skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically, they make Twitter Facebook. Twitter is not Facebook. Facebook is Facebook.

I highly disagree with the author here. I don't use Facebook for data portability and privacy reasons. I also have limitations to what I can stand on Twitter. I want to follow tweets throughout the day and not feel overwhelmed each time I update.

Therefore, I follow close friends and some hackers I respect. I don't follow Lady Gaga or Ashton Kutcher or Starbucks just because "Twitter isn't Facebook."

In other words, why does the author think that your social network should affect your standards?

EDIT: But I still dig the article for pointing out what a tool Ryan Seacrest is.
He's definitely referring to experts-exchange.

I listened a great interview with Jeff Atwood on Herding code today (http://herdingcode.com/?p=263). It's funny how their QnA model seems so obvious in retrospect.
China Wholesale - Wholesale Electronics - Dropship from China
At least it wasn't called "Book publishers are too gutless to call old people dumb." THAT would've been over the top :)
I think the communities are fundamentally different. On Reddit, you think of yourself as a Redditor. You may only go to certain subreddits, but it's all supposed to be a part of something large. For SO, one of the main points was to give quality search engine results. You search for some problem you have and SO shows up instead of experts-exchange! ServerFault and other spinoffs are supposed to stand on their own in a way that I think Reddits are not.
Facebook’s “Like” Button Having “Zero Impact” on Startup Competitor GetGlue
I like starting web apps with web.py, and I like building what may end up being merely demoware or a narrow tech prototype using web.py. I think it excels at whipping up a dynamic Hello World web app in just a few lines of code, with no boilerplate directory tree or scriptage, and no messing around with external servers, and no external code dependencies. Add sqlite when need persistence. Add memcached when need caching. Grow and refactor as you go.

But if I'm very confident it's going to become part of a long-lived dynamic web service with enough of the features Django provides anyway -- especially that awesome built-in admin UI -- then yes I start with Django. The mindshare/community factor is helpful too. I know there are other web frameworks which are decent but going with a big framework other than Django in the Python space today is a bit like going with FreeBSD rather than Linux when all you really need is some sort of free Unix. To pick Linux is to get a bigger ecosystem today and therefore probably also a longer supported future.
Is it just me or are the UIs of many of these apps wildly inconsistent with the surrounding ecosystem and are not keen on applying the knowledge learned from manipulating other applications in the environment?
They sure look great, but I have my doubts as to how many of them are truly usable (undeniably, many are probably great).
South Australian health department bans iPads
GSM supports optional encryption, but there's no notification to the user whether a given call is encrypted.
This is part of a series. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492835 for discussion of a previous entry.
i've designed plenty of organized blobs that were queried with SQL. Garbage in...
Well, the defining aspect of "NoSQL" databases is that they don't use SQL. Generally, they have different semantics (key-value, document, etc.) too, but it's not necessary. Its name tends to make it sound adversarial towards relational databases in general, though.

I'd like to see more relational, column-based databases, with better query languages - I like the relational model, but find SQL to be a bad compromise at best. I think the distinction is lost on a lot of the people caught up in NoSQL hype, though.
lately i'm trying to exercise my desire for humor over on Reddit rather than here, for the reasons you stated. Goes down better over there. Plus they have narwhales.
I know someone who did that too. Now he is a drive time dj on a funny morning radio show. He lists that accomplishment in his bio on the station's website. Talk about making lemonade out of lemons!
I had never heard of Amazon Tote, so you piqued my interest. In case anyone reading this is similarly interested, it looks like a KILLER concept when they roll it out (http://tote.amazon.com/AmazonToteLearnMore) BUT currently it's only for zip codes 98112 and 98040.
The relational model is a comprehensive, complete way of representing any form of data. Just because the abstractions in front of the relational model make it somewhat klunky to access, say, keys and value based data models, has nothing to do with the mathematical soundness of the model. The limited "models" most of these NoSQL stores provide are simply subsets or re-projections of the relational model where the implementation basically bleeds all the way up to the modelling abstraction of the system: they are one in the same.

The database I described is not a panacea, you'd still have to do both good modelling and describe the ways to optimize the materialization of your data. It doesn't make the core challenges of data architecture any simpler, you still need a brain. It does, however, provide a clean abstraction and would in theory maintain most of the good things that RDBMSes have brought us without throwing all the hard work of our elders in the trash can.
A "query optimizer", let's call it.

That'd be so cool. I wish RDBMSs came with query optimizers. Maybe something that could ANALYZE (or, better yet, EXPLAIN) their performance, so people could tune it.

And yeah, sarcasm aside, it's easier to have a DBA tune things than some AI - of course: "Why can't we just have a compiler that gets fed a description of the problem, then solves it, calculating the optimal solutions for all of the engineering trade-offs, and then builds whatever kind of interfaces are optimal for your users choosing Design Patterns as appropriate. Is this something anyone is working on?"
Why do the inhabitants of Detroit deserve jobs more than those of the cities around Shenzhen?

Because they pay taxes on wages they earn in my country, if not they are supported by social programs in my country that are paid for by my tax dollars. Change that and I am all for it, until then I prefer job creation in my country.
I haven't gotten around to reading the linked article yet, but the first link in the linked article is a great way to end a long day of hacking code and building businesses: http://ifindkarma.posterous.com/what-do-pandas-do-all-day
Uh, yes. If this wasn't the case then 'marketing' wouldn't be a skill.
Its a pretty awesome place -- I'm about to graduate CMU undergrad and I'm not planning on leaving anytime soon. If I do it will probably be out of the country before somewhere else in the states.
You should post here once you do this and tell us how it goes. I'd be very interested to see how much you increase your revenue by.
Chrome makes me feel like lingering and luxuriating, in fact it's the way I linger everywhere else... so maybe they'll find a new niche with that sort of basic platform hardware and software.
This is what is going to need to happen. I think now that people really understand how to build distributed data stores like HBase and Cassandra you'll see those be the "storage engines" behind such a system. The abstractions need to stop leaking into the query language and modelling tools. We'll get there I think.
Unfortunately, site is down for me and everyone else too :(

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/365psd.com
Gimmicky as 3D may be right now, this is just typical "get off my lawn" trolling. His arguments boil down to:

1) We got along fine without it before, so adding it would be somewhere between worthless and a net loss artistically.

2) The early implementations available now are still awkward.

3) People make money from it.

His same arguments can be applied pretty much point-for-point against introducing sound or color, or creating TV at all. Or print. If the Epic of Gilgamesh was only told in person and passed down through oral history, well by golly, that should be good enough for us. Anything more is just cheapening the art!
Funny, I would have picked the "Baking for Dummies" book. Perhaps it's because I am a novice at cooking and don't necessarily want the best book on baking at the moment, just an introductory one; and I can be pretty sure the Dummies book will be decent since it is part of a well-known series.

Likewise with these StackExchange sites; some of them I had no idea they were stackexchange sites until I actually visited them. It took quite a while to click on their links after seeing them around the net in some cases. Had it been superuser.stackexchange.com I would have immediately known it would probably be a high-caliber Q&A site.

I guess I'm an outlier on both points?
This generally means enrolling full time ph.d. or at least that's what I've seen. Care to link specifics?
"Skate where the puck's going, not where it's been."

Right now, I make my living building iPhone and Rails apps. I have more work than I know what to do with it. However, I expect I'll be doing something different in four years.

There is absolutely no way I could, in good conscience, recommend to a kid heading into college right now that they should plan on cultivating my exact skillset and expect employment in four years.

Rather, I think it's critical for them to be highly educable and able to cultivate a keen sense of which way the wind is blowing.
The point of releasing open source software for me is that I am contributing in my own small way to the state of human technological progress and to the massive canon of free software that I benefit from every day. Plus it's exhilarating to see other people become as excited about the code I've written as I was when I wrote it!
Done, code spit interviews from hiring threads here on HN - very poor approach. I can point out but I would rather not.

Thanks for other suggestions! will try them.
Once you get down to it, all code is written on top of a platform. Why not use the wisdom of crowds and open it up to everyone so that they can contribute their ideas?
Wordpress. Shocking.
OK, what? First, you're right -- most distributions aren't Gaussian and there's no reason to assume that "average" == "median." However, in the same sense, a generous interpretation of the author's article would suggest that he meant median and was simply wrong in his terminology.

Now, on to you being a jackass.

First, don't run Firefox 3.0.1.8 on XP SP 3. XP is very old and has several issues which make it a poor choice in 2010. This coming from someone who currently works at Microsoft. Oh and in case you didn't realize it, Mozilla ended support for Firefox 3.0.19 in March. Second, since you have found the time to complain about a technical issue on an unsupported browser on a 9 year old operating system, you are clearly a moron. Oh, and to give me tips on how bad at programming we are? That's hilarious. Now, I'm not claiming I'm fantastic, or even one of the top programmers on HN, but I'm certainly more competent than a twit that can't figure out the Firefox update manager.
Yes good point. I guess I meant comparing Sony with the other electronics makers like panasonic or hitachi.
Pandigital stuff also tends to end up at Kohl's, which always has double or triple discounts in play at certain times, especially if you have their charge card.
I think it's clever to have the reek of your desperation non customer-facing.
The K/Q people (http://kx.com/) have one interesting interpretation. It's quite expensive for production use* and uses an APL dialect as a query language, which tends to scare away a lot of developers. I'm utterly fascinated with it, albeit from a distance. (J is cool, too, but doesn't come bundled with a high-end in-memory database.)

* I've heard it can run $60k/CPU. It's designed for realtime stock data mining (https://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/hpts.pdf), so they get away with it.
I think it's too easy to pirate and return apps on android

Around 5% of my app's purchases are returned. Even if every one of those is a pirate, that's not too bad. Agreed with the rest of your points.
I was trying to support reasonable use of editorial. I was not supporting "linkbait" editorial. There is a big difference.

The poster referenced a piece of the article. He/she did no use gratuitous link bait like "* * * TOP 5 DOMAIN CHOOSING TIPS [vid] * * * ". It's unfair to treat them like they did just because they changed the title.
A GUI won’t make programming easier in the long run, but it will probably make it look less intimidating to newbies. Ideally, Google would offer a “text mode” with an API equivalent to the block mode so that users could upgrade after they have been “suckered in” by the easygoing look of blocks and learned a bit more about abstractions and algorithms.
The language is absolutely important, since in haskell I could just:

> reverse [1,2,3,4]

or if I couldn't use the Prelude (yikes!)

reverse [x] = [x]

reverse (x:xs) = reverse xs ++ [x]

> reverse [1,2,3,4]

The problem is that linked list traversal is a solved problem. Why not throw a novel and interesting problem at candidates? That way you could gain some insight into how they go about solving problems instead of how good the candidate is at memorizing other people's solutions that they could just as easily look up in a search engine in a few minutes.
I still think Wave is a cool idea :/

I wish people I knew used it.
Yea. Thinking about emailing him to see if he'd mind if I do a full revamp of it to make it more accessible in the modern web.
Bernard L. Cohen wrote this book back in 1990. It's astonishingly still very applicable.
Racial and ethnic diversity really seem like non issues...they are pretty superficial differences within a work environment.

Superficial diversity is really overvalued.

And very undervalued by people in the majority ...
My experience: the glasses make the movie darker, feel bad in front of my glasses and I try to focus on 3D objects desperately. I end up enjoying the film less.
Saw the first image and thought, "huh, Winamp 5."
As someone degreed in Physics, I have far less fear of the long term consequences of nuclear power and nuclear waste than many of the other byproducts of western civilization.
The send macro is a particularly clever bit of the C implementation. It uses GCC ({ }) compound statement-as-expression macros and static variables to insert an inline method cache at every place that you send a message to cache the result of lookup.
Seems like that's simultaneously missing an opportunity to capitalize on their brand and missing an opportunity to strengthen their brand.
Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003)
Whenever I see Mark Zuckerberg in public in front of all his peers, he is always so frightened and insecure. Perhaps in the back of his mind, he's always thinking about the fact that he just has to last a bit longer so he can get away with not one, but two cases of theft (ConnectU and nowthis). Or perhaps today is the day where the world sees him for who he really is: a small time crook who got real lucky, and gets to sit in the private dining room in the back of the italian restaurant with the mafia bosses.
I think the main advantage might be that you have a palette of operations your program could perform next and clues (from the shape and colors) about which operations make sense in a given context, which makes it easier to explore. Text is much more open-ended and doesn't suggest anything (although I guess that intelligent completion in the editor can provide similar benefits).
This is why you want to deal with a ycombinator from the getgo. Poking around and signing contracts to get some momentum going could end up biting you in the leg down the road.
Come on, this is from a manufacturer of digital photo frames. It's target market has some overlap with that of the iPad, so it's definitely a competitor, but the headline makes it sounds like it's gonna be a major alternative.

Having said that, this looks like a pretty cool device. I've been thinking about rooting my nook, but this would be an even better target. If it's fast enough for PDF display, it would a nice reference tool, and in my opinion the only way to get a decent book reader is for some third party to make one. I haven't seen a single one that has a decent text layout algorithm.

The "problem" with the iPad is that at this size and resolution, the web pages themselves look pretty astonishing, so there's less need to get a reformatted version as an app. And the iPhone 4 and its technological advances almost make me want to wait for a 2G device. So a gadget like this would be the perfect stop-gap solution for me. No iPad killer, but an iPad postponer…
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Hence the "Real" vs. "Fake" distinction. Although, a lot of natively shot 3D films don't have nowhere near as much stereographic thought as Cameron applied.
The article misses one big point. Social is all about generating noise whereas google products are all designed to cut through all the noise and bring you something that you need by filtering all the noise. There has not been a single social network I have been able to stand for more than 10 minutes because of the noise problem whereas google products are a joy to use for somebody that wants to get things done.
I give up. I'm completely spent. I'm not sure how many times I can post this without pulling (what remains of) my hair out:

The value displayed in the VIRT column of `top` is NOT the same as the actual physical memory in use.

Period.

Full stop.

The answer to this question is far more subtle and is addressed very well in this Stackoverflow thread:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118307/a-way-to-determine...

If you're running Linux and are interested in knowing the private dirty RSS number, Phusion Passenger comes with a great little utility called `passenger-memory-stats`. The source can be viewed here:

http://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/blob/master/bin/pas...

There are some good ideas in their code that can be used as a jumping off point for your own scripts.
Even if it was a valid contract I can't see how you would be able to let everyone think they own certain amounts of a company for years without any input then make a claim later. Doesn't make logical sense but then the legal system is counter-intuitive at times.
No personal offense intended, but there seem to be a lot of people who kinda-sorta understand SQL in that way, but run into performance issues because they don't understand important basics (indexing, for one), and are too quick to blame their problems on "SQL not scaling".

When I hear people psyched about the whole NoSQL thing but actually quite ignorant about relational databases (like a guy who gave a presentation on CouchDB at a barcamp here last year), I understand why people sometimes call it the "NoMySQL" movement - a lot of the hype seems to come from people whose experience seems couched in PHP+MySQL tutorials, specifically.
The most important and valuable aspect of a top level domain is that it can be treated as an individual asset if there is an opportunity to sell it (or if it needs to be split away from the parent organization for some other reason).

To support this, it's ideal if all of its resources (images, stylesheets, scripts, etc.) are also served from within the domain, without being dependent on other domains owned by the parent organization (code can still be shared by using symlinks or multiple virtual hosts pointing to the same resources). This should help simplify any transfer.
My main machine for the last 6 months has been a EeePC 1000HE netbook. I keep an Athlon 64 3200+ in the basement thaat has extra storage and a larger monitor for design work, but it rarely gets used anymore. My at work machine is a Pentium D with 2 23" screens in landscape.
Broken. Voted it up anyways, i'm sure its awesome!
my setup
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ioctl/4566368145/
The son's DNA was not good enough to convict the father. The son's DNA was good enough to lead police to investigate the family which lead to the arrest of the father.

The problem regarding race that the article mentions is simply one of social statistics: if 10x more convictions per 1k convictions occur for group A than group B and we assume convictions are familially independent (close enough), people in group A are 10x more likely to be suspected of a crime via familial inference than those in group B.

It's not quite racial profiling but it does imply that you have fewer rights as a genetic relative of a convict than as a non-relative. That's somewhat disturbing.
Sort of a vicious cycle I guess. I don't think I'm the only coder that's sick of the crowding and high prices and completely out of reach real estate out here. I've considered a move to PA but from what I can tell the job market is about 1/100th what it is in CA, so that's putting a lot of eggs in one basket.
I'm leery of nearly any domain with hyphens in it, as it almost always feels like an Adsense site with either low quality or scraped content.

To me, dashes reek of desperate SEO.
Ballmer says Microsoft intends to become industry leader in cloud computing
You could also look at it as what kind of industry do you want to be entangled in. Bioinformatics seems especially interesting. Financial, banking, and trading-related programming also require a commitment to domain-specific knowledge. It's all programming but sometimes programming relates to another discipline.
It's also a dig at Experts Exchange (the Q&A site that Stack Overflow started partly to combat) who have a domain with a dash.
It mentioned contacting someone, so not exactly in the open. I guess they could register everything that seems decent and then discuss the choices in the open.
Surely Zuckerburg would have at least thought about that old contract if it were real. Perhaps he's been paying him to keep quiet but the guy's finally pissed and going public?
what about a spherical globe made of touch screen glass video monitors displaying inside out video streams, and it has just the double size of one's height, as to make a displayed horizon within the sphere where someone is inside, without glasses. it can react to steps and jumps, or even "create gravity illusions" with some hydraulic pistons, creating the ultimate immersive experience ever. Then would be relevant to have minority report's UI inside a sphere like this one i just proposed. :)
The Galaxy S Pro is being launched on Sprint as the Epic 4G
It works both ways I guess, I generally avoid the for Dummies series I think mainly because I've gone through a few a long time ago and didn't find them to useful. So yes, the brand can carry over, but also in a negative as well as a positive way.

Although with stack exchange it doesn't matter to much, because the sites all have the same look. So that works the same way the domain name would.
court intrigue gossip. derp.
Cool. Thanks for the links!
"Facebook is literally filled with master baiters"

How can you go wrong with a quote like that.
News to me, thank you. I skimmed Wikipedia to double check my figures, but I misread it. In either case, I still prefer MP3 to AAC (though converting is trivial).
Sas. Still private no funding, founder is worth 8 billion.
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I can't really follow this. It reads like a rough transcript of a speech. I think you're trying to say that it's good to know math if you want to invent novel programs, but I can't figure out how that's apropos of anything, so I imagine there's something that I'm missing.
I think it's really awesome that node.js is being used in something as large as GitHub. It shows how stable node.js is getting.

Are there any other large environments using node.js?
Well, more than twenty years ago we all had simple text editors with no extraneous UI elements. Now you have to pay the cost of good meal to get that for your Mac. I guess I could see if the old VT100 still powers up, that would surely take it to the next level, and beyond!