skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sharks queue for 'clean and polish'
Hmm, it looks like their web site was recycled from a clothing retailer or something.

When you click on the picture of their epad, you get a picture of a white shirt.

http://enso-now.com/n/Store/step1.php

Also, it looks like the enso-now logo is a black version of the Lucent logo.

http://business-meetings.co.uk/images/New%20Lucent%20logo%20...

Also, I couldn't find detailed technical specs. What processor? Amount of RAM, etc. ?

I would wait for a critical review before ordering.
IPhone Apps on the iPad
He does sound interesting, and like a fun coworker.

However, you must admit that if working with him, you must update your prior probability of "work being interrupted by a SWAT team and an not-coincidental family of rabid ferrets."
Sorry, I think that probably came off as more snippy than I would have liked. The legacy thing is pretty important. It is the only real upgrade path for HP/UX (or for that matter OpenVMS). So, most of the decision is based on conversion and upgrade paths. It has turned into a big iron processor like SPARC and POWER. You can certainly put a lot of them in a machine and people spent money building the systems, but I am not sure what a salesman would tell me the advantage is.
Having an intermediate bytecode also makes it easier to support more architectures in a reasonably consistent manner: for architectures where you don't have a bytecode->asm compiler, you can fall back on interpreting the bytecode (as TraceMonkey currently does).

With V8, the direct targeting of architecture-specific asm means you have no support at all on architectures that V8 doesn't yet target--- or you'd have to support them through a different Javascript stack entirely, like falling back to TraceMonkey, which would be harder to keep consistent.

Of course, Mozilla could go the Chrome route and drop support for everything except x86, x86-64, and ARM. But for the moment at least, they appear interested in keeping at least the Linux version available on PowerPC, SPARC, and other architectures.
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Well, presumably, there's rather a lot of people paying good money for access to this professor's time and would prefer not to have class disrupted by inconsiderate people coming and going for no good reason.

Being a paying customer doesn't grant an entitlement to be obnoxious while on someone else's property and I can't fathom why you think it would. If you got kicked out a movie for talking on a cell phone during the film, would you call the theater "entitled" and ask who's paying who?
It should also be noted that Giles works in Los Angeles. Having spent 5 years in LA as a developer, I can tell you companies there are absolutely desperate for talent.

Contrast this with a tech heavy area like Boston, where competition is greater. A number of my peers graduated with CS degrees and had to deliver packages for UPS to make ends meet.
> Sampling classes is a relatively new phenomenon

Here's a Harvard Crimson article from 1950 complaining about the slashing of "shopping time" from 2 weeks to 1 (as far as I know it's been 1 week since then). Clearly "relatively" is relative.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1950/5/6/shopping-time-poc...
How Video Games Keep You Playing
Seems to start and end at midnight GMT.

Took me a while to notice how 'night' moved across the globe, reducing noise as it spread but constantly being chased by planes pursuing tomorrow's dawn.
Is it real or is it joojoo?

I've been looking forever for a (cheap enough) tiny touchscreen wifi device to embed into laser cut switch-plates and stick on my walls to control my X10 stuff. This looks close enough to get my interest. I think I'll need to root android to do what I want to do though. Is rooting android hard on this device?

How big is this usb dongle that gets you 3g? A picture would be helpful. The absence of one creates the impression that its been omitted for good reason, ie: its completely impractical to actually ever use.

Bluetooth?

External keyboard?

Charging dock or must we fiddle with little wires and connectors to charge it, get our music out of it?

Expansion interface port like iphone, or all/only usb?

Usb host mode, slave mode (like a disk) or both.

You product is an early adopter/uber-geek toy, you need to add the ability to drill down to much, much more technical detail in your web site. You need more pictures, and probably video of the device in action. I've got my finger on the paypal button, I need just the tiniest nudge to give this thing a try.
Can we get past the fact that "healthcare insurance" isn't really insurance?

True insurance essentially "insures" against catastrophic loss and policies are underwritten on a personalized basis.

"Health insurance" often covers routine care, medications, diagnostic tests, etc -- hides the actual costs behind devices like "co-pays" and distributes cost inflation across the "group" instead the high risk/sick individual.

How expensive would your car insurance be if it covered oil changes, car washes, body repair and then lumped you, the driver with a clean record, with your neighbor with his 5th DUI?
That is it, thanks.
Without checking to see what else is on offer, how can they make an informed decision about which class they should spend their semester on.

Personally, I would try to drop in on professors' office hours, contact them via email to ask for a quick chat to explain the course, or ask friends for a recommendation. I'm not sure exactly what one can get from 20 minutes of the "these are the books and this is the late policy" kind of stuff covered during the first lecture anyway.
Talking about Australian coins.
YAY!! can't wait!
Excellent point. I was in charge of much of the SEO of a large internet retailer and our organic traffic was stunning. Unfortunately no matter how hard I lobbied to start work on conversion, split testing etc, they insisted I do nothing but drive traffic to our poorly converting sites. When sales started flattening out despite the continuing month over month increase in organic traffic I was let go as a cost saving measure. And while still an Internet Retailer 500 company their position has slipped significantly down the ranks. At the time I left we had top ten positions for hundreds of our most important key words including #1 position for many of our first tier words. When doing SEO remember that traffic is only as good as it converts.
The Dissatisfied Designer
You might want to check out a Chumby One for $120:

https://store.chumby.com/
Yes, why is HN driving traffic to an ad?
I gave up on it after a couple of pages.
re the questions about replication across datacenters, see:

http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/TransactionsAcross...

it discusses both app engine's approach and the underlying factors and tradeoffs that apply to any similar system.

for the executive summary, see slide 33 from:

http://snarfed.org/space/transactions_across_datacenters_io....
The stock market is a poor arbiter of whether a business decision is good for the long run. Traders are good at outguessing each other in the short term, but have no sense of the long term.
I kept seeing the title... I knew it was coming... I kept reading and reading. Bam, "give me money." It was very clickbank-esque in a way. An almost useless story because the part that you really want is being sold. We (programmers) wanted to know what to do if we get fired, not read a story about getting fired. I mean the message is there: "improve your job searching skills," but a 12 year old could advise that as a smart career move.

Furthermore, if a person must be advised to make a top-notch resume, or that having your name in google and not being associated with child pornography sites is a good idea; maybe they shouldn't be a programmer. Labeled: common sense... no amount of money can purchase that. Sure they get over one boundary and make it to the next obstacle, but where will their advisor be when its time to work as a team or develop a project? There's a certain amount of mathematics, logic, and the ability to find information on your own required in programming.

Then again programming these days is not the glorious lines of c and inline-assembly I imagined taking over the world while reading through the quakeworld source as a teenager.
Because Giles is a cult of personality. He's the Matt Lesko (http://bit.ly/cEUsK5) of Hacker News. You know every fiber of his being is lousy and watching him makes you a worse person, but his outrageous suits keep your eyes glued.

In other words, he's a linkbaiter.
+1 on "taking you to court is enough to kill." And you personally -- even if you win you don't get your lawyer fees back (contrary to popular opinion).

Nonsolicit is actually one of the clauses I think isn't unfair. It's one thing to leave a company, quite another to cause an exodus.
Hi, thanks for your feedback. It is greatly appreciated. I wouldn't have found that bug easily. Yes the system is built on a codebase i use for my works, i am also a web developer.
Regarding the Lucent logo, yes, it is based on the Enso character, you can find more informations about it here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D
I think it is widely use on the web because it is actually looking nice.
Just google at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=enso&...
and you will see that. I agree with you about a review before ordering. thanks. Alberto
If you think it's controversial among fiscal conservatives to do job promoting stimulus programs, just wait until you suggest just sending poor people full-time salaries worth of extra cash for nothing. Good luck with that.
Awesome, I'm glad you got that joke! I don't think anyone else mentioned it. :-)

I've seen studies too on things like "Developer Productivity" or other such crud where they didn't even measure stuff like "new functionality added" but ONLY "how many bugs were injected."
I like chumbies, I made a neat robot with a pulled apart chumby as a brain, but it takes a lot of pulling apart and re-jiggering to make a chumby fit in a wall plate. Its fun to do it once, its decidedly less fun to do it 10 times.

I'm about to just use ipod touches and give up on some of the more advanced stuff I wanted to do. I was hoping to use picwing frames but they turned out to be more vapor than real. I thought cruchpads were going to be it, and then they got joojoo-ed. Still looking.
Ok, yeah... but, as someone who actually writes long form sales pages, I'm impressed. He nailed the shit out of it. I bet he'll make a mint on this page.
The tagline for mixergy is "Online Business Tips from Successful Entrepreneurs". I'm having a hard time imagining how he fits with that or why he'd make a great interviewee.

As far as I can tell, his claim to fame is writing a narky email to someone who's paying ~ $40K/year to learn. What unique or interesting thing does he bring to the table? "Being nasty to your customers" doesn't work as well when you're outside of the sheltered workshop that is academia.
I think you totally misunderstand the content of this post. Argument please, otherwise i have to think that you are just trolling. Thanks. Alberto
Maybe it's an answer to the ad problem. Don't try to make content funded by ads, just make ads that look like content.
Clojure - lazytest
Agree with the others, buying links isn't worth it. Google will eventually catch on and devalue it, so it's a waste in the end.

Focus on sites/bloggers where your potential users are. The most useful links are the one's that actually drive traffic directly to your site that end up converting.

I listen to/trust Rand from SEOmoz on SEO issues, here's his thoughts about paid links:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/our-stance-on-paid-links-link-ads
Using Map/Reduce for Network Forensics and Troubleshooting
Here is my personal anecdote:

All the flaming of other language communities has turned me a bit off Python -- your comment here is an example.

Disclaimer: I haven't written a page of Ruby code but read a book or two, if I change language environment again it will probably be something functional.

(Please keep the language wars on slashdot, or something. :-( Too low information/noise ratio.)

Edit: Idiom in better English.
A site map is an excellent way to make sure that it is your content that makes it in to google rather than someone that 'clones' you.

It can give you a few days lead over the cloners and that's sometimes all you need.
I'm not; I didn't even make it to the end.
Maybe so. I found that among the professors at my school only a handful had personalities that were at all engaging. The remainder ran the gamut from barely tolerable to completely unacceptable. You can get a sense of that factor in the first lecture.
> 1. Pick a domain name that matches your primary keyword.

What's the last time you actually managed to follow that point of your advice ?
Just echoing the praise here. I've been using it on my current project (which is my first serious foray into the NoSQL landscape) and I am quite happy with the results.
Wow, they not only recognize (as we all know, many publishers, willingly, don't) but they actually take steps to facilitate the effects of the "first-sale doctrine"[1]. Hats off to that kind of treatment for their customers. Never heard of them before. I feel strangely impulsed to become a customer now.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
You only think that's a disadvantage because you're a geek, not a suit. Suits live for things that have to be replaced.
I don't know how other people do it, but certainly for me, I have things that are at different levels of importance to me. And a lot of the most important are not really all that big, nor are they changing particularly frequently. I wouldn't pay a premium of $100 a month just for the convenience of having everything backed up in this super-redundant, universally-accessible way.

I would happily use a product like Arq (or Time Machine) for my documents and current photos, to make sure the backup is always current, and then whenever the backup hits 50gb, move it over to an off-site drive (at work, a relative's house, even in a safety deposit box).
I second the motion. I have a ton of storage on Dreamhost that I could totally be using as backup. (And have tried a bunch of times, but it's a pain getting cron and rsync to do the right thing, and then remembering to set it up again when my computer gets changed around...)
I don't think kqr2 does much trolling! He was just trying to help me out. Its a good point though, Your market and the Chumby market have much overlap. You should have a look at how they do things over there for ideas. You don't have enough meat on your site to actually sell these things yet. $200 is a big enough number that people don't buy just to try. I actually plunked down money because I was convinced that a chumby would be useful for something I wanted to do.
Hmm, if the best part of Android is the free wheeling, beloved by geeks and not anyone else store, then I am not sure if Android is the competitor I thought it is.

A locked down store is totally what carriers want. They want the revenue stream from selling the apps. That's how the market was before iPhone. So until Google force carriers to have a common store, I see more and more carriers adopt this model.
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Steven Chu as the secretary of energy — absolutely fantastic choice.
I'm betting that the student is currently really grateful that he sampled other classes and hence didn't get stuck with this guy.
I am surprised no one has mentioned this yet: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/googles-s...

Google recently published an internal SEO audit. The report is more or less a blueprint of what you should follow on an on-site level with your own site and I would have to imagine that was the intent.
A fairly good takedown of the prof (including some insights gained from Googling him):

http://christophervilmar.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/galloway-f...
Thanks a lot for your clever comment. Sincerely.

1) Rooting androind on this device is not hard, we can provide detailed informations.
2) The USB 3G dongle is very small, we will have pictures uploaded on the website in a couple of days. We are choosing amongst different designs.
3) No bluetooth
4) No external keyboard for now, we are conducting research about which models in the market android could support.
5) The ports on the machine are only 1 micro USB, and 1 9.5 mm audio out jack.
6) Charging is via usb cable to pc, or with included adaptor.
7) usb mode host

I will upload more pictures very soon, i am waiting to meet with the factory to buy the prototype i have ordered weeks ago, but the chinese holidays slowed down business here. Thanks a lot again.
Alberto
Ironically, this is sort of an interesting b-school case study. s/student's career/business/g. Esp. in New York. What is the marginal utility function for disrespect? Does it vary by environment? Professor? In the immediate context, if the potential reward of a great class that would be missed if the student didn't sample outweighs the potential backlash the student will receive by sampling, it makes no sense for the individual student to forgo the opportunity. However, outside of the immediate context, if it breeds bad habits and a lack of decorum, that can be injurious in the long run.

Actually, I think the appropriate modus operandi in New York is to sample if you want and if a professor tells you to leave or come back in the next class, then do so. But don't take it personally and e-mail. In Silicon Valley and elsewhere, I think it varies.
I saw the headline bolded(old trick) two+ times and knew this guy wanted money. I almost closed the page then, but read on for the sake of procrastinating learning objective-c and getting to post this comment.

He's perfected the art of clickbank. I was waiting for the 2d photo of the woman to pop up in the corner and audio to start blaring over my speakers on why his advice would be pure ROI once I reached the first buy button.
Why in the world would someone want to be coached by a jerk who refuses to work and assaults people who disagree with him!
The point of the blog post was that we should use interfaces when appropriate, just not by default.
Out of curiosity, did he ask for equity? I didn't catch that in your summary, it seemed like he's willing to give you ~10 hours a month.

Either way I'd see if he could make those introductions first, proving that he's good partner. If he can't make the introductions or won't until he has equity, then I would be apprehensive about a partnership.
Jim Dalrymple: iPhone, iPad Operating System to Unify With OS 4.1
The charitable explanation: in the course of growing the business, Mahalo discovered that the tools they had created to support the "quality pages written by humans" were sufficiently powerful that laying off most of the humans and transitioning the rest to a "We pay you with Mahalo Dollars, which are sort of like a real dollar except for the bit about being able to be spent on goods and services" model did not affect the business in the slightest. Accordingly, Mahalo pivoted away from the original vision in the direction that the actual results demonstrated was working.

The uncharitable explanation: "quality pages written by humans" is a bit of PR for Valley consumption (and, ahem, Googleplex consumption) designed to make Mahalo "too high profile to bounce out of the index like a black hat spam site."
In my opinion (as pointed out by lucifer already) the ""xxxx, get your shit together." and following paragraph are quite likely to be the most important lesson the student will learn in his entire academic career.

The professor wrote a highly memorable obviously personalised letter to the student teaching that.

Without outside evidence of "egotistical assholishenss" from the prof (which _may_ exist), I'd read it as an intentionally exaggerated reaction with a solid grain of cold hard truth.
Hmm, this is not a tongue-in-cheek poke at internet marketers?
I might be as well.
Whoops, it's supposed to be x11proto-print-dev. I've updated the deps in the README, should build no problem on 9.10 now.
Your comment, particularly the part where you talk about "simply send that person $X and produce most of the same benefits" underscores your complete and utter lack of comprehension of his post.

Try reading it again.
It's not all that difficult to screw things up enough to require a reformat, either, or at least to make a reformat the easiest solution. I think of myself as pretty tech-savvy, and I've had to reinstall Windows before because I somehow borked my registry.
Y'know, the more I think about this article, the more I think it's a complete load.

My dad hopped on a steamer ship and found his way to England from India with one bag and 14 pounds in his pocket. He found a job, made a living, bought a car -- all without instant communication to some helicopter parents. A few years later he found his way back to find a wife.

A few years later, they wound their way to Canada, with the only difference being that they got to fly.

That is risk-taking, experimenting and hacking your way through a new culture. Screwing up at making kettle corn? Please.

ps. In case you think that this is one of those stories of a previous generation, in 1999 a cousin of mine arrived at the Toronto airport, in January, without even a coat to survive the drive home. He's employed and living in a nice place; no handouts, just damn hard work.
32.6% of Faculty (but only 8.3% of Administrators) Took a Pay Cut in 2009-10
Hi, thanks. I finally understand your point of view. I will think about the ideas you inspired. thanks a lot. Alberto
"... a very talented propagandist, or a guy who deftly presents the bill's inadequacies?..."

Why's it have to be either/or? My side/your side?

I'd hope, and I bet this is what Obama's hoping too, that the guy will produce some stuff that is very reflective of WHAT'S IN THE DAMN BILL. Obama stands to gain politically from public understanding of the bill because frankly, as long as the graphic doesn't consist of "$$$ -> (hammer&sickle)", it'll be better press than the thing's gotten so far. The truth is worth something.
You're more likely to get downmodded because your first premise is provably false.

I'm sorry you ran into unprofessional people in the Ruby community, and you're perfectly within your rights to use whatever technology best suits you and your business, but comments like this are inflammatory and counterproductive.
On #3, you can pay someone $6/300 words to get unique content written (and that includes some level of SEO research on the phrases you request). If the quality isn't quite what you'd hoped, use those articles as a starting point and then expand on them, tweak them and reword certain points. Paying more for higher quality pieces is an option too.
I can only give anecdotes to back up my opinions here, but at my university, the most respected professors treated the students like adults, or even better, like customers who have paid a lot of money for a valuable service. These professors are respectful to the students, and they get respect in return. They treat students like the mature adults that they are, and the students act as they should.
Steam is more than just an app store, though. It's a social network, provides automatic updates for games, etc.
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San Francisco has insane prices. IIRC, when I was in the bay area, for $1000/mo, you could only get a room at an SRO in SF.