skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do I find this plugin? A quick search doesn't find any useful results.
Also already posted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1115572
By having something we want short term expertise on. I'd contract any of the Damien, J. Chris, or Jan in a heartbeat to help bootstrap Couch for us, if they were up for it :-)
What do the Olympics, TED Talks, TechCrunch and Oreos have in common? (vid)
So many people confuse "Let others do what they're good at" with "Let others do everything", though. Including your comment. No, talent identification is not the only skill a business owner needs. If they have a skill and you don't, why should they come work for you?

A business owner needs to be skilled enough in their particular specialty to get the ball rolling and the money flowing in. Then they'll have the resources and cachet to identify and hire talent. But if all they can do is find talent and tell it what to do, why should the talent bother listening?

I'm sure I could tell go up to Marc Andreesen or Steve Jobs or Larry Page and say "I've got this great idea. Come work for me." I also suspect that if I did this, I'd get this quizzical "Who the fuck are you and why should I?" look, and then they'd walk away.
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gtalk is xmpp, so this will be a boost.

However, facebook's xmpp implementation is even more restricted than google's so far. It's not even federated as of yet (not that facebook sees a need for their users to communicate outside of their network). Not federated means things like [twitterspy](http://dustin.github.com/twitterspy/) won't work.

They also don't pass many stanza types through. For example, I've seen complaints of people trying to send jingle IQs through in order to establish direct connections between two users. That's not there (yet?).

However, it does mean that you don't have to get a new chat client. I added another account to adium as xmpp and all's well. Just hoping people don't actually start talking to me over it.
"How to handle cluelessness. You cannot often argue with people who are sufficiently confused about technical matters; they think you are the one who doesn't get it. They also tend to get emotional. Arguing reliably kills sales. What to do? One trick is to try to organize a large meeting so their peers do the work for you. The more people in the room, the more likely there is someone very smart and respected and cares (about bugs and about the given code), can diagnose an error (to counter arguments it's a false positive), has been burned by a similar error, loses his/her bonus for errors, or is in another group (another potential sale)."
My experience with Google Buzz so far has been that everybody on it is complaining, but everybody's writing tons of comments and entries and starting discussions in a way that I haven't seen on Twitter or even Facebook.

Maybe it's just the crowd I hang with, but to me that seems to be a good sign (not the complaining, but how it sucks you in and makes it easy to participate).
What's the rationale for piping sort into wc?
I'm sorry, but this last point simply isn't true. Sometimes I'll be building a new feature, and I'll expose a bug which another dev will fix and check in, or another dev will add some hooks for me. The new feature definitely isn't ready to check-in, but I need to get their changes to continue.
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Ask HN:  Where to move my blog now that Blogger is ceasing FTP support?
Blogger, in an attempt to anger everybody who still uses their service for legitimate purposes, is planning to shut off support for FTP deployment. They claim that only 0.5% of their users use that feature, but seeing as how a full 99% of blogger-hosted blogs are spam or made-for-adsense, it seems like they're cutting off the air to about half their actual user base.

So now we have about a month to find another blogging service that supports FTP deployment, and can import an entire Blogger blog. It's a golden opportunity for somebody to step up, but hopefully there's already a service out there for refugees such as myself who don't want to 301 their whole site from mydomain.com/blog over to blog.mydomain.com.

Any ideas?
The fact that drivers will not think to employ a variety of methods to slow down the car screams to me that there's something that doesn't exist, that should

Real drivers education, and real demonstration of your competency to operate a vehicle before getting a license?
If I were CEO of MySpace I'd embrace the demographic that still regularly uses it. Make it the "bar/pub/club" of the Internet -- Facebook is staid and stately (well, perhaps only compared to MySpace) while you can let loose on MySpace... you can decorate your name, your page, there's loud music and bright things everywhere, it's a party.
If I recall correctly the GameCube, DS and GBA were all profitable from day one as well. It's possible this goes back as far as the NES.
The author makes a point that moving an application from one core to four might look good in benchmarks, but that it will peg all four cores and cause the fan to start running. I'd argue that that is precisely what you want, and that the operating system should provide a user-controlled mechanism to throttle the CPU back. That way, if you want raw performance, you can get it, but if you want a quiet computer and longer battery life you can get that as well. You _should_ engineer your software to use all available resources. It's the OS's job to divvy up those resources.

I know CPU throttling is possible on many notebooks in Linux. Do any Mac users out there know of such a feature in OS X?
Perhaps Google is going to force the hand of America's existing telcoms to provide more reasonable broadband services. Right now, they're sitting fat, dumb, and happy as oligopolists with no significant incentive to provide faster service -- as long as their competitors don't move first.

These "tests" are strategically similar to the Chrome browser. It's not that Google cares that it provides a fast, standards-compliant browser to the world. Instead, Google simply cares that nobody else can limit progress by sandbagging, as Microsoft did with IE6 for years. So, even if Chrome's market share is relatively low, its existence forces Microsoft to compete. And, when Microsoft does, Google wins because its net-based services are a good user experience.

Phone companies don't want the expense of upgrading their infrastructure to support fast Internet. And, cable companies are surely terrified of gigabit-to-the home. Why would MTV bother with the cable companies when it could just stream its shows on demand via Akamai (or whomever) and sell highly-targeted advertising?

This strategy also reminds me of Google's $4+B bid on the 700mhz spectrum. They didn't actually want to own it, but they wanted to be sure the US government sold it with the open access rules attached which would ultimately benefit themselves.

Five years from now, I think The Street will look back on this move as brilliant.
He was CEO of Myspace for less than a year (who could blame him) and a CEO of another company for only 5 months.

Sounds like hes not fit for the position.
Quick answer: use userid@chat.facebook.com without SSL/TLS. If you don't have a userid you need to create one and log out of Facebook and back in again first.
One further point. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that facebook is burning through $1m per day now.

http://www.google.co.nz/#hl=en&q=facebook+burn+rate would seem to agree with me ($200m per year perhaps).
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Plenty of old people can use the internet. I suspect more people don't have broadband because it's not available at a reasonable price for them than you might think. Adults living in rural America had home high-speed usage grow from 38% in 2008 to 46% in 2009. vs. Among adults whose highest level of educational attainment is a high school degree, broadband adoption grew from 40% in 2008 to 52% in 2009.
Yes - but sometimes there are conflicts. Often they're totally trivial - but it's very strange that my workflow gets altered - forcing me to checkin unfinished work - based on whether or not some other programmer's change happens to conflict with what I'm working on.
That looks like it was a sample line that wasn't particularly useful, but if you do:

cat file.txt | sort | uniq | wc -l ## notice uniq

it gives you the count of unique lines. If you omit the sort in that instance it will fold duplicates together a/b/a is three lines, not two.
Yes, but what use to you are the newer commits unless you bring them into your working directory? Typically you're doing this to get some code to help enable the feature you're working on.
I was involved in the planning for a FTTH project that never materialized largely due to the cost of per-home installation. The numbers I've heard in the industry about Verizon's per household installation (on the east coast) is $4k per home.
I use it in production for everything on two smaller sites and one largish one, and as a message queue on a number of others. For what it's worth I have been really impressed by its performance and flexibility, and the professional attitude of its developers. Definitely worth checking out.
I wouldn't call it "almost". It took a while to build and shake out the canonical supervision structures in erlang (OTP gen_fsm, gen_server etc.) as well as debugging /profiling libs like match specs.

I have seen a huge uptake of clojure, scala, haskell and F# recently (and possibly ocaml, I haven't been watching, and possibly common lisp and scheme, too)
The massive benefit for me is that all my friends are already on Facebook. It's effectively got automatic roster management, which is a killer feature since I don't normally get round to adding people to MSN (which is also the most popular client in my geographical area).

I reckon that because Facebook has such a large number of users already, this has the potential to kill the other IM networks. Maybe it's not so good for properly federated XMPP, though, since this also presumably means that Facebook have no real incentive to implement it.
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I only started using it because results were not appearing in "real-time", so it may depend on your OS, or your definition of "real-time".
Teens have been in tech for a long time. I'd bet a lot of us here were techy teens half a lifetime ago. Or less. Or maybe some of us still are.
Why the whole stack?

There is some perl adage about a good programmer being a lazy programmer. Learn the shortcuts. I think python is a pretty good one, so might be emacs.

I think you generate code. Programming and implementing are probably better verbs, in my opinion.

I have worked with a CS graduate that struggled with practical application. And programmers that can't write from scratch.

Rudiments such as coding paradigms get you a long way, so does cut and paste and a bit of glue code. Reuse where possible.

You can get lost in theory, you can learn and learn more and more; but you can also thrive on a minimal subset of something larger - like a programming language. You can't learn everything!

You can understand a language without speaking it - and possibly get by with grunts, nods and hand gestures.
Thank you, it worked.

At first I didn't log out after setting my username and that made it hang. That step is important.
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It's interesting that there appears to be a trade-off between using parallelism to reduce response time and optimizing for power usage, specifically in the use of redundant computations to avoid communication between nodes (as mentioned in the Guy Steele slides posted earlier.) Precomputing information a user might request is another potential power-waster that can be very good for responsiveness. My first reaction: man, I have enough environmental dilemmas in my life already! Will I have to turn on "high latency mode" in my applications just like I turn off my low-flow showerhead while I'm lathering up?
That's my point, this "ready" concept is just a holdover from SVN. There's no reason a commit has to be "ready" in any way. You can even say that in the commit message.
For ad-hoc stuff, I tend to do different things depending on where my cursor is and how I built up to a complex pipeline.
Contributing a good part to a whole might be better and easier. Teamwork FTW.
I recall the GameBoy Advanced SDK docs stating something along the lines of "Even if your game is so simple that it won't strain this tiny processor, please optimize it for speed as much as you can anyway so that you can spend as much time as possible sleeping in low power mode between frames. That way the battery will last longer. Your customers will notice and they will tell their freinds."

I think that sentiment is closer to what the article was trying to get across.
If I were to use this system, I would probably write a userscript to search for a flattr connection on pages that I visit that would remind me to pay if I liked what I got.
PyCon 2010: Using Python to Model Real-World Battlefield Scenarios
On a related note, I recently had Dutch trainees working for me and the big social network for them is Hyves.nl. One thing about Hyves that worked well (from what I saw) was the ability to toggle instantly between a styled profile (not quite as idiotic as the average MySpace page, but colourful, etc) and the default template (more along the lines of Facebook).
De-centralized social networks, where users are in control of their own data and are not required a visit any site in particular in order to access their network.

Perhaps this will be in the form of a new network protocol, or more realistically use some form of P2P or torrent style network.
Rolling out fiber in NYC takes less digging than you might think, there is a lot of open space where huge bundles of copper wire where used by the telcos. It can become expensive to rewire a building, but cable companies did this not so long ago.
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Personally, I have optimised fan noise right out of all computers, aside from those in server closets, for years.
They will benefit from a faster internet, they will reap rewards from infrastructure investments that other ISPs will make to keep up, and they will get some nice brand equity out of it.
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Spoken like a Haskell programmer, who might write:

(wc Lines) . sort . (grep "bar") . (xargs "foo") =<< file

But note in this case that all the data "flows in the same direction".
Holy Yikes! Are you saying that this little web app, seeing maybe 2k visitors from a Wednesday-evening hackernewsing, with nothing but a few test entries in the database is actually slowing down to the point that you need to implement CACHING for the homepage?

What technology in combination with what $5/month hosting company could you possibly have used to achieve such terrible results?
Why down vote this! Great point. It's a fine balance!
I didn't say that I wanted a 3+ party system, the biggest advantage would be that you wouldn't get a situation where voting for your favorite candidate screws over your close second favorite but much more likely to win candidate, as happened with Gore in 2000 when a percentage of his would-be supporters voted for Nader instead.
Did you read the article? It's about iPhone/iPod download attempts.
Scraplr is a container for your task list. With scraplr you can exchange tasks with friends, and even get suggestions on how to get your task done.
Scraplr can also send you reminders for your tasks by tweets, email, instant message and text message to your
cellphone; which means you'll have less chance of missing your important things.
"China" or "Middle Kingdom" as it's called in China, was historically a fairly vague concept. It was popularized in the 20th century by Sun Yat-sen to refer to the 56 ethnic groups the republic inherited from the Qing empire (Han, Manchurian, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur being the major ones).

The 5000-year history refers to the lineage of Han culture in particular. For example, in Japan where most if its Sinic influence was before the republic, Chinese medicine is called Han medicine (Kampo 漢方), Chinese writing is called Han script (Kanji 漢字).

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

I believe when people describe to China as young, they are either referring to the 1911 republic, the 1949 republic, or the 1978 reform.
Re: Most of the sounds can already be found in English

8 years into the language, I still have real difficulties with some of the r's at the end of words, "有空儿吗?" (you kongr ma?)
I've been an application developer for AIX and Power7 for almost 2 years, and I'd say the grind rate is pretty impressive. Developing for power is a bit of a bitch, and the hardware is expensive but it is certainly an impressive slice of engineering.
Clojure is an example given in the presentation; its immutable lists are actually 64-way trees. (Or so the talk says; I thought it was vectors that were implemented as trees.)
I've used it on a few apps for when we have to send out emails. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but any page that sent out an email always lagged a bit, this cleared out that delay for the user on their end and processed the email in the queue. Works great
When I was a teen I absolutely hated "teen-oriented" events, politicians who talked about involving the "youth", and so on.

Anyone else feel the same way?
The thing that pisses me off about Buzz is the fact that it just arrogantly assumed that A) I wanted to be a part of it and B) that it had the right to determine what my friend relationships are.

I really feel like a social network needs to gain my trust and acceptance before I join it. I just don't want people "friending" their way into my life without my consent. I really felt like my Gmail was violated by some annoying machine that muscled its way in, demanded I interact with it and then flooded my inbox with comments by all the most irritating people I've deliberately unfriended elsewhere.

I'm sorry but I'm just not letting Google circumvent the community building pathway that every other social network has had to endure. Switched off.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at some of these anecdotes.

As a final example, a buffer overflow checker flagged a bunch of errors of the form

unsigned p[4];
...
p[4] = 1;

"No, ANSI lets you write 1 past the end of the array."

After heated argument, the programmer said, "We'll have to agree to disagree." We could agree about the disagreement, though we couldn't quite comprehend it.
And hope they laugh and refer to Feynman
On the one hand, Myspace has done nothing but swirl down the drain during his tenure. On the other hand, his task was monumental, and who knows what bureaucracy from Fox he has to deal with.
I'm curious if anyone knows why chips like these are being used today.

If you already have software that parallelizes to 16 cores, why not just use a few more x86 cores and save a lot of money?
It's not an issue of wireless penetration, it's about maturity. Obviously the first rollout in the USA is going to be slower than a mature infrastructure like Japan's.
wordpress.

* It import Blogger posts + comments

You should be using this one already instead of Blogger if you want to use your own host.
In the end, I took this as a discussion of thermal energy dissipation as it pertains to mobile devices. In other words, battery life.

My conclusion is that we need to vastly improve the energy density of batteries (or consider using carbon-based energy sources to power mobile devices).

Edit: Not sure why this is getting downvoted. The end of the article really does discuss mobile devices and energy dissipation - which I found to be the most critical part. Yes, the author ties it in together nicely with his anecdote of writing out code by hand. So in his day, you optimized for code length. Now, he advocates that we optimize for lower energy consumption. But I would instead, or in parallel, argue that mobile devices also simply have too little energy available to them.
I completely agree with this article. If there is one thing I hate it is a program which makes my laptop's CPU fan start whirring like a jet engine. Usually with games this is because developers didn't properly program a FPS limiter, or else the game just uses a lot of alpha blending and graphical effects.

However, with modern processors just because they are fast that doesn't mean that programmers have to max out the processor and make it heat up. For example, I wrote an article a while back about how I increased performance in a 2D game and brought processor usage from 99% to 35% using a few graphical tricks such as trying to do alpha blending during the load (precalculated) rather than while rendering each frame:

http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/08/sdl-tile-game-w...
What if you don't have any money to hire people?
you should make an offer.

price varies widely based on what the word is.

try estibot and valuate.com and domain score to get an idea of what it's worth.

email and don't specify a price. just ask what price he'd like for it.
first person to name a figure loses.

if it's much less than valuate and estibot then go for it.
right now is NOT a good time for domain names because of the recession.
How Google Buzz Is Disruptive
Google as an ISP: "We give anonymity to your data but track every website you visit. We do not sell your information but we do use it for our advertising and search results." Just a search for more data with proven annual income?
I'm thinking it would be in the best interest of telecom giants to get in on this experiment. This is inevitably the direction their headed, and they would learn a lot from it.

If anything, telecoms should be bidding on the contract to lay out Googles fiber, and subsequently working with Google to own the next big pipeline infrastructures.
Wow - thank you. Before your post, I had never seen the term 'fragged' outside of the context of video games. Its original meaning that you've alluded to is far more interesting.
technically it's just hiding. I hope I can delete this service completely in Google Dashboard.
+1 for this status site existing and being awesome. -1 for github being down so often. There are multiple websites such as aremysitesdown, do any of them provide similar status pages to interested parties?
"It has been done before. Do you remember Prodigy? CompuServe? AOL? MySpace?"

Yeah. Or Friendster. Of course it could happen, but my point is that it is too early to tell what impact Buzz will have.

"Google has a fair chance of beating Facebook with Buzz"

Agreed. But that time is not now and the hyperbole is unwarranted. As you say, steady gains are a possible -- and most likely -- way for Buzz to unseat Facebook.
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I went to a Map-Reduce tutorial at HLT-NAACL last year (one of the most respected natural language processing conferences).

One of their main take home points?
For projects where results matter (e.g. science), don't use any homebrew Map-Reduce implementations. According to their evaluations of alternate implementations, it's just not worth the risk.
I always wondered how well speakers of other tonal languages manage Mandarin, such as Swedish speakers.
I think he's saying that when we use Visual SourceSafe, we got to pray // just to make it today.