skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant:

Speed Test: Flash vs HTML5 On The Nexus One [video]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1657853
Hi Anna, like you I am thinking about/planing to move to San Fransisco and the bay area, I am doing it for a slightly different reason ( I am active in a area within roboitics called Self-reconfiguring modular robotics) but I found this post full of useful information, http://startups.ryanjunee.com/an-introduction-to-silicon-val...
Not if it is combined with the other two (permanent and pervasive.) The idea is that if something is your fault, and cannot be changed, and in fact everything is your fault, then the conclusion is that you are hopelessly defective, and there is nothing to be done: learned helplessness.
I want a proper count of how my story is spreading in social networks (or graphs). I would like facebook + twitter commenting. I would like it to spread among smaller or alternative social networks. I'd like it to be possible for people to be notified even if they are not in the posterous network. I'd like integration with other commenting systems. I'd like "likes" or something equivalent. I'd like posterous "retweets" or such within the posterous network.

I don't mean social as in posterous creating their own social network, that would be silly. I just want tighter and deeper integration with social collections, such that what I write can spread wider and be more appreciated.

Being able to embed and image in a post is not a feature I really appreciate much, since I know html and thus can solve it very quickly. But integrating deeply with other social networks is not something I'm familiar with, and having such features would be great for me.
See reply below to Matt for more details of what I meant.
I had the same problem and then I switched on Safari's Reader feature -- problem solved.
Drinking is very good, and not all office romance is sexual harassment, although it's true the article's examples are . . . unfortunate. I think the article's message is a sound one: Googlers talk about how much they love the ball pits, but I don't know anyone who's gone in more than once. However, we all enjoy the team bar in the hallway. There is something to the idea that "fake fun" is not as fun as "real fun" -- the kind people opt to enjoy when left to their own devices.

I do agree that fake fun is still better than no fun at all. But I think, as someone who works at one of these places that tries to make everything fun, that I enjoy the types of fun I have with coworkers that aren't engineered more than the types of fun that are.
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Your comment is spot on. The rule of thumb is that if you can't make sense of the ingredients list on back labels (especially if they're extremely long), it's more than likely highly processed junk.
There's nothing bullying about offering a discount for low end machines, which is what Microsoft is doing. Machines that don't qualify for the discount aren't really netbooks.
Right, it's the "and contributed to" part that I'm referencing. Godwin's Law is "...a comparison involving Hitler or Nazis..." Usually once you reference the Weimar Republic, people immediately think of the rise of the Nazis ten years later. It's an implicit comparison, even if the words are never mentioned.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/howlett/oracle-open-world-keynote-...
>In some cases, they died because they were paying above average wages in a misguided attempt to compete for the best of the best.

It's not misguided. I've worked in every size of company, from a <5-man startup to fortune 5 and the best developers I've ever worked with were at a mid-sized hedge fund. The work was relatively boring and the management was shockingly bad but the much higher pay brought in some really talented developers. The only reason the place didn't fold was because of the effort of these developers.
I pushed 20 more of my projects to GitHub
Will David Cameron be the first libertarian prime minister?
I'm with you. Giving someone a grand title is free; If a ridiculous title makes an employee even a little bit happier, who am I to deny him that small boon?
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Some are seriously dated. For example Valencia http://www.metrovalencia.es/planos.php?page=103
I just set up s3fs on my linux server (http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/wiki/FuseOverAmazon) and pointed it at Google Storage for Developers (http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/getting-started.htm...). It's intended for use with S3 as the name implies of course. It's been working flawlessly so far :)!
> Of course there is a line to walk between a couple of beer and the three martini lunch.

That is true for productivity but what about your health? I like drinking as much as the next guy but drinking a couple of beers every day, at work, just to "relax" and "focus better" seems like a bad tactic.
Clearly you think 80% is unreasonable

I never said that. I said that, as given, your comment had no argument or reasoning. This is the comment you should have originally posted, not your two word question which vaguely implied your real argument.
Because their argument is not that they, specifically, should pay more in taxes. It is that the highest tax bracket should be taxed at a higher rate. To equate the two is a straw man argument.
This is a wildly misleading figure.

First, the primary driver of this "inequality" is the widening gap between the rich and the poor in the US. The top 10% of earners in the US take home nearly 50% of the country's total income. Under a "flat tax" system (i.e. everyone pays 20%), they would still pay nearly 50% of the country's total income tax. Under our system they actually pay 70% of all taxes. Do you think it's "unequal" for people who take home more income to pay proportionally more income taxes?

Second, even people paying zero income tax pay ~15% of taxes on income for social security + medicare, as well as a disproportionate share of their income on regressive taxes, like sales tax and gas tax.
According to the latest research I've seen, you start dropping productivity within a couple of weeks of over work. You were in this mode for months, no?
Looks like it's fairly straightforward to do it manually with triggers.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Materalized_Views
Twenty minutes in and I was gone. She might as well have recorded it and the beamed it out to the audience.

Doesn't anyone proofread anymore?
Thanks!

There's a pretty decent-sized market for it, made up of:

-High schools

-Middle schools

-Colleges

-Churches

-Public access TV stations

-Independent production companies

-Podcasters

-Etc.

Some of our current clients include:

-Revision3

-MLB.com

-San Diego State University.

We have a fair amount of competition, but they are all targeting larger operations. We are the only company that's tailored to smaller operations that just need basic features like creating rundowns, timing shows, managing scripts, and integrating with teleprompters.
You might want to check out Amazon SQS for this. It has all the advantages you're looking for (transactional, guaranteed not to lose messages, zero administration, crazy-simple API with solid client libraries in every conceivable language), with the only possible downside being that it's hosted externally.

It's priced so cheaply as to be essentially free, though you'll need to give it a credit card so that it can bill you eleven cents a month or whatever.

http://aws.amazon.com/sqs/

I've been using it for a few years now with good success.
The same guy did some demos of CSS3 animations on the same hardware: http://www.blackcj.com/blog/2010/09/19/css3-excels-on-ios-bu...
Someone should key recruiters in on that in-joke.
Just sounds like your "other roommate"'s idea of what is fun was in different alignment from theirs. Rather than accept different tastes an attempt was made to coerce them (by use of negative language - "why not just play for fun") into playing for the same purpose he did. Unsurprisingly they found a way to have fun despite being forced into a new playing style.
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From my understanding, the attack guesses the key used by the server. And in most cases the same key is used for almost everything. So they can guess it with something trivial and then use it to make a fake cookie or encrypted form element to get access. SSL and session ids have nothing to do with the padding oracle attack itself.
Unless you're on the fast track through management, working within the same company for two decades guarantees that you will have difficulty finding a job at another company should the need arise. Especially in companies like Boeing, where titles such as Internal Auditor and Analyst mean you are essentially a drone doing tasks that do not require critical thinking (I speak from experience).

People need to rethink this undue loyalty they have been giving to companies in exchange for a meager pension after 30 years. At some point you need to look out for yourself, your skills and your future employability outside of the company. Perform well at your job, demand the upfront compensation you deserve and take responsibility for your own career...don't leave it in the hands of a large company bureaucracy.
Wow, impressive list. How did you go about acquiring those customers, or did they come to you? How are people finding your site in general (schools, etc). I'll pass your site onto the media class at my school!
The energy here is just different, it's infectious. You cannot put a price on it.

It's not surprising to hear somebody in a cafe working on their pitch or sometimes actually pitching to an investor.

For me, it's like watching a football game in the stadium as opposed to watching on TV.

After being a spectator, it motivates you to someday play the game too!
I agree with you that the tax code is in need of a drastic restructuring.

But realize that when you argue for a simplified tax, you're saying we need to get rid of the many incentives baked into the current code. These run the gamut, including things like:

Investing (lower capital gains rate + ability to deduct losses from gains)

Education (credits/deductions for education spending + student loan interest)

Homeownership (mortgage interest deduction - just imagine home prices without it)

Alternative energy (credits for purchasing solar panels/green cars)

Charitable giving

And so on... I'm not saying that all of these credits/deductions are needed, just that their absence would cause changes to the US far bigger than your "lots of accountants +entrepreneurs would have some more free time" intended effect.
You should really try readability:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

It make reading articles on the web much nicer.
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Or you could use synergy to connect two macs together. You can even copy and paste between them.
Excellent. Only negative:

Do you offer plans for less than 50 users [$35/mo]?

No, sorry, that's as low as we go.

Turn that frown upside down! $35/mo is cheap, emphasize that it could benefit a team of 5 up to 50. Right now it suggests teams of fewer people wouldn't benefit, when they definitely would.

You don't just have to do it for news. any little magazine show would benefit from this, even if they didn't use a teleprompter. Things I've worked on that this would assist - cooking shows, corporate gigs, local ad spots, doco production, magazine shows. Lots of freelance producers could benefit.

It's not my bread and butter anymore, but I've bookmarked it - if I were asked to help out on such a project, it would have paid for itself after an hour of work...which is the minimum time it would take me to build a template in Excel or similar. Software-in-a-box to do the same thing is hideously unpleasant to use and about 10x the price. I think you can get a ton of small users.

Hell, try it at $45/mo (so you can give a small 'discount' to the volume purchasers instead of linear price increases.
Helicopter parenting and teacher/student learning as compared to self directed learning strike me as two current trends that may lead to learned helplessness in our society.

So many people in my life need constant encouragement to help overcome learned apathy. I'm not really sure what the main cause is but they seem to be likely candidates.
One charge with two beneficiaries?
I would even call it a calling. Of course you need to be a little careful about following a calling. I really enjoyed this blog post on it:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/04/09/corrupted-callings-the...
Roads, hospitals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#Finan...

Hospitals are indirectly funded by many different sources, both public and private.
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Everyone could implement their own solution to call-site caching (and they do), but to push it down into the JVM for a single clear defined way of doing it, grants much more to optimization efforts. What benefits one system, should benefit them all.

There will be a schism between libraries that move to Java 7 only, and support their own call-cache mechanism, but I doubt any of the established projects would ditch their existing solutions, it would most likely only effect new libraries.

If an enterprise is busy being tied up in Java 1.4, and missing out on the drastic speed and memory improvements in hotspot 1.6 line, then I doubt that adding dynamic languages is a priority. JRuby for example requires 1.6 (from the literature I've seen and personal experience, but they don't explicitly say so on their site)

I also disagree generally about how Oracle is dealing with Java 7, but I am willing to see what the end result is.

Microsoft has been heavily involved in the IronPython/IronRuby and Mono efforts. They do see the power in .Net cross system.
I'm just finishing my PhD thesis in CS now. Like you, I don't want to work in academia. Was it worth it? It's a tough call.

I greatly appreciate the time and relative freedom that my PhD has given me to develop, but not all of that development will be applicable out there in the real world. I think most people moving from PhD study into industry have to make something of a sideways leap, and you can't expect the same level of remuneration as you'd find in a job you're qualified for (i.e. research).

In my recent job-hunting, I've had a really hard time convincing potential employers to trade my overeducation against my inexperience. Recruiters, who often just match acronyms on a CV/resume, are particularly tough in this regard. One told me that, despite me having a PhD, he would only put me forward for roles that said 'new graduate' or 'no experience required'.

You can combat this, however. In my experience, there's time when doing a PhD to do some extra-curricular stuff—to work or to develop personal projects. These will help you to look less like the kind of narrow-minded, misanthropic pedant that people expect from a PhD student.

In summary, the only thing a PhD will qualify you for is research. Having a PhD, as prestigious as it is, is only as useful as you make it, so your choice of topic and extra-curricular activites are essential. If you're considering a PhD because the jobs your ideal job isn't open to you, consider whether taking the sideways step into PhD study is really the most direct route to the job you want (read: it probably isn't).

One more thing: be aware that your relationship with your advisor is crucial. Quitting because you can't stand them two years into your PhD means starting over, so choose wisely. Don't choose them based on the person you want to be, choose based on how they fit with who you are now.

All the best.
Um, you need to get out of Melbourne. I am always amazed at how universally excellent espresso is there: beautifully roasted, excellently barista'd and absolutely no milk or sugar required while still being dark, thick and tasty. Compare to Sydney or most of Europe (or much of North America).

Cafés in North America often run to chocolate muffins and energy bars, but the whole Australian café provision of light warm meals is fairly alien there (see the success of Pret in NYC as a business with a very different value proposition to most other chains). I would imagine that the additional profitability from this cultural difference might be one of the reasons of the success of cafés where you are; that and the fact that the inner core of Melbourne has 2m+ residents and is fairly walkable which leads to a different kind of use of these kinds of spaces.
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Zuckerberg, ‘The Social Network’ And The Rise Of The Terror Nerd
And with this my opinion of Arrington shifts from "hey, he's kind of a self-important dick" to "huh, this guy is an introvert who's confident and passionate about his work, kind of like me."

Guy's all right. And my hat's off to him for building something truly powerful from scratch.
I could never present my business card with a straight face if it had a ridiculous title.

In fact I just went to a school reunion and answered most peoples questions with 'software developer', But maybe that's because it shuts 99% of the population up.
Comments from uninformed fanboys are to be expected. What's appalling is MS's VP in charge of ASP.NET spreading misinformation and down-playing the vulnerability.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/09/18/important-...
http://forums.asp.net/1233.aspx
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Now wait a second, Weimar levels of title inflation would be where I would be called "planetary dictator" on the third month of a temp assignment... At the end of Weimar inflation, Wikipedia claims a single gold Mark had reached a value of a billion paper marks.

Perhaps Economist Headline inflation has reached Weimar levels, though.
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For anyone looking for plain JavaScript base64/ascii85 codecs, I wrote a pretty decent (quicker than what I could find, concise & readable) one about a year ago (would need to be modified very slightly to be a node/commonJS module, and could perhaps be a bit shorter with a different style of error handling):

http://pastie.textmate.org/pastes/695197

A slight variant of this base64 codec (I believe suitable as a node/commonJS module) is also used by the http://js.io/ project:
http://github.com/mcarter/js.io/blob/master/packages/std/bas...
> they quickly took charge of their own lives (at least in terms of avoid electric shocks) -- a heart-warming story to entrepreneurs.

I don't know that anything in or about that study could be described as "heart-warming", but ok
Better yet, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1708014 already linked to them.
This tweet from @ev implies there won’t be a Twitter for Mac.
Idempotency and tagging are the big ones for me. Makes automating instance operations easier.
Matt Welsh (Harvard CS systems prof) has a great post on the topic:
http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/09/so-you-want-to-go-to-...

"The only reason to do a PhD is because you love doing research. If you don't love research, don't bother -- it is not worth the time, money (in terms of opportunity cost vs. making a real salary in industry), or stress. Doing a PhD is stressful, if you are doing it right -- you are in constant competition with other academics to publish your results in the top venues, to make a name for yourself, to get recognized. If you harbor ideas of lazy days sitting in the coffee shop pondering the universe, you are dead wrong. (You can always approach a PhD this way, but you will probably not be very successful.)"
Is it a copyright violation?
>but I don't think that languages like Java and Ruby have changed the state of the art that is being discussed.

I would say Java has probably made it worse. Ruby is, however, (at least loosely) based on Smalltalk which IMO has the nicest OO library for the things it addresses (e.g. collections).
There's an elephant in the room here: do you have a legal way of emigrating to the USA? It's not a very easy country for foreigners to get into (or, at least, to work in) nowadays.
Thanks. Most came to us, but I did approach one or two of them.

I certainly appreciate the referral!
Nice but where does it get the information? Is it anonymized?

There is no official PageRank lookup.
Sorry, it doesn't work on binary data:

node> var buf = require('fs').readFileSync('./tests/data/data-png.png');
node> require('jacob.js').base64.encode(buf)
Base64CodecError: Input contains out-of-range characters.

Also node.js now has its own base64 encoding and decoding functions right in Buffer, so there is no longer need for any base64 modules.
I like the image stuff. May fork it when one of my projects matures.
My friend and I ran a chess club in high school. We really just wanted to play chess, but made everyone who joined a "Director." Why not? Plus, It was a bit of a joke reaction to the high pressure competition we saw in other extra curricular activities.
I appreciate your feedback and totally agree with you on the 50 users thing. I will have to think about how to change the wording on it. It is the question I get most!
I haven't tested a lot of queues but one solution that i played with recently and liked is zookeeper.

It is distributed, battle tested and has a small simple API. You can build some good distributed data structures(like queues for example) on top of it with minimal work.

For python examples - http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/05/building-a-distributed-...

and http://github.com/twitter/twitcher
Unfortunately Microsoft is a bit between a rock and a hard place at the moment; give too little info and they'll suffer once exploits start actually occurring, give too much and create some serious panic. Then again, there's a lot of implicit info in Scott Guthrie's post, such as the increased vulnerability of pre .NET3.5 SP1 app. Some more thoughts here: http://www.troyhunt.com/2010/09/fear-uncertainty-and-and-pad...
Well okay, it's intended to work in the browser (note: this was also written before Node had any decent binary data type; I haven't really been keeping track, does it now?) and so "binary data" is just a string where each byte is the lower byte of one character. It could pretty easily be modified to take advantage of better data types in contexts where they are available (or if someone's using a string for "binary data" where two bytes of data are stored in each character, modified to deal with that).
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We ought to have a basic income, or at least retraining and job placement that's actually effective. When the country has a surplus of housing stock, threatening her with homelessness is a ridiculously cruel penalty for her inability to personally deduce what our wacky economy wants more of.