skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously all these small groups would talk to each other with an open protocol and function as a single large network.

In fact, looking again at your proposal, you mention pubsubhubbub. As long as we're using that, we could send search requests to friends, just like we send status updates. Each of them forwards to their own hub. The search data includes the URL for posting results, and a time-to-live that gets decremented each time the search is forwarded.

Now we can get back to the simple PHP site.
can I be lean about this and apply directly through you? by doing this and just replying to your message? ie: not wasting time writing an actual email?

my portfolio is up at http://www.lzimm.com, I have a resume, too, I can send that if you want.
Right. People own a variety of computers. Different models of Dell, HP, sony, apple., etc.
Finally, someone who gets it right.
I was confused seeing the "Flash alternative" headline replicated on all major german technews sites.
In case you (or others) weren't aware, they also introduced experimental support for Node.js a couple of weeks ago.

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_ex...
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The “Top News” feed is based on an algorithm which decides whether or not your post should be shown into their main stream.
I don't think the SEC charges are trumped up, myself, but as neither a professional economist, lawyer, or trader, my opinion is necessarily superficial.

You might be interested in some remarks from a friend of mine, whose identity I prefer to keep private but who has given me permission to repost. He is a senior VP of derivatives trading at another Wall Street firm, albeit a much smaller one than GS, so weight as you feel appropriate.

Goldman will settle the civil suit. The SEC has them bang to rights on Rule 10b-5 violations, and anyone familiar with securities regulations knows this. They will claim that they are going to settle because it's in their shareholders' interests.

They've been trying to spin this by saying that they're market-makers. The WSJ had an editorial on Wednesday arguing this (probably assisted in the writing by GS), the execs said as much in Washington, and a friend of mine who works there, probably repeating an internal memo, made the same argument. It goes like this - if you buy GE stock and it goes down, you can't sue the NYSE or the broker.

The reason it's crap is that there is a huge difference, both conceptually and from a regulatory standpoint, between origination/new issues/primary market on the one hand, and secondary market trading on the other. GS are arguing as though the former is part of the latter. It isn't.
Not a good time to sell Lisp. Too many interesting languages succeeding out there..
Google's interest in how the mobile market develops is at least as strong as Apple.

Google provided the business muscle involved in getting a phone sold by a major carrier (who provide the massive subsidies that make these phones mainstream) and Google's massive popularity among regular internet users helped drive interest.

Google's involvement is the key factor in Android's adoption.
Certifications in email sig - good or bad?
Effectively you are arguing here that microsoft tools are categorically better than anything open source and that C# is the best possible language, because technical analysis obviously did factor in to your decision and you choose 'the best', and I didn't.

What is best and what is not is dependent on a lot of factors, and if you think that microsoft is 'the best' then you should realize that what is best for you may not be best for everybody else.

I didn't realize we were potentially in competition, but I sincerely wish you the best possible success.
With both Sun JVM 1.6 and .NET, on Windows x64 you get by default a 1MB stack per thread.
Microsoft releases a free version of Office
I'd question that: it was a public tweet visible to anyone, wasn't it?

It was clearly a joke and I don't think the guy should be arrested either, but Twitter is as close to a public announcement as you can get.
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Very cool technology demo, but I can't think of any scenario where you'd actually need this "realtimeness". I'm constantly annoyed by the 24h you have to wait for google analytics, though.
Pluralistic ignorance is a fascinating concept:

"It has ... been named a reason for the illusionary popular support that kept the communist regime in the Soviet Union, as many opposed the regime but assumed that others were supporters of it. Thus, most people were afraid to voice their opposition"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance
Pretty neat! I wish it was access log based though. Using the access logs means being able to see anomalous activity such as spikes in particular status codes, performance issues, that sort of thing. I do have a project I could use as the base for that, but I suspect I might be one of the few people who cares about that sort of info.
Yes, I'm aware of his investment. But he seems pretty reasonable, and he's definitely more knowledgeable than I am.

What's interesting about Buffet's position is that - aside from the Goldman investment - his stated philosophy and track record are at odds with Wall Street. See, for example, his criticism of hedge funds, and his preference for investing rather than trading. Is his involvement with Goldman a departure from his usual MO?
I'm a friend of Joe's and I read his blog so I posted this. I know some of the commenters - some of them were in the YCombinator program. If I knew you and you wrote a great post I'd probably be inclined to vote for you too and my comments might be a little more positive so that you're more likely to buy me a beer next time we run into each other.
"Yeahhh.... interesting..."
Concierge is the software that they use to keep track of support appointments, not an individual person.
I'd love to use the free trial but I'm hesitant to go for one of those credit-card-required trials.

Chartbeat should be so essential that if I forget to put in my CC info and the trial runs out, I notice it immediately and update payment info.

With this system, even if Chartbeat ends up being useless for me, I could simply forget it even exists and still get charged.
In my experience, hooking up and dating aren't mutually exclusive -- hooking up is the new dating. Both of the serious relationships I've been in started as "hooking up", progressed to steady "fuck buddies", then eventually developed into a holding-hands-in-public relationship.
You're right, it's definitely a working (and popular) option for selling stuff. And it's the other end of the spectrum compared to eBay (ie very easy to post to, minimal requirements).
And lack of global copy/paste, Exchange Calendar support, etc. But especially the viewing in sunlight. :P
This is Hacker News, not Husker News!

Oh, wait… Never mind.
This my be the wrong question since I'm not too familiar with Heroku, but is anyone working on something similar for Django?
AdSense revenue for the day.
Since you're trying it, I'd like to try and sell you from this perspective: it takes simple ideas that would be at home in the unix philosophy, but applies them to a graphical interface.

Try navigating around the filesystem quickly by right clicking on the desktop (holding it) and then following the directories. If you want to open one, just put the mouse over it and lift.

Something that didn't get much press but which is unique and wonderful to use is the integration between the filesystem and the UI. Email messages are just files that sit in a directory, but the tracker exposes attributes to them, and you can have it display columns for 'From' and 'Subject'. Your inbox is just a folder that contains your mail messages. There's an instant message client that works along these lines too. Users are just files, and the IM functionality is a plugin engine to the tracker. This feels connected to the 'everything is a file' philosophy.

The OSX filesystem is technically capable of some of this stuff (written by the same guy, and later, so it's probably a lot better), but the finder isn't. So even though OSX is probably superior internally, in practice it isn't better to use.

There's a library called bethon that exposes the internals of the OS to python. I've used this with success in the past, not recently. It used to be the case that you could use a combination of the C++ BeBook dev but then piece stuff together from the python console.

Update: Got bethon working. It's a bit of a fiddle in this VM because there's limited disk space available, and sed isn't linked in /bin. But once you get it built the example at http://donn.drizzlehosting.com/Bethex.html works fine.
Congratulations to Heroku! I've been using their service for years and it is truly awesome. I hope this money pushes them even further.

One note on the article though, it says:
"Heroku aims to make software development more accessible for a wider range of people. It does so by providing a browser-based programming environment that cuts out steps traditionally needed to produce RoR applications."

Didn't they cut that entirely? Even Heroku Garden is closed right?
Grats guys. One of my favorite web services, ever. One day when my actual job keeps me a bit less busy, I'll be upgrading my service and using it even more.
I probably saw an earlier tally: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090607/bing-vs-google-vs-...
N1 software still isn't quite as good as iPhone. But here are 4 reasons I prefer my N1:

1. the navigation app is better than what you can get on iPhone (use it almost every day)
2. Native Google Voice App
3. 5 megapixel camera phone (for me this was the threshold where I never carry a separate digital camera anymore, 5MP is enough for facebook)
4. I can use t-mobile instead of AT&T

Given the software isn't quite as good, these 4 features make it about a tie with the iPhone in my opinion. The fact Apple is irritating me lately makes the N1 a win.
Weak overreaction.

First, is it really that big a deal you got an email that looked like it was from someone personally but may have been automated (in fact you never proved that it was automated)?

Second, are you really that bothered that a company whose product is helpdesk ticketing software uses helpdesk ticketing software to manage customer correspondence?

Third, are you really that bothered by the informality of a web company?

The only mistake I saw here was using staff that are probably outsourced and certainly not native English speakers to handle sales questions.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=252784
Right, but that's because he's really good at increasing his visibility, not because his work is as fundamental to the field as, say, Shneiderman or Newell or even Norman.
In case anyone is hesitant:

I just ran the sass-convert tool on a decent size project to convert to sass 3 (I'm not much interested in scss) and it ran flawlessly.

It spotted a syntax error that sass 2 silently ignored (producing broken css). The tool told me exactly which line to fix, then I re-ran it and the results were perfect. Amazing!
I'm not a fan to be honest. Looking at the listed use cases...: All the new autotools packages can be easily uninstalled with `make uninstall`. If you actually experiment with recompilation a lot, then it's not that hard to create a safe package including all files inside DESTDIR.

And if you have 50 machines and don't know how to make proper packages, I've got bad news... Checkinstall cannot magically guess what's part of the configuration and what isn't (badly-autotooled software puts stuff in strange locations sometimes) so one day the magic that generated the package quickly, will remove your configs during an update.

Maybe CI is cool for home users, just keeping the system relatively clean - but I would never want to use it for something serious. Creating packages is trivial if software uses only `configure && make && make install`. If it isn't trivial, maybe it's a good idea to take a couple of minutes and understand what's going on?

So for me (if it's anything apart from home laptop) it comes down to: If you know how does CI work, why use it instead of going the "proper" way? If you don't know - you're safer to not use it.
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What percentage of duckduckgo's queries have results different from the bing/yahoo on which it is based? Don't mean to rain on anyone's parade here, but usually when I use it the results are identical to bing's.
Has anyone else noticed that the girl's left hand becomes her right hand in the article's main graphic?
Seems that the fix is just a filter. Is anyone else trying to bypass with html ascii?
A few minutes ago, a prompt with the html ascii returned a +0x36 on every char. Now it does not give feedback.

"accept BillGates":
&#61 ;&#63 ;&#63 ;&#65 ;&#70 ;&#74 ;&#20 ;&#42 ;&#69 ;&#6C ;&#6C ;&#47 ;&#61 ;&#74 ;&#65 ;&#73 ;

Maybe they already really fixed this bug (I hope).
I'm not saying the physical file as fundamental computing construct is going anywhere.

I'm saying software is getting to the point where the details of file storage won't be relevant, even to producers of content. Whether your resource is one file, five files or five parts of five larger files will be as relevant 'tomorrow' as where the disk controller has put physical bits on a platter or memory cell 'today'.

The details still matters and always will; there are certainly good and bad ways to store those bits depending on the varying contexts. But no-one's thinking about it when they save a file; no-one's hand-tweaking each decision for individual performance or organizing it so you'll remember physically where you put it.
Or, as Richard Pryor so astutely put it, "Coming is a lot of fun."
This is a threaded forum, you don't need to use the @ergo98 thing like on twitter.
You'll notice that I didn't mention any technology or company in my post. So no, I'm not making that argument, nor am I advocating Microsoft in any way.

Allow me to restate: Keep an open mind and make business decisions based on rational analysis, or your business will suffer as a result.

I'd say the same to you if you were angry with Apple or In & Out Burger.
Yes I can confirm this is 100% for sure- It's all completed except for post production stuff. Sorry there is still a wait ahead... I'm really happy with how it turned out, though.

-Conrad Barski
It's true - lots of relationships start this way.
>Android does not have this.

If I go to "Applications > Settings > Running Services" on a stock 2.1 Android phone I get a list of running tasks with their corresponding package names. Tapping one of them terminates the task. It's not "top" but it's still pretty close to a process manager.

A user shouldn't have to care that "com.google.process.gapps" is running "MailSyncAdapterService."

>Because the gmail app has different features and functions?

OK, that's fair, so merge them into one app and have it display gmail accounts in an enhanced manner. It simply seems counterintuitive to have two applications for the task of reading email.
My fat fingers can barely hit some of the tiny buttons now...I don't think the keyboard could get smaller and still be usable.
Nice...I used to work with Michael Nutt at Limewire...very talented developer
2 dudes, 1 pan
Probably just a few things contribute to most of the "productivity" you can get from vim:

1. Commands to move around the screen and file under edit: with at most 2 keystrokes you can (a) move to next word (b) move to previous word (c) move to start of line (d) move to end of line (e) move to start of file (f) move to end of file (g) move 1 character in any direction (h) move to the end of next word (i) move to end of previous word (j) move to the next word like the one under the cursor (k) move to the previous word like the one under the cursor. Other commands exist to make moving around really efficient: you rarely take your hands off the keyboard to do mousing.

2. Use of regular expressions for searching for text, and as a way of distinguishing edits. You can do things like change all tabs to 4 spaces with a single command, or change the tabs at the beginning of the line to 4 spaces. This is an astoundingly powerful idea, rarely exploited however.

3. Vim, improving on vi, has the "visual" modes, where you can use movement keys (see item 1) to choose a hunk of a file, then apply edits or change commands to that block.

4. Vim isn't really modal like all the propaganda has you believe. Sure, 'i' or 'a' or 'I' or 'O' will put you in what you can naively interpret as "literal typing mode". But you should really think of those as commands, followed by text, as you can do 5Ax<esc> and append 5 'x' characters to the end of the line. If you think about what most people call "modes" correctly, you can pull off a lot of interesting and fast edits.

5. It's fast and has very few built-in limits (line length, file size, window size etc etc).
On the other hand, Match.com, OKCupid, etc. have created a kind of formal dating renaissance.
Their explanation that college students are conformists or that it's rationalized because "everyone else is doing it" seems strange.

I always assumed it was much simpler than that: although you'd prefer to be in a relationship with someone you are absolutely crazy about, this isn't always possible. So in the absence of that people like to drink and hookup. Hardly newsworthy.
I run a number of different websites, so being able to see multiple Analytics and Adwords accounts in the same place would save some considerable time, as would being able to see various affiliate accounts.

With my private investors hat on, bringing together various datasources that I check on a regular basis would also be amazingly useful.

Obviously different businesses have different requirements, but I can certainly see niche markets for bespoke dashboards/status boards.
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Regardless of any meaning associated with it or how serious it sounds, "DuckDuckGo" takes a while to type...
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Haven't read beyond the first page of the article yet... saving for later. But I'll share an experience of mine.

I lived in the 79th precinct, adjacent to the 81st. It's less dangerous, but not much -- still Bed Stuy and very block by block. I was there for about 6 months in late 2007.

The area is tense at times -- much of New York's prosperity over the last two decades hasn't trickled down to the people living there aside from landlords selling their buildings to gentrifies or speculators. There was an incident around this time where an unstable young man was shot because he had a comb the police mistook for a weapon in the dark. I wouldn't have been surprised if it had escalated into riots. Gentrification is welcome by some, protested by some, and many are indifferent to it, I think. There are very few nice places to eat or socialize or even get groceries, but there are a ton of bodegas and fried chicken/pizza places and dollar stores. It can be a very rough place, which is too bad as I got to know some very nice people on my block.

Certainly there are institutional problems in the NYPD, but also I have the suspicion that many rookie cops eventually get rotated into areas like this -- Bushwick, Bed Stuy, East New York and this contributes to much of the stuff you will learn about in these tapes. The penis jokes, the confusion on what to report and not gracefully handling tension within the communities -- I wonder if it is inexperience.

Comparisons to The Wire are natural, but in the time I lived in Bed Stuy, the only similarity I really observed was that the NYPD guys never seemed to interact with the people of the neighborhood as if they too were part of that community. Never said hi while walking their beats, never stopped to talk to the kids or the corner boys, they mostly walked in twos or threes, chatting with each other. I think for the people that live there and the cops that work there, there is us and them and not much in between.
I couldn't find a reliable English language source, hence the translation.

Original link:

http://www.mandrivalinux-online.org/news/news-0-87%2Bmandriv...

For those that read French.
Virtualization overhead numbers are basically useless since they depend on hardware generation, virtualization mode, configuration, workload, etc. Unless you're running exactly the same configuration as 37s, your mileage will vary... a lot.
I don't use IDEs, so forgive me for not seeing that as a feature. :)
Hooking up is more efficient for time management.
> "As is the case in most things, the best advice can be summed up in one word: think."

But not too much.
Ask HN: Question for Lisp Hackers
I'm having a hard time convincing my buddies at school (or anyone for that matter) to try out Lisp. No one seems to care when I talk about code as data or macros. I am a fairly inexperienced programmer, so when they answer with "so what?" I can't really come up with anything.

Then I got to thinking.. What is supposed to motivate new programmers to try out and use Lisp when today we have dynamic languages such as Python and Ruby?

Personally, I got into it because I am hungry for knowledge and I've heard that some of the best CS literature out there uses it. But what about others? Is there a clear advantage to using Lisp that is not apparent to non-Lispers?
It's easy to tell you why: powerful and precise text manipulation through concise commands. It's difficult to make you value that until you've tried it.

Vim will increase your productivity by allowing you to manipulate large or small pieces of text at will, in ways you've probably not thought of, while your hands rarely leave their position of hovering over the home row. The arrow keys work, but you'll rarely use them. You'll be fast, not from fast typing but from less typing.

Once you've become reasonably proficient with vim, the difference between arrow key-based editors and vim begins to feel like the difference between chisels on stone and telekinesis.

It's easy to become minimally proficient. After you've installed gvim, run it and run these two commands:

[ESC]:help

[ESC]:help tutor

You should know about the first command, but the second is more important for you right now. It shows you how to start the interactive vim tutorial on your system, which will teach you just enough to use vim better than you can use Notepad++. Follow the tutorial, it won't take long and you don't have to do it all at once.

Now use vim whenever you edit a text file. You'll be a little slower than Notepad at first (but not much). You'll quickly gain speed.

The vim screencasts mentioned elsewhere in the comments are good for people learning vim, but I don't think they're a great advertisement for vim. The best thing for you is to run the tutorial.

Note: everything said here goes for emacs as well. It's a personal choice, and most people are either a vim person or an emacs person. I've never liked the chord-like commands of emacs, but emacs has more integration with the world outside of text editing and compiling than vim. Whichever type of person you turn out to be, you should be using one of these instead of Notepad.

Note note: I like vim so much that I've installed a firefox addon that lets me quickly edit web page text fields (like this one) with vim. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125
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