skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worn on the pinky finger so that you can feel it when you rest your hand to write (sign something). Just to remind you to not screw up and kill people.

The ring itself wears down over time, obviously, and I've heard some symbolism about "rough edges" going away as you age associated with it. I've even heard an anecdote about a senior engineer who lost his ring and got a replacement. He was seen in the machine shop taking a belt sander to it because he "felt like a kid."

The symbolism about other rings is that the mofo is steel and rough, meaning that you can't really wear another ring next to it without damaging it (unless you have another steel ring). The symbolism is about the pursuit of good engineering trumping the pursuit of wealth.

I'm sure the fact that hardness of the ring makes it capable of (and good at) opening beer bottles is entirely unintentional.
I think a related problem is that he is interacting with "PR majors".
Procurve?
Proliant (otherwise known as the best value enterprise servers on the market)
Let's not forget their various diagnostics tools and imaging products.
Printers?
Cameras?
Calculators?
The incredible solutions from EYP for building efficient datacenters, including their containerized solutions?
Openview (Sure nobody ever used it, but a lot of companies pay a hell of a lot of money for it)

But you're right, HP is incapable of building anything that is competitive in the marketplace.

Maybe they're incapable of building a cellphone that doesn't make phone calls, or of putting out silly little web products, but HP is massive, and has built some incredible network and server hardware.
Smart move on Zuck's part. It is better to take the heat for this now than end up as another widely popular communication platform with a limited timespan(ICQ, Friendster, Hotmail etc.).

Good business move!
For the tl;dr crowd:

The opening:

I am not a lawyer and I do not have all the facts about the stolen iPhone, but I'm not going to let that stop me from passing judgement on this case.

The end:

In summary:

a) Gawker/Nick Denton = guilty
b) Jason Chen = guilty (of being gullible)
c) iPhone seller = guilty
d) Using Shield Law defense = lame
e) Gestapo Cops = very lame
On top of the monitoring and metrics they're providing, imagine if they could provide application deployment and ensuring server state across multiple clouds. They could leverage Puppet and perhaps other tools like Capistrano to roll out new applications across the clouds, with all information centrally available. It would further reduce a company's need to have their own DevOps guy(s). Tie it in with RCS like git / SVN, even. Partner with Splunk for syslog analysis. The possibilities are endless, and the power for startup companies seems incredible.
Generation X came of age in the early 90s. They're the kurt cobain generation. I was born in '86, I've always considered myself a millenial and never saw a problem with it.
I wonder how much of this is regional? I was born in the late 80s and didn't experience any of the coddling people associate with my generation. Is it because I grew up in MN? Did any other HNers grow up in the same time/place? (Yes, I know, I'm young and still growing up).
Not claiming any expertise, but a data point for you: I was born in '84 and I have zero identification with Gen X.

We had AIM in high school, Facebook in (some of) college, and MTV had already mostly stopped playing music videos when we became aware of it.
This comes at a perfect time for me, I've been playing around a lot with Node.js lately and I've been looking around for a way to host it. I don't want to pay $20 a month for a VPS for an experimental fun-application, and http://elusivehippo.com/ just tells me that I'm not looking for some droids.

Not only is real-time application support a huge step, but the way Heroku has listened to its customers here to implement Node.js support is amazing.
I think my favorite part of the ceremony was the poem Rudyard Kipling wrote about engineers, entitled "The Sons of Martha."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Martha
Prezi - The zooming presentation editor
It's a fabulous metaphor, but "Can't open any more Cards" really detracts from it.

Palm may have nailed the UX, but Android nailed the engineering.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion... and to having it slaughtered on HN!
They created a competent development environment for FreeBSD, so its plausible that they can do it on Windows or Linux. Not that I think it will come to that.

Our computing environment is going through another refactoring. The last big refactoring started with the rise of the web, and its not done yet. The next wave started with the rise of powerful mobile internet devices, and will still be playing out in a decade.

What will we all be coding on in 10 years? Hell if I know, it could be retinal projectors, and neural implants hooked into "the TouchCloud." Or maybe its something running a descendent of the iPhone fork of OS X with full support for huge displays, keyboards, mice, etc.
Official?
Node.js fanout pubsub server for real-time apps
Custom Handwritten Letters and Invitations
Consumer Debt: Stocks vs Flows
Academia.edu Raises $1.6 Million
I agree wholeheartedly. One issue is that every "promise" is a bit unique. HN posters are big on mentoring and interesting work, which are subjective qualifications, but this is not the case for everyone. Some people just want a salary and a chair-- much easier to promise.

The incentive to mentor is long-term. It benefits the company later on, and loyalty is an asset for the person doing the mentoring (his proteges might move with him if he gets sacked). Unfortunately, few people think this far ahead. In the short term, mentoring is an expense.
HP gets it and moves to challenge Apple
There are obviously cases where a mobile device cannot replace a desktop. For that matter, there are cases where a desktop cannot replace a mainframe computer (bank transaction processing). All technology shifts are about the 90% -- there is always the 10% of jobs that need a mainframe, or a fax machine, or even a telegram.
Yes, but not as the author conceives it.

10 hours a week would not be an optimal way of organising it, especially if it'd be 2 hours here and there. You want large blocks of time in which you can pass on implicit as well as explicit knowledge.

Let’s say there’s a teenager out there who dreams of being a writer.

Very, very bad example. Solitary profession, very few people make a living out of it, mostly introverts.

The school puts out a notice in the community looking for a writer who would take on an apprentice ten hours a week. The apprenticeship would pay something around minimum wage, but would also involve the apprentice building something of value on their own with at least some of that time.

Who pays them? If this is educational why are they being paid? Why should the writer help the apprentice at all? I can see an amanuensis relationship, but this apprentice will not be a net gain to the writer for a very long time, but a cost. It certainly isn't worth the writer's while to pay them.

So, for example, I might have the apprentice spend five hours a week doing grunt work for me, then I would spend five hours each week with that person helping them to build a blog to share their writing, polish their writing skills, and so forth.

What grunt work? Why not pay someone who knows what they're doing instead?

If they want to learn to write I'd set up something like the Clarion Writer's Workshop, a short, intensed and focused group where you come together for daily meetings, readings and critique from someone who knows what they're doing, but most of all you write.

If they want to write for a living then a possible apprenticeship model would be journalism. One month study, three months internship, six cycles, you don't get paid. I cannot see how this would not be a better deal than a Masters in Journalism.

On the same lines Germany has a _proper_ apprenticeship system, 3 months professional school study, 3 months work experience, you stay with the same company the whole time (gotta find one to sponsor you first) and generally they hire you afterwards. We have something similar for some trades in Ireland, but not to the same extent.

I see no pressing reason this couldn't be open to 14 year olds. Three years of not getting paid to be in school or three years of not getting paid to earn a trade.
Mentioning a "person before me" in an interview is a bad idea, because it brings forth associations you might not want. Also, there might not be such a person.

The second and third questions are good, but short tenures could also signify a rapidly growing company (which is something to be wary of, but not for the same reason) like Google in 2006.
Slick - Fast standalone JavaScript CSS Parser/Selector Engine
It's one anonymous source. You don't know if it's a janitor or a VP talking. The fact this "tweet" got picked up by Wired as newsworthy is just downright poor journalism by all involved. It's newspeople ([micro-]bloggers) making their own news.

Even if the source is named, somebody interpreting somebody else's opinions is hearsay at best and editorialization at worst. You either have the quote or you don't. What's next, "Steve Jobs believes in genocide" after somebody finds an Apple employee who thinks he does? Seriously get this junk off HN.
Maybe I misread, but are you saying a private group created a protected title?
Youtube launches new video player design
How to label your product. The toothpaste example.
HAhahaha i was on facebok thismorning and i had 32 different groups to add all about Kate's party!! =) and yes the wiki page is still there
A very important paper from 2007. Perhaps the most interesting thing: heat is not that big an enemy of disks.
This is a weak story. It even says the genie is supposed to screw with the wishes, but then apparently doesn't. The only point of the story is to state some sci-fi fantasies about improving human life, and these aren't very illuminating.

Concerning the ethical statements (selfishness is foolish and will lead to disaster) of the jinn, it might be interesting to see a jinn story about an altruist that gets 3 wishes and how those lead to disaster. Of course, real-life history is full of that.
When I signed up on Facebook, all I knew was that everything I typed in was essentially becoming public knowledge.

Closed profiles that only "friends" can see? Yeah, only friends, and all the nefarious people who constantly hack your friends profiles because they access FB through IE on virus-ridden copies of Windows.

Facebook's mistake was ever pretending that your information on that site was somehow private or protected.
Yes. This random email from some list, which was reposted to a blog, carries more weight than any judge's opinion ever will. It is sad, but such is the state of affairs in our world.
Thanks for that! A couple of other people have told me more or less the same thing today. I'll make some layout changes.
According to Wikipedia, there is a similar organization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer), but the chapter at my university is inactive (according to their website). Such a shame.
+1 for you on the Dell thing; my mistake. But my point still stands on the ipaq thing.
A good antidote to "Work fast and don't be afraid to break things". Even when there's a legitimate business case for sloppy work, somehow it just never sits right.
Somewhat tangentially, I had very few writing teachers/profs that forced me to write better. The ones that did were not the hard-asses willing to bruise my ego and fill the page with red ink; they were the ones who could destroy my thesis and render my examples impotent with 3 comments at the end of the paper.

Invariably, if I got a teacher/prof who bled all over my creations, I'd start with B-s at the beginning and end up with As by the end. I didn't improve my writing. I just figured out the teachers pet peeves and learned to work around them. My teachers were invariably smarter and more experienced than me when dealing with the subject at hand, but that doesn't prevent them from being flesh-and-blood people with idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies.

I'd love to believe I'm just a millenial who could stand to learn at lot from an ego-crushing set of experiences, but just because a person hurts your feelings doesn't make them a better teacher.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Even before iPaq HP had it's own Jornada.
What happens to water if it’s not allowed to expand when frozen?
If HP keeps the WebOS team as a separate entity (without cramming new management, coding practices, etc. down their throats) they'll win. If they screw it up, they'll have wasted half a billion dollars.
I don't remember who said it, but a few months ago an HN commenter brilliantly paraphrased an interview with Zuck on privacy:

"When I was trying to get people to give me access to their private information, I bent over backwards to assure them that privacy was our highest concern.

When I found out how much advertisers were willing to pay for access and targeting across that information, I suddenly stopped believing in privacy."
While I certainly agree with you, I would also point out that OSX is also a very mature platform whereas iPhone OS is in its infancy.

That sounds like the mentality that had people stuck with Windows XP and IE 6 for years on end with no innovation in the space.
I would say the second commenter on the blog gets it:

… So basically – if you think you have to use eval there's probably another (more correct) way of doing it.
(Rasmus Fløe)
Assuming this is accurate, you should watch your mouth, Zuck, or priv.gc.ca might bring the hammer down. Again.

Other users in other countries can resign themselves whenever they like, but Canadians aren't willing to just give up on privacy because it's a challenge for service providers. It's a duty if you want to do business here.
iPaq was originally intended as a brand for an iMac-clone PC marketed by Compaq.

So, yes, Apple did invent the "i" thing for consumer electronics.
No, I'm saying that golddiggers and sugardaddies are catered for elsewhere.
In the area of performance, going with V8 sounds like a smart move. It's now faster than Python 3k and Ruby 1.9 if the Computer Benchmarks Game is to be believed.

I like my iPhone/iPad but it's high time Apple had some real competition.
Excuse my ignorance, but how did they get a .edu?
WOW, the 12 megapixel photos are amazing!
http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/04/27/first-12-megapixel...
Isn't a "leak" technically also stolen information? Someone decides to give out information that is meant to be private.

And Jason, you would have really turned down this opportunity if it knocked on your door while you were running Weblogs?
iPhone users rarely send e-mail with typos; instead, they send e-mail with (at best) nonsensical words or phrases in place of what they meant, or (at worst) entirely sensical phrases that had nothing to do with what they meant ('how big is that disk you got last night' -> 'how big is that dick you got last night').

As an iPhone owner, I've learned to double-check everything I type.
I'm excited about it. But I think the verdict's out on whether a medium to large Node.js program will not be a steaming spaghetti shaped pile of callbacks. Nothing I've seen coming from the Node.js community seems to address the fact that debugging/refactoring callback heavy code is hellish. Pretty please point me to literature/code that shows otherwise.

For small nuggets of async goodness Node.js looks great.
Not so. Turnover rate is something you can measure. They can either choose to lie about it or not. Biggest weakness is subjective.
Is using a gambling term to describe a business acquisition supposed to calm shareholder fears/concerns of risk?

Clearly that one didn't go through the normal PR approval process.
http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2010/let_100420_e.pdf Canada and other nations sent this to Google regarding the Buzz fiasco, for reference.
And we're hiring: http://www.academia.edu/jobs

We're based in downtown SF and we're looking for engineers to help us build a great product for researchers.
@seven - I think the reason for the article was to demonstrate that eval is sometimes necessary - the proof is that even Douglas Crockford himself uses it in his parse JSON method, as do JQuery and Prototype frameworks - and he shows us the examples. I was pretty impressed
Well obviously they lobbied the government to make the title protected.
Researchers Witness and Image Atomic Spin for the First Time
Nah all the camps still offer them, you just need to ask. I wanted a stainless steel one, since the only thing that really matters to me is the symbolism.
I like too much chessbase.com reports, they are usually a bit late, but they contain nice images.
Part of the problem is the word "flake," it such a bad choice in this context. It's reasonable to skip over someone who is overqualified for a position. If it really won't challenge them and you can't pay them market rate for their talent, and there isn't a huge upside in responsibility...

The odds are that they won't be around long, and that doesn't mean they're a bad person or someone who can't get things done.

OTOH, the correlation != causation thing is huge as well. One of the reasons some people stay for long periods in one place is that they aren't that marketable because they really don't do much. Nobody is taking them out for coffee on a regular basis and gently trying to poach them.

Sometimes the people who move most often are the ones who have the most choices. Sure, you can label them as "lacking loyalty" or some such, but you cannot assume that those who don't move are automatically loyal. They simply may have stayed in one place because they had very little opportunity to advance by moving.
http://domai.nr

http://www.bustaname.com/

http://www.nxdom.com/
my guess is that they purchased a grandfathered in .edu .
Perhaps, but the implication doesn't match the reality

How so? Over 75 people have used your toilet.

This is like suggesting that McDonalds' "over xx billion served" mantra is supposed to mean that there are over xx billion customers in their store at any given time.

I'm not sure if that's how you read it, but I certainly don't take the statement that 37s makes to be misleading.
not to mention all the nice Palm IP that comes along with the Palm purchase
These "kids" are also old enough to be put to death for criminal acts as adults. It is a silly, illogical double standard. Somehow we have no problem saying that that they are completely incapable of making decisions about something relatively harmless like sex with their peers, yet we have no problem making them inhuman monsters who are perfectly capable of having made cold decisions in a completely capable light when it is a person's death?
maybe they think embracing the obvious is the way to go
It was almost certainly registered before they tightened the restrictions on registration, and the current owners bought it from them.
It's worn on the pinky finger of the working hand so that it drags across your work, serving as a constant reminder. It doesn't smudge, it just presses against your skill all the time.

That's also why it has the rugged "hammered" look. It's rough because the ring is not jewelry, it's meant to be rough to remind you of the symbolism.
Supreme Court That Misunderstood Texts, Email to Take on Video Game Debate
Here's a prediction: If a company's environment is shitty...

1. The best people will quit.

2. The median people will whine and make the office a miserable place.

3. The worst people will put their heads down, terrified that they will get fired or laid off.

Consequence? The best people still in their chairs will be the ones with the lowest morale.
The iPad has already passed Android In Browsing Traffic to TechCrunch
I could say that I just had my Silicon Valley blinders on but even then this was a stupid oversight on my part, as I represent a good number of profitable self-funded ventures as well as the prototypical bootstrap ones - I was obviously thinking only of the typical bootstrap startup in making the statement as I did. Thanks for the clarification.
I love that question when it's asked, mostly because we have people who love to keep working at my company because of the people who work here.

You'll often get a better answer to the question, though, if you ask it of the junior person in the room (e.g., the engineer if the hiring manager has brought one).
>Awesome hiring managers should get credit for being awesome.

Highly unlikely considering what you have created. Anonymity and credibility are mutually exclusive. What you have here is a libel engine.
Others (e.g., techcrunch.com) have said that they would have published about the iPhone prototype but not have paid for it. This wouldn't make any difference. The California statute includes buying, acquiring, POSSESSING, or Concealing stolen property a crime. Money need not have changed hands, at all.
They have Hawking, Dawkins, Chomsky, Krugman on board already as scientists. Wow.
I have a few friends who watch it, and someone told me to watch it once upon a time. Reading a flashy, well-written 8-page article at my leisure seemed like a much quicker way to find out what all the fuss was about than actually watching a 6-season show.
"Tue, 01 Mar 2005"
Telling people to "toughen up" is missing the point. The University of Chicago is built around creating Nobel prize winners (which they do a damn good job of it). But they also drive students so hard that they often fail out or just commit suicide. No joke. But they don't mind sacrificing these people because the select group that survives will shit nobel prizes. Survivor bias will tell you they are a model school, but I don't think so.

Our culture is obsessed with degrees-- not learning. Because of this the education system doesn't let teachers actually do their job. In elementary and high school it's truly unconscionable how students pass from grade to grade. By the time they get to college it's way too late. Tenured hard-ass professors are the only people who can get away with it-- but if you think you can flunk half your students and still make tenure you're delusional. Incentives are completely misaligned. Make no mistake, Education Inc. exists to further the institution, not the student.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
"Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the baby boom ended[1][2], with earliest birth dates used by researchers ranging from 1961 to the latest 1981"

Sorry dude, you're very much a Millenial.
Groggle boggled by Google mean spirit
You double down when you expect the odds favour a dealer bust.

I'm not sure how anyone suggesting that Apple, Google and RIM busting shouldn't be feared, if that's what they actually mean.
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People have indeed put many things (some strange) into the Ogg format. I was once contracted to build MIDI + Vorbis support and I added a mapping for MIDI in Ogg fairly easily.

Granted, I was heavily involved with Xiph, but I am not Monty. It took a little digging and one or two questions I'm sure, but it wasn't rocket science.

The end result worked spectacularly well.
It's really too bad that the software wasn't faster and more solid out of the gate - they had some key innovations that Apple still doesn't have: social media integration.

Do I want my Facebook contacts in my address book? Hell yes. Would I like a dashboard with recent Facebook updates from my friends? Duh.

Palm has an innovative head on its shoulders, I for one am glad they are in a position to have a deep pit of money with which to battle Apple.