skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I can understand downing based on my knee jerk immaturity towards this, but is any of this legitimate?

Will anyone benefit from having read this article?

Are there really that many people interested in this?

Are you all really up voting this stuff because you're legitimately interested?
Top reasons to run my Tonido 24×7
You chose an interesting example. And yet we can argue Asimov was expert at writing, he probably had more practice at it than any other human being that I know.(or heard of)
Why so many research papers are so hard to understand
This is a great project and worth all the support it can get!

The proprietary firmware in mobile phones/smartphones is annoying, we have no access and no idea what it is doing / which information it sends to the network.

I want my Android phone to only run open source software!
"I should be allowed to run the programs I want on my own computer."

Except wifi tethering? Contrary to popular memes Google imposes a number of restrictions on the Android Market:

http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html
The selection of fresh produce was [...] even better than our local organic grocery store that gets its food from local farmers.

Not sure why that would be surprising. Buying from local farmers inherently means limiting yourself to local crops. So for example no southern hemisphere crops in the off season, no tropical crops of any kind, etc... Expanding one's options to be able to fly stuff in from anywhere in the world is always going to improve selection.

The complaints about non-local food are about things like sustainability, pesticide regulation, energy budget, etc... No one sane claims it doesn't taste good.
It flashes your username and then the video ends. I had to pause it to see what it said.

You need to add a few seconds to the end so we can read it before the related videos show.
Flash Player 10.1 on Google Nexus One
You should read this recent submission if you haven't yet:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121775
[No One Knows What the F* They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge") (jangosteve.com)]
Let me make my point more succinct.

Digital systems could care less whether you're black, white, brown, red or yellow. If it turns out that one group is better than another at innovation, design and implementation then so be it.

It's simple. Usain Bolt is the best because of hard work, talent, and a belief in himself. He doesn't need diversity. He's competing in an arena where pure performance is all that matters. If I could beat him I would. I can't. But I'm not running around crying foul because I'm under-represented.

If the author of this blasted article wants to be part of some Silicon Valley success story then let her sit in the library or computer lab for years at a time like everybody else.
DMCA + 3 Strikes: ACTA Internet Chapter Leaks
pretty much yes.
http://www.xero.com

We have been using Xero for our business since day 1 about 3 years ago. Web based, has an API, multi-currency support, automatic bank feed downloads (depending on who you're with) and other great features make it a very solid offering.

It has made accounting an "it-just-works" aspect of our business. It's been wonderful and I would strongly encourage any startup to check it out. I can reconcile our transactions in about 2 minutes a day (literally). I cannot sing high enough praises for something that has saved me so much time and somehow actually made accounting fun.
surprised there wasn't one already...
The "is gay" thing is lame.
Claiming that Edison invented the phonograph, the motion picture, and the electric light bulb is like claiming Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player, the GUI, and the mouse.
[pdf] Networks, Crowds, and Markets (textbook to be published by Cambridge)
49 workers poisoned at Apple’s iPhone touchscreen supplier Wintek
Was this a slidestack from a bit ago? I remember reading a slidestack of yours a couple months back on the same topic, and found it VERY informative.

In any event, keep up the free education! I've learned alot going through your site. Oh, and thanks for some great ruby libraries!
Yes, but good urban growth is guided by good policy. That involves a good deal of planning, even though it's not all planned at once by a traveling merchant 150 years ago.
Jason Calacanis Knows He's Spamming Google, He Just Thinks It's No Big Deal
Why not just have an "adult" section that doesn't show up on the Top 25, or only shows up when you opt-in?

That seems to be a better solution than arbitrary censorship.
Perhaps you and I have different definitions of "realistic".

a) 10% would appear to many people, I believe, to be a fuckton.

b) Mozilla makes free software. They have obligations to downstream distributors.
While most of us are familiar with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and most of us enjoy making silly jokes, this comment fits better at reddit than here.
I'm a big fan of Eben Moglen as well, which is why we contacted him and the Software Freedom Law Center to analyze WordPress and give an opinion on themes specifically:

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/
It's not a misleading interpretation of the data, it is a misleading interpretation of the purpose of the visa, and not necessarily by the authors alone. They are merely saying that a majority of the people who work on an H-1B visa, do not stay in the U.S. beyond their terms. The H-1B is officially a "Temporary Employment Visa", so, as you say, this was the intent.

Where the intent is muddled is in letting H-1B applicants apply for permanent residency permits, but choking the supply of these permits so it takes a decade to get one.

I agree with you that there should be a point based system for green cards.
The Balearic Islands apparently extends some Human Rights to great apes.
Part of the problem here is that not all interviewers can recognize a candidates learning aptitude.
Typically the interviewer is so enamored with his own coding style that if the candidate can't mimic his style the candidate is not acceptable.
If the candidate does not communicate in the interviewers style the candidate is not acceptable and so on.
As well, most programming projects are not about such simple problem solving tasks as printing out the contents of a text file backwards. Of course most people could figure this out and as my experience has been this is when most people think about such issues, when they are required to apply it to a larger problem at hand.
The whole situation is lame.
and the iPhone is simpler for a non-tech-savvy person to understand.

These remarks are starting to get me. This is like saying that one foot high hurdle is easier for non athlete to jump over than three-feet high. And it is backwards. One foot hurdle is easier for the most to jump over when three-feet high one may have more demanding requirements on your fitness level.
No, they didn't solve the problem. They removed a consequence of a problem, but the problem still exists: a poor app store.
This is nothing but thuggery by the EU. Microsoft never put a gun to anyone's head to sell their OS or browser. And if they did they should be taken to court for that--not antitrust. Sure they made aggressive deals with OEMs, but OEMs could have walked away anytime and face the consequences with their customers. At the end of the day, consumers have a choice what they buy. That choice does not include imaginary products suppliers don't want to deliver whether rationally or not (e.g. an OS without a browser, an iPhone with Flash, etc.).

Antitrust is insulting to peoples' intelligence. It puts politicians (and the private parties that lobby and manipulate them) in charge of the marketplace.

Vote me down, flame and pillory me all you want. But get ready when your private property is the next to be deemed too socially important for you to fully own anymore. You'll deserve it when it happens.
Wal-Mart doesn't destroy local businesses or stores. Consumers who choose to shop at the local Wal-Mart instead of their local businesses destroy the local stores. Consumers' obsession with price, and price alone, over everything, including quality of goods, and service, is what kills small stores.

And that's exactly why you won't find me at a Wal-Mart (and living in NYC, there aren't any here...yet)
Yeah, lamer though that Mahalo turned it into a permanent page: http://www.mahalo.com/mattcutts-is-gay-and-wont-ban-us
This a new presentation specifically about the MRI GC, but it covers some of the same tools mentioned in our Debugging Ruby and Threaded Awesome talks
Related course website: http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/courses/info2040/2010sp/
there was someone squatting on it
hey wow thanks it was a very inspiring talk. but wait a minute before you shout privacy leaks and etc. I think the sharing of everything we do, under our real name will be boring after a while and people will get new alteregos (khm, "avatars", hm...maybenot) because they can leave their real self out there and jump in to the world like somebody else. Then meet new people, do crazy stuff and then share it again like we do it now on the net it will be just much more integrated to our life... the phrase: "the internet is coming to our life" is finaly getting some new meaning.
Large Hadron Collider Webcams
Quite the opposite, and in fact we list a ton of commercial theme folks here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/

All are GPL.
I think the applicability of the article depends on your local Walmart. Perhaps in Boston you get local, sustainable, produce. But where I live in Texas, even the newest Walmarts still only stock the plasticized Mexican and Chilean produce, Chinese seafood, and red-dyed beef. YMMV.
What? I can't believe that this question was asked in seriousness.

Edit: I've given a lot of thought to the notion of war between the US and China. I think it has a non-trivial possibility of occurring. But not in the near future, and not over such an insignificant event. My conclusions are that, should such a war occur, it would be sparked by the Chinese mainland taking Taiwan by force very quickly and that it wouldn't happen until China felt it was on a near level with the US economically (something that is still quite far away).

I just feel like the US news has taken a really anti-Chinese turn over the past year or two. I suspect that it has to do with the poor American economic situation and a desire for a common enemy.
I recommend Peter Singer's "Practical Ethics" in this context. It is not exactly light reading, but discusses those issues at quite some length.
They are important, but this one didn't really add any new information beyond the ones we've already seen.
Facebook Shutters Political Fan Page, Users Cry Foul
I think Jason is ignoring is the core of Ericsson's insight, the value of deliberate practice.

Jason highlights the value of getting started, that startups are a "come are you are party" but seems to suggest that passion can substitute for learning from your mistakes. This sounds like the "Little Engine That Could" model (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Engine_That_Could ) of repeating "I think I can, I think I can,..." which is no substitute for learning from your mistakes.

What's the best way to learn from your mistakes? What Ericsson calls "deliberate practice." Here is a simple example that I think most entrepreneurs would find readily applicable, taken from an interview with Anders in Fast Company (see http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/110/final-word.html ):

"Medical diagnosticians see a patient once or twice, make an assessment in an effort to solve a particularly difficult case, and then they move on. They may never see him or her again. I recently interviewed a highly successful diagnostician who works very differently. He spends a lot of his own time checking up on his patients, taking extensive notes on what he's thinking at the time of diagnosis, and checking back to see how accurate he is. This extra step he created gives him a significant advantage compared with his peers. It lets him better understand how and when he's improving. In general, elite performers utilize some technique that typically isn't well known or widely practiced."

This model is certainly directly applicable to both engineering and sales & marketing problems.
While it generally isn't true of computer displays, some LCD televisions do have slightly reduced power consumption on black. It's not from the LCD shuttering the light from the backlight, but from control electronics reducing the backlight brightness dynamically. Those "dynamic" contrast specifications on some displays are a little misleading.
One tends to think of a display having a high contrast figure as being more effective at blocking the light when displaying black (less "Bleed-through"), but they cheat by dimming the backlight.
That may result in small bright areas in dark scenes ending up a bit darker than they should be.

With all backlit LCDs, lowering the (backlight) brightness setting conserves more energy than having the content dim the same amount. Using the lowest acceptable brightness setting not only saves energy, but extends display life.

C.R.T.s usually have the greatest change in power consumption with content brightness shifts, particularly in Trinitron tubes.
I'd love to try out your test, E-mail sent! (UK-based as well)
Most of the arguments against wal-mart are more arguments of taste than arguments of morality. Rich people despise wal-mart because it represents poor taste. They secretly despise the poor as well because the living, breathing, real-world poor folks tend to be lazy, overweight, and uncultured (yes, I'm aware that this is just a broad characterization which unfairly lumps many fine, upstanding, educated, highly sophisticated yet otherwise financially poor individuals into this group as well, I know many such people, I've been there myself, don't write letters) to a far greater degree than the hypothetical ideal model of the poor that rich people imagine.

It's far easier to champion the poor in the abstract than it is to do so in practice.
Sounds like a good practical explanation why in some cultures (French, for example), it's practically mandatory to say the equivalent of "Hello" and other pleasantries before getting to the actual content of the conversation.
Developmental Psychologist Says Teenagers Are Different
sigh "They don't have to explain to you if they want to take out the trash." That's the dismissal. The OP was dismissing the argument.

"Pointing out that it is within Apple's rights is a counter-argument to the argument that was actually made, not merely a dismissal of it as inarguable."

This wasn't a point, and has no bearing on the arguments being presented.
New Y Combinator Twitter account
The Truth about Mobile Application Stores
I don't think your assumption is correct. Most Chinese social networking sites, by default, allow you to see a list of the most recent people who viewed your profile, and the exact time they viewed it at.

It's probably a cultural thing, but still think saying that its value will "drop to a fraction" is a bit apocalyptic, especially if you can disable the feature.
Windows Phone: User Interface Teases & Transitions
I get it that you're just throwing ideas out there, but you can't throw around claims of a "no true Scotsman" argument when you yourself are dismissing some of your former claims.

First you claimed, "multi-hundred years of stable government by kings," but now you claim, "stability and freedom would seem to be more a function of wealth than mode of government." Don't spend time dissecting other people's words when your own words aren't necessarily in order. Are you claiming that an all-powerful ruler brings stability or are you claiming that stability is completely disjoint from government?
Why the downvotes? The topic of this article is not about Hacker News, it is about blogs in general.
It's really not just price. One day when I was living in the middle of San Francisco I needed a ordinary paper hole punch. An item I remembered as being relatively common. I walked down Haight street and tried the stationary store, the art store, the hardware store, walgreens, and the salvation army. The salvation army had a three hole punch, no one else had any paper punchers. I ended up spending $20 to get a device designed to punch holes in metal or something the hardware store. I really wished for a walmart that day.
Most professional programmers probably view programming like any other job, rather than a passion like I expect most HN readers do. As a result, they leave programming behind when they leave the workplace.
I don't even know if this is the answer. The reason being I have never needed to work with fractions or with the modulus operator (I'm 12 years out of school, which is the last time I need it). The only reason I know about it is because I was asked about a question involving the modulus character in an interview.

But I can tell you I have had many clients that have been happy with my work.

<code>
for (e in 1..100) {
if ((e % 3 == 0) && (e % 5 == 0)) { println "FizzBuzz" }
else if (e % 3 == 0) { println "Fizz"}
else if (e % 5 == 0) { println "Buzz"}
else println e
}
</code>
"But we're not asking for an insight into how they will code in the real job. We're asking if they can write something like, say, FizzBuzz. More, we're not even asking them to be syntactically flawless and optimally efficient. We're asking if there's any chance that they'll produce working code at all."

In practice, few people are asking questions that are as easy as FizzBuzz. I've been through a lot of programming interviews, and I have yet to encounter a problem of that simplicity as an interview exercise. Instead, most companies seem far more interested in laying down the gauntlet, so that they can convince everyone (including themselves) that they only hire "the best".

It sounds like you're trying to keep your programming interviews sane, and that's great. But the problems happen when the other 98% of programmers convince themselves that whiteboarding exercises can be used to successfully discriminate the best of the best from the merely good. One needs only look at the other comments on this page to see that there's a huge and disjoint set of skills that define "competency" to different people.
"I decided that I wanted to build a network and a reputation that went both ways - essentially, I wanted to have a large number of people out there, in different organizations, who are both confident in my tech skills and my value as a manager."

How did you accomplish this?
Other form processors
There are many other form processors that have been around loinger and provide much more functionality:

http://www.elbowspace.com
http://www.formsite.com
http://www.formspring.com
http://www.logiforms.com
http://www.fospace.com
Perhaps unnecessary but they certainly draw more attention and increase the likelihood that something will be done.
Newp.
I always noticed the awkward goodbye, in other people, not so much myself because of lack of phone conversations really.
But it seems people have to make an excuse for every time there hanging up rather than just saying im going to go now bye or something.
What really happens when you navigate to a URL
Maybe, but other than the iPhone with the App Store, on Android you are not tied to the Android Market.

I think for tethering you still need to root the phone, but that is because of security restrictions for common apps. They usually can't change the routing table or something (I am not an expert on this). I think rooting is also not frowned upon on Android.
I love the term 'greenwashing'.
That's funny since the Toyota Production System is the inspiration for today's Lean Development Practices. Apparently, someone else extended those 60 years of learning into software development but didn't tell Toyota about it.
Why I Wish My Competitors Well And You Should Too
I think the point is using APIs, not "screen-scraping" - but the end result is mostly the same.
Don't know about it, but not sure why there would be lack of Python support. I suppose for standard apps they would have to run on a Java VM, so only Jython would be possible. Don't know about the state of Jython...

I assume if you root the phone, you can also run native apps, so why shouldn't Python work?
I am leaving iPhone.
Reason: I can write code in Java and load it on my phone without paying money to anybody. I can not afford to pay $100 to Apple every year just to load apps on my phone written by me.
We were getting a ton of press. We had reached out a bit to look for a search or technology partner (vivisimo and microsoft) and Yahoo reached out.

However, we already had an investment banker (Quincy Smith) who was able to talk to people on our behalf.
> Who do you think makes the best long-term decisions? A leader who knows they will still be there in 20 years to accept the consequences

So are you willing to argue that Kim Jong-Il is a positive force in the development of North Korea? What about the USSR under Stalin? Are these all better forms of government what what the US has now?
We've been increasing slow start on the server for a while now. (recomiple the linux kernel needed)
We increase the initial 2 packet limit to 16. We do this ONLY for our html page in order to get it to the client faster.

Imagine a 22K page.... (1.5K frames, double every rtt)

after 1 RTT : 3K (2 frames * 1.5k per frame)

after 2 RTT : 3K+6K = 9K

after 3 RTT : 3K+6K+12K = 21K

after 4 RTT : 3K+6K+12K+24K = 45K

So for a client to get a 22K html page it requires 4RTT...if you think of 200ms for a RTT thats 800ms to get the page.
Lame...
increase your slow start from 2 frames to 16 so in the first RTT we send up to a 24K page in one shot.

This is useful for non-keepalive connections. For keep alive you may think that it remains open for the whole keep alive time but that's not normally true. The parameter that controls how long your window stays open is a configurable parameter called.... net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle which is on by default.
This causes your keepalive connection to return to slow start after TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT which is 3 seconds. Not probably want you want or expect.
So if you are using keepalives for you image server and you want that first image to load faster...set net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 0 to disable this
Better AJAXy uploading with BrowserPlus
When you hit the home button, the previous application keeps running, which means it keeps eating memory, keeps using processor cycles, and keeps eating battery.....To truly quit most applications requires a multi-step navigation that is neither intuitive nor well-documented.

That one is one of the most pernicious bits of misinformation about the Android platform. Applications that are no longer visible to the user are NOT "background" applications like they are on a desktop OS. Applications that are no longer visible to the user are stopped. They no longer consume CPU resources, but the OS does hold them in memory in case the user returns to the app. Stopped applications may be killed by the OS, thereby freeing up the memory used by them, at any time by the OS when it determines it needs resources. Think of it like caching. The app state is cached in memory so that if you switch momentarily to another app (to answer a call for example) you can return immediately to the previous app with minimal delay and minimal resource cost (ie, the app doesn't need to be re-loaded, etc). The Android developer docs have more information: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#...

The only things that truly run in the background on Android are service process. These are somewhat like worker threads that are created specifically to handle long running background tasks (like playing music, or downloading data over the network, etc).

There is absolutely no need to go through any "multistep navigation" to quit apps, nor do non-visible apps continue "using processor cycles and eating battery" (with the exception of course of apps that are supposed to be using processor cycles, ie, music players, etc. running in a background service process).
Alexandria Project, Chap. 6:  The Perils of Profiles