skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One tip on writing announcements like this -- always include a blurb at the start saying what your product, um, is.

I've now read the full announcement. I know that there is a new version of Phusion Passenger coming out, and that a beta is available now.

Problem is, when I clicked the link, I didn't know what Phusion Passenger was -- and I still don't...
Ask HN: Today diaspora is set to release their software
Has anybody seen or heard anything ? They were pretty adamant that the 15th of September would be their release date, but I can't find anything on their site.
Tightened muzzle on Canadian scientists is 'Orwellian'
I use Inkscape and The GIMP for design (yes sometimes commercially too). The tutorials with Inkscape are really good and have some design theory in them.

Perhaps start by trying to design a greetings card/tshirt or something that you can get printed with one of the online printshops (there's a list of some here http://alicious.com/www-cafepress-co-uk/ [aff links] or just Google).
It's a logical direction for Intel to take. They are continuing to ramp up transistor counts via process shrinks, but the value of multiplying cores is weak for the consumer right now, so it makes sense to pull in whatever other more specialized functions they can manage.

This trend doesn't kill or even significantly maim Nvidia, but it weakens their < 50$ segment.
My Shannon–Hartley theorem applied to a pair of copper wires trumps your Moore's law.
Kids map everything by landmarks. Its a sign of maturity to leave this behind and begin to organize a space by a metric.
If you too had no idea what this is and why people are upvoting like crazy in celebration, Wikipedia (or rather DuckDuckGo's info box!) says:

Phusion Passenger is a module for the Apache HTTP Server and nginx for deployment of Ruby applications, including those built using the Ruby on Rails framework.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phusion_Passenger
Do you know if I can find the video somewhere? the recorded version on Justin.tv is very bad :/
Standard release schedule for Erlang/OTP. Same thing with R13A, and so on backward (except that the A releases have not previously been available outside of Ericsson (and had the name P rather than A)).

The R14B release is the real release of R14. Will then be incremented with R14B-1 etc.

I would recommend Erlang developers to use the B releases in development, but wait for the B-1 release before upgrading production servers.
XP is being supported officially until 2014. Why would any company consider that dead?
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It will eventually ship with Windows?

It's probably better than IE8, and if you just use a standard Windows PC then Microsoft Update will perhaps give you IE9 automatically? (Sorry, I don't use Windows enough to know whether browser updates are automatic.) So the common non-computer savvy user will benefit.
Twitter Misses The Metadata Boat
Microsoft makes most of its money on Windows and Office. So, if they can use this as a reason to get people to upgrade in a way that also makes them more money, they'll do it.

If you can't (or don't want to) upgrade past XP, but want modern browser capabilities, just use Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.
The parts I really liked about MOO and MOO2 was that you could design your own ships in minute detail, and then duke it out fleet to fleet. Really matching ship layout against ship layout. The civ-like parts and research.. meh.

MOO3 was just in shambles, I spent years on the message boards of that following the production, and the end result was.. crap. Some good ideas, totally botched implementation.

Sins of a Solar Empire has an excellent starmap and fleet control, but not customizable ships, and a static tech-tree.

Sword of the Stars was pretty good, but only somewhat customizable ships, and I remember it getting a bit of both fiddly and repetitive on larger maps. Random tech-tree was awesome. Should perhaps look at the latest expansions of that.
That's not "reasonably up front." The word "mixed" implies the evidence is relatively even on both sides. Reasonably up front would be "while the evidence is mixed, there is no compelling evidence to conclude the risks are significant."

The answer "the evidence remains mixed" can be applied to just about any question. It has no actual information. Notice they don't also provide the other side of the mixture.
I wonder if Mongrel2 might kill Passenger like it killed Mongrel?
I have to wonder if this product is cynically designed to exploit people who do not understand basic scientific reasoning. See: http://www.bellyarmor.com/radiation/health-risks/autism
Just want to add that of course, you'd be able to integrate food ratings, friending, favoriting, etc etc etc all that standard social stuff, but IMO, in order for this to be successful, you should consider boiling it down to the absolute simplest of functions and tasks to minimize user friction.

So with the above idea, I would recommend the user need only simply 3 things: 1) photo 2) restaurant 3) whether they liked it or not and an optional 4) description.

If it's an iPhone app then you automatically pull geolocation, but if it's through email, I'm not sure how this would be done and you'd have to explore what you can do.
Good work, man!
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Man i wish minecraft ran on my computer :(
If sports were like school...
I've seen a lot of debate over what schools spend their money on, and very little(none, actually) over the behavior that the reward system of school encourages.
Same definition. Right now markets pay a premium for the convenience of liquid assets as you say. What I'm saying is that the investment profiles of the SWFs may lower that premium/raise the price of illiquid assets such that the two are effectively the same price. Feels like two sides of the same coin.

I could probably have been clearer, but I kindof liked the way the title sounded. Appreciate the feedback.
What bugs me about this is that the scientists actually honored the governments request in this. They should have simply gone right ahead and make a big stink rather than to be meek sheep and to complain afterwards they didn't get their say.
Wich language/framework have you used to create it?
Not quite what you're looking for, but http://2dgoggles.com/ has a very witty but also very irregularly updated cartoonified steampunk Babbage/Lovelace story.
The value over the previous versions of IE is that IE9 implements a huge number of html/css/JS fixes, so it is much more like FF/Chrome/Safari than IE8.

For FF/Chrome/Safari users this means that it becomes much more likely to see web-sites use html5 technologies and leave IE6-8 behind.

So if you create intranet web-sites, then a huge amount of pain is gone when the company upgrades its IE install base to IE9. Personally, I'm looking very much forward to this, and I'm able to tell my customer that this will save valuable time for me (i.e. money for them).
The only downside for me is that not only do you have to find a massively parallel problem to work on, but the computation function also needs to be much slower than network latency. With network latency being in the ms range, the algorithm solving problem needs to be really slow to benefit.
Strange, that Microsoft concentrating exclusively on Windows is still such a dogma, that you get downvoted to oblivion.

Although Mac support will probably come before Linux support, if ever. The Microsoft Office suite is available for Mac.

I just found out that IE used to have Mac support (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac).
I'm unable to do that because there's not really a way to do that on HN now. I don't store any data so I have nothing to query against.
I never ran Phusion in production for long because of the issue with blocking when spawning, and now I see it's been fixed: http://blog.phusion.nl/2010/07/29/the-road-to-passenger-3-te...

In fact, looking through the site, the changes that make up Phusion 3 are incredible. If it works as advertised, there should be no advantages to running Unicorn or a pack of Mongrels anymore. I can hardly wait to try it out!
Good point. However, the balance of the text is more alarmist than rational.

I suspect that the target market is unlikely to read the text closely enough to distinguish, for example, between correlation and causation ( http://www.bellyarmor.com/radiation/health-risks/autism - note the graph correlating cellphone subscribers and autism case).

And while I might want to credit them with presenting technical information and research, this is more likely intended to obsfuscate and alarm with scientific/statistical terms than to clarify...

Let's see; http://www.bellyarmor.com/faqs

"How do Belly Armor products work?

Without getting too deep into the details, RadiaShield® fabric shields against everyday radiation by neutralizing incoming electromagnetic waves - similar to how noise canceling headphones work with sound waves or how a grounding wire neutralizes an electric current."

No, noise cancelling is active - Belly Armor doesn't emit opposite phase radiation to cancel the radiation.
No, a grounding wire grounds an electric current to the ground - Belly Armor isn't grounded.

However, if at some point in the future, significant correlations are proved, I'll eat my cynicism and hat.
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That might be problematic but there is no indication at all that google did anything to even contact the justice department, let alone that they filed charges.
Show, don't tell.

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Just launched jerknessreminder.com, feedbacks highly appreciated. Thanks
here is the url http://jerknessreminder.com
The average person would have spelled Googol as "Google", so it was the natural choice.
Important piece for CEOs/founders for perspective 
I've known Aaron across three or four of his companies and for 15 years. This is his most important moment, and this piece is import to give us all perspective on what's important while we try to launch our products and change thee world.
"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present." --Jean de la Bruyere
Do you really think everyone pirating anything is going through this process for every Tom, Dick and Harry they know

Probably, yes. They're trading their time for social capital.
I would assume it's much harder to double the price for what is the third expansion pack in a series, that gives everyone price-points to compare with. Also, if you make a computer game, its price will be compared to every other computer game, and to be at the high end of pricing, you have to release an AAA title that cost millions and had a 100+ person development team, otherwise people will think it's too expensive.

So doubling your price is only a valid strategy if people can't compare your price to similar products.
He's also using the average as the only metric. Some systems may have better distributions.
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that's what we have now...

are you seriously suggesting that we should outsource the "minting" of our money? are you insane?
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The groundwork for TRIM has existed in OS X since 10.5. For some reason, Apple is waiting to enable it.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?59299...

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?59512...

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2213830

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/14/apple_laying_g...
Haha, I just woke up and was like... How come I've never heard of twitterbook!!
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Unless it supports CORS for cross-domain access from the browser: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/

Which it probably doesn't.
Article had absolutely nothing to do with how piracy works. (I expected details of "couriers"/cracking/distributers/etc) It was about author's opinion that the copyrights of copying and distribution can't and should not be enforced in digital "age".
This is awesome, thanks for posting it ! I purchased three books: JQuery, Web Security Testing and ADO.NET 3.5
There's one obvious reason for the difference:

AMD's top graphics card needs up to 300W alone (not counting the CPU power).

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-h...

The maximum TDP for the Sandy Bridge (for CPU and GPU together!) is 95W:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3922/intels-sandy-bridge-archi...

And there are of course many additional trade-offs once you design for the limited power consumption and overall complexity of the chip.
The ipad app does this and it works so well that I've started using Twitter again.
Reminds me of a joke I heard recently.

A chemist, a physicist and an economist were stranded on a desert island when they discover a crate of canned food. The chemist says that they should leave the cans in the salt water for a while and then try opening them. The physicist says they should try banging them open with rocks. The economist says "Let's assume we have a can opener."
> Sadly, pirates don't actually convince their friends to buy it.

Untrue, I have direct personal proof to the contrary ;)
It's apparently not much faster than a physical drive for random data traffic, but much faster for loading frequently opened files and booting the PC.
I bought a 24GB ExpressCard SSD to use as a boot drive and to launch certain applications from. Gave my MacBook Pro new life, even though it's not a high end SSD.
At this moment only Samsung has the strength to go directly against Apple in this market.

At last IFA they presented the Samsung Galaxy Play 50 based on Android 2.1: http://www.ibladi.com/2010/09/samsung-unveils-the-galaxy-pla...
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You certainly can fight the pirates. You perhaps can't win the war, but you don't really have to to make it worthwhile. That's why they keep being fought.

I would guess that whatever the RIAA spends on fighting piracy is recouped tenfold in iTunes sales. iTunes would not exist if nobody fought piracy and legitimate business models could be built on it. (i.e. if What.cd had the ability to be a venture-funded startup.) Just keeping piracy underground, no matter how successful it is there, is a positive ROI.

Granted all of that is still not as good, from the RIAA's perspective, as the old model. And it's maybe not as good as some potential future model that nobody's discovered yet. But it still generates large revenues and will continue to fight for it's own existence.
Yahoo economist rebuilds ad empire with 'Magic Formula'
If I were a British subject I would totally get behind a campaign to un-decimalise the currency.
To clarify, September 15 will be our open-source developer release. At that time, we will open up our github repository, publish our roadmap, and shift our development style to be more community oriented. We intend on launching a consumer facing alpha in October.

http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/08/26/overdue-update.html

It'll happen: http://twitter.com/joindiaspora/status/24509854745
Bill Gates, Hero
It's hard to believe we once saw Bill Gates as the pie-splattered villain and others as the idealists.
OK, software never really dies. You can keep running it forever, if you insist.

But Microsoft has made it pretty clear that they do not thing you should be running XP. You're getting critical security updates only until 2014. And it's rather tricky to purchase a new copy of XP (you pay a premium and it typically involved buying a new OS first)
"Open Source Software" isn't about source code
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Startup Bootcamp Take Aways
Argumentative Research Paper Topics Instantly Draw Out Disputations
When faced with writing a research paper and looking for suitable topics, argumentative research paper topics are excellent. An argument is always watched or listened to with rapt attention. Therefore, your research paper too, will be considered interesting if the topic is argumentative.
If I understand this blog post correctly, it seems to be suggesting that sovereign wealth funds would be potential investors for startups and that they would be ideal investors because they would not be seeking a short-term exit/liquidity event.

That seems unlikely to me, given the risks inherent in startups, and the fact that the VCs drive for rapid ROI is arguably an important source of focus for proving/disproving a business model before you burn through too much capital.
Similarly, http://github.com/seven1m/hackernews if you want hit HN directly with Ruby.
No and no. I have only had traditional stock options which are essentially funny money that are vested over a period of years. You still have to purchase the stock but after the stock is vested you just get the ability to execute once there is an equity event such as IPO or sale...
So, would you say it is no different than when companies offshore development to reduce costs? After all, when companies explore cheaper offshore options, it “simply allows software developers to be efficiently priced as market conditions change.”

I’m sure I will get my share of down votes for this, but as a cofounder that has hired several developers, I’ve had people come to me with better offers and give me an ultimatum. I rarely counter as there is no guarantee they won’t come back sometime later with an even higher offer, and so on and so on. What if your employer did the same sort of thing and came to you and said – “hey, someone with equal credentials and experience told me they would do your job for less, so you either need do it for the same or I will replace you.”

Yes I know there is no guarantee that the new person could perform as well, and that there would also be inefficiencies due to having to come up the learning curve, but there is also no guarantee that the other job will be better for the person entertaining the “better” offer. I have had people leave for a “better” job, ended up completely hating it, and then asking if they can come back. Um….no. This isn’t mom’s basement where if it doesn’t work out, you can always move back.

I’ve found to keep people, you need to pay them enough to take the “money” question off the table, and the ensure they have something meaningful and rewarding to do.

*edit - typo
Yikes. It definitely appears that way at first glance, but this is my own blog (I suffer from having a name domain vs. my own name) The issue is that this topic came up with a bunch of people who frequent hacker news and they told me it was a valid topic and encouraged me to write it up. It ended up generating good commentary both on my own site and on HN. Its a subjective call, and hopefully one that can be rectified once the situation is fully understood.

I emailed PG but have not yet heard back.
ihackernews is currently the best browser for hacker news on the mobile by far (its far better than the "app" in the android market).

this api is just extracting what he already built for ihackernews and allowing others to use it, I would be very very surprised if pg banned it, if it causes any issues then they can pretty surely be sorted out.
Well, the problem is that governments hire academics to do studies for them, which makes them their clients. That puts a scientist in a weird position.

Here in the Netherlands, I know of a study that is jointly paid for by two government departments, but the steering committee won't allow one of them to access the preliminary results because they're afraid it will leak before it is final, or something to that extent. I have to be a bit oblique here, but the point is that civil servants tend to be rather fearful when it comes to "managing information".
Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
Having a higher tier price would also likely result in more sales of the standard and even less of the discount.
Q: Is this made to harass/persecute people?

A: No, it is just a joke. If the person target by the joke just ask us to stop, we will stop immediately, no questions asked.

Ah, too bad.

There are are several people I would sign up to get this (and I'm only slightly kidding).
The Sun Starfire concept video from 1993 pretty much had the same idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJNxgZyVo0#t=2m9s

The problem I see with putting sensors in the pixels is that you're going to need to light that pixel up to use the sensor. How do you sense touch or image in a black section of the screen?
Wow, for one, this was a joke.

Second of all, the fact that microsoft continues to decrease in market share while only releasing its browswer on one of the many operating systems available is no way to succeed. I know the linux community isn't large enough to draw much notice from microsoft, but is the coding that windows centric that it can only run on windows (no, since there will be a mac version... maybe).

I understand that not everyone enjoys this comment... Oh well.
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Ask HN: Do you use MOTW (Mark of the Web)?
Please refer to:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537628(VS.85).aspx

http://www.helpstuff.com/motw.html

Do you use this stuff? The creepy thing is that I somehow saw this "injected" in my very trivial static site (using nginx). Is it possible that nginx may have added this? Do you think this MOTW is useful at all?

Answers to any of these questions will be appreciated! Thanks.

PS: Why aren't my links clickable? =S
I have not, but they are going to be on This Week in Startups in the next 10 days. I'm really excited to see what they have!
This reminds me of menupages.com. Looks wise, your site is better, but menupages has lot more data (which is understandable, as they are serving much bigger cities). According to compete, they had half a million visitors last month. I think that is proof enough, the concept works.

Some things that you could try:

1. Add more data (restaurant phone numbers, email, do they have take aways, do they have a delivery service, do they have kid friendly menus etc)

2. Why not categorize the restaurants by the food type? (Italian, Indian, Chinese etc)

3. More photographs - why not contact the restaurant owners and get photos of their restaurants, foods etc?

4. Promotions - Sign up with restaurants and promote one restaurant (or even one dish from a particular restaurant) a day. A coupon that gives big discount (50% +). You get more visitors to your site and the restaurant gets more biz

Good luck.
How do you plan your migration to the Cloud?
"A sheet of glass" can be pretty thick. What does that statement even mean? Anyway this sounds totally awesome if it ever becomes available and I would love for MS to push the industry in this direction. However, I doubt very much they'll deliver on this. Cool projects rarely make it out of MS Research, sadly.

Also, it seems like they're pretty far behind the times on this. Three years is a long time, and it seems likely that the industry will change significantly before then. Apple or HTC could easily come out with a similar device before MS hits the market.
Not a typo (hopefully the links don't break):
http://krakenbenchmark.mozilla.com/kraken-1.0/results.html?%...

http://krakenbenchmark.mozilla.com/kraken-1.0/results.html?%...

Of course it performs much worse on this benchmark than other browsers on my old hardware, but I haven't noticed any problems while browsing.
I think they make some money from their ads too... that is why I think it is funny that they just allow firefox (default search = google) and chrome (default search = google) to continue to make gains in this market. One would think that they would want ie (default search = microsoft) to be available to as many people as possible to get them to their search to get them to their ads.
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I've actually started using $2 bills for this reason.