skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and newly re-sculpted for aerodynamics

Really? If we were discussing the aerodynamical properties of a Veyron or even a Tesla I could understand the relevance of this statement but a car of this nature is never going to be affected by the aerodynamic properties of it's headlights.

Fine, it's an electric car, fine you have to take every measure to conserve power, I can conceed that you do need to make the car as aerodynamically fluid as possible in order to increase it's range but the design of the headlights can't possibly have any significant impact on this car. If it added two metres to the cars range I would be blown away.

It's this kind of irrelevant, paragraph padding reporting that winds me up about car reviews.

/rant
Not only DOSes, also the famous attack to Google China made use of some Linode vms (content storing if i remember correctly).
Do this kind of hosting platforms keep data on the temporary nodes that have been created after deletion? (e.g. an EC2 vm using one of the default images, after the use nothing permanent is left on S3/etc... at least from the user point of view) Looks like a good way to reduce traceability if the kept log is really not existent.
Ask HN: 'Enterprise' hater
Define and share what is 'enterprise application' in your words.

Rules:
Simple.
No marketing terms.
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HTML5 Now (Seriously)
After all the editor religious wars, it's really nice to see the editor he used.

nano.
> Wave, as it exists today, is a great tool for corporate communications. With the right interfaces, integration, and extensions it could definitely displace Exchange and Lotus Notes. Eventually, as a protocol, it had the potential to transcend email.

Yes, a thousand times yes. If Google did the last 10% o the work:

* Sell a pre-packaged, serviced VM (in VMware, HyperV, and Xen formats)

* Made an Outlook plugin for wave

They would have a real 'embrace and extend' on their hands.
>a proprietary ActiveX control in order to view planning applications on the desktop ... in PDF format [...] it's out there in the wild, and replacing it would cost millions

I don't think that's what he is saying. But I'll accept that's what you are saying and ask you for a citation on this pervasive ActiveX control - I can then research it as my sister is in Town Planning here in the UK.
They can learn and predict a lot, but that is boasting -- quite a bit of the time I don't know where I am going to go.
Intel Settles With F.T.C. On Antitrust
Intel agreed to refrain from a host of business practices to settle accusations of anticompetitive behavior in the market for computer processing and graphics chips, under a settlement announced on Wednesday with the Federal Trade Commission.
+10 .. Do you really want to be hired by someone who couldn't see the technical aspects of what you've done? or would only see the content?

Be proud of who you are!
Google drops Wave because of lack of users
Google is waving goodbye to Wave, a product which the company said would transform the way people communicate online.
Yeah. I am comfortable in both Bengali (mother tongue) and English. My grasp of Hindi is also quite decent.
Go emphasizes (and makes easy) a deliberately inline way of handling expected errors. So panics are for unexpected, normally non-recoverable errors. Recover allows one portion of code to be sandboxed against panics in another. Sandboxes are the atypical case.

What this means is that you can look at arbitrary Go code and know that it contains no "action at a distance". It exits where it says "return". Control flow is explicit.

Contrast Java, where I can't see what will throw unless I pull the code up in Eclipse and use "mark occurrences" feature on the declared exception - and it can be surprising. Oh and also, there could be exceptions thrown and not declared, if they are "runtime". Even Eclipse doesn't help much there.

Panic in Go is closer to Java's Error. Catching Error is usually a bad idea.
Between 500€ and 1000€

-- MV
Disk Space: The Final Frontier
Great moments in science: Folding Paper
A hierarchy of failure
It's important to understand that the minimalistic design of Google was a response to AltaVista, Excite and other search engines of the time. I mean, those were really ugly and cluttered, and Google's minimalism made it really feel different from the others.
And one result of those subsidies being cut is the US erecting trade barriers to protect US dairy farmers from the now hyper-competitive NZ dairy farmers.
That is irrelevant to the issue, which is that of government subsidies on the purchase of computing technology, for end-users. No doubt NASA have done some solar panel research - that would be more analogous to what you mention.

The only example I can vaguely remember was the funding in France for everyone to get some sort of modem-connected device. I don't believe this advanced computing hardware at all, and didn't place France in the lead of the computing technology race.
Title really should be "Choosing New York over Silicon Valley" - the city of San Francisco is night and day different from bedroom communities like Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc.
One of the best (and quickest!) "business" demos I've ever seen.
People in the developing world suffer from injustices, but it's silly to argue that this is a hidden cost of Nuclear. If the reserves were in a developed country they would be mined as cheaply and more safely.

And don't forget 'the hidden cost of PV' - massive pollution in China, bad working conditions, damage to workers' health.
As the crisis moves forward we will probably see a fraction of every profession moved to developing countries. Either by Western professionals who move there to enjoy the lower cost of living or outright replacement by outsourced professionals. So this doesn't really surprise me.

I've started to think about outsourcing as a long-overdue redistribution of wealth & as such I'm not opposed to it: if you can work more efficiently by outsourcing, you should outsource. Most employees in the West are spoiled brats & deserve to be shaken a little anyway.
elbanco I have no idea why, when I read your comment, you're at -2.

I don't read a lot of HN lately, but this is the most irrational thread I have seen on HN for a long, long time. Quite frankly it makes me sad.

I'm not going to wave my hands around and say we're turning into reddit.

I don't see the need.
yes mificlub does that in the UK but I think the best way to test it is to offer the service and see if people get it
http://www.mificlub.com if you want to research
And don't forget about India and other places.
Do Try this at Home: Rocket Engine [video]
For how long? Can I count on IE9 keeping up with the new developments in HTML capacity, as we move closer to desktop functionality?

Of course not - so IE9 doesn't matter, since it will soon be obsolete.
One of the problems with mid-sized companies is that they're big enough to need to have separation of responsibilities and processes but not quite big enough where they have the time, resources or manpower to put processes and the tools that enforce those processes in place. And that's if they at least recognize the issue in the first place.

By the way, the answer in the situation you've detailed is to include the administrators within the project and assign the installation task to them within the project plan. Even if it just seems like a "bookkeeping" change (and it is), it serves the purpose of highlighting who is responsible.

Also, if an install is critical enough, don't be afraid to escalate the issue as high as it needs to be up the management chain. If the sysadmin manager isn't available/responsive, then go to their manager (you might need to go up in parallel on your own management chain first). If you're hunting down the sysadmins on your own, it basically means that management isn't doing their jobs and/or the project really isn't a priority to them.
Fever: friend or foe?
Sorry for inconveniencing you while trying to protect your civil rights. Some people....
I agree, but will most people care?
How to Make Money from Your Small Business Blog without Guilty Feeling
(b) refuse to submit to them at the airport.

From personal experience, that's probably not a good idea if you look South Asian or have a beard. I've been stopped a few too many times in London as part of a "random check" (everytime I hadn't shaved). I wouldn't want to increase the suspicion by being unco-operative.
The US can inflate ultimately because the USD is what oil and other major commodities is traded in. Anyone who needs to convert their currency into another to trade doesn't have that luxury. Not even the CHF, the EUR or the GBP.
AIDS: Scientists announce 'game changer'
Looks like Google acquired the Java related products and people. Instantiations along with their VA Smalltalk remains independent.

http://st.instantiations.com/company/google-transition.html
I'm excited about IE9. I think that MS could win even with the haters, if MS keeps up the good work for a few years. For them, a one-off IE9 might be impressive, but not enough to make up for the suffering of IE6.
Richard Branson on Identifying and learning from mistakes
Yes, from my (New Zealand, although not a farmer) point of view I'd say the ending of farm subsidies has been hugely beneficial to NZ's economy.
How many converted to use your service (whatever that is - there is no mention on your blog)
What an awesome book - for my first couple of years at University I struggled with maths for a number of reasons, but one of which was that I expected it to be difficult and complicated and therefore refused to see that actually in most cases the concepts and processes involved are actually quite straightforward but presented in complex ways. Once I realized this I never really had a problem with maths again (and I went on to do six years of post graduate work in an engineering related field).

I wish I had something like that book while I was at school - something that emphasized that maths can be easy if you approach it the right way.
Thought experiment: Adapting an existing model to another field
And thank the Lord for that. Joel has mentioned on his podcast that high school kids are remarkably adept at finding places on the web that they can use as makeshift IM replacements that the school hasn't found and blocked yet. This way those kids will at least have to learn to answer a few programming questions before they can use the site for their own purposes.
And he is correct, but that still doesn't mean that wikileaks is an anarchist organisation. Remember we know nothing about the people that comprise wikileaks.
Microsoft does not understand the iPad
Microcontroller cheat sheet
If you look at the growth/adoption curve of the web there is no way you can't call 98 early.
But eventually you do make a decision and go somewhere/do something. The prediction algorithm is concerned with that end result, not the process you've used to reach it.
I like the interface and the url embedding feature. An IRC gateway would be great addition.
Zing!

Or are/were they exhibiting the shallow results-driven sentiment reflected in statements like "99% of what I learned in high school I have never ever needed since."?
Clickable. http://Launchset.com
You can't have been looking very hard ;)

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/d...
I wish more people responded to this, that curve starts to look very interesting.
"but I do not think anything under 100K is unreasonable."

I wish I had something else to contribute, but I think you misused a double-negative there.
http://www.zenbe.com/shareflow I remember this resembles Wave, minus the wiki thing. It's not free, however.
Google Dremel: Interactive Analysis Of Web-Scale Dataset
Wow, look like the StackOverflow thought of a similar application! http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/chat-now-in-public-bet...
Introducing Hackers Den - inspired by Dragons Den
Firefox's SVG implementation doesn't even support animation, and they've no roadmap for implementing it. Lame.
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/16/faceboo...

>Privacy isn't a technological binary that you turn off and on. Privacy is about having control of a situation. It's about controlling what information flows where and adjusting measures of trust when things flow in unexpected ways. It's about creating certainty so that we can act appropriately. People still care about privacy because they care about control. Sure, many teens repeatedly tell me "public by default, private when necessary" but this doesn't suggest that privacy is declining; it suggests that publicity has value and, more importantly, that folks are very conscious about when something is private and want it to remain so. When the default is private, you have to think about making something public. When the default is public, you become very aware of privacy. And thus, I would suspect, people are more conscious of privacy now than ever. Because not everyone wants to share everything to everyone else all the time.
>Most employees in the West are spoiled brats & deserve to be shaken a little

How do you prove this?
In which part of the world?
What are the best resources for learning about distributed file systems?
5.8B Visits: Google makes Youtube traffic data on doubleclick adplanner public
Android Sales Double in Past 2 Months
Only 2 months ago Google activated 100,000 devices per day, and now that number has doubled up to 200,000 devices. It should double again by end of year.
Does it mean I don't have to use separate code for IE and Standards based browsers?
An application is a software product which fulfills a useful purpose (performing a task, storing data, etc.)

An enterprise application is an application which is suitable for use in a wide variety of environments seen in companies. (for example, as a point of difference, an enterprise application might support a wider variety of platforms or data, or at greater scale than a non-enterprise application)
Pretty interesting stuff..
Personally I wasn't a big fan of recommenders that rely on explicit interaction with the end users simply because it may be too much work for them.
Hunch, on the other hand seems to frame questions in a much more entertaining manner, I could see my colleagues having fun while answering questions, and even after 20, they went ahead and answered a few more.
The whole process definitely makes me think again about how to go about approaching recommender systems...
Try Yammer.
I checked out Dropbox's Getting Started page after reading the comment and liked it alot. In fact, I spent today implementing a getting-started page similar to Dropbox's one. In my case, Marrily is a B2C app, and the first impression of the average user (presumably females -- excited, frustrated, and maybe choosy because they will be emotionally attached to the app and the planning) will probably be critical. I have not looked around that much, but Dropbox's implementation is nice, and in my case I only had to tweak some code to get the Getting Started checklist to work.

I'm not sure how well the Getting Started list would work when people use the app, but my gut feeling so far, as I pretended to be a new user, is that having a list of concrete steps to start without too much thinking is a no-brainer. Combining with a guided tour (e.g. mqmouse's suggestion of amberjack) with the list will be a good way to familiarize user with the app, and build up their engagement from passive (the app is there to be discovered) to guided (the app is presented visually and very direct).

My take on this is the getting started should only highlight the most critical features of the app, while not forcing users to go through a lengthy wizard. This app comes to my mind as one of the worst wizards I've seen: http://www.rsvphere.com/.

Good luck and keep us posted with your progress.
Yeah, using Firefox's SVG implementation was not a good example:

https://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/

"Big areas of the SVG specification where we're still lacking include filters, svg defined fonts, and declarative animations. A page listing the current implementation status of svg elements and the rendering backends can be found at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status.html.
Lawyers have always got one eye on who holds the risk regarding professional negligence claims - if offshore companies are willing to assume this risks and are insured then I can see them being pretty popular for some kinds of work.

I can imagine some pretty interesting international litigation arising from this!
> Doing porn requires a certain numbness and if the performer doesn't have that when she starts, she will. It's just a very sad situation.

My experience (via a friend who works for one of the soft-core porn channels) is that this is generally not true.
>The real shame is no IE9 for Windows XP

Yes, but there are plenty of other browsers such as Firefox and Chrome that work in XP. Unless you're talking about accessing sites that will work only in IE.
actually the second.
&:bar is equivalent to {|x| x.bar}
The YC interview is one example of a high profile Hackers Den. This kind of thing runs on the panel's personal brand. Who do you have on yours?
That's absolutely not cool. Instead of seeing the world as it is, you'll be seeing numbers, urls and random ads. You'll be heavily influenced by these devices, and it'll be just a matter of time before you stop thinking for yourself and let the device think for you, thus leaving the owners of the content that is being displayed in a position of power.

Sure, i may have dramatized it, but i certainly don't like where we're headed to in terms of privacy.

The sad part is, the next generation of people won't give a damn about privacy, because they'll be accustomed to the lack of it. I think it's already a bit like that.
Bio-weapons division?
1) "When the Afghan intelligence services kill Assange,"

Who exactly are you talking about? The Taliban or the current Afghan government? Neither have intelligence services capable of doing this. The idea is ludicrous.

2) "Do you think that some random schmuck on the internet should have the power to decide what remains secret and what doesn't?"

This is a poor way to phrase the question, since we are talking about a group of people engaged in releasing _specific_ information. They hardly have the ability to decide what is secret and what is not. They only get to choose to leak what they have on hand.

"as I understand it the basic argument would be that things are so bad now that any type of release of docs is good."

Well I believe that is a misapprehension on your part. I'm certainly not arguing for the release of any and everything.

3) Obviously abuse is subjective, but the only other alternative is to appeal to some authority to help us decide what is important. That's not working very well is it? In my opinion the military has at best skirted the truth and at worst lied about actions involving civilians. That seems like abuse to me and it seems lots of other people agree.

"Call me an idiot, but wouldn't you want some kind of orderly process for releasing docs, even if you were for releasing all of them? What kind of half-assed system is this?"

Well in my opinion wikileaks seems to be orderly; for one they take the time to vet material and engage in harm-minimisation -- if we take them on their work anyhow. Again, what is the alternative? The government? Some committee that the government will cooperate out of the goodness of their hearts? They have no inclination to be transparent, so the only alternative is to force them to be so by leaking.

That's uncomfortable and risky, but a hell of a lot better than letting the bastards hide those awful truths.

4) Completely unworkable for obvious reasons. For one thing, secrets are only useful if they can be recalled accurately. People aren't going to remember them flawlessly. But even is this scenario were workable, it's the same situation. Anyone that knows the secret is capable of leaking it. Granted verifying it is harder without documentation, but nothing happens in a vacuum; a leak would be enough to get people probing for the truth and evidence to back it up.

I understand the basic gist of what you are saying and I agree. It would be better if the current system could be improved, if abuses could be curtailed and there was more transparency. That is much better than having material leaked, absolutely.

But it's not going to happen by itself. There is a complete lack of political will to change things. Like most important issues, a government's hand has to be forced; that's why leaks are necessary.
I think the analyze emotions thing might work. Everyone with a facebook/twitter profile will have a little floating icon above their head in augmented reality world though.
saying you were inspired by Dragons Den devalues your proposition IMHO.
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As technology has improved the capital investment required to develop a modern economy has greatly reduced. Improvements in communications, computers, electronics, and shipping can allow anywhere to become a modern city -- e.g. dubai. So I'd expect skilled workers to move to cheaper areas and maintain/improve their quality of life.
He doesn't, this is a discussion forum not a journal article.

We don't require you to cite sources.
But that doesn't mean that you can talk whatever you want, does it?
I'm hoping as a community we will have plenty of great people who would be interested and wise enough to participate in that capacity. I would hope to have some investor types like maybe Derick Sivers et al, but would be open to anyone who the community felt was a good fit. It's ours to hack into what we want. There are no rules in place right now, it's just the seed of an idea which I think we can develop into an entertaining and useful feature of HN.
From what I gather, Google deliberately uses silo management (or whatever it is called). An engineer's performance reviews are based almost entirely on tangible work (lines of code) on his assigned product. Work on intangibles (mentoring, marketing strategy), or on tangibles outside the project (cross-product integration, future proofing) count against him.

Ex-Googler Piaw Na has an interesting post about this: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010/08/tips-for-noogler-engineers....