skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? There seems to be a lot of contradicting info about the Skype app and the 3rd party apps and what they do and cannot do on Android.

Last time I checked, the Skype app for Android was doing regular voice calls (no data). And there was no 3rd party Skype to do anything remotely related to chats/audio calls/video calls.
During my year at uni, there were about 12 girls out of the 120 cohort. Strangely, that also works out to 14%...
"I don't think there was any claim to reaching the 'standards of science'."

Science is how we know things. This article doesn't help us know very much, because it's so sloppy with its numbers.
Thanks! Glad to hear that the effort is appreciated :). We all try pretty hard to make sure everyone has a good experience with MongoDB.
I don't think it has anything to do with the design or the fact that it's info driven as it does the type of content. 12% was the amount of females graduating in computer science last time I checked, so it actually matches up pretty well.
True, but both "chrome" and "kit" are common in dev lingo, unrelated to WebKit or Google Chrome.
although you can reply to a sms from gmail, there is still no way to initiate a sms converstaion directly from gmail.
What happens if, say, you slip and bonk your head on the rail, and end up laying there with your leg sticking out the door?
I guess Posterous itself is the next thing that will be switched to some next thing.
This is not startup news.
I thought this site was hacker news, news for hackers. Though it seems 90% of the content has absolutely nothing to do with hacking. The majority of it is startup crap, which has absolutely nothing to do with hacking, such is a business topic.

Keep it on topic, this site is getting ridiculous.
--I would regard humans as high as humans regard bacteria--

but this is the question - you are assuming that -humans- own the earth - this is not clear - as another poster mentioned - he would deal with china - a state - or a corporation -bp- and even perhaps the -bacteria- that humans have a hard time controlling
Ask HN: Where can I rent a powerful linux box (8 cores, 16 GB)?
I need a powerful machine to run some heavy compute tasks, specifically R and Python scripts that need a lot of RAM. Preferably a box that has 8 cores or more, and 16 gigs or more of memory. I need something like Linode, but with more juice. I am not interested in rewriting my programs to run on a mapreduce cluster, right now, so Amazon's offering don't cut it for me. Any suggestions?
WordPress 3.0 review
why hack if you ain't going to start?
I realized that after the fact. I guess when I heard about it in history class, it existed, then I inquired further.
Apple’s: http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/ (Much more polish and probably intentionally unaware of every browser except Safari.)

Aren’t you all just loving our new browser arms races? Everyone wins.
There sort of is one, it's just not documented and not as complete as it should be. But besides for that it's great :)

Here's a python library http://code.google.com/p/pygooglevoice/

And here's a post by the buy who wrote the Google Voice Firefox extension somewhat documenting it: http://posttopic.com/topic/google-voice-add-on-development (it's the first comment in that thread)
Rent a White Guy - Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing
Presentation about the Play framework at JUG Munich
Cloudvox (I used to work there)

http://cloudvox.com/
How every national business should design their "Find a Location" page
Because it's copyrighted?

I assume the parent comment was referring to the technical feasibility of reproducing content, not the legality.
And they say flash is dead.
Being a namespace/terminology nut, one of the things that bothers me the most is that they still haven't solved the name collision/ambiguity between 'soccer' and 'football'.
Linode's largest server plan has 20GB of ram, so you'd be good for that part of your requirements. Once you start renting virtual machines that large, there are few others on your same host machine, so you wouldn't be competing for resources either. Otherwise, EC2 might have something.
but Prime Numbers are dependent on the idea that being divisible by only one and itself are important

I confess that I only have an undergraduate degree in Mathematics, but with that caveat I have a very different understanding: importance is a value judgement, and concepts in number theory such as prime-ness hinge on mere observations about the properties of numbers. People may assign importance to the property, but the property exists independently of how people feel about it.
kind of hokey, but cool nonetheless.
The New York Times Should Look to Game Mechanics
Hard to believe that you consume ~14 times what an average Kenyan consumes in a year.
I'm sure you can find something else to use the gift cards on :)
Shameless plug: I had the same problem until I built a tool to solve it. Earlier I'd subscribe to everything on my feedreader, get swamped by my to-read list, only skim it half-heartedly, and occasionally wonder "how'd I miss that?" Now I can focus my feedreader on the 10-20 feeds I never want to miss anything from (Rands is on it), and I'll almost always be current on my reading there. The remaining 1000+ feeds I've moved to http://readwarp.com. Give it a whirl anytime you're done reading your usual haunts (HN, google reader, email, ..).
What ever happened to FOAF?
> While I don't participate in media piracy nor endorse the concept, nor do I have a great deal of sympathy for the major economic stakeholders or the market distortions resulting from their attempts to extract endless rents.

I share both these opinions. But they're not in conflict with each other here - TPB doesn't discriminate between copyright holders that are good people and those that are bad.
If barrels = the conventional tools that worked before, then that's not a bad way to start, so long as you stop after hitting your cranium on some brick walls and go and do something else. The answer often comes to me over breakfast the next day.
+1 for the quality of your post

however, wish I could have given you a -4 for your account name :)
Was using 1.4
The shortest program that generates the differences between the first N primes isn't much longer than the program that generates the first N primes (certainly not enough to break the constant*N barrier).
From the graph it looks like Tablets will be consuming demand for desktop computers. Really? If someone asked me and I hadn't seen any recent data I would have suspected that sales would have been drawn out of notebook and netbook numbers as well.

How many of these sales will be first time buyers?
How many of these sales will be cannibalizing other sales?
Was getting DoS'd. It's fine now.
--big breakfast eat as much as you can- light lunch no dinner--

i agree - this works
Using that logic, it's 3M sold in about 40 years, since that's about when the first microprocessors were developed.
indeed. I also liked design much better. And WiFi!

and thanks to nookDevs we now have a range of Android software on Nook both from community and B&N itself (including browser, which AFAIK Kindle still struggles with)
We also have had good luck using Acrobat Connect for screen sharing between 3-8 parties. It was a unstable on Mac a couple years ago, but they seem to have ironed those problems out.
You're missing his first two words: broadly speaking.
How to bulk delete spam users from your site
Hasn't the MSP430 been out for a while? I recall a devkit that used a USB dongle with the chip mounted on it for around $20.

I know this chip has some traction in low-cost microcontroller work like utility meters, but why try to get this into the Arduino space?
Ten teens with outstanding achievements
Prime Numbers are dependent on the idea that being divisible by only one and itself are important
Whether or not we care about a particular property does not affect whether or not some numbers exhibit that property -- they'd still be prime even if we didn't care about primality.
Ouch, it sounds like GPUs are a royal pain to work with. (Also: this little bit of perspective makes what you guys do seem even more awesome). Thanks for the details!
I can: my cheapie hosting service only provides MySql. But beyond that, no. I certainly prefer PostgreSQL at home, and would use it for other projects when I could. MySQL was simply too late to the "ACID party", and it's hard to believe they took data integrity seriously.

E.g. - transactions, isolation, referential integrity and other feature were too long coming. They did provide a free portable DB that ran on Windows early on and parsed SELECT statements, though :-)
No. If it were an issue with the carriers, then Skype could easily have made the now-defunct Skype Lite WiFi-only, just like they do on the Blackberry, and just like many other VOiP apps, such as Vonage, do on both the iPhone and the Android.

The fact is, Skype Light, released in January '09, used your carrier's minutes when you made calls. In that regard it was similar to Google Voice. This was most definitely NOT a carrier issue.

Skype was planning to charge monthly fees, payable to Skype for using the mobile version of Skype. It was this, and not the carriers, that precipitated Skype Lite being pulled from the Marketplace.
Would CouchDB be a viable alternative to MongoDB?
They wouldn't deal with humans the same way we wouldn't deal with bacteria.

From a very advanced - and very alien - civilization's point of view, we are nothing more than nice sources of complex carbon chemistry.

Our only chance would be if we, somehow, reminded them of what they were eons ago so as to elicit some empathy.
We complain because the NHL is the extreme exception among US sports, rather than the rule. A lot of Americans don't like the fighting in the NHL either.
> there were about 12 girls out of the 120 cohort. Strangely, that also works out to 14%

That would be strange, since it's 10% according to my maths.
are you sure you don't have a HD/controller going bad? From what it sounds like no one has this problem and you haven't given steps to reproduce it.
Not sure what you mean. This is not a hacking site. Its a site for hacker news. Its not for startup's or information about google voice, nor for an explanation about iPad economics.
Honestly, I don't know. I think it varies between accountants.

My accountant charged me $500 to handle everything related to creating an S-Corp. That included the $150 or so in fees that went to the state, so he ended up keeping $350. I consider it money well spent.

For the record, I live in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm not sure how much it costs to do the filings in other states.
When everyone means the USA and Canada...
All of these distributed model guys keep disregarding and not addressing the fact that people simply don't want to deal with hosting their own web server, no matter how simplified it is.

I've seen a couple of people on this forum talk about (and Prodromou talks about it as well) "volunteers" who will run these micronetworks and host their friends and family. The idea just doesn't make sense.

For one thing, how many of us constantly are forced to be the "tech guy" in our friends/family circle? It SUCKS. Now imagine what you have to deal with when you're hosting a node...where do I sign up...

Now add that that to the facts that normies on facebook etc. simply don't notice or care about the privacy issues, the network effect, the ability for facebook to pivot their privacy settings, the fact that all attempts at distributed social networking to date have failed, and the conceptual issue of explaining what exactly the difference between distributed and non distributed social networking is to a non educated population who (again) doesn't know that they have a problem in the first place.

Prodromou also talks about "simple protocols" that these different social networks could use to talk to each other. I'll just leave that one at "devil in the details."

Finally he says, "Nobody keeps a global database of blogs, yet if you're trying to find, say, Doc Searle's blog, it's not very hard to do." in reference to not needing a global database of who belongs to what networks. So the issue here is that this creates the need for a Google-like replacement to index these social networks (why is it so easy to find Doc's blog? oh right.) and we are right back at square one: undistributed.

In my opinion this is a gross misunderstanding of the consumer, and reality.
Lua is not allowed anymore.
What, Me Exercise?: The Hacker Exercise Regime
http://DailySongFix.com = good looking blog
I already have emergency savings, the $5k is for me to throw around. I'll check out both Roth IRAs and the savings. And do you have a recommendation for a good online high yield savings account?
Hey Mike, I'll get in contact with you shortly once I pull some logs. We've been analyzing the data and it seems that where we lose data coincides with some system reboots, we had a few problems with replication a few weeks ago, and had it disabled, so that's likely why we are seeing loss.
What to Make of the Microsoft-Is-Falling-And-It-Can’t-Get-Up Meme
B&N nook - Crunchies 2010 Best New Gadget winner: http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/08/crunchies-winner/

Whatever, TechCrunch!
Judging by the title, I expected the op to rant about quants.
PHP: is it better to open a MySQL connection once or multiple times?
Should I open and close the DB connection everytime i do a query (i.e. put the DB stuff in a class/function) or open once and then close at the end of my app? Which uses less memory? Which makes the page faster? Anybody know of any resource links showing the difference?
> If these are important, you really shouldn't have been using schema-less document database.

What does that have to do with his complaints?

The "lack of transactions" is a lack of MVCC. This has nothing to do with NoSQL, RDBMSs, document databases, or schemas. Many NoSQL databases do offer some transactions support ... like CouchDB or the storage in Google's AppEngine.

"No joins" ... we've been taught for years the virtues of normalization / relational data, both in school and throughout the industry, and now we should let go of everything we've been taught. Great, but where are the best practices / patterns? Where are the books on data-modelling?

"Schema-less" ... it's not really schema-less, it's just that the schema is defined at the application layer. Again, where are the best practices for that?

One advantage of MongoDB in combination with something like Rails is said to be the lack of migrations ... I view that as a disadvantage as migrations are a great way of documenting what's changed.

To get back to my point ... don't shout at potential users something akin to RTFM ... educate them instead.
A bit more from a conservative Louisiana political blog that's a pretty good medium level detail day in day out source on what's happening: http://thehayride.com/2010/06/breaking-judge-throws-out-obam...

"Word is that the government will appeal. Doing so would put the case in the U.S. Fifth Circuit, widely regarded as the most conservative and pro-business of the nation’s appellate courts. The chances of the Obama administration winning in the 5th, which like Feldman’s court is based in New Orleans, aren’t great.

"Furthermore, as the Times-Picayune noted last night in quoting Loyola Law professor Blaine LeCesne, appealing is an expensive proposition."

(The following is a Times-Picayune quote.)

"But LeCesne noted that if the government wants to stay any preliminary injunction, it could be required to post a bond equivalent to the damage faced by the affected parties, such as Hornbeck. “It could be billions,” LeCesne said. “It could be cost-prohibitive to appeal.”"

I'll be interesting if, and where from, the Administration comes up with the money for a bond.
> I don't mind throwing it away after that

That's the point. I do and I keep them stored in a way I can quickly search books and magazines. Right now it's broken, but I had my home media server with my book and magazine collection neatly searchable via web. The ADSL modem was not very fast, but it was more than good enough for that.
I had been thinking of renting out a condo of mine. The catch is that I have an out-of-area cell phone number and want potential tenants to be able to make a local call. I'd gladly pay even $20 or $30 to buy another line on my GV account in another area code.

In the meantime I've been playing a bit with Twilio's OpenVBX and maybe I might just use it to create a number with recorded information about the place and an option to leave me a message.
Startups.readwarp.com: startup news when you're done with HN
Ask HN: How do you filter Hacker News?
I just glanced at my RSS Reader stats and was a bit horrified to see that I am sent over 100 items per day from Hacker News. Many of those items are duplicate or dead stories that still make it into the RSS feed. I would love a lightweight version of the Hacker News feed that only shows items above a certain threshold (say, 20 points).

I can't believe everyone here does this filtering manually. What do you do to separate the wheat from the chaff?
HTML5Rocks
This is great.
This Player is amazing.

I hope ATI will contact you to overcome the limitation you encountered.

By the way, Will the hardware acceleration work the Portable Version (Made by Portable Apps)?

Moreover, someone mentioned a workaround to enable the Hardware Acceleration if I have SSE 4.1 enabled CPU.
Could you say how?
Because clearly, we (especially you) are creating a hostile environment for women on Hacker News, by our stubborn refusal to up-vote more cat-related stories.

/ducks
Engagement vs. usefulness (marketing)
if you're like me - more physics than math guy, it's the same Stanislaw Ulam of Teller-Ulam design fame.
Educate yourself, sure. But don't get any ideas about how much you know. When you do meet with an accountant, go in with ears open and mouth shut. You probably don't know half as much as you think you do. Plus, their knowledge is what you're paying for. If you don't utilize that, you're not getting your money's worth.

Finally, it's probably a good idea to at least get a cursory second opinion. From what I've seen, accountants are a lot like programmers. Where one is adamantly behind Ruby on Rails, another will recommend PHP. There probably is no single right answer, but it never hurts to hear opposing viewpoints.
I work for Citrix (the company behind GTM) though in another team, and we use it internally and it works beautifully for very large All Hands Meetings too.

Not shilling my company, but I really like GTM.
I experience the same issue with call forwarding lag. It's pretty horrendous.

I find that the SMS experience is pretty shoddy at times as well. >75% of the time I try to send an SMS in GV, I get a "SMS has failed" error and have to retry a few times to get it to go through. Incoming SMS also often lag by 15-30 minutes.
http://www.100tb.com/dedicated-hosting/ perhaps?
Such an awesome way of seamless transition. If they keep doing it this way, then migration is more enticing for prospective users.
right now, ally bank and ing direct are probably the best all-around options (higher rates plus good reputation/services).

starting a Roth IRA early is a good idea for long-term investing. it won't get you rich quick, but there's not much you can do with $5k to get you rich quick. putting it away and crossing your fingers for 7-ish% average yearly return will take that $5k and turn it into $100k or so when you're able to withdraw. and as i mentioned, if you want the $5k back later, you can get it back, penalty free (though you can't touch anything more than the original $5k).
Which is why I'm going to buy it anyway.
Reading the documentation about durability and repair[1], it appears data corruption should only ever occur if you had a hardware failure, or the mongodb process crashed or was killed. Was the data corruption you experienced because of any of these reasons? In your experience, how easy is it to repair a node vs switch to a replica node and rsynch. (I'm quite ignorant about MongoDB replication but in my idealised mind, it should be possible to recover a corrupted node entirely automatically and transparently to the client).

[1]http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Durability+and+Repair
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html -- it did start out as Startup News :-)
http://hacks.mozilla.org/ and http://dev.opera.com/ and http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ have similar content from the other big vendors.
If I have time to check an rss reader, I don't mind the cost for opening HN, it's a fast loading page and the scoring metrics help filter great stories. So I'm a manual filterer

If I were to automate filtering here, I'd scrape the first page once a day
>gcc (and ideally help out the developers if it's still got some shortcomings.)

GCC has a long and storied development environment. I can't exactly just step in and start spewing code at them. It's not an easy culture to penetrate, nor codebase.

>develop with the tools you have, not the tools you wish you had.

I'm actually going to call tough shit on that, and respond with, "buy the dev kit/platform that supports more than one flawed platform"

Regardless, I'm still going to buy a kit.
NewServers have per-hour pricing on dedicated servers.

http://newservers.com/
I don't think you understand what I was describing as frustrating. Ignorance isn't the problem, it's the uncertainty of tools and "what I need to get started".

I love solving problems, discovering new things, but the whole embedded dev experience is disempowering because a single mistake in ordering can mean waiting days/weeks to resolve a missing part, not clicking to another website for a missing download.

The whole stack lacks the flexibility of software, for obvious reasons, as much as I love it so far.
Yeah; it just gets metabolized instead of stored. You become more energetic, so to speak.
logmein is the best by far for 1 on 1.

logmein pro only lets you share one screen... but it does it perfectly. invaluable for pairing.

logmeinexpress is free and better quality than dimdim

https://secure.logmein.com/US/products/express/Default.aspx
different device entirely. - big screen is a big part of it, but the refined email application, and substantial improvement in speed is equally as relevant.
Naturally, preceded by a Flash ad.
I have had the iOS 4 on my iPhone 3g for almost 24 hours and haven't noticed anything weird or off the wall. I did notice that not much in iOS 4 is available on the 3g. No multitasking for one. I had some problems with Exchange, but a reboot of my phone fixed that.
http://www.m5hosting.com/ has 8 core/16GB for $399/mo.
This is the number 1 reason I use chrome. Flash crashes at least 10 times a day for me.
It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it is open source so you might be able to bend it to your will: Big Blue Button (http://bigbluebutton.org/)
ISS Crew Captures Beautiful Image of Green Aurora Over the Indian Ocean
There is nothing useful about those numbers

Well, you can keep saying that but you have no numbers and no particularly concrete criticisms of his argument. Maybe he's not comparing like for like. Maybe all your friends have iPhones. Maybe you've forgotten many people outside of North America and Europe own mobile phones. The $35k, as mentioned in other comments in the thread, has very little bearing on his central argument that iPhone apps don't make much money.

And maybe he's made a complete hash of it. But at least we know how he got there.

he's not realising that the median earnings per serious software shop is actually higher much higher than the average per app because

Because what? What's a 'serious software shop'? How do you come to this conclusion? Right or wrong, I have a reasonably good idea how the author of the article came to his. Can't say the same for yours.
Next up, Adobe launches FlashZings.