skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a new version of my app, http://www.launchset.com.

It is actually inspired by HackerNews particularly threads like this and 'Review my app/startup'.

I have several HN guys on the site. If you are interested in being one of the early users, email me at hackernews -at- launchset.com.
The OP stated "This often means that it takes longer before we acquire new features." And the sentence contains the workds "Taking more time"

Your reading comprehension needs improvement.
This is all purely theoretical -- no one has been executed by the military in 50 years. We can argue about the pros and cons of the death penalty, but the reason no one uses it is because it is a terrible solution. Better to discuss what kind of prison term he'll deserve or receive.
The whole idea that the USSR central planning policy result in economic decline is bunk?

I am suddenly reminded of Paul Samuelson and his economic textbook touting the idea that the Soviet economy will surpass the USA's economy. Of course, it never came true.
That's usually what "war rooms" are for, in my experience. Something goes wrong, and to provide the illusion that everyone's on top of things, some managers set up a "war room" where they can "triage" problems and come up with an emergency solution.

The problem is that they usually use the same approach without the phrase "war room" to create the original product, which lead to the problem they're now trying to solve in the first place.
the president of the university, who arguably contributes nothing whatsoever, earned a cool $425,000 and had a free luxury house on campus.

University presidents may well be overpaid, but it is simply uninformed to claim that they "contribute nothing whatsoever." Besides setting the direction of the entire institution, an effective president will raise far more income for the school via fundraising than the cost of their salary.
If you do it all the time, then people start to recognize it for what it really is: a sweat shop.
Integrating R with Hadoop for Big Data Analytics
There are rumors circulating that Intel is currently in talks to acquire Infineon's wireless business. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Intel-Infineon-...
Emacs is not an editor, it's an Emacs Lisp interpreter, so you can't really compare it to Vim.

If you just need an editor which is configurable no more than deemed necessary, Vim is fine. If you need more than that, Emacs is your piece of cake.

Emacs allows you to grow your own environment, which does things exactly as you wish. For instance, I've read that in Vim you can't customize where a sentence starts or ends for movement commands. Of course, in Emacs you could do that. Emacs' advantages are those shared by all Lisp environments.

Another - already mentioned - killer feature of Emacs is the ability of Emacs Lisp to talk to external processes.

This quote by Larry Clapp about him abandoning the development of a SLIME-like environment for Vim sums up the issues: "The more I worked on slim-vim, and the more I looked at Vim internals, the more I didn't like it, and the more I felt like I was just reinventing Emacs."(http://www.lispniks.com/pipermail/slim-vim/2007-May/000555.h...)
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.3 (LAMP)
njl,

I hear people asking for a Django-equivalent of Heroku. You definitely have a market for this.
I like the way Zinn details that America was founded upon genocide. This is very glossed over in history classes even here in Europe.

Also I agree that you can't be objective in history, all sources have their bias.
Ask HN: Any startups from Ireland?
Hi all,

I was wondering if any startups are located in Irelnad. Would be nice to get in touch with startup community here.

I am an immigrant working in a big company here, and due to the laws, its really difficult for me to startup something, that's why I am looking to join somebody.

Regards,
Bhavin
The oath Manning took:

>"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).

In which we clearly see that his obligation to protect the constitution is listed before his obligation to obey the president. As such his highest duty is to the constitution, and if he leaked the papers to defend it he should get a medal, not a bullet.

In addition, I seem to recall that the constitution requires an act of war to be made by congress for it to be acceptable to send the army. No such act has ever been made, so isn't going to war in Afghanistan unconstitutional?
Alvin Kernan quotes the Princeton professor who say his president browsing the university bookstore: Why is that man reading? He should be out raising money!
Putting the finishing touches on an Canvas based LED Matrix animation editor for a Burning Man 2010 art project.
http://cwd.co.uk/illuminatrix
My first unix like system was FreeBSD. I then moved to Linux because it is more widely used and supported.

I still have a sweet spot though for FreeBSD. The main reason is that they have figured out the perfect balance of how much to include without being overwhelming. It is also a great learning system because FreeBSD forces you to understand all the pieces of *nix.
In my experience, it's the professors who operate on the Richard Feynman model who are the most successful. While there are lots of professors who are of the mind that teaching and researching are antithetical, I had a few who were just PHENOMENAL, passionate lecturers who say teaching and the future of research as going hand in hand. And it's not so much the material they conveyed; it was the passion for the subject. To me, that's where all of the brilliant students go, to the professors who convince them, through their passion and excitement for the next generation, to take up a particular field of study. In that regard, I think the system can on some level work itself out. Programs with little regard for the next generation simply burn out and attract fewer acolytes. When I look back on my education, as well as what I got out of college, it's totally the handful of passionate professors who shaped me and influenced my future.
An even easier sequence is: The natural numbers. They also contain all imaginable digital sequences.
Designers, “Hacks” and Professionalism: Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?
I'm confused about if the things outlined in the blog have actually been executed, or if this is just a theoretical plan.

You don't have many twitter users, don't have many facebook 'likes', and there is just one note written so far on the linked facebook notes page.

And what's with the customer acquisition cost - I thought you have not launched yet, who are your 'customers' then?

Twitter does not allow searches for old tweets, so I cannot say how effective the twittter thingy is.

So now, is this a tried and proven way, or is this just someones idea on what could work?
"For a long time, despite the occasional charge of liberal dogma on campus or of a watered-down curriculum, people tended to think the best of the college and university they attended."

Not in my experience.
An online tool to do business intelligence and analytics that doesn't require a team of consultants to setup.

Should add that I am looking for a cofounder so post/msg if interested.

Edit: E-mail is jeff.tchang (at) gmail
Thing is, he is under the military justice system, which he volunteered to be when he enlisted (if he was drafted, none of this applies and he should be set free under the 14 amendment). Since he went freely, there can be no trembling of his human rights.
That's a distro thing. A slackware or debian setup will not have much superfluous stuff installed.
As a Latin-American, I laugh at the notion that the US have any sort of moral authority. In fact, many communist movements in LA actually came to be in response to oppression administered from Washington; if you had a nasty dictator propped up by the US and the only people who would help were in Moscow, then your best bet would be to become a communist, just as the Croats cozied up to the Nazis in order to get rid of the Serbs.
Four Linux-friendly alternatives to Exchange
You can see this in the 1M connection test done here: http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica... Look at the "Turning it up to 1 Million" section where he details the need to use 17 IPs for the client side.
We have a... well, some random dolt with a VP or director or some similarly overinflated title, but no meaningful role who explained that you should use "agile" method when:
1) You don't have time for planning
2) You don't have time for design
3) You don't have time for documentation
4) Requirements are changing

Which to me meant, "You use Agile(tm) methods when your project has already failed."
Arduino: The Documentary (trailer)
... or it's good "PR" so people get behind the project. It screams "I know what I'm doing!!! I'm even optimizing this!!!". ;)
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It's a fair point, but he's probably focusing on the arts and soft sciences because those degrees are the most overpriced for the value they deliver.

To put it another way, an MIT grad with an engineering degree is going to be much better off career-wise than a Harvard grad who majored in gender studies.
I really enjoyed "Grumby" by Andy Kessler. It's about a fictional (very fictional) Silicon Valley startup. Light read and people here would probably enjoy it.
#1 & #2 (faux scarcity) seem to be at odds with #9 (using Adwords and other paid acquisition channels).

Are you paying for people to arrive at your site and then getting them to beg (or be well connected) to be able to use the service?
I'm a woman who was originally introduced to HN through Reddit and started reading about a year ago (this is a throw-away account that I will probably not use again.) I don’t really care about startups – I'm a physics graduate student planning on going into academia – but I do care about programming and tech. I have not yet been able to find an active online community that caters to these interests that I would describe as being "female-friendly." At HN, at least, sexist jokes are usually downvoted/discouraged because of their lack of content, which is more than I can say for Reddit. I generally enjoy HN except when the community decides to discuss gender, which it seems to do multiple times a week, even when it's only tangentially related to the article and despite it already having been beaten to death on this very site a million times over. These conversations invariably turn into, "Women: Does society screw them up or is there just something weird with their brains (on average of course, let's be PC here)? Dudes speculate." This is the most interesting topic to hackers, apparently.

I guess it's good to know that HN just feels like a woman-free space because it practically is, in contrast to sites like Reddit that feel that way even with ~2/5 of the users being female.
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RIM announces the Torch 9800 with multi-touch, slide-out keyboard, and WebKit
From a [native compiler] developers point of view, Intel's fatal flaw: the architecture is nearly impossible to write a compiler/assembler for. That's what Intel told my company (that makes native compilers). They said we wouldn't be able to make a high performing compiler because the instruction scheduling, etc were too complex and not documented well enough for us to do it.

A port of our compiler, which normally takes a couple of months, was estimated on IA64 to be 1-2 years, for a high-performing result.

This is where they failed.

Oh, the AMD64 (what it was called when we started the port) took 2 months, and that was fully optimized.
DIY Drones
How appropriate, I just finished a paper today and submitted it for review. LaTeX is awesome and sucky at the same time. On the awesome side, you have structure separate from formatting. This comes with lots of benefits as mentioned in the article. It also allows you to use the concept of imports (or includes if you will), so you can have a well factored paper. It also allows you to do sane things like footnote, cite and reference diagrams and sources without a need for explicit number tracking -- just give everything a unique identifier that works for you. Finally if you do well enough with your structuring you can output not just different file formats like pdf or ps or whatnot, you can also output completely different styles. It is pretty simple to wrap your core with the trappings of IEEE style for one version and a book-like style for another.

On the sucky side, the toolchain is notoriously difficult and cryptic. For some reason you have to make multiple passes of various tools by hand (or with a makefile -- i reccommend http://code.google.com/p/latex-makefile/ it just works). The syntax can be a bit inconsistent. The worst is the errors tho, sometimes it is impossible to figure out why all your figures are showing up at the end of the document instead of in-place, or why all your references are failing to point at anything.

Overall tho, it is a fantastic system :)
Money is not the limit now.
Kick Ass Kickoff Meetings
Well, the point of OpenBSD's security is that you can isolate Apache so they can pown Apache but won't get the rest of the server.
Poll: iPhone owner(buy apps) vs. Android owner (buy apps)
There has been a recent debate regarding iPhone app purchases vs. Android app purchases. Who is more inclined to buy apps? iPhone or Android users?
iPhone owner: Frequent app buyer
iPhone owner: Have bought a few apps
iPhone owner: Never purchased an app before
Android owner: Frequent app buyer
Android owner: Have bought a few apps
Android owner: Never purchased an app before
There's an air of arrogance about this technique that rubs me up the wrong way.

I'm sure it will be successful for them, but I won't clamouring to be one of the chosen few.
Ycombinators limiting factor is not the amount of money but the amount of time they have to spend.
A Safari extension for my company for common operational tasks, should increase efficiency and take a little load off our systems.
Isn't the old joke that colleges are the only place where the employees get all of the good parking and the paying customers get the shitty, far away parking.
Startups are Personal
The site is interesting. I like the meal swap approach -- normally I get cravings for a particular meal so I can just put that there and get a healthy substitute -- nifty.

Some things I've noticed so far:

* in signup, it would be nice to be able to specify meters vs feet. I had to google the conversion

* in signup, 'inactive' looks clicked, had to think for a sec before noticing it wasn't (and the signup form wouldn't let me sign up)
Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter
How Big is Amazon’s Cloud Computing Business? Find Out
If you use a two-word representation, you can't atomically set a value.

At least on 32-bit x86 this isn't true. CMPXCHG8B can atomically write 64 bits of data and has been supported by CPUs for decades. The x86-64 equivalent, CMPXCHG16B, for atomic 128-bit writes is more problematic, as early Athlon64/Opteron CPUs did not support it. But even on 64-bit systems, a 64-bit encoding should be good enough. Technically, the address space can comprise 48 bits, but even if you steal a couple more than 16 for the NaN coding you should have more than enough for a few decades.

PowerPC, ARM, etc. have different atomicity guarantees though, which make this sort of thing more problematic. However, as far as I know, even Web Worker threads don't share JS context state with the main thread, so this is probably a non-issue.

I don't really see the practical benefit.

Probably to avoid cache misses.
Rising Wages Rattle China's Small Manufacturers
It really said "dance monkey"? Because you know sarcasm is lost in text.
3 Landing Page Teardowns for Inspiration
My favorite strategy is also the all in zerg rush. Works wonders even at higher levels.
> Different systems simply have different conventions, and GNU picked GNU Info over man pages.

Sure, but that's no reason to be hostile to man pages. Ideally you have a man page, which provides a standard quick reference for those how know the command, and then other documents (such is Info) for people who need more detailed information, complete manuals, etc.. In fact, that's how it was way back in the Seventh Edition days of Unix, with the UPM providing the in-depth documentation and the man pages providing the quick reference.

If the GNU people don't want to actually write the man pages, they could at least not stand in the way of those who would like to provide them. Here's another variant of the note from the GNU tar man page on some Linux systems:

The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info
documents instead. Unfortunately, the info document describing
tar is licensed under the GFDL with invariant cover texts, which
makes it impossible to include any text from that document in this
man page. Most of the text in this document was automatically
extracted from the usage text in the source. It may not completely
describe all features of the program.
That was one heck of a good read. I wished more blogs had this kind of content.

I'm saddened that a lot of people will not read it because it is so long though.
I'm working on a nano-blogging platform that reduces posts to short, one-at-a-time messages. Each user gets only one visible post at a time. Think twitter minus all the clutter.
I thought it was worth reading. Obviously his expressions and grammar mistakes show English is not his first language but the point he makes is worth spending the time.
"What is the min investment required to start an Internet business"?
It also leads to bad interviewers.

Like the one I had for my Google phone interview earlier this year... when he asked me to code up a simple sorting implementation (an array with an empty slot, and you can't use extra memory) the FIRST thing I described was a swap method that took the two indexes to swap, as well as the index for the blank. (I also at that point mentioned saving the location of the index in order to avoid having to scan for it for every swap). Two minutes later when I said we would simply swap two items, he asked me how, and I ended up describing the swap function AGAIN. And he also didn't understand the part about remembering the location of the blank, he brought it up in the performance analysis -- even though I'd mentioned saving it in a class variable already, I had to explain it yet again.

I didn't get a call back and I didn't expect one, but I was sorely disappointed with the quality of the interviewer, so I can't say that not getting a call back was much of a disappointment after that.
>The problem is that developers are making a lot more money on iPhone apps. I've heard several developers complaining that their apps don't sell on Android. Will this eventually change?

The monetary rewards for trivial apps on the iPhone have been very atypical for the industry in general, so if anything I expect the lucrative iPhone model to dissolve: The social value of having a lot of the latest apps is disappearing.

I do expect apps to remain lucrative, but not with the consumer paying for it. Instead the apps will be financed by brands and interests.
Yes. However the poster is just describing, honestly, what life in the trenches at a big company is like. It shouldn't be a surprise that Google is this way now. Large organizations behave in certain ways because of human nature, and GOOG is no exception.

Actually I found myself thinking "that's not so bad..."
Part of the concept of free speech is that it doesn't need to be responsible, necessary, understandable, or anything. Unless it is used in the commission of a crime, it is free.
Web attack knows where you live
The way it was explained to me:

When you are young, you are excited about what is cool/what is interesting/the latest technology. You usually lack experience.

After several years and/or several projects, you realize it's not about the technology - every project has the same issues/opportunities. It's all the same. Some projects may bring something new to learn but, really, unless you are working for Google or Facebook or a startup, they're all the same.

As you grow older and wiser and start to mentor the young 'uns who are excited about working on X technology, you realize that you might just not have as much enthusiasm. At that point, you may transition out to management and/or starting a family. And the cycle will continue...
Yes, but only humanities types do that, quite deliberately in the hope that the hard subjects will reciprocate when defending them.
"No. ... No."

Benchmarks are worthless unless they accurately model your application and workload. Is C 42 times faster than Python for doing numerical calculations? No. If you are using NumPy, the difference is more like 10%. (I pulled the 10% figure out of my nether orifice, but I believe it to be in the ballpark.) Yes, I know that NumPy is buckets of C with a tasty Python frosting.
Bing & Yahoo:They're here
is there no way of switching the meal plans after one selects during the signup?

ALso, some of the UI is too glossy (sign up forms) to be able to easily distinguish between the selected item and other options.
If they put ads on the site and bought adwords for the earned income NH would become the first economical singularity.
No, but we really should. :)

Here's the part of the e-mail the parent is referring to:

"In the meantime, if you'd like to follow our story as we progress, you can:

1) Subscribe to our blog: http://www.blueleaf.com/blog

2) Follow @blueleafcom on Twitter: http://twitter.com/blueleafcom

3) Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blueleafcom

4) Join our LinkedIn Blueleaf A-team at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2631858 and follow the company: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/blueleaf.com "

It's a lot of links, but I don't think it's worded in a way that says we expect a user to do any of these things.
You probably know, but the reason there are multiple passes is because once a page is typeset, you can't go back and "fix" it. TeX is very page-centric. So references, for example, aren't "knowable" until you've typeset all the pages. Then the next pass goes through and updates the forward references.

It could be done another way, but in the era that TeX was developed, it would have required more memory than was realistically available most of the time. I find that once I've run it twice, I can get away with single runs usually after that until I'm ready for the "definitive" version. Until then, I'm less concerned with whether the cross-reference is right, than whether there is a cross-reference in that location at all.
If you have 10K sockets open then typically poll/epoll will return a large number of 'active' descriptors, ...<snip>

That's half true - it doesn't hold for low ATR traffic (lots of hanging connections, clients that GET something, spend time elsewhere while in the meantime the browser keeps the connection alive). In short, there's nothing typical about it because, while those two kinds of loads have been studied extensively in both bibliography and practice, their combination and the practical consequences are not well understood, afaik. Links to relevant studies are more than welcome, of course.
It's the WSJ editorial page. Punching hippies is one of their 3 reasons for existence.