skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free Beautiful Garden wallpaper,Beautiful Background photo, picture 
Pat's design philosophy is blending quality plants and trees with carefully orchestrated layout, size, color and shape - to provide a beautiful garden architecture.Pat has also been recognized for his other design work - hard wood planter designs. See his furniture design work , Henry Rehder's Growing A Beautiful Garden.Very highly recommended for personal and professional gardening, landscaping, and horticultural reference collections.The impression Dalian gives to the world is of a city of lawns, squares, fountains and gardens.Surrounded by a large garden with olive trees, palms and oleanders,
But (b) assumes that they use light to know about us..
That may be false :)
Don't read on the toilet seat. loewenskind has already said it, but I think it's important enough to repeat clearly. Sitting on that ring puts pressure on the anal muscles.

Again, do not read on the toilet seat!
Tomatoes are vulnerable to a lot of diseases, it is particularly important that you rotate them; don't grow tomatoes in the same spot more than two years in a row, and wait at least two years before growing them there again. If growing them in pots sterilize the soil over the winter (there are several ways you can do this).
Serious questions for super angels
I'm O.K., You're Biased
As the author of one of the articles in this issue ("Plain English Explanation of Big O") I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Cheng did seek my permission for this and I was happy to give it but I was also operating under the assumption that the digital edition was free. I didn't (and wouldn't) expect to necessarily get paid for something that was given away but when it's paid for digital?

I really don't know.
Solid article. This problem is painfully evident in the UK, where we're aiming at 50% university attendance, when we have quality courses available for about 10% of students. The result: 3 more years of high-school quality education - quantitatively more education, but qualitatively these 'graduates' have just crammed, parroted and forgotten a little more.

The most important skill to take from HE is the ability and desire to continue to learn: the only skill that'll never be obsolete (I'd better keep telling myself that, since I'm a history graduate :) ).
A business with a difference
I don't know about php-fpm, but the old fastcgi implementation was extremely buggy when we tried that with lighttpd back when there was no nginx yet.

Burned like this, I'm currently using Apache/mod_php for all dynamic content but let nginx serve the static files (using a reverse proxy configuration. Turn off KeepAlive in Apache!).

This works extremely well and totally stable.

Even though php/fastcgi is now a more common configuration than it was back then, mod_php is still more common and hence better tested.
I like this bit...

"And you look like an ass for your rant that you just spewed on Twitter (or on Facebook when it’s Twitter that is down)."

Like, you know, this was the civil and normal thing to do: "Something doesn't work, and I payed _nothing_ for it: get the torches and the pitchforks!!!"

Here it's an alternative: just calm down and you won't look like an ass either.
I have been thinking a fair bit about what kind of startup I would do some day. It seems that there is two main themes around startups in the tech space. The first is to focus on bootstrapping a service and flipping it and the other one being to build large with pools of VC money and then flip or IPO it. However once in a while you get a view of a different model like the one 37signals use. It got me thinking about what kind of startup I would want to build when the time comes. I have spent a couple of years in one or the other form of startup and I think it’s time to start a different trend. I’ll call it the mom&pop internet startup with a social conscience. Confusing right, but consider starting a company that’s your lifelong focus in our business. A company you would work for the rest of your professional life. So what would you want that company to be doing ? I came down to the following five points that described what I would want that company to do.

1. Provide a valued payed service

2. Create a small loyal community of users to develop the service on and on

3. Be socially responsible

4. Invest in new startups to help grow the space of mom&pop internet companies

5. Transparency

My personal answers to the point above are fairly simple but will vary from person to person.

1. Provide a digital life vault service with focus on privacy(dropbox + delicious +.. only the future will tell) as a paid service (no freeloading, but 30 days trials available)

2. Cap the number of customers to a max of 10 000 with a small growth each year after that to keep the income in line with inflation. Invest in the community organizing meetups, giving away prices etc.

3. Provide micro-lending through services like Kiva, etc. Being completely transparent and including the community where possible.

4. Angel invest a big chunk of the profits and also provide help and mentoring to new companies.

5. Provide information to the users what their money is being spent on.

I think it would probably employ 3-4 people once it’s fully up and running, and dependent on the pricing and cost structure would generate between 1.2 - 2.4 million euro a year once 10 000 customers are reached with a cost structure of around 0.4 - 0.5 million eur. That would leave between 0.8 to 1.6 million eur for angel investments, micro-lending and community activities. The idea is not to revolutionize a sector of our industry but to provide a valuable service that people choose not only for the technical merits of the product offered but also for the social and community aspect of it. Consider it your local mom&pop shop you buy your coffee from each and every day. So what do you think? Is it a viable way of organizing a business and would you choose such a service if it was available?
William Gibson: "Google's Earth"
Instead of watching it in 'top', I recommend installing munin: http://munin-monitoring.org/

The blurb from that site:

Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.
Worry not! Despite the "crazy nationalist streak" that you see online, Indians are actually one of the most critical of their government. Ask literally any Indian on the street about governance and hear the expletives fly.

So they are more than aware of corruption and poor governance. Except - they have tired of the doomsday predictions heard since 1947. The down votes are probably because the 'cancer' symptoms are brought up ad nauseum in Western outlets as reasons India (as if its a simple monolith) failed.

Like pg said for startups: If you feel that you will fail, you stop working and then that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think this applies to a country's psyche too, like it does to founders.
Try East Asia instead of Asia - it is hit and miss with some keywords but I am sure the guys are onto it.
Ah, my favourite browser. They never fail to amaze me.
First it was tab browsing.
Then the mouse gestures
Then the speed dial.

What's next?

Better for them to channel their resources to improving their product than support a dying architecture
> We need a global sort of decentralized "permalink" concept.

I think the tiny niche blog is this thing.
> If we are to judge by those system requirements, this is not just h264 streaming on html5

Is HTML5's <video> even able to handle live streaming?
Actually, except for heirloom varieties, most plants grown for decades have been hybrids - their parents are of different varieties, so their seeds produce different and usually far inferior products.

Newer patented varieties are legally protected against being non-sexually propagated also, like taking cuttings from herbs or roses, to start new plants.
There are two much more powerful tcp interfaces built in to zsh:

The zsh/net/tcp Module:

http://tinyurl.com/3alarxf

And zshtcpsys:

http://tinyurl.com/32z6bwe
Reflections on Node.js Knockout Competition
I disagree with almost every sentence in your post, but there's one bit in particular I wanted to focus on:

> The big advantage of printf as a debug technique is that it doesn't work unless you understand what you're doing.

This isn't true, nor would it be an advantage if it were.

Any fool can stick a printf statement into their code, just like any fool can run it in a debugger. You might get lucky and find the problem, or you might not. Understanding what you're doing will help you out whichever technique you use. Better yet, it will help you decide which technique is more appropriate to the problem.
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I was a late reader of his work, read them all on the Kindle. wouldn't be able to do so on th Ipad though.
IBM X-Force Threat Reports
A relative is a long-haul trucker. The issue is weight and reliability.

There are maximum weight limits, which is why you see a lot of aluminum truck trailers - they weigh less. This will add to weight. Plus it must be reliable, any repair issues eat into the time when the truck could be on the road earning its keep.

FWIW this relative has boycotted California and the Northeast states (anything farther into New England than PA); they are too truck-unfriendly from his point of view (troopers hand out tickets for minor infractions strictly for revenue purposes, not many good truck stops). He trucks from PA to TX and back.

Not mentioned is that there is also a push to replace the small diesel engines that run the refrigeration unit on "reefer" trailers, yet another expense and a worry in terms of reliability (if the unit fails, the entire shipment can be spoiled).
Which of these would you say is closest to your difficulty?

a) You don't understand what the problem means.

b) You can't describe an algorithm that would solve the problem in plain English or "pseudocode".

c) You could describe the algorithm informally, but don't know how to code it.
In the case of Heroku, I'd expect them to be able to shut the phishing site down within the 40 minute period Rackspace apparently gave Pandaforms before shutting the whole service down themselves.

I'm sure if Pandaforms had done this (which is difficult when you're a much smaller startup than Heroku) then their server would have been left untouched.

You can argue that Heroku would have most likely got a phone call and that Pandaforms deserve the same treatment, but I don't think that they'd have been allowed to leave phishing sites up for any period of time without their servers being placed in jeopardy either.
With all this new drawing capability being supported in the majority of browsers (thanks to ie9), I wonder whether websites will break out of the current constrained way of thinking in n-column-layouts, dropdown-navigations, etc and focus more on presenting their content in whatever manner fits the most naturally e.g. using animated vector-graphics, visualization libraries, video, etc.
I read this article and couldn't figure out what the author thinks is missing from desktop Linux except some vague idea of elegance.
again it's a matter of cost. If you only have one IP, and say, many domains on that one IP, only one of which is a phishing site, it is a /whole lot/ of work for me (who really can only mess with things at the network level) to selectively take out one domain or one url. I mean, it can be done, but the equipment and expertise required to pull it off would drive up my costs.

Now, if I was a 'fully managed' provider that had a login on all my customer boxes, in that case, assuming the problem was a customer of a customer phishing rather than a compromised server, it would be fairly easy to log in and fix it. But that's not how I'm set up.
> one renewal notification email for what is obviously a critical service.

And preserved all his mails.

> I'd rather receive a clear and concise notice email.

He ignored it.

> Put a renewal notification in the Gmail UI

He already said he doesn't use web interface

> Respond with a transient full inbox failure

The mails bounced as he already used up immense amount of storage which he didn't pay.

> instead of a permanent failure

But they preserved all his immense gigabytes piled up in 6 years of his e-mail.

> OP in this case is somewhat technical

He gets 600 e-mails per day, as his main work, and doesn't want to even pay regularly for the service.

> but if this had happened to my mom, my grandparents

Because your mother or grandparent is also "an entrepreneur," gets 600 e-mails per day and has much more than seven gigabytes in gmail?

He just trolls to get the attention.
MySQL performance on btrfs, ext4, ext3, jfs, reiserfs
"When people don’t know what a fundamentally new product should cost, they are strongly influenced by the first price they encounter."
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/priceless/201004/how-muc...
Mmmm Kölsch
Interesting. When I noticed how all the mmorpgs have periodical content creation to go with the subscription, and how many creators seem to really like evolving the backstory, I wondered if anyone would ever try and sell just the story. In the end, I dismissed the idea - seems someone else didn't.

There are also social features that allow readers to create their own profiles, earn badges for activity on the site or in the application, and interact with other readers.

I am a little worried about this bit. Some form of socialization is a good idea - like message forums and maybe a chat, though I would hesitate with any built-in chat. Badges sounds like a very bad idea.
30+ Most Beautiful & Amazing Portfolio’s Part 3 | Kitaro10
I'd say that every single person out there who uses git likes wasting time and typing a lot, because that's basically what programming is.
USA. People here pronounce Adios like Audio, but with an S at the end. So the common misspelling is to add that U in the middle.
Darwins artificial ecosystem could be key to colonising Mars
If there is sufficient evidence here then an investigation is right and proper. It's easy to see this as about Julian Assange but it's also about someone who claims that they've been raped - something which has to be taken seriously.

I don't see a particular issue with the original prosecutor being overruled by his seniors - in cases such as this I'd imagine that they want to make sure that they do everything they can make sure that they get it right and appear above reproach and if in doubt investigate it properly seems a sensible approach.
Did you read his comment ?

> I thought "Anathem" was Stephenson's best since Snowcrash.

Apparently that's a 'yes', since he has read Snowcrash.
Thanks! We split the UI into Usecases tabs, listing tests (each test spans multiple APIs and resources) and Resources tab, which lists your APIs/servers/resources. Each resource page shows what structures/methods this resource accepts, what tests it's featured in and whether it passed/failed.
$13+ for shipping fees in France, a little too much. :)
If you use Vim and have "showmatch" enabled, then when you move your cursor onto a left or right parenthesis, it shows that character with a charcoal background, and the matching parenthesis with a teal background. Your mind immediately perceives the extent of the expression. Then if you press "%", your cursor moves to the matching parenthesis. You can toggle back and forth by pressing "%" repeatedly. This also works for braces and square brackets. Also you can delete, change, and yank whole expressions with the usual idioms "d%", "c%", and "y%".

I'm not arguing Vim over Emacs here, I just wanted to point out that Vim has excellent support for parenthesized expressions.

Interestingly, when I write procedural code such as C or Perl, I put a single brace on each line. For example:

if (condition)
{
...
}

That makes it easier for me to move whole blocks around.

However, when I write functional code such as Lisp or Fexl, I tend not to do that. For example:

# Collect any matching entries at the front of the list.

\collect = (\match\list list end \head\tail
match head (item head (collect match tail)) end)

I think that's because I tend to keep all my Fexl expressions very short, building them up step by step.

Also, Fexl uses ";" as a "right-pivot" operator. For example:

\collect = (\match\list list end \head\tail
match head (item head; collect match tail) end)

So in many cases I can avoid multiple right parentheses. The Clojure example in the article would become:

\myfn-a = (\a\b zero? b a;
recur (afn (bfn (...)) a) (dec b))
Facets of small business branding
A business can increase its value that it offers its clientele by promoting a certain quality and differentiating itself. One must understand what drives the clients to buy or use the service. One may think that is a low price that does the trick. But, this is not always the case.
Did you give a verbal ok, or did you sign something? (a document that would have handed over your rights to the publisher and where you would have relinquished all commercial claims). Were the publishers upfront with you about selling your content, rather than aggregating it and publishing it for free, with attribution?

In other similar publications, where the content is mainly an aggregate of other articles (such as the Joel on Software books), the authors are all paid based on per-print or a pre-negotiated flat sum for the rights.

Most magazine publishers insist that contributors are paid, because by accepting a payment the original author is binding to a de facto contract to assign rights of their work to the publishers. This avoids any confusion, such as that you are feeling now.

In your specific case, I think it is fair that the original authors are paid - as the value in this publication is not the colors or fonts or organization, but rather the content.

(you may also want to check the StackOverflow terms and conditions, because it could be that they own commercial rights to any content on the site)
Qualities of personal branding
A firm needs to understand that each and everyone within the business can contribute to the success of their brands and better way that can help the staff of the company build a personal brand in conjunction with the corporate brand. A personal brand offers certain benefits.
That's not the original title, which is simply "Kevin Rose quits CEO role at Digg".

see also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1650814

(still on the homepage)
As someone who came here from a reference from a friend and had no idea what HN was about, I have no idea who Jessica Livingston is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Livingston

Oh, okay.
UK to launch ‘comprehensive’ policing of online advertising
I like Opplysningskontoret's (a Norwegian version of The Onion) summary:

The contents of Wikileaks-founder leaks into Swedish women.
More to the point, The Diamond Age basically describes an intelligent hypertext book.
If you encounter any problems you can Google the title.
I run a company that provides sysadmin consultancy, and we deal with problems like this on a pretty regular basis. We're not on your continent, but would still be happy to help.

http://bashton.com/

I very much doubt it would be possible to resolve the problem without actually logging onto the server and looking at what's happening.
Those words were my spin on the situation; the word you need to use is antitrust, e.g.: http://www.google.com/search?q=higher+education+financial+ai..., the first result being: http://www.nber.org/papers/w4998

Antitrust and Higher Education: Was There a Conspiracy to Restrict Financial Aid?

Dennis W. Carlton, Gustavo E. Bamberger, Roy J. Epstein

In 1991, the Antitrust Division sued MIT and the eight schools in the Ivy League under Section 1 of the Sherman Act for engaging in a conspiracy to fix the prices that students pay. [...]

Or http://www.highereducation.org/crosstalk/ct0106/voices0106-k...

"But what about the antitrust laws?" I was asked at the TIAA-CREF conference when I suggested this level of cooperation. Administrators cringe at the memory of the Justice Department's lawsuit challenging the agreement among the Ivy League colleges and MIT not to compete in calculating financial aid—or at least they use that litigation as a convenient excuse not to do anything. What they forget is that, alone among these schools, MIT stood up to the government, and in 1991 it won the case. The aftermath is telling: The Ivies didn't restore what was known as the "overlap" agreement, and the financial aid wars were revived.

Be careful in trusting the above, since the suit started in 1991, alhtough the Feds had been negotiating with the schools in question for some time before then (and I have a vague memory that some other schools may have been involved but punted before the lawsuit was brought).

Overlap is also be a very good search term, e.g. it found this press release: http://tech.mit.edu/Bulletins/ovrlp-pr.html

ANTITRUST CASE SETTLED

MIT, Justice Dept. Set Up New Way for Non-Profit
Colleges To Cooperate on Need-Based Financial Aid

The U.S. Justice Department today agreed to dismiss the financial aid antitrust case against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and establish a new way for non-profit colleges to cooperate on need-based financial aid to undergraduates, MIT announced.

MIT President Charles M. Vest told a news conference at MIT, "I am very pleased to annmounce that the U.S. Department of Justice has informed MIT it will drop the antitrust case it brought against the Institute nearly thre years ago."

He said the resolution of the case is in two parts:

- "First, the Justice Department will dismiss all of its claims against MIT.

- "Second, the settlement establishes guidelines under which colleges and universities can coordinate their financial aid practices in order to insure that their limited financial aid funds are awarded to qualified students solely on the basis of need."

It goes into a lot of details on the history of the case, e.g. the 8 other schools folded and signed a consent degree in 1991 while MIT fought and after a big win WRT to interpretation of antitrust law in the appeals court they and the Justice department quickly settled.
> Somebody once said (anybody have the quote?) that C and java code
looks blocky, while lisp code looks more fluid.

This is from Paul Graham's book, On Lisp.
Talk about linkbait:

"Rose, the founder and chief architect of Digg, took up the role of interim CEO when Jay Adelson resigned in April."

That's it. nothing to see here, move along..
>Normally I'm not a manager just an passionate engineer however setting up your own company generally makes you an instant manager.

If you have 8 people working for you, well, you are a manager. You can also be other things, but you are a manager. expecting to manage eight people without any effort is like expecting to code up a complex web application in an evening. sure, if you are really great, yeah, maybe you can do it? but very few people can.

>Can't I find 5 more people who can work without nudging instead of hiring a useless person (read: manager) to just nudge people?

It's possible to find people who don't need nudging. It's just hard. People who can work without nudging make excellent and very expensive contractors.

The thing of it is, if you have 8 people working for you, uh, you are not only a manager, but an advanced manager. Hell, just hiring 8 good people without making a bunch of mistakes is no mean feat.

I'm not sure that hiring a manager as a go between would help you much; there are plenty of incompetent idiots going around selling themselves as excellent managers, and like anything else, it takes one to know one.

The thing is, coordinating 8 people is a difficult task. hiring a good manager could ease the burden, or it could add a 9th personality in there to muck things up.