skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have been helpful to have some kind of benchmark to show performance improvements or cpu load reduction.

I guess this is more important for advanced features like canvas than regular browsing.
It takes a lot more that just http. I'd need to know the URL schema if you're restful, or the method names if you're SOAPy. Then there's the format of the data (SOAP, JSON, XML ..) and the expected data fields in the data sent and received, etc.
Thanks for the clarification --- I had misread your previous comment as advocating a different information-gathering strategy, not as avoiding the particular information source (Twitter) entirely. Of course, I have no problem with that, even though I personally find Twitter quite useful in this regard.
I prefer Reader as well. My information gathering preferences are (1) Reader; (2) Delicious; (3) FriendFeed; (4) Twitter; (5) etc...
thank you so much for your response,actually rearragning the terms to find 'b' gives me 3logb = 2loga - 5 {upon subtracting 5 from both the sides}.
this is where i need help.please look into my partial fractions problems as well if you got the time.
You can go start-up but you can also go start-down. When you are very young you weight failure with a low number, when you are over 40 and have a family to support failure is a big factor. So think in this equation:

What-to-do = maximize w1p(failure)+w2p(safety)+w2*p(success), where wi are personal and family factors, and p are probabilities.

Is your experience something that a start-up need? or is experience only something to change for the future?
Maybe the incoming body broke into several bodies before impact. Combined with an angle of attack wouldn't the smaller bodies down before larger bodies due to atmospheric drag.
For those that took that 6 month sabbatical (or 3 month or whatever) I have a couple questions.

Did you have the savings already saved up?

How much did you this end up costing you financially? What were your expenses like? Where did you stay?

Did you go by yourself (assuming you don't have any dependents)?

If you worked on your startup, did you have the idea before or after you left on your trip? Did you work on it the full time?

I want to do a startup, but I don't have an idea just yet.

And for those that coded on the beach with their laptop, how did you see the screen? I find being outside with a laptop I can't see the screen almost ever.

I see someone posted a link of a blog they kept, does anyone else have a journal of their trip they can share?
Testing is not related to small or big code base.

A good programmer can code with automatic testing in his head, so in his view it doesn't need testing. But this is a personal supposition.
Of course not. If software gets developed for android phones using .NET, WinMo (or whatever it's called this week) gets software for free.

They may consider asking developers license their patented technologies later on.
http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html

To my knowledge Harmony has never been given a patent grant. When they tried to obtain the blessing, Sun responded by releasing the OpenJDK, which they bound (with conditions) their patent grants to.

If something else happened that I am ignorant of, please tell me, but to my knowledge Harmony has zero patent protection.

As an aside, the reason Sun refused to grant Harmony a patent grant was that there was the open possibility that it could cannibalize J2ME (at the time Sun was fairly successful in that space, so they were deeply protective, whereas they were failing on the desktop)
Native ZFS coming to Linux next month?
Or you can go to http://tryruby.org/ and start right away. Not to mention every computer has at least one web browser with a javascript interpreter.

And yes, today's languages may be a lot more complicated than BASIC, but that doesn't imply they're more difficult to learn.
Google backs out of JavaOne conference
I'm writing this from a hostel in Italy. I worked for a major corporation and asked for 2 months unpaid time off because the 2 weeks a year for the last 8 years of my life just wasn't cutting it. They said no and I handing in my resignation. I gave six week notice and during that time I was able to find another job that would let me start 3 months after my end date to allow for my trip. I just finished visiting Norway and Iceland which were absolutely amazing. Don't be afraid, go enjoy life a little bit.
Wired youth forget how to write in China and Japan
The problem is that there are an overwhelming number of choices when it comes to what to do with one's life. Parents need to at least make it clear that there's a relatively small subset of these choices which are acceptable. (Not a handful of choices, but maybe a couple dozen or so.)
You are correct, I think. The official test suite is not some thing anyone can go and run:

http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html
> Paul Allen says he owns the technology behind all these ideas

It's hard to imagine Allen owning any technology Google or Apple are using...
Not just for free... for free and with Microsoft having the upper hand.
And what used to be onerous tasks are now easy as pie thanks to those APIs.

Need to open a file, write to it and save it? A couple of lines.

Need to parse some badly written HTML to get data out? Include a library and then a few lines of code.

Want to enable table re-ordering client-side in javascript? Include one file and then one line of code.

We're spending less time mucking around with solved problems now.
So then music, software, books, etc. - all requiring low capital, should be in the same realm of fashion - right? If you don't believe that's true: please compare capital of an industrial bakery to a software company of the same revenue/profit.
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Actually according to Wikipedia, Google Maps came from the acquisition of Where2. That said I imagine Google improved that application A LOT.

GMail and GReader on the other hand where two of those projects that Googlers did in their 20% assigned to personal projects. No idea about the other two.
I remember Game Construction Kit and alike back in the day of 8-bit machines. You could build your own version of Space Invaders, only with aliens smiling and you shooting them down with flowers. Never really took off.

EDIT: this is not to say I don't see a point in your post, just that perhaps games industry is a poor example.
Singapore #1 reporting. :P
Liberals generally favor making it easier to renege on contracts when the financial consequences of paying off one's debt might be dire. Here is Krugman's opinion on the topic:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/opinion/08krugman.html?_r=...

The workers pay for the screwup just like any other creditor would. It's not as if OC bondholders were paid off but workers were not.

In general, I assume a deal is crooked when one party gets consistently above-market rates for their product, when there are laws on the books explicitly giving one party massive advantages, and when the political interference of one party is plain to see for anyone with a TV.
yeah seriously git clone X
fix something obvious
git push

repeat
It's not vaporware. It's been in Opera since 10.5. It isn't being used at all but it's still in the release.
Ah, yes, the Digg revolt of '07. Never had I seen so much online bloodshed and destruction.

We lost a lot of good users that day...

moment of silence
Typing/reading is a very different experience to speaking/hearing.

I might type something that comes across as unnecessarily harsh, which if I said it would not, because of the tone of voice and posture I took.

The timelag of allowing me to reread to see if my statement can be misconstrued is far more important in writing.
I shouldnt believe everything I read on the internet :)

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/i-m_sorry_i_wrote_such_a_...
Scott Gu's blog has a much more comprehensive look at this engine:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/02/introducin...
I don't think it's fully implemented yet, but here's the protocol Appleseed is using:

http://svn.appleseedproject.org/trunk/_documentation/quickso...

From the source, it looks like they're building abstracted PHP libraries, too. And it's an event/hook architecture, so you can pop this protocol out and put another one in, theoretically.

I don't know if this is a placeholder protocol while they build the software, or if this is what they plan on using and evolving.
Actually it was originally considered mysterious why almost all craters don't look like this, at least on airless bodies, since glancing-angle impacts should be, from geometric arguments, a lot more common than nearly-orthogonal ones. And yet, if you look at the moon you'll see that every crater is damn-near circular.

It turns out that the reason is that a crater-forming impact looks less like a cricket ball hitting a sandpit, and more like a nuclear bomb going off. The crater is formed by a blast wave going straight outwards, and the sideways momentum of the incoming particle is damn near irrelevant. Hence, 99% of craters are circular.

So if this is an oblique impact it's probably with something much larger and slower-moving than your average impact crater.
I think the other way around is also hard, many startups require such diverse combination of skillsets that its hard to know what you should learn in order to be hirable. As college grad student I have no clue what to learn to get hired by an "exciting" company. The only way seems to learn either the .net or the java platform as "safe" path, which in turn these exciting companies are not looking for.
Now I want to see the Old Spice guy make a response video to this... or maybe just read this aloud.
Shouldn’t dependencies of core components be isolated (on Unix/Linux)?
PHP algebraic equation function
China Mieville: Five Reasons Tolkien Rocks
Wait, what do you have against egg salad sandwiches? That's my favorite sandwich!
Ah, I see now :P
What about evolution? All known life is algorithmic? Hence, given enough time, programming (coding) should be easy enough so that it could be automated. Given a suitable environment it could even spontaneously just happen. No?

Design is harder then coding because one has to define the constraints and requirements in which the program has to work.
This is a joke, I assume.

Do you use Red5 for ww?
It sounds like a non-prediction with all the "could be the beginning".

Some people would also do well to remember that there's a world outside America where Netflix, Hulu, etc. don't exist at all.

I stopped using Blockbuster, because there selection of movies and TV was awful - as were their prices[^1] - but YMMV.

[1]: I could buy a discounted movie for the same price of renting it with bargain bins and sites like Play.com
Yeah, that improved java is still pretty ugly for a JVM language. In groovy its:

employees.findAll { it.isPartTime() }
They really needed to do this. The ASPX view engine just felt like they took existing code and shoved it in to the MVC framework.

A fresh start was needed, and it looks great.

It'll be interesting to see how they incorporate unit testing.
No, they're deadly serious (they think).

It's a variation on wowza.
Most of that is true, but is not what you said in the comment I replied to, and is not what I disagreed with. Apache Harmony isn't spec-compliant only because it hasn't been blessed by the TCK, and the only reason it hasn't been blessed by the TCK is because Apache disagrees with the licensing terms of the TCK on principle. But the intent of Harmony is to be fully-compliant, the code is something like 99.5% there, and Apache believes that other agreements from Sun around Java back up its position on the TCK issue, so if it came down to it, Apache would be in a very strong position if Oracle ever came after it. In the worst case scenario, they could simply grudgingly accept the TCK license and get the patent grants.

Dalvik, otoh, makes no claim or effort to be spec compliant, and there's no reason to expect they should get the grant.

I'm not defending Oracle here, btw. I think the suit is ridiculous, but on the more general grounds that software patents are inherently a bad idea that stifle innovation. I just don't think it helps anything to distract from the core issue by spreading FUD about Apache's exposure.
A feature I used a lot when I still used Chrome. Still, I prefer to open Vim or Emacs when I need to type anything of length into a browser.
Correction to headline: Microsoft won't stop Mono on Android. Which should not be surprising at all since they have always said they would not stop Mono.
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You are laying out certain facts well; if you are doing rare work on an expert subject its unlikely that anyone with the expertise will risk their time and career with your work.

But I have not anywhere suggested that I am not willing to do the hard work. In fact it's exactly the opposite. I am doing all the hard technical work that is sometimes too much. So what do you do? You look to transfer some of it to someone else. The fact is however, only the smallest bit of hard work requires so much that you might as well do it yourself by adding an extra 1 hour to it rather than wait for someone to do it, communicate, and get it done in a week. So you look for expertise.

And you don't have to know the details of a specific kernel or a TCP/IP stack. A very good C programmer in general will do well enough.

The other trait that is highly acceptable is not knowing a lot, but being hard working and enthusiastic. We have one engineer like this who knew nothing and in 1 year he is a wizard in linking, build systems, python, locking, drivers ... I am all up for teaching patiently, but finding someone who has that vigor and enthusiasm is also very hard.

To your do-it-yourself suggestion. You need to acknowledge the problem of scalability and look for ways to expand your team because you are then a scalability bottleneck. I am not saying I know how to do it, otherwise I wouldn't be doing the earlier post. But I am at least considering ways to fix it.
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Guy's words: We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.
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A list article? Really?
I don't seeee why they're wasting their time with this. Why don't they get all those supposedly talented people to stop reinventing the wheel when it comes to social networks?
1099 filings expand greatly starting in 2012: the penalties for failing to file
Nursing Assignment can be priceless, Depending on the Choice of Topic
A nursing assignment is complicated assignments as writing the essay is very different from the practical. However, if the right topic is selected you will be able to ensure that your nursing assignment is a valuable sources of information to others.
Lisp Networking demo - European style
software written, for iOS or Android using Mono definitely would not run on Windows Phone 7. Any generic libraries and business objects that do not use platform specific APIs may be sharable, but that is all.
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The broadest definition of censorship is the suppression of expression, which hasn't happened. (The standard definition requires govt activity.)

In other words, this is yet another example of you mis-stating things and doubling down when that's pointed out. You then retreat to baseless emotional pleas.

You'd like a good argument and there are good arguments. However, that doesn't imply that any of said good arguments apply to your situation.

WRT the the "purpose" of HN's rating system and whether you're being unfairly treated, PG seems to think that it's working just fine. An appeal to authority is valid in this case because HN is his playpen. No, it doesn't matter how you think that the HN rating system works.
Don't just hope, write it yourself!

{-# RULES
"filter/filter" forall f g xs. filter f (filter g xs) = filter (f.g) xs
#-}

It's a programmable programming language.
When you're aiming at consumers, I think <$5/month or <$50/yr is definitely a better price point. I think Flickr Pro's ~$25/yr pricing is much more in line with something most consumers would go for. And that's even at the semi-pro level. But, when you're aiming your app/service at professionals, freelancers, or small/medium business, then slightly higher prices might fly. Still, though, there are so many "must have" apps now, that the subscription fatigue should start hitting people bad.

What I'd really like to see is more webapp service synergy. Most of us would be much more likely to pay $10-$15/month for Dropbox + Evernote Pro + Backpackit.com Personal (substitute your favorite webapps in here) than they would to pay ~$5/month/service. Something about the bundling would make people feel like they're getting more for the price, even if the absolute price is the same.

At least that's my $.02...
You can outsource the programing tests to codility.com, it is a great timesaver.
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It would be great if pg shares it at HN or in an essay. I think it would be quite beneficial to know his opinion and experiences.
Which patented technologies? The spec you need to write a compliant .NET CLR (e.g., Mono) is an ECMA standard (ECMA-335). For the record, C# is under ECMA-334.

Microsoft has also open-sourced some of the newer .NET technologies, like the DLR and ASP.NET MVC (in fact, some of the code has been added to the Mono source trunk).

So, there probably will be some technologies that they have patented and won't give away for free, but I don't think (read: hopefully) they won't make the same mistake as Oracle/Sun did. Why? Because it's in Microsoft's best long-term interests to get people using .NET languages, even if they give the technology away for free -- because it gets people to buy copies of Visual Studio (for development) and Windows (to run the software). And that's really how they're going to make their money off of .NET.
I'll ask you again: without using models, how do we know what the earth's temperature would have been without anthropogenic CO2?

Without knowing that, we can not draw any conclusions as to whether the modern warming trend is caused by human-emitted CO2 or not.

Incidentally, I devoted precisely one line of my post to name-calling, namely reversing a common ad-hominem levied against skeptics of climate modelling.
For your "cooperative and preemptive multitasking" - it's not my question - see the link on the article: http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2010/06/will-the-real-programm...

They asked this on RethinkDB interview. I found a similarity and just mentioned it. FYI its a pretty common terminology.

I also don't care what you think about my ego. I made a candid post for a problem I am facing. If you criticize that's very welcome but try to make it a bit constructive.
Views are notoriously hard to test - a lot of that comes down to "does it look right", which is not automatable.

The MVC pattern is already a lot more unit-testable than most, since the view is separated from the rest, and data (viewModel) and processing (controller) can be tested without the view.
So you can't make a bootable backup this way. This is my preferred method because when the shot hits the fan all I do is boot off my backup disk problem solved
Nice. What's the limit on what you can do with these RULES? Could you extend the language? Write a DSL? Implement a mini-prolog à la On Lisp?
There's actually a simpler argument, and probably a better one:

Programming can (and is!) described as an art, and it's difficult to imagine people thinking like this about other kinds of art. There are few people, after all, who would say things like "Oh, one day music will be easy and everybody will be able to play like Joshua Bell." or "Oh, but one day novel writing will become easier, and everybody will be able to write like Stephen King." And so it's ridiculous as to why programming is given this treatment.

Sure, mastery of the tools in programming may be harder than in writing, say, or in photography. But tools are just one bit of it - ideas are the other bit, and much more important.
Tech startups are at least partly to blame for this as well. I've seen so many job postings requiring years of experience in exactly the same combination of technologies the company itself is using. I know it's harder to hire people for their innate abilities than it is for the number of years they've done rails or django or rspec but if you're going to be that inflexible you've got nobody but yourself to blame for the empty desks.
Complex autocomplete logic doesn't have to make it any less simple in it's interface. I had a greasemonkey prototype that autocompleted on friends, followers, googled usernames etc and sorted on relevance given current timeline/replies. And non-intrusive if you want to ignore.
But you still don't have b as the subject of the equation. You need to get to "b=..." If you don't know how to do that, then at least tell us what you've tried.

Can you make x the subject of this equation: log(x)+3=2t ? In other words, if the equation log(x)+3=2t is always satisfied, what does x equal?

And I will look at the partial fractions, but I'd like to concentrate on this first.

Actually, what is your definition of a logarithm?

The last time we had a conversation I asked you some questions to assess your level of knowledge and you never answered them:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1107996

It seems to me looking over other times you've asked questions that you claim you want to get into math, and you probably think you're doing lots of stuff, but in reality I've seen no evidence of you actually trying things.

Gaining skills is a matter of spending the time. In math in particular, if you haven't spent ages getting loads of wrong answers then you won't have any real intuition as to what to do. You need loads of wrong answers, from which you can start to identify "good wrong answers". From those good wrong answers you can build an intuition as to what might work, and you can start to find excellent wrong answers.

Then the moment comes when you see how to convert an excellent wrong answer into a right answer.

With practice this becomes second nature, and after a time you wonder why you ever found it difficult. But until you've put in the hours of practice, it doesn't happen.

People think doing math is a matter of somehow finding the right process and then following it. "Tell me what to do" is the perpetual cry.

You need to try stuff. Try re-arranging the equations repeatedly into different forms until, maybe, one looks familiar. Don't just stare at stuff hoping inspiration will strike, and don't think there's a magic formula for finding the right next step.

That's not how it works.

So tell me, how many different ways can you rearrange the equation: log(x)+3=2t ?
Cornell produced as many founders of VC-backed internet companies as Stanford did in the first half of 2010. Of course, your push to improve/enhance hacker culture is commendable but just wanted to say that based on the data from the early part of this year, Cornell folks seem to be holding their own in the startup realm (which is probably a sibling if not synonymous with hacker culture).

Unfortunately, my alma mater (Penn) came in fourth so I suppose I should be posting something similar to see how we can catch up with Cornell, Stanford, etc. :)

The school rankings are on page 38 of this report where you'll see Cornell up top alongside Stanford.

http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/venture-capit...

Note: Stanford is also towards the top on the grad school rankings as well on which Cornell does not show up. FYI.
I'd venture that for a well-written, non-trivial app, most of the code will be in the 'generic libraries and business objects' -- meaning that porting an app to Android or iOS (if you're using MonoTouch) shouldn't be a ton of work.