skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And these are competing VCs yeah? Because they would have no interest in making their competitors look bad?

Absolutely it required further investigation than two barside chats... certainly before one starts throwing the muck which is pretty hard to wash off - innocent or not.

Imagine it hypothetically - you meet with a few of your competitors to discuss some issues and a couple of them immediately turn to a report and lie and say that you're being evil. The reporter goes ahead and publishes these claims without even trying to independently check them, and without even asking you your side first (and Arrington gave no indication in his article that he did either of these things). Now, as per the hypothetical... how would you feel about it?

Now I'm not saying these folks were lying - but the point is, how do we know?
Ways artists 'hack your brain'
If you are going to compete with apple on price you have to make something cheap enough to compete with apple on price. Evidently knocking 2" off screen size makes it cheap enough.
I presume GHC is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler and not Guarded Horn Clauses?
Between Java Webstart, Desktop applications and Applets, It's always seemed to me like Java had a lot of deployment options. Consider the JWS setup used by TopCoder's IDE/Client[1] or Bytonic's Jake2[2]- both always impressed me as pretty seamless.

In your opinion, does it come down to the overhead of needing the runtime? Something else?

[1]http://www.topcoder.com/
[2]http://bytonic.de/html/jake2.html
Google Translate might not be as good as people thought
Survive a Dog Attack
'Preliminary' finding invalidates C2's VoIP patent, says EFF
Off the top of my head. Any of the other companies running a search engine. Any of the companies running a suggestion engine(netflix, Amazon).
So, what are you hoping to get from opening the books up? Four years ago when I started, it was a no-lose proposition: heads it causes people to think I'm interesting, tails oh well I just mention that I sold substantially nothing. Your business is already pretty interesting to a solid customer base... is opening up going to materially improve your prospects in any way?
Not only that, if you are a startup that wants to do b2b and you want to sell a product in to that market that will have a tight connection to stuff your clients already run you will be required to use .NET by your customers. Unless you like uphill battles that's the way you'll go eventually.

It sucks, but it is the reality of the business environment, web side stuff that is abstracted through some HTTP interface you can build in whatever you please but good luck trying to sneak your locally hosted rails app past the Microsoft only mentality prevalent in plenty of businesses.
I've been joking about this with my roommate (hardcore poker player i.e. 4 or 5 hrs a day), the day poker comes out for the iPhone he is done. I'm surprised it took this long, the big sites dropped the ball.
Great paragraph at the end of the article: (emphasis mine)

To those who want to be part of a vibrant community of passionate developers
crafting new and innovative solutions, start hanging out with people who
*aren’t tied to a particular language or framework*. Get to your local user
groups. All of them. Get a github account and start forking the hell out of
everything!
I do want to work offline, so, no, haven't tried, didn't even consider.

What advantage would having the whole home up on evernote/dropbox/whatever over having only select parts of it there?
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Well, I think this is the oddest thing ever submitted to HN, at least as far as I remember.

I'm not even sure what it is. It's probably humor, but I'm not sure.

Edit: Seems like it's supposed to be speculative fiction. Hm.
Out of curiosity, are people building their own for-fun-projects using .net or even Java? All I seem to hear are people using Python, Ruby and Javascript.
The Economist did a special report on Clarke's book back in July. It's interesting how the tone has shifted now that this kind of attack is no longer hypothetical. (Probably.) For one thing, in the Economist article, the perpetrators of such an attack are all terrorists, Russians, or Chinese.

http://www.economist.com/node/16478792?story_id=16478792
Re: Compartmentalization

Since people don't use friend lists, I believe Facebook will one day offer an auto-compartmentalize feature where it will intelligently build groups for you like talked about here:

http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...
"I doubt Facebook has a lot more growth ahead of it"

Don't confusing lack of user growth with lack of company & profit growth. But I don't think even user growth is anywhere near static.
after spending an hour scouring the land trying to find
where I had left my huge mine/home

1) build a structure at your initial spawn point that points to your castle.

2) make a compass with 4 iron, 1 redstone (it always points to your spawn location)

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Fireworks Mini Web Wireframing Kit
That sort of thing can happen anywhere. Indeed, someone close to me in the US went bankrupt, despite having a C corporation, because a supplier required signing off personally, and things went south...
I don't think it will make a difference to me personally, but it might get people here to make better decisions about what sort of model to pursue for their business, and to further the understanding of the membership model.

It's like 'github' for businesses, I hope not to lose anything but help others to gain.

I may in fact gain in terms of feedback and ideas.
FireBug, AdBlock and sometimes NetVideoHunter to download videos.
A sizeable chunk of .NET development happens in the corporate/enterprise world. That sort of environment isn't interested in collaboration, open source, etc.--they're interested in the guaranteed support the MS stack provides, and the idiot-proof web basics provided by ASP/webforms/MVC.

If shit hits the fan in the .NET stack for a big enough corporate project, someone in the office can phone/email MS and get support for their problem. If a bug is found in the stack itself, it won't languish unsolved in bug trackers for years, like many OSS bugs do. MS will probably fix it in their next cycle, and the corporate devs won't have to waste their time figuring out the nuts and bolts of the stack to fix the bugs themselves, like in OSS.

So I think it's this requirement for enterprise support that keeps MS from accepting OSS patches and locking everyone in--it would be too much work to track, validate, and test 3rd party patches when they can just fix it themselves with their own devs and keep going to sleep on their piles of money surrounded by many beautiful women.

Unfortunately this sort of view isn't very compatible with the indie developer ideal, or the ideals the author holds--which might one of the many reasons why you see so much Rails/PHP development in the non-enterprise space.
I can't agree more with the observations on MVC. It's really a symptom of .Net and Microsoft locking in the vast majority of inexperienced users with overly abstract components.

Developers fresh out of college who were taught .Net in school and get a job in it become experts at Partial PostBacks and Code Behinds and binding data to the latest whiz-bang GridDataAwesomeControlForTheWin.

The problem I've seen time and again is that they have no idea how this is implemented. Ask a green .Net developer about the ViewState lifecycle and see if they know how that really works.

I don't mean to disparage all .Net developers or to try and say that being a .Net developer precludes you from ever understanding how these things work. I am trying to say that for a lot of people for whom coding is their 9-5 way to make money, they will never look behind that curtain to better understand their craft. They will believe that Microsoft invented Model View Controller, they will only get exposed to technology at the pace Microsoft cares to expose them to it, and that's a shame.

There are probably a lot of 9-5ers who could have that switch flipped and go from code monkey to craftsmen, but they are stuck doing WebForms and have never really got bitten by the curiosity bug in the face of the stale joyless Microsoft platform.

Other platforms can be just as dangerous, even RoR has a preponderance of gems that solve common problems in web development that there are probably RoR web devs that have never thought about have you would implement authentication on the web, just slap :acts_as_authenticator_unicorns_rule on the model. It just seems to be a much more pernicious problem in the .Net community and one that grew up out of trying to hide Web Programming and make it Windows Programming rendered in HTML.
Why making money with programming makes you feel dirty?
Michael Dell? Really? Funny considering Dell was basically funded by Intel for years. URL with data would be nice.
Here's a way to combine two ideas: mention to some small-minded politician that unless you get a bit of funding, Iran might develop a working version of the Babbage Analytical Engine before the west does... and if that happens, well ... [shake your head slowly at this point].
doesnt work on chrome..gives load error..and not sure if pink is a good choice
The History of 3 Bizarre Images
Let's take a look some of the really weird images.
I have noticed the lack of community as well but I suppose the choice of using .Net has more to do with your goals. My company's product uses .Net and I chose that because I know it best. I didn't really have time to learn something new when I was trying to get a product to market.

It's a very marketable skill I suppose in certain companies but I've noticed that few companies I see talked about around here use it much. I mostly see interest in Ruby, PHP, and Python skills. If you want to start an open source project then .Net probably isn't your best choice. I haven't met any .Net developers who work on open source .Net projects. They work on projects in C or Python on their own but almost never C#. The C# open source projects that I've used in the past like Lucene .Net are just straight ports from Java. Lucene is a little frustrating because it doesn't take advantage of many C# features so it feels like programming Java when you're interacting with it.
If your interested in a rewrite of WordPress then I'm sure the Habari guys would be interested in your help.

They started a while back on doing pretty much just that.
Megan Racing Downpipe
The Megan Racing Downpipe is made from stainless steel and mandrel bent tubing. All of the sets that are offered are tested, because the company always wants to make sure that their products will be some of the best that are available on the market.
Check out Balsamiq's Blog. The creator wrote many articles detailing the financial progress of the company when they were having explosive growth.

http://www.balsamiq.com/blog
When I was young I never had to apply for jobs. They would come and find me. Come to think of it, that's how it still works today, with a difference. Now the jobs are very brief. I get a phone call and quickly respond, get paid OK. Back then I would work for a year or so after each phone call. Job applications? Sure, done dozens of them. Results? Nil. The only way I have ever gotten decent jobs was by knowing someone who knew someone offering a job, or by walking in the door and speaking with the owner about why I want to work for him/her.
If BitTorrent were designed today, what would be differences in protocol?
I'm in my 30s. My social group is mainly urban and mobile. It certainly seemed that vast majority of people around my age were on MySpace, and I say this as someone who never actually joined it with a real account. Incidentally, the same people who used MySpace heavily are the ones whose posts fill up my Facebook wall. In fact, most of those people were also on friendster.
Maybe when my kid is older we will do this as ascience experiment. See if a "mirror garden" plant can grow with less light and how much less. Expect a blog post in ten years..
We don't use Smarty for a number of reasons.

Anyway PHP is itself designed as a Templating language and works very well.

Adding Smarty or any other templating language into the mix just means that users and developers have to learn both PHP and the templating language.
Question in full:

If BitTorrent were to be designed today, what would be some key differences in the protocol?

Had to sacrifice grammar to make the 80 character limit.
It just hangs ruby (like in an endless loop)
Publishing a static website on CloudFront
A lot of enterprise software development suffers from the implementation of boilerplate code and custom in-house frameworks, I think a lot of businesses enjoy and value the level of control they can have over their own development eco-system rather than relying on third party libraries.
> Open source isn't magic.

Isn't it though? I think popular open source projects have magic. These guys put out a demo with lousy unsecured code and rookie mistakes and within a week the worst offenders were identified and repaired.

I'm not saying they are great developers, but certainly OSS is some sort of powerful magic.
If it isn't backed by RedHat it is useless. Redhat have his amazing triple develop/test/bugfix process Fedora-development->Fedora->RHEL. But even Fedora is quite stable.
It takes me about one minute to get an overview of opinion pieces on that new page and to find out whether I want to read anything. During that one minute I will scroll all the way down. I don’t even have to think about it. This is one of the New York Times’ more rigid layouts which means that I can actually systematically read the headline of every single piece on that page without getting lost. Cluttered is the last thing I would call it.

Sure, they could display less. Ten rows, two columns – that sounds to me like they picked a nice round number without much thought. Five would do but in this day and age scrolling is easy. (This guy also seems to have a screen with a low resolution. I have only 900 vertical pixels and I have to press page down three times.)
I haven't really thought of it, but every cyclist I've met has too. I haven't yet (knock on wood), but then again I only started biking this year.
We have been providing a stable and reliable API for a long time.

Just because it doesn't look like how you envisage it should doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Matt's post was true at the time and WordPress.org the open source project has never been "holding back the php community". Instead we have been ensuring that the most important people, our users, are able to upgrade reliably and easily on whatever hosting platform they use.

In the end we put the users first because without them the project would just wither away!
If I already have a full-time job, and I just want to hack around as a hobby in my spare time, I don't want the language features and runtime to be tied up in the same (probably more) red tape and politicking I have to deal with at my day job. I just want to relax and hack, and if there's money involved, that's a lot less likely to be enjoyable.
But in the jobs section aren't those people looking to hire regular full time employees? What did you say when you contacted them?
Not sure what this has to do with anything hacker newsish, but I found pepper spray works great. Dogs have a good sense of smell, so you don't even need to get it in their faces - they get a whiff of it and turn the other way.

Also, definitely get the authorities involved - even if you get away, the next person might not be so lucky.
The Existential Theory
I'd check it with a screenreader. Freedom Scientific gives you a 45 minute demo of JAWS. After 45 minutes, it doesn't work until you reboot your computer. Kinda nice for testing sites.
I do. Personally, I love it.
When to start publicizing a startup.
Friends,

We are a startup that deals with fashion. We are about 3-4 months away from the final product.

Questions are:

1) When is a correct time to start seeding the news about this site?

2) Who are the professionals that do this sort of "spreading the news"?

If anyone have any guidance regarding this I will be thankful.

Regds
Karthik
But what if Apple doesn't allow it? How many people would jailbreak their phone to play poker?
There is no way of attaching EBS volumes to multiple instances, see the EBS API overview: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2010-08-31/Develope...

What might work if you wanted to do this is to mount the EBS volume to an instance and then expose the volume using a network block device to multiple instances. Seems convoluted. Being able to attach EBS to multiple instances may be something Amazon will add if there is enough interest.
The metaphysical solution: can a card be face up if one can see it?
Is that offer good for anyone? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1031126
Thanks for the reply. I agree with the impossible deadline bit.
Can you give an example of what you would consider a architecturally insecure web application?
It was Microsoft's answer to Java, with hindsight 20/20. I wanted to see their take on portable bytecode, JIT techniques, security, distributed computing, performance, etc. Nearly everybody there was burned by MS's short attention span when it comes to system libraries (OLE, COM, DCOM, DCOM+ for one, and the mess that is data-access libraries, OLE-DB,MDAC, ODBC, ADO, Jet, etc.)

We wanted closure, at least I knew I did. Was barely 20 and had my first serious application. Hundreds of MFC files, elaborate Win32 API integration, MS Office integration and a whole lotta crap. They fucked me over seriously bad, and I have already sunk in a year and a half of my time, skipping classes just to make it. Everytime I implemented a subsystem a new memo would come out on MSDN Magazine telling me to use a component bundled with Office for that, or tie my app into the latest IE release, or "just" use ActiveX.

I fucking wanted an answer. Instead, the fat guy they paid to talk to us said we could all get highly paying jobs if we only learned this new, new thing.

I left that mess for good. First to Perl, then Lisp. Never going back to the API carrots on a stick thing.
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Actually, quite a few Haskell folks work for Microsoft Research. So it's more like the well-paid Microsoft employees are out there hacking on GHC.

The broke mofos are the ones that are working on all that .NET stuff. Working for the government as a low-level programmer is not where the money is at.
Integrate Report Viewer in Local Mode & Render HTML in RDL Reports
Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services makes it possible generating PDF reports in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 & 2005 Reporting Services. Some advanced features like adding PDF bookmarks, using HTML tags, XMP metadata, custom embedded font and rendering watermark for pages are now supported. Also convert all RDL report features including sections, images, charts, tables, matrices, headers and footers to PDF. It also enables you creating Pdf documents on the server without using Adobe PDF Library SDK.
Grace Hopper on Letterman (1986)
Why would he do that? This makes no sense to me.

Why not take the options and just give to money to charity rather than let it lapse? I don't believe taking the options would impact Apple much, just add a (minor) dilution to existing shareholders who would never begrudge this being done for Jobs. Even if he doesn't care for the money I'd have thought he'd see the positives of becoming a large philanthropist.
[deep breath, intense stare] WE CANNOT ALLOW...... [dramatic pause, another breath]....... AN ANALYTICAL ENGINE GAP!!!!
ZVOLs are block devices. So you could install another fs on top of one. Or more usefully export it as an iSCSI target.
Actually you can't even distribute binaries at all.
Btrfs is quite far from being "around the corner". A solid, dependable filesystem must be in the wild for a couple of years to be called "production ready".
key insight here:

> in a future of cloud computing I want to consider every single core as a computer itself.

And that leads directly to a shared nothing architecture, which I think is definitely an advantage. It's KISS all over, multi-threading is often not the right decision. It leads to more complex (and sometimes very hard to debug) software that will have only marginal gain (or even a drop as in this case) over running multiple well behaved instances of the same process.
Welcome to Samy Kamkar's zombie cookie factory
It's close, "Better to ask forgiveness than permission."
I can't up-vote this enough. I started out as a .net developer. I didn't know anything else so I thought that's all there was.

I was very wrong.

I'm trying to get out as fast as possible, but applying for a job as a python developer with 4 years of asp.net experience isn't easy.
I tend to cycle more towards the middle of the road, too. It seems better to me if the driver has to make a conscious effort to overtake me, rather than thinking "this might just fit" and pushing me into the parked cars. It all depends on the car, too. If a bus is crawling up behind me, I might just stop on the sidewalk until it has passed me.

However, I don't really know the driver's perspective.

There was also a guy who experimented with wearing a bicycle helmet finding that drivers would leave less distance when overtaking him when he wore the helmet. Apparently they assumed he was a more skilled cyclist because of the helmet.
LinkedIn goes for shopping
Part of the "Microsoft Tax" is that there is always a new new thing - when it comes to Microsoft selling products their biggest competitor is installed versions of their existing products not other vendors.
If they can get a app in the App Store, Apple's walled garden would be perfect at keeping bots out.
My first web app had authorization. I didn't even go to school for CS.

Simply put, they focused too much on trendy tools and libraries like MongoDB and CarrierWave and neglected the basics.
This is true, but it could work against the next gen. After all, who wants to be on the same network as their folks? That could make it uncool enough for other to look elsewhere.
It sounds like he is annoyed at the community that surrounds asp.net MVC development.

There was no mention of money, but not all broke mofos chose to not use asp.net for their web app.

I also believe that asp.net would be completely dead for web development without stackoverflow.com. A shame, because C# with Visual Studio is a very nice environment. Lonely (i.e. no community), but nice.
Ah. That made me smile. Speaking of small-minded politicians, I went to Oxford with the jokers running the country. I'd better give them a call.
"but it doesn’t stop pages that are three or four scrolls deep"

writes the man that wrote a post 3 scrolls deep.
Design flaw in the MacBook MagSafe power cord attachment?
I kept having increasing trouble attaching the MagSafe ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe ) connector. I thought for a while that bits were breaking off inside of it. However, it turns out that it is attracting iron filings/other tiny metal bits into the female part of the connector (on the macbook side of the connection). I'm not sure how to easily clean this out. Any info out there on how to clean it out or whether Apple is going with a different adapter in the future? It seemed neat at first...
Lookup Before You Hookup
Google App Engine Cookbook
If it's as small as a single server, you probably don't need an SSD to cache access. If your db server is partitioned out, just put the whole fs on SSD. You can't partition the L2ARC, so you really don't want to mix web assets with database volumes. The assets will push your db out of the cache unless it's so big that you're massively overpowered, or traffic so low it didn't matter in the first place.

That's some hard won knowledge there. :-)

(You can choose to cache assets meta-data only, but that tuning has major downsides itself and while it may protect your db, it's also likely to render your caches very under-utilized. Basically it isn't a silver bullet and it's still important to think of volumes and work-loads in terms of what "spindles" they're on.