skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite how effective this generally is, I feel dirty every time and I hate doing it.
Live Nation To Power Concert Listings, Ticket Sales In iTunes 10
You are mixing up private property with personal property.
There are some times when the standard normal form is a real pain, for example, and your data fits better as a document or a simple key-value. I mentioned one such instance for me here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1637903
In the US maybe - the UK has neither Netflix nor Hulu and that goes for the rest of Europe too.

Apple has global reach and will be getting in early in a lot of countries.
Though, I do love travelling...
MySpace was created for and, early on, largely marketed to bands who wanted a simple page with a place to feature music. It only caught on with the public as a secondary.

Now, bands are pretty much the only people who still use the platform at all.
I've got basically the same setup. If AppleTV has got an advantage, it's in packing all these things into a neat, tiny package with a clean and simple UI. Standard procedure for Apple really, and it has worked for them in the past.

To me the question is whether they've let all these competing services catch on too much before throwing their hat back in. Virtually everyone who knows what AppleTV is/was is already aware of Hulu and Netflix. So they've got to do a really good job of improving the experience with these channels, or alternately target less tech-savvy people who aren't aware of these alternatives.

In my experience, anyone who wasn't raised with game consoles does not want to deal with them when trying to watch movies. My father would sooner drop a couple hundred bucks on a redundant DVD player than have to learn what "sign in to xbox live" means, or remember that the green button means go and the red one means go back.
I think this would be better without the adversity. Nobody has to 'win' or 'lose' on 'either side' of 'the debate.' The whole way this is framed (by everyone, not just this) irks me.

Different tools for different cases. Polyglot persistence is the way forward.
> It's for reasons you said that I'm glad the word "socialism" is being reappropriated from Marx. The world needs to be able to talk about socialist forms of society without this talk being tainted by Marxist theory and the shadow of communist history.

The irony of this, of course, is that there is no communist history. The USSR etc. were socialist states[1] (in name if not in practice.)

[1] Socialism as defined by Marx is the transition period after the revolution, before communism is achieved.
Steve & I are still recovering from the Toronto reddit meetup (drankkit). Those Waterloo students... wow...
Perhaps, but tenured faculty come with track records. Those are easily examined. Neglect manifests itself in the form of students who take too long to finish and few graduates active in the field. With nontenured faculty the problem is with the lack of a record - in the field, in the department, and in mentoring.

I know of two criteria for tenure: Publications and grants. Student advising is not going to shift that calculus dramatically in any direction.

Nontenured faculty may be great but it's potentially too problematic to have one as a primary adviser. Too many unknowns affect their emotional and professional state to tie your ship to theirs. Better to get a more senior person as the primary mentor and then form collaborations with, and get advice from, the nontenured faculty.

For sure, it's a case-by-case consideration. A nontenured faculty with graduating students before they receive tenure is a good sign along with grants and publications. But a tenured faculty member is better equipped, at least politically, to look out for their students. If they don't have a record of doing so, stay far, far away.
The idea does sound interesting - so it looks like they are trying to reduce the amount of network handshaking by imposing a stricter isolation.

I am not sure I am convinced by their results though. They say their deterministic system seems viable when comparing its performance to traditional systems under short in-memory transactions. That is a special case that is clearly in their favor though. In that situation, the amount of time spent in processing data is greatly reduced so the network overhead becomes much more significant - so the system that does less network communications will obviously win...

I guess it may potentially be good for in-memory database systems for stuff like OLTP apps (e.g. VoltDB and TimesTen), but then I think most OLTP apps are okay with a more relaxed isolation...
the article is from October 2000. The restaurant business is so bad right now that there is absolutely no need to bribe.

I am traveling to Chicago and NY on Jetblue's all you can fly. Alinea had a few openings that I was able to squeeze in over the phone. I was changing Daniel and Jean Georges's appointments many times with no problem.
This makes sense to me. The problems with fish farming are mostly just problems with farming in general: animals in close quarters transmit disease more easily, farmers combating that with mass quantities of antibiotics risk causing other problems, poor waste management leads to a gross-at-best and toxic-at-worst environment of farmed animals sloshing about in their own waste, meat from animals fed on diets very different from their natural diets might not have the same nutrient profiles, etc., etc.

But none of those are really fish-specific. Perhaps opponents realize that, and it's mostly a tactical move to keep what they see as an already bad industry (commercial meat farming) from expanding to a new ecosystem (coastal waters). Maybe that's even the best tactical move, given political realities. But I can't help but thinking that I'd rather have some attempt at a real solution.

What that solution is I'm not as sure about. There are regulation angles, especially with things that have large potential for collateral damage, like overuse of antibiotics. There are encourage-the-free-market angles, like better labeling, or better third-party information sources, that make it easier for consumers to decide what kinds of farms they want to buy from. And possibly other angles. I suppose we could all become vegetarians, too, but that's unlikely.
A major problem in Canada in my humble opinion is a lack of or alternatively a very poor startup ecosystem... unfortunately Canadian society is still very much conservative in that regard and it is not very welcoming towards startups and in turn startups have a somewhat negative connotation. That's a shame of course... we have lots talent and very intelligent folks around here..
I think the OPs comment was about computer science in particular, but even there things are changing somewhat. Partially it's because of the weak economy and scarcity of faculty jobs, but getting into the top-tier places almost requires a postdoc these days.
See also:

http://www.esquire.com/features/the-state-of-the-american-ma...

http://nymag.com/nymetro/shopping/features/9939/

http://www.chow.com/food-news/54576/will-this-20-change-your...

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0303-MAR_20DOLLARS
"Emergence" seems to me like a placeholder term. These are terms that scientists throw around for "something interesting is here, but we don't understand it yet... but we sort of know it when we see it."

Other examples: dark matter, dark energy, etc.
In the words of Anil Dash, after this morning's announcement, "This is my favorite app for editing ringtones, copying presentations to my iPad, telling friends I'm going to a concert & watching TV!"

http://twitter.com/anildash/statuses/22732156912
Just wondering, what would you call average for a developer straight from college?
it's a facebook IPO... i would take the gamble...
Hah, the images are chosen algorithmically at random based on geo-tags, popularity rank and a few other things.

In some cases, less than appropriate ones can sneak in (now moderated). Looks like the algorithm could do with a few tweaks :)

Original photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/19835636@N00/3124241249/ for those who are interested.
Do You Need To Move To The Valley?
You can never rely on the past as a predictor of the future in any market.
Do you have data?
some ideas to think about:

- on http://celebritytweetarchive.com/ users can leave comments under tweets - also seen on tweetmeme. If you can get people commenting, that'd be massive.

- there isn't a twitter account to follow with the submissions. Then place an additional link back the comments page in those tweets.

- have user icons

- count submission points by the number of rewteets made on site, and generally by the site's users off-site, or just number of retweets (or an upvote)

- you could just create a generic 'digg for tweets' - then have a bookmarklet that a person clicks when viewing a single tweet to submit the tweet, or toggle into the site.

- perhaps when a tweet is submitted, it becomes a favorite, or when it is favorited, it is submitted.

- split the site into different sections, eg see http://favstar.fm
I buy that, but Ive never understood why any half-decent engineer would care about what the public thinks of his/her company.
Google releases its own Javascript Lint tool
I really don't want to talk politics. I just find manifestos from crazy people interesting. This from WTOP: Sources are saying the suspect is allegedly upset about the documentary called "Whale Wars."

Whale Wars?
He really should have made it about definitions since more than half of the commenters here seem to have no idea what communism is and, thereby, misunderstand socialism (as defined by Reginald) and Socialism (as defined by Marx).

Communism <> capitalism.
Democracy <> oligarchy.
Freedom <> oppression.
I won't tell you what I call it!

Ok, I will: Intellectual masturbation - It feels good at the time but is ultimately unproductive.
There was a rumor somewhere that a few people they really want are getting offered as much as 1/10 of 1%.

But yeah, obviously not every Google employee that swings by Facebook for an interview is going to get offered that much. That's the ceiling.
http://github.com/jbalogh/zamboni would probably be a good start, and http://pinaxproject.com/ another.
HN is no longer just Startup News, as it used to be. Topics which are of intellectual merit appeal both to startup founders as well as to PhD students. Hence the large number of PhD HNers and generally rosy picture of PhDs.

But I agree with the grandparent that getting a PhD is somewhat opposed to doing a startup (although you need many of the same skills for both).
I was reading Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, and he talks about being liberal and magnificent with money. I'm in Vietnam now, things are cheap-ish anyways, so I decided I'm make the transition towards doing that. I wrote up my first experiences here -

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=161

Since then, it's been even more crazy. I was just trying to be gracious - I wasn't trying to bribe for favors like the author of the gourmet.com piece. Just either before or after I get service, tipping more. Result is staggering to me - people start working for you. I wasn't asking anything in return, but I'm now getting informed on all sorts of little details, recommendations, little extra services here and there. In the changing room of the place I go to get a massage, the guy there is like my intelligence agent now. As I was getting changed back into street clothes after getting a massage, he says, "Psst - hey, next time... go with locker #1." He taps the locker. He explains, "Very pretty, young girl. Best girl here." Apparently the experience is streamlined by number the whole way through - locker number, who you are massage therapist is, and billing for tips/coffee/extra food or drink you order is all tied together. He also shined my boots and he's super friendly helping me put a robe.

It's strange, I came from pretty humble origins so this is all very new for me. I just thought I should start being good to people and taking care of people, and I'm kind of taken aback by how gracious people are. It's still against my nature to over-tip, I came up pretty frugal and had literally no money for large portions of my life, but I'm starting to see the value of really taking care of people. There's a security guard near where I live who I'm friendly with, I'm going to go buy him a tuna sandwich next time I'm buying stuff at the bakery. I think, just like that, I'll go from having a friendly acquaintance to having a guide and intelligence agent.

That's not even why I do it. I thought - give back, spread money around a little bit, take care of people. But people seem to really want to take care of you when you do. It's like you're signalling that you're a person who takes good care of people or some such. I don't know, still very new to me. It's interesting though.
Apple bought LaLa a while ago, that was a pretty strong sign of something like Ping happening.
I've used Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) to get a dropbox type setup running across several machines.
the facebook name alone pretty much guarantees a stratospheric IPO, even if totally unwarranted
Steve Jobs may have a public stance of hating porn on his devices, but the Apple TV sure is perfect for it. It's connected to your home theater, can stream files from your computer, and is internet connected. What more could someone watching porn want?
Haha, is there any other kind of argument (in politics at least)?
First, your wording is rude and if you said that to my face I'd tell you to f* off.

Second, it did begin with that, and there is no factual clash or contradiction with my original comment. Asking for help does not preclude money being involved, and my use of the phrase about doing my homework was metaphorical to illustrate a class of inqueries made all over the web everyday -- but in other forums that are better and often more precisely suited to that exact purpose.
This may be good advice for getting a doctorate in ?computer science? -- the author never states his discipline in the article.

It may not be particularly good advice for other disciplines. For example, as a doctoral student in Ecology you would be very lucky to have anything submitted for publication before you take your orals. It takes too long to get set up and start your research, especially if there is a seasonal component, and there are too many dead ends along the way. If you work hard, and with a little luck you may have one or two publishable papers by the time you graduate. Aim for the stars, but the important thing is clearing the trees...
77% of the population have symptoms of personality disorder?
Yes, but how do we decide how much society benefits from what you do? The military and police, keeping the mob rule at bay may be a great benefit, since it protects the rest of society and gives it the opportunity to invent and build things. Teaching people, healing people, motivating people. How should we value and reward all these things?
Gordon Gecko is back... and so are his suits
"Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back?"

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The public includes parents, friends and members of the opposite sex. A lot of people confuse what others think of them with self worth.
Seems unethical to me, strictly speaking.

Sure, everyone's doing it. Doesn't mean cheating someone else out of their fair share is right, though.
"What more could someone watching porn want?"

Real sex with a real person?
Lots of good news for us NY folks today.
Well I don't think they filter stuff from your computer. If you have gigs a porn or gigs of "Glee" they're not stopping you.
Skein Suffering from Strange Peformance Problems
What does your startup do? It's this for that
Their post is a tribute to the freedom to fail.

If you're willing to structure experiments like this to limit risk but be deep enough to yield genuine benefits, there's a whole lot you can learn. You've got to work in a culture that tolerates failure, obviously, but why work somewhere that doesn't?

Back during a horrifying phase of my life, I worked in the shudder-inducing industry of internet marketing. I wanted to try a new type of lead capture form that was less user hostile. It was extraordinarily simple, but between bureaucracy and a web development group that was sorely overworked, it took 12 weeks for the idea to work its way through the constipation of the organization and into existence.

And it didn't work that well. That earned me a bit of ire.

I gave up on finding something that did work and took another, less depressing job.
The Coming Robot Crime Wave
Jobs: 6.5 Billion Apps Downloaded From The App Store
I had already learned a number of lessons. First: Go. You’d be surprised at what you get just by showing up. Second: Dress decently. Third, and most important: Don’t be ashamed. They’re not, and neither should you be.

I see. If people go along with what you suggest, you don't have to feel ashamed about it. So this guy has no interest in right or wrong at all; he just doesn't want to feel embarrassed. I'm sure this guy will enjoy a lot of loyalty and support when the chips are down.
Basically, it doesn't relate to the CAP theorem. ACID is largely orthogonal to CAP, the C notwithstanding. It sounds like the proof-of-concept sacrifices consistency (in the CAP sense): the model is one in which each node executes commands independently, but in a deterministic fashion, so they eventually look the same anyway.
As I explained here previously, artists don't really get paid on album sales (or mp3 sales) due to various reasons. Besides TV/Radio broadcasts, what they really care about is concerts (live performances) and concert attendance and Facebook and Twitter are both excellent tools to raise some noise before gigs. It looks like Apple understands that.
I already have 3 Roku players. The Apple TV doesn't offer me anything I don't already have. Less actually, Roku also has Amazon VOD, various custom channels, streaming of local video and a budding app ecosystem. I've recently switched from using iTunes to Amazon for buying TV shows because their player is Flash based and works great on my Linux systems.
How do socialists propose capital investment is supposed to be done efficiently, if it can't rely upon profit motive on the part of the investors?
USA Today has the current highest-ranked HN article on this topic?
Don't get me wrong - Postgres is awesome and I would happily use it for any project. I'm not sure Postgres is easier to manage than Oracle and places any less maintenance overhead, but YMMV.

Its just that RAC is a special technology with no equivalent on other DBs. It is usually placed where you need load balancing on the DB level. It normally has very high availability that is a good fit for mission critical DBs. I hate seeing good technology wasted, but you are right that if Postgres is already there and works well, there is no point in moving anywhere.
Are you suggesting that half-decent (or better) engineers are too socially inept and have any use for signaling social value to the opposite sex?
Analysis of data can sometimes tell police where criminals are headed
furthermore, i suspect IKEA can get some great ideas from this sort of thing, and they've got the mass distribution.
You are the biggest douche asshole on HN and probably the biggest idiot as far not being able to understand someones post because they have poor grammar/writing skills. I could give this to my little sister and she would be able to understand it. Delete your account from here you asshole.
I get your humor, I just wanted to be precise :)
What's Facebook's profit this year? Any guestimates?
Compilers was one of the few classes where I thought the S actually met the C in CS. I applied real algorithms I'd learned in Algorithm and data structures I had learned in Data Structures to support the theory of computation I had learned in The Theory of Computation.
Purchase Configuration & how to differentiate
I'm pretty sure that cars are the old hacking frontier. As in, kids into computers today would have been into cars 50 years ago. Instead of lan parties everyone came over and worked on your car.
I'm still at the beginning ..
While I know a lot of people who have Apple devices and like using them, I know even more people who use Google on a daily basis. So my own vague impression is that Apple and Google are about the same, with maybe an edge to Google.
I don't know if I'd be interested or not. Maybe. It'd be cool to meet people but I'm not sure if it'd go well or be worthwhile. I'd probably be willing to try one out if it's not too far away (I'm in Sandy).
Facebook CEO: Keep private life out of lawsuit
i think you mean there's no privacy issue yet. facebook didn't have nearly the level of privacy hand-wringing that it does now when it was only open to students at select college campuses. but along came employers, and parents, and all sorts of other groups, and suddenly this "safe place" was full of people whose intentions did not match your initial expectations. same will easily happen to any network that reaches a certain size, ubiquity, etc.
From glassdoor.com

Software Engineer 697 Google Salaries Average $98,813 Range $70k-$129k

Senior Software Engineer
77 Google Salaries - Average $124,393	Range $63k - $150k

Software Engineer III 55 Google Salaries - Average $103,125	Range: $93k- $115k

Software Engineer In Test 55 Google Salaries
- Average: $85,078	Range: $62k- $104k

Software Engineer II
20 Google Salaries - Average: $87,20 Range: $72k- $105k

(so yeah $150k is highest end of Senior SW Engineer)
I'm not sure how to answer that. How do you know how much of Microsoft's time and money goes to developer support? How do you know that Oracle does any less? I don't have any real hard numbers.

Microsoft MSDN for developer support and Oracle has OTN. Both companies have developer oriented conferences in addition to business conferences. Both companies employ evangalists that work with startups to help them adopt their technologies. Where do you see the difference?
Using the iPad as a remote control for the Apple TV is pretty sweet.

I'll predict the next step is to use Apple TV to display games that you're playing on the iPod Touch or iPhone, i.e. your Apple handheld devices become video game controllers.
Disagree. The time and frustration of watching ads is worth more than 99 cents to me. Plus, Apple's selection is much better than Hulu's or Netflix's, and their resolution is 720p compared to the lower 480p quality on the other services. (Netflix in particular heavily compresses their video stream to the extent that it detracts from my experience sometimes.)
From what I know from friends the base salary may not be that much but they get handsome bonuses, maybe he added those to the base to get that number.
I thought this was an awesome article. I saved up money and quit my job last year to move from NY to SF. It never panned out, so I wound up being jobless for 9 months until I found something new. I still want to move out there and this just reinforces it. I'll get out there sooner or later.
Wouldn't "gravity" be a better example? We don't truly understand the underlying reason for it, but we can observe its effects.
> Are you afraid someone's going to ... subpoena your code or something? Because if that happens, you'd have to turn it over anyway.

Not if you don't live in the US.
Daniel Abadi is one of the authors of the HStore paper that VoltDB is based on. It looks like the deterministic order system is using similar requirements and assumptions.
Unfortunately Apple's new TV rental service doesn't seem to extend to the UK. It's a shame, as at £99 I was very happy to buy one until I realised how much less content we're getting compared to the US.
Right and that is also reflected on grants based on salaries you paid the previous year, not exactly straightforward when you are just a few founders and not much cash yet.
Dear entire mainstream media: Please stop referring to reddit as "small".
The rulers also generally prevented other rules from invading your land, taking your things, raping your wife, and killing your children.
F.C.C. Considers Rules for Wireless Internet Traffic