skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take Control of Freight Costs
I always like to control freight costs. Whether an express shipment company, an LTL or TL carrier, or 3PL, I think it is important to control the cost of freight and indicate freight collect terms with suppliers. In addition to negotiation with carriers (an underutilized negotiation) it helps in freight claims, not matter the FOB point. Always consider the leverage.
Oops, sorry :) I tried to search, but didn't find it.
Linus on copyright and "fair use"
Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?
Are there APIs that you wish existed to help make your work easier? Help your startup? Or just allow you to build cool products?
I'll start. Wish there was an API that:

1) Allowed me to find high quality, license free images easily.

2) Let me access LinkedIn data. I know LinkedIn has an API, but its not open.
Where does quantum cryptography fit into this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography

Does this have anything to do with quantum computing?
Well unless users work for NSA, are somehow aware of encryption algorithms, are concerned about protecting their data, or are interested in factoring large numbers, this would not interest them much.

Grover's search algorithm however, will speedup searching. It would be possible to search very large databases in a much shorter time : O(sqrt(n)) instead of O(n). Of course, many problems are based on searching so it is hard to enumerate all the possible end-user visible effects of this.
Scuby is a thin integration layer between Scala and JRuby
Fantasy Football APIs, partuclarly Yahoo's.
What matters is that they had proof of funds, which they needed to avoid bankruptcy.
You are right, thank you. I embarrassingly forgot quantum cryptography.
Isn't it a bit strange that this comes just weeks before COP15 in Copenhagen, the same summit the United States and China will not take seriously?

Lobbyist already working on it, as I see.
So basically you just trust that poker sites do not have backdoors? That's not something I'd bet my money on.
IMDB's API
Here is another free book, which teaches statistics through R:

Introduction to Statistical Thought
http://www.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.html

I can also recommend the Statistical Aspects of Data Mining lectures by David Mease (on Google Video & stats202.com).
But it seems that quantum cryptography allows you to do more than what is possible with classical computing: namely, to detect someone listening in on your communication.

What is the relationship between quantum cryptography and quantum computing?
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The government could create approximately 2,000 direct jobs and 2,000 indirect jobs per billion dollars spent on short-term roads and similar such projects. For the money spent on GM alone, we could have had much more bang for our dollars spent. Especially considering when you spend on credit, the interest haunts you.

Projects already far along in the queue typically have much of the planning and engineering already done, and sucking up low-cost labor puts upward pressure on most of the labor market above that price.

Short-term projects quickly take up people, putting money in the immediate economy. The effects tend to be seen quickly. Better transportation and communications infrastructure improves the local economy long-term, and there are so many such projects the federal government could fund them for the next decade easily.
"People should not have to be slick and commercial sounding to get a chance at your attention."

In a perfect world, I agree. But when you're marketing a product, you need to deal in the real world, and the first impression counts. Personally I think the worst problem is the visual design of the website, which doesn't look very slick/professional. This matters when your target market is people that design UIs! (The music is not great, and should probably be ditched, but I have no idea what the problem is with the accent, I can clearly understand the narration/.)
I don't agree with your premise that any opposition is always a net benefit. Do you really believe that the intelligent design movement is making the science of evolution stronger or better?

(Please don't misread this: I do believe that climate science needs and benefits from skeptics, dissent, and alternative theories. I just don't believe that any opposition is good opposition, and in particular I believe that political opposition makes for worse science.)
you were right to leave it out - quantum cryptography and quantum computing have only the quantum in common. (i've published on quantum cryptography protocols)
Fast P2P Search Start
fantasy anything would be nice
mlb game data, within 24 hours of each game
This site has a ton of references to books and papers, with some of them seeming fairly introductory:

http://www.helixpartners.com/references/
Could you elaborate on this?

Classical encryption can be done on a classical computer.

Is it the case that (some) quantum encryption cannot be done on a quantum computer?
Ah...thanks for the info.
This is true, SQL does not require everything to be a set, strictly speaking, but internally many platforms append a unique row identifier to bags, so that they can be processed as sets.

I often wish platforms would expose their internal calculus in a separate syntax, so we wouldn't have to work through the SQL translation layer. Algebraic operators would be nice too.
Wow, I forgot about this - couldn't agree more. Have been waiting for this for a long time.
Was this done with R?
Smart Terminal, Dumb Terminal
An API that implements multiple tableview row editing in the iPhone SDK.
(Once again submitting my own post.) Anyone know enough about the history of computing to add some perspective on smart vs. dumb terminals (or thick vs. thin clients, or whatever?)
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This is an extreme example, but it's happened before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
A reverse lookup for finding all the shortened URLs associated with a given canonical URL.
Bot support is nothing compared to collusion.

In an online game, how can anyone be sure that information sharing is not taking place?
- US & State Government tax information. The tax code is amazingly complex. It would be good if you could figure out the tax implications of various events. Better if they simplified the tax code to where this was possible.
Moreover, data.gov so far is a disappointment. Maybe they'll improve it. But I'd love to dig in to purchasing and personnel costs for every branch of government.

- Good stock market historical tick data (and streaming data). Opentick tried for a time, but mostly you need to contact expensive services. This makes it hard to mess around.

- A good local event API. Lots of companies have tried, few have good results.

- LinkedIn: They've been promising an open contact book API since 2007, but have kept it closed. If they had an open API (that lets you actually store data/invite), it would mean a lot of sites would be building on them.

- My dream: The big scientific journals would require everyone publishing a paper to upload all relevant datasets to a central repository which could be queried.

- Anyone you have an account with (Financial firms, banks, vendors) would have a standard commerce API. Sure, today you can export stuff in Quicken, etc formats, but Mint had to do a big deal with Yodlee to get the data in a uniform, queryable way.

And, mad props to Microsoft for opening the Bing API with pretty good terms. Google used to have a search API and it had horrible terms. Then they decommissioned it. Who would have guessed that MS would be more developer-friendly than G?
Good point. Too much of either is dangerous! Too much confidence, and you think your shit doesn't stink. Too much humility and you think you're shit. :-)
That may well be true, but the article isn't very convincing from any angle. There's no technical or economic analysis of other ways to make magnets (say, emerging technologies vs. more expensive, low-tech technologies). No in-depth data from geological studies about the quantity of rare-earth deposits in other countries, and how easily they could be exploited. No evidence that the Chinese government is actually making an active effort to corner the market on rare-earth elements (low labour costs have made it a leader in many low-value areas, too).

And, nobody is totally certain that battery-driven cars are necessarily the way forward. A decade ago, when fuel cells where the hot story, maybe this article would have been talking about China cornering the market on platinum for catalysts.
Stubhub & movie tickets
ACM censors linking
Jobs was quoting the last issue of the Whole Earth Catalog. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA starting at about 12:50.
You're saying the govt. should directly pay the thousands of affected people, at various income levels, directly? They can sit and watch tv and still make their salary? That won't fly with many fellow citizens. Remember, the "stupid executives" did not get the money, GM did (and taxpayers got shares in GM in exchange). The stupid executives are already wealthy, and would probably end up at some other company owned by a friend or whatever. You would not have punished them, but you would have punished GM's shareholders, the wider stock market, and likely the wider economy which depends on jobs and consumer spending to function.
Interesting... what would be the application of this? Any ideas you can share?
My body, starting with my brain. Please provide clear documentation.
Have you tried TMDb? http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/

I've played with it and seems good enough.
Yeah, but any sql query can go stale...
Those types of jobs were included in the 700 billion dollar Economic Stimulus Bill.
jeff merkey is still around? lol, he's an odd one
Everyone who plays poker online shares these same concerns, so it's not surprising that the largest sites care deeply about their reputations (especially since they make so much money playing it straight up).

That said, there has been at least one major incident where one of the original employees of a poker site used a "superuser" account to see his opponents' cards at the high stakes tables and win lots of money. The players figured it out based on his statistically improbable win rate and an accidental release of the full hand history of one of his tournaments.
So you're saying that reading is just entertainment, never learning?

Or are you just deciding in advance that all books about business are just worthless fluff?

Not sure what bad book you might have picked up in the past, but it seems your thinking is prejudiced.

We all get our learning where it gives us the greatest reward.

You chose Rutgers. (Was that just entertainment, not to be confused with learning?) The teachers/experts there are no better or worse than the teachers I've chosen, but might have been better for you or worse for me.

Some prefer hands-on experience. Some prefer classroom lectures and homework. Some prefer reading.

I like all three. I tend to get the biggest bang-per-buck reward from reading, but that's just me. No need to knock someone else's choice because it didn't work for you.
A mixture of confidence, curiosity, knowledge, drive and a pinch of irrational exuberance all seem essential to become a successful entrepreneur, but luck cannot be overlooked as the defining factor of success. To the extent that one can create their own luck, are 10,000 hrs of practice more attributable to the necessary amount of effort required (on average) to create luck rather than the time required to create expertise - at least in the art/science of entrepreneurship?
APIs into hospitals medical data.
quantum cryptography isn't "encryption" in the sense that crypto algorithms are involved. the encryption part is just XOR with a random one-use string (the key). the hard part is distributing that key.

a better name is quantum key distribution. entangled photons are used to get the random data to both parties in a way that eavesdroppers would introduce error (because of something called quantum indeterminancy).

since no computation is involved, there's not a lot relation to quantum computing. wikipedia's got the details!
Yeah. Just great. Granted, I use my Popcorn Hour mostly for watching MKVs and playing music, but I have watched the occasional YouTube clip fairly often.

Obviously, the real problem is that the API-based access is ad-free. It is not really that surprising that Google would prevent the circumvention of its ads.

I wonder if alternate schemes such as PlayOn will continue to work? Using PlayOn, I can still watch Hulu on my PCH. They have a YouTube plugin, but I am guessing that they are relying upon the same API that the MSP folks used.
Subway. On the stations here they have displays, that show in how many minutes the next train will arrive (which is real-time data). Would be cool if they broadcast this information on the net, you could see if you need to hurry to the station or not.
Here's hoping that Cyan manages to pull something off with this in a future Cyanogen release. I can see a JIT running in a G1, and since we already are able to run Apps off of a class 6 SD card, I don't see any reason not to cache the compiled code.
No way. The members page is currently broken, but http://web.archive.org/web/20080805024322/http://poker.cs.ua... says they have four profs, two consultants, an adjunct researcher, 5 graduate students, and 3 programmer analysts. I can only speak to the costs at the University of Michigan, which I attend, but let's assume they're similar at Alberta. Professors' salaries are around $100k and graduate students cost ~~$50k-$60k before candidacy and probably ~$25k-$30k after. That's at least a half-million dollars per year for the professors and graduate students alone; add the programmer analysts and the consultants and you'll be hard-pressed to get much more than a year of work on the project for your million bucks.
Who would have guessed that MS would be more developer-friendly than G?

Anyone who's done Microsoft-based development? MS is incredibly developer-friendly compared to many platform vendors. It's a point of business strategy for them (if memory serves me, that's what Ballmer's infamous "developers, developers, developers, developers" thing was about in context).

Just don't try and mix in any technology from one of MS's competitors and you'll be fine.
The UI layer of an app is more or less a (primitive) API into the human mind.

Though, I think you're right. The documentation is quite poor.
I highly doubt this. Have you ever hustled? It's extremely hard to hustle the hustlers. He was playing the top players in the entire world, not some fish filled pond in Atlantic City.
I'm responding to teh report of how things went down, no I haven't ever hustled, have you? When I tasted online poker I could only ever end about 3rd hand in the competition when top 2 were winners; never played for money online.
>it's nicely coherent, has nicely orthogonal features

Obviously with exceptions, especially with the instructions added after armv4.

For instance, the allowed addressing modes vary depending on instruction: ldr allows a 12 bit offset, ldrd only an 8 bit, ldm and vld allow none, though vld allows a strided increment. Only ldr* non-exclusive allow a register offset.

Thumb-1/2 and exclusive load/store change things a bit more, but they aren't generally stuff to care about unless you're doing kernel or compiler programming. Also, none of the neon instructions can be conditionally encoded, but there isn't much reason to do that.

As for desktop arm, a massively multicore machine would be nice, but the average user doesn't care much about desktop CPU power consumption nor make good use of more than two cores. Netbooks have to watch out though.
You can read a lot into playing style online too. How long does someone think before hitting raise? What kinds of hands have they pushed all in with in the past? What kinds of bets/raises do they respond to? When do they fold? Do they call a lot or raise? Re-raise? How do they play in position?

It's fun because you can still read people's minds. You can predict what they have. You know what the outs are, you get people to fold. You can manipulate their minds and effect behaviors.
i wrote a parser for NBA games, get the data straight from yahoo. Using Python and BeautifulSoup, piece of cake. I would think MLB could work the same.
And schools: class registration
Does an event loop really keep the CPU use down in Flash? In C/C++ I've always found that the event polling overhead means that it's ever so slightly less efficient than a game loop, but not so much so that it matters. I thought it was purely a matter of taste?
This isn't something that a Turing machine can do.

Why not make this part of a quantum computational model that goes beyond Turing-completeness?
Lots of possibilities, but think backtweets.com as an example of something which would be much easier to accomplish if such an API existed.
Biologists have NCBI, which is completely open. It would be a colossal fail to try to hide data, because even the most basic multiple sequence alignment shows that evolution is real.
I would like:

storeNewBrainMemory();

and

saveBrainToDisk();
Free or low-cost tv schedule api. Currently one has to pay about $500 per market/region per month.
Placebo buttons, false affordances and habit-forming
Sports statistics. NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.
Date: 2006-12-14 16:52:15 GMT (2 years, 48 weeks, 6 days, 19 hours and 23 minutes ago)

Pretty old news.
Real-estate API (open homes, home sales by zip etc)
I guess I was thinking that because the research has already been done and they have released the general ideas if not anything resembling an implementation, someone else could duplicate the research faster and cheaper.

If not one million, the same order of magnitude. Conservatively $4MM to do it in two years?
Listen to Phil Helmuth talk about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpMELRn8_l0

Basically, the online casinos are making so much money, they want it to be on the up and up so they can keep taking the rakes.
The Unlambda Programming Language
I doubt there's an API, but you can see departure boards for most (London) tube stations online: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/departureboards/tub...

They're actually more detailed than the boards in the stations as they show current train locations.
It sounds an awful lot like you were arguing by analogy that it's okay to conspire to hide or even fudge your data if you are a Right Thinking Person defending the world from Evil Polluters. Ends, means.
Yeah, HTML scraping ESPN.com is not very hard. I did it for college basketball once in a strange sort of database that attempted to predict March Madness brackets. It worked really well for teams that had encountered each other during the season... except only 2 or 3 pairs of teams had ever played each other during the regular season. Works much better on NBA and NFL games, where there are far fewer teams, they see each other more often, and the rosters are a little more static.
Realtime (i.e. in game stats) or just up to date player, team, league stats.

I think the leagues fight hard to disallow this although they have recently lost a couple high profile lawsuits.
Care to share? Sounds awesome.
From what I can remember, Schors algorithm gives you a polynomial speedup for factoring rather than putting it in polynomial time.

It's been a little while since I was up to speed on this though.
Isn't that already done? You can even get raw Pitch F/X data.

http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2009/

Here's an example day's scoreboard in JSON:

http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2009/month_07/da...
Funny, I came to say the same thing.

Definite business opportunity there, the two services I have found (in this case I'm looking for Texas data) both consider using an iframe "integration".
An semantic equivalent to an "#include" or "using" statement that looked for the library on a central repository instead the local disk, automatically managing caching and versioning.
zillow has a pretty decent api
We opened up an API for backtweets a while ago: http://backtweets.com/api

What would you build with it? Some people are using it in cool ways right now, e.g. hype machine uses it to power a twitter music chart.
Again: It is plain wrong to say "you don't need horsepower to get uphill, you need torque". If you do not have horse power you cannot produce any torque. Horse power is the cause and torque is the effect. And torque is the cause, and uphill motion is the effect. So Horse power is the ultimate cause.

If we are going to nitpick with definitions, let us do it properly. Unless it is painfully obvious that I am hurting civil conversation here, a downmod is to be followed by a line of clarification.
I hadn't seen it before. I think he gets it 100% correct as well. Good to see things like this to contrast the ridiculous fundamentalism some free software people spout.
TMDb is pretty decent (I use it to keep track of my personal movie collection [1]), but a lot of the data is missing/incomplete.

It's a whole lot better than nothing, but it's far from perfect.

[1] http://moviedb.samwarmuth.com
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Fair enough, maybe I shouldn't have used the words "game theory" because, as you point out, the challenge includes game theory but is broader than that.

I see poker as a giant optimization puzzle with a bunch of moving parts. I use a number of math tools--and a few psychological tools--to beat that puzzle.
Second that LinkedIn API request.
> Just wondering if they could gradually creep into the market for desktop cpus as well.

Much like I was hoping that PPC would dethrone IA-32 back in the day (I think Linux, OS/2, and NT were all just about ready to support it) but it seems economies of scale are everything.

I'd buy an ARM and a desktop motherboard just to mess around with, but I've literally never seen a local screwdriver shop that carried them even for smoke tests. I guess they're doing fine without hobbyists.
I think the article misses an important point: SAS is a generational thing, and the influence of generation that cut their teeth on SAS and VAX mainframes in the 1980s is waning. There's a reason why the SAS ads you see in the airports are all targeted at management--because that's where all those people work now. And soon they will retire.

They would never dare advertise to the poor analysts who are forced to actually use SAS to get work done, because we know what turd it is. I do not think I exaggerate when I say that not a single up-and-coming statistician in this day and age chooses expensive, obfuscated SAS as the language with which to hone their skills. It is truly the worst language I have ever had the misfortune of being forced to learn (by an old professor, who knew SAS and refused to learn anything else.) Somebody back me up here.

There are a few areas where SAS is unrivaled--it can crunch huge data and exploit parallel processing better than other off-the-shelf solutions. That feature gap will close over time as R and other open tools rise in popularity. And there will always be a niche market for SAS programmers because many companies have huge libraries of SAS code which run their credit card/oil rig/whatever analytics, and starting from scratch is not an option. But SAS's dominance is unquestionably on the decline, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that next generation a) isn't being trained on SAS and b) doesn't want to be.
Bonuses don't mean better performance
if you are trying to go uphill, would you rather 200 horsepower and 200 torque or 200 horsepower and 140 torque
On flickr there is an option to search for commercially usable images. To do it from the API you need "prior arrangement" though.