skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to keep the features you could just stay with your current firmware. It is optional to upgrade, not a forced decision. Also it begs the question of why you want to keep the functionality. If you were going to use it for the cell computing power or just messing around you could always use the old firmware and upgrade when you want to use the playstation network functionality. If you want to keep both features there is a good chance the reason why you would want to do so is to pirate games. Could someone explain to me why there is any legitimacy in this suit?
It sounds like a lot of the complaints are about their ORM layer. I'll point out that Rails (a very comparable project) has a lot of cruft in ActiveRecord, their ORM layer, as well. I can't directly compare it to Django's, but it's a bit of a hairball. Some of it is just that it's hard to write a good ORM layer.

Let's hope that Django can also take a Rails 3-esque approach -- make the ORM layer modular, then use whichever you like. That's a surprisingly good way to disentangle the internals of the ORM from everything else. And once you do that, it gets a lot easier to polish up the code, or if necessary replace it with something prettier.

I imagine a fair number of the Rails 3 folks will be replacing ActiveRecord with DataMapper, for somewhat similar reasons. I plan to.
Ugh, tell me about it.. worse still if the nodes aren't all on fast connections. One thing we had to deal with is where a mobile operator had two sites with multiple nodes per site. Our nodes were connected through a high speed network on each site, but the connection between the two sites was very slow and unreliable, so we had to change our software so that it would "prefer" to communicate with other nodes on the same site before trying the second site.
Why? Apple's compilers support C, Objective-C and C++ in a single source, so you can call it Objective-C++.
False dichotomy. If you start taking responsibility one step earlier, you realize it is your responsibility not to let yourself get put in that position, that is, to an extent, you chose to let him put that gun to your head.
Can DOD really defeat PowerPoint?
"It simply takes too long to evaluate intelligence...".
True. But even if intelligence is evaluated, it might not be in the interest of the female to go with the most intelligent mate.

What she prioritizes will be a combination of wealth, smartness, and other factors that will make her happy and her offspring "fitter", obviously often in a subconscious way.

Btw, I agree with all you are saying. I just thought I should support it, since even evaluating that someone is intelligent in our definition does not necessarily make them a good mate in the evolutionary sense.
Am I the only person who thought that whole sketch was an ad that Apple probably paid for? Stewart never said anything bad about the products, and in fact every 20 seconds said something about how awesome they were. Plus he had an iPad on screen for a good two minutes.
But how is this different from the monetizibility of web-apps on the existing web?

And don't forget - even if Apple were to acquiesce and make an app store for web apps, there would still be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. The claim would be that Apple is trying to take away URL-addressibility from the web. Heck, people already complain about this just for Objective-C Apps!

Exhibit A: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=945443
Some of us old-timers (Unix v6!) are using Xcode and think it's a great toolset.

Show me a better-integrated set of editors, compilers and (most important) debugging/performance analysis tools on any platform.
Re: Thoughts on Flash (A level-headed response to Jobs)
I love this paragraph, check their hypocrisy, switch Adobe/Apple:

[Apple]'s products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from [Apple], and [Apple] has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While [Apple]'s products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by [Apple] and available only from [Apple]. By almost any definition, [Apple] is a closed system.
There was a huge debate on this a few years back, however most of that seems to have died down now. Matt Cutts discussed it a few years ago: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalizatio...

I think it's a matter of personal preference - just be consistent with whatever you pick.
Chicago Boss is compatible with one and only one database server: Tokyo Tyrant

Is there any good reason for that ?
I will do a strip search if they can promise me that there is zero chance the plane wont blow up.
By "designed from scratch", he/she probably means that Erlang's asynchrony is thoroughly integrated, while node.js tries to retrofit such a model onto JS, and still has operations that will cause the whole system to block.

It stopped mattering that Erlang evolved from a Prolog prototype when it ceased running on top of SICStus's IO primitives. (FWIW, Prolog is a really cool language, particularly for prototyping. Event-driven, IO-heavy stuff is just not its strong point. The pattern matching stuff in Erlang comes straight from Prolog, though.)
I'm saying that there are a finite number of dimensions - maybe a dozen or less. They all exist inside the universe. "Outside" the universe, there are no dimensions. There is no space or time. There is actually no "place" for you to "go" outside the universe. It only makes sense to say that the universe is expanding by measuring the space and matter in it. There is no measuring stick outside to hold the universe up to.
Because positing the existence of an n+1 dimension complicates the theoretical model without adding to its predictive power. Curvature and expansion can be defined perfectly well using intrinsic measures within n dimensions, without positing another. Further, the n-dimensional manifold might curve in ways that cannot be embedded into n+1 dimensions. For example, a Klein bottle is a logically possible shape of a 2D universe that cannot be embedded into a 3D universe without colliding with itself. Now, if this happens you might say, "Aha! But a Klein bottle can indeed exist embedded in 4D. So perhaps our universe is not in n+1 dimensions, but n+2." But how far does this continue? Adding dimensions every time you find something new out about the curvature of space is like adding epicycles to the geocentric model. You don't need an infinite supply of dimensions to embed the universe in, since everything you know about it can be described without reference to any of these unobservable dimensions that you might suppose exist.
Yes, it's opt in. You either opt in to having your interests link, or you opt in to have your interests deleted.
The 4-P's to Scrappy-ness
--- Found on ScrappyStartupForum.com ---

There has been a lot of buzz around the Valley lately about the term “scrappy” and how startups are staying lean / scrappy to optimize growth and profitability.

Here are four simple ideas a founder/team should consider to increase scrappiness:

Philosophy — Everything starts with the way you view the world. Reading and understanding various philosophical systems from Stoicism to Zen Buddhism to Dale Carnegie are all important for a founder to understand how he/she views the world. Once you can adopt and commit to a scrappy philosophy then you can focus on scrappy execution. A founder must live scrappy and really “be” scrappy.

People – A founder must hire scrappy people. Look for folks who have started clubs on campus; have led church groups or worked at a non-profit. Any life experiences where they have had to deal with incredibly constrained resources and have had to hustle. You also have to look for folks who are excited with the possibility of finding creative solutions to problems by leveraging minimal resources. Also finding people with large personal and professional networks is always a plus since they can tap their network for solutions to problems.

Reward and acknowledge people who stay scrappy.

Products — With the recent surge of amazing web based solutions for common business processes, being scrappy has never been easier. I have listed a few such solutions below:
· www.pipelinedeals.com – CRM system
· www.lessaccounting.com – Accounting
· www.ReTargeter.com – branding and driving sales
· www.FlowTown.com – email marketing / social media demographics
· www.KISSMetrics.com – metrics
· www.Recurly.com – managing online payments
· www.Yammer.com – rapid cross platform internal communication
· www.google.com/apps — web based email and calendars

Place – Given the current economic conditions there are ample opportunities to find cheap office space. There are also a host of larger companies or other startups that have additional space and are willing to sublease that space to you. Also location is key, if you are surrounded by other startups, great resources and free events that may be more beneficial in the long term than going with a cheaper space.

Being scrappy is a life-long philosophy but when/if you do have the resources then make sure to give back to other scrappy folks!

-Arjun Dev Arora, ReTargeter
Ultimately, the "euro" experiment is doomed to failure. You can't have a unified currency and monetary policy, while individual countries have massively different domestic spending policies.
Ostensibly, yes, but it was the other person's choice to produce the gun and raise it. To ensure total avoidance of such situations, you would have to make sure you never come into contact with any armed Pringles advertisers, and since you never know for sure who or where they are, you would have to live your life in complete physical solitude.
Using Cellphone Camera as Accelerometer
If Flash never existed and HTML5 was king, what would flashing, animated, noisy advertisements be created in? Content is not the fault of the platform.
I don't understand why people are OK with electronic strip searches. When they make these useless machines mandatory, I'll consent to being scanned in them. Until then, a $15/hour TSA employee who wants to invade my privacy on the pretense of securing an airplane can at least look me in the eyes while he does so.

It may be my intimate familiarity with crappy data management and retention regimes, both in DHS and outside of it, but regardless of how I've acquired this perception: I have zero faith that TSA can/will protect the data they're collecting from abuse, misuse, and inadvertent disclosure. The people manning these checkpoints are simply not adequately trained. Real law enforcement officers can't handle privacy and data retention. It is unreasonable to suggest that the TSA could do a better job with more sensitive material.
"To achieve long battery life when playing video, mobile devices must decode the video in hardware; decoding it in software uses too much power."

Though this is not exactly news, this sounds like a confirmation of the reason Apple doesn't support Theora for html5 videos...
Yep, certainly seems that way: "...this makes it possible to set up a system to automatically store archives daily (e.g., via a cron job) while not being able to read those archives back or delete them — ensuring that even if someone breaks into the system and does his best to delete everything, your data will still be safe."
> [Jobs:] "we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open."

Consider Python. Is it a standard? Yes, because there's an open source reference implementation.

Does it pertain to the web? Yes it does, because http clients and servers can be, and often are, written in this language, and its standard library and 3rd-party open source libraries support http and other web protocols such as HTML.

So if you're so keen on stand ards Steve, why can't I write web software in Python for the iPhone and iPad? Why are you such a hypocrite?

On a wider note: Steve, do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar-coated digital handcuffs, or do you to change the world for the better?
> "We don't watch videos on the iPhone for 10 hours."

We do other things on the iPhone. I don't want to make the choice between watching a video and then restricting my own usage just so my phone has enough juice to make a call. I'd rather watch videos and use my phone, and the more power efficient everything is, the more the user can do this.

To put it in perspective, if Apple's numbers are to be believed, running Flash alone doubles the power consumption of the device. That's insane.

> "With that I answer: a:hover {}"

a:hover is no longer (it certainly used to be) a common tool used for site navigation. Which is to say, rollover dropdown menus are out like parachute pants - it's a non-issue on the web today. Just about every site works with "clicks", which is Apple's primary form of interaction with websites on touch devices.

The most compelling argument made though we've already been aware of for some time: cross-platform toolkits encourage lowest common denominator design. In Apple's world of pixel-perfect mockups and obsessive attention to detail this is abhorrent - and I'm inclined to agree. The iPhone's chief strength is its remarkably polished user interface - which for the most part remains true across its 3rd party app sphere, thanks in no small part to Apple's obsessive HID enforcement.

A Flash-compiled-to-iPhone app destroys this in the same way that a Linux Qt app hastily ported to Windows is the same.
Either cross platform standards are a good thing, or platform specific features are a good thing.

This is the classic fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses of the 2nd order, a.k.a. "a false dichotomy" or "the fallacy of the excluded middle".

There is a third possibilty: that both are good, and that which is better depends upon the nature of the app one wants to create. This third missing case also happens to be the reality of the situation — there are tradeoffs, and one selects which is better according to the upsides that one desires versus the downsides one is willing to abide.

(Surely you're not claiming that there are no tradeoffs between the native API and web technologies! I can think of several, not the least of which is the limited rate at which innovation can be brought to the web API.)
Ubuntu's homepage still lists this as an RC.
I second this.

I ran fine in 8.4 and thought an upgrade would be nice so I could get all the latest software. I was wrong. At 9.4, Ubuntu broke half my laptop's functionality. 9.10 had the same issues. I read that the patches I needed for some of my problems were already in Lucid, so I upgraded to the latest beta. Lucid fixed my resume issue (with network reconnection! imagine being able to resume but not being able to bring back your network without rebooting).

But still broken since 9.4:

(1) I must close my lid twice in order for the OS to recognize that I want to go to sleep.

(2) I must remap volume keys to other keyboard keys because someone forgot my laptop's situation of having different events for the same key.

(3) I must forget about seeing any kind of splash screen or console display during boot until I get to X login... and forget about using grub2.

I want to get other people to use linux, but if you make your common user have to download and compile random patches from random people on random forums just to get the OS to recognize SLEEP, you failed to provide a working OS. If you provide an Upgrade button in your updater GUI, suggesting an official supported release, you most definitely need to avoid breaking basic working features.

And I have tried out the patch path, tried the uncommon user approach... These things break other features or do not solve the problem at all. I do not have the time to understand the full situation and then fix things that new releases broke because someone thought their refactoring or their new and cool updated driver was better for everyone (I am talking to you, evdev).

It is 2010, and we still cannot get 5-10 year old laptops to work? Sleep? Wireless networking? Video? It makes my old Windows XP installation feel like a breath of fresh air after playing with Ubuntu. The only reason I persist is that I love linux as a development environment.
You consider that table of contents mess a "nit"? It's embarrassing.
Become a Ruby on Rails Developer (for noobs)
General intelligence factor, a Statistical Myth
PubSubHubbub and Synchronization
When they make these useless machines mandatory, I will cease to travel by air.
Easy variables for CSS using erb and chuusha
Dear Adobe... stop making shoddy software and then charging an arm and a leg for it. Pixelmator FTW.
> "Proprietary implementations are a (sometimes) necessary interstitial step towards great open implementations."

True, but Flash is a closed standard with a closed implementation. Adobe likes to claim it is open - but the fact remains that not only is it impossible to write an open implementation of their incomplete spec, but Adobe has actively sought to keep core components proprietary even in spec and prevent competing implementations.

That's the part that irks me about Adobe's role in this issue - they're playing themselves and Flash off as this open savior of the web when they've actively been evil in that regard. If you're closed, great, do your thing; if you're open, then actually open your spec - don't open part of it and then go after the other half with lawyers.
Actually, ubiquitous surveillance was a big part of the Big Brother apparatus in 1984.
Like this? http://www.9to5mac.com/Flash-html5-canvas-35409730
I'm sure that is all great comfort to those who have had their homes searched based on an anonymous tip that drugs were there. Finding friendly judges is a task that cops learn to do very well.

The legislators weighed this all out and made the shield law. You are second guessing them, which is fine, but second guessing doesn't change the actual law. It was made to protect journalism and with very good reason. And in this case it is very easy to see that the line drawn in the law may have been crossed.
Interesting, but it looks like it doesn't parse to DOM Level 2 Style, but an ad-hoc SelectorObject. It would be nice if it used the SelectorObject for internal representation, but generated objects that implement the DOM CSS interfaces (http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Style/css.html#CSS-fundamen...).
Tweetie Creator Releases iPhone App for Free Texting
Right, so the EU powers that be have two options:

1. Admit they were wrong and dismantle the Euro, or

2. Use it as an excuse to centralise more power in Brussels, "harmonising" the spending policies of the various member nations

Which do you think they'll pick?
Is anyone aware if the left-justified max/min/close buttons are still left-justified, or if that was corrected? There was an article about a month ago discussing this (and its inherent silliness) but I'm not sure if it still exists as such.

Looking at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand seems to indicate that it still is, and perhaps as trivial as this may seem, it is discouraging me from upgrading.

(edit) I haven't yet had a chance to download a live CD of a release candidate.
When it comes to battery life, you must consider the affect on the total user experience.

If the iPhone can play video for 10 hours, that means a 2 hour movie brings my battery life to 80%.

If the iPhone could play Flash video for 5 hours and I watch a 2 hour movie, my battery life is reduced to 60%.

Given other things I do with my phone battery life is important beyond "how much video can I watch?" If the repercussions of watching a two-hour video are so much less severe, I am more likely to watch the video in question knowing I won't wind up with a dead phone after a half day of traveling.
What I am really waiting/hoping for is someone to take the erlang_js hooks that the Basho guys created and use them to provide a node.js interface that is actually run by erlang. The erlang side chops up the js at the various node.js API interface points and then handles everything that node.js is supposed to provide, but does it using the power of erlang to run the show. Instead of being its own event loop node.js just becomes an API that the erlang side provides for the js code.
I'm not flaming, trolling or baiting, but I am curious: under what circumstances do you think proprietary implementations are necessary?
I'm apparently an outlier then. I've applied on three separate ocassions via their careers website, each time for multiple positions, without knowing anyone inside. Each time I was contacted for an interview, and the last two times I was contacted for more than one position I applied for. Never got far enough to get an offer though.

Though the last round of phone interviews I went through, one of the engineers I was interviewing with actually commented that he'd never heard of anyone getting an interview via their website, only through a friend or a college recruiter.
They probably have to stage the iso's and everything on the servers. So we can probably pull the final images down before it's announced for a couple hours.
Of course, they can't promise anything like that with certainty. The stupidity of the TSA is that we are wasting enormous amount of time and money for very little benefit.

I miss the days of coming off an airplane, walking down the tunnel, and immediately seeing the face of a loved one.
Previously they had -rc in the filename.
Completely disagree. Most of Django's components are so simple that you can tear them out and replace them for your own thing. I've done it several times now and I never felt confused about it.
Zero chance the plane won't blow up? Man, I hope I don't wind up on your next flight.
I might have committed a protocol violation in submitting this; I got this link from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1300347
#quicklinks { position: absolute; }

if you just want to turn off the toolbar stickiness.
Don't forget to contribute to bittorrent with your iso afterwards.
We all remember, but they changed their minds and now fully embrace the app store, and even use it as a major marketing point. Suggesting we go back to it now is a bit pre-mature, I think. JS simply doesn't run comparably to native apps, so if they want to talk battery life, they should discuss it there as well.
Evolution contradicts the desire for smaller.

This is not strictly speaking true. There are ecosystems that favor smaller animals/traits. Islands, for example.
Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person

"This legal fiction does not mean these entities are human beings, but rather means that the law allows them to act as persons for certain limited purposes..." Emphasis mine.

This stuff isn't even on topic, but when people insist on insulting my intelligence with snide pseudo-logical comments, I will insist on correcting them.
Kindle firmware 2.5 imminent: Twitter/Facebook integration, ebook Collections
"many (most?) executives hold lots and lots of stock."

All, probably.
I also loved Bombardiers. Great book that didn't get a lot of traction - highly recommend it for anyone considering a career in finance.
Upgrading Servers to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid on Amazon EC2 - Alestic.com
They are still left-justified, but they fixed the horrible padding they had in one of the beta releases.

I'm basically used to them, but kind of annoying that my primary app in Ubuntu (Chrome) has them on the right side, as it creates inconsistency. Yes, I realize I can use the native title bar with Chrome but then it's not as pretty ;-)
Aren't the examples a bit silly? "agents had found such items as a pocket knife hidden on someone's back and a syringe full of liquid concealed in a passenger's underwear"

The pocket knife should be detected by the classic metal detector (or are they implying that these are not working correctly now? (yes I know they aren't)). The syringe with liquid would be pretty easy to conceal in other ways (or just taken legally, looking like a diabetes pack) if someone really wanted to do that.
You can use the exact same argument to say the US federalism "experiment is doomed to failure".

Actually, I wrote that with the intention of disagreement, but now I think about it ...
Ubuntu - Upgrading an EBS Instance