skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slow down, people...

Here's part of an update from the Texas Taxpayers Research Association applicable to this matter:

"... This past week TTARA had extensive discussions with the Comptroller’s office concerning the original intent and interpretation of the new language. The Comptroller’s Office has acknowledged that the purpose of the proposed rule was indeed broader than what was stated in the preamble, but not so broad as to extend nexus to anyone using a server in Texas.

In order to properly clarify the intent of the rules change and more clearly state agency policy, the Comptroller’s Office will issue a new rule proposal. William Hamner, Director of Tax Administration indicated that the agency’s intent is not to extend nexus to a person simply using a third-party server in Texas for an activity such as webhosting. ..."

Move along...nothing to see here
I completely agree with you. You would figure that a search giant would have a good search implementation in their Marketplace.
Thanks! Still free (seems like)
#3.5) or decent Texas Holdem player. I won a couple hundred bucks in a 10 man tourney in Vegas. Final showdown hand: Ad, 7d. His hand, As, Qc. I pushed all in, he called.

Diamond flush for the win! It's better to be lucky than skilled :D
Server DoS'd. Google's text-only cached version:

http://bit.ly/dA9Vbc
Basically, it's a more-current version of the Linux kernel added to their distro (which is a clone of RHEL5).

Surprise surprise... the newer kernel has more performance optimizations and is somewhat faster/featureful.

There are a few new features - see here for more on one of the data integrity ones:

http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6919-About-this-data-integr...
The answer is "because the people that were charged with building the system are not capable of thinking on that level."
Chilean miners rescue – live coverage
Why fill a cavity so early?

Why not wait till it's a bit more obvious? I don't mean wait till it's so bad you need a root canal, just till it's not a "maybe".
I discovered not long ago this method is actually taught at some MBA schools (in the UK anyway).

As with yourself, nothing annoys me more :P
First impressions:

I open the new file dialog. Type in a name, try to copy the name... and it closes the new file dialog! Apparently Cmd-C is bound to cancel. Okay, so it's a little quirky. Let's try again.

I create a new file. Type some text. Select Edit->Copy this time and... it's crashed.

Maybe I'm unlucky.

I install MonoMac, restart, create a project, write some code to display an NSAlert, press build and

Build failed. ~/.config/MonoDevelop/addins/MonoDevelop.MonoMac.2.4.0.5/mono-version-check does not exist.

Jesus

EDIT: As a bonus, a process called mono has been running at 100% CPU for the last half an hour.

EDIT 2: After using it for a bit longer, the editor itself is actually not bad. It has all the features you'd expect and autocomplete seems well implemented. But this software is just far too buggy for any kind of serious day-to-day use.
Susan Combs is responsible and she's up for re-election Nov 2nd. (http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/candidates/general/2010...) I doubt this will last for long.
In a lot of the positions I am applying for, they say they are mandatory.
Here is the link to the actual job I believe:

http://www5jh.openhire.com/epostings/submit.cfm?fuseaction=a...

40 decent perl programmers in Amsterdam is going to be tough to fill.

The only ones I know of that are good with Perl you wouldn't want to hire for any reason.

First I thought they meant Perl programmers 40 years and older, but age discrimination is illegal here :)
I agree. Putting your entire stock online can take a lot of manpower, depending on who you are. (Best Buy? Probably fairly trivial. Grandma's and Grandpa's Little Shop of Flowers? Gotta hire more grandkids.)

Unless the time and money spent on the effort is going to pay off, and pay off quick, a store isn't going to bother.
A third distro?!
Not at all. NZ plugs are the same design as Australian ones and mine seem quite capable of carrying a reasonable amount of weight - I have never ever seen one of our plugs fail under anything resembling sensible use. They're quite capable of carrying, say, a hefty attached transformer.

And since the pins are angled, even a two-pin version is pretty hard to accidentally wiggle free compared to the two round pin European plug (I think some European countries have extra bits as well that might help?). Definitely does not deserve comparison to the awful American plug design.
Just spoke to my periodontist about this last week. He said he's still using film for two reasons:

1. The digital x-ray plates are rigid. He finds this deforms the soft tissue too much to show a good picture.

2. Scaling. With film, he can take a direct measurement at 1:1 scale off the image. With digital, the scale isn't 1:1 (and variable? I wasn't clear on that), making it more difficult to work with. One imagines this would be a simple problem to solve.

(The bad news is that we were discussing this as he was investigating a 9mm pocket at the root of one tooth. He says I'll at least need a root canal; likely lose the tooth and need an implant. He's sent me to my "regular" dentist for a 2nd opinion -- that gives me more trust.)
the HN title here is a little FUD... The article states:

"The new rule states that if you use a server that is housed in the state of Texas, you have Texas nexus for sales tax. That means you must collect and pay sales tax from any taxable sales made to customers within the state of Texas."

So let's assume this isn't bunk (I'm not convinced this is true, but anyways...) what she is saying is that you would have to collect sales tax on sales to other folks who reside in Texas.

For a start, this wouldn't apply to you unless you are running a sales business and even then it has to be one that is selling goods rather than services.

So advertising, pro services and SaaS orientated businesses, this wouldn't apply to you. If you use a TX HQ'd host but run on servers outside of Texas it doesn't apply either - so Linode's hosted in London, Atlanta, Newark or Fremont (dude, there's a fault line there, you know?) are ok too.

If this is in fact true, and you are running a sale of goods business, you would want to make sure your webhost never migrates you to a TX datacenter otherwise you could suddenly be liable for uncollected state tax :/

I'm going to look into this because we run a hosting business out of TX.
Usually such generalized approaches fail because there's nothing keeping the code connected to reality. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
Very common - I think it is an insurance requirement to get paid.
i'd pay for a single unified plugin that manages a project, incorporating automatic ctags (i.e., i don't have to run tags manually - it should automatically update the tags list with any open file), a file browser (like nerdtree), buffer management (like fuzzybuffer).. there are all these parts available i'd like something that is guaranteed to work consistently, look good, and be easy to install with one vimball
So, would you suggest I convert my resume to PDF? I have always sent it as a word doc...
Make it short, sweet, and simple.

Show me you took 10 minutes seeing who are are and what we're about, and that you didn't just spam your cover letter and resume to every job posting you could find.

Talk to me like I'm a human and not some robot checking our mail box, checking off that you've done 6 years of whatever-it-is.

Show me you have passion and you give a damn, and that you're not afraid of hard work, but still carry a sense of humor about you.
Membase + Hadoop, and sneak peek at NodeCode (Membase Caffeine-like feature)
Learn From These Real Life Stories
I'm not very partial to all these single-use apps. Did we build the web and all these great, standards-compliant web browsers so we can have an app for each platform for each site we want to visit? I understand that browsers can't do everything native apps can, but wouldn't it be easier to extend the browsers to do these few things than have each company reinvent the wheel?
Don't host JS on Google? Do you mean libraries like jQuery? I'm curious because we use Google for jQuery and a few other libraries. I've never heard this to be a security issue, and I'm not entirely sure how it would be. Nonetheless, security is all about cost-benefit, it may be worth the security risk for the page load speed increase with Google.
MS10-070 (.NET Padding Oracle Vulnerability) Post Mortem analysis of the patch
Submit a ticket. If there's space in the datacenter you want, they'll schedule a migration instantly. If not, they'll put you on the waiting list.
there's Sakai... and various customized versions, such as Berkeley's bSpace and Stanford's Coursework

http://sakaiproject.org/

https://bspace.berkeley.edu/

https://coursework.stanford.edu/
I've talked about this extensively on my blog -- go to the Greatest Hits section and look up Content Creation. (http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits)

The thumbnail sketch: Queries on the long tail of the keyword distribution frequently have no effective competition. A single page laser-targeted at the query with basic on-page optimization will likely rank for it (and, most probably, a basket of related keywords). I wrote bingo activities by hand for a while, saw success with the strategy, then wrote a CMS to semi-automate the process and hired a teacher to add content to the website through it. This is far and away my most effective marketing strategy, the ROI on it is stupendous (last time I ran the numbers it was $3k in costs over 4 years for $20k in sales in the trailing 12 months), and I have yet to encounter a software company in consulting that cannot make use of a spiritually similar idea.

The ladies come in at the stage where you need cheap freelancers to write hundreds or thousands of pieces of content. You can find them through Craigslist, related communities, or good old-fashioned networking. Find good ones, pay by the piece, treat them right, and as long as you have a monetization strategy for the content being produced you will practically print money.

I've implemented (or suggested) variations on this for consulting clients, too. The applicability goes way, way beyond bingo cards.
Ask PG: Why did my post get buried [Stormpulse]?
I submitted a post today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1784146 and saw it gain 18 points and then fall from #2 to #30 instantly. Can I get a lesson in what went wrong? I'm guessing it was penalized for rapid votes, as I sent IM's about it to a handful of friends (6) after posting it. Happy to take the spanking, but as I spent a very long time writing the post, and wrote it for HN crowd, I'd REALLY appreciate knowing if there's anything that can be done to undo what happened.
Amazon debuts Android 101, setting stage for app store
More Ways to Stay Secure (Facebook introduces one-time passwords, global logout)
Intelligence and communication in plants
You probably know this already.. but #1 advice for someone your age, I find, is: don't list "reading" or "swimming" (etc) as an interest to fill space :)

more: http://www.errant.me.uk/blog/2010/05/how-to-write-a-good-cv/
Windows Phone: Microsoft exec explains strategy behind new ads
It's probably a bad sign. Almost no one is in a position to bring that many on board and use them effectively, and I'm tempted to say no one is unless they're already a fair multiple of that size. When you combine that with being open to "beginners willing to learn" which almost no one can afford, it makes it sound like one of the "We need 5 times what our ten guys are doing and that means 40 more." bad decisions. Generally you don't need forty more. You need one or two geniuses and perhaps management and replacement.

This is all based on information in this posting. I know nothing about the company or its situation or even if they really are looking for 40+. I'm just generally suspicious about this sort of recruiting.
MonoDevelop on the Mac needs a lot of polish. Structurally it is pretty good and it does get the job done. But there are enough UI and focus related quirks to make me want to pull my hair out.
Er. That must have been one hell of a slow site to start with. I am evaluating cloudflare at the moment. No noticeable change in any user retention stats. No real noticeable change in site speed either.
icicibank.com is ok and gets the work done for me at least compared to HDFC and other internet banking sites.I agree with other sites. Especially IRCTC. The new beta interface and the frequent,infamous and random errors makes me want to kill myself. But we are stuck with that. Another hobby of me is to check popular indian university and college websites and they all are pretty much ugly.

I can add many to the list - moneycontrol, rediff and any news sites. Also,i'm pretty sure the sites i have never visited such as in.com, ibibo etc. will also be awful.
I'm the developer behind the app. Feedback from HN community is greatly appreciated.
Google's clean energy 'superhighway' is good news for Cape Wind project
Warning: Post is 100% anecdote; Cite at your own risk!

My wife had a similar experience. We both grew up in a small city, and throughout her life she never had a single cavity. She prides herself on the health of her teeth.

In college we both moved to a larger city (which has a more competitive dentistry market), and suddenly dentists were finding cavities every time she went for a checkup.

While it's entirely possible that she didn't have cavities before, and now does all the time, I feel like the competitiveness of the market here has lowered the standard of what actually requires a filling.

That is, in our hometown, a dentist could take a more measured approach -- if something looked like it could develop into a problem but wasn't currently one, they had the leisure of waiting for the next six-month checkup to reevaluate. Here, it seems to be the equivalent of shoot first and ask questions later.

Also, every filling I've ever had never came as a result of actual pain or discomfort, they only occurred because I went in for a regular six-month checkup. Given my wife's experience (going from apparently perfect teeth to requiring fillings at nearly every checkup) I can't help but feel about as confident as a woman at an auto shop hearing "You need your blinker fluid replaced".
That's a fine conclusion too, but this article doesn't preclude the alternative conclusion that a monoculture of women would be better than the status quo.
That seems to be "Laser Fluorescence Cavity Detection", brand name "DIAGNOdent" (for all the people asking where to find him, I guess you can ask for this by name).

But it's not a perfect system - detection is about 80% to 90%, http://jdr.sagepub.com/content/83/suppl_1/C80/T1.expansion.h...
Is that still true constructively?
Made me think about how our approach to building animal like AI is premature. Developing plant-like AI seems like a better first step.

About the Speaker: Stefano Mancuso is a founder of the study of plant neurobiology, which explores signaling and communication at all levels of biological organization, from genetics to molecules, cells.
Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital: "Target Big Markets"
Looking at all these alternate language attempts on iOS and OS X, It seems like it wouldn't be a bad thing to port a Basic that matches the object model of Objective-C, supports blocks, and calling C code / stucts. It might not be a bad bet to be the VB to Objective-C's C++/C#.
Yeah, I don't find NetBank too bad. It's just the back button issue that's a pain.
"Cognitive dissonance is the idea that when people do something painful they become more committed to the goal."

No. Cognitive dissonance is the pain caused by having two contradictory ideas at once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
If they are "good with Perl," then why would you "not want to hire them"?
Nice. ;) I'm up North of the bay....

Apartment Rent: $1766 (4 mo. contract), was $1395 (14 mo. contract)
Utils: $115 or so (electric, trash/water)

Manhattan, KS
Apartment Rent: $385
Utils: $100

Heading back to good ol` Kansas at the end of the year.
obligatory HN links:

Varnish dev says second-guessing VM is so 1975:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1554656
OR
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1760811

Redis dev says second-guessing VM is elite (and not doing so is so 2006):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1760540
+1 because I just did the same thing. CT DMV has to be the worst in the country.
White and blue are good colors for your industry, but the current homepage has too much blue above the fold. The blue is slightly too vibrant also. You want to be careful about the saturation of your colors. Vibrant/Saturated colors are subconsciously distracting and unprofessional. The hurdle to trust a vibrant website is much higher.

"WePay helps you collect, manage, and spend money." should be displayed above the fold and have embedded screenshots or an embedded video nearby. I don't recommend popping it up in a lightbox.

Include a "create account" link near your "Sign in" link. The top right corner is prime real estate and needs a call-to-action for current users and potential users.

The site seems segmented because of the various different styles and content widths used. I found three different widths so far (1010px, 960px, and 770px).

The logo needs to go. It's really bad.

Move "featured in" to the bottom.

Move "What kinds of groups are using WePay?" up more. Remove the italics on the links.

Take a look at this: http://i.imgur.com/4zHX7.png - I threw it together in 5 minutes, so don't judge it too much. White is the primary color here and you'll notice that it is visually easy to follow. Looking at the current WePay is actually straining on the eyes.
It's the "have sex with an inexperienced virgin" fantasy for gay guys, same underlying idea.
Further thoughts:

I wonder how they are defining 'servers located in TX'?

* Would a database server located in TX but web pages served to customers from California be ok?

* What about servers in California but you use Akamai for CDN and you serve most TX customers via an Akamai edge-cache in TX

It's not really HN subject matter, but don't forget this pales into insignificance compared to the new tax law which says you have to fill out and issue a 1099 to anyone you buy more than $600 of stuff from:

http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/05/smallbusiness/1099_health_ca...
FaceBook isn't popular because it's software, it's popular because it lets you talk to your friends. It lets you talk to your friends because that's what the software is made for. Software that lets you share anything won't be used to share anything.

Users often take their cues for what they're supposed to do with the product by what the product allows them to do. If the answer is "everything", like with Google Wave, then the normal user response is "???" Twitter succeeded because of the 140 character limit: it gave the user a cue that this software was supposed to be used for light, fluffy thoughts that you don't mind sharing with the world. Within months, FaceBook had come out with status updates, which are superior in every technical respect (they leverage your existing social connections, the length limit is much less restrictive, you can share other stuff with them too, and you can restrict them to only certain groups), and yet this hasn't made a dent in Twitter's growth. People continue to use it for light, fluffy comments because that's what it's made for.
That seems to be the lesson. Don't worry about a few thousands flops here or there, put your focus on minimizing IO.
They do a lot of A/B testing. So you need to code each feature a few times to see which implementation results in more conversions.

It's not what a startup would do, correct, but they are swimming in money and this practice apparently gets them even more.
It took me over a month (I work full time though) to work through the book and I think I understood 90% of it. I've learned a lot and I'm very thankful! Now onto the screen casts for hopefully that last 10%!
A corollary: hiring older developers would have a distinct competitive advantage.
The notion that "this is probably negotiable" is one of the things that persistently separates rich people from poor people in my experience.

When I landed myself in this situation, that was exactly the problem: I felt like the Big Bad Court System would never cut a stupid kid like me any slack, and it just never occurred to me that I should talk to them and see what could be done about it. After trying unsuccessfully to deal reasonably with the DMV on the issue, I sort of assumed every aspect of the government was always out to screw me over in any way possible.

Live and learn, I suppose.
I'm finishing my bachelors next spring, and I would kill to work on Glendix or Plan 9. Suggestions?
Launching A Startup Alone Is Hard, But Faux-Co-Founders Are Worse Than Nothing
Membase Server 1.6 GA: Unified Memcached, Membase Buckets and more
SSD's have become viable in terms of $/GB to justify them in a server room these days. I'd highly recommend moving to them (for your boot drive/VMs at least). It will make a world of difference. $400 may seem like a lot to spend for 160GB of storage, but knocking off two orders of magnitude off your seek time quickly becomes worth it when you're running four VMs off it at once.
Wouldn't happen to be anywhere near Atlanta, would he? :)
How can this be worthy of a patent? This has been the example of GPGPU from day one. It is not even a technological invention, it is an application of existing technology. It is like IBM patenting "using a computer for business administration" or a kid patenting "swinging sideways on a child's swing" (that last one is actually not made up: see http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2178-boy-takes-swing-a...)

update: I just noticed that the New Scientist article actually refers to a patent for "a system that issues reservations for using the toilet on an aeroplane", issued to four IBM developers. How ironic :P
I think that he's saying that their other characteristics would make you not want to hire them, even though they are good with Perl.
http://jobs.perl.org/

While Erlang and Haskell may get you laid, Perl remains the glue of the web.
Putting heads together
Not relevant to the topic, but this is kind of annoying: http://cdn.tengaged.com/img/level_tv.gif
As in enterprise support for Linux distros.
Another: I solved the 8-queens problem for a magazine contest using a BASIC program (!)
Instead of modelling the board with an 8X8 array, I used the digits 1-8 representing the height of the queen (row #), and the 8 digits in a string as the heights for each column. I permuted the digits - n! time to execute which was never going to finish.

So, prune! as it swapped digits left to right in a Grey-code-like sequence, test the digits to the left for diagonals (|row#A - row#B| == |A-B|) and don't bother to recurse if its already failing.

Every few minutes - out popped a solution, and it finished in under 25 minutes.

Nowadays, that would take imperceptible time to execute.
I think I've heard that Suse is more popular outside the US?

In any event, another good reason for running RHEL is when there' a legal requirement that you can't use "freeware". Mostly the place I'm at develops on CentOS and then pays Red Hat for what we ship simply because then we'll have paid someone for what we ship.