skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's experience is only directly transferrable if you too are a search engine.
Ask HN: In which communities do you participate?
In which communities do you participate? (e.g: reddit, HN (of course), digg, etc)
Why Oracle vs Google is important to you
His point was that you can be more open and easy going with junior employees. Letting an ambitious programmer lead a project of his own is pretty low risk.
You can set dd's "bs" parameter to 1, then seek, skip & count are all in terms of bytes.
Analogy problem: You can't steal your own car. This application, bogus or not, is targeted to the possibility that you steal your own phone.
I didn't vote on the comment, but I can imagine it was downvoted for slightly rude tone "Well, I couldn't know that" and claiming not to read the article but only "the headline".
Retracting just the owner means you basically allow anonymous posting (except the mods still know who wrote it, and anyone who read it before the username got wiped). That opens up a whole new can of worms.
"But still you'll never get it right,
cos when you're laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all."

However, I guess it's not either or but a spectrum - although never completely homeless, I'm sure he felt more homeless than usual.
Opera on Linux.
The people who downvoted are expressing disapproval of a failure to closely read the article. He says he was scare d to see who she chose to critique before clicking, but we infer from his discussion that he did in fact click and read. Therefore, the fact that he was ignorant of how the singers to be rated were selected implies skimming.

It was a way of saying:RTFA
Seems really nifty, but I have two questions;

Does this require that your servers get access to our internal databases, i.e. do we have to expose our databases externally? Secondly, will you store none, any or all the data that you fetch locally at your servers? Temporary or infinitely?

I didn't find this information explicitly somewhere, so I thought I would ask.
Even if people think they've done everything right in theory, the code will never have run (let alone gone through QA) on models with different timing, and publishers wouldn't be keen on having to go back and fix flaws.

Going back some years, AFAIK, you didn't necessarily have developers or build infrastructure for a title that shipped a few months ago. I don't know whether online gaming and the need to patch bugs/vulnerabilities has changed this.
Firefox 3.6.8 on Vista Home Premium x64 without js on. That's all.

If I were in the market for a web framework, I would not take it on faith that I could rely upon interoperability features the site claims but does not demonstrate. And I wouldn't write the demo myself unless I had already ruled out your competitors.

If you decide to drop it, I have no doubt you can still find a large potential market of developers either indifferent or ignorant about the ongoing disintegration of the open HTML web. It comes down to what kind of effect you're comfortable with having on the industry.
I think there are a lot of life skills you can acquire by working in college that you don't get if someone gives you a free ride -- or at least that's how it appears to me when comparing myself to friends who had/have to work during college.
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- Any time/money trade-off

Exactly! It is surprisingly easy to buy something in a store instead of ordering from Amazon and waiting, for +20%, or taking a cab home instead of the subway/bus, or hiring a weekly cleaning service, or buying nicer ingredients and eating out at nicer places because it's convenient, or, ...

Its all the little things in life that really make your experience better and allow you to do the things you want to be doing, not the big ticket items that people traditionally associate with wealth. I think that that is what FYM is all about, really
4chan memes, goatse, tubgirl etc. seem actually valueless. I personally see almost no value in theology once philosophy started talking about the same things without reference to God. Great swathes of the critical humanities are circle jerks of interest only to people in the same very small niche, which nobody outside academia cares about.

Your time can be better spent than learning about these things. They might be interesting but they're no more worthwhile than Cougar Town or How I Met Your Mother
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Photocatalytic production of hydrogen - under visible light
I think it's rather scary to have a moderated app store on a desktop computer.
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All this is not an argument against Google Book Search, but an argument for improving the metadata of said system. If the scholars are so distraught by this, they should offer to help review and correct Google's digital library. I'm sure they can come to some kind of arrangement.
Most of today's middle class is descended from the kings and nobility of the high middle ages.

Not true for Britain. The peasantry did mostly die out but the nobility did very badly as well. The middle classes were the forefathers. Sources etc. in "Farewell to Alms" by Gregory Clark
Please make this work without javascript enabled. Even the simple login form doesn't work without it...
Quick, you're trapped in a Starbucks, you need to look homeless, what do you do?.
Start-ups account for *all* of net new jobs creation
Also, please make it 100% https.

Or at the bare minimum, secure the login so password details aren't sent as plain text over an unsecured channel
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Scientists have created the world's strongest ferroelectric ferromagnet
Clearly you haven't watched/heard of 30 Rock.
You might try looking at the stories behind Walmart and Habitat for Humanity. My understanding:

Sam Walton wanted big time success. His wife wanted to raise her kids in a small town. He felt he needed to go to the big city to get big success but he loved his wife. So he founded Walmart which was aimed at serving small towns.

Millard Fuller was a millionaire by age 30. At some point after that, his wife told him she wasn't happy with their lives and wanted a divorce. They had originally both been Christian and lived simpler lives and were happy at first and then it all became about the toys money could buy and she hated it. He gave away all of his wealth to keep the woman he loved and then founded Habitat for Humanity so they could live out their Christian values.

I'm sure there are other true life stories out there that would be relevant. Those are just two that come to mind off the top of my head.
Please read http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writingcontentthatworksfo... and may be you'll change your opinion about how web copies should be.
No they don't.

First of all, we all run different compilation modes - debug, release, ship, etc. A lot even do LTCG (Link-Time Compile Generation) - e.g. full global opt.

So there is no such thing as relying.

If templates/inline members are heavily used, the difference between debug and optimized code can go somewhere between 5..10 slower.

Normally for straight "C" code is only x2-x3 times, unless AltiVec is used (but only in few tight places - skinning, dsp processing, etc.)

So no one ties anything to CPU. It's unreliable. Don't forget that it's not only your stuff that's running.

If you are on Dolby Digital, then there would be some kind of encoder running with you.

If you are doing multi-player game, then it could be that you are the one running the server (obviously made such way that no one else knows).

If you are running in different resolution - same applies - different timings.

If you are doing splitscreen - yup.. Another change

And if you want to do real 3D - one more....

And many more (HDD presence or not - e.g. caching on the HDD or not).

At the end of the day, you try to get 30fps or 60fps, and some other internal frame for the server (if multiplayer game). If you get that you are just fine.

No one relies on what you've just said.

That was done only on the really old machines, where you had to synchronize each horizontal scan line so you get some special effects (more colors, or more stuff being drawn).

Almost anything since 1996 is not like that.

Even the PS1 had different speeds, and it was TRC violation to rely on that, because Sony were smart and knew they had to emulate that in future, and exact proper emulation is not always easy.
If you need technical details, implementing it is quite simple. For generating screenshots on an Ubuntu machine, you just need a script called webkit2png.py http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/ and XVFB (fake X server).

After that, taking screenshots is as simple as firing this command on shell:

xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" python webkit2png.py -o google.png -F javascript -w 2 http://google.com/

Even though it is resource-intensive operation, I decided to generate screenshots on our own servers over using an existing service because I didn't find a satisfactory screenshot generation API that captures full-page screenshots (as opposed to just thumbnails).

Next feature is to implement nicely formatted PDF reports. But my initial research says it is a VERY hard task! (That's because VWO charts are all JavaScript powered)
Well one reason is that Heroku and the likes don't allow for all possible options and configurations you might run into. If your app requires some obscure back end software then you kind of have to host (at least part of) it yourself.
Tesco's one of the world's most profitable retailers (I think it's #4 globally) and ASDA is a subsidiary of Wal-Mart. London's just a special case - where do you put an out-of-town superstore in zones 1 or 2 of the Tube map?
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That sucks. Ok, let me check my 'to do' list and see if there is anything on there that could be farmed out without first digging in to a code base that is a decade old.

What is your hourly rate ? Or do you do fixed price jobs?
Ozzy's a bit of an exception though, isn't he? He's literally being studied for his ability to survive quantities of drugs that kill most people.
I don't know much about Heavy Metal, but this gave me a strong urge to buy a couple of these albums :)
"If you choose to go digital only as an e-book, this is where profit rules and amazing numbers can be achieved. How amazing? I know one man who nets between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 per month with a single e-book and affiliate cross-selling to his customer lists. I’m not kidding."

Any idea of what ebook is he talking about?
Thanks for the answer.

I must have read it in a different light then; to me it looked like a complaint about a misleading submission headline.
Everyone has to learn at some point.
So, how and when did they phase PS2 backward compatibility?

I'm asking out of interest as a programmer, electrical engineer and wannabe game designer. I never owned a game console.
That's simple? Do you know of any sites that actually do that?
What specifically are they awesome at with regards to your privacy?
What is the maximum length of a URL? (2006)
I had seen that a while ago and it does seem promising. But I didn't see that they supplied the cloud backup and restore part of it.
I'd imagine in being allowed to scan a large amount of the works they are storing they presented the system in a way that would improve the way scholars did things. It's possible they gave no guarantees but if they did they have the responsibility to live up to them.

As mentioned they may have a monopoly on scanning the vast majority of older texts online due to the court settlement and deals with processors. If they are to be the gatekeeper and don't act responsibly then it is really a loss for everyone, regardless if they are bound to or not.
Germany to outlaw employee screening on Facebook, Google still okay
The techniques you're describing aren't benefits of your system. They're just modern web programming techniques and certainly don't need to be used in a single page programming model.

For example the majority of what you're describing as benefits has been known to anyone using MVC for a while, MVC is available in any of the languages you mentioned as your system being easier than.
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HN London Meetup this Thursday
The third Hacker News London meetup shall be this Thursday from 18:00 at our usual venue The Waterpoet, 9-11 Folgate St, London E1 6BX.

Geomium, the next-gen geosocial application, as recently featured in The Next Web http://su.pr/2YVHpt will be sponsoring the event. Ben Dowling, CTO/Co-founder of Geomium and HN London co-organiser, will be giving a short presentation introducing Geomium and then will let everyone have a play. If you would like to request a beta invite in advance you can request one at http://geomium.com or email Ben [@] geomium [dot] com. For an early preview of the Geomium iPhone app include you UDID and device name in the email.

We look forward to seeing everyone there. Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/

PS we will be in the back bar as usual. If you are having difficulty finding us please call me on 0789 11 99 440 or tweet @dmitrigrabov
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Thanks, that made my day. I'll see about doing that for A/Bingo if I can get it to work without majorly changing the API...

What sort of charts are you using? (Not the name of the Javascript, I mean, bar charts, pie charts, etc?) If you're using anything that can be done with the Google Chart API, then doing PDFs is fairly easy: you grab the GIFs from Google, convert them into PNG or whatever, insert them into your PDF template, and you are pretty much done.

I unfortunatley am not at liberty to just give you the code to do this, but if you are comfortable with Ruby, this is only a few hundred lines in Prawn (think single-page reports of middling complexity, with data access included). I don't work professionally with PHP and am unaware of good ways to do PDF generation in it.

P.S. If you want to fake it, render the report as HTML using webkit2png, then use ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick to turn the PNG into a PDF. It won't be editable but, hey, who cares. :)
In arts like anything else, to paraphrase Edison, genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In fact the difference between a really great artistic genius and simple talent probably is the ability (physical and else) to work extremely long hours without too much strain.
The ending isn't confusing, just ambiguous.
Beer microbes live 553 days in space
Funny that. I share your assessment, but many songs from that decade are still with me. "Rebel yell", "Twist in my sobriety", "Rent". Not trendy subculture stuff to identify with, but the timeless guilty-pleasure kind of stuff you enjoy alone. Modern music is just... not the same, somehow. Not as classic sounding.
Cheap Linux/x86 servers own most of the web space.

oh, and supercomputers: http://www.top500.org/stats/list/35/osfam
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626825
Alternative title: How to coerce statistics by defining variables creatively.

The author defines a "startup" as a company which has existed for less than 1 year and an "existing firm" as a company which has existed for 1 year or more, and compares the net jobs created by startups against the net jobs created by existing firms.

Consider a startup company which has 6 employees and goes out of business after 20 months. It has provided 10 person-years of employment, but its net job creation is zero -- two years after it was founded, it isn't contributing anything to the employment numbers.

Under the definitions used in this report, however, that company is counted as a startup with a net 6 jobs created... AND as an existing firm with a net -6 jobs created. This failed company which has no long-term effect on job creation is counted not once but twice towards the job-creation superiority of startups over existing firms -- and the more startups fail, the more skewed the numbers will be!

Come on guys... startups are important enough in job creation without fudging the statistics like this.
Is this not the same argument people used to keep using PHP?
Seconded. On the other extreme, I wonder what she'd say about Manowar.
I always wondered about this, how does Google prevent this type of behavior? Like serving specific content to search engines and show other content to users... do they check using camouflaged bots?
The list of supported Linux architectures (form kernel.org):

Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher), today Linux also runs on (at least) the Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS, Renesas M32R, Atmel AVR32, Renesas H8/300, NEC V850, Tensilica Xtensa, and Analog Devices Blackfin architectures; for many of these architectures in both 32- and 64-bit variants.

We could also say: pretty much everything under the sun.
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Thanks!

The issue is not PDF generation per se. The only bottleneck is the charts, they are rendered on CANVAS element directly. The charts are mainly sparklines and line chart. Replacing them will be a non-trivial task.

Your suggestion of converting HTML -> PDF is a great one but then again the rendered HTML will require static charts (as GIF or JPG). I will probably go down this route: Screenshot of Report -> Image -> PDF. Inefficient, yes. Heavy file, yes. But it will work :)
Ask HN: Hacker Chemists?
I'm an undergad chemist with an interest in hacking. I was wondering if there are any more out there? How did you get into programming? Are you still doing science-y stuff?
Three things:

1) Where is the link to the tour of the the fridge? I can't seem to find it.

2) Is there an RSS feed? Otherwise I will just forget to go there

3) Why didn't you make this 4 years ago?
Although this was somewhat amusing back in 2007-2008 I think less of this on HN the better. Flagged.
On the one hand, I'm glad to see many European countries in there, but on the other hand I always kind of fear for the effectiveness of this kind of ad-hoc aid.
One interesting thing about OnStar is that it actually has been used for exactly the sort of remote bugging that the EFF fears Apple's program will get used for.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-5109435.html

And they've also done this with other cell phones:

http://www.zdnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdr...

Incidentally, I note that the reasoning given for why the OnStar case was reversed on appeal was that the bugging rendered the system unable to respond if there were an actual emergency. I'm not completely sure if this reasoning would also apply to a phone or not, but it might if using it as such would block 911 calls. It would be interesting, though, if they could activate the camera or something without blocking calls.

And there's still nothing that would stop them from subpoenaing all of the information in Apple's possession, though they can and already do this with other cell phones, as I already mentioned. I still wonder about some of the strange data points they're gathering. What's up with gathering the user's heart rate, for example?
Great! We look forward to it. Any feedback you have can be reported on http://jira.atlassian.com :-)
Facebook Is the First Big Company to Use ARM Servers
Intel is starting to be disrupted in the server market by ARM. The first big customer for ARM servers is Facebook.
> With, ohhh guesstimate 70,000+ servers

That could be about right. I know the number was 20,000 at the end of 2008 from sources within Facebook.
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Interesting power management features in IBM's Power7 EnergyScale
Thanks. I was just worried for a moment, because two of those points describe almost exactly the key advantages we see for a new venture! :-)
A Case of Mental Courage
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Tell me about it. At work I need to check Firefox too besides IE to see if the app works correctly. Chrome rarely has any problem.
readme driven development should be compared to mock driven web design
The Imperfectability of Politics: Voting And Unhappiness
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That's a great expressway. I remember being on mountain roads in China that were outright dangerous only 5 years ago. When I went back last fall, I was amazed at how much speed we could make on those freshly asphalted roads. China has progressed a lot wrt. infrastructure in just a few years.
I've sent you an email, thanks.
Three things will help you immensely:

1) Screenshots of the features you describe below

2) A section that shows all the members you already have (show their profile pictures)

3) A new video. Make it shorter, more punchy, put in some sound, and some better animation. I suggest that you look at Wistia's video: http://wistia.com. I took inspiration from their video, because it seemed like anyone with no background in video editing/design can come up with a Wistia-like introductory video. But it's simple, short, and tells people what they need to know, which is what I like about it.
Argh PDF alert.
Does it support ODBC? I would love to pay for a local install that lets my users query a MS Navision database. I would pay the same as equivalent Tableau licenses.
Seriously. Just commit one thing at a time. Don’t wait until you go home, don’t fix three really simple bugs before committing, commit every single change separately.

This is important. Nothing fills me with dread like a commit message that says "fixed NullPointerException in renderer (also a few whitespace changes)".
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What are you putting in those tabs? I frequently have 50+ tabs open in Chrome and rarely get to more than about 1GB total. Sometimes some long running web apps will leak enough (Gmail, I'm looking at you...) to bring a single tab up in the 100-200MB+ range, but that's rare.
Right or wrong is difficult to pin down but living in the Midwest isn't something that most of the developed world would aspire to.
Can you explain why it makes a difference to run as an LLC if you are not expecting funding? My company is expecting funding. So should I insist on creating a corporation instead?
Well I would have to respectfully disagree. They are calling it what it is. I appreciate the simple and direct language.
Key techniques from the article:

1. Hire people with the right kind of ambition.

2. Build strict processes for potentially political issues and do not deviate.

3. Be careful with “he said, she said".
There's also much more room for creating opportunity for one person without removing it for someone else.

In a business there's usually only one spot for a COO, but you can have many senior developers. Therefore the stakes are lower, because other members of staff don't see an opportunity vanishing when a promotion to senior dev is announced.
You're right in that there are clearly people who have been successful this way, but it's a self-selecting group. We don't hear about the ones who are too hard on their larynxes and have to give up early.

There's clearly a safety margin in what vocal coaches teach, and I think it's safe to say that Ozzy must be over the margin, but the right side of critical.
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I thought Chrome pulled in some really bad font, but apparently your designer thought "text-shadow:1px 1px 1px white;" was a great idea to use on your website. Will I blow some circuits if I look at the actual application? :-)