skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming languages don't really die, they just turn into zombies that everyone tries to avoid.
Yeah, we are in "pre" Beta state, just taking registrations right now.

As far as Xcode integrations go, I think Xcode 4 actually has Git integrated baked in.
There is a lesson here for language designers!
Chromium Blog: An overview of the Chrome Web Store Licensing API
It is possible to have dozens or more, since the female cat can have a litter from multiple sires. A female cat can mate with multiple tom's during the estrus (7-21 days) or heat cycle.
...and it will run on a new line of Amigas.
DoubleClick Ad Planner’s Bestiality Bug
October 3rd? This is either a typo or perhaps this new privacy policy thing is not in effect until a month from today? "Last modification" date is a little misleading if the latter is true; the policy could have some sort of language regarding "effective as of DD_MM_YYYY" to be more clear.
Personal preference I suppose. In Windows, the default /User/Name/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/ is a little annoying.
Doesn't that just beg the question?
For PC hardware, in-house there's a 1.8GHz Athlon running Asterisk. Out in the field, I think our lowest end is a P4 2.2GHz.

Non-PC hardware? I don't know; embedded devices all kinda blur together for me.
Look like Rails took a big bite out of Perl jobs?
How many people have solved it so far?
You speak as a lawyer or a layman?
Netgear offers 500Mbps powerline networking via next-gen standard
So you are saying that the existence of a good library should discourage other people from writing their own? You are so missing the point.
Can you tell me more?
In that light, how about "eartop" or "fingertop"? or maybe "palmtop"? (that one might have some tm issues).
Mostly as someone who can read.

My point is that unless you or anyone can suggest a rational argument against clarifying this policy's language, I'm just not going to worry about it, and I don't think anyone else should either. "Lawyers can exploit it more easily" doesn't work as a rational argument for me. It seems like almost all privacy violations out there happen well within the constraints of privacy policies, or by accident. There's rarely ambiguity in a policy which gets exploited to enable something unexpected. It seems like a really low-concern area that doesn't deserve the kind of FUD I'm seeing in this thread. Especially in the case of a company like Google that could suffer for reversing its public stance on privacy.
1. Yes, in fact it's flattened slightly as a result; its rotation period is ~25 days
2. Yes, with a period of about 240 million years
3. Not much.
Microsoft Security Essentials: Not sure what you have against this. I happily suggest it for all my friends and family when they ask for anti virus. Its free, and effective, and doesn't cause headaches (ala Norton, etc).
Are there other value-adds besides # of documents? In the abstract, I'd like to see less granular pricing over the # of documents, instead charging more for value-adding benefits.
Reminds me of the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." SharePoint works with so many MS products and there is such a huge eco system that goes with it. I think it's a safe bet for many companies that already rely on MS products. I would also give a lot of credit to the MS consulting/salesforce for many sales of that product.
At my first job some extremely expensive piece of spectrometry equipment was controlled by a Compaq Deskpro 386 (c. 1986).

I left at the beginning of 2005 and it wouldn't surprise me if the Deskpro is still there.
Actually, a rotating frame is non-inertial.
Yeah it is definitely a niche product. It's mostly targeted at developers who want a simple one-click way to do the most common actions with local checkouts - add, rm, commit, etc. Or people migrating from a "traditional" VCS, that aren't quite familiar with git commands yet.

"Advanced" functionality - merging, rebase, etc - was purposely left out because that most likely to be done at the command line no matter what.
The costume competition pic is sooo deceiving.
And it doesn't capture keyboard input except from known text widgets? My paranoia rests with pagewide onKey* hooks and the like. I'm not a JS guy, though, but I'd assume those are possible. That's why I was curious about total opt-out of key trappings.
Rails Developer - Chicago or SF, USA

CaptainU makes awesome applications to help high school athletes connect with college coaches. We have over 100k users, and are growing fast.
Other people are bothered that the creators are not personally upset about how shoddy the work is and make quite sure that they are.

There's also a subtle difference between the 1st part of this sentence alone and the entire sentence.
I can't speak for him, but it looks a lot like my pre-code scribbles. As someone who takes pride in being a fleshware translator of pseudo-code to real-code, I feel indignant at the sight of executable, Englishy specification.

High praise or a heavy put-down?

Also, I seem to hold the Guy Steele languages in highest regard, and consider the rest passable toys. C, Common Lisp, Scheme, Java, Fortran .. somehow they feel real. You crack open the spec and you're quickly welcomed into an intelligent dialog with the best minds in systems programming. I read several chapters of the Java spec last night and learned more about the language in one night than weeks of "googling" Ruby. The GSL-school of specification is precise, uses a well established vocabulary, and explains the syntactic and semantic rules of the language, along with their required execution environment. Not a word is said about add-on packages, installation crap, compiler internals or how to fork the language on github.

Compare these two and see what I mean:

http://docs.python.org/reference/index.html

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/j3TOC....

See how much more detailed the Java specification is; although the language has more features, the spec manages to be much more succinct and precise. The Python spec is littered with references to "CPython" and the internals of an specific compiler.
Startup Software Engineer - Vancouver, Canada (remote development is fine)

Sokanu

Sokanu is a social learning platform aimed at helping individuals find their passion in life. The idea came about last year when I was finishing high school and I noticed that the majority of my classmates had no particular idea as to what they were going to do with the rest of their lives. Most people ended up taking generic courses at the same universities. Around the world, people struggle with the question, "what am I going to do with the rest of my life?".

So we decided to start a company with the focus of solving that problem. Our goal is to be the place on the Internet that people go to find the career that matches their passion.

We are looking for a C# developer to help us finish our alpha product (70% complete) and continue as the leading engineer to build the company into the future. Full job description available here: http://jobs.startupnorth.ca/job/startup-c-software-engineer-...

If you would like more info or would like to apply, please send an email to jobs@sokanu.com Thanks so much!
They did their best to make it fun, fair, and exciting:

http://nodeknockout.com/judging
Hallowed Ground, Worldly City: Ground Zero and the Struggle for Lower Manhattan
I'm starting to wonder if you read the paper or just glanced at it.

1. INTRODUCTION
Most forms of life on Earth are adapted to growth within the temperature range, 10-45C. Microorganisms, known as thermophiles, however, grow optimally between 45C and 70C. Recently novel microbes, growing at temperatures above 80C have ben reported, and the upper temperature limit for growth has been extended to 113C and 121C by the discovery of Pyrolobus fumarii and “strain 121”, both having been isolated from hydrothermal vents (Kashefi and Lovley, 2003). Stetter (1992) termed these newly discovered microorganisms “hyperthermophiles”. There also exist in the literature disputed claims that bacteria, isolated from black smokers can grow at 250C (Baross and Deming, 1983). Louis and Kumar (2003) also reported that red cells which fell in so-called “Red Rain” over at Kerala in India (and which are studied here) could replicate at 300 C (Louis and Kumar, 2003, 2006), a claim that needs to be verified independently if it is to gain acceptance.

Wickramasingh and Wainwright were publicly critical of the earlier claims made by Louis and Kumar in 2003. This paper investigates one aspect of those claims by testing whether any growth of these cells take place, and if so whether it can occur at high temperatures. The answer to both those questions is 'yes'. It's reasonable to begin by investigating whether the phenomenon occurs at the known upper temperature bound mentioned in the first citation, and to solicit confirmation of that result, before investigating other conditions for growth whose very possibility is speculative at present.

I don't know why you're ragging on this paper so much. The news report is trash but the paper is cautious (indeed the Louis papers are a good deal more cautious than their linkbaity titles might suggest). Even if further study determines that that the cells are definitely terrestrial, the fact that such 'extremophiles' are not confined to extreme environments like the walls of volcanoes or undersea is itself news.
"The first recommended follow for me was Alexandra Patsavas"

She's the first recommended follow for everyone.

Surprised how many people have failed to work this out - the "recommendations" are the same for everyone. There are basically 12 artist profiles in the whole system.
Oh. Thank you. I suppose I'll go re-read the other post and learn something.

Is the term 'asymmetric key encryption' meaningful, or did I just make that up?
Good article. Please consider changing the font-type and increasing the font-size.
Haha. Well we thought it would be fun... we'll see what happens!

I promise I won't dress up as Ghost Kerrigan
'Hurt Locker' Subpoenas Arrive with New Language . . . and Higher Demands
I've created 2 small web apps that made use of Twitter and authenticated via oauth. It's been pretty simple for the most part. Since I develop in rails, I've had the pleasure of using twitter-auth for authentication.

Generally speaking though, this is a great move by Twitter in my opinion. I'm always a bit concerned when a 3rd party website asks for a username and password. In some cases I no longer provide credentials when I know a certain service provides oauth.

It might not be as easy for non-web based applications, but I'm sure things will improve in the long run.
That does not surprise me one bit, those old dekspros were nearly indestructible. I've seen one be pulled off a table in a warehouse by someone tripping over a cord, the case dented the concrete floor but the compaq never blinked. Amazing hardware. I think that's the line that really cemented the compaq = solid in people's heads. They also weighed quite a bit.
>Both can be equivalent to adding infinity to both sides of your equation.

Admittedly very accurate, but not quite the same. To pull from another oft-repeated quote, time + randomness will never create a pocket watch, because there is not a series of changes which leads to it within dumb evolution. God / intelligence can. What evolution+time describes is very much a strict, significantly-smaller subset of a God's capabilities.
An opt-in, per user, enable of basic auth might be a nice thing, but probably a hassle for them to implement.
How Debt Can Destroy a Budding Relationship
Here in Germany I guess the rate (1 or 2 out of two dozen) is similar. But that's not because our universities don't do their job. It's because most software developers didn't (or failed to) study CS in the first place.

They either didn't even start it, or they dropped out, or they studied something else that doesn't deliver the theoretical basics (e.g. "IT systems engineerings" and other things with expressively long names).

However, there's such a big demand for software developers that they come quite far without any formal qualification.
And most of them do quite a good job! ... until things get more complicated.

(FTR: I'm a student at the Humboldt University of Berlin, but I think the other universities have similar standards. I'm also co-founder of a small software dev/hosting company.)
You should ping HDStarcraft to see if he wants to cast. He lives in the bay area.

So does Trump, if you want to do a showmatch vs a progamer. He is ranked 159 or so in the world right now....and lives near Cupertino I think

What is novice? Silver league and below?
Where are the iPod touch knockoffs?
This is fine for Mac apps, but Apple can kill iOS apps dead for this reason, while letting their own deviations slip through unimpeded.

In general, though, I think interface guidelines are like the rules of grammar: when you understand them well enough, you understand when it's okay to break them. Whether the change to the three upper-left buttons falls into this category is somewhat subjective.
Black gold
Ha--great answer. Thanks.

So it was technologically groundbreaking? Novel game-play? Both?

My game like that was either Ocarina of Time or maybe Goldeneye 64.
Apple gets Ping'd with comment spam
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2010/09/02/apple-pingd-comment-spam-coming/
Fusion-io in Salt Lake City, UT (maybe Bay Area, CA or CO)

ASIC Functional Verification, SystemVerilog, OVM, PCIe, NAND Flash interface. I think we have some kernel and driver development, software manager, and software QA positions too (all require C and Python experience). email me at bmurdock AT fusionio.com
You are kidding, right?

No.

Who is the target audience?

People who want to utilize its access to hundreds of administration tasks across most (all?) of Microsoft's server products, to automate administration tasks.

EDIT to add:

Same reason why tcsh and ksh didn't get traction, and they even have merit to them.

I can't tell: is the implication here that Powershell doesn't have merit? I'm trying to understand.
Yeah, I'd say it's rather cruel to get the hopes of a bunch of nerds up like that...
I can't sell someone my education like I could sell them my house. There will not be a flood of unsold diplomas hitting the market. There aren't secondary markets, CDOs, and all sorts of other investment instruments tied to the value of my education, like there is to the value of my mortgage.

I understand the rate of increase in education costs has outpaced housing costs, and there most certainly is a bubble in higher education, but I don't think it will have the same negative ramifications on our economy like what is happening with the real estate market collapse.
How Any BitTorrent User Can Collect Lawsuit Evidence
The "a combination of the Spam problem and our switch to Exchange finally drove me to Outlook" part threw me off for a bit, until I saw "Published Sep 25th 2004".
Forgot to add, of course, you can open any file/doc in XCode/Textmate/app-of-choice directly from gitmac.
I'm headed this way myself. For anything more complicated than a toss-off script I start with Scala now.
My uncle, who is a radio engineer, still occasionally boots up his TRS-80 Model 4 (1983) because it's got some piece of software he hasn't been able to find a suitable replacement for.

It looks so out of place sitting on his desk next to his flatscreen.
I have a project for a client that has a need for exactly this tool, but the pricing per month is a sticking issue. The problem is that the conversion to PDF is not tied to revenue for the project. And because it would be an unknown cost (they don't know how many word docs they will be getting), the client would not like it.

That said it could in theory be up to 5-10K documents a month in a year from now, but right now it is probably only 100-200 a month. Currently we are using an open source tool and having decent results. Not great, but acceptable so far. The second option is to require their users to provide only PDF, which is not ideal, but also acceptable.

It seems like this is a commodity product, so figure out what the cost is per document (or per gig of data.) Then add in some profit and that is your price. You can have larger profit on smaller plans and less profit on the larger plans. To do this, I would charge by data not document, since you can determine costs by data, not document.
A Dell computer running Win 2K server w/ a Pentium 400MHz & 512MB RAM. Its an old server but has not crashed in years (I've rebooted for maintenance here and there, but thats it).

I think I've had it since since 2001 or 2002.
oops. ben at extrahop dot com.
Chomp - SOMA, San Francisco - 6 engineers
http://www.chomp.com

We're hiring for software engineers to build the app discovery engine that helps people find apps they need and the apps they don't know they need now.

We're working on a variety of areas from search, ranking relevance, data mining, crawling to applying topic modeling as a way to change the way people search.

Check out the MobileBeat article here:
http://mobile.venturebeat.com/2010/08/23/chomps-iphone-app-b...

We're also looking for a Visual/Product Designer (to own design and branding of Chomp across mobile and web platforms) and an iPhone Engineer!
Commodore 64

So 25-30 years old?

My last employer used it plus some custom hardware for checking wire harness assemblies.
I've never understood why the iTunes store couldn't just be a website. Browse and preview when and where you want, and the iTunes app invisibly starts downloading purchases as soon as it's able.
sure email rubyhackr@gmail.com and we'll fill you in
Mark Zuckerberg just agreed to speak at Startup School
Jason,

wow, intentionally not designed for the security-conscious crowd. That's a beautiful move.

oh, now please get that "cash transactions" feature to work properly please. if you need help with that, let me know. thanks.
I made a fun little app for this: http://simpleauthtwitter.heroku.com/ it's not very complicated, but it might help.
Tying it Together : WCF, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & JSON
I’ve been working through a project recently that I ended up creating an interesting abstraction of an assembly/classes between multiple web services projects. I wrote about it initially in Aggregated Web Services Pt I. In this blog entry is going to cover a few things, based on a full end-to-end implementation of a project from the WCF RESTful Web Services, to the ASP.NET MVC Site, and finally the jQuery calling those same services.
I disagree, because the NP completeness and halting problem are very different concepts. Confusing those means not having understood them in the first place.

However, things would be different if it was about something like "NP hard" vs. "NP complete" vs. "NP". That kind of details are easily forgotten if one doesn't work in that field.
I've come to start using the term "exobrain", coined by Adams himself: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/exobrain/
Nice list.

Continuing the "Microsoft and Apple are different" theme, the thing that's worth considering is that the "goodness" of these products is the goodness of well engineered compromises.

Current Word is actually a fusion of DOS word and the original Windows Word and while it has a huge feature set, this set is not terribly consistent. It's an achievement to make thing feel as good as it does. Similarly for the others and very different from producing a clean, "just works" app from the ground up (not necessarily a better or worse achievement imho).
Just signed up so I will see how it goes over the next few days. Definitely looks like it has potential.
This is great! Thanks for hosting, Justin. Let me know if you are looking for other sponsors. We'd be interested.
So, they are effectively the "Youtube of audio".

Youtube's legal because of the DMCA. As long as they are honoring takedowns by legal copyright owners, I cannot understand how they have a standing.

Any lawyery types care to comment why Grooveshark is being attacked?
Stay away from the beginners cup, unless you want to face the wrath that is DISQUS :)
I always bring up Flight Simulator whenever there's some MS bashing going on. I miss the Microsoft of my youth,
Hot tip for investors: invest in the companies that lose in the first round, as their employees are probably too busy building great products to play games.
Hopefully people aren't too good at Starcraft 2. The worst Starcraft team should get a round of funding.
He is an avid Futurama fan.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1623530
Differential equations are great for modeling these sorts of problems. http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/education/calc-init/population/
Had not seen that thank you!
I started working on a Chrome "Installed App" for the upcoming web store and was surprised to learn about the File API and being able to access files through JavaScript. Certainly never expected that.
That is a layman.

It hardly seems more clear than the old privacy policy. I mean, is it really so high in the agenda of google to worry about people reading four or so words saying that google cares about their privacy!

There are some updates such as calling gadgets third party applications which is really just keeping up with the times.
However, unless they have bored employees with nothing to do but surfing around to see what they can make more customer friendly - this is from a company with one of the poorest customer services - I do not see why would they simply decide for the fun of it to change their privacy policy.

If nothing else, the tone of the new privacy policy is: deal with it. The rest of it we will find out shortly in the next decade.
Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

—Paul Erdös

It may take another century, but I believe with absolute certainty that Einstein will be vindicated for thinking Quantum Mechanics was incomplete, rejecting the non-visualizable, non-intuitive, entirely algorithmic hoisting up of the mathematical machinery which Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Dirac, de Broglie et. al. built into quantum mechanics.

Einstein was on the far-most opposite end of the spectrum than all of them. Einstein was looking towards intuition to explain the physics and the experimental reality, while they were looking for mathematical models which seemed to fit the experimental data, while providing no understanding of what it all meant.
Once Heisenberg & Schrödinger made a big break into QM, it's like all of physics jumped on it and forged ahead, damn whether anyone understands what is really happening.

Even Schrödinger himself, in his own first paper presenting his wave mechanics formulation, said there is no hope of visualizing nor understanding what Psi really represents. It's all just empty mathematical symbols, that when manipulated according to a particular set of rules, within a particular context, will give somewhat accurate predictions about some physical experiment. It really doesn't help at all the the entire QM apparatus is just plain ugly, inelegant and incapable of justifying itself. I'm not condemning it, nor any of the enormous geniuses who tossed their own contribution onto our great, immeasurable & eternal bonfire of accumulated human knowledge which we call science.

But if you read through a few grad-level books about QM, it's blindingly obvious that nobody really knows what's really going on. This is more of a consequence of our current gaps in mathematics, more than a failure of any individuals. Believe me, once someone discovers how to solve The Eigenvalue Problem in quadratic time, all of QM, as it is currently formulated, is going to go away and be replaced by a much simpler model. It'll be just as simplifying as centuries ago when we replaced Ptolemy's epicycles with Kepler's elliptic orbits. I bet even the probability concepts embedded in QM will be entirely thrown out(they were never anything but trouble anyways), and replaced by something even more fantastic & currently unimaginable.