skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the disorientation from the score decay curve -- fresh posts get a big short-lived boost.

I've been meaning to write a greasemonkey script to reorder all comments in chronological order, but preserving the indentation in a minimal form with links to instantiate the parent/siblings/children.
NVidia is one of the few fairly big companies I know that is able to write extremely good documentation. That, alone, makes me root for them.
While i share your sentiment, NVIDIA's binary blobs are pretty good.

I wont be buying any ATI product until their drivers improve substantially and Intels GPU's don't really cut it for anything beyond basic desktop effects.
Because one size does not fit all.

I tried Gmail and other mail clients, but I've been in Thunderbird since 2007 now.

I love the speed.
I use it for work email.
I like the tagging.
I like the speed. I click and email opens. It doesn't matter how slow my connection is right now.
It's easy to backup to an external hard drive.
When my browser crashes, my email does not.
I like how the folders work.
The spam filter is awesome.

Buy mostly, it just feels like home to me. I don't know how to explain it, but I love being in Thunderbird, and I just can't operate without it now.
At least it's a single page: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=AndrewDucker

EDIT: After clicking on the link I posted, I see you've already brought this up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=983536
Thanks! I'm annoyed at myself that I never thought to check for a separate package for it. Oh god finally web inspector on Linux so happy :) :)
Yea! File upload works now. Now I shouldn't need Camino any more.
Python’s binascii - hexlify() and unhexlify() What the heck?
> If you don't think you have a problem, guess what? Maybe you really don't.

But then again, maybe you do. Saying "I don't have a problem because I don't believe I do" is begging the question. Many drug addicts don't believe that they have a problem, but they clearly do.
Right. I think your claim is that the repeal of Glass-Steagall created agent-principal conflicts: someone could make a loan, and underwrite debt to prop it up. This kind of conflict shows up all the time in business -- a classic example being the CEO who says that the company needs a generous executive compensation plan in order to retain talent, knowing that he'll benefit from it without paying for much of it at all.

Since Glass-Steagall restricted just a tiny subset of those conflicts, I'm wondering why you are so focused on it. If agent-principal conflicts need to be placed under government supervision, so be it -- but that's a much bigger issue than just whether a bank needs to own only 0% or 100% of the loans it initiates, and nothing in between.
The path of least resistance: buy a new domain, create a Shotgun Rules wiki on it, enable Adsense, and link to it from your page.
Even though this is not true in this case, this wouldn't be unheard of. Google did exactly the same with Picasa, that is, the Linux port of Picasa is a modified version of the original Windows Picasa running on Wine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa#Linux
You're missing the point. While family members and 'old friends' are irreplaceable, if you've screwed up all of your relationships beyond repair, you've got to rebuild from somewhere no?

You can't say, "good/old friends are irreplaceable so why bother to make new friends once I've lost them."
Ask HN: Other careers for a hacker?
Every day, I code for seven to ten hours in pain (edit: Not carpal tunnel!). The last couple hours are the worst. For whatever reason, my body's had it with typing and mousing all day, and after two years of trying all sorts of things to remedy it, I'm out of ideas.

I'm trying to figure out what to do now to support myself as I go knock out the last few semesters on my degree, which seems like the next logical step here. What can a hacker do to eat when he can't type all day? I personally love teaching and I understand that people are really trying to acquire the skills I have right now, so maybe that's an option.

So as to not ramble here, I'll keep this short and answer any questions in the comments.

These are the skills I've had to demonstrate on the job, so the BS filter is on:

* HTML, CSS, web design
* JavaScript (libs: jQuery, ExtJS)
* Python
* Ruby (mainly Rails)
* PHP (Drupal, CakePHP)
* MySQL
* ColdFusion
* Linux and Solaris server admin (+Apache, MySQL, Postfix, Dovecot, mainly)
* AWS configuration/deployment

I've only been in the field (resume-wise) for a few years so it's unlikely I'd be able to move to any sort of position managing other devs, although I do manage one dev right now.
I moved up from a small instance to a medium instance on a server that I never thought I would need more power on, it took me less than 5 minutes to make the switch. (unattach the IP and EBS and attach to the new instance)

This is why I pay for EC2. My dedicated boxes are on a yearly contract and when it comes to move it's a couple hours to move data, IP addresses, etc.
That looks very slick. I'll be trying it out for sure, but I had a different idea about how to organize something like that. I'm going to start sketching.
I was going to say, nice domain! ;)
I suppose there's already a shotgun iPhone app. Or twenty.
Or if you run your own IMAP server, you don't need to backup any data on the client side...
An interesting assertion, given that the design of this device, perhaps more so than any other piece of equipment in recent memory (excepting the iPhone), epitomizes the visual aesthetics of minimalism.

It's a cube. The only challenging element here is that it's seated off-axis. I'm amazed that such a simple translation of form has provoked such markedly vehement negative responses from a certain cross-section.

Again, I think this is probably evidence that Boxee has targeted a very specific market segment. I doubt they're interested in appealing to "sensible female spouses" - those people already have an entertainment center and are signed up for netflix or blockbuster by snail mail.

I'd encourage all the folks immediately tempted to rage on the design of this device to take a step back and realize that if their first reaction upon seeing it is violent revulsion and nausea, it's probably wasn't intended for them in the first place.

Think about the market segment who, in recent history, has dominated CD purchases and what this device might mean as a distribution system targeted at them - but for tv, film, etc.
Write an ebook on how to create a facebook group and get it up to 100,000 people.
IMAP does provide a search function but it's substantially slower than downloading and indexing your emails locally..
This is extremely generous and couldn't go to a more deserving group of hard working programmers.

Makes me wish I had my own company to match his generosity!
Actually you're right, they had $150b in CDOs against which over $400b in CDS were written. Still illustrates the point handily.
no, do not become a social media consultant.

that path to hell is paved with the carcasses of trampled douchebags.
I think it's assuming that anything served as text/xml is XHTML.
Solving Sudoku with MATLAB
Gray-ed out on mine too. Does anyone know why? This would definitely be nice to have.
No need to wish, they are part of a publicly traded company, cstr (Redbox is owned by Coinstar).

http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:CSTR
Actually, I bet I could convince at least 1/100 of that group to marry me. It's the mutual compatibility that's the problem.
Google Docs saved my group project.
Well, you know, I've decided that I don't particularly like ramen, so I figured that I'd go without this month. :-)

In all seriousness, I was planning on making a donation anyway, but I figured that I could afford to make a bigger donation this way. If I'm lucky, this will bring in new users, and the lack of profits this month will be balanced out by increased profits in the following months... but even if nobody new uses Tarsnap because of this, I'll be glad that I've supported the FreeBSD Foundation.
You can't say, "good/old friends are irreplaceable so why bother to make new friends once I've lost them."

I'm not saying that; that's as extreme as what I'm arguing against. Obviously you've gotta move forward ... you can't just give up on life if there's a setback. And I generally agree with you that more often than not relationships can be repaired.

But people shouldn't believe that they can just get all of these relationships and lost time back: at best, they can do better moving forward. You can't get your twenties back if you burn them in an office somewhere and you can't get time with your parents back if they, for instance, pass away while you're all wrapped up in your startup.

Pay attention to your life, you only live once, as far as we know. If you wake up one morning to realize you've made mistakes, don't wallow in regret, change your course for the better.
Thanks for posting this. I don't disagree with your comment but the HN "alternative funding" title has a different connotation than the post's actual title "8 Tips for Evaluating Funding Alternatives."
Scientific Evidence for the Lord of the Rings (or specifically, Hobbits)
The amount you pay for a "small" instance on EC2 is the same price as a machine you can get with gigenet that is more powerful than the "Large" instance.

Hence the major problem with ec2- Cost. Yes, you can instantly scale up to a less powerful server than you would have got in the first place from a dedicated provider.

Also, You do know you can do things like upgrade the processor and ram on a dedicated, usually within a hour also. You just send in a ticket.

What server provider makes you do a contract?
The problem is that even if you can compute everything, you still need to read the result in an expeditious manner.. say, less than the age of the universe. The laws of physics can't be fooled. I will pay attention to quantum computation when the people doing it care to learn serious physics...
"but I can't think of anything it does that most other programming languages don't do better."

What do you mean by that? Io is slow and does not have the extensive libraries that are present in other languages. However, as a pure prototype oo language, it is second to none.

Read here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?IoLanguage
I dont buy that ec2 relieves the employee need. Its just as difficult, if not MORE difficult to setup a ec2 instance than buying a dedicated server.

S3, SDB, CDS, etc.. Yes, those make things easier. EC2 Does not.
YC W09 startup seeks Python dev(s) to help us fix travel search [updated]
We were in the YC Winter 09 batch and took a small round of funding out of demo-day to keep us going while we worked on developing and testing our product and building relationships in the travel industry. We've been soft-launched since February and have cultivated a passionate community of travel enthusiasts.

We're now looking for one or more talented Python hackers to join our team and help us in our quest to make airfare search work right.

Apart from outstanding Python capabilities, we don't have any specific technical requirements, though experience with any of the following will be an advantage:

- Django

- jQuery/JS magic

- Natural language processing/query parsing

- Horizontal scaling

- Shortest Path/TSP algorithms

- Large datasets

- API integrations

The ideal applicant will have a love of travel, and will be excited by the travel opportunities we offer as part of the role, along with the formidable technical problems we're seeking to solve in our attempt to vastly improve travel search for travellers and airlines alike.

==

Updates:

Location is not especially important to us at this point; we currently operate between San Francisco and Australia, but it's currently more important for us to find great hackers regardless of location.

We're open to either an employee or co-founder arrangement, and can offer a combination of cash & stock depending on the value offered and what's preferable to both parties.

==

For more info, please contact ephextom@gmail.com.
I think we need more information about these Quantum Chips, I don't know if Wikipedia entry is correct but it says:

- D-Wave Systems, Inc..... it announced a working prototype of a potentially commercially-viable quantum computer. However, the claim that it is actually a quantum computer is disputed.

- D-Wave Easter Spectacular: http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=225
Like the non-politically-connected or non-celebrities taking drugs?
And some degree of overconfidence and maybe hubris is perhaps necessary to start a company and to suffer the slings and arrows of that experience long enough to have a shot at success.

Absolutely. And I'm the worst of the lot. When I work on anything, my ego swells to a level that has to be experienced in person to be believed. So the hubris is a good thing.

As you said, where it goes wrong is when that ego forces itself upon topics that aren't work-related.
An excellent article about the profound demographic implications of China's decades old one-child policy.
Study: On-demand instant HD movie streaming will destroy Redbox.
"...I am sure my newly encountered issues will be resolved shortly, so I am not worried..."

Just thought that I would update - as of today's PPA update, the issue is resolved.
Yes, but that won't solve the problem.

At this point I'm tempted to just say "go watch Gattaca" and leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.

Privacy evolved as a useful solution to many social problems. When that solution is ripped away, the problems will remain.
You can justify how important that is to you I suppose.

Any decent dedicated provider (eg- theplanet.com ) Will email you your server details 5 minutes after you order the box, unless you are getting some weird equipment or off the bend OS.

The bottom line is you are paying 2, sometimes 3 times as much for that convenience of "instantly" powering it on. How often do you that? How often do most users do that?

If your business is at all like most, Your need to power on a new server instantly isnt mission critical. Even if it is, You should have your main servers running OFF of ec2. By all means, use ec2 or any other VPS to handle your overflow.
>Second when looking for truth, philosophy is a dead end.

If you're really looking for truth, then you need at least a little bit of philosophy to tell you what you're looking for. (I don't know about you, but I wasn't born with any very good ideas about what truth is, or why I should want to look for it.)

In my experience, people who claim not to have any use for philosophy usually have philosophical opinions cobbled together from whatever ideas happened to be in vogue ~50 years ago (those that have now permeated into the general culture). Ironically, the whole idea that science has "killed" philosophy is an offshoot of the philosophical school of logical positivism from the first half of the 20th century.
The domain (Shotgun.com) would be more valuable then the group, wouldn't it?

In any case, throw up an online shop on it, posters, pamphlets, coffee table book, bumper stickers. See if any of it sells.
I don't disagree with one thing you've said here.
That was my original point. That he/she should make new friends/reconnect with old friends. He/she seems to be in the mindset that, "things have been screwed up, so just throw yourself even more into your startup because you've already invested the loss of your social life as a 'sunk cost.'" I'm trying to say not to do that.
Does this mean he's going to open source all of Google's infrastructure? And release all the trade secrets?

That would be awesome!
Panic is part of a swelling trend of small companies that are really among the cutting edge of business. Very freeform, very openended, very dedicated to their products. They might be my favorite example because each of the people there (Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Neven Mrgan) are entities in their own right. But they're similar in design and flow to companies like Coudal and — the mother of all these freeform places — Barbarian Group.

It's easier now than ever before to form a small group of passionate people and spend your life getting paid by selling directly to the masses. That's incredibly exciting.
Awesome Sauce!!!
There will be change, but not necessarily bad.

1. The lack of marriageable women is a problem that can be solved by time. Men are prepared to marry at 40 if their work prospects are good.

2. The advent of low trust societies that doesn't rely on guanxi, but on merit can be a boon rather than a detriment. Cronyism can only go that far in a society where all are alone.

3. The absence of economic growth is a political one. In an overpopulated country, there is no such thing as sustainable growth. Whereas in the past, there are wars, disease, famine and mass slaughter to reset the population numbers, controlling fertility is the least worst option, and one that can be done voluntarily.

4. Looking after the aged is a necessity in the ages of pre-mechanization. Today, the basic needs of many can be provided by a few.
Very nice. And now I know how I can build that car dashboard drum kit I've always wanted.
Search By Sight With Google Goggles
I think that point is the "cloud" should probably refer to things like virtual instances where you don't necessarily care what physical box they are on (or they could be running on a 'cloud' of distributed machines rather than relying on a single machine, though I don't know if that actually exists).
Fascinating article on the change in demographics and composition of the family unit in China.
This Beta doesn't have a bookmarks manager. Does that mean we have to wait until the next release to get it? That would be pretty bad to ship a browser with no bookmark manager.
I misunderstood then, we're in agreement. :)
He's linking to that domain, doesn't mean that he owns it.
Improvements in Math Achievement Scores Stall in Big (US) Cities
How To Get Rid Off Approaching Women Anxiety
Objective newLISP
Probably lack of time. I hear the lead programmer is involved in other ventures that take up much of his time :-)
You may be right about the target market, but it's not fair to say it's just a cube. It's had its corner lobbed off, and it's off-kilter. Those changes aren't simple; the result completely lacks the self-contained stability of the cubes and grids that minimalists revere.
Which is also one of those "Why didn't I think of it?" companies.

Coinstar makes machines you dump your change into and, for a percent of the transaction, prints out paper bills.

Free money! You build the machine, give the store a percent of the cut, and every (non-premium) store will let you put one of those up front.

They're in every Safeway I've ever been in. I'd expect to see them in Wal-Marts, Targets, etc. too.
Gotta have something in both shoes too, or at least the right one (if you're right handed). That could give you hi-hat, snare, and kick drum, which is just about all you need. Damn, would that ever be awesome.
This is way off. Color tv is the same thing as black and white tv, only improved. Online marketing and traditional marketing are very different things. Online marketing is not a replacement for tv/print/radio advertising, and it never will be.
The one thing that they don't mention is the female children that are abandoned so that the parents can try for a son (due to cultural preference for a son to be the family successor and support the parents in old age). (i.e. not aborted, but born and then abandoned; causing the need for orphanages to take them in)
Excess is a Liability
I didn't say you needed EJB's. I just said that it was a J2EE pattern which I attempted to follow.

Servlets/JSP/SpringMVC aren't too bad...

And I'm sorry if I'm part of the constant bashing, it wasn't intentional, just using Java recently made me dislike it again.
As Wikipedia says, in a quantum computer, you have a quantum register (a bunch of entangled qubits) that holds the result of your computation. The contents of this register can be visualized as a high-dimensional vector of length 1 -- think of this as a line with one endpoint at the origin and the other restricted to the radius-1 hypersphere around the origin. Each axis of the space that this sphere lives in corresponds to one classical value of the register -- in an 8-qubit register, one axis corresponds to 00000000, another corresponds to 00000001, etc.

The real problem you solve with Grover's algorithm is this: you have a black box (usually called an "Oracle operator", but I think the term "Oracle" in this case is misleading) that negates the value of your register along exactly one axis (i.e., if the coordinate on the 00010111 axis is .2 - .1i, it becomes -.2+.1i). You want to figure out which of the 2^n axes in the n-qubit register your black box negates.

Unfortunately, you don't have the luxury of picking the vector that has a coordinate of 1/sqrt(2^n) in each direction, and observing what the black box does to that after a single application, since when you observe your quantum register you always observe a classical state. In contrast, one solution that would work would be to solve the problem the classical-computing way: march through each of the 2^n axes until you find the one you're looking for.

Grover's algorithm gives you a better way. What Grover's algorithm does is repeatedly apply an operation that nudges your register towards the desired state -- basically applying a small rotation. After some number of iterations, the vector representing your register should be pointing in almost the same direction as the vector representing the state you're searching for. Then you can measure the contents of the register and, with high probability, get the answer you were searching for. It turns out you only need O(sqrt(2^n)) queries (rotations), so it's a substantial improvement over the classical case.

I've probably oversimplified a few things, but hopefully this makes things clearer than they were before.
Ask HN: Gadget Question (A device that has email, google reader, twitter)
Is there any gadget out there that has the following capabilities and is under $20/mo. for a 3G data plan?

- 3G Connection
- Google Reader
- Twitter
- eMail

Peek comes close, but no cigar. iPhone has 'em all, but with a $100+/mo. pricetag; same with most noteworthy pda's. No purchase-worthy available tablets, right now.

Thanks
In my experience, this is true and extremely valuable:

"the constraints EC2 imposes on you forces you to build fault tolerant, shared-nothing systems."

EC2 forces you to care immediately, not later when the shit hits the fan (which it always does, eventually).
UN: This decade is likely warmest on record
What a great way to do something good and generate business for your company at the same time.
I found this post very insightful as I'm having many of the problems that were described (and will definitely be tying some of the suggested solutions). I'll also give it 10/10.
There is no inexpensive way to check the sex of a child before it is too late to abort?
OK. Why linking to that domain?
Portland, OR: a video montage on why you'll love it
That old saw is really about points of view, as you note. Going from C to Pascal isn't really going to teach you very much. Going from C to programming idiomatic Prolog is a huge shift, and teaches you a new way to look at things.
Upmodded because the Captcha at the bottom of the article displays its source code.

https://www.feer.com/manager/includes/veriword.php?rand=hell...

Change "rand" and watch the background change.