skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Quantcast will tell everyone a lot more info if the reddit guys go here: http://www.quantcast.com/info/publisher-overview
Wow, Google is giving away their OS for free, and Motorola is locking it up.
It's not even theirs to lock up.
We PAID for it....do they not get the concept of money or what?
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture:

A good apology has three parts: 1. “I’m sorry”; 2. “It was my fault” and 3. “How do I make it right”. The last part tells about your sincerity.
http://teamrich.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/pausch-last-lecture...

Apple has to hit all of that, with #3 being; "Here is how we are going to make this right."

You can argue all you want about the technical aspects of this, but a few days ago, my local news led with a three-minute report about Consumer Reports and the iPhone. This is a Richter-scale sized PR disaster.
"In 1995, when we started Viaweb, Java applets were supposed to be the technology everyone was going to use to develop server-base applications. Applets seemed to us an old-fashioned idea. Download programs to run on the client? Simpler just to go all the way and run the programs on the server. We wasted little time on applets, but countless other startups must have been lured into this tar pit. Few seem to have escaped alive."

p. 227, from scrolling around a bit from the Google Books links in the original post: http://books.google.com/books?id=B4dk0tYPrckC&pg=PA228&#...

Also, pp. 228-229:

"I would not even use Javascript, if I were you; Viaweb didn't. Most of the Javascript I see on the Web isn't necessary, and much of it breaks. And when you start to be able to browse actual web pages on your cell phone or PDA (or toaster), who knows if they'll even support it."

Note that this is just from reading a few of the footnotes from that link; I haven't read the rest of the book, so I can't speak much on it. All I'm saying is that he got some things right, some wrong, and that other people were talking about an iPhone before he did.

And I should have said "a few prescient quotes, and a few that are wrong." The "one prescient quote" that I wrote was a mistake on my part, as I had just discussed two prescient quotes (iPhone and open-source browser innovation); not sure why I wrote "one."
Third paragraph:

> "Finally!" said Renee Brown, a school guidance counselor visiting Pensacola Beach, Fla., from London, Ky. "Honestly, I'm surprised that they haven't been able to do something sooner, though."

Seems like an odd choice for the first quote in the article. Shouldn't they have chosen someone obviously qualified to comment?
Yeah really. Does this get us to the original PR assessment of 1000 bpd?
You may want to take a look at Rietveld which is a clone of the widely used mondrian tool within google.

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2008/05/guido-van-rossum-rele...
Do you have a recommended session-handling API for a WSGI-based app (I'm not a framework such as Django)?

I'm currently looking at Beaker (http://beaker.groovie.org/index.html) but it is a middleware-based approach.
Java was about, dragging the C++ programmers half way towards Lisp. Maybe Clojure is about moving them further up to 90%... (and the last 10% is the JRE)!
If the "Future of the Desktop" still means having to do installs and updates, then I look forward to living in the past. I've even gotten sick of being harangued by Android updates.

After having written code for 20 years, I want zero responsibility for somebody else's code, and that includes doing updates.
Exxon Valdez: 20 Years Later, Oil Remains
A willingness to pursue an idea without investors is probably a trait that VCs like to see.
Looks like Reddit's trying to sell brand advertising based off of their comScore numbers, since they're running comScore's direct-measurement JavaScript on their site and they didn't bother to mention comScore in this post.

The point of this blog post is probably to lump the Nielsen figures the agencies are using in with a bunch of services the agencies know are jokes (Alexa? get serious...) That way they can discredit Nielsen when they send this post to the agencies, along with their much-better comScore numbers.
If firefighting is such a well-paying job, how come I always see firefighters doing funding drives a few times a year?
I would like a lap dance, but I would feel uncomfortable paying for it. I'd probably feel a lot of guilt afterwards.

Who wants to be the "creepy guy I had to give a lap dance to so that I could feed my children"?
I recently had a friend from college commit suicide. Please, Please, Please find some help, I'm sure you are drastically underestimating how many people would miss you dearly.

There are plenty of organizations that will talk to you for free. Most large corporations have an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that can provide you with three therapy sessions for free and virtually every healthcare plan under the sun covers mental health, it'll cost you a $15 co-pay. Go as often as you need.

I hope that you you find someone that can help you work through these issues.
Chart: 2010 iPad versus a 2003 Competitor
As a game designer I get a little frustrated when people use the phrase "game mechanics" to very specifically mean giving our points, badges and achievements that are publicly displayed to a group of social connections online. Using this definition neither chess nor Super Mario have any "game mechanics".

I guess it is too late but I wish we had some other phrase for them. "social status notifications?"
He's just saying that you can leverage the two investors against each other, letting them fight over who's willing to give you the better deal.
Agencies don't take Quantcast as seriously as they take comScore, which is the unmentioned product that Reddit's actually using to track traffic.
You are right, but they are still useful if comparing two sites targeting the same demographic. Reddit vs Techcrunch is OK, so is Facebook vs Twitter. Reddit vs Twitter probably not so much.
One example: for AJAX requests. From http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/csrf/#ajax

Most modern JavaScript toolkits send an "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" HTTP header; these requests are detected and automatically not handled by this [CSRF] middleware. We can do this safely because, in the context of a browser, the header can only be added by using XMLHttpRequest, and browsers already implement a same-domain policy for XMLHttpRequest.
Better yet, what mathematics did he specifically use when developing Facebook? It's my understanding that most of the "innovation" that went on involved stealing someone's code and marketing the end result to a niche community (Ivy Leaguers), and using the reputation gained from that to appeal to the masses. It took people out of the ghetto of MySpace and put them into a pristine, controlled environment.

Tortured genius, or lucky asshole with a lot of money? You decide.
poor guy... having a little fun with his CV only to get mauled by the HN crowd. :-)

On a more serious note, not sure this resume would have made it past our HR person, who is not a programmer and wouldn't have understood this at all.
Murder: Fast datacenter code deploys using BitTorrent
It's like asking a bodyguard to take a bullet for you, just to prove that they'd really take a bullet for you.

It would be less off-putting if they said "You put in the first $150k and build it for six months and if we invest then we guarantee that you can take your $150k off the table (if you want too)."
at least half is. that's why the blog updates it with new thinking.
Great technology, but I think it's easy to underestimate the artistry involved in the demo. A great "story" with compelling visuals. Extraordinarily well done.
I don't think so. Month-old beans are certainly better than beans older than that, so it's something, but I can certainly taste coffee being noticeably worse after about 10 days from the roast date.

I'm not a huge expert, but my impression is that coffee gets stale mainly by exhaling CO2, not by oxidation (although it may oxidize as well), and so you can seal them as well as you want and they'll still go bad after 10-14 days, although not as fast as if you leave them out.

I believe this is why when you pour hot water over freshly-ground, recently-roasted coffee, you see foam come to the top (especially visible in espresso, which they call crema). CO2 emissions.

I don't personally believe in roasting beans myself, since I think real-people roasters are more consistent and accurate than I could ever be, and also I don't think it helps very much to go from 2-8-day-old beans to 5-minute-old beans.
No need to guess, just ask. I mean design and production, not retail. Even if you buy jeans and T shirts, the designers and producers are majority female or gay men.
The degree of suck has nothing to do with the size of the site and everything to do with the propensity of the site's audience to participate in market research programs for a pittance.
It's just a metaphor, take or leave it.
It's weird how Wikipedia says a page has been "redirected" from an alias, yet no redirection actually occurs (in the typical HTTP sense). If it did, dupes could easily be avoided by storing the final, canonical URL.
I think the sooner people realize that everybody wants easy money, the better off they will be. For me personally, if I was at stage two (working product stage), I would never dream of giving up equity unless it was the last resort.
observable, objective ... and boring. As a software engineer I'm looking for me and my team. Not the industry.
My first thought: which parasites make you smarter?
And not all forms of ads are blocked out by AdBlock type plugins/addons by default either, just the most onerous ones and those people can be bothered to manually add.
I don't know about circumventing the freshness problem, but I do know that if you introduce chicory to the brewing process and then add milk, it becomes fantastic. See iced coffee here:

http://www.bluebottlecoffee.net/coffee/preparation-guide/

That's also probably the best guide on the internet for coffee preparation, and one of the better places in the world to buy coffee in any form.
Besides seeing a professional, there are some random things:
(I don't know your situation so hence the randomness)

- Read this:
http://whitehottruth.com/white-hot/the-manifesto-of-encourag...

- If you have sappy depressing music playing all the time, turn it off. Mood is affected by music.

- Go for a walk.

- Don't drink alone.

- Go to church.

- Realize that there are things in your life that you can't change. And things that you can change. Accept the things you can't change. Change the things that you can change.
Personally, I don't like that they all look the same, but having consistency between the sites could turn out to be good in the long run.

Also the "Questions, Tags, Users, Unanswered, Ask Question" and other links that aren't a solid color throw me off. The hand-drawn stencilish style is kind of questionable, it just doesn't look crisp.
Thank you !
Is there a way for me to update my line with my country and city now ? or should I submit a new one ?
I think that most of it just boils down to terrible typesetting. Even Windows does a better job. I've always felt that this is the #1 contributor to that Linux 'cheap' feel. Everything else looks wonderful, but the fonts look ugly, even the necessary font packages are installed.
This idea is something I've talked about many times with various people. Even posted about it on stackoverflow and blogged about it once. Computers are better at boring and mundane maintenance tasks than we are - so they should do them. Users shouldn't have to think about such low level concepts as filesystems, directory structures, saving files and so on. It should be managed behind the scenes.
Why wouldn't it simply be the case that more intelligent
societies have been more successful at eradicating disease?
Stop drinking bad coffee. http://thetyee.ca/Life/2009/02/20/BadCoffee/
This is the argument that Monster Cable* uses.

* Monster Cable, please don't sue me.
Timeboxing: you will work like never before
I'm betting they give out a free bumper case to everyone. Or at the very least some duct tape.
So what defines a public API? The Wordpress internals are all public so why doesn't that count as an API?
In the comments they said that they started working with comScore about 5 months ago and are still waiting for a report, apparently comScore mangled their first 3 months of data.
I'm an expert because I live next to a place that roasts daily. It tastes the same when the beans were roasted a few weeks ago, I assure you.
Many of those people read this site, however.
Motorola gives developers the finger, but at least they're honest about it
damn wordpress hacks. let me know if you can see what specifically you are getting blocked for;/
Not exactly. The new tight-fitting cap is there to stay, but they may re-open the valves which are presently preventing oil from escaping if the well is determined to be insufficiently sound. In that case, the new cap will still allow them to collect all the oil, preventing any from leaking. That may take a week or so until they can get more collection ships, though.
Many ideas and business models take more than just a working product to fuel through an exit, that's where VCs can add a lot of value.
Correlation <> causation. IMHO they should be very careful before establishing a link between those two.
DDG has a widget for that:
http://duckduckgo.com/karma.html
i am not o certain. i do not like to buy additional hardware. it is then about delivery, logistics (shipping), handling, etc.
i would like a solution without any additional hardware...

chris
At the personal level, to avoid this problem, I made a wikipedia search engine in my browser doing a google search with "feeling lucky." This also improved my wikipedia access as you can search based on content, too. For copy-paste:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site:en.wikipedia.org+%s&btnI=Search
Clever. I love how the code is itself prose, but is also executable and brings up the resume when you run it. Nice work.
You mean Clayton Millers 10gui concept[1]? Sadly, it seems that this won't become reality for another while yet. Lack of funding and expertise mainly, it seems. A real pity.

[1] http://10gui.com/ and HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=877535
Why is everyone interested in the filesystem going away? As long as users posses more than 20 files, organizing them is helpful.

Notice one of the most requested features on the Kindle was folders for the user interface. The result they gave us isn't folders, and the actual filesystem is abstracted, but it's effectively the same.
prefer to rate sites by their "percentage of total Internet traffic"

I can't help but wonder how ridiculous business model like Alexa's works in reality, their source of data is not even scientifically relevant to measure total internet traffic, and yet they manage to get attention from everyone?

I almost feel that I would be laughed at if I had this start up idea and went to raise funding.
I think this is the design of all the sites while they are in beta. Once the site survives the public beta it will switch to a design customized for the site.
Android Market now has 100,000 apps, passes 1 billion download mark
Google Public Policy Blog: Our op-ed: Regulating what is “best” in search?
Since when do we downmod just for disagreeing with a post? I wasn't trolling.

My concern isn't invalid. Others have also noticed:

Paul Graham:
http://paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html

Another good article:
http://fitnr.com/filtering-the-web-of-noise/

Don't misunderstand, I <3 Yegge and am glad he's back. His writing taught me stuff that should have been covered in my undergraduate education, and I still refer new programmers to his 'Tour de Babel' essay.

But am I alone in wishing writers would cut to the chase a little more so as to help their readers reduce the info overload and the task of filtering through it quickly?

It's not hard to spend an entire day reading through only the high-quality tech blogs alone, and find, as Paul mentioned, that you did a lot of 'fake work' and very little real work.
is it touch-device optimized/aware?
Historious: The bookmarking tool I’ve been waiting for has finally been built.
great news if the oil leak is finally stopped, however, i will really miss the quips from @bpglobalpr
Good point, but on the other hand, if you're already in control of yourself, how can you gain more control?
> Many feel that the Linux exception is NOT actually needed

Such a practice is used in other projects ... e.g. the GNU Classpath exception ... http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html

BTW ... a piece of software X is considered a derived work of some software Y, if X is dependent on Y for functioning and Y can't be replaced.

Linux may not need that exception for many user applications, but without it you're in gray area.
Firstly, my condolences for having to endure Provo; it's the closest thing to "Stepford" I've ever encountered. I've lived in Utah for over 10 years now, and Provo is pretty bad, even by Utah standards.

Next, don't be a chump and mooch of your folks. That's just lame. Given how low your rent is (even $300 is pretty damned cheap in Utah), don't give it up. That $1200 will evaporate in no time.

Finally, good luck. I went independent a few years back and love every minute of it.
The mounting iPhone 4 controversy has hit a receptive ear in Washington, as Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D., N.Y.) Thursday wrote to Mr. Jobs urging Apple to come up with a "permanent fix" to the problem at no cost to customers. Mr. Schumer asked Apple to provide customers with a clearly written explanation of the cause of the iPhone 4's reception problem and "make a public commitment to remedy it free of charge."

does this politician have nothing better to do?
I hope you bought her two tickets to that thing she likes.
Do you have any large tech conferences in Europe to recommend?

Send me a note or if anyone wants to recommend a deal you can fill out the form here https://startupdigest.wufoo.com/forms/request-a-conference-d... (it's also on the deals page).

After we will direct call the organize and get a deal for you :) We have an international subscriber base so having these events is important for us.
85% of venture backed startups aren't operating after three years. I'd say they are taking pretty big risks.
60% of black people in Chicago don't have bank accounts?
Ask HN: I want to sell my website
I run ThatHigh.com and we're experiencing significant growth right now. July predictions just over 1 million page views, and we've only been around for a few months. Nothing absolutely enormous, but not insignificant.

How do I sell this? Judging by current figures, I'll be able to pay my rent in San Francisco from the site, plus a little extra. How do I price this? Who do I ask? How do I pursue this?
Bullet point feature charts are probably the biggest pile of bullshit ever foisted upon technology marketing.
Yes, it struck me that this looks like a desktop version of Android...obviously tweaked to take advantage of the extremely larger screen and available resources.
I agree that constantly being nagged about updating sucks. What's worse though: update nagging or occasionally having an app or service you depend on breaking temporarily due to a bad update?

If regressions are somewhat rare then I think I prefer automatic updates, even with the risks.
Uh oh, we're at week two now, in what sounds like a very similar situation. I was hoping I could do a decent amount of work by 4-6 weeks. 12+ weeks of feeling crazy/no work is going to be tough. Well... fingers crossed I guess.
Ah! My pet rant too. Overlapping windows. What a pain they are...
In a way, this exemplifies what's wrong with the approach Linux desktop/application developers have been taking for years: create something amazing, but forget one small detail, rendering the whole thing completely useless, and causing 99% of the population to dismiss them and go back to Windows/Mac.
This other ksplice article was fascinating in how it went from command line to object code to memory addresses.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1458147
For what it's worth, Gruber thinks this is a controlled leak by Apple:

Apple, adjusting expectations for tomorrow.
one can deduce how two kinds of organisms have influenced each other by studying how their respective gene pools (have) co-evolve(d)
If they have shipped a faulty phone, which looks to be the case, then they should recall. It is a phone first and foremost, and the main function of a phone is to make calls. iPhone 4 cannot do that and therefore is faulty.

If Steve Jobs can ignore his own engineers when they bring up an antenna issue, then there is something seriously wrong at Apple. No one should have that much power or influence over a product, especially when you know it's going to sell millions.

If the solution tomorrow is free bumpers, then there is going to be uproar among users. How dare Apple put form over function.
Atlassian co-founder's reply to commentary on Accel investment
Mostly for convenience I think. There's also the working-class/unpretentious image, and many people dig that. You will find many Chinese government officials drinking from glass jars in public appearances. They probably have expensive red clay tea sets at home though.
Starcraft 2 is seriously tempting me
Furthermore, it doesn't matter what WordPress considers to be GPLed or not, what matters is what it says in the license.
Notably and non-obviously, the 99 cents is a one-time fee, so once you've paid it you're entitled to make as many comments as you want.

But what sort of person is willing to pay to make comments on a local newspaper? My prediction: the comments section of the Attleboro Sun-Chronicle will henceforth be limited to a very small number of retired cranks with too much time on their hands and very large bees in their bonnet about something or other. Expect to see the same damn thread under every article as the four usual suspects duke it out over whether the problems of the world are all due to (a) George Bush, (b) Barack Obama, (c) the Federal Reserve or (d) the aliens.