skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the system needs resources it dehydrates tasks and terminates them

Has the OS been fixed such that it monitors CPU and network radio usage by background processes? Task killing isn't done to reclaim the RAM (which, as you note, the OS handles itself), it's to ensure that poorly-written programs don't waste your battery without your control or knowledge.

iPhoneOS 4.0 gets around this by only allowing apps in the background to use a tightly defined set of APIs, the actual processing code of which is written entirely by Apple, so they have full control over their effect on battery life.
To begin discussion of the soul is to try to define it in some way. When a 'self-respecting' professor wants to define cognition or love for me, I suppose it should subjected to intellectual snobbery?

I am not a Catholic but they have, and have had, many scholars who have attacked this and other difficult metaphysical questions. Also, humans have believed in the concept of a soul for a long time and the vast majority still do. Some of the greatest insights into human nature came from the distant past.
Runway remaining.

The only way you will fail is to run out of cash.

Buying a fancy new iMac = shortening the runway.

Acquiring new customer = lengthening the runway.
Right. I forgot that the only 'real' way to get into a lasting relationship is to delve deep into our past and brush the dust off of the practice of arranged marriages. Maybe we should go back to the 'good ole days' where if a girl got pregnant in highschool we stoned her to death, or at least made it so that the guy was a hero and she would spend the rest of her life as a pariah...

[ note: I say this from a USA-centric perspective, not hating on cultures that still practice this in a respectful manner. By 'this,' I mean 'arranged marriage,' not 'stoning to death.' ]
You don't raise 10 million if you don't know what you're raising it for, to me this speaks of a fairly detailed plan on how they intend to spend that money.

Think of money that you can get your hands on before you've earned it as a growth accelerator. You could for instance stave off a potential competitor by grabbing a larger share of the market than you would have been able to do if you both relied on organic growth. In the arms races that start-ups are bound to find themselves in sooner or later a couple of million in hard cash can make an enormous difference in the long term outcome.
The best i can come up with is to write something cool in lisp and show it to them. And by "cool" i don't mean a lame example snippet showing off closures, or an implementation of an "unless" macro, i mean a real app. Not too big(because it will take you longer to write, and also it will be harder to explain all the details to your friends while showing them your code), but not too short(its easy for languages like python or ruby to have shorter versions of very small lisp programs, so you might fail to impress if your app is too trivial).

If you just want to "geek out" on them and spit a lot of hype about lisp, that might not be a good idea. Its good to educate yourself about lisp and other languages, and be ready to answer questions, and explain your choice, but IMHO its better to show lisps power with real code.
Has anyone tried this? When I first heard about this I thought they meant running in a browser, not some download that only runs on Windows (with, it sounds like, Ads on it?).

Or is there a separate online/web office that's coming later?

I mostly run open office or iworks, but it would be helpful to be able to run ms office on occasion (and without firing up a windows VM first...).
The New Facebook Wants To Pay Users
Heroku user here. One word encompasses Heroku: incredible. Fastest Rails deployment I have ever seen. I'm not surprised that they received the funding—more like really excited.

EDIT: Also, the add-ons they have are really good, and they have a ton in the pipeline. They have all the tools I needed to get up-and-running (including a tool that sends your local DB to the production Heroku server or vice versa in one command).
The definition of the term 'fuck buddy' probably varies from person to person, so how exactly do you feel you can determine whether someone that you're dating/looking to date was someone else's 'fuck buddy?'
I've been looking for a lightweight alternative to wordpress, so I'll give this a runaround. My only barrier to entry is having to dump all of wordpress posts into whichever new CMS I choose.
One of the longstanding hesitations for cloud computing is "my whole business will depend on someone else's business, what if they go under?"

With $10mm in the bank, 60k apps in the cloud, Amazon's AWS backend, Heroku's rockstar team, and a real revenue model, I think it's safe to say that you can bet your business on Heroku.

My new project sure as hell will...
Simply compare the speed and sincerity.
Right, I know. I wouldn't date a woman who entered into a non-monogamous sexual relationship.
Git is a Harrier Jump Jet. And not in a good way
Work Less, Stay Focused And Say No To Random Meaningless Slogging
> In Massachusetts, there's a cap of 2.5% for property tax increases without a ballot measure. This means that almost every year, local budgets are shrinking relative to inflation.

Doesn't MA reassess on transfer? CA does, so property tax revenues grow faster than the cap.

Note that CA also does "catchup" - the bill goes up by the cap whenever the difference between the assessed and real value is greater than the cap, no matter what's happened to the real value. That's why property tax bill is going up this by the cap year even though the value of my house took a 30% hit last year. It's the same for anyone who has owned for more than 5 years.

Note that housing inflation has been more than other inflation, so trailing housing inflation doesn't imply that the local govt is losing ground.

> "Screw those councilmen, they want to raise our taxes so they're holding these services hostage."

Since that's how govts actually behave....

Look at what they do and don't threaten to cut and ask yourself if those are rational priorities. Or, do those two lists tell you that they're using the "cut" list to keep funding for the "don't cut" list.

Note - you have to look at both lists, not just the "cut" list. And you have to look at the amounts for the various items.
>I believe this has something to do with the fact that it's just scraping Outlook Web Access, not actually connecting with Exchange

It communicates with Exchange Web Services, just like every other Exchange integrating smartphone product. It isn't "scraping Outlook".

>And I use it for this sort of thing frequently.

I've never, ever touched it.

>Most services pull down battery life considerably.

Sure. How, exactly, have you measured this?
You've never paid license fees ? Ok, that's your decision, I always paid for the ones we used, in fact I probably paid for plenty that I didn't use (aka the microsoft tax). Any copy of windows I have came with the machine, so I have never directly paid license fees(as far as the Microsoft tax goes Dell seems to charge the same for its Linux boxes). As a developer I have always used the other guy(borland and watcom mostly.)

this is still the first logged in session on that machine since I got it. That's amazing stability. Not sure what to say about that, I have only rebooted Windows after applying system updates for as long as I can remember but then I mostly turn it off when I know I am not going to use it for a few hours so I have never had a large uptime.

That still doesn't address the fact that this is entirely off topic as Windows OS != C#. My entire use case for C# is as the scripting language for Unity3d which is based on mono since it is cross platform capable.
Arranged marriage and misogyny vs. meaningless casual sex.

False dichotomy much?
Ask HN: Do you still use terminal mode in a desktop configuration?
A comment made by elis in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1335146 made me think, do you guys keep using terminal mode on a regular basis? If so, in what situations? (Headless servers and machines without any GUI set up don' apply.)

As much as I like the terminal, I haven't used a virtual terminal in Ubuntu in ages. I just launch xterm instead.
I think that the issue here is that you're still thinking of "How will this fit into a directory structure?" or "How does this map to the current paradigm?" I'm suggesting a completely different paradigm that is coming more from the perspective of a database-ish approach (either 100% DB or a mix of DB and filesystem).
In case you want to take the Rails plunge, my Ruby on Rails Tutorial book is available online at http://www.railstutorial.org/book, and it uses Heroku starting in Chapter 1 (i.e., http://www.railstutorial.org/book#sec:deploying). Three years ago (when my first Rails book came out), covering deployment in the first chapter would have been unthinkable, but with Heroku the unthinkable becomes

$ git init && git add . && git commit -m "init"
$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master

Subsequent deploys go like this:

$ git commit -am "Changed some stuff"
$ git push heroku

(The book is currently in progress, but I've written 11 of 12 chapters, so it's likely to be done before you would have time to reach Chapter 12. Also, the current book uses Rails 2.3.5, but a Rails 3 version is also in the works.)
Flash is a CPU hog?
Kinda hard in a tweet...

Reminds me of a silly joke:

Mother writing to her son: Dear John, I know you don't read very fast so I'll write this slowly.
Why? What is so gross and depressing about it?
I suspect that the primary source of the confusion here is the word "was". pw0ncakes likely means that he wouldn't date someone who was currently someone else's fuck buddy. pyre is taking it to mean that he wouldn't date someone who had ever been someone else's fuck buddy.

Or I'm way off, in which case, on with your argument :)
Also known as: Windows, Windows, Windows, or OS X.
I know I've said this before, but the infinite scroll always catches me out.

I often brush on the trackpad to get to the bottom of the page. If there isn't a bottom of the page, it just freaks me out. It makes me think something's broken. Maybe I'm just an outlier though ;)
Woah, thanks. I kinda feel dumb now.
Yeah, that's true, and there's also a possible negative feedback loop if strongly religious colleges that weren't as interested in secular education made a revival. Super-Christian private high schools feeding into super-Christian colleges won't have the same sort of check on whether the student got any sort of decent secular education, because right now, the need to look good to a college with a mostly secular admissions process (even schools like BYU look at secular academics in the admissions) is one of the main motivators for religious high schools to do a decent job on their secular education.
I think that you should review your own opinions with 'false dichotomy' in mind. You seem to have some very harsh judgements that you feel the need to toss around loosely. I'm almost of the mind that you're just a troll and that you're making these comments in an attempt to have some long, deep, argumentative discussion thread.

Rather than making short and harsh comments, you could frame them in a less accusatory fashion that doesn't look like you are just making the comment to hate on people and pass judgement (on large swaths of -- essentially -- faceless people, no less) in a public manner to satisfy some sort of inner urge.

If you really feel that relationships that start out based on sex always end up in failure, you could have framed that comment in a much better light that would have spawned actual discussion.
The idea of the language continuum was probably made up for rhetorical reasons. Its not actually a strait line, with machine language at one end, and lisp at the other, its more like a tree, or a graph. Lisp happens to be a good language in a lot of cases, but not in all.
Sociologists Measure Social Behavior and Psychology in World of Warcraft
You made me wonder how many people still work on terminal mode (having the GUI option). In case you're interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1335892
Don't miss the video http://vimeo.com/11613517
Has anyone else noticed that the article is dated 17 May 2010?

Just accessed today, 10th May 2010 at 10.55pm CEST
> The biggest single reason for that is the amount of money that the US spends on their 'defense', it is much higher than European countries on a per-capita basis.

The "about the same" numbers are federal spending only, of which about 15% is defense for the US. US state and local govts spend a bit less than the federal govt, but more than enough to swamp the defense numbers and push the per-capita tax burden in the US well over that of the typical EU country, where the "not national" govts don't spend nearly as much.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/
RevMobile and Apple's new iPhone SDK Agreement
I disagree. Those are real people who do that kind of work. When I was looking for online work at sites like getafreelancer or rentacoder there usually were tons of job offers regarding forum posts/blog comments. Rarely labeled as forum/blog spam but often meaning that. Here's a typical (current) job offer for forum posts: http://is.gd/c3dIo (This is not intended as advertising but only to provide an impression of such a job offer and as evidence that such job offers actually do exist and are common, depending on where you look.)

In this particular job, they offer $20 for 400 posts (or 2000 replies). Most often, one condition of posting such stuff is that it is at least unique, "original work" or would "pass copyscape".

So, there seem to be people who actually do this kind of job manually.
Version control is hard, let's go shopping!

Kidding aside, arguments like this just do not hold water. If the tool doesn't fit your needs profile, use something else.
It's still not real-time: updates are about hourly.
All in all a great article, but I'm confused about why the small and quirky argument ("marketplace enormity doesn't increase the pleasure of the buyer") applies to Etsy or Threadless but not to Craiglist or EBay. If I'm in the market for miniature porcelain cows ironically dressed as farmers and find them on EBay, what do I care if EBay has 3 other listings or 3 million?

I understand that at their current level of maturity the value of EBay and/or Craiglist is partially tied to the size of the marketplace and that focused-and-better may be the best or even only way to compete with them but it seems like on that particular point what works for you, the small emerging marketplace could work just as well for them, they just have a higher overhead to meet. It's not enough just to be more focused, you need to be better at your niche.
Yes, thats the one!!

I didnt know someone uploaded it to YouTube. I've searched for it on there many times!

Good find!

Let me know what you think!
Many people underestimate the cost to do (proper) system administration, as well as cost/time/skill required to do (proper) scaling
I agree. This was my own experience, obviously. People debate these sorts of questions all the time (i.e. what's best X or Y?") and I think there are a couple of things that hardly get any attention that are more important factors than any particular decision...and those are: tenacity and intelligence.
Clay Shirky's first comment is interesting:

"If I was going to start a news business tomorrow, I would start a news business designed to produce not one new bit of news, but instead to aggregate news for individuals in ways that matter to them."

This itch has been bugging me for a while. Social news aggregators have amnesia. It's difficult to even find old submissions and old threads. There are nth-licate submissions; Questions answered over and over again; Poor or nonexistent tagging systems.

Social news aggregators are sitting on rich bodies of knowledge -- high shoulders on which to stand. But without some way to synthesize it and curate it and search it in an intelligent way, we seem doomed to keep repeating ourselves, or to miss subtle but important connections between events.

Is there some project I'm unaware of?

Edit: SO is a step in the right direction
Discoverability on iPhoneOS also suffers from the lack of a mouse pointer, since that takes 'hovering' out of the equation. On the desktop we take for granted the ability to mouseover something to test for clickability (the common case being the mouse arrow turning into a pointing finger when hovering over a link).
Doesn't seem like a bug to me, it looks like a poor design choice. How many other "special" tweet commands are there?

edit: anyone downmodding care to suggest how putting "accept[username]" in a tweet would be considered a 'bug'?
Yes, so in other words he's stepping down as PM, just not for the next few months.
Is this serious?

Can't commit like you expect?

git commit -a

Alternatively stage a commit

git add filename
#then commit it
git commit -m "commit message"

worst Git’s just version control.
As I recall version control is pretty important to the software developer toolbox. I know its pretty important to mine.

If it takes you that long to get up and running with Git, I can't imagine what kind of developer you are.

Edit: I should add an addendum to this: I don't mean this as a personal attack, I'm just kind of incredulous about all this talk about version control is hard. I have used cvs, svn, mercurial and git and I never found them particular hard to get up and running with them. All source control has its pain points, but usually getting started on a project that has already been using it, or a new project isn't one of these points.
Not sure what's the gist of the test -- all this proves is that it's possible to achieve 100% CPU usage in HTML, and that some browsers perform better than others. How does that relate to Flash?

I guess my point is that it's missing some real benchmark. So here's some.

Desktop FP 10.1 vs Canvas
http://vimeo.com/10553088

Android FP 10.1 vs Canvas
http://vimeo.com/10553088

GUIMark 2
http://www.craftymind.com/guimark2/

I look forward to more benchmarks like these in the future.
Anecdotally, everyone I know who's been taught git with no prior VCS experience has had no problem with learning it.
Sure - that's why I'm wondering if there's a "good reason" aside from that they need to raise money to remain in business. Maybe they'll be able to provide some more insight on their blog at some point.
I agree. Also, I use git for small projects due to it's ease to set up. Subversion takes far too much work to just start using. I sit down, create a folder, code in it, and git init and I have all of my code in version control. I agree it doesn't degrade easily, but like the above comment states, if it doesn't work, either fix it or use something else.
It would be pretty easy to dump each post into its own txt file to work with this. You might have a problem importing comments, I am not sure if disqus has a way to import older comments. I would guess not.
I reacted to the "sharing the inbox" statement... One would hope they'd have a more efficient structure than that for their ticket handling, I'd say.
Great advice. Part of my decision to do the MBA was based on market timing...I applied just as the web 1.0 bubble was bursting. I hadn't considered much just doing a startup during the down economy, but that would have been a good time, and I know many others who did and it paid off big for them.
As a guy who learned a little php for the first time last year, and then moved on to Ruby late in the year Heroku has been very helpful to kicking Rails servers live.

A+ for ease of use, and as I learn more I see opportunities in other server environments. My cofounder is kicking up nginx, thin and padrino

My favorite heroku project (and personal first) http://imagebrowser.heroku.com enjoy. Semantic entity extraction and image browsing as well as search within twitter streams.
the thing that made me switch from aquamacs to cocoa emacs was that cocoa emacs acts more like the emacs on other platforms (ubuntu, bsd, windows). I liked aquamacs though, if I used exclusively osx I'd probably use aquamacs.
The last thing the world needs is more pundits. Pundits only add ephemeral commentary to the world instead of anything concrete and real. They don't materially participate in the construction of any lasting artifacts; instead, they passively observe other people's work and offer a neverending babbling brook of opinions, criticism, and witty turns of phrase. It's pathetic.

Take heed of this, Hacker News. Nothing annoys a real entrepreneur more than a wantrepreneur pundit.
I think you can sum up that article as "Git is terrible because I couldn't figure it out."
Succeeding? Yes. More interesting than Lisp? Definitely not.
Love heroku for my micro sinatra apps. A well deserved $10mil
See dimensions of the photo you have on FB. Most likely 5Mpx is 10x that.
Very cool, had no idea. Have that on my list of things to play with.
17 May 2010 is when the new issue of New Yorker will be published. This future-dating happens frequently on the websites of dead-tree organs, when said organs are considerate enough to provide their content online before the tree-slaughter has even begun.
Is DDG engaging in some sort of grassroots campaign to make sure they get a link on HN at least a few times a month? I get it. DDG is out there. They're an alternative to Google. Great. How about some articles with merit rather than yet-another-link to the search engine front page and a bunch of people gushing about it?
would love a little more details on this crucial line: "Steve Jobs has now rejected our proposal and made it clear that he has no interest in having revMobile available on the iPhone or iPad in any form."
Tiny Wordpress Killer? That's the worst misleading title I've read in a while (and you'll se a lot of that here at HN). WordPress is a blogging software slowly becoming a full-blown CMS which is easy to host and --arguably-- easy to use.

Toto is a nice simple script that publishes static files to heroku via git. It's interesting, and hackish, and fun, but hardly a WP killer.
I'd have to agree with slyn- both. I think it's most likely I'd be selling apps for Android in the long term, if only because I don't have to live by 3.3.1...

I wouldn't be surprised if a divide not unlike Mac vs PC software developed- traditionally, Mac users were a smaller group but more willing to pay for overall better software.
I was so impressed with the design and usability of Heroku's site and system - it's near perfection, which is a hard thing to say about software.
I found it easier to use Heroku, but I think Engine yard maybe a better price point depending on what resources and other stuff your server needs. Very comparable though
If you're interested in an ultra-lightweight blogging platform, may I suggest that you check out Bloxsom (http://www.bloxsom.com, pronounced "Blossom")? It's written in Perl, all blog entries are text files, and categorization is done by sorting the entries into different folders.

Admittedly, it doesn't run on RoR, so you can't just pop it up on Heroku, but Bloxsom has been around for years and years, and has a stable group of maintainers on Sourceforge.
Cloudstack, open source software to build your own cloud
But GAE doesn't have a SQL db. Now, for some apps that may even be an advantage, but these frameworks are really setup for having a SQL db behind them.

The same exact code that you would deploy to a VPS can run on Heroku without issue, save some limitations like the read-only filesystem. That's a big plus.