skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears that most of these articles are not original HN posts but rather pieces published on the author's blog or other place and linked to from HN. At least some of these people are deriving advertising revenue from people reading the article.
I hated using the Rosen book in undergrad. Concrete Mathematics would have been fine as the sole text for such a course.
fracking TC and its linkbait shit. TC goes back to my hosts file.
They have a large Cassandra node which they are using for some of their data, but it is not the primary datastore yet.

Much like how we (reddit) are using it for a chunk of our data, but we still have Postgres as our canonical source.

We are however moving slowly towards more Cassandra.
I installed python 2.6 from python.org, and then installed the development build of pygame from http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php, and it works fine. (I'm running OS X 10.6.3)
Because Cain and Able stories are more fun. They attract more attention. We haven't evolved much since ancient Rome, we still want to see the blood fly. :)
Ramsey History.org
WTF?

http://www.cliki.net/Gordon
I hate 1. , I like 6. and I'm not interest in the rest.
"Sorry, but Adobe Flash is not part of this Free Software directory."
Good organisations realise that the value they offer (and, therefore, their competitors for talent offer) includes but is not limited to salaries.

The last time I had to do this - in an interview, not an application where it may have been more difficult - was to share all the relevant information. Ie, "My base salary was blah, but they also covered these expenses (gas & phone iirc), provided me with secure city parking, covered all training expenses, allowed me to work from home when I had meetings on my side of town, and invited me to participate in state and national strategy meetings."

(You could also add cultural benefits - they weren't that relevant in my example because culture was a key reason I was leaving.)

Doing this demonstrates that you are interested in more than the money, and also allows you (at this stage or during the offer) to discuss all the benefits rather than a dollar-based negotiation. I ended up with a much higher base salary, but funding my own expenses, which was ultimately more profitable for me.
With regards to #6: The bank I used to work at used Gomez and we were (well they probably still are) paying out the ying yang for a handful of tests each hour against a few core webapps.

So I had this idea to create a distributed monitoring service that would use nodes (similar to the genome@home project) with actual residential internet connections to give websites a true idea of how fast their site was from different locations around the world. Node owners would just be regular people, and they would get a small percentage of the revenue from each test they ran, and the infrastructure would be designed such that a failing or slow test result would initiate verification tests from other nodes to insure that it wasn't just an issue due to the node's internet connection slowing down or failing. Gomez runs different test from their own servers around the country and sometimes we could tell what the issue was based on which nodes were down (i.e. the west coast server is the only one that's failing). So we'd have all these nodes running all over the world and we could tell people "well here's how quickly this page and all it's resources load from New York City, LA, and Russia..." and give them historical and real time metrics and notifications based on those response times.

I got as far as creating a client that worked relatively well and was ready to upload results for each test ran to a master server, plus it made requests to the master server to see what the next test it needed to run was. With all the other availability testing services out there I kind of moved on, but I've still got the source if someone is interested.
The labor markets are as fluid as I've seen them since I was born here, there are lots of Polish, Romanian and Czech workers in more western countries, but comparatively few people from western countries moving to the east.

I'm more concerned with 'border regions' between countries anyway, and for instance, between the Netherlands and Belgium and the Netherlands and Germany there is a lot of cross-border commuting going on, but relatively little cross border trade between companies in the 5-20 employees range.

Language is not as much of a problem here because there are two things helping, the Belgians and the Dutch in the border region speak the same language, and the Germans and the Dutch in their border region have a common dialect (you can speak that all the way from Aachen to Denmark and have a reasonable expectation of being understood).
And it was like pulling teeth to get Apple to contribute their changes back. For a while, IIRC, they claimed bug reports were proprietary information, and they refused to provide them back to the KHTML team. And that was before Apple was evil!
I don't know much about the project itself, but wouldn't web-kit have received contributions from outside of Apple aswell? (perhaps only since 2005 when it was open sourced though)
Or better yet "Betelguese might blow in the near future" http://unixronin.livejournal.com/763082.html
As I've said before: "Quit Facebook Day" is bound to be useless. What we need is "Join Alternative X Day". Where X is something you can recommend with a straight face.

It's as if they had declared "Quit Internet Explorer Day" before Firefox was even released.
Are you claustrophobic? From http://www.astronautix.com/craft/reseball.htm :

“It was said that when they were in use, astronaut candidates would be asked to get in one. After fifteen minutes or so, the candidate was asked how long they thought they had been in. If the candidate was not hysterical and guessed anything under an hour, they passed!”
This is a sponsored listing (read: ad) on Proggit, using the poster's affiliate ID. I envy whoever thought of running that. Brilliant way to generate affiliate income.
I have a great idea for a app, but it is not related to memepool. If you are looking for ideas for interesting apps that could change the way people distribute information on the web let me know. It is basically a better mouse trap blog and threaded conversation app and I would love to see someone run with it. I won't bore you with the details, but if you have an open ear to ideas, I could sum it up for you pretty quickly.
Fast Nearest-neighbor Search in Disk-resident Graphs
Reminds me of that scene from Men In Black when the alien kidnaps the female doctor and carries her back to the ship: "It's a long trip, I will need a snack".
HN Request: Creative Commons for comment text
Currently HN comments have no license, which means they can't be included in http://hackermonthly.com/ unless explicit permission is sought for every comment.

If HN applied the Creative Commons Attribution license to comment text (by adding a notice to the comment submission form) then comments could be republished in Hacker Monthly, and in general it just seems like the Right Thing. Any concerns or reasons why this isn't a good idea?
In the reference frame of the light we see, it left there a tiny fraction of a second ago. (In fact I believe that most of the delay is due to time spent traversing the atmosphere.)
There are a number of pretty blatant usability issues with the MagCloud checkout process. :( Hopefully they'll do some testing and re-working before it gets out of beta.
Arrington trying to vye for some more clicks IMO
My favorite is:

"At Microsoft, if 10 team members working on a project each make 5 revisions there would be 50 versions of the same document floating around. Yikes."
Copper nanowires enable bendable displays and solar cells
It's not a "flop". Many of the most respected tech bloggers have permanently deleted their Facebook accounts. I did so myself about a month ago when I heard that Zuckerberg called FB users "dumb fcks". Who cares about hooking up with people you went to high school with anyway?
They don't really have a choice.
Building Wave Robots in ColdFusion with OpenBD on Google App Engine
That's actually pretty accurate when it comes to Steve Jobs. First it was him and Gates and then him and Schmidt. In both cases it was a close relationship followed by backstabbing.
I doubt China cared about the privacy of the documents they stole.
Concrete Mathematics is fun. (You might also like _Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers_. And http://projecteuler.net !)

The HOPL book has a big paper about the history of Lisp and dozens of pages of Chuck Moore, Icon, and Prolog AI chatting in French. What more do you need? (Also: Smalltalk. C.)

CTM is the best thing ever.
Too bad Scribd doesn't work at all for me since the switch to their new viewer (Opera 10.53 at home and some old Firefox at the university computer lab).
I tend to really dislike tools like that because they cause a lot of resource consumption based on assumptions that are more often than not wrong. Anticipating users behaviour is quite difficult. What's probably better if you force your users to click 'next, next' is to rethink the way your site is laid out.
fb says it has > 400 million users. thats about 27k who quit in a day. now if we knew what the baseline quit rate is, the #s might mean something..
So much for the thinking that people would leave FB in droves after the latest privacy mishap(s). The thing is that people have invested too much time and effort in FB. Unless there's a one-button migration button to some other rival system, many people just won't leave.
Is Boston The Next Hot City For Entrepreneurs?
Is there a video of this available yet?
This is sort of emblematic of the Facebook Faux Activist generation. While they are so prepared to step up and say something about their convictions, wrapped up and emotionally spirited after been told, all throughout their school lives about how their parents were activists (for things that actually mattered, but that's a different story), my generation lacks what matters when it comes to being an activist:

The ability to realize actions speak louder than words. As long as it doesn't involve going outside, standing in a line or otherwise stepping away from your precious Macbooks for a few hours a day to actually form a peaceful, but resolute protest about a matter, it's very unlikely that this generation will actually accomplish things like this. And even then, something like deactivating your Facebook account turned out to be a flop.

What's more shocking is that they were more than willing to take part in a day in which thousands of people stood up, and willfully desecrated the holy figure of another religion, whether or not they actually understood the overtones of what they were doing, or understanding the undertones of the moderate followers of the Muslim community who reached out to media outlets to explain why the Muhammad drawings disturbed them (Muhammad did not want to be worshiped as an Idol, and they felt that depicting him in the form of an image would detract from the central message he was trying to convey).

Surprising, yet expected all at the same time.
Two of them (Computer Organization and Programming Language Pragmatics) were used as textbooks at my school. :-)
I found the most interesting part to be right at the end. Apple is a hardware company first, and one market where they already have some expertise is in displays. I realize it's not the exact same technology for TVs, but to think that Apple would not at least give it a shot, with an iTunes backend providing content seems like a missed opportunity in another multibillion dollar market. I figure the next "revolutionary" Apple product will be a "smart" TV.
I feel the same way. And I'm going to reiterate your sentiment because it's important.

Here's my advice:

Don't take advice from people who haven't been-there-done-that.
Final Diaspora funding drive tally: $200,647
I don't see patent trolls as being as cut-and-dry as most other people.

Consider this, if Micron had decided to enforce their patents across the industry would that be bad? They technically wouldn't be a patent troll since they actually are making products. Now they would almost certainly be countersued for patents in their competitors portfolios, whereas this company doesn't work in the industry so has no fear of defensive patents.

I could certainly see it funny if their competitors made similar agreements with this company or some similar one and all got sued for patents that had originally been in the hands of competitors. That seems to me to be the equilibrium if what Micron has just done becomes standard industry practice for generating liquidity from R&D.

The only thing I can think of that might improve the situation would be to apply something like adverse possession to the patent system. That is to say if someone is openly violating some patent that you have, then you have a limited amount of time to seek compensation.

That would fix a lot of the problem with patent trolls: namely that the industry has adopted some innovation wide-scale and suddenly someone shows up with a patent on it from 15 years ago.

I'm sure there would be negative consequences too, since every change has those, but I'm not thinking of them at the moment.
http://www.epicentercafe.com/Epicenter_Cafe/Home.html
This was bound to fail: it's very hard to pledge to quit if you have > 0 friends that you actively follow.
Hey James
I understand its not always easy to implement the best practices on real application and I have amply mentioned that in the post. What I am implying is that if we keep these things in mind and at least make an conscious effort to follow them it does really help.
When I mean intuitive I mean something which will give a decent idea what that method or class is supposed to do. Also I am sure you must have some idea of how you can group code modules your project. Moreover looking at types of cohesion can give a decent idea of what elements can be grouped together.
Most coffee shops in this city have wifi.

Ritual Roasters is pretty much the prototypical startup-hangout coffee shop.

Also, this coming week is WWDC, there's probably a lot of mac-related parties that will be happening.
It depends on how you define contributing, I do not actively contribute source due to the fact that I do not want a conflict of interest to arise on ownership of IP with a client. But I am heavily involved in beta /release candidate testing for several projects as well as bug report submission and general community information dissemination all of these things are passive contributions to the projects and communities around those projects.
Science is so boring.
The problem for Facebook isn't that people are going to quit, it's that they're going to stop sharing anything worthwhile.

Once the majority starts treating it as a glorified address book there's much less reason for people to visit regularly.
If Microsoft ever does 'Go Google' I'll eat my hat: That would be like Bluto deciding to eat spinach to gain Popeye's strength, it just won't happen.
http://unfuddle.com/ does this. Although I'm not sure how you would use it as a portfolio.
people were voting against flash long before the iPad was around.
There is an iphone theme for rooted android. They probably just applied and modified that one.
Wasn't that still after Apple sued Real Networks for making it possible to put RealAudio stuff onto iPods, in 2005, and called hackers unethical?

Real: "Our Harmony technology enables consumers to securely transfer purchased music to digital music devices, including...iPod..."

Apple: "We are stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod, and we are investigating the implications of their actions under the DMCA and other laws."

To me, that was the day Apple turned evil.
Just because we're competing with someone doesn't mean we have to be rude.

Great point in light of Google's last IO announcements along the lines of we discovered we can use the internet to sync Android.
perversely that illustrates my point...
In 2010, should any websites have splash pages?
Nevermind that: how does he generate those awesome avatars?!
Android marketplace is not very different from the apple store. In fact it's better if you consider that your apps are not going to be removed from one day to another because the boss decided so.
Looks like our Universe chose the last two.
i've been doing this for a long time :)
Apparently they never heard of the built-in revision tracking in Office documents, and it completely ignores SharePoint. Google is sinking to Microsoft's level. This is as shameful and FUD-filled as the "Internet Explorer 8 - safer, faster, easier" message I see when browsing MSDN with Firefox.
I agree with you, but I don't think there's any way to write it so it sounds more than that. I feel like he at least had a go at it.

Sounds like they're doing really well though.
Sometimes that's all it takes. I don't need to run faster than a hungry bear, I just need to be able to run faster than you.
People should remember that before Facebook, MySpace was the unstoppable juggernaut. It's only when there's something to steal Facebook's thunder that it will go the way of MySpace and we'll all forget about it.
microsoft can already do all of this internally using the new Office 2010, office online apps and sharepoint.
Best I know of is bestfightodds.com for MMA betting, they record changes in the lines from start to fight time. Not exactly open for use though, may have to contact/friendly up some.
Ubuntu has completely ruined me when it comes to installing/configuring an OS. Recently, I found myself wanting to tool around with freeBSD for a bit, so I installed it in a VM and gave up after I spent three hours trying to get the network working.
Video: Steve Jobs on Flash (D8 Conference)
Pretty sure facebook photos does this
Steve Jobs says Flash has had its day; Apple focuses on emerging technologies
To be clear, that statement was making fun of the current state of Android. The next sentence was an apology for not having the functionality earlier.
It's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.

If he is leaving under bad terms, he has to write a letter like this.

If he is leaving under good terms, he has to write a letter like this.

Our reactions say more about us than it does him.
I'm impressed with what they're doing and with the well-written descriptions. I hope they don't stop at 4 posts.
It looks like they'll grant it if you have a mobile app. (I do and they did).
OS XI ain't done til Android won't run. :-)
> It's not so much how the world tolerates these people - how do these people tolerate themselves?

He's a lawyer.
SpaceX's first Falcon9 launch this Friday
For what it's worth, most of the numbers for Microsoft in the "assumptions" are wrong - I wonder if it's possible to have a set of assumptions such that this application wouldn't recommend a move to Google Apps?

What I found the most interesting however is that it's not possible to set some of the numbers in the assumptions below certain thresholds. For example, in the "unplanned downtime" section you're required to put in a number greater than 15 minutes.
I bought an Ipad not because it left out Flash,Java ,Qt and those; but because i wanted to see what the hype is all about. I was just curious. I wasnt voting for or against anyone.
For me, it was PT_DENY_ATTACH.
Canadian too? I kind of wish I could try Lala and Mog. And Hulu. And NBC...
Maybe you're forgetting some history. When Apple announced Safari, people said it was completely stupid to not choose the Gecko engine. People said that the KHTML engine was totally immature and progressing slowly. Why on earth would you pick KHTML over Gecko?

After a fairly huge amount of work on the part of WebKit contributors, you can see that Apple's move was both not stupid and also generous. WebKit development rapidly outstripped every other engine, and it's still on the leading edge today. It's open source software, with a mostly BSD license.
No, Webkit's been around for longer than that.

> The name and project 'WebKit' were created in 2002 when Apple Inc. created a fork of KHTML and KJS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Origins
I know we all hate what he is doing, but nothing he is doing is illegal. Is it immoral? That one is harder to answer, depending on your perspective. He is providing work for a whole set of new lawyers and staff in his company. He is getting money from companies that are already rich, like Apple, Microsoft, Intel (probably).

Obviously we are all against it, but why is that? It doesn't affect most of us. Sure, he is making money of something he didn't create, but so do lots of peoples, anyone who owns a shop for one.
Not important whether its normal... if we all said yeah sure its normal, would you still feel comfortable doing it?

So, ask is this a rational, fair, acceptable, professional, moral request on their part, and are you agreeable to it?

Id tell them to go take a flying fuck at the moon, but I've read Kilgore Trout!
Just plain ol' Memepool would be plenty.
Get Your Game (Industry) On... Drinks On Fifth With Chris Klaus, Act II
I respectfully disagree. If you're smart, humble and of a certain disposition, you can recognize that you started something great, and grew it to the point that it makes sense for experienced vets to take it to the next level. Some (most?) people will want to try that themselves. I don't think that's everyone, though.
The CalculatedRisk stats say that houses aren't moving at current prices. That says nothing about what they'd do at lower prices.

Even if all that happens is "move up", things are better for the folks who got to move up. (And there's less net economic loss if we lose the inexpensive places than the more expensive ones.) More likely, you'll get smaller and more households, as the run-up to the burst had people living together for economic reasons.

Since I said that Detroit wasn't an exhaustive list, it's curious that another member of the list would be considered disproof.

Note that Ohio's proposal, forcing banks to offer for sale, does what I suggested - it puts things on the market.

Note that banks walk away because they let the real liabilities grow while they kept thinking that their book value mattered. Wipe out the liabilities and stop them from growing, as the Ohio proposal does, and there's something there. More to the point, there's more there the sooner that happens.

I'm sure that there are some places that won't get a bid even at 0 reserve and no liabilities. However, I see no reason to treat everything that way because most will get a bid. (I know folks who wanted to buy blocks of Detroit for the right price, but weren't willing to take the liabilities.)
Eureka! I have found the quotation, in what must be a verifiable source.

http://www.sciencemusings.com/blog/2006/10/imagination-and-k...

I'll have to find the magazine interview soon, to see it with my own eyes.
I had Computer Architecture by Hennessy and Patterson as well. It comes up #1 on Amazon search for "computer architecture", so I think it's a pretty well known book.
It turns out big problems are big. We're moving moving existing data to cassandra and putting a lot of new (mostly internal) data on cassandra.
For East Harlem, A Start-Up Charter High School
That's simply not true. Gates was the CEO up until 2000 and though Ballmer had a lot of influence the Senior VPs still reported to Gates. People like Brad Silverberg and Jim Allchin weren't taking their marching orders from Ballmer during the 90s (and I'd personally argue Silverberg had a lot more to do with Microsoft's success than Ballmer did).

In that context the '00s have largely been Ballmer taking the money from Microsoft's 90s victories and funneling it into a series of failed attempts to enter new markets.

As for Jobs he introduced the first iPod 9 months after Ballmer became CEO of Microsoft and I think we all know how Apple's fortunes have gone since then
That's the time of the first tweet. It saves us 30-something years of id space.
I had thought about a variation of #2 at some point but I've been too busy to implement anything.