skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still doesn't matter. Your first shot out of the gate, you take the money because it enables you get money out of the way. Everyone needs money. You swing for the fences the second time out, after you've got cash in the bank and don't need the money. That's the smart thing to do, play the odds. Zuck went against the odds, that wasn't smart, it was immature; he seems to have beat the odds so it worked out, but it was much more likely to go the other way, and it still could. Something could wipe out Facebook just like Facebook wiped out MySpace.
It crossed my mind, I have no idea if this engine could be used for it but I can ask the programmers tomorrow.
I would love the ability to turn ANY website into a multiplayer game — that would be awesome.
Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free
Discover the Variety of Outdoor Commercial Lighting for Business
Startups Provide a View into the Future
The author is wrong. Why so serious? It was nothing more than a tease to excite the platform developers. Proper announcement/demo will happen at an appropriate time.

- Attended the keynote + currently working at RIM as an intern
Confusion about possible tax increases on small businesses
I think brc nailed it... (Sorry to be slow on catching up on thread.)
By the same logic you support the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, killing native Americans and taking their land, extraordinary rendition, and borrowing trillions of dollars. It's unfortunate, but sometimes the leaders of an organization do things which its membership does not approve of. Very few people support what was done, but that doesn't mean they should renounce their affiliation. If the dissenters leave, who is left to change things?
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I had a similar reaction to the Gladwell piece in the New Yorker. Seemed like a classic strawman argument.
wow! At 4pm today I was giving a talk in my lab about how cool this work is.

What really impresses though is not that it works. It is the Find-Fix-Verify design pattern which tries to set some good practices in crowd-sourcing. For example in GUI/web engineering MVC is considered good practice.

Refference:
Bernstein, M.S., Little, G., Miller, R.C. et al. Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside. UIST '10, ACM Press (2010)
The Framework is dead. Long live the CMS.
A friend of the family just passed away, in her eighties. In her youth, she happened to be across the street during the following famous incident, after which she tried to help the injured:

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

As is common in panic situations, many patrons attempted to exit through the main entrance, the same way they had come in. However, the building's main entrance was a single revolving door, immediately rendered useless as the panicked crowd scrambled for safety. Bodies piled up behind both sides of the revolving door, jamming it to the extent that firefighters had to dismantle it in order to get inside. Other avenues of escape were similarly useless: side doors had been bolted shut to prevent people from leaving without paying their bills. A plate glass window, which could have been smashed for escape, was instead boarded up and unusable as an emergency exit. Other unlocked doors, like the ones in the Broadway Lounge, opened inwards, rendering them useless against the crush of people trying to escape. Bartender Daniel Weiss and entertainer Goody Goodelle both survived in the Melody Lounge; by dousing a cloth napkin with a pitcher of water and breathing through it, Weiss was able to escape by crawling through the kitchen and other subfloor areas, while Goodelle and several other employees were able to escape by crawling through a barred window in the kitchen. Five survived by taking refuge in a walk-in refrigerator. Fire officials later testified that, had the doors swung outwards, at least 300 lives could have been spared. Many young soldiers perished in the disaster, as well as a married couple whose wedding had taken place earlier that day.

And that, boys and girls, is why we have building codes.

(It's also why many professional engineers in the US and Canada take an oath, like doctors. Proper engineering is a serious business. Lives are at stake.)
I'd have to see that on a Minkowski diagram before I believed it made sense.
Reddit also has a non-technical community manager (though I wouldn't be surprised if they got him programming by now). http://www.reddit.com/user/hueypriest

Hacker News could actually really benefit from one of those.
I would argue that this falls into the "cool" part of what, until now, has been entirely scifi - and that I'm absolutely ridiculously excited about seeing more and more of these discoveries in the years to come.

No, there's no hope of ever visiting this place in our respective lifetimes (sans cryogenics), but I'd put money on the prediction that we will certainly see real imagery of exoplanets within 50 years. And that's cool. Really cool. So cool that we'll look back and laugh at the original question of "are all exoplanets bigger than Jupiter and closer to their suns than Mercury?"
To be fair, I think for a price per person ratio, he's doing well. =)
I'm very skeptical when people tell me that their motivation is to 'change the world'. Even more so when they are very dead set to make sure that THEY are the ones who change it vs. their competitors. Facebook is a twist on existing services to share photos, text messages, emails and games. It's not like he's out fighting poverty, political corruption and disease or something.
QNX is not a new platform, it's older than Android and iOS combined. Its use as a specialized tablet / mobile OS is new though.
"I am saying that if I take the time to cite my sources in whatever format the professor specifies, the professor should be able to determine if I plagiarized or not on their own. Really now, if someone doesn't cite their work, that should be a giveaway that there is a potential problem."

Do you expect people who plagiarize to site: "Cheap A+ Essays" in their references? No, you buy an essay from an essay mill. Change a few things here and there to make it fit for the class, and turn it in.

You actually expect the professor to subscribe to every essay service in the world? If I was a professor the only way I could deal with this problem is to write a program that catalogued all essays from this service and do some type of text match against them. Essentially I'd write TurnItIn, but as a "theoretical" History professor with no programming skills, this is probably not easy.

I just don't get how students expect professors to actually detect plagiarism in most cases otherwise.

I used to grade papers in high school of my peers and while I could often spot cheating, I could almost never prove it. How did I spot cheating? I could often tell from within the context of a single paper the writing goes from horrible to exceptionally good.and then back to horrible. Likewise, I'd sometimes get 2 or 3 really poor papers and then get a paper where the student is John Hawkes. In the first couple of papers, no citations or horrible citations. In this paper the citations are perfect, page numbers, referencing hard to find journals and the whole nine. But yet, you're still often left with your hands tied.
LOL! This is called tuning nowadays?

Even Oracle providing much more good advices, let alone some individual pros.

Good starting point: http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle10g.shtml

Update: Oh, yes, I understood. Newfags doesn't know what Oracle is. MySQL = RDBMS, I see. ^_^
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If you can't retire comfortably on $3.5 mil you're probably doing it wrong.
And Project Orion is old nuclear pulse tech. The current state of the art thought on that kind of thing is slighty less crude than dropping fission bombs behind a big shield.

I think that once a habitable planet is 99.9% confirmed instead of 90% confirmed, there will be an unprecedented international cooperation in order to build a probe that can get there at .1-.25c.

It's an interesting time to be a human.
My university computer programming class is using this to check source code for assignments.

What irked me is that there's entire buildings full of computer scientists and engineers, but they can't develop their own plagiarism detection algorithm for internal use, and thereby safeguarding the works of their students.

It just doesn't make sense to me.
Then what else is there? Chillin in a garage, drinkin PBR and working on a fixie?

I think the better things to do here in Portland definitely involve things like chilling in the woods and chopping wood.
Like I said: Not a lawyer.

First, TurnItIn required students to enter into a "binding agreement" when they uploaded papers to the site.

Being forced to agree to the terms doesn't make them okay. It just means that I didn't want to fail and didn't have any other choice.

Second, TurnItIn's use was "fair" according to the four factors found in US copyright law, with most weight being given to the "transformative" nature of what TurnItIn was doing with the papers.

I wonder if any weight could be given to the argument that in order to be checked, the paper is implicitly given a second use, to verify plagiarism -- not that the checking process itself is transformative itself. And if that is true, would the only reason it is okay is due to the first reason? But, like I said, not a lawyer. And not about to find one to appeal this case.
What Java NIO server utilizes for EINTR? ^_^
This reminds me of Yahoo on one hand (should have taken the money before they started tanking!) and Etsy on the other hand (70 employees was already far too many, next they went on a VC fueled hiring spree and now have about 130). In another similar move, Etsy recently brought back their old CEO/founder, to the horror of many members who were around for the first three years.
Poor timing?

"We'll be back shortly!

We're making some changes to our infrastructure and certain pages may be unavailable for a few minutes.

We're very sorry for the inconvenience.

Please check back shortly."

I'm honestly not sure if this is a joke, or if the post made it before the commit or something, or if their new launch had technical difficulties?

Anybody know?
Is there a stack overflow for SEO?
I love stack overflow for coding, but I also have questions about SEO that I feel would be beneficial in a community environment like Stack Overflow. Does anyone know of such a website? Is there a stackexchange site for SEO?
I've been in the market for an apartment in Mountain View (and recently leased one), and found that it is almost impossible to find an apartment building (run by management) that doesn't get horrible reviews on ApartmentRatings.com. Which is unfortunate because unless you really dive in, the tool becomes completely useless - - it can't be that every apartment is really that awful, and yet the only people who post reviews are those who are pissed and those who are shills (probably the management company themselves). I found internet reviews of apartment buildings completely useless in this regard.
I used to play world of warcraft, nothing like that level of immersion to relax in respect to real life, but it might just replace real life tension with virtual tension.

Until the new expansion pack comes out I find myself just watching TV

I'm a spud.
Have humans reached their peak athletic performance?
The underlying thread in this article and the report itself is:

"Women got the biggest happiness boost from access to technology, particularly those in developing nations, although British women loved the Internet, too."

This isn't all that surprising. We know that a fundamental difference between men and women is the way that they communicate and that they value communication in different ways.

It makes perfect sense that a woman, or a man who values communication in similar ways would be happier with more ways to express themselves and communicate.

Social networking is moving the barrier of communication away personal interaction and onto the Internet. In a time where a singles bar could be replaced with an exchange on Facebook, our values and what makes us happy will significantly evolve.
The number of hops on a SW flight to a non-major destination has gotten me down, as well as (at least a few years ago) the lack of transparency on the website/tickets about how many hops you might end up on.
Not necessarily. And even still, that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Look at what Valve did with Portal. Compare it to the original game it was based around.

I'm not saying he should have taken the job, but Valve has earned my faith that if they take on a project, they will do it justice.
ah, thanks, I should have done this earlier!
This once again demonstrates that the Wired folks have moments of sheer brilliance, and then they fail to follow it through to its most logical conclusion. Acquiring reddit (for a rumored few millions) was a stroke of amazing luck for Wired/Conde Nast. But, now that everyone can look at the situation and do apples to apples comparisons with Digg and see that it's a far superior community and technology in pretty much every measurable metric, and worth at least as much as Digg, the reddit guys are struggling to pay for enough engineers and machines to keep the thing running smoothly and fast. Part of that problem is I think that the guys best equipped to grow it (Steve and Alexis) have both moved on; the remaining guys are very smart, but I think they were hired for their engineering abilities rather than entrepreneurial strengths. And, I imagine they left partly because they were dissatisfied with their ability to grow and lead from within the Conde Nast organization.
That's tumblr error page... they've been having some performance issues.
For years, I worked for a boss who was always right. Not necessarily by being smarter, but by sheer force of will. She's a brilliant lady, and figured out the way to get some of the more competent technicians to perform was to subtly infer that she didn't think we could make deadline, knowing we'd bust our asses and put in 30 hour shifts to do it, just so she wouldn't be allowed to 'win'.

We called this process 'Hate Driven Development', and yes, in hindsight (and even in the moment) we all knew what she was doing, but she was clever enough to put it out there in ways where it worked even still.
Perhaps the difficulty is in designing the appropriate data structures and identifying the correct transformation functions. In other words, designing a good FP program is difficult just like designing a good OO program is difficult.
Their blog is hosted on Tumblr which is down right now. Tumblr goes down a lot so check again later and it will probably be up.
Watching videos takes too long. With the written word you can skim and read what is interesting. Reading gives you more content in less time than the majority of VidBlogs.

If you want to succeed with a video blog, then you need to script it, deliver it with punch, include strong supporting material (not stock footage). The more it is like a good TV ad (most are plain awful) or a good MTV clip the more likely it will get watched. Oh, and forget long trailers, they are a turn-off.
Zuckerberg had the Facebook platform in his pocket during all those negotiations. It seems like a great bet to me. If Facebook is worth a billion just for audience share of relatively traditional social networking, it should be a billion plus with the release of the platform and a marketplace.

I can't stand FB, but I have to say that was the right move.
I love the way it organically divides conversations, much like real life, based on "georgaphic location".
HTML5 but not Firefox? rly?
One thing you might add to the book is a “what to do if I get stuck” section. I think especially pointing people (even newbies) at IRC is a good idea, as long as there's a bit of elaboration about how to effectively ask IRC questions.

Freenode’s web client http://webchat.freenode.net/ isn’t perfect, but it should be figure-outable when accompanied by some simple directions.
It's not uncommon to partially cash out the founder in funding rounds. If the founder gets some cash, ey is less likely to push for an earlier exit. Eir goals are more aligned with the VCs, looking for a larger exit.
I'm the author of the post.. as others point out, this is actually Tumblr's fault and is incredibly frustrating (it just went down).

Given the last day we've had, this tends to fall into the "there's nothing we can do but laugh at this point" category. :)

Hopefully Tumblr comes back shortly, brings our blog back up with it, and you can read the full post in all its glory.

Sorry for the trouble!
btw, the most common source of high load is (surprise!) disk I/O.

So, moving a /var/log (not just /var) on separate device connected to distinct controller port is a big deal.

If you're running, say, mail server, you should separate /var/spool and /var/log and /var/db/mysql if any.

Partitioning, serious network card (think Broadcom) and big CPU caches are good things to begin with.
This isn't relevant to newer kernels as these settings are dynamic based on memory size since 2.6.26ish - The kernel will set this based on usage no need to tweak. The only real issue is making sure you buy a high end network card that will offload as much as possible to avoid x context switches per second (I don't know what it is exactly with netpoll).
It would have been the right move for a more experienced entrepreneur who was gambling with play money; it's the wrong move for a first timer who'd have been wiped out had it failed. He rolled the dice and won, but the odds were not in his favor; it was not smart.
What did I say:

people automatically assume that
(1)you are fully versed in everything about the situation,
(2)you agree with how the Church handled it all,
(3)you must be contributing to it by staying in the
Church, etc. We're all generally angry about this
problem. I don't know a single person who approves of
the practice of just moving people around, but there
are so many complexities to the issue.

The complexities of the issue isn't that they were moved around. And as I said, nobody I know agrees with that. Do I know the facts of the case? No.

Do I think that they should have been removed from public activity after the accusations? Yes.
Should these things have been reported to police? Yes.

I'm tired of talking about this stuff. The problem is that there now seems to be a witch hunt against priests, and really all Catholics. Look around here, on reddit, etc: hardly anybody even gives us a chance. Our Church has made mistakes; it has admitted this, and has changed the policies:

- Every person who works with kids in a Catholic organization in the US has to go through a training class on spotting & preventing abuse.

- The Church now reports all of these instances to police.

There really is more to the issue than just moving priests around. You won't get much argument that simply moving them around was the wrong answer, but you won't get anymore out of me when you say that I monetarily and morally support child abuse.

- 20% of the hospitals in the US are Catholic hospitals, they accept anybody--and have longer than other hospitals have. (Remember segregation? Our hospitals in the South accepted blacks and whites.)

- We probably have the most private schools in the country. They don't get money from the government, so essentially public schools are getting more money per pupil than they should. They also tend to have higher test scores on average. (Oh, and Catholics teach evolution in science class...)

- We run numerous soup kitchens, food pantries and homeless shelters. For an amazing example of this kind of charity, read up about the St. Vincent de Paul Society. ( http://svdpusa.org/ ) It's fantastic.

Anyway, people are by their nature fallible. Our leaders have worked to fix the problems. The coverup is a horrible problem, but the numbers for abusive priests are actually lower than those for the general male population. ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/mar... http://www.usccb.org/nrb/johnjaystudy/ )

I've spent far too long on this, but this stuff bothers me. We don't know all the facts. We know something bad happened. We think we've fixed it. I'm not saying forgive and forget--on the contrary: don't ever forget it lest it happens again--but give us some of that 'tolerance' everybody keeps saying is so great...

edit: formatting
I really enjoy reading. I take it as a serious hobby (I spend on average 1 hour a day reading, often times more).

I read a variety of books: programming (learn something new), business (keep yourself motivated and consider new approaches), lifestyle (what can I do to be a better person?), and fiction (oooh, a good story).

I can't being to explain how much of a profound impact reading has had on my life. I used to read a ton when I was younger, but when I started university I stopped for a while (hanging out with people, lots of social stuff), and didn't get back into the habit until the beginning of last year.

Reading keeps my mind focused, helps me relax, and teaches me new things all the time. When I read programming books, I make a point to write some software using whatever techniques / libraries the book I'm reading is discussing. This helps me get a better understanding of what I'm reading and learning about, and it's a lot of fun.

How often do you read? Do you enjoy what you're reading?
I have a feeling Zuckerberg is not going to have to worry about money no matter what happens. Even in 2007 he was clearly headed for multimillionaire status.

I don't know him personally but at the time he reputedly lived on a mattress in an empty room in Palo Alto. Maybe he's the kind of guy that values winning more than the accoutrements of success.
Michael Arrington’s Road To Millions
Apple plans to push HTML5 by creating new, 'innovative' websites
Google’s Mayer criticizes content "locked" inside Facebook?
Drawing the Mandelbrot set in Ruby and Haskell
On the road to being a better developer
Could be worth snapping up... if this badnycapartments.com takes off then the "good" equivalent will immediately become worth serious money.
Have you considered using elance? Or other freelancing sites?
Ask HN: Looking for feedback on my CS thesis subject
I'm about to start my CS master degree's final project. I'm planning to focus on a Garbage Collector running inside a heavy heap context and I would like to have HN people's perspective on it and know how relevant they find it.

I think that one of the biggest challenge the GC will have to face in the following months/years is the increase in size of the managed heap memory. Patrick Dussud, one the main developer of Microsoft .NET's GC, mentioned in a podcast (http://www.microsoftpdc.com/2009/FT51) that heaps overs 15 GB could, at this time, cause some serious GC latencies.

There already exists commercial Java based solutions, such as Terracotta's big memory solution
(http://www.terracotta.org/bigmemory?src=/index.html), that offers up to 600GB of memory off-heap with no pause time caused by the GC.

I'm planning to work on Mono's generational GC. My approach would be to identify in which specific conditions the GC starts presenting latencies and look for solutions that would allow it to manage bigger heaps.

Thanks you very much!
You're still going to find Scala to be significantly faster on arbitrary code. It's great that there are ways to speed up key functions in Clojure now though.
Google Hosted Website Background Images?
I stumbled upon this URL:

http://themes.googleusercontent.com/image?id=1uK3asOUTXGHOxBp5SzQi9-XgNXEKZ36dz3ulQ9zIinkHa_wkts_jwC2cKfeghsEwd8xV

and

http://themes.googleusercontent.com/image?id=1OACCYOE0-eoTRTfsBuX1NMN9nz599ufI1Jh0CggPFA_sK80AGkIr8pLtYRpNUKPmwtEa

Where are these images from? Where can I find more Google hosted background images to use in my web projects? (Using a Google hosted background image can save on bandwidth and speed up a website.. every bit helps..)
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