skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks interesting, but it sounds crazy expensive and very proprietary, though I could be wrong about the expensive part. I do really like the vector/scalar manipulation syntax, but this project is crying out for an open source alternative - anyone game?

Wikipedia has more on K and KDB+: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
Oops, so sorry to Tumblr. This was a reckless comment and I'm in the wrong here. I misheard from a good friend that Tumblr does do this, he was actually referring to a number of services.

Just received an email from Tumblr explicitly saying they don't. If I could delete the comment I would (but HN doesn't allow that), but I'll let this stand as my mistake and I'll back out from the Eastside-Westside tech battle.
WhitePages looks to challenge Bing, Google and ... Groupon
Connecticut, others pursue Google over data grab
I would loath to work for a place where I were just "work for hire". Case in point: I was laid off at the last place I worked. My direct manager explained the situation personally, apologized profusely. And then acted as a reference for my next job. Sure, I lost my job, but I wasn't just dropped like a used tool.

Employees can (and should) be people too.
Don't forget that there are also a lot of Amazon reviewers who are nothing but trolls. They are making it harder to post reviews like that, but I still see plenty of cases where people have hijacked Amazon comments or reviews for the lulz.
VLC vs AOL about Shoutcast
Idea: Use pieces of lead sheeting to shield the RAM chips from cosmic radiation.
Then it stays at 5 bars no matter how I hold it.

I took a ziploc bag folded in half (therefore 4-ply) and wrapped it around the metal, and no matter how hard I squeeze it or cover it, the signal doesn't drop below 5 bars.
What do you suggest? Advertising. That should make the project break even or perhaps better, I would think.
K is an interesting little language; it is used pretty heavily in some circles on Wall Street. Most use k in the context of kdb, an in-memory vector-/column-oriented database.

Arthur has designed several similar languages, and from what I can tell 'q' (his newest) has superseded 'k'. Much like k was used to program applications in kdb, q is used to program applications in kdb+.

You can download a trial version of kdb+ to play with q... I don't believe you can get kdb/k anymore.

Here is their publicly accessible sample code, which is useful for getting a feel for what k and q are like:

http://code.kx.com/

Worth checking out if you need to do timeseries analysis of large tick databases or the like... I know of at least one vendor (to remain nameless) that used it as the datastore behind their webapp with mixed results. It's very easy to develop with and great for certain applications -- but it's a little bit lacking in documentation (to be generous) and there's not a large developer community.

Just my 2 cents...
close: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1384.html
Bad things happen to the layout if the screen's vertical dimension is not large enough. The semi-transparent screenshots at the bottom move up over the text.

Also, I didn't like the bar at the bottom of the screen. If feels strange and also gets in the way. Personally I feel that the design could still use some fine tuning.
Yes, that's correct. Any any other situation is the world which needs a virtual queue.
How Wi-Fi Drains Your Cell Phone (and how it can be fixed)
Needs a think of the children argument to be more convincing.
I write reviews for things I purchased occasionally if I think there's not enough good information about the product in the reviews section, there was something I couldn't figure out until I'd purchased the product, or I really like (or hate it). I'm not expecting much, although the idea that other people might read it and find it useful makes it worth it.
Locked up on me several times in Chrome.
I don't buy that McCrystal didn't know what he was getting into. RS has confirmed that he vetted all the quotes in the article before it appeared, so he at least had to know that he was going to be firing a few aides pretty quick.

Besides, we're talking about a dude who just last summer was carefully leaking stuff to the press to try to force Obama into a position where he'd have to accede to the demands of the brass. [interesting article from a month ago, before all this happened: http://www.newamerica.net/node/31833] He knows how to play the game, and he's been playing it for years. He may come off in the article as a battle-weary military dude completely unsavvy with domestic affairs, but I don't think that's a correct impression of him; it's just part of the impression he wanted to cultivate.

The reality, I think, is that McCrystal intended this interview to make it seem as though the Obama administration is well-intentioned, but cluelessly doesn't let the military brass do what they want. McCrystal wanted to carefully cultivate the public perception that Obama just needs to trust the military more, and let them self-govern a bit. What he didn't realize, I think, was that Hastings was smarter than he sometimes seems, and played the interview quite nicely. Where McCrystal had wanted to come off as a no-nonsense military man who's held back by Obama's idealism, he instead came off as an asshole.

And to most of us, it might appear that he's just a poor old-school hard-nosed military guy who went into an interview blind - heck, I think Hastings makes it seem like that intentionally in the article. The truth, however, is that he's as savvy as they come, and he should have been prepared for this.

Anyway, interesting read - Slate always has good stuff like this. Thanks!
Expensive, yes. Proprietary, yes.

Open source alternative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

Although, like I said... most k programming is done in the context of applications built on top of kdb (their in-memory datastore), and I don't believe there's an (open-source) J equivalent.
I've posted maybe two. The one I'm sure about was for a very handy O'Reilly book that got a bad review that was undeserved on the merits and made a passing reference to the author's politics. I thought the book better than that and the politics (confined to the dedication) not relevant to the book's worth.
Lets give them credit when ie9 has 97%+ market share of the IE browsers.

Anybody can make a nice demo, it is getting people to use it that matters.
We've been using Celery with Django for a solid 8 months or so. It's been a blessing for our needs, and extremely easy to scale.
Being one of the people that Gabe sent the ad request to - i can attest ot the fact that the adly spend rates are just not good enough to present value for money.

There's a very high threshold in which i'm willing to take money (say, 3-4 figures minimum) to advertise a product via twitter -- you simply lose followers.

Also, now that people are following more than 1000s of tweets per day, you simply cannot pay attention to it all unless you are focused on twitter 100% all day.

So it's not worth an advertiser spending money on advertising either.

Gabe- ping me back, i have some experience about clickthru when celebs tweet your stuff.

-- james
Companies have attempted positive astro-turfing. The negative counterpart would seem to be easier, since people aften fear the worst, so FUD is an easier sell. This is probably going on all the time. I think it's only effective on marginal products, though. If something's going to succeed, then it makes no difference.

EDIT: I am something of a marginal case, though. I have a 1st generation 8GB iPhone. I keep wishing there was some way for me to have a carrier that's not AT&T, to have pre-paid calls & data, to be on Verizon's excellent network, to not have to deal with unlocking and jailbreaking and iTunes upgrade paranoia, to be able to put in a different SIM when I travel overseas, etc... Right now, I am figuring out a way to get my hands on a Canadian iPhone. The though occurs to me: why don't I just get an Android phone? I already own two perfectly good iOS test platforms.
I think twitter is using Lift, not Rails.
Ask HN: 32 bit Windows server VS 64
I currently have a 64 bit server on Rackspace. I am noticing that there are just too many limitations to using 64 bit Windows Server, like not being able to install php, and other things.

My question is are there any reason I should keep the 64 bit server? I can quickly spin up a new server instance in 32 bit and transfer over the current sites. I figure it would only take a few hours to do so.

Thanks in advance.
J (http://jsoftware.com/) is also an option. It's not open source, either, but older versions of the source are available (j7, IIRC), and there isn't a restriction on commercial use.

I'm still trying to figure out the APL language family. I'd love to implement one, eventually, but it's a ways off. (I've done a toy interpreter already, but that was just to make sense of some basics.)
I use Celery myself as well and it's awesome.

It supports multiple messaging queues and backends for storing results (RabbitMQ, MongoDB, AMQP, Redis, ... - I personally use Redis, because I don't need all the features and overhead from RabbitMQ) and also has a great documentation and friendly support on IRC.

And if you watch the Celery project on github you can see that the author is basically working and improving the project on daily basis.
That was actually funny and still you got down voted (I up voted you).

See what I mean about HN? A bunch of over sensitive whiny bitches. Yes, that was a statement.
This comment made me smile - this is exactly what I did as a kid when my radio got static-y. Slightly changing my position with relation to the radio, without touching it, sometimes fixed it.
so this is basically a simplified version of the null object pattern with all its problems.

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

it is worse than the null object pattern though as you have done it to your entire application. a better approach would be to determine when you have a hash that you want this behaviour from and implement a class for that specific behaviour rather than shotgunning it into everything.
The picture is still standard in Germany, although it usually goes on a covering sheet. As a non-german living in Germany I find it laughable what passes for a resume in Germany.

I see PhDs listing which elementary school they attended, and they start in chronological order so the elementary school is listed first and you have to turn the page to see the PhD.

Frequently no attempt is made to clarify what their previous activity means. PhDs who merely write the title of their thesis to account for those 4 years (applying for first job directly after PhD outside of academia), who the hell knows what they are talking about?

The amazing thing is these (in my opinion) crappy resumes actually landed these people decent jobs.
7 must-reads for entrepreneurs
"If anyone knows any way out of this besides increasing the number of users by several orders of magnitude, I'd love to hear it"

Disclaimer: I have never run a reviews site so this might just be a wild idea.

What if you implemented a karma system like HN/Reddit/Digg and rewarded users for their relative karma score for particular comments to other users commenting on the same thing. For those who achieve a certain relative score, you can give them prizes, discounts, etc. I mention relative score since this would curb the incentive to game the system.
I never said I was surprised. In fact there is very little opinion in my post - it is mostly factual
also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1456746
The theatre at MCBH Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii had them over a decade ago; I never noticed any problems.
I do not think people participate on Yelp to get badges. That is ridiculous. I have a friend who recently fell in love with Yelp. She uses it to figure out what restaurants she wants to go to in New York City. She likes reading the reviews, good and bad. She feels like she's become good at figuring out what places she will like, even when they have bad reviews. Reading between the lines on Yelp has become a kind of sport for her. Even more recently, she began contributing reviews. I think for her it is a way of sharing with others what she likes, and participating in the Yelp community, which is a community that she likes. The question is sort of similar to "Why do you have the friends that you have?" Why are any of us drawn to one group of people, and not some other group of people? Or why do we go to some show, some party, follow some musicians? We get something out of it, but it clearly isn't badges or money, or merit points, or anything ridiculous like that.
Seconded. It made me feel the same as reading 1984. I hate the future.
If I don't end up hiring one if the current shirtlisted bidders I will raise the bid and try again. I suspect however that I will still get buds from a very large number of bidders with poor portfolios
Ok, that was depressing.
Fusion Power Possible
200 Million Dollars, and you can power a small city.
If I don't end up hiring one if the current shirtlisted bidders I will raise the bid
and try again. I suspect however that I will still get bids from a very large number of bidders with poor portfolios
Personally, I find both the preoccupation with money and status a little foreign. Me, I just want to do things that make people happy, that make their lives easier. If I could do that and still have some free time, and still have some people around who like to be around me, and I like to be around (though not people who think I'm some sort of superhuman because of my accomplishments) that would be ideal for me.
> Since it's so easy to add a nice review system to an online store today, that feature alone won't be enough anymore.

It's not the feature. I'm convinced it is is the sheer volume. Much like Arn from MacRumors says to monetize a website - first you need traffic. Traffic then monetization. Not monetization then traffic.

Target has the exact same software Amazon.com has - as the result of a 2000-era licensing agreement.

I had to sort by highest rated to even get a Harry Potter item with reviews:

http://www.target.com/Potter-Half-Blood-Prince-Widescreen-Du...
What I wonder is whether that version will be more — or less — capable than the current? Remember how they’ve dumbed down iMovie? Expect more of the same.

I don't follow. iMovie is a consumer app. It's supposed to be simple and easy to use. Same goes with Garageband/Logic -- the last update to Logic released 8 months ago or so didn't simplify anything or remove features. I don't see why they'd go that route with FCP either. There's a big difference between a $500 pro app and a consumer app that comes for free with your new Mac.

though I’d much prefer Apple embrace eSATA, but probably not.

Maybe on desktops. eSATA is a terrible solution for mobile. It's storage only so you have to dedicate space to a single function port at the cost of more multi-function USB ports. The eSATA connector/port are not very rugged. I've never seen eSATA with power so in a mobile environment you'll have to track down 12V of power to use the eSATA port. There is apparently a spec for eSATA + power though I've never seen it in the real world. USB3 is just a much better solution at this point. (whenever Intel gets around to integrating it into a chipset we'll probably see widespread support)
Looking good guys! I work for Seedcamp, can't make it tonight, but have a good one and ping me if you have queries afterwards.

As a blatant plug here is the application for Mini Seedcamp London - http://seedcamp.com/pages/london10

And we are also running some founder dating on 12th July so folk can find high quality co-founders. Sign up for that here - http://seedcamp.wufoo.com/forms/founder-dating/
Does Uncle Sam really need 1,100 data centers?
I believe it is legal in many or most countries. In the USA the power of the state to expropriate property for the public good is called eminent domain, and it is affirmed by the US constitution.
I do not think 1,300 is a figure set in stone. My own site has only had 248 purchases, total, yet people have already written 2 reviews:

http://www.wplover.com/1243/wpquestions-a-humbling-experienc...

http://stevewatsononline.com/wp-questions-to-the-rescue?utm_...
Visible source != open source. You are still bound by the license.
I was using BitmapFactory to decode resources and display bitmaps on the canvas. Then I was using getPixel to get colors off the bitmaps.

I noticed that in 2.2 my color values were all over the place.

I found out that I then had to use BitmapFactory.options to disable automatic dithering and resizing which must have been defaults prior to the 2.2 upgrade.

I hate when default values for any functions are changed in updates, and this is the one I ran across in the 2.2 update.
For anyone not familiar with the APL family of languages, prepare to have your mind blown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

Terse, cryptic, powerful. It's like doing magic tricks with code. (Not that that's a recipe for maintainable software, but that's an entirely different debate.)

There's also (meant to mention this before) A+, which is GPL, I believe:

http://www.aplusdev.org/
Birmingham? Nottingham?
If that's how you describe someone who quit a co-op (internship) in order to launch a few of his own apps that pay his rent and allow him to keep working on his dream, I'm genuinely curious (and I mean no disrespect when I ask), how would you describe your own self?
I personally think this is more of a cycle based on individuals and less of an inevitable decline in society

I think there are people who refuse to grow up in every generation. Those people eventually have kids and in my experience most kids in that situation tend to take on the adult role in the relationship. Kids who are forced into the adult role early tend to be responsible adults when they reach the appropriate age so you get responsible adults from childish parents.

I think there are generations where the majority of people are irresponsible but I think you see that more in macro examples and less in individual anecdotes (The baby boomer generation allowing their governments to spend far and away more than they took in with tax revenue for example)
I bought logo design love (book) and was emailed by the "author" asking me to write a review...so i did
Since that incident, I’ve had several other, similar problems. Something would start failing mysteriously, but flushing my cache restored it to normal.

This seems like a bit of a red flag that in reality something else is actually going wrong with his computer.
What else would you suggest? This is equivalent to randomly generating a username and password.
Dr Dobbs - ActivePython Packages Target Financial, Scientific Computing
You might want to start from the main page as there is an intro and other overview info: http://www.nanex.net/20100506/FlashCrashAnalysis_Intro.html
How does celery differ in functionality than a message queue like RabbitMQ?
Kind of a wacky set of default sources for the political section. The only independent blog offered in their list of political sources is BigGovernment.com which is a great source of nonsense (let me be clear -- this isn't a partisan complaint. DailyKos is also a source of nonsense). Puzzled as to why they'd even include it.
Inspiring for the seeming ease with which he moves between package managers and debuggers...
Based on feedback, I followed this up with another post: http://www.scottporad.com/2010/06/24/getting-your-resume-not...
Don't miss the comment by Allie Brosh (3rd from the top) wherein she schools the author on the actual (humorous & self-deprecating) spirit of her post.
That doesn't look startlingly like the Times Skimmer or anything.

http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/
Apple, give us a "Freedom of Choice" button (EFF)
You're right. Payment processors (including the App Store) should have an option to cap the amount of income a developer can earn in a month, just in case an app actually takes off (after a year of hard full-time work on it), to prevent making developers and customers who hear about it jealous.

Everybody you read about who made X dollars, planned to do so, right? It was very easy and certain, right?
Why Learn R? It's the language of Statistics
Hey - I work in design innovation for a very large online travel company (e.g., Expedia, Priceline, Booking). Here are some additional thoughts
(1) Don't get obsessed with statistical significance. 95% is an arbitrary number - sometimes you need to make decisions and a 70% probability of one option being better, while not ideal, can be enough to support a decision.
(2) Volume! You hear of case studies where people changed a color and conversion went up 20%, but that rarely happens in the real world. With smaller improvements you need A LOT of volume to get statistical significance, so think about what measurement really matters - sometimes there are proxies for conversion that require less traffic (e.g., click through vs. conversion)
(3) Tradeoffs and attribution. It's easy to make conclusions like "this element increased conversion - so it's good" but sometimes page elements can improve a desired outcome at the expense of other things. For example, we did an A/B on a hotel page that increased conversion on that specific hotel, so people concluded it must be good, but it came at the expense of cross-selling other hotels.
With programmers being human, there's a lot to be said for the framework providing a secure default. Even so, it's surprising how often this particular mistake occurs.
Great work digging into this issue. A memory test is probably in order.

I learned about ECC RAM when I was trying to figure out why server lease deals were so inexpensive relative to others. For instance, the last I checked, hetzner.de's hardware does not support ECC RAM. I am of course not calling out hetzner, and there are other factors in such deals.
She didn't really "school the author" in that he points out her humor falls into the "funny because it's true" category and it's the fact that she and her readers think it's true that really disturbs him.
I don't really see that myself. Apple released Final Cut Pro 7 and Logic 9 less than a year ago. Aperture 3 less than 6 months ago. It's kind of unreasonable to expect these apps to be updated every 6 months or something. In both cases there were a few major features and lots of clean-up which was definitely needed. Both are very mature applications so I wouldn't expect FCP8 or Logic 10 to radically change anything.

As for hardware -- even most professionals don't need Mac Pros. The high end workstation market just isn't what it used to be.
The bar at the bottom is meebo's in-site-chat script, it can probably be blocked.
4-way HTML5 speed test: Firefox 3.7 faster than Internet Explorer 9 (video)
I suspect that most reviews are pissed off customers that are simply looking for an emotional outlet. I am actually amazed that so many products on Amazon have a high rating.

The fact that you're amazed at the outcome is a good indicator that your hypothesis is wrong.
It's almost too subtle.
Two things:

1) I need OPML import. Before that's there, all I can really do is play with the interface to see if I like it; I imagine this will be the case for anyone who already uses a lot of RSS feeds. (Other users new to the concept, on the other hand, would be fine getting started with the sample feeds given.)

2) The Meebo toolbar needs to go. I get that social networking is a major focus, but adding an IM client to the interface is not helpful for anyone but iPad users (and even that's doubtful). If you must have it, I suggest detecting the user agent and removing it for anyone but them, or at least giving the option to disable it entirely in the options (instead of just "hiding" it).

Otherwise, it's a great start and I'd love to see where it's going. :)
The Best 3-D Experience I Ever Had
I love the UI on this, it's the kind of app that I'd run full-screen because it looks like a desktop app.

I'll give it a proper try when they can import OPML.