skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best case scenario for school district:

Prove via FBI or forensic information security audit team that there was no monitoring software of any kind, no remote monitoring, no logging. Prove that the assistant principal did not know what he/she was talking about when she was directly questioned by the parent.

Prove there was no conspiracy to monitor students in their bedrooms. Prove (this is hard) that the assistant principal obtained the incriminating photo by illegally searching their hard drive. Provide settlement in six figures with half of proceeds going to subsidize free laptop program for inner city Philadelphia.

Put assistant principal on leave, supply black electrical tape fee-free, remove any Remote Desktop capabilities in the OS. Hold press conference with state attorney general in two weeks to jointly demonstrate total innocence.

Worst case: TV crews camped out on Lower Merion High School campus for weeks.
ha ha ha ha ha, funny. Yes, this is sarcasm.

These kinds of "ask an obvious question, answer is NO" sites are really passe now.
Blog rolling with mongoDB, express and Node.js
That's not what he says. He just quotes the creed in order to play off of it regarding capitalism.
If people don't upvote/downvote, you could always pay a few bucks to get mTurkers to do it :)
$30 is still a lot of money for a bottle of wine.

Heck, the wine they produce at the local agricultural high school isn't that bad, and it goes for under 5 euros a bottle.
Could the objections about personal, non-commercial use not be overcome by adding (or replacing "personal" with) a qualifier such as "private" or "without redistribution"? Surely the point is that if someone has legally obtained a legitimate copy of a work, it is reasonable for them to enjoy it as they see fit in private, without being under any obligation to pay for it repeatedly rather than format shift, back-up etc? Redistribution to others is obviously contrary to the basic principle of copyright, and shouldn't be covered, but for once this is a black-and-white issue and could be easily and unambiguously coded into the law.
I use the new Canvas Text API, which---I guess---isn't supported by the iPhone. It would be fairly straightforward to make it use the old text API. I chose canvas as an output format for this demonstration, the algorithm itself knows nothing of canvas, so it could be adapted to use whatever output format is suitable for a device.
This is almost like just copy-pasting the entire contents of the article as a comment.
gconf is a clone of the regedit GUI, but the storage mechanism is not. The article was entirely focused on the storage mechanism.

The .gconf directory structure is simply stored in the filesystem. It's not a replacement for /etc, but for the dot files individual apps would otherwise use for per-user configuration. Configuration data is just XML, and can be grepped, edited and deleted from the filesystem just as any other dot files can.

The deep directory structures and XML aren't quite as friendly to traditional Unix tools as are traditional dot files, but those tools remain entirely usable, while apps get a shared API for configuration.
The Fed raises interest rates on emergency loans
I believe cellartracker has community reviews of most wines, although I've never used it. There are also sites like corkd.com, etc.
J2ME comes from a time when people imagined phones based on lots of very different architectures and code that would be seamlessly portable between vastly different devices.

This is not how it turned out (at least not for now).
My middle-school computer class was "taught" (for sufficiently small values of the term) by the typewriting teacher. Because, you know, typewriters have keyboards and so do computers.

To her credit, she did not try to hide this fact from us.
I'd say quality is more determined by the regulatory policies and the accepted standards of the country rather than individual attention/inattention to detail.
There are no measures to the amount of joy this tool has given me in the past five minutes. Thank you!
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No. "we are no longer as optimistic about our chances of removing the GIL completely." http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan#Gl...
Here's one I liked: http://flavio.castelli.name/howto_use_git_with_svn
The current perfomance of Unladen Swallow is only marginally better while the memory consumption is a lot worse. And I think a lot more work will be required to improve perfomance and memory usage of Unladen Swallow...

PyPy is another interesting project that seems to be under active development ( nightly benchmarks against CPython http://buildbot.pypy.org/plotsummary.html ). I don't know how this decision on supporting Unladen Swallow will affect PyPy, but it would be a shame if it died as it has a lot of interesting ideas - - and I think it has a lot more potential than Unladen Swallow.
Frankly making it a webpage is a pretty big inconvenience to me (and I'm sure many others too) because my bookmarks bar is pretty full, as well as my bookmarks. This just seems like a natural dashboard widget. Doesn't windows 7 support widgets too now?
That Torquemada believed fervently was little comfort to those burned. He probably has convinced himself that the more effectively he grubs money the better the economy goes; why, doesn't he see every day billion-dollar innovations like a laser targeting mosquitoes?
yeah, i thought the same.
But i think the work that was done so far built the base for further improvements. They were "distracted" by building other features into llvm, profiling tools and such.

I think, even if the speed stays the same now, there will be good opportunities to real speed ups in the future.
Yes, I think that is the reason. Or perhaps: the users don't raise their voices to have something better?
What are the seven words? Today I am lazy.
Bad title. On PCs, 'native' means low-level machine code, and managed/non-native means .NET.

But on phones, 'native' means you get access to the phone itself, the OS, and its APIs, and non-native means javascript/html-powered everything.
Yes, but is it still the fastest way to develop a C++ desktop app for Linux?
My manager is probably too soft and easygoing. I've asked him before why others that work on my team and have the same responsibilities don't do any actual work, and his response was "I'm perfectly happy with the amount of work he is doing." This may be one of those cases where departments keep 10% underachievers around just in case of cuts in the future.

But yes, you are correct, it leaves those of us that do actual work feeling like things are unfair which is not a good environment.
If Heroku offers their own NoSQL alternative, they will put it on a different EC2 instance and have the same network latency so MongoHQ seems like an equal solution. They provide private IP addresses to connect to so it is the same as running it on your own separate EC2 instance. How does anyone separate their app and db server without creating latency in your opinion?
i hope so (although i find the whole thing a bit odd - why is it being merged now, if the work was mainly in fixing llvm; why not spend another year and hit the numbers? pypy has been steadily improving, and while people have said there's room for both, this smells a bit political...)
Well, then they wouldn't be n00bs then, would they?

I don't see how it's survivorship "bias" when the entire topic of discussion is only those people who fit a certain classification. That's not bias, that's just the topic.
The question is... How many others besides me searched the online reverse lookup databases to find the phrase? and did anyone succeed?
At $30 though, I'd expect the wine to be quite good. At $10, I'd hope for it.
It looked to me like he was complaining specifically about sec. 1706 forcing independent contractors to go through body shops.
There is something not discussed here, that I rarely see come up anywhere. Many of the places where stimulus money is available kept workers, started new projects, and even hired workers on the assumption that they would get stimulus money, or on the promise of that money. The power industry is spending lots of money, and keeping lots of workers on, based on money that is not actually spent by the government yet. The power of the stimulus goes far beyond the number of dollars currently spent.

For example see the large outlays lots of companies have put down on "Smart Grid" stuff.
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I laughed so hard that my cat fell off my knee :)
Rock stars don't open stores to sell their own CDs. Painters don't generally own their own galleries. Why must an inventor be forced to also be an entrepreneur?

Rock stars have to sing the music they write and work hard for a following until they're valuable enough to get a deal. Painters, no matter how good they are, need to relentlessly network and self-promote if they want their work to be recognized.

Simple creation is never enough. You need to bring forth value, and that means hard work.
Is it really so hard to check whether something has been submitted? Pulling out a "Golden Oldie" is one thing, but this exact item was submitted just four hours ago, as can be found by a totally trivial search:

http://searchyc.com/bill+gates?sort=by_date

which turns up this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134642

It's not even as if this is a different report, potentially offering a different point of view, or new information.

Having separate submissions of identical items means that any discussion gets split, potentially leading to replication, duplication, and loss of opportunity to get the most from the discussion. A small amount of effort and attention can help keep the quality of Hacker News higher than just a rabble.

Sorry about the rant, but today I've spent far too long removing utterly unnecessary duplication in some otherwise excellent software. It was becoming totally unmaintainable because of the duplication, and the parallel with duplication here is too much to ignore.

</rant>
Try editing paragraphs in InDesign. In practice, it’s really not much of an issue, because paragraphs don’t actually jump around all that much, and to the extent that they do, it’s really not particularly distracting.
I'm convinced that domestic terrorism is going to be a bigger problem over the next couple of decades than foreign attacks. The political discourse/tolerance in this country has gone downhill significantly even in my lifetime. I can only imagine at the extreme fringes these people have gone off the deep end. We see it over and over again. Probably the most disturbing sign of what to come is the 2008 election where the VP candidate for one of the two major parties was openly inciting hatred and smiling as people in the audience shouted horrible things.
Easier said than done. In the long run, I don't see humanity surviving if it doesn't figure out how to keep smart, disgruntled people in check.
Hyphenation is definitively on my to-do list. As you said, it will improve the output of the canvas tremendously.

The canvas is just a way to show the output of the line breaking algorithm. Earlier I had an example on my website of a dynamically created DOM paragraph using the Knuth & Plass algorithm. That way, the rendering was done by your browser (i.e. select, searching, etc. was possible) while the line breaks were handled by the algorithm. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get it reliable on all browsers, so I took it out before I posted this item. It's still on my Github repository: http://github.com/bramstein/javascript/tree/master/src/types...
And of course software patents are renowned for their unoriginality or obviousness.
I do not have access to acm papers from my current location and I will be here for a few days.
There are a number of wine review sites out there, though I don't know of any that give you an easy way to figure out which other users' tastes match yours.
Enterprise system architect - basically I design Oracle RAC database clusters, SAN storage, and VMware systems. I also do SAN administration and Linux administration. Like I said, I love my job, but it can be frustrating sometimes when everyone just expects "he'll do it for me."
The issue is that (IIRC) they use Mini on Android instead of Mobile. Better for them (Mini's already written in Java), worse for others (Mobile is a much more capable browser).

Hopefully Mini 5 will be more awesome and this will cease to be an issue. The beta looks promising.
You should submit that as a top-level HN story.
I'll just take the quicker method of waiting for the singularity.
My guess is they've chosen a passkey outside the range of the existing SHA-1 rainbow tables, but it might be worth a try.
So is techcrunch.com, apparently.
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Such an arbitrator is not really useful for the replica pairs as these are self-managing the master-slave status.

From the Mongo documentation:

The arbiter is used in some situations to determine which side of a pair is master. In the event of a network partition (left and right are both up, but can't communicate) whoever can talk to the arbiter becomes master.

Seems to me that would be useful in ensuring a durable system.
this site straight up weirds me out... that's all i got
If Bill Gates can create another monopoly, but this time offering clean energy for the world, I don't think anyone would complain
"Native Apps" is only equivalent to "web apps" on the iPhone because VMs aren't allowed on the iPhone, not because web apps don't use iPhone-specific APIs.
If the general internet public liked amihotornot.com, they will probably like this site.

On the other hand, I think its only flaws are the absence of pictures and easy buttons and the login requirement. Fewer people want to take the time to actually type something out, and it is as likely they have already posted their opinion of someone in twitter if they are going to type it at all. With the login requirement, it is a lot less accessible for the critic and the critiqued.
Well, the android link was broken when I visited. Maybe they are being techcrunched?
I remember how reading that Facebook was engineered to give you the most positive experience. This feels like the total opposite sort of thing.

I don't think it will be a huge success, though, because as much people say that they want constructive criticism, what they really want to hear is how great they are. Going to this site would just be disappointing and frustrating for most people.
Govt workers typically have great authority to impose things on other people. For example, school officials can suspend students.

If they're not up to being held to a higher standard, they're not up to having authority.

Plus, enforcing more harshly on them brings attention to bad laws.

Like I said, if they're unwilling to accept this, if they want to be treated like an ordinary citizen, they can quit govt work and become one. No one is forcing them to work for govt.
I've usually noticed it in the form of "Macs are awesome, but they definitely sandbox you in in terms of what you can do, and how you can do that. If you don't think in the Mac way, you'll find yourself frustrated."

This realization seems to hit about 6-12 months into ownership of their first Mac. Then slowly, they start cracking, and they start booting into Windows, or they install Linux and never go back. At some point they find that they can do everything they want outside of OSX and never bother to boot back. And then they realize that Mac keyboards and mice are really designed for Macs, and start to complain about that. And then you hear things like "I don't even want to carry my Mac Book Pro around since it's so heavy." And they end up just using it at home. Some will try and use their iPhones as a temporary portable computing solution, but you can only do so much with that.

By this time a couple of years has passed and its time to get a new computer. So they hit the Apple store and realize that nothing has really changed. The hardware is still "ok", but features they don't really care about are touted as differentiators worthy of an extra 40% "Apple Tax" -- like fancy acronyms for expensive screens that only appear marginally better for the casual user, or "unibody construction" or whatever. None of my friends know or care what a "bezel" is. But they think the chin on the new iMacs makes it look ridiculous compared to the HP they saw at Costco the other day for half the price (and better specs).

So they go to a Best Buy or whatever, the Macs are out front on table with a little dedicated display and sales area, but by this time they are conditioned not to care about the shiny because frankly, the shiny hasn't really cared much for them the last couple of years and head back to Windows laptop land and....well we've all seen the Microsoft commercials where some a parent takes their teenager into a Best Buy and walk out with a new Windows 7 PC. Except now they bought the laptop and a netbook, fell in love with Windows 7 at first sight, and they basically have no real transition to make since they all already use some version of Windows at work anyway (and they'll just use an enterprise Office license for Office stuff). And they still have enough money left over to buy some movies and a few CDs.

Of course there's always the one guy, the "Mac guy" who thinks we're all crazy and tells campfire ghost stories about problems Windows hasn't had since 1996. He drives a Dark Grey VW Golf, listens to Coldplay exclusively (and Paul Oakenfold), has his entire apartment furnished courtesy of Ikea, and wears stylish oxford shirts with cargo pants, refuses to wear sneakers and always has 2-3 days of stubble. Everybody still thinks he has a aura of "cool", just that his schtick is getting a little stale now that everybody is moving to the suburbs or into management. Nobody makes the connection that he was the one that got them all to switch in the first place it was so long ago, but they all remember the $2500 they could have used for their vacation to Switzerland.
Scarcity and uniqueness or at least the illusion of thereof is probably the big difference between wine and water.

With water you can advertise purity and maybe some minerals or additives. You might advertise the uniqueness of the source, but I think you get limited by the whole H20 thing.

With wine you can bring in the uniqueness of the grapes and the growing (read weather) conditions in a particular little piece of land on the Earth's surface in a given year. In addition to the arguments about the raw material you can add differences in fermenting, bottling, etc.

I think wine has a much better set of facts to build a marketing story on. I'd imagine with sufficient technology you could make some really good and standard wine but then the story aspect would be weakened.

This isn't to say that I don't think water markup (30$ a bottle) isn't an extremely impressive display of marketing. In terms of a difference between the cost of the base product and the marked up product water is probably even more amazing than wine. I just think that, in commanding absolute amounts, the scarcity arguments for wine probably make a better story.
'New' information is more valuable than 'old' information, so I don't think that's how it works, exactly.
I've been talking to Peter about this idea a bit, and I'm terrifically excited that he's planning on moving it forward. It seems strange that there's never been an open-source / code-culture periodical of record since the rise of the web, online or off.

With a little luck, and contributions from all of us (hopefully, Peter will have an open ear for story pitches), GQ could be for code what Make is for the DIY scene.

Here's some hypothetical articles I could imagine reading:

* A critical reading of The TeXbook.

* Bootstrap your own self-compiling mini-language.

* A brief history of asynchrony.

* Fun with Octrees.

* Visualizing strange attractors.

* A security analysis of the SHA-3 contenders.

What would you like to see?
touche. At least we have a plan though.
The joke had nothing to do with strong men. Everything to do with how devalued currencies in Latin America tend to be, and how many people in the USA are afraid that the growing Mexican presence will bring us poverty.
You are comparing apples and oranges.
I love that you can change the name. Way to optimize for the unknown!!
This is one of the better "Ask HN: Critique my New Startup" posts I think we've seen. The web site is tightly constructed affording obvious use paths and little opportunity for user error. The functionality is obviously useful to all sentient creatures with web access.

The evident exit strategies are striking in their boldness. The super intelligent being that emerges from the singularity, to obtain the password for POSTing an update, must either offer the entrepreneur the opportunity to upload his consciousness (which gives that entrepreneur and by extension his investors) considerable leverage - or must crack the SHA1 key. In either case, it would be far, far cheaper and simpler for the super intelligent being to simply acquire the entire operation for a princely sum. (We can safely presume that price is no object to a super-intelligent being.)

On the other hand, should the super-intelligent entity crack the SHA1 key and update the message of the site without paying, nevertheless the advertising revenue opportunities will be of biblical proportions. And think of the book deals!

On the third hand, should the super-intelligent entity prefer stealth, at some point it will have to pay to have the POST option shut down, lest a competing super-intelligent entity give up the secret.

So it's a big win, all around. Nicely done.

I'm saying a conservative $15M valuation just as asking price and expecting it to be bid up in the fierce competition among VCs that is likely to ensue. I am predicting either a galactic scale pay-off long-term, or a handsomely rewarding acquisition by Google or Facebook shorter term.

Where do I sign up?

Brilliant. Paul Graham are you noting this opportunity?
Risks of making messes
You mean 90% of all the tickets sold for a concert? That's pretty different from my reality (which is okay because I'm from a small european country where I pay, at least, 50% more just because I buy the ticket online which is the only data I've known about this until now).

Just to get this clearer, I commented on this because I'm a fan of Songkick and have been working around the music industry since I was a teen as a journalist first, a founder of a record label and also a promoter so while I know my data is pretty accurate I also know how limited it is geographically. I know this business in the UK is much more similar to the US than to europe in general too.

That's it, keep up the good work!
Agreed. It's strange to try to put a positive spin on everyone's shortcomings.
Thanks for the Balun link, I've never heard of that. Pulling is a possibility, but it's a tall house, and a rental, and I am preferring something less permanent.
The real winners are the domain name registrars.
My lolcats. Nooooo!

(Sadly, I did discover the outage when I opened my morning read of Fail Blog / Graph Jam / I can haz cheezeburger / Oddly Specific / Photobomb / WTF Pictures / Ugliest Tattoos / Failbooking. Does admitting that mean I'm no longer qualified for HN?)
The non-tech girl will not be interested or impressed.

The tech girl will not be pleased to see her name can be changed to anything with a different URL.

Not a good plan!
http://hello.willyougotoformalwithme.com/world
There is also a paper that claims linear time for formatting paragraphs using dynamic programming:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.47.3...

I haven't really wrapped my head around the paper yet, but I think it only holds if you take out some of the elements of the original Knuth & Plass algorithm (the box, glue and penalty model.) Nevertheless, linear time seems possible for a total-fit algorithm if you're willing to give up that model.

There is also a Haskell and C++ implementation (with source code) available on the authors web page:
http://progtools.comlab.ox.ac.uk/members/oege/publications/s...