skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying the "digg for tweets" thing (http://laughlitm.us), its hard to gain traction because its hard to get a viral loop going without needlessly injecting the site into retweets. I am happy with how people can submit though.
I want to add that I really am not familiar with Boxee. I watched their introduction video and it appears that it does support Netflix. It is not clear where the movies from the major studios are obtained. Do people just rip DVDs and pirate them or is there some other source?
I've been using it for 2 days. I have it set up on 2 separate accounts. I'm still training it on what is a priority, but so far it seems to work well. It took a bit to get use to at first. But it is easy to switch between normal and priority mode.
I don't use boxee (yet. I'm going to pick up a boxee box when they come out), but they appear to support Netflix:

http://boxee.zendesk.com/entries/86465-the-netflix-app
Between and during Emacs sessions, being able to view a list of my recently opened files via C-x C-r and then select and re-open them as needed.

;; recent files
(require 'recentf)
(recentf-mode 1)
(setq recentf-max-menu-items 25)
(global-set-key "\C-x\ \C-r" 'recentf-open-files)

http://www.joegrossberg.com/archives/000182.html
Oh boy, nethack_el does not play well with `longlines-show-hard-newlines`.
The problem though is that you can't put MX and CNAME records at the same point in the DNS hierarchy. So if you want to host a site on an ELB at acme.pagerduty.com, you can't then put in MX records for acme.pagerduty.com, because they'll conflict with the CNAME you need to put there.

This all happens because it creates ambiguity. If you want to look up the MX record of a name that has both MX and CNAME entries (say acme.pagerduty.com), should the name resolver:

a) Grab the MX record at acme.pagerduty.com; OR

b) Do what is usually implied by a CNAME record, and pull the target of acme.pagerduty.com, and search for an MX record at that name?

Because of the potential for conflict, the DNS spec simply forbids CNAME records from existing alongside most other records.
A pool of loans.

https://www.salliemae.com/about/investors/debtasset/slmsltru...
This. Unlike a tiny iPhone (or Android) screen, the fairly information-dense Facebook user homepage looks great on the iPad.
I've thought about that as well. Could you give some details on the topology used? Did you run unison in automatic mode via cron?
next time link to the first page.
Or you can just put nginx in front of apache.
I think it proves their point pretty well. Cross-platform-kits equal sub-par experiences almost every time.
Congrats on the raising the round!

Would be curious to see how you do going forward. Banks usually cut a lot of slack to customers with good deposit size. I have been able to get away with any fee with my bank. So it is the lower deposit, not so profitable customers, who pay fees.

The interest margin revenue source sounds fine, but you will be sharing revenue with your partner banks. Looks like the manage goals feature will be built further to suggest products around goals to generate revenue (Mint kind of play).
Exactly my thoughts. I always use horizontal alignment, but I right align the labels so there's an even amount of space between the last letter and the field.
You can still stream movies from your PC or iPod/Phone so the ability to have a hard drive with content you didn't pay for is still there.

http://www.apple.com/appletv/#remote

Not sure if it's limited to MP4 or not but I'm sure there will be a way around that.
To protect the illusion of fairness displayed to diners who get line-jumped.
Sounds like an interesting product, but the oddly shaped case seems to reinforce the fact that this will be a niche product:
http://www.boxee.tv/box

Might seem like a shallow/trivial thing, but I don't really want that thing atop my pile of a/v components.
The author basically doesn't believe CAP represents a good model of the database tradeoffs;

"Over the past few weeks, in my advanced database system implementation class I teach at Yale, I’ve been covering the CAP theorem, its implications, and various scalable NoSQL systems that would appear to be influenced in their design by the constraints of CAP. Over the course of my coverage of this topic, I am convinced that CAP falls far short of giving a complete picture of the engineering tradeoffs behind building scalable, distributed systems."

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/problems-with-cap-an...
Here's a link to the Epic demo in the app store (free):

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epic-citadel/id388888815#

It's pretty impressive.
Aren't serious IPTV fanatics going to continue using HTPCs? I don't see the Boxee set top really being an adequate solution. It's very limited compared to a $300-$500 HTPC. That puts them into a bad spot of being too expensive and too limited. I think Roku and Apple have the right idea.
Aiming for better would be better ;)
Rebranding Carrots as Junk Food
Also easier to CSSize
It is an insightful line.

Partners in crime is the concept, though, I think. In this a very trivial "crime".
Aviation Thinks Outside the Black Box
What one simple thing is iTunes supposed to do? From early on it's been a multi-function program. It would be very difficult to pick out a small subset of features to point at as the core functionality of iTunes since from the early days it's been a music player, CD ripper, store, device manager, etc. Probably the last major new category of functionality added before Ping (which arguably is just an extension of the store) was video playback.
I found the articles about it:

http://mashable.com/2010/08/13/taskforce/

http://lifehacker.com/5621077/taskforce-manages-your-tasks-a...
Interesting, I tweeted about this last night. Luke Wroblewski had an amazing slideshare on this topic, http://slidesha.re/8A3pI. It has other details such as breaking up the page, alignment, spacing, etc...
Except that most bottled water is local tap water, so you would be doing false advertising.
This works varyingly well over here in the UK (bearing in mind that we have a lot less tip-focused service industry).

Obviously it works in top-class London restaurants. Anywhere else it tends to vary, I've tried it once in a semi-nice place in Leeds and got an icy stare and an extra wait :) but then it worked great in a grill house when I was in a rush with friends.

By the way; this is fun to do if you are with a group of friends who have never done it before. Once we were trying to eat in one of the London hotels (it was the nearest place and pay day :)) and obviously got rebuffed. It's really shallow but saying "hold on, wait here" and 30s later gesturing them over is worth the looks on your friends faces :)

The best place this has worked for me is a restaurant in a nearby town - not top class but always full. A few £20 "tips" now gets use pretty instant service - because they know we will tip decently afterwards.

Is it immoral etc? I've always thought not, it's just that I value getting a table X much and, most of the time, X is a steal price :)
It'll be interesting to see how this goes. It has some intriguing possibilities, but it's also a pretty saturated market. The "market" for free information is indeed super-saturated, but the market for pay information is quite saturated as well. I already have more books, e-books, journal articles, conference papers, magazines, e-zines, etc. to read than I can possibly buy and read in any reasonable period of time. Where will reading premium blogs fit into this? I guess into the "e-zine" category. It'll be nice to get more quality stuff in that category, but there isn't really a current shortage of writing I can buy for money. So it'd have to be particularly compelling--- and also has to compete with the premium-quality-but-free online writing that's subsidized via other payment mechanisms, like blogging professors, who get paid in ways other than monetizing their blog directly.
I didn't visit HN for a few days, sorry I didn't reply to your comment at the time. It's not that I don't think it would be a good thing to change policies this way, I agree that economics demands such a change.

Where we differ is in our belief over whether California voters would actually pass such an initiative at the polls. On past forms, I think campaign slogans would beat out economics or critical thinking. I do think ballot initiatives are a good thing in general, but as a state we have also passed some very foolish laws, whose long-term impact was not appreciated at the time. 'Three strikes' leading to life in prison is the most obvious example.
I think it is already settled that there are better metrics for calculating compensation than hours worked or lines of code written.
What makes you think anything else would? I mean, is this a site of 100 visitors a month?
The Apple TV Isn’t For Pirates, It’s For Parents
I think I'll call them "Mercuries", now that I've thought about it (get it? floating footers!).
Why not hire someone as a freelancer before accepting her as a co-founder?
> twice as less

Nice.
Good advice, but one small nitpick: Quicklook isn't Google's - it's just hosted at code.google.com.
New Economy, New Wealth
I don't get it. GCU's course list has been submitted here many times before.
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=855963
Well, I've been talking about the loans themselves, which by definition are not "assets": "Anything tangible or intangible that is capable of being owned or controlled to produce value and that is held to have positive economic value is considered an asset. Simply stated, assets represent ownership of value that can be converted into cash..." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset).

Therefore securities built on top of these loans, such as the pools you refer to in your link, are by definition not "asset-backed-securit[ies]". They are instead backed by e.g. the laws and regulations that make them non-dischargeable ... and I contend that's a major reason why they are non-dischargeable.
A Termite-Riddled House: Treasury Bonds | zero hedge
This viewpoint fails to see that the author benefits just as much as the reader, if not more, from writing quality stuff that attracts eyeballs.

A famous blogger has much better ways to monetise their fame than monthly subscriptions. A blog is a delivery tool to direct people's attention to places - you can sell stuff via your blog. A successful blog is also a powerful reputation-building mechanism. You can sell yourself through your blog. A successful blog is also a great way to open doors - you can introduce yourself thanks to your blog.

By charging your readers, you decrease the value of your blog... to yourself.
Ustream has had an iPhone streaming app for ages now. It's pretty damn nice too. Qik has one too but it's a complete waste of time.
The Boomers need to foot the bill for environmental damage and geopolitical instability too remember. It's not just financial debt.
Vogeler: a python based cmdb framework
Shameless submission. Looking for input and comment from pythonistas.
I have my own preferred color scheme, won't bore you. At bottom, it's GhostWhite on black.

I don't like tabs!

;; destroy all tabs
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
(defun untab-writable-non-makefiles-and-csv ()
(if (and
(not buffer-read-only)
(not (loop for re in '("[Mm]akefile" "\\.mk" "\\.csv" "\\.txt")
if (string-match re buffer-file-name)
do (return t)
finally (return nil))))
(untabify (point-min) (point-max))))
(add-hook 'find-file-hook 'untab-writable-non-makefiles-and-csv)

Emacsclient is a real must.

;; use this to start server for emacsclient
(if (not (boundp 'server-process))
(server-start))

All my shells run inside of Emacs. So they're named, I get completions, and so on. That includes remote shells, using tramp and ssh-mode.

;; tramp mode...
(setq load-path (cons "~/emacs/tramp" load-path))
(require 'tramp)
(setq tramp-default-method "ssh")

;; remote shell! Hooray!
(require 'ssh)
(add-hook 'ssh-mode-hook 'ssh-directory-tracking-mode)

Here's what I use for session.

;; back to emacswiki.org/emacs/DeskTop
(setq *foo-desktop-dir* (expand-file-name "~/emacs/desktop"))
(setq desktop-dir *foo-desktop-dir*)
(setq desktop-path (list *foo-desktop-dir*))
(desktop-save-mode 1) ;; Switch on desktop.el
(setq *foo-desktop-file* (concatenate 'string desktop-dir
"/" desktop-base-file-name))
(setq *foo-desktop-lock* (concatenate 'string desktop-dir
"/" desktop-base-lock-name))
(defun desktop-in-use-p ()
(and (file-exists-p *foo-desktop-file*) (file-exists-p *foo-desktop-lock*)))
(defun autosave-desktop ()
(if (desktop-in-use-p) (desktop-save-in-desktop-dir)))
(add-hook 'auto-save-hook 'autosave-desktop)
I suspect what's called "area compensation" is towards the higher end of what the average developer can expect.

My rather vague impression is that the people who are considered good enough that a recruiter has to hire them will get the 80-100k while for the rest its more like 60-80K.

Correct me if I'm wrong - please, I'm curious really...

Edit: Google in particular is a large company by now. At the start, I would assume they'd pay premium for developers but over time I'd assume they'd aim to pay least possible for the people who met their standards.
The waiter is stealing the profit (and cost) of those items, not just the cost.
But it doesn't dispute your original point - ads are annoying to the reader too, and longer content costs more.
Does the IP of the AWS load balancers ever change over time? Does anyone know the technical reasoning behind the requirement?
Haha, exactly. Floating labels...forget it.
To what degree would you say that this line of reasoning would be different if you replaced "blog" with "product?"
I can tell you a hilarious story about a former employer who bought a Teradata to run a trading system on...
Huge gaps in the catalogue.
Have thought about that - but where can I find good freelancers?
I think it depends more on other aspects of the person's interests and personality than a linear smartness factor. For example, not many top physicists historically have been entrepreneurs (Einstein dabbled in a Freon-free refrigerator, but mostly because he was repeatedly lured by an entrepreneur who wanted Einstein's assistance on it, as opposed to great entrepreneurial interest on Einstein's part). A lot of top computer-science types have been, but a lot also haven't been. You've got some Sergey Brin / Larry Page types, who start businesses, and some Ken Thompson / Dennis Ritchie types, who don't.
Judging from the comments on the OP, people are having trouble picking two airports that work - bit of a shame, to get lifehacker exposure and then having people shrug and go away. The problem is that I suspect adioso uses cookies and/or browsing history to figure out an itinerary to suggest (I received a default search suggestion that was so wacky for anybody except me, who had indeed done such a search elsewhere), but that suggested itinerary is practically guaranteed to fail given the small coverage at this point.

It really would be better in this case if there was a bit less cleverness and the suggested search was one that the engine can actually fulfill.

Anyway, LGW to ATH will work for those who want to try it.
Firstly, my comment was qualified with the word 'philosophical' not 'practical'.

Secondly, many people have different understandings of capitalism, and pop culture has continued to remove meaning from the word, which is probably why you are having a hard time understanding my comment.

The examples you cite are perfect examples of the opposite of capitalism: socialized institutions (or the government directly) using violence as a means to an end, either political or economic in nature.

For reference here is the jist from Wikipedia, which leaves a little to be desired but is still pretty decent:

"Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and operated for profit; decisions regarding supply, demand, price, distribution, and investments are not made by the government; Profit is distributed to owners who invest in businesses, and wages are paid to workers employed by businesses."
I can't help but disagree with the claim of how much it supposedly "kicks ass" to be a Canadian startup. I founded a Canadian company a few years ago (still going) and am friends with a few of the founders of those other startups listed there. We're mostly on the same page: we're started here because we lived here, but being in Canada isn't exactly a hub for innovation.

One thing Canadian tech companies are good at is growing to 20-30 employees and selling out to a US company. But that's very different - the innovation is sucked out in those circumstances.

I feel that the "Revenue? We'll worry about that later" attitude is somehow important for innovation. Investors in Canada are really not one for high risk, high returns.

I mean, it's not horrible here or anything, but I really don't think our startup environment holds a flame to the US.
Clever idea. I subscribe to the wacky theory that kids prefer junk food to vegetables because it tastes better rather than because they've been brainwashed by evil advertisers, but either way this will provide useful data.
Brilliant! And fitting, since baby carrots are already the sort of "junk food of the carrot world." At least, insofar as that they're the lazy alternative to buying and cutting your own damn carrots.

(Baby carrots are just big carrots that have been pre-cut and marked way up. Info here: http://www.wisebread.com/baby-carrots-the-frugal-idea-that-i... ... which also brings to mind the semi-related issue of America's aversion to non-"perfect" produce. That's one of the reasons small, local producers have a hard time selling to big grocery chains -- they can't afford to cull their produce of the "ugly" carrots, tomatoes, peppers, etc.)
My university requires a class called "Languages and Machines." According to the instructor, it used to be two classes, "Languages" and "Computation."

We started doing some language fundamentals and comparative analysis of different languages (how basic data types are implemented, structs, closures, etc.). Then we talked about various function calling conventions, beginning with a simple stack machine language and slowly building on that to support recursive calls, etc. By the end, every passing student had written non-trivial programs in at least 3 different languages, and written very simple yet enlightening implementations of the basic components of compilers (lexer/parser, AST, code generation, basic optimization, etc.).

I would've preferred a full-blown compilers course, but that class was still my favorite CS class.
What about in the worst case?
>Raymond E. Stauffer was shopping at a New Jersey mall when he noticed something peculiar about the bow ties on display at Brooks Brothers: They were labeled with old patent numbers.

Mr. Stauffer, who calls himself a "sharp-dressed man," also happens to be a patent lawyer. He sued Brooks Brothers Inc. in federal court, claiming it broke the law by marking its adjustable bow ties with patents that expired in the 1950s.

He figured the retailer would have to pay a nominal amount for violating a law that bars companies from marking products with erroneous patent numbers.

Opening paragraphs, among mentioning other retailers elsewhere (though those seemed to be referring to those retailers' own products).
I just went to add the same link without realising it was already here, d'oh. It was also the first material I remember reading on form label placement and I found it to be a bit more enlightening (and better written) than the subject post of this thread.
Meh. I haven't thought about this a lot, but I think the whole capitalism vs. socialism dichotomy is useless since the concepts carry so much historical baggage.

Coming from one of the Nordic countries, I would say that I have accepted a social contract that says I pay more in taxes than in other countries, and for those taxes I get "free" healthcare and "free" university education. The contract is that people get something at the beginning and the end of their lives and aren't screwed when they are faced with injury or illness, and pay more than they get during their working years. As someone said on on /., taxes buy me (this particular type of) civilization.

I'd keep that separate from the economic (e.g. private ownership and allocation of resources via somewhat free markets) and legal (e.g. governmental decision making based on majority and strong individual rights) aspects.

Unfortunately, most people confound these different aspects for historical reasons, so they have come to mean "good choices in those factors" and "bad choices in those factors" depending on your POV.
No one said "deep." Even if all CS grads did get "deep understanding" of compiler internals, chances are that would not cover the new paradigm of dynamic languages. My point is that only the most diligent CS grad is going to be able to create or even contribute to a full-blown, widely used modern programming language.
Add the following to your hosts file:

# Web toolbars/widgets
127.0.0.1 wibiya.com
127.0.0.1 cdn.wibiya.com
127.0.0.1 apture.com
127.0.0.1 www.apture.com
127.0.0.1 cim.meebo.com

In this case, the top toolbar is from Apture and the bottom from Wibiya.
Can I just warn you that our dog always ate the scraps (and too much of them) and ended up with Diabetes. (Such a first world problem I know).
Having to give her 2 insulin injections a day was not very fun (or cheap).
About 30 seconds into reading the article, I came to roughly the same conclusions as you. No references to primary research. Poor.

The sad thing is that many people accept what they read in blog posts that are widely retweeted. Critical thinking is such an important skill, I'm surprised how many people don't have it. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking )
Great video, bad link title.
Ping, only accessible from within iTunes? Not a web interface at all? That is surprising to me. I can't participate unless I have an iPhone/iPod Touch/computer with my iTunes installed.

Also, he mentioned showing what my friends have purchased. I am more interested in what they are playing right now or are playing overall, regardless of where it came from. iTunes and iPods have been successful because it isn't restricted to only content purchased in the iTunes store, but now they are focusing hard on the iTunes store content only?

I can't see that this is going to be as successful as if they had a more open mind about it. What about the MP3s I buy from Amazon or CDs (or whatever) and load on my iTunes? Only tracking what comes from the iTunes store is like navel gazing. I think they miss the big picture that way.

Or maybe I am just old fashioned. :)
>Patents are very specific

Only some. Loads of them are so vague as to match nearly anything in their field.
http://imgur.com/n1KoJ
Reality Distortion Field in Full Effect
Only Apple would have the audacity to say something so contradictory and absurd.
Yes, this is old news. It's designed to increase the effectiveness of a ban by increasing the time until the banned poster finds out he is banned and attempts to circumvent it.
Academics writing papers is not the same thing as people actually solving problems in production.

Not to be ornery about this or anything.
>A blog is a delivery tool to direct people's attention to places - you can sell stuff via your blog. A successful blog is also a powerful reputation-building mechanism.

Reputation goes down the toilet the moment you start selling stuff on your blog. Affiliate links are the scourge of blogs, because you don't know whether it was an incidental monetization, or whether the blogger thought "How am I going to get this thing to pay by indirectly and inefficiently taxing readers?", scrounging around for some sort of affiliate junk to claim to be over the moon with.

Examples abound of prominent bloggers flushing credibility and reputation down the toilet when they chose the "Sell" route for monetization.

Reputation itself is a bias, though. Some of the worst blogs are the ones where the writer is clearly preening themselves for future employers.