skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very old and I have no idea how accurate it still is, but I found Inside the C++ Object Model by Stanley Lippman (http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Object-Model-Stanley-Lippman/dp...) to be tremendously useful in the mid-'90s for understanding what was going on under the hood.

Stroustrup's The Design and Evolution of C++ (http://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/d...) is very good for explaining the "why" of C++, especially the stranger parts.

One other note, echoing some of the others: everyone picks out a subset of C++ and programs in that, and smart companies make that formal. You might see if your problem domain matches one of the available good ones, like Google's (well, I've heard that it's good).
AppsFire wants to viralize iPhone apps
That's a great post (the T-shirt one).

I think you are right - it does belong on a Reddit type site. I find it really frustrating that there is not a hacker news type service but for creative writers. I love startups but I also like to blog but it's hard getting any people to read my content!

You are right though there is more appropriate media out there for these sort of posts but I am just not certain what they are.

I am not sure I can spin it to meet the audience but I have noticed that the Hacker News audience is generally one that is very open minded and also one that likes to be entertained. This 'entertainment' normally comes in the form of startups and all things interent but there are also users who have a sense of humour (such as yourself) who can appreciate the odd, random entertaining post (I hope).
Regarding c), the crappy government jobs digging holes probably would be a positive outcome.

People on welfare can sit around watching TV, playing sports or engaging in other recreational activities [1]. This is probably more pleasant than getting a job. If we replaced recreation with hole digging, people on welfare would have a greater incentive to find a job.

Regarding d), this is only true if additional education and infrastructure provide a greater benefit to the economy than their opportunity cost (e.g. the cost to business and consumers of the taxes paid to support education/infrastructure). It's not by any means clear that this is the case.

[1] Based on obesity rates among the poor, I suspect watching TV is much more common than playing sports.
The turkey is still living, breathing, and generally living a happy, easy life until a few days before Thanksgiving. Of course you're doing ok - insurance against catastrophic events isn't something you use a little of each day like pasta or olive oil. Some people can probably get along fine without ever having it. If you need it though, you need it from one moment to the next, when you can no longer purchase it.
Viacom Asking For 'Substantial' Refund on Harmonix Earnout From Founders
I meant their particular authoring tools, which output Flash rather than HTML5.

They could adjust them to output HTML5 with Flash fallback, and that would be a Good Thing. But it seems odd to keep on going with a poorly integrated[1] plugin which duplicates the work done in open HTML+JS runtimes available everywhere from desktops to smartphones[2].

1) eg Flash 'cookies' which don't get wiped when you delete your cookies in the browser.

2) And 'superphones', of course. :-)
I love this feature. I miss it when i have to work on other systems/browsers. Like you say, it's standard.. You might like chrome, it compromised on the feature by only allowing you to paste+go on the new-tab-button.

I think ubuntu "helps" you by disabling this feature by default though.
This fictional world of optimal business structures
Wow, interesting. Is Europe-bound traffic really expensive for the ISPs or is this basically just a money-making scheme?

As far as I know there are only 2 major connections out of southern Africa, one all the way just off the west coast to Europe (with a branch to South America) and one through the Indian Ocean to India. I guess that duopoly could easily be used to drive up prices.
Have you ever ridden a public school bus? I don't seem to remember much socializing with peers, not in a good way at least.
That's not true. Civil cases can have a jury.
It was fairly clear to me that after it's "breaking news: Jason Calacanis has an iPad" stories and this nonsense that TechCrunch just makes stuff up to get views. Arrington is to Early Adopters what Ann Coulter is to conservatives. He figures out just what it is that you want it to hear-- truth or not-- and tells it to you.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Extreme Scale Computing
I should state that not all conservatives fall for Ann Coulter's nonsense, just as not all early adopters fall for Arrington's nonsense either.
I believe that's the point of the post, to show how it's all taking place behind closed doors.
Everyone focused on Microsoft at the time but Yahoo and others also dissented. I think for good reason; ES4 is nearly completely different from normal Javascript (static types, class-based inheritance).

Also Adobe was getting a standard that was what they already had and Mozilla had a AS3 VM runtime from Adobe. Microsoft would have been starting from scratch. I don't blame them for blocking it.

(EDIT: If you look at this Apple also marked red to much of ES4: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pFIHldY_CkszsFxMkQORe...)
It was aggressive business practices that squashed competition such as MCI and an attitude by the leaders of AT&T that felt the risk of antitrust action against them was an acceptable business risk. Information from the MCI case was shared with the antitrust effort and helped lead to their breakup.
Kids these days... When I was their age, I talked to my ten thousand friends all the time. While walking uphill to school. Both ways. That takes me back. OK, back to posting rants on the Internet.

No offence :)
It's worth noting that it's against the Google Visualization terms of service to self-host the javascript. It's not a big deal if you need the pure JS stuff, but anything which generates images is sending the data to google's servers. Be careful exactly what you're using if you're displaying sensitive data.
GB (AI), cognitive models papers and Lisp code on the way 
Hey guys (enthusiast AI guys, and Lispers too),
I would like to share my professor Guilherme Bittencourt
AI publications (and later his code),
it goes specifically on cognitive models (well known,
but not a popular and easy field).
Unfortunately, he passed away last year (cancer), and
most of his work is stagnated (since the disease, 2008).
I have most of his cognitive model coded in Common Lisp,
and will be pulling publically when I get time to
turn it "usable", and fix some things up.
If anyone has interest in this field, just contact me,
and we'll come along.

[1]: http://www.das.ufsc.br/~gb/publications97-05/
[2}: http://www.das.ufsc.br/~gb/publications05-07/
The worst part of all? Google's own properties handle these different types of accounts poorly. Google App Engine in particular will lock you out if you inadvertently have an administrator with a Google Account and Goodle Domain Account with the same email address.
While Lua doesn't have many batteries included, it is trivial to expose a C lib-whatever interface to Lua when needed (example - http://github.com/iamaleksey/lua-zmq/blob/master/zmq.c).

And there is a c/++ library for almost everything.
Of course! Adobe is now blocking the pages about Adobe blocking the HTML5 Draft!
One presumes that if it were possible to find better jobs, these people would have found them -- they certainly sound like dedicated workers. Instead, they're working double-shifts at WalMarts and prisons.

I suspect if it were possible to find better jobs in Lenoir, N.C (Pop. 16,000), they would have found it. In fact, they probably would have found better jobs anywhere in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton statistical area (Pop. 360,000).

On the other hand, there are plenty of data center technician jobs in Newark and other parts of northern NJ. I don't see any reason to believe the people in this story made any effort to seek them out.
Regarding "a":
I don't see a refutation of the idea anywhere in your response.

Regarding "b:
No. But driving the competitor out of business assumes that you're doing the same task more efficiently (with fewer people), which is theoretically better for the economy as a whole, since it means that the same goods/services are produced at less cost, and frees up labor for other things.

Regarding "c":
How exactly would we be worse off as a society in this context? Replace "dig holes" with "pick up litter" or some other menial but necessary task, and it looks like a net win to me. You expend the same money, but actually get some small societal return on your investment. Can you actually argue that welfare recipients _ought_ to be idle?

Regarding "d":
Aren't higher taxes and greater difficultly in obtaining starting capital "drags on efficiency"?

Regarding "e":
Imagine you have a brilliant idea on how to produce, market, and sell widgets. To get started, you need new equipment, a storefront, and some working capital. How do you obtain these things? If someone lent you the capital to get started, and you created a new business as a result, are they not (at least tangentially) engaged in a 'productive' activity?
Yes.

1) To practice my writing skill - I may be awesome at programming, but my prose comes out too slow. I hope practice will allow me to write faster, yet still coherently.

2) There are many people on the internet that are just plain wrong, and I must correct them! :)

3) To leave an impression when I am gone, albeit small.
BTW for "inactive" read "stable" :-)
I have updated my personal build a bit, but haven't had time to add my changes back to SourceForge.
Mark Hurd
markhurd@ozemail.com.au
I wonder... before buzz, her ex-husband could also have followed her, probably without her ever noticing. Now that buzz generated, well, buzz, she found out about it and now can actually take mesures to block her ex.

While I see dubious value of automatically setting often mailing addresses to following (this should not have been the case, IMHO), I have a feeling that the much more visible follow-relationships right now might actually be an improvement to the older situation where you never really knew who was following whom, as right now, you actually have a chance to find out about it.

(also as a preventive measure: I'm not trying to troll. I understand her and I'm feeling bad for her, but I would really like to discuss whether this can't actually be some kind of a good thing as she at least knows that he's following her now)
Sometimes I discover something I want to share with everyone else. Or I have an opinion I want to air to the world. In the end, it doesn't really matter that the world largely doesn't care because I don't promote my blog a lot, because I post very rarely or because my posts aren't brilliant like Steve Yegge's. I'm happy whenever there's someone who reads it, but I don't have enough time to put into making it better than it is right now.
I agree - I don't have a public profile setup, so nothing was added to buzz for me.
I'd also love to know
Oh nice! If so, then I'm glad I signed up for Amazon Prime. I'm still getting an iPad, though :D
When you sign up to twitter, you know what you're getting into, and you act accordingly - maybe you use an anonymous handle, maybe you only share certain things, maybe you keep your account private, etc.

When you signed up for Gmail and Reader accounts, you thought you were getting email and RSS, and you acted differently than you would for a twitter account. For Google to suddenly invert those expectations is jarring and unwelcome, and to expose personal information derived from activities undertaken with particular expectations in place is a complete betrayal of trust. I still can't believe how stupid Google was about this.
1. Rashomon

2. Apocalypse Now

3. 12 Angry Men
The heart, of course!
5+1 jquery tagging components
No, if you don't have a public profile, then no-one will be following you.
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/10/19/the-point

Wise publishers just won't pick you up if they can't get exclusive rights.
Clickable:

http://www.das.ufsc.br/~gb/publications97-05/

http://www.das.ufsc.br/~gb/publications05-07/
But they can do more basic things, like making sure that you won't starve to death when you fail, or ensuring that falling ill while starting your company won't bankrupt you (or kill you). They can make sure that the lights turn on, that clean water comes out of your faucet, and that you're reasonably safe at home and work.

All of these things are provided by your state, not congress.
This is the first time I have seen the image in that page. No, I did not get that prompt.

I didn't watch the Google Buzz demo video, because I'm not interested in Buzz. I shouldn't have to watch something I'm not interested in to find out how not to take part in what I'm not interested in. It also took me quite a while to figure out where the turn off button was - since its not in the normal settings, where I would expect to find such things.
UX Design framework - Behaviour
Larry Ellison started Oracle in his 30s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
This article makes an excellent point. I can only speak from the US perspective, but I think a lot of the reason the average non-scientist has trouble with things like pluto suddenly not being a planet anymore is the way science is taught to us as kids. For the most part, everything in science is presented as a nice tidy package with little ambiguity as if we have it all figured out. Sure, you get the occasional "scientists don't understand XYZ yet" sort of explanation here or there, but for the most part everything is presented as settled. This presentation persists from the time kids are very young, all the way up through high school.

As a scientist, training yourself to be objective and questioning is one of the hardest skills to learn. It takes until college before you start realizing that science is messy and has all sorts of caveats, controversies, and disagreements. Some of the issues are presented to students, but they are often the ones which are blindingly obvious now (i.e. we have confirmed to 99.9% certainty that the sun does not revolve around the Earth). Rarely are the really dicey controversies presented.

It takes even longer for you to realize that not only does all this ambiguity exist, it's actually the norm. Once you start looking back at history, you realize some of the biggest scientific discoveries were based on people saying, "what if all my assumptions are totally wrong and there is a completely different explanation for what I observe?". Or, some new kind of technology enables you to view some previously hidden phenomenon and all your assumptions are overturned immediately.

Unless you actually pursue a science-related career, you unlikely to ever really understand any of this.
I came here to say these exact things. Well done, and good luck!

Actually, I'd add a fifth item that is related to item 1:

5. Writing about things helps me clarify my ideas and stop hand-waving over important details. So writing makes me a better writer, and it also makes me a better thinker.
Yes, it provides an easy way of transferring ideas and scripts I'm using at home to work without having to pass code through an overly aggressive email filter.

Besides, as others have said people can see what quality level of code I can produce from it.
Replace "dig holes" with "pick up litter" or some other menial but necessary task, and it looks like a net win to me.

If there are already people employed by state or local governments to pick up litter, they won’t be happy to see former welfare recipients being given the same job for a much lower pay.

OTOH, one thing the current stimulus package did was give money to state and local governments, so that they didn’t have to lay off sanitation workers (or teachers or police officers or etc.) for lack of money. Recessions are particularly hard on state governments because most state constitutions require balanced budgets, but recessions cut into their tax revenue at the very same time that demands on government services increase.
JsFiddle: Online Editor for The Web
Wrangler - Cool Flash animations
Noticings : the game of noticing things around you
I would bet that in some poor neighborhoods, watching TV is safer than playing sports.
The most amusing thing about this rant is that it completely overlooked the most egregious error in that sentence fragment - an error, I had sincerely hope is not representative of Stanford students in general.
Carl Sagan And Ann Druyan's Ultimate Mix Tape
It's not that novel. As open source has become mainstream you'll find nearly every proprietary platform maker talking about how great "open source" is as a way to build on top of their proprietary system.
Luggage, Bags & Cases Dropshippers
Looks like they want RDFa, microformats and Canvas (2D) to be stripped: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0349... and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2010Feb/0002...
1. Arrogance. All writers have some form of arrogance because they think that what they say is worth reading.

2. To promote my book. I hope readers of my blog will be tempted to buy The Geek Atlas.

3. To quote Alain de Botton: "Authors write things down so as to have to think of them less."

4. It helps me practice writing.
Different wage levels is one major reason.

Most other countries are poorer than the US; the US has a GDP per capita 50% higher than the EU and (for example) 40% higher than France. Since a medical procedure takes the same amount of time in either place, the cost will be proportional to wages.

Additionally, the US is far more unequal than most other countries. At the top of the skill chain, the gap increases significantly [1]. The US costs more simply because doctor's salaries need to be competitive with banker and programmer salaries.

[1] I know a few FOB Indians who had multiple jobs/offers, they say the US can often pay double what the EU does.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com at 30. It wasn't that big until 3 years later.
Yes. For apparently similar reasons to other people.

1) To write. Whether or not I am good at it or anyone reads it, I enjoy the act of writing.

2) To record a bit of who I am, not for the internet, but for my kids, just in case I get hit by a bus before they grow up.
C++ is large, and it is not perfect, but it is very good for a large set of diverse problems. I find pointless C++ bashing (such as the FQA) quite annoying, although it might be somehow amusing to some people, most of whom do not really use C++.

And the subset argument, although it has some truth in it, is misused a lot. Sure, I do not use all of the C++ features, but how can you choose a subset well if you do not have at least an idea of most features? And the well-chosen subset can be different from project to project. I see C++ in a similar way to a large toolset (I mean a metal/plastic/wood toolset, not a software toolset). You don't need to master all the tools in a toolset to do a particular job, but you should have an idea of most of them.
From http://www.etsy.com/about.php:

> "Our mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers.

Our vision is to build a new economy and present a better choice:

Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade."

(emphasis mine).

First, to think that we will all move back--and that's what it is, backward movement--toward a day where everyone will be some sort of subsistence producing, small-scale artisan is historically, socially, and technologically ridiculous. It's almost as if society would be moving toward the point where capitalism emerged from feudalism once again, where society would be stratified into a class of techno-elites, and everybody else.

Second, what makes you think that everyone is some sort of artist? What about the mechanic, scientist, or garbage man without "artistic" talent? What happens to them?

Third, $32 million is an incredibly small number compared to the billions even one company makes. What makes you think something like etsy.com would scale? Even if it were to scale out it's operations to the point where it could generate billions, do you really think etsy.com or its brokered artisans would produce item in a one-at-a-time, handmade fashion. Most likely, a new form cottage industry would emerge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_industry#Cottage_indust...). But that couldn't even work, as historically speaking, cottage production was destroyed by socialized production, e.g. factory work.
Can we have a source please, from either of you?
Electronic Key Impressioner - scan the keyhole, USB to computer, create key
Recklessness and lack of foresight doesn't make you inhuman. If you forwarded this post back in time to the Buzz engineers, they would try to fix it before launch -- not laugh maniacally at the thought of an innocent woman fearing for her safety.
Do you write comments on Hacker News? And if so, why?
Also see http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/how_to/4344794.ht... from Popular Mechanics.
Sure, but there's a huge difference between "waiting to be found" and "pushed to the foreground".

It's just like the Facebook Newsfeed debacle. People tend to have an expectation of "how public" something is on a scale, and when that changes suddenly it can be a bit jarring. Ultimately, people adjust -- but it's a mistake to look at public/private as a binary concept. In many people's minds, it is a sliding scale.
True (although I cringe at using the world "agressive" WRT to the old AT&T) ... but was a breakup, and one of that nature, the right solution?

A problem here is that MCI's business directly attacked the heart of the AT&T business model, which had long distance subsidizing local telephone service. They had to viciously defend the former.

The breakup's solution was the Federal Subscriber Line Charge.
To quote you quoting Alain de Botton:

>3. To quote Alain de Botton: "Authors write things down so as to have to think of them less."

This is what I do when I have a lot on my mind. It is a nice exercise to flush everything out and get closure.

Also, can I get a review copy of your book? Ill write a review on O'Reilly .. No? ok didnt think so ...
What is your rationale for tip #2? Don't forget that you also have to guard against other kinds of leaks: handles, database connections, etc. Given the lack of a finally clause in standard C++ try/catch blocks I'm not sure how you can do that successfully w/o smart pointers and their ilk.
ElasticSearch - a new distributed, RESTful search engine based on Lucene
No, I feel a lot of people my age are not experienced enough to be able to write anything worthwhile. The result is "So I was reading this on [well-known blog] and here is my commentary", or "This is how you do X in Y", which should really be in the wiki for Y.
The ability to set privacy settings individually per contact, not just on the entire list seems to be a critical missing feature on buzz.

There are some people you don't want to follow at all, and there are some people you want to follow in private.

As a friend of mine pointed out in a recent blog post, you really don't want to make all info on all the people you follow public, especially if they're your kids: http://anwag.posterous.com/
This story also referenced http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1119814. This seems to be the source, although not referenced in TFA.
I'm not sure of that.

In the US, obesity causes about 112,000 deaths yearly [1]. 14,000 or so people were murdered [2], mostly by people they knew [3].

This doesn't give relative risks in any given neighborhood, of course, but it is suggestive. Also, personal experience: Harlem is extremely safe, but you see lots of obesity and very little sports activity there.

[1] http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cluster=...

[2] http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/expanded_informatio...

[3] http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/expanded_informatio...