skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a user's perspective, if your language is covered, you don't care about that guy on the Internets going all nerdrage on you because you do not support an obscure variant of Cobol with all commands written in romanized Arabic. Language popularity, like popularity for just about everything else, is a zipf distribution. Twenty languages probably covers well in excess of 99% of the people who will actually try to use this.

You can't ever please him, and he's most likely to say "Pah, this isn't exactly what I want, I'm going to roll my own blog."

(P.S.: the hard bitten product manager in me thinks that, from a user's perspective, the user can't program and this feature means nothing to her either way, and every second spent thinking about it is a second the business never gets back.)
Reported so many times:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379834

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379909

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1380325

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1382513
In fact, moral based on religion is completely arbitrary. Some years ago I read a book titled "Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture" by the anthropologist Marvin Harris, where he explained that the reason why it is forbidden for muslims and jews to eat pork, is because those religions where originated in a desertic land, and pigs roll over themselves in mud where they are hot, and if there is no mud they roll over themselves in their own feces, which is a danger to health. That health rule became a part of the religious rules, and thus followers of these religions shall not eat pork even if they are living in a different place.
Religion alone has caused more suffering in history than any other idea, and has lead to wars, deaths, torture, discrimination, intolerance, sexual repression, sexist discrimination to women, and a slowdown for science, culture and knowledge. How is that moral acceptable?
Yes, but largely because the responsibilities are few. Many common CEO responsibilities (particularly reviewing financials and signing off strategy) may be done by other directors / partners etc.

Where relevant, we also encourage clients to consider rotating CEOs. It's something we've done in our coaching company (which is large enough to have a full time CEO), and it means the role of CEO isn't the pinnacle, subject to office politics and power trips, and that post-CEO our coaches find other ways to contribute within the company (including going back to business coaching operationally).
I also think it is somewhat unfair. They have lot of money from their ads, so they can create product in another category (for example GPS), and offer it for free, while other companies who don't have those advertising dollars can't offer their product for free. Basically they can easily kill competition in certain niches, since they can support their product by money gained by another product (Adsense/Adwords). Maybe it is not unlawful, but fair is it not.
Happstack gets a new brand identity (Haskell Application Server Stack)
I want to read that. Do tell if it comes back to you.
Clickcha - click the biggest/smallest number for CAPTCHA
An antitechnoegalitarianizationist manifesto
Ambilight for the HTML5  element written entirely in JavaScript
Pure Html5+Javascript implementation of Ambilight effect
That's roughly 38 square meters per person. For the most dense city, that's plenty of space.
BS laugh machine is on HN?
Dr. Albert A. Bartlett is fully cognizant of that point. He says in part 8 of that video:

"Except for the petroleum graphs, the things I tell you are
not predictions of the future. I am only reporting facts and
the results of some very simple arithmetic." (1:22)

He acknowledges the potential fallibility of his estimations. He goes on to say:

"Please you check the facts. Please check my arithmetic. if
you find errors, please let me know. But if you don't find
errors, I hope you take this very very seriously."
They sell third party encryption devices that connect to cell phones, encrypt outgoing voice and decrypt incoming voice.
The scary thought is this - if I had not put in the pictures - would you have ever come across my post? I suspect not - which illustrates some disturbing truths about humanity.
All we now need is a system for harvesting those geniuses. Who knows how many Srinivasa Ramanujans the world has lost.
Bah. Religion is merely the excuse for the sort of behaviors we, in our modern context, would consider amoral. Religion's also /caused/ all of the polar opposites you list - peace, life, healing, acceptance, tolerance, openness, women's rights, and advancements of the sciences, of culture (especially art - really, are you kidding me?) and of the general wealth of knowledge in general.

Seriously. As an /atheist/, I don't have much qualms with the idea of faith. The institutionalization of superstitions , prejudices and epistemologically unsound foundations of moral judgment, sure - lots of problems there. But you can't really say with a straight face that religion's been nothing but a bummer for mankind without ignoring the vast realm of accomplishments made in its name.

But all achievements - and all tragedies - were made by human hands. Which is where at least my own stance is made: it isn't religion's fault that man is occasionally evil, as religion is nothing but a concept - and abstracts in a vacuum are value-neutral. It is, in the end, man's fault that man is, at times, evil.
How long does this fix take, maybe 30 minutes? Probably less if you're skilled. So Apple is paying their techs $180 x 2 per hour? Come on...
Does Having A Big Ego Help Achieve Goals?
How's that unfair? It's not that they're stopping anybody from doing the same.
I would not say the streets of San Francisco are mean. Out of many major cities I've been to, it looks like the nicest city for a homeless person to be. I don't know exactly what city does to help besides regular feedings on the Market str, but they all seem clean, weather is nice, people are tolerant, and many techy tourists spare cash. If there is such a thing as homeless heaven, I'd say SF is it's headquarters.
> so they can create product in another category (for example GPS), and offer it for free

That specific case I view as a good thing, since turn-by-turn GPS data was provided by an oligopoly for high fees, which is a lot more "unfair" to everybody.
I have a smart phone with an internet connection, which I use daily to send and receive email, read blogs, search with Google, look things up on Wikipedia, etc. In fact, virtually everything I do with Chrome/FF on my Windows PC, held back only by a somewhat non-standards-compliant browser, which will apparently be fixed with the next major release of Blackberry OS. I send virtually all my personal email using my phone now (I keep it away from my work email account).
iDisk is terribly slow. It doesn't hold a candle to Dropbox.

We use Dropbox as a file server and repository, I don't believe iDisk is coded with that level of sophistication / performance. It just works, flawlessly.
Firefox Home 'coming soon' to iPhone, will sync with desktop browser
There are many extraordinary things have been done in robotics in recent, and a lot many to be done yet. Just try to "teach" a self-balancing biped to run. In theory it's possible to run over walls and ceiling in your room (if you run fast enough), but damn hard to implement. I admire what Anybots and Big Dog guys do.
No, Google is a company subject to the forces of a free market ... competition, choice, advancements in technology, natural selection.

An economy where everybody gets their products / utilities from charities ... is called communism ;)
That doesn't look at all impressive. It seems easy to write a solver for it. Especially considering most spam bots are quite happy with relatively low rates of succeeding, they can just brute-force until they find one they can solve.
A lot to learn from this video about explaining things:

- Know your stuff. It's obvious he's been over all of this hundreds of times.

- Figure out great analogies and other aids. Part 3: 5:20 he makes an analogy out of multiplying bacteria in a bottle that fill it in an hour to show us at what point of the exponential function you notice your in one. It's got two parts and is very effective. It allows him to say things like "5 minutes before the bottle is full."

- Introduce your aids gradually and keep using them. Make clever decisions about your aids and make sure they accumulate to a powerful toolset. After that analogy which all the time he introduces the analogy above he has:

- A trick for calculating doubling time 70/annual growth in %
- A graph
- A table
- An example (Boulder) that he keeps running scenarios on.
- The bacteria analogy

By the time he's 20-30 minutes into a lecture, this guy has a very powerful vocabulary built up. He can take something like oil consumption and examine it with you very quickly using these tools. The bacteria in a bottle analogy is a great example of this. Once he's explained it (kind of hard) and practised it once or twice, he can say "What time is it?" and immediately have his audience understand something relatively complex. .
News items that contain the word "killer" in the title are usually composed by uninformed local TV news writers, or by hack bloggers who want to drive easy fanboy traffic to their site with cheap rhetoric. We see the same motive in headlines that start with "Top Ten Reasons That...", and "Is My Karate Better Than Your Kung Fu?" or "Python is Dead!?". Sensationalism has its place---the tech gossip media is built on it---but it's disappointing to see it finding unquestioned acceptance on HN.
Ask HN:Hackers News meeting Netherlands?
Inspired by the San Diego meeting I wondered how many Dutch (based) HN readers there actually are and if it would be a good idea to meet up in e.g. Amsterdam. Please leave a comment if you want to join in.
VLC 1.1.0 1st release candidate, with VP8 and GPU decoding...
I changed everything to blatant lies, decreasing the value of the service.
As I say, I'd only do it when you open a file, not a folder. Of course looking at a folder is fine but opening a file that isn't really all there is not a good user experience!
And let's not forget that this will have official 64bit support for OS X!! Hurrah!
I think they use javascript to record the coordinate (x, y) where you clicked it

on one scenario you 'll select a 24x24 square out of a 200x100 pixel picture, the success rate is 2.8%
If true, Microsoft has truly become an entity I don't understand.

What's the upside in such an arrangement for them? At one stroke, they'd substantially increasing the reach and strength of a rival platform at a time they're struggling to maintain relevance.

Because of section 3.3.1, the language would have to be C or C++, I don't think Microsoft would be shipping an Objective-C compiler.

This doesn't fit with Microsoft's strategy of moving as much as possible to managed code.

Unless...Is it even possible that Apple and Microsoft co-operated or will co-operate to make Objective-C a managed language due to Microsoft's experience with the CLR?

Seems far fetched, but then, so was Apple switching to x86 the first time the rumours did the rounds.

A lot of ifs and speculation. I'll believe it when Ballmer walks onto the WWDC stage.
As we all know here, the only conceivable expense for a business is the take-home pay of your production employees.

But yeah, of course Apple charges for this. You bought an expensive toy and you broke it. Apple isn't a charity.

Missing from the equation: voiding the warranty of the device, and risking destroying the device with a jolt of static electricity or a slipping screwdriver.
God is the only objective force in the universe. Humans by nature are subjective, giving into their whims and desire (most of the time wholly contrary to expert advice on what's good for them and what's bad for them).

Take homosexuality for example... as recent as a few decades back, it was an abhorrent crime, hated by society, hated by government. A few years later, it's celebrated, with countless open air marches and festivals around the world. God's position on this hasn't changed - peoples has!

Take dress code as another item.... the definition of 'modesty' holds a whole different connotation almost year on year. What's acceptable in terms of women dress wear, magazines, films, is slipping bit by bit, year on year. Again, another human whim.

The harmful nature of swine has been studied and documented to the nth degree. The bacteria it contains, and the susceptibility of the meat to transmit viruses is well known within certain research communities (do google search).

"Religion alone has caused more suffering in history than any other idea, and has lead to wars, deaths, torture, discrimination, intolerance, sexual repression, sexist discrimination to women, and a slowdown for science, culture and knowledge."

On the contrary. Human beings have killed people. Religion hasn't. All the 3 major religions are against innocent loss of life. The death toll in Iraq has gone off the scale. The death toll in Afghanistan has reached into it's hundreds of thousands. These are Atheist wars! In modern history, Atheism has killed more people than centuries of religiously motivated killings.

Religion has brought, not only moral truth, but also has cultivated the soil for humanity to be scientifically and technologically where it is at now. The Islamic Golden Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age) has contributed an invaluable amount to almost every aspect of our existence today (from universities, to contracts, to music...). What has atheist brought really? than just ignorant and prejudice ideas?
WordPress - 7 years
Very nice. I enjoy I seeing a fellow Dutchman doing something different. Sure, there are some improvements you could do design wise, but don't worry, just keep on going and you'll figure it out eventually. :-)
7 Ways Computer Glitches Can, And Have, Ruined Your Day
Computer glit are one of the annoyance of modern society.
I remember picking up an iPod in what was probably '02 and thinking "I should buy some Apple stock".

Damn.
The question was not meant to be a refutation. It is a reference to the dangers of making the perfect the enemy of the good. Problems such as these does not always require (or have) a solution. The kinds of social engineering that may or may not solve a particular problem often have unpleasant and unexpected results.
| something with its own desires, ambitions, and emotions,

There was an SF author singularity panel discussion recently:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/what-i-d...

Alastair Reynolds made the great point that the singularity's /identity/ needn't be its own. You could fix it to something / someone else, and have it use its mental power on behalf of someone else. It might not even know it exists.

Actually it sounded great at the time but, surely, if it had a balky human it would make a mental model of the difference between what it wanted to do and what it could do, and reach /some/ conclusion. If it knew about people I guess it could make a good guess. Hrm, I guess it'd be like our own ids, like the apostle Paul said - "I don't do that which I want to do, and do that which I don't want to do". So the creature would come up with a notion of 'singularity frailty' and 'original ineffectuality', perhaps.
Bots will be happy by any success rate above 0%
Patience: Success Takes Years
It would indeed mean more iphone/ipad developers, which ultimately means more of those devices sold, which is their current focus by all accounts. The increase would almost certainly outweigh the minimal drop in Macs sold...

It almost makes sense, as all good rumors almost do.
£18m for digital research - Technology Strategy Board
Moose is good, but it's not that good

I think its "good enough" to tempt people to use Perl.
Liquidated: An Anthropologist on Wall Street
I'd like to combine this with akismet. Bots will be happy with a 2% rate but I'll be more happy than them with 98% less comments to check in the spam folder
a five digit case-ignore number/letter success rate is 1/(36^5), it's very small but still above 0%
Clickcha is more secure than traditional text based CAPTCHAs which can be read via OCR software.

Because... circled numbers can't be read by OCR software?

Without some visual obfuscation, I fail to see how this is an improvement against bots. Simple OCR + location of match = 100% success rate (just click the middle). Improvement for users, perhaps, especially due to its simplicity... but I don't know if that's worth it.
2% success rate against bots does not equal 98% fewer bot posts. Just 50x more traffic.
I don't have too much experience, but, one big place had only a few approved contract companies. If that's the case where you are, you wouldn't have much chance as an individual, even if you incorporated.
Hi,

I am the developer of clickcha. Appreciate the input, but you seem to be forgetting that bruteforcing can be avoided by temporarily banning the IP for some time after certain number of incorrect attempts.
> Simple OCR + location of match = 100% success rate

Sometimes it ask you to choose the biggest square, not only biggest/smallest questions. The challenge varies all the time.

For example, I can ask you to choose the biggest triangle out of some boxes, circles and stars, and the question sentence can be displayed using a line of traditional CAPTCHA
Jaiku and Buzz didn't exactly kill Twitter. Orkut didn't kill Facebook. Latitude didn't kill Foursquare. Google Code didn't kill GitHub. Knol didn't kill Wikipedia. Smaller companies still manage to get ahead of Google by innovating, it's not just a matter of big money.
They pay the penalty in latency, not in throughput. That's like no performance penalty at all if you work asynchronously. They make sure that the data cannot become inconsistent between nodes by ordering the transactions. The penalty that comes from this is that latency can become high, i.e. the answer time for individual transactions. While maintaining a maximized throughput of millions of transactions a second. It's like an internal 'pumping rhythm' with tightly synched timestamps.
I written to the website owner offering to do a port for ruby on rails. I think this clickcha will also cause curiosity in people and increase comments.

Edit: what's wrong with this?
On the plus side, this is going to cost the first motivated spammer who runs into it about $50 ~ $100 to get it broken by an Eastern European programmer who is better at OCR than probably anyone on HN.

On the minus side, it is then totally useless aside from hassling actual users.
I moved to Austria and I'm learning German, a putatively quasi-Romance language (shares a lot with Latin) that has a tiny fraction of the number of words that English has.

Yes, it's alternatingly irritating and hilarious to find how many animals we know by special names are called some variation of Cat or Bear, and I like to tell this as a joke, topping it off with the Katzenbär, which is both (Catbear). (A katzenbär is a red panda, in case you're wondering.)

But, at the same time, there is a lot of expressiveness in German that has no English equivalent. For example: schadenfreude. This is just one word of hundreds that are special, emotion-capturing words that have no real equivalent in English.

To argue that English is more expressive based on volume is silly.
Not so much "against the rules" as "superfluous."

See that little up-arrow on the comment you responded to? Click on it, and the number of points goes...+1.

If you agree with a comment, and have nothing substantive to add, just up-vote. No need to post a confirmation.

(If you disagree with a comment, on the other hand, post a comment disagreeing-- don't down-vote it, unless you feel that it doesn't add to the conversation.)
I think that everyone is looking for microsoft's Waterloo to come, which I don't think will ever happen. MS is fighting a war of attrition where their monopoly is slowly getting gnawed away. If Linux, a renewed Apple, and Google didn't kill Microsoft, how will some pidly little thing like the cloud?
SEO Experts
Pageonerankings.com.au SEO firm provides services in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne local area. We provide professional SEO Experts that will help your websites ranking be on page one of search engine results. Visit our website for Free website audit, high quality link building services and more of our complete SEO solutions for small and big businesses in Australia.
Titles can be important for dealing with clients. Many organisations won't even give you time on the phone unless they see that you're a 'Managing Director' or 'VP of Sales'. If you impress your client with your product, you'll inevitably get a chance to present to their superiors, and it helps a bit if your contact doesn't have to introduce you as 'the guy that does this stuff'.

Of course, as has already been said, it's important to remember that these are just titles: they don't change your work or what you're trying to do.
Nike Air Force 1 Low Cream Straw Chocolate
On the other hand Microsoft is in a position where they can deliver the best integration of your web, desktop, mobile and living-room devices and has the resources and skill to do so.

They probably don't do it because they are such conservative douche-bags and don't want to threaten their cash-cows, but I wouldn't bet against them in case the money from Windows / Office stop flowing and they end up in a position where they either compete or die.
I see this as problematic. Throw in different screen sizes, different input methods, and different operating systems, and what do you get? Maddening chaos for application developers, meaning it wouldn't be supported.

Can you imagine the support tickets? "Outlook doesn't look right on my cell phone." "I can't swipe in iBooks on my Eee." It's the ultimate epitome of the problem with Android's fracturing across devices (which is, thankfully, not too bad).
I'm with you by liking bugzilla. It's also my favorite after JIRA. But JIRA better for people with few IT background. Sometimes we do organize project of non IT context or involve people which are not familiar with IT and tracking systems. That people liked JIRA more than bugzilla.
No doubt followed by 6 minutes of rms promoting the ipad.
ok sure, but how many permutations of different questions are there? Once you have these, it is trivial to OCR the numbers/shapes and pick the appropriate one per the question.