skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preferential treatment. This is the main reason I stopped developing my twitter app. Ugh Twitter, you were doing such a good job with your API, and you let it all go... Sigh.
Technically, your supposed to spell it out, but unless I'm talking about PostgreSQL (which doesn't work unless you spell it out) I say 'sequel' because I like it better.
Quite similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_on_horseback
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Personally I find it a bit of an overkill for me, and I doubt that it plays nice with other package managers... (if anyone knows more I'd like to hear more about it).

That said I understand people doing a lot of work on other people's computers (e.g. Ruby on Rail) may find it really useful.

Personally now it's 1.9.2 all the way! :D
Reality is Unrealistic: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealityIsUnrealis...
I use sequel more and more now (probably reaching 100%) because I deal constantly with executives and non-IT personnel and they all use "sequel".
I'm not. I'm just a dumb user waiting for my data to be unexpectedly wiped. Thanks for the pointer. What does it do?
How Don Knuth's computer skills helped his college basketball team
Nice. I live in Minneapolis and have been following HN for awhile but have never been to a meetup. See you tomorrow!
Great game! I wish there was more of it. Shame JS is still too slow for games, my OS dragged while it played (with a somewhat decent frame rate though) in Chrome.
"Myth: Ruby is split into a myriad of packages in Debian"

He then goes on to say how ruby is split into ruby1.8 libruby1.8 ruby-dev1.8 .... So it seems it is not a myth.

I ran into problems because I installed ruby or so I thought, and couldn't compile rubygems with C extensions (ie mysql), then I found out I had to install ruby-dev1.8. OK....

So now I just RVM and it works great, much simpler.
The poster mentions they wish to defend against theft and lost.

The attacks you cite are more applicable if he were worried about intelligence agencies intercepting his data. And with rumored incestuous relationships with the corporate world, that might not be a bad idea, if he has valuable IP.
How about a paraplegic?

Come on, it sucks to be sick, but every airline seat is not going to be quipped with life support systems.
how much time do you spend on them? How easy is it to identify good or bad commentary? Do you also monitor facebook or twitter?
shh They seem like they are still in the honeymoon period... let them enjoy it.
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Not using transactions effectively forces anyone who wants to call into your code to also not use transactions, or they'll be bitten by the retry behavior.

This may not apply to your library (it seems like maybe it only calls code, rather than being called by it), but the approach you're suggesting can greatly reduce the utility of a library for other people if you're not careful.
All good questions, I think, except the last one. It doesn't matter if you volunteer to sip your explosive liquids because your intent is to die in the upcoming explosion anyway. Sipping them doesn't prove anything.
go build facebook.
But that's just the problem... If Oracle makes the "standard" JVM entirely proprietary, then they are under no obligation to provide it for free.

I'm sure they'll always provide a free version for desktop users, in the interests of having a wide install base. But given the pricing schemes for other Oracle products, I fully expect you'd start seeing things like per-CPU licensing for enterprises, and developer licences for the JDK.

Unless something happens, I'd be VERY surprised if the "standard" JVM is still "free to use", let alone open source, in 5 years.
Oh great, World of WorkoutCraft.
It's quite a little linguistics problem.

I think I tend to say "sequel", especially when discussing "SQL Server" or "MySQL", because "Ess Cue Ell Server" or "My Ess Cue Ell" is a lot slower to say than "Sequel Server" or "My Sequel".

But then I go to discuss PostgreSQL and I'm pretty much stuck saying "Post Gres Cue Ell" because, seriously, how else should I say that? "Postgres Sequel"? "Postgree Sequel"?

The alternative is to fall back to calling it "Postgres". And sometimes I do that, because PostgreSQL is torture to pronounce no matter how you try to do it.
Nope; xauth reduces the number of steps a user has to go through for your service to obtain an access token for them (you can prompt them for their username and password rather than launch a web view pointing at Twitter.com). You still need to ship your consumer key with the app, even with Xauth.
seek well?
Looks awesome. I will definitely use this from now on. A couple questions:
1) When did you guys release this? I have used SeatGeek before and thought I saw this awhile ago.
2) How many venues do you have this for? The entire country?
I think (hope?) this might be exactly what it would take to get me going to the gym regularly. The team element would be a great source of peer pressure "You best be at the gym tonight, we've an important battle".

Here in the UK there is a trend of £9.99/month 24/7 Gyms - and this would complement them really well.
But I've been resisting it for so long! I can't give in now...
Emails go straight to my phone, so I don't know exactly how much time, really. A few seconds two or three times a day, at best. I'm not _that_ popular.

> How easy is it to identify good or bad commentary?

Very easy. With my "ruby shoes" query, programming and nikes are easy enough to tell apart that it only takes a glance, really. I could see how this would be different if it was more ambiguous, though.

> Do you also monitor facebook or twitter?

Not really Facebook. I have @steveklabnik, @hacketyhack, and @cloudfab up in Tweetie all the time, with searches set too. So it notifies me if something comes up.
Hmm, this is an interesting idea. Perhaps instead of making the buff wear off, make things available for the next time you are "in game" as it would be rather risky trying to play the game while walking on a treadmill, bike or eliptical machine.
Hopefully this quaint historical notion of using metal buttons to represent money will just go away completely when we're able to swipe our phones for payment.
Very nicely done. I played to the end, which is a big compliment coming from me, as I don't usually play JavaScript or Flash games more than a few minutes.

It gave me a pleasant nostalgic feeling, reminding me of the Commodore 64 games I used to play as a teenager in the 1980s.

Here's hoping more of the same is coming!
Out of context again Joe.

I'm not advocating that airlines should incorporate ridiculous measures to accomodate all passengers, I am simply stating that these new seats will prevent a significant amount of people who can currently travel in economy from doing so in future.
"Now he claims to want to make the world a more open and honest place. Why would making all this information about yourself public make the world a better place? We've spent thousands of years developing social protocols for how and what we reveal to others about ourselves, our families and our friends. Now we should just forgo all that because some guy thinks that would somehow make the world a better place?"

That's not an argument against Zuckerberg, it's a fully general argument against any social change. You have discovered the Fully General Social Conservative Argument. It wouldn't take much work to adapt your argument to critique the birth control pill or desegregation (at least before they each became a fait accompli[1]).

(The rest of your post questions Zuckerberg's motives, which is not of interest to me so I'm not addressing it.)

[1] (Edit) At this point, social conservatives have to argue that the change, which has already happened, hurt society. Segregation is too taboo to argue for anymore, but you'll still find some committed social conservatives still resisting the Pill, the Catholic Church for instance. If the world really becomes more open and transparent, we'll have at least a generation of pro-privacy social conservatives saying the world is going to hell because your uncle isn't keeping his leather fetish a closely guarded secret anymore.
I don't really care if billmonk comes back up or not, as long as I'm given back my data! There are umpteen number of sites out there which provide a similar (and now I can say, more reliable) service....
Ask and ye shall receive. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/its-not-market-its-hft-crop...

If detailed, fully sourced graphs, demonstrating deliberate use of quote stuffing to essentially jam markets isn't good enough for you I suggest you consider carefully your own bias.
I'm not! When development started I was in high school. Now I'm married with children working at a startup.

It's not that I don't want to play it, but there's just no time. The target audience outgrew the game during development.
Sequel in casual conversation, S-Q-L in interviews.
No offense meant Gaurav.
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Never met anyone in real life that says sequel, well, except when referring to Microsoft products - perhaps a US thing?

Another weird one I noticed is some people pronounce GIF as jiff, rather than giff.
There might also be an effect of people wanting more badly to like the app and "deluding" themselves... if I pay $0.99 for an app, I don't care too much if it works or not, but if I pay $29.99 I'm going to want to like it for reasons of self-validation.
Ask HN: Dropbox for source control
Does anyone currently use Dropbox for source control instead of GitHub, etc? What are the pros and cons?
Unit testing. Without unit testing, life is a LOT harder. Why don't people truly subscribe to this practice? It makes so much sense to put "bracers" around your work to insure its integrity. Check out this white paper if you want more information, I found it useful: http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/article.jsp?articleId=2...
Apple Commercial, 1997: Here’s to the crazy ones.
Also interesting:

Blogpost – http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2010/09/biolab-disaster

Making Of (Video) – http://vimeo.com/14920760

That’s all linked from the game page but easy to overlook because the game is so much fun.
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I would be interested in hearing from startups who have used this to positive effect. My experiment with it was a failure - total flop, got me less new users than $5 of AdWords. This tracks with the experience of a couple companies I have talked with. I am sure there are better ways to do it, and would love hearing some.
I am working a new project on Android for security. My goal is to release it sometime within the next few months.
A point I didn't see: it's probably a lot easier to get funding to come to the US to study engineering.
I used to say S-Q-L in France but when I arrived in SF everybody was talking about "sequel" ... it took me some time to figure out what this damn sequel was.

Now I use sequel in english and S-Q-L in french.
I was thinking it was the english way to say it.

This poll proves me it's wrong :-)
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The only reason I use AdBlock is to eliminate distractions from the page. I don't mind being marketed to, but I do mind it when it gets in the way.
OTOH, Anand appears to use misaligned partitions for some benchmarks, which is only representative of Windows XP but not newer OSes.
looks interesting. how do you deal with numbers that may charge you money?
I say "sequel" ("s-q-l" hardly rolls off the tongue) but often in my group we call it "skewl", because in addition to shaving off half the syllables of "sequel", it sounds fittingly sorta gross.
Completely agree!

Both PHP and VB share low barriers of entry. That make them novice friendly, but in the end it encourages practices that everybody else have agreed to call bad habits.

By example, copy & paste. In most languages if you pick a random forum and ask "how do I do X?", you will receive answers that range from "RTFM" to some cryptic link to a Fine Manual to Read. You will be forced by the elders to conceptualize what you want to do, and then learn how does it work. On the other hand, that same request in the PHP and VB forums will get half a dozen of "here is it, dude" responses... including the one form the reading challenged idiot who answered how to do Y instead.

In the mind of the newbie, then, it becomes perfectly acceptable to equate programming to a look up table where there is some arcane incantation that corresponds to every problem.

Not to say that there is no professional people doing quality work in either language. But dealing with the noise in the community is the price you have to pay.
Winner take-all economics
Used to think that "sequel" was just an arbitrary way to "pronounceable-ize" SQL. So a friend and I retaliated by saying things like "MySquirrel".
iOS4 is not really suitable for the 3G version of the phone, and the 2G version of the phone can't run iOS4 at all.

So the graph is skewed by both of those.

Additionally, android is OTA updates, where they don't even notice there is an update available on iOS until they jack in. The article make it sounds like laziness, when I expect it's more not knowing an update is available
That's got to be part of Facebooks's long term business model.

For RedSoxFansWhoAlsoWearRedSocks.com, targeted advertising is fairly easy, but for sites with a broader audience, like nytimes.com or salon.com where personal information is needed for targeted ads, Facebook already has this information and can sell a connector to you, the nytimes.com ad manager.
and in case that source isn't reliable enough for you, try the FT
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2373a36-b6c2-11df-b3dd-00144feabd...

HFT has chilling associations with the “flash crash” of May 6, when rapid, computer-driven orders were seen as a main culprit in sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by 1,000 points in 20 minutes – a fall unprecedented in its depth and speed.

“We want to be able to look them in the eye and say the market is fair. And unfortunately, at the moment it’s quite difficult to do that.”
Not to mention people can just hit reload and read a new story instead of following a link.
Hate to admit it, but I set one up for my name about a month ago. So far it's been extremely relevant, but as far as I can tell there are only a handful of people in the world with my name anyway.

Vanity is my favorite sin.
The future of R - pessimistic thoughts by R founder Ross Ihaka
The recent post on the shortcomings of R has attracted a huge number of readers and Ross Ihaka has now posted a detailed comment that is fairly pessimistic… Given the directions drafted in this comment from the father of R (along with Robert Gentleman), I once again re-post this comment as a main entry to advertise more broadly its contents. (Obviously, the whole debate is now far beyond my reach!)
http://news.cnet.com/Investor-outlines-SCO-Microsoft-link/21...
Before you trust Yubikey, you might want to read about its weaknesses:

http://security.dj/?p=4
On the plus side, you are now As Seen In TechCrunch, and if you think your customers care about that I would mention it on your front page and sales pages. if in doubt, I suppose you could find some way to do an A/B test :)

Plus it goes in every solicitation for coverage from here out, until you get better social proof (like a NYT article).
Maybe it wasn't an Easter egg. Does it matter ? :D
Sequel, as in "my sequel" because it takes less time. I gravitated to this when I started having to use the term a lot more. Interestingly, I still say "post gray ess queue ell", dunno why. Actually, more often I'll just say "post grays" because the "SQL" at the end doesn't help disambiguate from anything else that starts with "postgre"
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They are similar, but each has its advantages and disadvantages. According to the OTPW site:

"Admittedly, the security obtained by OTPW is not comparable with that of a challenge-response system in which the user has a PIN protected special calculator that generates the response. On the other hand, a piece of paper is much more portable, much more robust, and much cheaper than a special calculator. OTPW was designed for the large user base, for which an extra battery-powered device is inconvenient or not cost effective and who therefore still use normal Unix passwords everywhere."
Good post thanks. Besides optimists and pragmatists, boards also need skeptics to remind everyone of where the company really is before it gets ahead of itself.

The main underlying cause of the problem here is always (in my opinion) the fact that boards and founders tend to build companies only by looking forward at what they hope the company will be in X quarters. In this example: I suspect they are really excited at having the big shot VP of Sales because usually, where there is one, there is revenue. But they don't seem to face the truth of where they really are at this stage: a company still struggling to find its model.
Aside: Is it true that everyone thought the relational model was too slow to be practicable, until the Oracle team put a very fast implementation together (as Larry Ellison claimed in an interview)?

EDIT according to the article, Oracle had the first commercial version of it, and so from their point of view at the time, I guess it was true. It doesn't say if IBM's release a few weeks later was of comparable speed.
Another example of how Fred Wilson has earned his reputation:

Beyond the usual general stuff he focuses on 4.5 "most common" areas of outsourcing and which and how each makes sense for startups.

His closing note about on-shore outsourcing to economically weak regions of the US" is well taken, quite a few areas right around my home town Metropolitan Statistical Area are doing just that.
Faced with:

"If I want to distribute an open-source application, Twitter requires that I do not distribute a consumer secret, but rather require every user who downloads my source to register their own app"

and

"Twitter for Android: As mentioned, their keys are in the app’s classes.dex file in plain text. Their keys have been published online, but apparently Twitter doesn’t care."

A developer might consider shipping with a "sample" key pair.
Like Leenoox vs. Lih-nux vs. Lie-nux, or v-i vs. "vigh" (rhymes with "high"), it's just preference. There is no clearly "correct" pronunciation.

However, the first "a" in Nevada is like the "a" in "cab". That's not negotiable. ;-)
iOS4 is definitely not designed with the 3G or 2G versions of the phone and suffers horrible performance on both versions. However it is only 1 of the about 15 different versions of iOS that have been put out, all of which have had MUCH higher adoption rates per device in the field in general per version of Android there is, as Apple versions are rolled out at once, where Android takes at least a quarter, if not more like 3-5 quarters to roll out updates to everyone for a particular version of android, if the handset/carrier even chose to release that version of the OS at all.

The "you must update to run this software" appears to be what makes most apple people update (after buying appstore apps), NOT buying a new phone like you claim.

However as a matter of general OS upgrades, the centralized model (Apple) is working much much much better than Android's reuse of the old carrier based one on average.

The G1 took forever to get new versions, and the Cliq (one of the more popular phones, especially on TMobile) hasn't gotten an update to a modern version of the OS yet (version 1.5 baby...). Android OS fragmentation is all over the map due to poor investment by the handset makers/carriers.

The platform update model of Apple is being copied by the Windows 7 Phone people exactly because of the Snafu that is Android OS version update, if you ask their evangelist/developer training people.

(As an ex-Linux kernel developer/driver developer, I am saddened to see the mess that is Android OS fragmentation. I really really really would prefer to see it be the dominant platform, but the tools and platform unity aren't there. I actually am Cheering for adobe to get an android compilation target that works worth a flip)

In short, I view this "Android users update faster graph" to be "fibbing with statistics", as the Real delay in the android world is the months it takes to get each handset manufacturer/carrier to put out the new version, not the actual release-install time of the individual user.
Absolutely: the plural of anecdote is not data. But Steve is not marshaling evidence for a proposition here, he's teaching a concept by telling a story to bring the concept alive. That's quite a different thing, and exactly what parables are for.
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The correct pronunciation as stated in the standard is "ess que ell". I can't quote the ISO standard because it doesn't seem to be freely available, but I'm quoting C. J. Date from his book SQL and Relational Theory:

In particular, I follow the standard in assuming the pronunciation "ess cue ell", not "sequel" (though this latter is common in the field), thereby saying things like an SQL table, not a SQL table. (page xvii)
Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671581

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1673302

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1673391

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674049

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1675135

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1677458

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1684492

http://searchyc.com/submissions/dance?sort=by_date

An interesting (to me) side-effect of searching for duplications I think I've seen but can't immediately recall is that the search occasionally throws up something more interesting than I expected. Here's a case in point:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394623

Algorithm X has turned out to be exactly what I needed today, and I found it because I was looking for duplicationsof something entirely different.

Happens more often than I would've said had I been asked.
You are right. bitly did tracking and analytics. But Twitter can have even more information by forcing all users to use t.co.

The point of the article is that Twitter can force every one to use t.co on its platform and thus provide better analytics, malware detection etc than its competitors.

It is a game changer for Twitter monetization; not so much for users or content creators.
How do the graphs demonstrate deliberate use of quote stuffing, let alone market manipulation or a link between HFT and the flash crash?

Rather than repeating myself, I'll link to my own comment on that exact article explaining why I'm almost certain those graphs are not deliberate.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564445

Also from your FT article: Regulators such as the SEC are still puzzling over exactly what caused the flash crash.

(Full disclosure: I work in HFT.)
__sync_fetch_and_add, __sync_add_and_fetch, __sync_val_compare_and_swap, and friends provide a full barrier so “no memory operand will be moved across the operation, either forward or backward.” These operations are the basis for most (all?) lock-free algorithms.

What's lock-free about that? It sounds like locks to me, only you don't implement them yourself. What am I missing?