skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent some time at the NYT. I've also spent some time working with Drupal.

Scaling Drupal is somewhat proven, and it seems to work for those sites. But, according to compete.com, the traffic figures (uniques) for March 2010 are:

nytimes.com: 14,008,884
whitehouse.gov: 1,878,251
fastcompany.com: 1,537,072
thenation.com: 491,232
economist.com: 400,613

That is, nytimes.com gets almost 7.5 times the traffic as whitehouse.gov, and almost 35 times the traffic of economist.com. Oh, also, don't forget about.com, which, at 40,511,000 uniques in March 2010, has almost 2.9 times the traffic of nytimes.com.

So, there's that. Then, the NYT has some ... unique requirements. Drupal just doesn't cut it for various the reasons, the clearest of which is the need to support all the non-tech-savvy journos and editors who actually create the gargantuan amount of content published by nytimes.com. There is a reason a custom CMS was written.
Something's not adding up. He's stating a net profit of about $1,000.00 a month. Gross revenues are stated as $6,000/mo. So about $12k/yr in the owner's pocket. Fine.

Sales price is Minimum Offer:$2,147,483,647. Unless I've gone blind, that's Two Billion Dollars. With a "B".

I know silicon valley valuations can be optimistic but this seems like farce.

edit: Later comment to the auction states that the minimum bid is "all messed up". You might say that :)
True, but read the comments. The organization reporting this is little better. ("Encrypted on the client" - which means they would be horribly exposed to man-in-the-middle attacks...)
It's an error with Flippa. The minimum bid is $10k. I've reported the problem. :/ Great timing right?
When It Comes to PR, Facebook Does Know What A Real ‘Friend’ Is
Sorry. My entire statement was an assumption as I have little experience with functional programming outside of fooling around with my xmonad.hs file. I was just responding with that I took from the GP comment.
Bezos Investment Puts Qliance in the Spotlight
If you frequently travel to places where connectivity is spotty or expensive, or if you're under heavy time constraints, doing that sort of thing is far from unreasonable. In fact, if you're travelling often, regardless of what the connectivity's like at your destinations, it's probably a good way to get some use out of time in planes.
Toronto firm wins award for less-invasive MRI-based prostate cancer therapy
I suggest reading some of the other responses higher up in that thread if you want to see what RMS thought of openbsd at the time, I say thought as I don't know if his view has changed.

A quick summary is that RMS does not recommend openbsd because the ports tree contains links to non-free software and because these links are there openbsd is recommending non-free software.

Sometimes his ideals seem to just do more harm than good for free software and even though I do respect that he is so willing to follow his ideals to the letter he is eccentric enough to hurt a following.
Perl already has a large standard library, it's called the CPAN. Unlike say Python the aim of Perl's standard libraries isn't to give you a good stand-alone programming environment, it's rather to bootstrap the CPAN toolchain so that you can install these libraries.

Perl has numerous web libraries on the CPAN (Catalyst, Mojo, Dancer etc.), and if you don't like the bare-bones object system you should look at Moose.
Why isn't he mad he doesn't have the chip wiring diagrams? I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm just wondering, at what point should a FOSS enthusiast be content not to have the source?
This has been a common practice at media companies for many years.
This is the reason I manually logged out of Facebook on all machines I use, deleted the cookies (and blocked 3rd-party cookies in Chrome), and have now made a habit of logging into Facebook only when in incognito mode.
Amazon CEO: Kindles with color screen "still some ways out"
Q&A: Microsoft's Bach on his exit, and future of the company
The vast majority of water for California farms comes from Sierra Nevada snow-melt runoff, not aquafers.
The point of Flashblock and NoScript is security without sacrificing usability on trusted sites. Yes, it lets you ignore the Flash, but it doesn't actually protect you because the Flash is still loaded.
Would be nice to have a cross platform version of this :)
Just do the suggested searches at the bottom of it:

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&q=inurl%3A%2Fwp-includes%2F+...
Fusion has 5 blades and Gillette didn't make a razor with 4.

Also, in my experience the additional blades (or some other aspect of the newer Gillette razors) do make it easier to get a better shave. I was floored the first time I tried Mach 3 (which I remember getting for free in the mail) by how close the shave was for the amount of effort and irritation. Fusion has been a step up from Mach 3, but not nearly as big a step up as Mach 3 was from my previous razors.

I'm both cynical and cheap, and I don't watch much TV, so it would be really surprising if Gillette's marketing were strong enough to alter what I feel when I touch my face after shaving. Particularly with regard to the Mach 3, which I had never heard of before I tried it that first time.
I wonder how this result pivots on demographic elements, like gender, age, educational level etc.
Where the stable version for RHEL-5?
Oh, sorry about that. I misunderstood it.

But it is nice to see hosting companies linking to us :) I am still looking for a designer to work on our blog/site.
I didn't actually mean for this to be a blatant advertising post at all. I'm really sorry you feel that way. Hopefully I can help explain my real goal better here:

My goal was to help educate developers to the fact that mobile web apps have a bright future. Developers don't necessarily need to feel trapped by the popular native mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, etc) when there are other options available that are more open, more familiar, and easier to port to many different devices.

Still, mobile web apps have a long way to go for both developers and users, and distribution and monetization are two of the most important vectors that need to be improved. The point of the post was to show the potential of mobile web apps first, and to show how AppStoreHQ is helping these vectors for developers and users second.
So it appears this is windows only for now according to this: http://code.google.com/chrome/apps/

Which seems so weird considering this is what will make chrome os, at least in terms of the web as a desktop sort of thing.

Though they probably did this for other reasons such as a larger userbase to test with or some reason unknown to me, hopefully I'll get to try it soon when it is ported to the other OS's.
The idea, I think, isn't that this grey goo would get energy from dirt and rock and literally consume the Earth. Rather, it would use dirt and rock plus solar energy to grow and if its efficient enough out compete existing plants. The other bad possibility is that some nanite comes along that can digest typical organic matter but that can't be digested in turn. Then it proceeds to much on the biosphere while leaving the rest of the planet alone and just eat all the organic life (that hasn't hermetically sealed itself away).

Either of these scenarios would, of course, be Bad Things.

I'm not sure either is actually credible, but I'm not aware of any reason to declare them impossible.
Private Investigations - Wire Watcher
Agreed, although it would make online shopping a bitch.
There are bacteria in a certain cave system that draws energy from the mineral deposits. They get 0 energy from the sun.

A little searching found: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/4229.html

I don't think that this is the bacteria that I was thinking of. The one the I'm thinking of was mentioned in the Planet Earth episode on caves.

{EDIT}

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/08/cave-bacteria-mars....

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

"Rare, chemolithoautotrophic bacteria are believed to
occur in the cave. These bacteria feed on the sulfur,
iron, and manganese minerals and may assist in enlarging
the cave and determining the shapes of some unusual
speleothems. Other studies indicate that some microbes
may have medicinal qualities that are beneficial to
humans.[1]"

{/EDIT}
They say that "Semantic Box is the next generation enterprise search engine"
A Twist To Y Combinator’s ‘Demo Day’: Pitching To Programmers
I agree. Maybe more suitable for Tell HN.

Also, what about Paypal, is it impossible to do that in a mobile setting?

And as far as I know there is a downvote, when you pass a certain karma threshold?
That you consider basic computer architecture "silly trivia" is something I don't know how to respond to.
I turn off notifications on mail, Skype chat, IRC, etc. If it's not more important than the other things I might be doing, it doesn't get to interrupt me.
C#/.Net:

1) Collection classes.

2) Collection classes.

3) Collection classes.

4) Collection classes.

5) Collection classes.
This is as untrue now as it was the first time it was said. MobileMe does not need to be free. MobileMe just needs to become indispensable. It needs to suck less and be so integrated into all Apple products that not having it is simple not an option. Making it free would be great and would certainly dent Google, but doing the above will also have a deleterious effect on their rival.
They're looking for people who are competent, but who are either naive, terrible at selling themselves to an employer, or vastly underestimating their ability to find a good paid position.
This is not really accurate. Some NoSQL solutions, such as Memcached, MemcacheDB, and REDIS are key-value stores, i.e. hash tables.

Other solutions, such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and CouchDB provide richer semantics that make it possible to perform efficient range queries and map-reduce queries. Cassandra and MongoDB both use indices to improve query performance.

One of the primary advantages of the various NoSQL solutions is that they make it easy to scale horizontally, i.e. to add capacity by simply adding another host machine. This is in contrast to traditional relational databases, which are typically hard to scale horizontally.
Hiding behind "our lawyers said its ok" and "everyone else does it" is disappointing to see from someone in the HN/reddit community.
While I think CPAN is a fantastic resource (I wish other languages had something even half as good as CPAN for a centralized repository of various libraries and other odds and ends), it's not a standard library, it's a collection of libraries. While PPM is sweet, I work on lots of systems that are not connected to the Internet, and believe me, not having a guaranteed minimum standard library can be a serious PIA. Most distros do at least come with a set of stuff installed by default, which is nice, but it also is not the same as a standard library since that loadout might change from distro to distro, or version to version.

Basically the standard Perl library are whatever functions Perl happens to have. Which, while amazing for text processing, don't help much with other needs.
From the comments:

that’s a casualty of using TextMate to parse calculations with Google Calculator. I used to use Calculator.app, but started relying on TM because it’s so easy to use.
Holiday Inn to test smartphone as hotel-room key
Just pay them minimum wage if that is all you can afford. This trend of kids being forced to take an unpaid internship for college credit is really hurting kids who pay their own way through school or just need to have a paying job in the summer for one reason or another. Really, in the grand scheme of things it can't cost much to pay minimum wage and I think better work will get done.
(Sorry, I think this turned into a trolling ramble possibly...)

I cannot decide if this matters or not. Seriously, will this matter? I have web apps, I have web apps that would rock in a desktop environment where I didn't have to host the data, or could at least "sync" it with the desktop.

But does it matter? Will Chrome matter? Will telling people to install Chrome to install my app be worth it? Will other browsers follow suit?

Obviously this has so much going for it. First, it's being launched as a "store" and not just an "add-on" system. I haven't written my apps for Firefox because I need it to financially make sense. Creating something for another "store" does make sense.

I can now write apps for Android, iPhone, Palm, RIM, Windows, Mac, iPad, web-based, and other cell phones. Now add "browser-desktop" into the mix.

This means I have to write my app in Java with Android's SDK, Objective-C, (uhm?), Java, .Net Pascal C etc, more C, more C, PHP/Ruby/.Net/Python, more Java, HTML5? Uhgo.

Good Lord!!! Can I just write one app in Flash or Java and be able to distribute it everywhere PLEASE???
Unpaid internships are very common. As I understand it if you get course credit they don't have to pay you, hence the "we're legally required to ask you for a Letter of Credit".
I believe the commenter on reddit is mistaken. If you're doing an internship for class credit (as is indicated in reddit's blog post), it can be unpaid.

Note: I'm not a tax lawyer, so don't quote me on this.
Haha, good observation.

Their own Outlook tray notification does this. I still double-take when the message preview ends "Thanks J"
Yahoo's Bartz and Another F*bomb
Yeah, I forgot about Catalyst true...

Moose though is an example of what should just be part of the language. I'm glad to hear that Perl 6 will be doing some of what I want, it'll be a good start. But Perl really really needs the kinds of things that people want to use modern languages for. It's still so geared for processing data files (of various sorts), and most of what I see in Perl 6 seems to target this problem in various ways.

Don't get me wrong, Perl is my preferred language, I can crank out a Perl solution to a problem about as fast as I can type it. But when I really want to push the project larger, the language doesn't really do much to help you.
Zed Shaw's MulletDB: SQL in the front, NoSQL in the back
you wouldn't be a tax lawyer, you'd be a labor lawyer
What Apple needs, and I imagine this is what it is working towards, is a way to make its gadget products (iPhone, iPad)"unethered" from a computer. In other words, you should be able to have an iPhone or an iPad and no computer. This is not currently the case. So I assume they are coming with some kind of cloud service that allows you to manage your backups, store the primary version of your information etc. directly from your device.
Interview with Miles Forrest (from CoderPath Podcast) - Part 2
Adblock on Chrome is still seriously imperfect, for two reasons

1. It takes a while to hide things (it also has a "hide too much, and un-hide later" mode, but that's barely an improvement).

2. The big one: it still downloads things. Let me be clear here: I don't want to have to wait for doubleclick to get off its ass and serve me an ad. I want the page all the way loaded when the bits I'm going to see are there. Which does not include adverts. I assume this is pending on Chrome adding a "pretty please may I?" hook to URL fetching - does anyone know when this will be here?
Under this definition, my internship at the Massachusetts Statehouse was illegal unpaid labor.

This opportunity looks like a bad deal to me, I wouldn't do it personally, but trying to criminalize voluntary exchanges is no good in my opinion. Someone proactive about learning and making connections could benefit A LOT from this sort of thing and gain a lot more than $7/hour in value. Not my cup of tea, but I can see how it'd make sense for someone and I don't like seeing two people forbidden from a voluntary exchange they both think would work well for them.
Rather than localizing change to one api and requiring explicit effort to do so. That makes the change global and transparent, affecting all code (your code, std lib, 3rd party lib).

It's really, really not what you want. Or at least not what the poor guy who has to maintain your poorly monkey patched code.
Regardless of the letter of the law, I don't see why anybody should be upset about this. Laws intended to keep people from taking unfair advantage of others who willingly agree to the arrangement are often horribly broken in that they treat a variety of situations where all parties receive benefits which are satisfactory to them as exploitative.
Exactly, but that might work for example for a programmer (or some other not customer-facing position). How can someone negotiate a good deal if they're naive, underestimating, or terrible at selling themselves? Serious companies would try to hire exactly the other kind of people...
The idea of an unpaid internship is abominable. Most interns in these positions need money desperately to pay their student loans (or maybe their living expenses???).

While it may not be illegal, it still generates a foul stench that reflects poorly on the founders of the company.

I'd be more than happy to stand with a group of interns to help them protest this madness. Give me a sign and I'll stand on the street corner with you demanding justice.

Bottom line, the "haves" are not willing to give (even a little) to the "have-nots".
Well you can write apps in HTML5 and javascript and distribute to iphone, android, and up to date browsers while coding the backend on your server to whatever you want and this is essentially what web apps should be.

Edit:

If you really want to actually target all environments flash really no longer will be an option and it may or may not be a good thing but if your apps are as great as you think they are pick the biggest market develop specifically for that market and if they are really that awesome spread out to other environments.
I don't see why anyone would share care about the details of internship contract, unless they personally involved. I see no problem with unpaid internships -- i never did one, nor would I offer one. Unless of course I was losing money on the deal and I was doing it to just be nice.

How is an unpaid internship different than becoming involved in an open source project?

How is an unpaid internship different than helping a professor with their research?

How is an unpaid internship different than volunteering at a soup kitchen or some other nonprofit?
Bingo!

This api fail drives me crazy when using BS. Esp since it's otherwise pretty slick.
Thanks. So when they say Facebook messages use NoSQL, how do they show you all messages WHERE recipient=you if these queries are expensive?
apparently they are all breaking the law

lots of info in this comment:

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/c7vdo/call_for_interns...
Flashblock has been available for chrome for ages.

http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/flash...
A snippet of a suggestion what I posted on my blog
"Now why don't credit card companies make something like this. Make an
image of their credit card with a USB stick."

You might want to try selling this idea to credit card companies
Not sure what you mean. In Ruby, for instance, whenever a module is mixed in a hook method on the module is called. You can enforce any safety or correctness constraints on the parent class that you want at that point. You can easily imagine writing a library in ruby that lets you do the same things as in Moose in terms of correctness and safety. Similarly, you could write your own 'include' method that took extra parameters and performed the same mixin magic Moose is doing like excluding or aliasing methods, performing special handling of conflicting methods, etc.

My main point in all this is that, from my perspective, Moose may have a few bells and whistles beyond the base OO features of other dynamic languages, but these features are more 'nice to haves' than 'essentials. More importantly, these features could also be trivially added in other languages as libraries. Most importantly of all, none of these features is as important as starting out with a clean, well-designed language in the first place, and Perl is anything but clean or well-designed.
just like i expected. nobody cares, right?
simple, unlike those other ones, unpaid internships eliminate entry level jobs in the industry. Why should a company pay you $7-10 bucks an hour, if they can get someone to do it for free?
Very helpful. Looks like it should be the ticket. Perhaps more interesting was the kdenlive project. I wasn't aware of it previously. I'll still most likely use final cut on another laptop for polish, but I'll give it a try and thank you kindly for pointing me in the right direction.
Was thinking both Don Dodge and Rob Conery. Not recent by web standards but (imo) still pretty fresh in real world terms.
Facebook uses Cassandra, and, with properly designed schema, those queries are actually cheap, and, better yet, distributed across a cluster of machines. You can read about Cassandra here: http://cassandra.apache.org/
One of the biggest gotchas I found was that launchd bails if the process takes less than 60 seconds to run. Putting a "sleep 60" at the tail of the script fixed a lot of problems for me.

At first I was kind of upset that this condition was there, but in retrospect it might have been a very wise design choice to stop runaway triggers.
I had to comment, because the BBC is anything BUT "extremely good for daily news and current events"
It is obsessed with sensationalism and sound-bites and little actual content, you can read any of this stuff anywhere else and get as good a commentary.
I recently visited the BBC news site again, after a hiatus of several months, for coverage of the recent elections, it astounds me how anyone can NOT see the rubbish that that site churns out.
If you get all of your news updates from the BBC, I would urge you to explore other news sources, no one source can be considered wholly reliable, but at least you will get different points of view.
by that logic, minimum wage and child labor laws should be illegal. If a child wants to work...who are you to stop them?
I'm really sorry you feel that way.

That's not how you accept responsibility, that's how you shift the blame back to the aggrieved person and piss them off some more. I don't have any strong feelings in this situation, just pointing out a place where can save you plenty of problems down the road: apologize unreservedly or not at all. For a better take try this:

I'm sorry I came across like this, I meant better than that.
Well cubes says Cassandra isn't purely a key value store and I haven't used it so I don't know its exact capabilities.

However, to answer your question, what you could do is keep another entry in the table where the key is the user id and the value is a vector of all the messages sent to that user id.
Meh. This will blow over.
The minimum offer is $INT_MAX :)
Then that's not phishing — that's installing a keylogger on the user's computer. Also bad for his security, but a completely different form of attack. It's also something that actually does happen.
The Entire Web Gets A TV Guide With Live Matrix
I was computer science major in college, but now I can hack but not code. My main role is product development, so a coding background is helpful. I know enough to attract good tech talent -- which is critical. Good luck!
"Yeah, that's actually a labor violation in both California and New York. Many upvotes to the Redditor that turns the admins in."

Man, those guys are dicks.
Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script
PyPy while great news for Python, is still a snail compared to another high-level language JIT, LuaJIT:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

edit: bit of background: Lua is a minimalist dynamic language. It can be used anywhere in your web development request stack since mod_lua was included in Apache 2.3.
Accidentally downvoted this while intending to upvote, and now I can't undo - HN is not very mobile-friendly.
I like it. Clean design and to the point. Not into the dating scene so no domain specific advice from me.