skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually like coding in a relaxed atmosphere, with music on and a drink in my hand. Not crowded, that would suck; but the conundrums that get me all tense and frustrated at work seem surmountable in different settings.

Now, I'm not actually a coder, I just do a job-related script or two now and then; so YMMV.
Well... I love to write, but I tend to be way too wordy.

I feared it was way too long all in all - which is why I bolded the IMHO more interesting posts in the announcement blog entry.
Or even offer to ship a physical copy of the fix if they really want to go the extra mile.
Writing Ad Text for Google AdWords
When it comes to opinions though it does seem that who says something should play a part. Think of reviews - someone who says something is great and has a history of thinking the same things are great that I do is more relevant to me than an anonymous person thinking something is great. Reputation is a level of relevance that a user can build within a community.
Did Blippy Share Actual Credit Card Numbers on Google?
Lost revenue from not selling accessories and warranties to people who wouldn't have otherwise bought the original product in the first place?

This only makes sense if the base product is a loss-leader, and all of the margins come from the upsells. Best Buy may work this way, but I'm pretty sure Apple makes a profit selling even the barest iPad configuration.
Map-reduce isn't used in search queries only for indexing.
Forget the GPad - is Google building a server chip?
Edit - It's back up, see the response below. I was complaining that people were upvoting when the deal appeared to be down.
Unfortunately this is only a strategy you can play before you float. Once the company ultimately relies on market value your primary strategy has to be to compete and you can only do that by making the playing field you chose to play on as level as possible.
Then why don't I create a ad that says: "Pre-notice of amazing sale! Order tomorrow and receive 95% off your purchase!" and then change it at 11:59PM so that it's no longer valid. My example is extreme, but shouldn't they have considered that before they posted an offer with only two qualifying statements?!

Edit: I'm certainly not a legal professional, so my opinion is not the law. On most print advertisements, I see advertisers give a disclaimer such as "We are not required to offer any mistakes in printing etc." This covers them legally since they need to advertise honestly.
I just bought one, not sure what you're talking about.
My first thought was Wave. My second thought was Wave sucks (in my limited experience). I also like the idea of minimising the use of proprietary protocols. Can you imagine if email were invented today; lots of non-connected email islands.
Triangulating an ap location isn't quick (trust me; I've spent hours trying to nail some down in the past!). Given how short a time the car is in the area I would imagine the accuracy wold be no better than a geoip location on your ip.
> It's only 1:1 MAC:House if you're the only wifi network and house in a reasonable range.

I suspect it would be possible to triangulate the position of a wifi network in an urban environment.
Netbeans 6.9 Beta launched
Most people don't know they are throwing a signal into the public. They are just setting up a tool to check email, Facebook, and talk on Skype. It's not immediately obvious to them what exactly is happening.

And please don't blame the consumers for their lack of knowledge in this. You don't need to know how a car works to drive, nor how a DVD player works to watch movies, nor is it essential to know how a computer works to use it.
Collects some interesting facts and estimates. Snippet:

It was recently estimated that Google runs 2 per cent of the world's servers [... 2005 data center ...] if you extrapolate, its total server count - server consolidation aside - is around 1,827,200. That figure is well above recent press estimates. And it may be low.
Are Like Buttons Evil? The Open Web Reacts To Facebook’s Not-So-Open Graph
This is about to get a lot more complicated. Given that more and more people have access to internet on their phones, it'd be quite easy for someone to temporary tether to their phone to access whatever they want
Are The Search Engines Censoring The Internet?
It's still available...

You have to go to the front page (https://www.23andme.com/). From there, you can still see the deal. When you click "Buy" your cart has the $499 price, with a $400 discount.
$600?

I wish someone would just make an electronic wifi typewriter. Full-size laptop chassis, 7" screen, space for spare batteries if you want. The bare-bones model with 4 hours battery life and a 400mhz processor could easily clock in at $100. For $200 on top of that in batteries and solar, 20 hours would certainly be in reach.
I've been happy with http://www.gandi.net/
Bill of Rights in Cyberspace, amended
I think it has to be said that a successful business does not have to be a unique business. This is about how they don't have exclusive deals, who said they did?
It's also easier to retain great employees if you treat them well, don't insult them in word, deed, or pay, and generally behave like a mature adult instead of an overgrown, incompetent baby.

Too bad most employers seem constitutionally incapable of executing on that list :)

I also doubt that we shared an employer. It's more likely that employers are universally flawed in the same ways. But if we did, interesting!
I just moved to a netbook for most of my hacking and am pleasantly surprise how well it works. I run Ubuntu with Xmonad. Xmonad works really in the small screen. I compensate for the slower Hard Disk and CPU by maxing out the RAM. A big win is being able to go almost one full day between charges.
How he builds web applications... to not withstand traffic when it hits the main page of YC.
Workstreamer Is A Realtime Listening And Tracking Platform For Businesses
Ya, I'm almost certain that's right.
When you realize that
1. C64 was designed to connect to a TV
2. That hasn't been feasible for a while since monitors have been so much higher-res than TV
3. But now we have HDTV

it does kinda make sense.
Reboot: Puma and Yves Béhar Spend Three Years Designing Super-Green Shoebox
Soooo what's your job title? It sounds like you've sugar coated the hell out of it.
I've got a BS in Econ w/minor in finance. I didn't take CS or engineering in school because it didn't really seem interesting - I do it all day anyways, and wanted to learn something outside of my normal scope of activity, that would still be relatively useful.
That's what it looked like to me.
Confirmed, I just purchased two.
Now this is an interesting point. One application might be to develop your web app on a slow computer and a tiny screen; net books and mobile phones will have no trouble if you don't.

Or you could just have a mobile phone sitting nearby, and keep hitting 'refresh' on it...
Check it out ... and then use the data from the National Data Catalog to win $5K in one of the "Design for America" categories:

http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/designforamerica/
Agreed, I bought a netbook and tried out four or five to feel their keyboards. I chose the Samsung N120 and I'm quite happy with it, but I don't enjoy coding on it nearly as much as on my desktop.
Clojure on Google App Engine setup
I believe this is Texas Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys, before they built their new stadium next door).

Here's a youtube video showing it from the outside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydZCjwQRuQk

EDIT: better video
Yeah, the CRU stuff is one thing, but the "global warming" bandwagon is much, much bigger than just them.
International shipping is pretty expensive: $70 - does that include sending it back?
Does anyone know if there will be hosted videos at some point? I'm not able to watch the live streams :(.
Most - if not all - software patents are bogus.

Many years ago I saw a lawyer say that he had examined a random sample of IBM's software patents, and estimated that about 70% of them wouldn't stand up in court. And it was his belief that IBM had better patents than most companies out there. The problem was, of course, that if they drop a stack of 15 patents on you neither you nor they know what they will get to stick, but they will definitely get you with something.

And why not file those patents? Their main purpose is to be an unused threat, and they are threatening whether or not they are used.

Therefore even by the very relaxed standards the that US legal system does, most software patents are bogus. If you hold a higher intellectual standard, then it isn't hard for that 70% to become 100%, or close enough to it to make the exceptions negligible.

(There is hope that Bilski will restore some sanity to the US system.)
He indicates at 0:33.30 that the endurance is slightly better than flash.
I just hope a looney follows Eric around, taking photos, publishing everything he can find on him (what's his breakfast, time he gets home, car he drives, how much he earns, etc) . I'm pretty sure he would think a bit more before saying stupid things like: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place"

Oh yeah, I forgot, someone already did: http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=...

Know what, FUCK YOU Mr. Schmidt!
Oh no, I meant post the link to facebook. Copy-and-paste into a status update.
Time motivates architecture
I'm not usually a grammar Nazi, honest! :-) I try to limit it only to where it detracts from otherwise good content, as in this case.
Do you really need to create your own framework ?
I like the ubuntu netbook remix. I added the workspaces back and it works very well.
"Best companies to work for (see footnote) are the ones that treat their former employees as alumni, rather than as traitors"

This is a VERY excellent point, now that you mention it, and probably a near-perfect shortcut to evaluating how the employer supports the learning, growth & wellbeing of the employee.

The second job I left banned former employees from their offices after I attended a user group there (!!).

The third one paid for my goodbye lunch and invited me back for the epic parties.

I would have happily stayed at the third jobs for years, if they'd just let me ship ANYTHING without derailing it completely.
exactly! and it puts some useful constraints on UI design that result in better usability too, I think.
I'm sure this idea will continue to catch on. Give away the infinite goods (digital files) and sell the scarcities (concerts, merch, etc...). They are building a fanbase the way many online companies have built customer bases.
On the other hand, ASF is receiving major tax-reducable donations from US companies. The ASF is not in the patent business.
I Just bought six of these. I'm stoked - this is precisely what I've been waiting for for my family. I actually discovered I was lactose intolerant (after 30+ years) through 23andme - somehow that little detail got by me... :-)
IPhone takes 72% of Japanese smartphone market
I'm also using an Aspire One for coding on my hobby project. I was pretty shocked at how well the device handles Visual Studio and other tasks. I haven't bothered tweaking the font size or anything, it just end up looking at a much smaller window of code at a time.
Sounded like it, the FAQ mentioned it ships with a prepaid return, still it does feel a little expensive.
Have you tried Yoxos Eclipse[1] flavor? You can build your own distribution from scratch and only include the packages you need. You can even save your choices and continue modifying them next time you login. I have a very pleasant experience using it and my builds are usually around 100-200 MB.

[1] http://ondemand.yoxos.com/geteclipse/start
All in all, none. The blogger just likes the keyboard.
I really dislike this title. It seems like ever since Google said they would 'Do no evil', people have been calling any company that does anything they don't like evil. Facebook isn't evil, they are a company just like any other. As much as some people hate this open graph idea (and I REALLY hate it), it does not make the company evil.

Mark Zuckerberg on the other hand is evil. :D
This article has a Facebook like button right under the title.
CherryPy is a good place to start as well.
I conducted a totally unscientific poll on Twitter a few days ago. About 20 people responded with two-thirds preferring content left, sidebar right.
If you throw a signal into the public, you don't then get to decide how people use it

Depends… I can only speak for my own country (Denmark) where we do have rules about what information others are allowed to record and permanently store. Similar to there also being
rules about when video surveillance is allowed, and if allowed, who can have access to the tapes and for how long these are allowed to be stored.
ClipR - bookmarklet for better Internet reading (The Chocolate Flavor)
"In Silicon Valley, it's an employee's market"

When you're great at what you do - or even slightly better than 'good' - EVERY market is an employee's market.

(I did similarly to you. $55k (3 mos) -> $65k (6 mos) -> $68k + bonuses (4-day work week, same job as prior, +6 mos) -> $91k + profit sharing (total pay about $130k, 13 mos))

Then I quit and did high-dollar consulting. This January I quit consulting and am building my own products. Working for other people blows at any price.
Ajax Agent
Ajax agent is better than prototype in Ajax Why?
The real issue is this concept of putting a frame in a website that you click on and then automatically does something with your credentials on another site. It really should be handled by a browser toolbar plugin (for those who want this obnoxious feature) not by something that sites can embed to use your credentials as they see fit. It's fundamentally insecure.
This is not my field, but the hash array mapped trie from 2000-1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_array_mapped_trie) is the source of Clojure's "secret sauce" that is its answer to the functional programming trivial update problem. Updates are O(N) where N is a max of 32 and more likely 5-6, according to Rich Hickey.
It's also a good example of why an organization needs to continuously evaluate vendors of their software. McAfee long ago slipped into the pile of "not good enough" system security vendors while plenty of other alternatives shot past them in the virus/malware detection space. Basically they've been coasting on the good name they built up in the past, but I wouldn't think of installing any of their software on my system from the last 3-4 years. Slow, buggy, system resource hog, poor detection results, etc. This is all pretty common knowledge at this point. An enterprise should go through a yearly eval of all baseline software and find better alternatives. Or at the very least, when the software comes due for another purchase.

The thinking should be, if they've gotten sloppy about their core business, they are going to get sloppy elsewhere...and that's exactly what happened here.

edit

relevant quote from the article, "One thing I’m picking up from that coverage is that McAfee is pretty much a spent force, especially in the consumer PC protection market, and I shouldn’t be relying on the company to keep my PC safe anyway." Even Mr. Wainewright fell into the trap of not caring about critical security software on his system. It was news to him that they've fallen off the horse. It scares me that somebody who couldn't even be bothered to stay up to date on something like this has a column on ZDnet. Maybe I'm being unfair, but like I said, McAfee has had this reputation for piss poor software for at least 3 years.
Really? I don't get any horizontal scrollbars till < 997px browser width, which isn't an unreasonable level nowadays.

http://skitch.com/petercooper/dyeh8/x
Go, read the article.
Watch Startup Lessons Learned (Eric Ries' conference) live now
GeoIP seems to utterly fail where I’m living. It’s often several dozen kilometers off and I have never seen it being off by less than one kilometer.

Skyhook wireless is maybe twenty meters off where I’m right now. No contest.
That's not the screen on the right. That's a touch pad.
Well, just to explain my point of view better, you could rephrase aviation as just moving stuff "through the air" and "faster" -- hey we've had transportation for thousands of years! And we had combustion engines before they were ever used to power an airplane.

I'll admit that it's a fuzzy line and you can make a case for this particular thing to be on either side of it -- but having components that are previously established isn't enough IMO to definitively say "nothing was invented".
The same is with music. The T-Series cassettes were prices @ 25INR and sold like hot cakes without a trace of piracy. Then the CD-DVD MP3s came and the stupid pricing started. Who'll buy a CD for 100-200INR if u get free MP3s without any hassles?
I haven't been to Japan for about seven years, but I get the impression that their "dumb" phones are almost as fully-featured as our smartphones. If there were only ~2 million smartphones sold there last year this would seem to imply that they're not heavily into the whole smartphone thing. Can anyone comment?
Death, where is thy password?
http://www.immersivemedia.com/haiti/index.php for anyone curious
It's a lot easier to throw the netbook than the laptop in a small bag. I was skeptical too until I did it. Now I do my main work on a laptop but keep my current projects in a mercurial repo on a usb stick. Whenever I'm on the go, I just fire up the netbook pull from the repo. It also servers as another backup which I do regularly whether on the go or not.
The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB - Oh My
Looks like Facebook is now taking the heat off of Apple for being the "evil" company...
It just worked for me too. Sweet!
Ask HN: Please review my project - TwitVance
TwitVance (http://www.twitvance.com) is an application to schedule tweets that I created using Rails in my spare time. Feedback and suggestions most welcome.

Prominent features: Ability to add multiple twitter accounts, integrated bit.ly URL shortening.
Personally, I would recommend code igniter, even though the author of the article seems to disagree.

It's a very lightweight, basic, MVC framework. Clear cut documentation and if you look at their code, it's clean and easy to understand.
The Best Steve Jobs Videos
I seldom downvote, but here I could not resist to take a point from everyone who did not read the article and mistook the touch pad for the screen.
"I'm confronted with my own ignorance all the time"
I have always kept my own personal development machine a year or two behind what is considered bleeding edge as this is what my users will have.

Makes it easier to spot performance issues if you are not using a desktop water cooled super computer that boots so fast it causes nosebleeds and nausea.
"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
This headline is misleading.

They currently have 72% of sales not the market. There are a lot of "legacy" smart phone devices in Japan.

That said, capturing 72% of new sales is huge.
It reminds me of a point of view of one of Thich Nhat Hanh's friends, mentioned in his book "The Miracle of Mindfulness".

The gist of it was his friend was discussing spending time with his kids. He would view something like the concert Patterico mentioned as "his time" and sitting in the car with a crying baby as "the kid's time". He simply decided to start viewing "the kid's time" as "his time", he was choosing to spend quality time with his children.
I agree a successful business need not be unique. For example, many blogging platforms are and will be successful (e.g., tumblr, posterours, blogger, wordpress, etc).

However, if the consumer value proposition is built on providing exclusive deals, than to preserve your audience's trust, your deals need to be exclusive.

Please note, the article was also about how Groupon:
-has no top not repeat local customers
-has inside investors selling
-benefits from a temporary trends towards coupon redemption
Jeff Jarvis is right, except he shouldn't be so confused about why he's right.

There have been proposals for intermediated privacy settings controlled by users since the early 2000's (at least). The problem is that commercial websites never wanted to put that control in the user's hands.

Now Facebook "releases" what is essentially a siphon on your online activity, and the tech press lauds it as some kind of innovation.

Some days it seems like everywhere I turn, I see people doing the exact opposite of what is good for them. It's really bizarre.
This is enough to make me want to use a separate browser just for facebook, to make sure that facebook doesn't know anything about me that I don't consciously decide to tell it.

Hmm, startup idea: a browser designed specifically to keep facebook in its place.
How would you suggest he present himself?

(Not sure about devs coming with cereal boxes just yet, btw... The want ads I see still ask for "PHP Coder" and offer six figure salaries for good ones)
Exactly. How can Groupon be worth >$1B if the value proposition for businesses (that is, their growth in repeat customers over time) hasn't been proven?
Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers
Looks like your font-size is much smaller than mine.

This is chrome with everything on default (I did not increase it), on a 1920x1600 screen.

Seems the design advice site needs some help with CSS.
Yep, you can use anything you want as currency, but your government wants paying in the currency it prefers, and since you have to have some of that for them anyway, why not use it everywhere else too?

Another factor is that the world trades oil in USD. So you want to have some of your local currency and some USD around... That's why the dollar is the reserve currency of choice.
http://graph.facebook.com/home.html
http://graph.facebook.com/index.html

[edit: added another one]
I agree, to a point. This is the world we live in, and we all have to survive, preferably thrive.

Going along with wrongdoing, just because that's the way you make it in this world, is a reasonable strategy, sure. But when things are bad enough there is a time for ethical players to sacrifice for a greater purpose.

Each person, including board members and executives, is responsible for the ethics of their own actions and inaction. The "everyone was doing it" argument doesn't hold all that much water when it comes down to it. Everyone is doing a lot of things that I still must make a sacrifice of some sort to choose not to do due to ethics. My decisions are about who I am, not about who they are.
Don't Panic: Facebook is the Private Beta of the Semantic Web
Funny. My friend was much like that guy (also with some framework past, he did some extensions to the eZ for instance) but switched to Ruby recently and says: no intention to go back.

First he just started to generate pages using erb, much like you would craft quick'n'dirty php pages getting stuff from the db, but with erb. He said the clean syntax and sane libraries were refreshing.

Then he discovered Merb and started to tinker with it. He didn't want to check Rails as it seemed "too high level, too automagic", good for him.

Then, when I mentioned Rack, he tried it and fell in love with Sinatra (no pun intended). Now he says he's several times more productive than with PHP, doesn't go insane, doesn't have to learn big monstrous framework (that was the reason he sticked to PHP in the first place), can invent and use his low-level hacks on a http conversation.

So: what he did quick'n'dirty in PHP he now does quicker'n'cleaner in Ruby, still being low-level as he likes it.

The catch is that no one has never evangelized Ruby to him. He just tried it out of his own curiosity.
His job title is "Founder."
Panda - Open source video encoding in the cloud