, and I did that in 6 days, makes me wonder how there can be such a big difference ?

Anyway, feel free to 'complete' your set from mine, but let's please coordinate that so we don't kill this poor little server :)
Why is this written in sleep? If you truly wanted a JVM-based language, wouldn't Groovy, Scala, Clojure, JRuby, Jython, insert-your-non-obscure-jvm-language-here have been a much better choice? I'm sure sleep doesn't do anything these languages don't do, and you would've encouraged more community participation....
"Use of Customer’s Name and Company Name

Nimbu reserves the right to use your name and/or company name as a reference for marketing or promotional purposes on the Nimbu.com website and other communication with existing or potential Nimbu customers. To decline Nimbu this right you need to email help@nimbu.net stating that you do not wish to be used as a reference."

This is completely unreasonable. You want me to email you to decline the right! You should have to _ask_ ME for the right!
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They also boot-strap economies.

Individuals with good product ideas, a field of consumers, and cheap labor can produce large numbers of goods that can be exported as well as consumed in local economies.

This is much harder to do when dealing with labor that has an upward force applied to its wages, either by being artificially limited (as in current immigration policies) or by requiring a rare skill.

Economies aren't zero-sum games. I really don't get why more people don't understand this.
API Management the Next Big Thing
APIs are everywhere. There's got to be money in manageing them. At least one analyst thinks this market will be as big as the market for DBAs.
Well, there's no way we're going to coordinate without a rsync being somewhere in the mix. There's no rush, we can discuss it after the screaming dies down. I'm interested as well. At worst, it means we saved even more data, which works for me.
You're absolutely correct. I 'borrowed' the t&c's from somewhere else and I would never enforce this. In fact the testimonials I have on the homepage I have written to the individuals in question to ask for their permission. Am removing!
I haven't done consulting, but I have a basic resume for each job type (public policy, campaigning, engineering (now out of date), and finance) that I've been looking for recently that then gets geared towards the specific company in question.

I'll second the "restate the job posting in the cover letter" thought, though.
Can you give more details on how many blogs you've contacted? How many covered you? How did you phrase your email to make it interesting to the bloggers?

Edit: Also, how you computed readership numbers for a blog?
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Hey there! I remember bumping into you on HN a while back too.

In all seriousness, I'm excited by this. There's plenty of room for a couple of people to work on this, and we'll probably have slightly different approaches anyway.

Can you say yet how yours is coming along?
http://archiveteam.org and http://archive.org have been working together since May backing up http://geocities.com http://archive.org has done two full crawls using a shared seed list that http://archiveteam.org and http://archive.org have been modifying and sending back and forth since there isn't an index for geocities anywhere to be found. I'm suprised that the http://reocities.com guys got a full crawl done at all in only 6 days.
I don't understand this advice at all: how is holding large stakes in a small number of businesses less risky than holding small stakes in a large number of businesses (i.e. stocks & shares)? When the economy tanks, surely there's a serious risk that revenue and profits in your businesses will fall. Moreover, if you're living off profits (dividends) the stock price is irrelevant anyway? Spreading your stakes in companies should reduce the risk, not increase it.

OK, if you built these businesses yourself, you might stand a better chance of accurately estimating the risk, but at the same time you'll have to stay involved with day-to-day operations, which has a cost too.
It's cool.

I could do with a break :)

Hardest working week of the last decade for me.

There are lots of bits and pieces that were hard to get to but I think I got most of it.
Fair enough.

But even when I threw together my last monster home machine from newegg I don't think I spent more than $150 on case and power, and I even went hog wild with lights and all kinds of fans and other sexy things.

Just because Apple felt that they needed to spent who knows how much R&D on a new plastic unibody mold that nobody is impressed with much, in order to house perfectly stock budget hardware doesn't mean that I think I should pay for that.
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Ask HN:The actual benefit of Open Courses?
I just joined my college this year. I was not at all satisfied with the teaching done at my college, so I started to search for materials which will aid my learning (and in some subjects entirely do the part of the lecturers). I knew about MIT OpenCourseWare but knew that wouldn't help in the least bit for two reasons, one it is made to be taught at MIT so sometimes it may go above my head, second...umm...because it is made to be taught at MIT...so it would not match the curriculum taught at my college. So then after some research I found about NPTEL(nptel.iitm.ac.in) while searching for video lectures on YouTube(I feel ashamed that I didn't knew about what my countries Elite Universities are doing in the first place and knew about MIT, but more on that later). I looked at some videos and quickly realized the content absolutely,and I quote, "god sent". I have not seen much due to bandwidth issues (which will be solved next month with an unlimited connection), but it was enough of a stimulus for this question to come into my mind:-

"What exactly is the actual benefit of Open Courses like NPTEL and MIT open course ware?"

I ask anyone who has used such means for his personal education: When you think of being tutored by the High Priests of engineering in india the IIT professors but in an long distance way, what is the main advantage you get above people not using it. Like is it just about better marks?Or a better understanding is what matters to you?In anyway you are going to get a degree from whatever college you are in, then why opt to give time to such an activity.

Disclaimer: In the above post I in no conceivable way am denying the importance and significance of such initiatives.This post is just for an academic discussion :)
I met Mark on Friday, and when he introduced himself he didn't tell me his age once. However, at least 5 random people told me about how amazing it was that he was so young at various points in the evening. So to be fair to Mark, it must be a somewhat compelling data point because people talk about it even when he's not around.