skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DB2 is incredibly underrated outside the "large enterprise" crowd. It is a truly awesome RDBMS with bazillions of cool features (and a somewhat ugly Java UI). It has the equivalents of most of Oracle's features and has the scalability of Oracle while being both more user-friendly and considerably cheaper.

Its response times for simple queries are not exactly stellar though so I wouldn't recommend it for simple CRUD websites. But for serious data heavyweighting on a budget, DB2 Express-C (the free edition) is excellent.
Another reminder that IPhone developers are all sharecroppers: http://goo.gl/HPAp
Paypal and some payment gateways verify a user's bank account/routing number by making 2 small deposits (<$0.20) and asking the user to type in how much the deposits were.
Very good presentation on performance and computer architecture with today's technical limitations.

With the added feature of Azul making some of the coolest server hardware I ever seen.
To be fair, most of your complaints are extreme edge cases:

- More than 500 comic books in .CBR format untagged.
- Javascript events don't fire while Safari is running in the background.

What percentage of the 2 million iPad owners even know or care about javascript events firing while Safari is running in the background? 0.00001%?
Despite the headline from the email thread, the GPL is just one of the problems, including e.g. code written in a non-approved language (Fortran).
You’re a little company, now act like one
You are quite right that there is no substantive research.

However there are people like Seymour Papert who seem to have done some good work in the field. I can recommend his book Mindstorms.
can someone explain how image sharpening technology applies to wifi in layman's terms. i'm fascinated by this type of thing but generally don't have the math skills to understand or know where to look.
Lady GaGa+Heel-less Shoes=Shock
Google reportedly has a modified version of LTS Ubuntu used internally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu
Ok, it was a 'play' of words. I wanted to point out that after you put 90% of the effort to create an application you need to put 90% effort to actually deploy it in production. Google App Engine helps here.

But the fact that AppengineJS (and Rhino/RingoJS that powers it) runs on GAE is a distinctive advantage IMO.
It is amazing how well-designed Mac apps are in general — it's a shame the trend doesn't really seem to have translated quite as well to the iPhone. Don't get me wrong, some iPhone apps are amazingly well-designed — I guess it's probably down to most Mac apps (at least the ones I use) being produced by indie software houses that really care about experience, whereas most apps on Windows et al are generally developed by large corporations that don't care as much about their apps' aesthetic, and on the iPhone it's those big companies employing outside contractors that are never going to care as much.

Also, that may well be the longest sentence ever penned.
Which is why he talked about backups, and why they're important.

This doesn't mean your backup couldn't get infected...
I've never used Soulver, because I don't have a Mac. I really liked the idea of using text editor style input for a calculator. Being a software developer, I created one to see how this would work. This is my interpretation of the text editor style calculator and I'm trying to found out where I can take this design.
Inside China factory hit by suicides
Yep.

The web site of that program is kaleidoscope.net...it doesn't seem to have a Mac OS X version.

Unsanity created ShapeShifter, which is similar and worked on Mac OS X for awhile, but since Snow Leopard it seems Apple has changed enough of the system that it can't work anymore.
I think it's important to mention that this PDF pre-dates their Kickstarter campaign, lest anyone think this is a new architecture discussion.

I really want these guys to succeed for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is that they were lucky enough to stumble onto a bit of buzz around the project), but I have this fear that they're going to go hide in a room for a few months and then release something they consider "complete" (but without any peer review, collaborative development, or user testing), to the collective yawn of the Internet.
Now, what happens when I search for "sushi Baltimore"? I get Google's helpful map, and the websites for several sushi restaurants in Baltimore, but no single site that lists them all and does detailed reviews. In this case, Google's map was much more helpful than any of the actual listings. If Google didn't know about Ted's site, how are they supposed to put it above theirs? Mea culpa, you can't really claim Google is pushing their content above similar content if they don't know it exists.

Perhaps, as the submitter mentions in another comment here, Google could form a partnership, but that would require massive organization to set up. Even if they just wanted to form a partnership with all sushi listing websites in major cities, that would still require a lot more effort on Google's part for a benefit of...what? Better listings for sushi, yes, but would it be worth the trouble for them to index it all?
And it even comes with a command-line tool...amazing.

I really like seeing developers put in this kind of effort. Maybe Apple will choose to package it with a future version of Xcode. :)
Do you by any chance know of any good resources about training one's RQ? I've read Stanovich, and the first choice in the bibliography seemed to be Jonathan Baron's Thinking and Deciding - which proved to be both very informative and dry as ash. Anything more practical?
These methods for how acupuncture may work seem to be reaching, especially for something that has been shown to be no more effective than a placebo. Some better reading on acupuncture may be this great book that I read:
http://www.amazon.com/Snake-Oil-Science-Complementary-Altern...
Also you can check out the links at this great website:
http://sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/acupuncture/
I would like to hear the specific ways in which you think that Apache was designed for security in ways that IIS wasn't, and how those things persist into modern IIS.
‘Tattoo’ may help diabetics track their blood sugar
SQLike - a small query engine
dam how did i miss the first one! might be in london for this one :(
Yes all good suggestions.

And yes app store is top a must as this thing wont be anything without an ecosystem.

Also it could be that you would both have a smaller device and a bigger one.

The smaller device is their running around, outside doing stuff and then the other would be their home device.

We don't want to teach our children to sit still and not use their body. So location based games, Treasurehunt etc. could be a way to get them moving around.

It's definitely an under served and under researched field.
Thanks for pointing this out. If you're using StackOverflow and are annoyed by the ads, consider giving back to the community and voila, no ads! I would estimate that it takes ~5 answers to hit the 200 points you need.
On a similar note, I've been meaning to run an FFT on some classic rock tracks and see if I can tell by the hum and harmonics whether they were recorded in the US (60 Hz) or the UK 50 Hz).

It's a clever idea, but I can think of a few ideas that might make it less effective.
Using (well, still working on it) 2co right now. It's a good choice given the current market, but I really wish better documentation when it comes to API integration. On the plus side support is great and prompt.
Four or five years ago I was contacted by a company that wanted to redistribute a program I wrote in a for-profit CD-ROM compilation. I think that's a more direct analogy to the magazine situation. I happily agreed. I get the emotional difference between giving something away for free for personal use and giving something away for someone else's profit, but is there any logical justification of the distinction?

Now I license my content as CC-BY-SA. Recently a for-profit blog took some graphs from a post I wrote and added context in German. This was totally within the lines of the license, and I thought it was pretty cool that people in Germany were now able to benefit from my work.
OK, thank you. Just 2 points:

(1) The DoD making sensitive software communicate with the global internet seems unlikely. And if they stick to private networks, the AGPL doesn't get in their way.

(2) I personally won't cry over lost monopolies. Your point was valid, though.
Assuming you drive in a western direction to get to work, sure.

I go directly north.
I see you have put links into your comment, but they appear to do nothing to back up your claim. Maybe a paste typo.
Until we hit "peak oil" for Windows malware, there is no real incentive for a malware author to target anything but the most popular platform. I'm guessing you have very little insight into the motives of malware authors, and so I'm not going to address that part of your argument.
I'm not picking on you, but this is a common sentiment among many programmers that really aggravates the hell out of me. Because of that kind of thinking, lots and lots of people are being forced to replace perfectly good hardware just to be able to run software "designed" for newer systems. The expected benefits from Moore's Law are nearly nonexistent, except for a few specific niches.
John Varley's 1984 novella "Press Enter _" (Hugo winner 1985), had something along those lines, if memory serves.
It hasn't been long enough to say for sure, but after nearly a month it looks like a sustained increase of 200-300 visits/day.

Of course, it's a slightly atypical case, as it's a static site meant to be a reference, i.e. likely to be bookmarked and linked to, but not subscribed to or visited regularly.

An interesting observation: the gradual decrease of visits once the the site is off the HN/slashdot frontpage seems to be mainly the result of aggregators or content scrapers, i.e. sites that display infrequently updated snapshots or digests of these pages (or people's twitter timeline).
They could do something similar to the Transit Program. Let him submit a feed for inclusion in google maps.

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/transit/partners/
Keep in mind, the story is from The Register. Not all the details can be taken at face value.
I meant: better then the Kindle. Now go and re-read!
The source code to Windows, while not public, is some of the best studied in the world both inside and out of Microsoft. Even though MSFT doesn't publish it, they do release complete debug symbols for most of the operating system; there isn't a pro vulnerability researcher on the Internet that can't navigate Windows with a copy of IDA Pro and a couple of PDBs. The openness of the Windows source code is a red herring.

Meanwhile, most bugs aren't discovered in careful source code review or by static analysis tools. Instead, we write programs to exercise the code, either by sending random dumb buffers to the target or by working out the expected format and varying messages until we cover every basic block in the target. You can do this with or without any source code.

I think you would have a hard time finding a professional to say that they trust Mac OS X dramatically more than they trust WinAPI in 2010, and I say this as a full-time Mac user.
For those of us that are married, that may not be true. Once you have a family, you tend to spend more time away from your main computer(s). The iPad is designed for that use case of bite-sized consumption.

And remember folks: this is iPad version 1.0. What happens when there is enough computing power in it to replace an entry level laptop?
but it's probably important for those who have to make the apps for these 2 million users.
I would like to see support for "use strict" and some more aggressive optimizations. And hopefully, Java7 with support for invokedynamic will be released soon.
RTF4HWKWK
Facebook said on Tuesday that it has blocked users in Pakistan from accessing the 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day !' page on its site out of respect for local standards and customs.

...and thus advocating a lowest-common-denominator philosophy for the Internet.
Seems unprofessional to use that spelling of 'fanboy'.
some more thoughts on appengineJS here:
http://www.gmosx.com/blog/agVnbW9zeHIPCxIHQXJ0aWNsZRipwwEM/o...
It's interesting that the author took that blog post to describe the exact opposite. Apple is treating the developers and users like they are immature, with the "because I said so" and inexplicable nondetailed explanations treating everyone with kid gloves. Even Jobs' response sounds like something a parent would say when a kid keeps asking "why?" continuously.

Then there is the "wildwest" of the Android market, where you have to watch out for yourself because anyone can do whatever they want and no one is looking over your shoulder and telling you what to do. That sounds like more a more mature environment to me.
Looks like it expires 2013-11-23.
WOW. FANTASTIC.
If this is enough details for raising $200,000 there's something seriously wrong with investors.
It's not a shake effect, but a scroll effect (jQ scroll-to plug-in). The appearance of shake occurs because the scroll rate is higher than your browser can render smoothly.

The site uses a paginated, single-page model with sections styled with significant design differences for each "page". When clicking a link (they're not actually links [boooo!]), a JS scroll event is triggered. Some relatively straight-forward tweaks could fix this.

The author uses span tags to wrap elements that act like links. A far more appropriate markup would use an anchor tag with a fragment identifier (#fragment-id). The span tags that are currently in use use class names to identify the "location" of the target. This is, again, poor form. A URL is the tool for specifying location, and URLs are linked using the anchor tag.

HTML Excerpt 1:

<div class="wrap">
<span class="scroll_to_text">Text Scope</span>
<p>Compare text and source code.</p>
</div>

Change to:

<div class="wrap">
<a href="#text">Text Scope</a>
<p>Compare text and source code.</p>
</div>

JS Excerpt 1:

$(".scroll_to_text").click(function() {$.scrollTo($("#text").position().top-40, 300)});

Change to:

$("#text").click(function(event) {$.scrollTo($("body").position().top, 300);event.preventDefault();});

I'm a novice HTML/Javascript guy at best, so the code above may not function correctly in production, but I'm certain that the principle is appropriate.
In all seriousness, I have had good success with this technique. Remember what song was an earworm for you before (call this earworm A), then when you get earworm B stuck in your head, start deliberately hummming A. A will often displace B, but it's still worn out and it'll go away again pretty quickly, leaving nothing behind. Two applications may be necessary. I used to have a near continuous soundtrack to my life (though fortunately it was never that annoying to me) and this got it under control.
Yeah that was really cool :)

I vividly remember the Scherzo theme; who could erase that memory? ;)

We emailed Greg and Arlo (authors of the classic Kaleidoscope) to see if they were cool with us repurposing the name and they were, you'll find their names in our app's About window.
All of the machine descriptions are written in Lisp. See gcc/config/i386.md for an example.
Full URL: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=sharecropper&hl=en&...
If you're using a Webkit browser, notice the app icon over time.

They use these images for that effect in CSS:

http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/static/img/ks_color.png , http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/static/img/ks_shading.png , http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/static/img/ks_mask.png

Lack of merge support is a deal-breaker for me. I was so hopeful because that's the #1 most requested feature in their other app, Versions.
This argument is a load of baloney. Desktop machines, whether Linux, Mac, or Windows, are single-user machines. Attackers don't want "root". They want your documents and they want access to your network, both of which they get just peachy with your user account.

The only thing you can do with root that you can't do with a user account is write vanity malware that persists in ways that are harder to detect. But the most effective malware isn't written as a vanity exercise.

In Google's case, it's even less important to have root; what Google is protecting is access to their corporate network.
I don't understand this. The author goes on about how they don't know what's wrong with the app, but then goes on to quote herself (from an email to Apple):

"Our app is a beautiful photo frame with a few nice things you can put over your photos."

There's her problem. I'm assuming the app is a full screen digital picture frame app, and then you can put their special widgets on top of it. The only thing wrong is she said "a few nice things" instead of "widgets".

It's her own fault the app got rejected.

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being down voted for this, but basically I'm saying that Apple was quite clear about what the issue was, and it shouldn't be difficult for her to understand this. When they update the terms of the contract, I'm sure it'll make more sense. Updating contracts isn't as simple as adding in one sentence - things take time.
Hrm, this submission is over 300 karma points as of this comment, which means that hacker monthly #2 will have to include an entire copy of hacker monthly #1...
Emacs has `calc' which is somewhat similar.

I like the fact one of the features for this app. is: "Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are all supported".
The Hidden Brain
Honestly, it depends what you're developing in. If you're developing in .NET, Windows isn't a bad platform. Anything else, and Windows starts to feel like a second-class citizen. For instance, a lot of tools written in Ruby tend to assume a Unix-like environment, even though the language itself is cross-platform.

The other problem with Windows is that it doesn't make a very good server, and it's often useful to develop on the same OS you'll be eventually deploying to.
I like his thought about the capital-F future only really being present in the minds of people of a certain age/cultural background, and the alternative being a kind of endless digital Now, but I don't know that I completely buy it.

The digital Now, as a concept seems as if it needs some kind of thinking comprehension as a state. An inward recognition that as he puts it "the future is always someone else's past". But I don't see that when I look around me. I don't see a society filled with people conscious of what's around them, I see one filled largely with sleepwalkers. Where ground-breaking technological marvels are not accepted as part of a capital-N Now, but simply ignored, or never apprehended. I don't know, but I fear that the end of the Futurist is more to do with the end of the Presentist - you can't consider the future without the springboard of the present, and current culture seems to be too numbing for most people to have the will, or need, to do so.

Well, that came out much more grumpy than I'd thought.
hmmm...so how did the U.S. manage prior to China joining the WTO in 2000? I remember 1999 quite well and don't recall significant suffering of the U.S. middle class.
I love this little snarky response to that post:

"THEY CAME FIRST for the phone app developers,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a phone app developer.
THEN THEY CAME for the flash developer,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a flash developer.
THEN THEY CAME for the desktop style app developers,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a desktop style app developer.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Yep Godwin was right : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Neil Ellis said this on June 1, 2010 at 11:01 pm
xnu's BSD code isn't a myth. Have you ever actually read any of it? Which parts?

I had to dive into it headfirst for a Black Hat presentation in 2007, in which we loaded probes into a running xnu kernel to detect hypervisors. I was surprised by how easy it was to navigate based on my familiarity with FreeBSD's kernel. Obviously, there's quite a bit of non-BSD code in OS X, but for anyone who has worked with a BSD kernel before, the similarities are impossible to miss.

Hell, even if you can't read kernel code, the fact that OS X has sysctl, doesn't have proc, and debugs with ptrace() doesn't tell you anything?
>despite what others may say about Android, it’s immature and their app store(s) are a wild west nightmare.

Hardly a "nightmare"... User ratings and reviews give me a sense of whether an app is quality and if I don't like an Android app, I can get an instant refund.
Available on iPad! I'm getting it now. Not enough of an app to be "killer" but 3 or more such apps would be a fatality! (Takes advantage of form factor to be more usable than the smartphone equivalent, yet is also very useful in a mobile context.)
cooking exhaust is a surprisingly big problem too --- you'd never think of it until you live in a place full of 50-story apartments

I was in HK only once, for three days, so my experience is extremely limited. But it was my understanding that the local culture doesn't do a lot of cooking in the home, they generally eat out. The one apartment that I saw didn't even have a real kitchen.
Google is not presenting their own competing services in a biased way over others. They are presenting search results in context sensitive ways. Searching for sushi in a geographic location indicates you want to find sushi places in that area. A google map is the best possible way for google to present the information you want. Does a crowdsourced site completely dedicated to this tiny niche do a better job than google's algorithm? of course it does, but there is no way for google's algorithm to judge that for every query.

Search instead for "sushi review stockholm" and the cited website is the first result and there is no google map at the top, because the search does not indicate to google that the first priority is to simply find sushi places and nothing else.

Now if google was artificially placing gmail, or google docs, or any of their other service products that are not themselves presenting search results, above the competition for generic search terms; that would be a problem. The behaviour cited in the post is simply the best way for google to provide search results. Google maps is a core search technology, just like google image search, books, video etc. You can't use anti-monopoly rules to handicap the dominant product itself. Especially when all the competition (search providers) considers the same behaviour to be part of their core search service as well.
I still don't think we are in quite the situation you imagine. As a for instance check out distributed computing in hackage 18 entries, great right? Number of actual projects 4, 13 entries are for Happs. Opengl has a separate entry for its test cases. There is a large number of unimportant random junk packages in hackage. The main problem with hackage is that I need to figure out which of the 30 GTK packages I need before I can use GTK.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring iPhone, Android, BlackBerry Developers?
I'm about to launch a dedicated job board for mobile app developers and is giving away promo codes for free job postings.
Check out http://taptapjobs.com on how to avail a promo code.

@taptapjobs
This was a bit of a sensational title for a relatively mundane technology. As one of the commenters pointed out it still won't be as fast and accurate as a blood test. However the idea of a bio reactive tattoo is still pretty cool.
You wouldn't believe how some French words get bastardized by common usage by speakers of other languages :)

The current word being destroyed in Argentina and Uruguay: "chapeau"

(but you wouldn't recognize it when spoken by one of my countrymen)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapeau

"Chapeau! is often used as a generic expression of approval and appreciation in France and other parts of Europe : as a sign of admiration or respect, one shall indeed remove his hat"