skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It never really was. When a European Union country is in trouble that affects all the other countries in the monetary union.

This is both good and bad. It's bad, because countries that have their book in order are hit as well, it's good because of precisely the same reason, the rest of Europe can no longer afford to close its eyes to the problems of a neighbour in trouble.

Greece is a strange mix of relatively little economic impact at first glance, but a complex mix of banking and shipping holdings that have the potential to do a lot of harm if something dramatic were to happen.

The Greeks have been in trouble for a much longer perdiod, but the current combination of issues hopefully gives them the tools to finally get rid of a political system that has been rife with corruption and that has to a large extent been at least partially guilty in creating this situation.

Something good might come out of this, if the EU manages to help stabilizing Greece and stop the slide then it will emerge far stronger than it is today. If it allows the Greek crisis to spiral out of control and spill over in to other economically weak EU member states then the consequences will be grave.

It's not a time for little bits of help and band-aids, the EU will need to make some fairly bold moves, it remains to be seen if the resolve is present to actually do that.

This is especially tricky because the mortgage crisis is making lots of people skeptical of the Euro right now, and chipping in to help Greece is not going to go down well with the majority of the European electorate in countries that can still pretend they're not affected.
The article mentions that drivers usually fail to apply the brakes fully when attempting a panic stop. Some cars include brake assist systems that automatically apply full brakes when the driver presses the pedal suddenly enough.

I had the opportunity to give such a system a real-world test a couple years ago. I came over a crest on a German autobahn at just under 100 MPH (160 km/h) in a Volkswagen Crafter (a large van) to find a traffic jam in front of me. It's an odd experience; there's a snapping noise, and the pedal pressure is reduced to almost nothing. For an instant, I actually thought something had burst in the hydraulic system and the brakes had failed. The system applied the brakes as hard as the ABS would let it until I released the pedal.
A friend of mine just said the same thing (about another dev team photo), so I took it to the next logical step and created http://devteamorindieband.tumblr.com
I honestly want a good excuse to use chef for a server config. Something like a series of rackspace nodes or the like.

I'm interested to hear about how long it took to get up to speed with making reasonably simple nodes come up in a fully automated fashion with chef.
True, but reddit has less traffic, less users, and less features. For example, Digg shows you which of your friends dugg a story, which is far from trivial.

I like reddit better, but the digg guys are also doing some cool stuff.
Not really, in my experience. At most company's I have worked at, there were some people who were either not carrying their weight, or were in support roles with poor interpersonal skills, or management roles but shirked responsibility. Marketing would not have helped the bottom rung, and very often, they were not smart enough to consider or be able to market their work in the first place.
Yes, how often are these capabilities used (besides one of the most phenomenal web applications in recent years, but these parentheses let me pretend that nobody cares about something like that)?
Your time investment should also scale based on the value of the position. I know a position at Google would be immensely valuable to my career and pay more. In that situation, spending 10x time investment on my Google application vs my Joe's Coding Shack application seems natural.
The Omni Group has sold 5,000 copies of OmniGraffle for iPad (for $50 each).
Agreed.

Unfortunately, that seems to be the one thing that colleges and universities are phasing out of their cirricula in favor of Java, consulting, and how to pull all-nighters.
The search box on the left is dreadful. Why can't this be hidden the way it could (for me) yesterday? It's almost headache inducing (although that sounds crazy), it's like my eyes don't know what to do...they've had almost 10 years worth of training showing them to look in that exact spot on my screen, and now it has changed...

It's really, really distracting. If I can find out a way of hiding it, I absolutely will.
http://gamescanbeart.com/
VMWare to buy Gemstone
I think the first one is actually the better choice.

It's really surprising, assuming this is really the cause, that a single letter typo could have such an effect and this has 1) never happened before and 2) not been caught in testing.
I've been with DataPipe (http://www.datapipe.com) for the past 7 years, and I highly recommend them. They offer basic colocation through fully managed hosting. Very bright, competent staff, and they've always stood by their SLAs without giving me grief.

I also have dedicated servers at ServerBeach. I haven't had a problem, but I find the turnaround time is sometimes unreasonably long.
I lost 1200$ today, yaay.
edit: I lost 1200$ due to this situation today AND got downvoted for it! Double the hurt.
You're talking about average and good. I'm talking about firing "terrible." I find cowardice often prevents hiring mistakes from being corrected quickly, and the accuracy of the interview process is not high enough to prevent those bad hires consistently at most companies.
Even autohide taskbars are annoying, I'm using a 10px gnome panel now, and more command-line text search (built into nautilus). A problem with this approach is also if I go over to a friend's house that doesn't ever use the search box, I'll have to jump through hoops to even get to the search box, not a good idea. Hiding user interfaces and dynamically adopting them could be a good idea, but it makes the user think more, in an attempt to make them think less.
When helping others, uniformity is important.

If this site was like this, realizing that I read the whole comment thread before commenting and moving the comment box to the bottom of the page for me, it would be frustrating because I would sometimes scroll up and think I was logged out, etc.
(Big problem even when people accidentally remove UI elements from a program such as safari by dragging them off the toolbar.)
The biggest change in their redesign has nothing to do with the new logo, redundancy in navigation (because that can't be an issue) or making the different search tools more discoverable.

The biggest change is the top left position of the first search result relative to the top left position of the document. In other words, the average scanning pattern has completely changed with the addition of a fixed side bar.

It will take a lot of people a long time to adjust and its effectiveness can't be judged by a couple of hours of usage. It's not unlikely to assume Google is very willing to take a slight hit in this area and win in the discoverability of their different ways to use Google, hopefully, eventually improving a person's overal searching efficiency.

Time will tell, but we all know Google tests these things through and through.
I knew Gordon Gecko had something to do with this.
Hama: distributed scientific package on Hadoop (for matrix and graph data)
Guilt by association doesn't make a case either way.
`rm -rf` vs `rm -ri` could have that sort of impact.
Or `sleep 1; shutdown -r now` vs `sleep 1h; shutdown -r now` to reboot the production server.

I once deleted all my source code instead of backing it up to my floppy by doing "del ." while command.com was in wrong drive. (Should have done "del a:\."; two letters cost me a night of running an undelete program)
That sort of command line looks like a recipe for disaster.
"Opera's growing influence in browsers has been illustrated by the huge take-up of the Opera browser for iPhone"

Really? I don't know a single person who has switched to Opera on iPhone.
because then they would continue to be in debt in order to invest and thats something that doesn't quite make sense.

and when they go cash in those investments during a down economy, they'll all be down. unless they put it all into derivatives.
Rumor was that someone at citi fat fingered 16 billion of eminis instead of millions. Even if it were true, it would not cause as much as a dent in it. Market was on a sliding selloff already. My suspicion was that this was a manipulation or HFT gone wild or both. If there weren't that spike down, dow would be at -5% easily, but what happened was -9 and then up to -3.
I really like the left side bar. I prefer it to the top bar when it comes to focusing my results - its closer and has more options. As for the design — it feels cleaner, but thats subjective.
Yeah, and Chicago has really strict gun control laws.
Perhaps bioengineering would have advanced much further by now if he built a faster horse
This was getting way out of my tolerance so I deactivated my account. If facebook doesn't clear this mess I am even deleting it.
I tried Opera on the iPhone last night...seriously disappointing. I used to love Opera on my little Blackberry Pearl, but it's soooo slow on the iPhone. Interface is odd also.
in fact now that i look at it, if you do an image search for "string theory" the flame algorithm was used to make #1, #4 #12 #15 #20, fully one quarter of the first page of results. it was also used to represent string theory in "molecules to the max" the educational film about nanotechnology: http://www.moleculestothemax.com/gallery_12_string.html. can anyone introduce me to brian greene?
Accenture? http://www.google.com/finance?q=acn
They removed the trademark ((tm)) letters from the logo.

I'm wondering why corporations keep plastering those all over their designs.
Watching some TED talks is a long standing item on my todo list but I'm overwhelmed by choice!
Yahoo's TCP Traffic Analyzer
VI Editor / Linux Terminal Cheat Sheet [pdf]
It could be argued such contracts violate net neutrality.

I'm pretty sure the telcos don't have enough lines for everyone to place a call at the same time. Are you also going to argue that running a call center should be prohibited, too, because you are excessively using shared resources?
Does anyone else wonder if Facebook churns their policies just to get disinterested and annoyed users to sign in one more time to fix their settings?
While not written in any sort of professional manner, this got me thinking. What is the author really suggesting?

Data will be linked to other data, and the client based application will use it?

This sounds a lot like a general-purpose REST(ish) client. For instance, data comes back, with actions on that data tied to other URLs to request to. The client application will decide how to present it (is web design dead at this point?). This is interesting, as the client applications are literally data consumers - and the application developers really data architects. Its possible that there would be no web design, no HTML/CSS/Javascript, and another hollistic, more expressive technology will take its place.

Having data linked to other data is nothing we can't produce with well-designed web services today. Maybe there will be a JSON linked-data API standard. I could be getting the technology wrong but the concept is the same.

I'm not really sure how we would get away from presentation-focused web applications. The client would have to be fairly sophisticated to handle all of the different types of data structures coming in - and 'client data-browsers' would inevitably have different implementations (we'll still need the user agent string, won't we?). Add on top of that every application or 'view' will look the same as no design is added to it. Sounds boring and the masses probably won't catch on. I'm definitely missing something here, but the concept is fun to push around. Imagine how much larger/better/more sophisticated/faster our web applications would be if you only had to worry about data instead of also interface and state?

It doesn't really matter what comes - the mavericks and those willing to change (and not just progress) will jump on, and everyone else will be an outdated developer of yester-year. The concept is only scary to the lazy.
There's undoubtedly a price spike. But to confirm or deny the s/million/billion/ explanation we are looking for a volume spike at the same time.
I may be mistaken, but it seems like Digg is broken far less often. Just yesterday, people couldn't login to Reddit for nearly the whole day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10101581.stm

US markets plunge on continuing Greek debt concerns
Exactly. I recently made a few webpages specifically for one job offer to go with my cover letter/resume. Unfortunately, these pages have never been opened…

I couldn't think of the best way to do it: a very short cover letter basically saying "open that webpage to see my real cover letter" might just annoy the recipient; a somewhat regular cover letter (my choice then) with an invitation to open a link still needs to be distinctive enough to convince the recipient to click the link.
Google bookmarks is down ?
Looks like google bookmarks is down.
Tried logging in and grabbing my bookmarks.

<p> Nope. It says there are no bookmarks.
<p> Did it loose my data? Hoping not.
<p>This sucks.
I trusted them with all my links, and now I can not retrieve them.
<p> I know this sounds bad, but I really find it hard to believe that google has outages of that sorts still.
<p> I used to see all those posts about twitter being down, or gmail being down and used to think, "why people are making such a big fuss over that? It's only a matter of time before the service comes back on."
<p> But now I know, how uncomfortable it feels, when you NEED the service and it's down.
JPY better, EURJPY is a gauge for markets also. Markets go down, EURJPY follows and market goes up, EURJPY goes up (like most yen crosses, but eurjpy being most prominent)
I don't; it's obviously written by Yet Another Bitter Python Hacker, and isn't even really that funny.

I think that the best First Programming Language to learn would still be C, followed by some flavor of Lisp. C, because it's both practical and teaches you how your computer works at a low level, and Lisp, because it shows you how powerful computers can be when you strip them down to the mathematical bone.

Everything else is just some balance between the two.
Uhm. So what is it good for?
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

IS THIS NOT WHY YOU ARE HERE?

Personally I checked only to see everyones noodles flailing.
I haven't used Digg much in about a year...it lost its charm when they started to make the site too complex with unnecessary features and ever-so-slightly related vertical topics.

K.I.S.S. like HN !!
This is happening.

Nasdaq is breaking trades that occurred between 14:40 and 15:00 which executed at more than 60% away from the previous (consolidated) print price.
Vik Muniz makes art with wire, sugar
Some languages get evaluated on their inherent qualities and some by the places you might encounter them. Not very insightful even for a flippant answer :-)
Asynchronous method queue chaining in JavaScript
I'm guessing that they'd have probably sold 10 times that if it was priced at $9.99, the same price as Pages, Numbers and Keynote. I for one would have picked it up at that price...
> That sounds hard for me to believe, but thats one rumor.

Would this rumor create insane profits for some? If that is so, those getting the profits should be investigated. Some employee could have been promissed a large sum in a off-shore account to enter a 'b' instead of an 'm'. It should look like an 'oops' to everyone else while a bunch of HFT algorithms could rake in serious profits as everyone's stop-loss triggers get hit. The employee might get fired, but he the pay-off was large enough, he might not need to work ever again.
Nope....everything is working okay for me. Recommend you keep a backup.
Whether or not they hire him is moot -- funny and creative is a hard thing to get across, and he did a bang-up job. I'm sure he'll get noticed by someone.
And about 10% of the traffic. This isn't exactly an apples to apples comparison:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+digg.com/
"I thought I’d be the next YouTube"

As far as I know YouTube is far from being a financial success either...
yes they are, actually most of it is just normal CSS.
I wish they would spend more time bolstering up the default templates and workflow found in the current OSX version instead of working on something new.
Oh man, that's really bad. I rarely use the GMail app, so I hadn't run across this particular limitation yet.

I found a forum thread where someone found a sequence of interactions that work around the problem, but select/copy/paste really should be in the app's menu, like they are for the browser:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Mobile/thread...

Summary: You can use Shift-S to activate select mode, then use the scroll ball to select. (On a keyboardless phone, hold "menu" until the soft keyboard comes up, then press Shift-S to activate select mode.)
This is not as bad as presented, this is a good article about the situation in Greece: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/04/greece-d...
These posts make me sad. If you are in a position to choose the language you're working in, choose the one that makes you and your team happy (in a gestalt sense, of course).

I don't mean to be overly reductionist. But the languages that I'm currently happiest with are statically-typed, compiled, and run on the JVM.

When I'm in a position to choose, I opt for the one in which myself and my coworkers are most productive that meets project requirements. There's not much to say beyond that.
My vote is Hire. I'll be watching PA for your name. Good luck!
I am trying to imagine the mechanics of what a "no-bid" situation would look like. Presumably you mean that one of the market makers would have to take the other side of the trade, but the rules for MM entities stipulate that they have to provide liquidity within certain bounds, not at all times and at any cost. Even if there were truly no bids -- which didn't happen -- the market maker would never make the market at $0.01.
> To achieve a magical sense of childlike wonder that you have a hard time differentiating from megalomania: Objective C

I felt no childlike wonder while doing Objective C and this compared to Java. It's less verbose, but it's nothing that good about it. It did remind me of lisp but just barely([]).

Oh, an memory management wasn't something I was looking forward to...
> It's not unlikely to assume Google is very willing to take a slight hit in this area

What hit are you talking about? Are people willing to leave Google to use another search engine and get used to their UI?. Unless they royally screw up with the design (which they didn't IMO) they have almost nothing to lose.

If you compare this with bing, you will see that they have a lot of similarities.
Why I Hate Budgets
This specific form might get overused and burnt out, but spending time on learning about the company and finding out and explaining why you are a great candidate for the opening will always require some time investment that not everyone will be ready to make. How you present it might change, but I'd think that it will always make you stand out.

However, at the end of the day, the only thing it does is calling attention to your resume/portfolio, and making sure the company knows you're very interested. (rather than being one company out of tens to which you sent your resume) But if the resume/portfolio doesn't interest them, it won't change much.
Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans
I started out with chef a few weeks ago, but found I was writing too much complicated code for simple things. I changed to puppet and its more constrained DSL has really helped me describe my intents in a simple and efficient manner.
Claimed copyright infringement - don't sue Google unless you really mean it
AAPL, RIMM, GOOG, etc have the same pattern because they're part of the composition of the major indices, so their typical behavior is to track the major indices. If something causes the index to spike or fall, large volumes of whatever the index is composed of will traded.
BBC is a lot more useful IMHO

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/
yes, vim or willingness to learn is currently a hiring requirement for us. Not a religious thing, just happend the first two guys we hired preferred vim.
I had the same experience with their Android version. Tried it, but I don't see a reason to use it over the default browser (and yeah, the interface is a little odd).
I agree. The main reason I even came to the comments for this article was to say that. I'd even be willing to pay up to about half what they're charging for it. Up until then, however, I'll go without.
Absolutely. However a) anything even slightly divisive could be a problem and b) it is all about what it reported. If the media scares the market that is the same effect.
I have a question. Under Privacy Settings -> Applications and Websites, they have this sentence in the text:
When you visit a Facebook-enhanced application or website, it may access any information you have made visible to Everyone (Edit Profile Privacy) as well as your publicly available information.

Now, my question: Does this mean that when I visit some website that's "Facebook-enhanced" and I don't do a damn thing, is the site going to pull the info? What the heck is a "F-E" website? The ones with the little "fb" icon they just introduced?
How to Find and Hire Staff Using LinkedIn
Speedtest and Comparsion of OSS Cryptography Libraries [2 years old but good]
But surely when I travel long distances to interview, I at least deserve a "please drop dead" email.

There's a school of thought that says you should educate them appropriately...

http://www.emailyourinterviewer.com/
Great story - really chimes with what i did two months ago...I left my well paid corporate job to do something that i really enjoyed...solving real world problems for real world clients who really need them solving (not just pleasing the boss). So i set up PageDo (http://pagedo.com).
See Randomness
It's back on now.
I kept checking it for 15 minutes and it didn't.

Anyways, you are right. I better start doing that.
Any other service you might recommend?
or are you suggesting a backup on the regular old browser bookmarks?
"Which has plenty of capacity for transit, especially the mass, rapid sort that cities on the east side are so busy trying to prevent from being built."

As it turns out, the east-siders aren't in general opposing transit. The major impediments are the fact that the highway commission and the transportation commission are at odds with each other, and the transportation commission here has an illustrious history of failures.

"You see a nice house, I see rows of identical houses with equally identical people in it. I see stagnation and loss of perspective, as everything the least bit unseemly and incongruous with your hard-earned socioeconomic status is blissfully hidden."

I agree with that. Those large subdivisions full of identical "luxury" homes are eyesores.

I know a lot of people who live on the east side who constantly complain about how dull it is. In Seattle, you can get GOOD coffee from local mom & pop roasters (just wait until you try Trabant if you haven't already), on the east side you're stuck with one of the bizillion Charbucks scattered around, and the occasional Tully's, which is only slightly better than Charbucks.
Tracking semantic changes in web service policies
A pure-HTML5 music synthesizer (FF only for now)
> It doesn't have a $0 cost of production.

You skipped over the word "marginal," which was the most important word in that sentence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost