skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see two possibilities: pilot loss of control due to disorientation caused by IMC conditions and subsequent powered flight into the ground or an engine failure. A loaded Cessna 310 has very poor climb performance with a single engine running. Probably an engine failure is the likely cause with the poor weather inhibiting the pilot's ability to make an off runway landing in the marsh.
I forgot to mention alcohol in the App Store text... probably should have :)
Managing namespaces in Clojure
It depends on the size of the graph given I guess !
When 'The Man' stops treating kids like caged animals, the kids might stop behaving like beasts.
No problem, they are just my opinions so take them as you will :)

If you ever do get that import feature working please get in touch with me!
True enough.

It's just that being an ex-core-googler seems to definitely give people a leg up in the start-up scene.

I see the re-mail acquisition as google re-hiring an old employee if the amount isn't mentioned it can't be much, and given the project is killed it would surprise me if it were.
I've heard of a copper thief successfully suing a power company for his injuries while cracking into a hot transformer.
Just to let the guy save face? If his stature as a developer warranted it, then it might be to both parties advantage. Signing bonus is not press worthy, acquisition is.
I bet that's what the monks said to the guy that invented the space.
* forehead-slap *

Of course, ignore my dumb comment :)
How Companies can Take Advantage of Folder Printing?
No one can deny the importance of folders. They are great for managing documents. They are also good for soft marketing and decorative purposes.
This one is probably specialized for some PDAs. Also this: http://www.google.com/xhtml
Not to be a curmudgeon, but how is this any different from dropping a pin in the Maps app?
beta checker works under wine 1.1.38 :)
Worked out for Steve Jobs as well
You know I have absolutely no knowledge about how codec licensing works so please feel free to inform me. I am wondering how much Google pays for codec license for Youtube/Google-video.

Is it possible that that Google will benefit from this merger by pushing VP8 (assuming thats their best/latest codec) as a standard and open codec as an alternative to Theora.

Not sure if I am comparing apple to oranges so feel free to correct me.
Actually, sometimes protons _do_ carry the current in a circuit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_conductor
I've had trouble with Window 7 under Bootcamp on other Macs, but if you're going to run XP or Vista you shouldn't have any trouble.
I appreciate the practical and intrinsic value of a good website, and how a restaurant owner may not appreciate the difference in work quality of web design consultants.

What I wonder is why should they care? I think that the success of a restaurant depends far more on the food, service, and setting of the restaurant itself. Setting aside we discerning HN readers, very few people choose where to eat based on web design.

I have a theory from observations of restaurants in my city. The restaurants with neon "OPEN" signs in front tend to be more empty than the ones without the OPEN sign. This is across all price points and styles. My thinking is that they are not filling tables, so think they need to let people know they are open and to come eat there. If people are not eating at your restaurant, will making a good quality website with accurate hours help you?
A couple main differences:

1) we'll give you guidance back to your car - Google will give you driving directions, but not like navigation through a parking lot.

2) You can add photos to the parking spots

3) You can dd notes to the parking spot.

It's certainly similar to dropping a pin, and as I said in my blog post, it's similar to what we do in Gaia GPS. However, it's built to be simple and useful for a single purpose, which is what a lot of successful iPhone apps are.

People love these car parking apps.
"The software retains the copyright of the original authors and is currently licensed under the Caldera ancient UNIX license." - as mentioned in the homepage, yet the code license information on the right side says GNU General Public License v2. Is this because google only allows a limited number of licenses on code.google.com ?
This looks like a filler blog more than anything else.

No real content- just 15 unqualified vague screenshots with links.
Seems like a format you would want to be able toggle to when you get bogged down.
I completely agree--at least from my perspective, On2 is completely worthless except for their patents. I find this purchase particularly interesting as Google is often noted for buying companies solely for their employees.

1. They're currently in the red.

2. VP6, their only successful product in recent years, is obsolete.

3. Neither VP7 nor VP8 is competitive with the best H.264 encoders, nor do they have the clout to get hardware implementations out there. They will serve--at best--as niche formats, like Bink. VP7 got practically no adoption--the only notable licensee I know of is Skype video chat. As VP8 is basically just a faster, pared-down VP7, I doubt it will do much more for them.

Most importantly, proprietary video and audio formats are simply hard to pitch nowadays. Nobody wants to use file formats that depend entirely on the implementations and support of a single company; it's simply too risky. The only proprietary format I can think of that still has wide adoption for reasons other than legacy is Bink, due to the low licensing costs, good reputation, top-quality tools, and cross-platform availability. And, of course, the fact that games are usually release-once-and-forget products, maybe with a few bugfix patches on the side.

(Note "professional" video and audio stuff is its own world, and has a huge variety of almost-entirely-proprietary stuff, like ProRes, etc.)

4. Their last code release, VP3, while quite outdated, is a great example of utterly atrocious code, which doesn't say much for the quality of the rest of their code, or the capability of their programmers.

I found the fact that their shareholders asked for more utterly hilarious.
I am wondering how much Google pays for codec license for Youtube/Google-video.

Zero. Internet broadcast is free until at least 2016. They might pay a per-encoder fee on the server-side, but this is likely negligible (20 cents each).

Now, the fees they pay for Chrome may be significant, though we don't know if they negotiated a better deal than the publicly available license. If I recall correctly, the license cap is around $4m/year for H.264.
Well, the price stayed the same but they had given you 20% more RAM a bit over 2 years ago (http://blog.linode.com/2007/12/23/20-additional-ram/) and 33% more disk space less than a year ago (http://blog.linode.com/2009/04/23/33-additional-disk-space/).
Animation in FF 3.6 is noticeably smoother, apparently due to the improvements in GC. In other words, it may not have improved much in the specific areas these benchmarks measure, but it's important not to take that to mean that the JS engine didn't improve.
660 comments.

Based on the fact that a large majority google "facebook login" to access the site, at least that I have seen, I'd say actually this suggests users are reasonably smart on average :-)

would be interesting to see the analytics for that post to get real figures.
Some really nice timing graphs at the end there.
New Q and A section on Neil Patel's site
So, I submitted the original story. When it was submitted, the article on the page was much different that what it appears to be now. I just came back from lunch to find my submission "overridden". In this case I don't mind because of the situation, and I would rather have an article with more journalistic integrity take center stage, but there were some good comment threads going on the original submission. However, it did seem odd that it happened.
Six Apart 'acquired' Pownce [1]. Shut it down, then a year later and the 2 founders have left [2].

I'm always slightly skeptical ;) but these things just seem like a way to avoid having your baby in the dead pool to me.

[1] http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2008/12/welcome-pownce-team.htm...
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02...
They aren't really operating systems, either.
if by "solve" you mean "completely redesign modern RDBMS's" you may be waiting for a while. i'm no expert, but my limited understanding is that most of these services provide a singular interface to a database. to be "automatic infinite horizontal scaling" they'd need to support an infinite number of interfaces on any of these commodity servers. i could be wrong, because again i don't fully understand them, but i think that means basically implementing the equivalent of an 'intelligent' distributed parallel fault-tolerant file system. at that point i figure you could add "lots of glue" (heh, understatement?) to MemcacheDB, MemcacheD, MemcacheQ and some other crap and get something similar. but i could be crazy.
Google ought to be paying for H.264 encoder licenses for YouTube, although maybe they don't have to pay anything if they have fewer than 10,000 encoding machines. Certainly it's far less than $100M.
Touch is the New Mouse
I have to say that languages that favor immutable data structures and functional style are great for web dev. From what I've done in Clojure/Compojure compared to my experience in Rails, it's great not having a billion implicit magical parameters to each function (aka instance methods and magic instance/class methods that may not exist or be documented). You can really fit a lot of a functional web app in your head. Rails just spills all over the place and you slip on it and end up with stitches.
"""Ask questions of your professors. Have deep conversations with your fellow students and with your lecturers during office hours."""

You can do that on the internet, on sites like this and a million others, and probably in a better way - you have hundreds of people poring over and finding obvious flaws in your thinking rather than the handful you can have in a physical space.

"""Participate in real research, guided and mentored by real-life scientists. Do lab-based classes."""

That can easily be done outside of a university, at an industrial or government lab, the entire "non-research" infrastructure built around university labs is unnecessary for that.
Yes, I suspect basically all of On2's revenue was from people buying VP6 encoders for Flash video. And then Flash started supporting H.264...
I am a dropout myself and I am doing OK for the moment but I still would propose to question your own readyness to being so judgemental. I think of education being something highly individual and complex (e.g. I regard my time at university very inspiring and influential). Everybody should be able to 'roll their own' in order to achieve ones respective goals - which fortunately these days is possible for most of us. It is great that you found your very own hack to tackle the issue but try to stay open to other approaches too - most importantly try not to make too many generalizations. I know that can be hard but it could perhaps result in real inner peace.
Just to clarify, when I originally submitted the article it was very basic facts with absolutely no editorializing. It looks like they rewrote the entire article soon after being submitted and getting enough upvotes to become popular.
Oftentimes 'talent acquisitions' are paid for with company stock that vests over several years, so yes, there's a 'you have to work for us' clause. It's still a good deal for the acquired company, but not quite as good as it seems.
Size Matters: $30,000 Per Inch
My 2006 Macbook Pro runs Windows 7 almost perfectly (the only problem is that some of the function keys don't work).
Not so much that you are one, just that there always is one.
Clearly the experiment is to gather as many sucker volunteers as possible. I for one signed up!
Why is everyone complaining about a site redesign? As far as I can tell it looks exactly the same? Was the CSS file not included or something so everyone freaked out? I'd love to hear some context on all of this...
Common Programming Errors
Examples are usually at any big non-tech corporation: engineering firms, insurance companies, etc. They are typically found in their reporting tools or HR tools, or even the internal company website. I worked at a place where everything revolved around IE6.

I couldn't even browse the company websites in anything non IE. They must have checked the useragent, or used only ActiveX specific code.
I am currently working on an app using PhoneGap[1], and recently learned about Appcelerator. Apart from running interpreted code, the web view paradigm seems to be the most promising way to create platform-crossing applications. Palm may have gotten something right with webOS.

1. http://phonegap.com/
More useful than, say, watching my house and robbing me after I leave?
This is not an acquisition. It's the death of a product. And I called this one also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=907456

My prediction accuracy on startup failure is pretty good, I think!
Each game rule also is missing a corresponding 50 page spec document that, considering a Senior Space Invaders Functional Analyst's bill rate, cost $30K to write and revise.
30 by 30 - "Having" is a poor substitute for "Doing"
I liked the slides. And what they are doing.
George Grellas: Startups May Benefit From Incorporating Earlier
Simple as a google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=%2B%22declining%20enrollment%...
Totally awesome. I just built geoDjango functionality into my site. I look forward to seeing your upcoming example of an app using this. Cheers
I wrote this post after I quit my job in investment banking and moved over to a dotcom tech company. I realized that so many of us define success as "having" things (money, cars, houses), whereas the things that really contribute to happiness are experiences you have (friends, trips, etc).

The goal of this exercise is to create a list of 30 experiences to "have" by the time you're 30 years old - before you're tied down with family, career, and mortgage. You can use my list as a model, or write your own. Now, go out there and do them - don't waste another day.
And even those customers were hardly satisfied.

Facebook used to use VP6 before they switched to x264--from what I recall hearing in my time there, the On2 software was a disaster. Unreliable, slow, and overpriced--$1500 per core per year!

From my experience, the primary reaction of many companies to the announcement of Flash H.264 support was not "yay, we can save bandwidth with H.264", but rather "oh god now we don't have to deal with VP6".
Mine took about 5 weeks to arrive in Australia. It's worth the wait.
HN's http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grellas was an invited speaker at the Bootstrapper Breakfast and opened with an elaboration of his comment here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126843

His site also has an excellent legal FAQ for startups at http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup.html
Didn't read it all. However, I think Google's goal would be to deliver everybody the best possible search result. So they would rate this as failure internally, because people had been looking for Facebook, not ReadWriteWhatever. That's not to say Google has the responsibility to do so, I wouldn't blame them.
I can predict startup failure with 99% accuracy, too! :)
Interesting. They were explicitly addressing the stack to iterate through arguments, yet the prototype lists nine arguments in addition to the fmt string. Is that function actually variadic? If so, why explicitly list x1 through x9 as arguments?
I second this. I am moving off of their $150/month Rage DV to a couple of linodes. I started with a $50/month Base DV, then quickly upgraded as I started hitting memory limits, and finally went to Rage when I was having I/O thrashing issues (even during my site's "off hours"...). That didn't help at all. Since the next step up at MT is a $750/month Nitro, I was left with two more palatable choices: add another DV, or jump hosts.

I'll make an update when I finish the transfer to linode and figure out exactly what sized linodes I end up needing. I'll also let people know if this was simply my fault (bad coding).
Profiling compiled Gambit Scheme code
They should have used eBay.
I jot the intersection street names (and whether I'm uphill or downhill—for some reason, this problem manifests itself most frequently when in SF) in a 99¢ Wal-Mart mini-composition notebook that sits in my pocket at all times.
I still usually type what I want into google followed by wiki to get the relevant Wikipedia entry first.
Google is also better at finding the page you want that Wikipedia itself, such as if you type in The Simpsons wiki, but you really want the episode list page, it will be the second result indented under the main page.

It may not really save to much time, but if a tech guy like myself does it that way, average internet users would probably be even more inclined to.
Tell HN: I'm opening up my new, invite-only app, Forrst, for 15 minutes.
Forrst is a new thing I'm working on - it's a community/microblog where designers and developers can share code, links, and screengrabs with each other, and interact around them. It's currently very early (things break, are missing, etc.) and is invite-only, but I am opening it up for 15 minutes for the HN crowd. Kick the tires, play around, and if you so choose, send me feedback -- the more frank the better.

Here's the url: http://forrst.com/signup

[EDIT: welp, that was quick. closed again, for now.]
Expiration dates mean very little
Isn't this about the third time this has been posted here?

There's also a response (which has also been posted I think): http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/what-pythonistas-thi...
I have been describing this type of data as "high velocity" to my friends, and they seem to get it.
Encapuslation is for objects (video)
I think you've been watching too much Numb3rs!
Yeah, I can see that.

Just had some more thoughts on the topic and it wound up being an (admittedly) long post. This topic might be more or less discussed to death, by now.
"Google and reMail have decided to discontinue reMail's iPhone application, and we have removed it from the App Store. reMail is an application on your phone. If you already have reMail, it will continue to work. We'll even provide support for you until the end of March"

Good for them, congrats, but oy-vey!
Overly optimistic. When Facebook dies -- and let us assume it will some day die -- who will import its data and carry on? Who will archive it? They save everything, today, but I doubt "long-term store of knowledge about individual humans" is one of their explicit design goals.
Oh, I see what you mean.

Yes, that seems like a great idea!
An interesting question. It could be be that. Could also just be an example of what could happen in a country with a highly educated populace and highly-available broadband internet. If you have a choice of not just a few, but all teachers, why not pick "the best?" Certainly the best will be different for different people, but you can see how a few teachers could easily rise to the top. Night school might only be significant in that where to attend is completely up to the individual.
Why use that car icon instead of a push pin? It's harder to see.

Why include the accuracy as a number instead of a ring around the pin. Numbers require way more thought.
I thought this was more of an issue with the arc language setup than with the host. I remember reading something about having to "reboot" the system every few hours.
70% of machines are for R&D support - the simulations, verification, silicon back-end etc. you speak of.

I was talking about the other 30%.
True, but you understand my point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_current#Conventions).
What the fuck happened to writing like this? When did rebels stop being incendiary? At what point did we collectively decide that we would rather gossip and titillate and flatter the reader? Whatever happened to the essay as hand-grenade? Why isn't anyone angry anymore?
Insanely deep fractal zoom
Individual people don't need to be on the internet but if the internet as a whole were to disappear society would crumble. No one is saying that the 80's were a dark age but things we could previously manage without the internet have now become totally dependent on the internet and more and more things are every day.
HN Uptime Visualized: Lots of mini-outages lately?
32 New Strangely Familiar Google Services
> First and foremost, there is a large market for these kinds of apps on the App Store. When we started building this, 4 of the top 20 navigation apps were simple car parking apps.

In a closed market, customers find you by searching for what they need. If there are competitor applications, you can compete against them, not the 100k irrelevant apps that are not in that niche. If you have a good UI, that's a big separator between you and the pack. The Gaia GPS look always struck me as being a bit too gameish, sci-fi/hi-tech. This one is simpler and better but still a little unfriendly. I would prefer a simpler start screen (just parked car, find my parked car), rather than a map. I think the GaiaGPS team will learn a lot by refining this app to the mainstream.
Crap, i need more minerals.
The google appengine datastore is moving in the direction of being a full sql database, and I bet oracle have people working on it (because appengine, salesforce and aws is a threat to their business), so I don't think it's all that far-fetched.
PHP frameworks benchmarked by Symfony
php frameworks done in house by symfony, interesting but take them with a grain of salt.
Airborne laser weapon update
They seemed to have changed it back, nav was on top and colors were all weird and overall the site looked rather ugly compared to the original design.
Earther: global warming is bad.
Doubter: if the planet is warming, why is it so cold?

This is idiotic. Hopefully you know why.

Earther: actually it's climate change.
Doubter: what's so bad about changing climates?

In general, nothing, but that's a strawman argument and a similarly idiotic one.

Also, what the hell is an "Earther"? Or a "doubter"?
This kid should have gotten a high-five, not detention.
That's probably an accurate assumption. Happens a lot on Google Code hosting projects due to a lack of available licenses to choose from.
I think more specific context on "SQL databases don't scale" might be appropriate here, especially for the noob hackers that are figuring out just which technology to use in building their first or second apps. Is it worth ignoring defaults and conventions on a simple Rails app and not use an SQL based db? Probably not? And I reckon that Heroku itself hosts a good deal of apps where "will this db scale?" isn't really relevant. I could be wrong.

Another question worth knowing the answer to is how much of hassle it is to switch horses midstream (from a well normalized SQL db to something else), after there are some data in the tanks.

Maybe this is Adam's recommendation specifically to the dreaming-big community, which I can certainly appreciate. And maybe everyone should be dreaming big.
Now, the fees they pay for Chrome may be significant, though we don't know if they negotiated a better deal than the publicly available license.

Doesn't the RAND (Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) nature of H.264 licensing make this impossible?
My four steps to the epiphany - Lessons learned from a research product
Society can't function without ignition coils, but I'd wager that 90% of the world can't even vaguely articulate what role they serve.

There's a big difference between society depending on a handful of people understanding how something works, and society depending on most people understanding how something works. For some examples of the latter, you're operating at a serious disadvantage if you can't drive a car, address an envelope, or dial a long distance call.
Right now it's bundling everything into wire desk trays and corrective fluid, so it's not like it never changes.