skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sort of (well actually the word is "definitely") thought this whole internet thing was about allowing anyone to PUBLISH - period.

Sort of solves the entire problem, eh?
Eleventh Circuit Decision Largely Eliminates 4th Amendment Protection in E-Mail
We use ZRM to automate the backup and versioning of our MySQL databases.

Then we use cron and s3sync to mirror the relevant portions of the filesystem to S3.

For those interested, the process is documented here:

http://monk.ly/bFBd7w
specr - A lightweight BDD framework for C# using .NET 4.0
Pretty funny considering this is a site centered around start-ups and their culture. It's easy to be flippant, but I know too many people who have done just exactly that -- burned out before 40, and regretful about their choices. Talk with any 30 year old game developers lately?
Some of the most sophisticated bits of agriculture are devoted to resisting common predators (especially insects), making it easier to kill the predators/pests without killing the crop, etc.

Monsanto wouldn't be a bazillion dollar company if their GMO tomatoes were, like, really really redder than regular tomatoes.
Shameless self plug: I created nyhtp.com based off of this quote after talking to a fellow dev as a quick learning experience with Sinatra/Mongo. The history was interesting, though.
I think that the continual button pressing actually increases it's stickiness.

It's pretty much the absolute minimal behaviorist game, one button and a variable reward schedule.
Google should have just called it the Developer Phone 2. We don't always need to label something a winner or a loser in this world.

The Nexus is what it is...and it's still a pretty good device.
Flash doesn't currently run on either the droid or the N1 (or the iPhone for that matter). Ever rumor I've read about Flash coming to Android has indicated both the Droid and the N1 are likely to get it.
I've heard the name "Snakes" before but I don't remember where.
Not only was an MBA not a requirement for writing the article, the knowledge has been around for ages. My grandfather taught the principle to me. He was born in 1889 and his "formal" education ended at age 11.
Yeah but it's still simplistic. Let's just get the government and unions out of it.. then we'll have.. no schools and no teachers! The market will step in, somehow! Hand-waving!
Also doesn't have my bday.. 04221986
The author argues that “Fully 1% of the population has celiac disease, with 97% of these currently undiagnosed” as one of his arguments against eating gluten-containing cereal grains, but he is much less concerned about dairy products, even though lactose intolerance is far more prevalent¹, especially among non-whites, than celiac.

¹see http://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0501/p1845.html
> whatever the truth about China.

The question at hand is essentially: What is the truth about China? I am not sure why you are bringing up US and UK finances and itching to make the comparison.

Sure, making China look bad might further interests in the west, but it says nothing as to the article's accuracy. It is good to note that the article may be biased against China, but I think the focus should be on the facts and analysis provided.

> What exactly is there to find calming about this smoke-screen information?

I don't think berntb was saying the article made him feel calm -- I think he was calling into question your credibility, just as you have called into question the journalist's:

>> I would have felt calmer if that assuring voice wasn't the third comment from a month old account.
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I can get the circuit with 4 XORs and 1 NOT, or 3 XORs and 1 XNOR. I can't see a way to simplify to just ANDs, ORs and 2 NOTs. It's an interesting problem, were you able to find a AND, OR and 2 NOT solution? Or did you wind up using XORs?
Will Web developers be swayed by IE9's under-the-hood changes?
oh you mean Atkins Diet!

I do believe various humans account for various needed best diets. Simply because our lineage is all a little different. Some people come from the first farmers who were probably harvesting some type of cereal crop. Others come from nomads or hunters...

Just don't be fooled into thinking there is one "diet" to fit everyone.
he tries to arge that now we can have 10x in good health.

But i fail to see too much science there... I will continue eating all grains, except corn and soy.
My options are:

* Verizon who has no problem selling other Android phones but doesn't have the Nexus One (yet)

* AT&T which I have bad experience with, and is pushing the iPhone

* TMobile which is so bad that a friend of mine who works them strongly recommends you shop elsewhere

I have a basic Verizon phone that I'm replacing with a Nexus One when it comes out Real Soon (TM). That phone is about 5 years old and is starting to fail

Anyone else in the same situation.
Cornify (which launched on HN) won the People's Choice Awards at SXSW
Cron + rsync.net and their geo-replicated package.
(The article isn't very long). But wait. How did primates get to South America?
I've had the opposite experience:

There are scenarios where Git reverts some changes unexpectedly and almost silently, if you don't take care. In contrast, Mercurial's strict "every merge is an explicit commit" principle saved me from a lot of problems.

Regarding the command line interface: Darcs has still the best one. Well, Darcs has some performance issues, but its interactive dialog-based command line interface is outstanding. It is years old, but neither Mecurial nor Git come even close to it.

So if you have a small project or a fast computer, you should definitely have a look at Darcs in addition to Mercurial and Git.
Trying to get my head around this. What does "keeping one's job" even mean? isn't there still a mutual contract, and both parties can break out of it? So the boss can act on behalf of the company, and you can't. But presumably you can still quit the job on your own decision. Does that make the boss your subordinate?

No, but I suppose it might imply that you could be your own subordinate. Since the boss can fire you, but you can't fire your boss, you have a subordinate relationship.
Same problem: do I see it as a major value to my life? If so then I'd be less hesitant. Truth is that I don't want "just one login" so maybe I'm different than most.
It all started here 408 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459861

Rainbows and happiness to all.
Daily rsync to BQBackup, with once weekly offline backup.
I'm not actually 15 years old. I'm 24 this week. I'm from Iceland and my english is not cleansed with bleach. I don't work in IT which is why I was asking for the hacker's explanation of VMware.

Thinks for the kid advice though. I'm having one next week.
Like said david in comments of this post, gunicorn is specifically designed to run behind a proxy like nginx. You should use 2x or 2x+1 numbers of cores.

Also limiting its use to one worker is constraining any possibilities for concurrency in its responses. (grainbows built over gunicorn and using gevent or eventlet is better for that).

Some other servers in the tests have same kind of specifications.
Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ? 
Well, I am one, about to quit my job tomorrow and planning to go full time on my iPhone development company (www.meraiphone.com). Just wondering what's the startup-girl-scene is like.
> Debt is only ever a problem for a country ...

What about interest payments? What about the risk of having the debt called in, or the risk of using up all of one's credit?
Can you expand on the moral superiority of a golden retriever vs a labrador or possibly a dalmation?
Experimentally testing things you think are true is extremely important, since sometimes it turns out they're not.
Here's why:

The N1 is not on Verizon.

The N1 came out after all the people waiting for an iPhone-like device on Verizon had already bought a Droid.
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IE9 to support SVG and some CSS3
I have to completely disagree with rebasing the feature branch onto the mainline branch. That is bad idea. Here is what they are doing:

1. Branch off of master to work on the feature
2. Work, work, work, commit, commit, commit
3. Pull down any updates to master
4. Rebase and squash the feature branch to master’s HEAD
5. Merge the feature branch back to master
6. Push up to the shared repository

Their Rational for Step 6:

"When you’re ready to share this feature with the rest of your team, they probably won’t care about all your interim commits (for example, you added and then changed feature.py). We can package up all the commits into one big commit (sort of like the one big patch against master you used before) by using git’s rebase command."

Some of the history that was used in developing the feature may be useful for someone else trying to a) figure out how the code works or b) trying to fix a bug in the program. By chunking the development of the feature into on patch you eliminate the nuances which would have helped later on.

Even beyond the development concerns, version control systems have great power to model your actual development process. Not just the one that is on paper, but the one that produces the code which ships. By eliminating history of development you loose the ability to discover this useful information. So don't rebase your feature branch merge into the mainline.
not having privacy is synonymous to denial of freedom
What, no badges?
IE9 rendering engine available for testing
The Timeline of Web Development Technologies, 1990-2009
Reiterating theBobMcCormick's point, Google's UX/UI is a flop (see Buzz). Who wants to buy a phone that’s only available online? A phone one can’t check out IRL and then take home? Not me, not a lot of people apparently.
From what I understand about the Nexus One, it is incompatible with Verizon's network (and AT&T's 3G network, though it will work on AT&T's EDGE network). And from what I can gather, Google has no intention of releasing a rev2 with support for either Verizon's or AT&T's network.

What frustrates me about Motorola (and, by proxy, AT&T) is the lackluster Backflip. Outdated OS (Android 1.5), last-generation hardware (screen resolution, storage space, speed)... I wonder if AT&T prevented them from porting the Droid over due to their relationship with Apple/iPhone. When I called AT&T to find out when my contract was up, they tried to sell me on the Backflip - which, compared to the N1 and my iPhone 3G, is a serious downgrade.

(Adding an additional insult: three days later, I got a flier in the mail suggesting I re-up my contract by getting a free Nokia 6750 - a crappy flip-phone)
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yup exactly! HN makes for a great crowdsourced expert search engine ;)
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Which popular Android apps come with Flurry?

Everybody I know who is in the market for a new phone wants to have a Nexus One. They are mostly geeks, though.
Good strategy. I was expecting the same.

There was an interesting link to a public google doc with a load of interesting startup/product ideas a few days back. I forgot to bookmark it and am having trouble locating it via google. Anyone know the link I'm talking about?
It's not moral, it's chromatic..
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1193657
I don't watch TV so I don't know if they are advertising there. However if you are referring to marketing and advertising expense online by google. Good news, Google pretty much owns the online advertising field (~70% with Doubleclick + google). Are they really "spending" a lot of money to market Nexus One compare to other phone manufacturers?
Breaking Provably Secure Systems
ZFS auto snapshots, backup-server running incremental ssh "zfs send" |zfs recv.
FriendCaller’s homecoming to Facebook
I'm interested in testing deployments locally with some virtualization. Currently I've been looking at doing this with a Python library against VirtualBox. Would I perhaps be better off doing this with a free variant of VMWare? (currently looking at http://github.com/cloudkick/libcloud/blob/master/libcloud/dr...) - are vCloud and workstation solutions mutually exclusive products? Sorry for questionnaire dump!
Platform Preview gives Web developers first taste of IE9
Computational feat speeds stemcell gene discovery to milliseconds
> I don't know in which world is selling a new phone of 135k units by a newcomer in the hardware/phone industry is considered a flop.

It's a flop in the world where a newcomer introduces a new phone with proprietary hardware and software, on a single carrier, at an insane price point, and sells hundreds of thousands of them in the first week. We live in that world now.
They have to keep buying them -- their economy is based on keeping the yuan artificially cheap compared to the dollar. In order to maintain this out-of-balance price, they have to keep buying dollars with yuan, taking dollars out of the market and increasing the supply of yuan.
Internet Explorer 9: Platform Demos and Preview Download
"As a developer, you want to know what’s to come in the browsers you and your customers use.... This document instructs you, the Web developer whose customers rely on Internet Explorer, about how to prepare to take advantage of these new enhancements in your websites and applications."

It's probably just me, but that sounds awfully presumptuous. Like someone's reminding me that I need IE.

Edit: Wow, this thing is full of great little nuggets:

"We know you don’t want to have to rewrite and retest your websites again and again; standards adoption by browser vendors is a good way to reach that objective."

Hrmm. Really?
No new information in this article. Its just a rehashing of Jonathan Schwartz's blog entry: http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis...
That rant is from 2000 indeed, where you could still like Java the language. Back then (late '90s) Java the language was nothing like what we have today. If your first language was, I don't know, C or Perl, you could read some short-ish Java book (or the Sun tutorials) and learn enough to write a little applet to spiff up your website.

These days learning Java, with all the stuff that has been added to the language (J2EE, beans, annotations, what have you), is mostly pointless. Lots of better alternatives. Unless you know you are going to be working on some big pre-existing codebase, or want to get a job working on one.
Grains have their place, as a source of complex carbohydrate calories. They're low on nutrition, but high on calories, and as long as one understands this (useful) purpose I don't see a problem. Calories are necessary, to a point. Throughout much of history, high energetic content was an advantage. Medieval peasants ate 2-3 times as many calories as we eat today, because they worked them off in the fields.

Especially now, it wouldn't be healthy to eat 2000 calories/day in red meat or fish, much less 5-6000. It's not really possible to eat that many calories' worth of blueberries. This is where staple crops come in.

Of course, no one who is food-conscious should be eating refined grains such as white bread, because those are essentially pure sugar.
It's hard to take seriously a diet that says:

"2. Start eating proper fats - Use healthy animal fats or coconut fat to substitute fat calories for carbohydrate calories that formerly came from sugar and flour. Drink whole cream or coconut milk."

Now I am not a big fan of cereals myself (I prefer greens) but to push animal fat...

I would really like some serious studies for the Paleo fad. I strongly believe it will have some disastrous effect on the long term. Kinda' like Atkins had.
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This point isn't actually blindingly obvious. Those of us raised on Pascal might have assumed (or, in my case, actually did assume, without thinking hard about it) that the program ended when the execution point reached "the end," where the main method was probably located in the binary.

It's disturbing how many Pascal-isms still pervade my thinking, even 20 years since I last (willingly) touched the language.
Apple was a newcomer in hardware industry before iphone?

Edit: Remember MotoROKR? How many millions did they sell? Exactly!
I tried to find someone else to hand it over to, but it's hard. It's more than just understanding the code. A large part is also the vision, the gut feeling for the right thing to do, the personal contacts to early users etc. Those things can't so easily be passed on to another person.
Makes them sound like a bunch of squabbling children.
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Internet Explorer 9: Platform Preview
Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
I think the golden light that would be in such a scene would look better shining through the golden coat of a golden retriever.
The data lives separate from the code: the code is backed up in Subversion, the data lives in AmazonS3 (no other backup) for images, and a database in an Amazon snapshot with daily backups automated.
Thanks very much for the additional background material. I agree wholeheartedly that The Atlantic article fails utterly to capture the essence of her thesis, but I also think she's seeing a co-evolutionary causation where it's merely a strong correlation.

Those same environments with higher density of vipers also play host to the widest variety of plant life. In many fruits and leaves, the differences between positive identification and edible vs. inedible have more to do with color and texture than scent.

Additionally, in a canopy environment fraught with the hazards and complexity of 3 dimensional navigation, and lack of a constant "ground scent-base", food source identification via sight would seem to be a more caloric-efficient approach. That's the strategy employed by most tropical birds and they have an even greater freedom of movement amongst the branches. It's also worth pointing out that exclusively ground-dwelling tropical birds such as Kiwi, Kakapo, Cassowary, and the Ocellated turkey all forage by scent and all have undergone reverse evolutionary trade-offs in visual acuity.
The article is quite sound and doing all this is standard practice in the embedded world where you can't afford the size of glibc. The article is a bit incomplete, but presumably he'll address the rest in his next installment.

As a preview, to provide the correct C ABI to main() you need to zero the BSS (this is how your static variables get initialized), maybe copy the initalized data, call the constructors and destructors for C++ / C (gcc extension), provide memcpy() and others stdlib functions (which gcc will use even if you don't), etc. You can do all of this without assembly in C, but it does take some effort.
pretty good. I'm probably not quite in the black if you take all the money I spent before I figured out what I was doing into account, but it's supporting me and paying for two new servers a month, so I'm happy enough to call it a success. But yeah, there were, ah, a few years of failure to slog through before I got to this point.

Note, I didn't have a big wad of cash going in; I've paid for it renting myself out as a contractor. (But then, OP only is spending $50K, and, uh, by the time the project was able to support me, that was maybe 4-5 months of contracting. $50K is not a big wad of cash by "I want to start a business" standards. )
Thanks for the article! Also, I love that your computer is named "kid-charlemagne". :)
This area is generally referred to as machine learning and is used extensively.

Many inspection systems and vision guided robots in factories use machine learning.

The netflix prize was one famous example of this.

The darpa grand challenge was another famous example of this.

Machine learning is used in many different places hidden from view. Probably your car automatic braking system has a machine learned controller in it.
Search engines, recommeder systems. Star detection in astronomical observatories. Cheque reading in atm's and mail sorting systems.

This web page about computer vision companies http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/vision.html

Many automatic license recognition, speeding detection cameras might have machine learned algorithms

Google voice is based on machine learning.

Face detector in many different places (e.g. picasa) uses haar features and boosted decision trees. However, because it is so commonly implemented and was first made in research community (at microsoft research) no one charges for it.

Field Guide to Genetic Programming (google it) contains many examples of gp application.

Type in machine learning applications, or "something" classifier, e.g. face classifier, accent classifier, on google and in many cases somebody has already done it as a student project.
I agree with you, at least assuming it is a big feature. Squashing 30 commits into 1 loses a lot of information.

The best approach I have found is to use merge --no-ff to merge the feature branch to the master branch. This lets you both keep the history and group the feature's commits together.
There was an example I read recently of doing this in Windows that I liked more -- perhaps because the setup and tear-down was more interesting.
Flurry is an analytics service that you don't install, but is probably integrated into one or more apps. It's not necessarily a perfect view of the market (not everyone buys Market apps), but it's pretty good.

I do agree that the Nexus One experiment was very much about the sales channel, which is definitely in a state of transition.
That's an excellent point. In fact, the rate of human evolution is hundreds, possibly even a thousand times faster than it was in paleolithic times. Less than 15,000 years ago, nobody had lactose tolerance or blue eyes as an adult. Now, lactose tolerance is the norm and blue eyes are no longer uncommon.

http://www.dailytech.com/Life+in+the+Fastlane+Human+Evolutio...
What are examples of popular apps with Flurry?
On a related note, Graph Theory is one of the top reasons to learn Linear Algebra. All graphs (included directed, weighted, and multi-graphs) can be represented intuitively by adjacency matrices, and matrix operations often end up being meaningful in terms of the graph they represent. Seeing the connections between a graph and its matrix helps to understand both of them, and being able to switch back and forth between mental models is often useful. For example, Markov Chains are the go-to tool in many fields of modeling, are most easily thought of as weighted graphs, and are most easily manipulated as matrices.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbi...
Which probably plain and simply does explain their success to date. IMHO this launch still isn't a flop though. I know Google is an outlier among most companies, but they're still in a completely unfamiliar market at this point. Consumer selling is a different beast compared to B2B--Google has never truly convinced consumers to pay up before. Would you use an HTC search engine, or hell even an Apple one?

Google's ability to reach into so many distinct markets is pretty remarkable to me. I think we can't ignore the mountains of data they have on consumer buying patterns though. They've probably collected more business intelligence than any other company prior. That's quite the competitive advantage to be allowed.
For a good lauch, read the dude's meal plan:

http://www.paleonu.com/panu-weblog/2009/11/13/what-i-eat.htm...

I would LOVE to know about the state of his arteries in about 10 to 15 years.
Cool, my friend Brad told me about it this morning and I was checking it out already. Pretty impressive.