skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a sheeva plug. It's been running my home phone system (based on Asterisk) for the last year or so. It was easy to set up and has worked well for me. Several services are running on it, including apache, which serves a webpage i use to get my voicemail. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'high performance', but it does the trick for me.

I know you're already aware of it, just thought I'd share my experience.
This is neat, but would be way neater (could handle bigger images, run way faster, and do more sophisticated processing) if JavaScript had some better data type for numeric data than an object full of double-precision floats.
good writeup.

Concerning Facebook, you just have to be a frequent user of reddit to know about the general dislike of Facebook.

In general I find that redditors are more than willing to open their wallets, examples: recently they asked for donations, reddit soap, divvy, and a game developer ( can't think of it now)... just your product wasn't a right fit for the reddit crowd.
Organic Startup Ideas: http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html
What little I've managed to open source so far, is licensed under what amounts to a 2-clause BSD + what I call the "Diane Bruce clause".

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru/have-we-lost-the-fun-21...

* db@FreeBSD.ORG wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
* can do whatever you want with this code, except you may not
* license it under any form of the GPL.
* A postcard or QSL card showing me you appreciate
* this code would be nice. Diane Bruce va3db
Why TV Lost: http://www.paulgraham.com/convergence.html
Would they actually know it's free on android?
Also, I thought the discussion of their server setup was interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cr5zc/iama_tech_guy_fo...
Be Good: http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
Ask HN: are we under-utilizing geo-based networks?
This was inspired by this post
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1529400
where an HNer is looking for places to go in Mountain View.

This is something i've been thinking of over the last few days as I had somebody call me up and ask about places to go near me.

I'm not big into foursquare, I've added a few things, but it doesn't work on my phone or ipod touch, so I don't get to do real check-ins.

But isn't this 'what should I do in mountain view' exactly the type of thing that these networks like foursquare and gowalla are supposed to be helping us with?

And yet when I go to gowalla, i get a bunch of coffee shops. When I go to foursquare, I get... well, not much of anything really.

If these are the current media darlings, are they really solving a problem? Or have they identified a problem and then gone off and done something only tangentially related?
Thanks for writing them!
Q&A with IT at Penny Arcade
Convert a web page to a WordPress Theme in 5 minutes
Apparently they use Tarsnap at PA, which is awesome.
The Social Change Roots of the World's Hottest Startup
Seeking feedback on a new site idea: HowIUse.it
reddit has an interesting feature that you can put multiple subreddits in the url and all the items are shown to you. E.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming+coding+codeprojects/
I give props for Google for trying. I don't really care that they failed. They didn't really know if selling an unlocked phone would work unless they try it.
I personally had no idea what Whiteyboard was . . .

So from fresh eyes - the landing page doesn't do a good job explaining what it is and why it's awesome before hitting me up for $$$.

I bet your bounce traffic left in a hurry (sub 2 seconds) yah?

I'm sure the reddit ad explained partially, but on that landing page I'd have suggested a really bold headline, summary, picture of use then buy buttons below. . .
"Building VoltDB Applications" Webinar
Personally I don't think that Google tried very hard.

I suspect carrier pressure. They really don't want us to start asking intelligent questions such as why they should be able to lock us into multiyear contracts and control how we can use our own property.

but the Nexus One was just too much hassle and would have cost much, much more in the long term

It sounds like you're on a family plan. If you weren't, the unsubsidized N1 would come out cheaper over two years using T-Mobile's contract-free plans. And you can "cancel" anytime without an ETF.
F5 Week in Review, July 12th – 16th, 2010
I don't think it was Google's intention to sell a lot of Nexus One units. I believe that they wanted to set a standard for Android phones over which other manufacturers could improve. Android phones before Nexus One were not good enough and they wanted to tell people that this is how an Android phone should be.
I would have posted it as an "Ask NH:" post, but I had already posted about it.

The short of it is a site for sharing HOW to use software / services. Similar to http://iusethis.com but for people to share the ways that actually integrate these services / tools into their workflow / lives.

I also think it would be a great place for developers to share how they intend for their product to be used. Other people can comment and provide feedback.
http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_5it/index.html?cou...

http://www.skytone.net.cn/en/products.php?bigclass=4&sma...

So yes, there are non-phones out there.
I believe this has some issues if the operation isn't commutative.

For example:

blah 0 = []

blah n = (++) [n] (blah ((-) n 1))

-- blah 5 -> [5,4,3,2,1]

blah2 0 acc = acc

blah2 n acc = blah2 ((-) n 1) ((++) [n] acc)

-- blah2 5 [] -> [1,2,3,4,5]

If we changed the tail to:
blah2 (n-1) ((++) acc [n])
it would work in this case, but then we've flipped the arguments, and I have a feeling we could come up with a function where simply flipping the arguments won't work, though I can't think of one at the moment.
I'm pretty sure most blogging/CMS software is up to the challenge of a webcomic.
>> Here’s the big question: What do search engines do?

>>

>> Truthfully I don’t know (if you do, post in the comments!).

Yeah, definitely going to listen to this guy.

Seriously, though. We're way past tweaking html tags for improving rankings these days. Rather than wasting time debating whether you should use an h1 or h2, it's much smarter to focus your time on having good content and getting inbound links from other sites.
Depends on what you call "better". I'm sure a programmer could run a better campaign ideologically, making sure to emphasize important things that need to be done and ignore frivolous things based on their actual relevance, and not just the glamor or clamor around the issue. I'm sure a programmer could run a more honest, least-pandering campaign.

If by "better" you mean "more likely to win", then I doubt it. Programmers are addicted to logic and the public is addicted to flattery. They don't go together very well, at least not for one interested in maintaining integrity.
ThinkPad's are just great (I'm currently using a T60 myself). You should aim for X series, they are ultralight and mobile.

Why ThinkPad? ThinkPad's sport hardware features that are hard to find in other laptops (TrackPoint, hardware-based full disk encryption, hard disk active protection system, fingerprint sensor, etc.) and are generally very well-built. As a touch typist I couldn't live without TrackPoint; how do MacBook users manage? The battery life is far better than of most of competitors. International warranty is a huge plus, too.

As a business oriented laptops they may sure not look too fashionable, but I actually enjoy that sight over, say, MacBooks. Only thing I miss is MagSafe connector, but this is not a huge price to pay.
From Silicon Alley to Palermo Valley: Outsourcing to Argentina
but is becoming a new "home for trolls" if we're to believe gawker

http://gawker.com/5589103/how-the-internet-beat-up-an-11+yea...
Ive always wondered, how do they bring in revenue? Do they at all? I currently use at least 4 tumblr blogs and Im not paying them so where is the money going to be made up after they run out of funding?
The quote and the circumstances in which the quote was made, seems to be advocating a complete ban in regards to secrets from our government. I was pointing out that there are very good reasons at times for keeping certain things secret, such as the "red button" which rather than being a code, is the so called button which send off all the nukes.

I know that we as a society, civilisation even, are very adverse to secrets, especially from our government, and rightly so, but secrets in practice are necessary at times. It is their motive which is highly objected to and frankly we do not know what the motive of the secret activities in the United states are.

As I posted in another comment, apparently only 0.30% of the people of the United States are involved in such highly secret activities. That seems rather fare to me.
Tmobile requires a more expensive plan to recover the cost of allowing you to buy the phone subsidized. If you buy it unlocked over two years (and you're not a family plan) you save around $600 compared to buying it on contract.
i'd prefer no nuke weapons
You're in a pretty sweet position if you can go to an investor and say:

1) I'm an expert in my target market.

2) I have a functional product deployed in a real environment.

3) I have five other customers lined up already.

You'd be sitting better than 95% of startups, even if The Donald isn't shilling for you.
Good point! It becomes hard to do mechanical transforms like I suggested when you have to keep track of properties like this for every function. Thanks!
Hmmmm. Okay. I'll have to look into it. I want to keep the look clean (think XKCD NOT SMBC) and I honestly have very little experience with this sort of thing. I haven't built a website since GeoCities and at the time the internet was an unknown and I did not involve myself in HTML/CSS much at all-- so web design is something I've not thought a lot about until recently.
Mozilla is using it for our Test Pilot back-end.
Note that vector clocks are part of the original Amazon Dynamo paper.

It is pretty cool. One of the big wins was being able to submit MapReduce jobs written in JavaScript through a REST API. The other was the fact that there is no server middleware in this application. just the REST API of Riak.

We should have some benchmarking and field testing information up on our blog soon.

Biggest limitation we've hit so far is that it is very inefficient to try to run a MapReduce that scans over every key in a bucket when you have lots of buckets with billions of items. In the current versions of Riak, you really need to explicitly pass the M/R a list of bucket/keys that you want to work on.

http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2010/05/18/riak-and-cassandra-a...
Yes, any human belief is a religion and temporary. This is just a religion that tries to accept all of them, kind of like Unitarians. :-)

(BTW, obvious troll is obvious).
Any blogging platform is susceptible to miscreants. That's not a fault of Tumblr.
Part of node.js's appeal comes from writing all the server code within Javascript, even when it'd be more efficient breaking pieces out into separate programs. In that case, worrying about CPU usage for the server itself makes some sense.

Not saying I agree with the design choices (I'm more of a multiple language / "hard and soft layers" person, and I don't care for Javascript), but I think that's the reason.
What are you going to work with instead, just curious?
I am sorry. I can not quite agree with that. I do not know about the united states, but here in the united kingdom we have a very independent judiciary which has ruled against the government time and time again.

I do agree in a way, just before Tony Blair left, which I think was 2008 or 2007 things seemed to be going in a very dark direction, but frankly, it is the peoples fault.

We are so lucky as to be able to change government without bloodshed and in the UK for what I know we are so lucky as to not go down without a very real power struggle between the executive and the judiciary.

Take them to court I say. That is what they are for.
Milestone was never an option. It is not just GSM version of Droid, it is also pretty much locked down. While it was rooted, there is still no way to put custom firmware on it. Pretty much like Droid X.
Maybe they did try hard, maybe Apple just made the nearly impossible look easy.
How much should I charge for converting .psd files to css & html
Hi all,

I am a web developer, I used to do it as a hobby, but now I am getting some serious job offers.

I wanted to know what seems reasonable to demand for the following job offer:

Convert 7 .psd files to html and css (they need to be cross browser compliant of course). The pages are rater simple. I work in the American market.

Thank you.
In stories at least, the best politicans/rulers are the reluctant ones.
Hacked Sonic the Hedgehog gains weight as he consumes fried rings
And footage of said hack - > http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/30427
I respect (and pay for) Consumer Reports, but their scoring system is unnecessarily confusing. CR only 'Recommends' products they consider to be exceptionally good. It's like receiving an A+, not a C-. Unfortunately, no one who isn't a subscriber is going to understand the distinction. The mainstream media reported the story as if by not 'Recommending' the iPhone 4 CR had told people not to buy one. It's still their highest-rated smartphone.
Mounting a RAM drive as /tmp is probably a good idea.
Ya that's the problem. Here's what I originally intended to write, but couldn't think of how to do cons in haskell so I used list addition. With cons (:), you can't rewrite it with the arguments swapped, so no simple mechanical transform will be able to fix this.

blah 0 = []

blah n = (:) n (blah ((-) n 1))

-- blah 5 -> [5,4,3,2,1]

blah2 0 acc = acc

blah2 n acc = blah2 ((-) n 1) ((:) n acc)

-- blah2 5 [] -> [1,2,3,4,5]
Wow. Source? That would be cool to look at.
USA Immigration (Flowchart)
It's also worth pointing out that while a JRuby/Rails instance might take 100-200MB, that's all you need to scale a site across pretty much any number of cores. MRI and REE both need to spin up multiple processes to handle concurrent requests, so very quickly the JRuby memory size becomes a tremendous win (think of 25-50 MRI instances using 20-50MB of memory each...you get the picture).
"Garbage collect Congress!"
It doesn't matter what he says in a speech.

I disagree. Words have both immediate and historical significance and impact, whether by a dictator like Hitler or a president like John F. Kennedy.

What matters is what he says via executive orders, policy, and executive branch action.

I agree.

Oh really? Feel free to cite any of his scholarly writings.

"Mar 28, 2008 ... Barack Obama is correct in saying he is a constitutional law professor." source: FactCheck.org (http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/was_barack_obama_reall...)

Of course, if you want to play "was rumored to say", there are some doozies attributed to Obama.

I will retract the rumor text. I almost didn't put it in, but I wanted to give some context for G. W. Bush's apparent disregard for Constitutional law. But I don't need to. Just watch the 6 minute YouTube video with a noted Constitutional law professor I included. Here it is again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmc60JmaLbE
IIRC? What's that?
I'm curious: do you have a data-only plan so you can use VoIP to make phone calls?

I have been trying to find a device that would make it easy to make VoIP calls most of the time, since I am nearly always around free (or already-paid for) wireless broadband, but fall back on a prepaid SIM card when I only have cell network coverage. Some of the Android devices look promising for this, especially the Nexus One, but I have been unable to find hard information about whether it's possible to do this conveniently.
WebApps.StackExchange.com is a great place to find market needs and ideas.

So many needs I didn't even realize were problems
I'd like to see that too. In JRuby, we may be able to get Ruby-to-Ruby calls to perform as well as Java calls, which would at least get that bottleneck out of the way. The remaining performance issues, however, are usually the rate at which objects can be allocated. In order to reduce that we may need a little JVM help (escape analysis that works well enough to actually eliminate allocations) and we may start to explore optional static typing, to allow really reducing numeric operations to raw primitive math.

At this point, we realize that sometimes you really do need native performance, and we're not taking any options off the table to get there.
Compete.com: mobile devices important driver of local business
I would say upgrading my MBP to a solid-state drive has made the biggest positive impact on my performance, battery-life and startup time. Perhaps the best single computer upgrade I've ever done.
Speed Tracer server-side tracing with Ruby/Rack
if I recall correctly
I updated the headline.
Good fix. My MacBook plastic is chipping apart and I just fixed that using a leftover invisible shield I had for my Newton screen that was sitting in my desk drawer.

I never even used a shield on the Newton, I preferred to ride it bare back just like I prefer with my iPhone. This seems like the most pain free option, although it concerns me that I have to fix all my Apple products with screen shields.
The clearance levels that I can remember are:
confidential
secret
top secret
top secret ssbi -- "single scope background investigation"
top secret sci -- "secured compartmentalized information" IIRC

There are probably others above that that I don't remember.

TS and TS/SSBI might be the same thing with different investigations. I'm not sure.
Interesting though this is in terms of infographics and data accessibility, I am not very exercised about the 'secret' part of it. Of course I was not expecting to discover anything truly secret, but the presentation seems to inclusive that anything upwards of cafeteria supply to a federal government office counts as 'secret'.

I do like it as a way of browsing a large quantity of disparate tabular information. It would be good to have this sort of interface available for research on government or business in general - for example, I'd quiet like to have this interface available (and ideally, $ weighted) for learning more about my city & county government.
Would a seat in Congress really be a step up? Who currently has more power and discretion to do worthwhile things: Paul Graham or Anna Eshoo? (Esh-who?)

Could PG say "what you can't say" if running (or holding) office?
Meet the Web Database Company Google Just Bought (Hint: Not Metaweb)
How sad. The Nexus One was the best phone out there (at least for my preferences). I was waiting for a Sprint N1 forever, but alas, that doesn't seem to be happening.
This article is right on. I would like to add then when you're selling products, sell on benefits not on features. Apple is the finest example of this. Very many people know or give a shit that their iPod has a 1GZ processor or 512 MB of ram. They just want to know that it can carry 1000's of songs, etc.
You should check out cyanogenmod-6.0.0RC1. It's Android 2.2 for G1. I've got it running and my G1 is flying faster than ever.
Uh...clue check...programmers have to write everything in crystal clear unambiguous form.

So we might need to legislate in code and write a law compiler, but that can be rendered to english pretty easily through a "lawyer-verified" open source transformation. Hell, you could even render a flowchart.
ASK HN: I'm being accused of trademark infringement. What should I do?
I recently bought a premium domain name to launch a new market place for food lovers to discover new food & beverages products. I bought it from a domain squatter for a little over a couple of grand and thought I got a pretty good deal on it. It turns out the domain name contains a word that a major fast food company has a trademark on and they are demanding I close the the website because they feel it interferes with their trademark and confuses their customers. They are also demanding that I transfer the domain name to them or they will take legal action.

First of all, the original owner registered the domain in 2002, way before they registered their trademark in 2006. It was then transfered to me early this year. Who has the rights to the domain?

Also, I do not have the power to go up against a big company so what do you think I should do?
Lots of well-known examples. In Jim Collin's Built to Last, he mentions how many large companies were started by founders without a specific idea, just a solid team (Hewlett-Packard being a major example).

I do realize the book gets some criticism for lack of scientific rigor or the performance of companies involved, but the example is still worth mentioning.
This is dead on. My parents (and other family members outside of tech) read and heed CR religiously.
Ten or twenty years ago, replacing the drive in my laptop and reinstalling the OS would have been a fun project, but I've got other demands on my time now, so I'm planning to stick with what Apple installs. Besides, I understand that the firmware on Apple drives is customized for their hardware/OS.
The key scanning is a major limitation but is offset if you keep separate key indices elsewhere or in specific known keys in riak. If you can deal with that and no ordering then riak is a great choice for a distributed platform.
It is indeed a massive shame. After having been fucked around by tmobile Germany I promised myself to never buy a phone from a carrier again. Looks like it is going to be an iPhone now. Say what you want about Apple, they won't let anyone mess about with their software.
The headlines seem to be a bit exaggerated. Given that they just launched in South Korea and Australia, and seem to be following up on an existing announcement, I can't see how stopping sales to consumers in the US constitutes "pulling the plug" (although the ambiguous tone of the Nexus One blog post is the main culprit here).
1.5b page views = ? revenue?

What is their revenue model?
I absolutely love your Logo. What font is that?
If I remember correctly.
Jason, mind if I ask what's going on with the footer of http://whiteyboard.com?

It looks, uh, a little sloppy.
I think number #1 competitive advantage is Distribution.

Microsoft got to be an exclusive OS for IBM PC.
Yahoo got a free button in Netscape.
Kindle was pushed by Amazon (the default place for book buyers)
"However, by the time HTML5 is released it's a certainty that the new tags will enhance the search engines' understanding of page content."

This is exactly the point -- these HTML5 tags are being used in production today without people realizing that search engines may not being using the new document outline model since it's a moving spec.

The conclusion is to avoid using these new semantics until they are further developed to avoid an unexpected document outline.
You should remove the option of a 2x3 foot board completely while it's out of stock, instead of disabling it and writing "Out of Stock". Better yet, A/B test it.

My bet is that people are seeing the option they want, saying they'll wait until it's in stock, and then promptly forgetting you ever existed.

If there's no better option to wait for, more people will buy one of the other options.
It's still going to be sold at retail outlets. Just because they're not selling it directly anymore - so what? Can anyone tell me why this matters?
Mmmm, I think some of Google's biggest problems were informing customers (1) that the phone even exists, and (2) where they can buy it. Of course there's a lot more to sales and marketing than just these tasks, but neither of the two is "nearly impossible". Especially not for a big company like Google. So I have to agree with the post saying it doesn't seem like they tried very hard.
I was just about to purchase one. Glad I didn't! :)
I love their "drop by anytime" invitation.

I'll see you Wednesday afternoon, Basho West.
I know this is a joke, but I don't think they could afford it. T-Mobile is just a small division of a very big company.