skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Germany that is doing better relatively is way down.
i was talking and trying to take this conversion about why there is no Linux/UNIX like visual studio IDE
Of course you are correct. Unfortunately I imagine that every programming community suffers from this.
Challenges what? The warrantless gps tracking, or the feds wanting their equipment back? Because it's that second point I originally responded to, and that's (imo) a quite clear case and not a civil liberties issue.
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Did a Hacker News post just give me warm fuzzies...?

I think it did.
No. I have 180ms stable ping to news.YC, stable 40ms ping to Google. It's not a line problem.

Chrome Dev Tools show me that I receive content within 300-400ms of hitting the page with all the images loading in about 2-3 seconds... and then there's one huge 1 minute line associated with "platform.twitter.com", "static.ak.fbcdn.net", "www.stumbleupon.com" (everything else being a short ticks with 50-100ms receive time - it's a real 35Mbps line)

Any site that I measure with Chrome Dev Tools in any part of the world is fast (seconds, milliseconds), the only parts that are slow quite sometimes are those guys - T, FB, SU.

And yes - those are very long delay. Maybe Twitter and FB have some peering problems - I don't know. I don't need to know. It's just that those can be fixed easily so that we don't have to find out why T/FB have peering problems.
Saliency: "The sexual innuendo clouding the news of where you “like it” only trivializes the issue, and creates confusion that is paradoxical to the goal of spreading awareness. And while participants may feel as though they’re making a difference, they’re likely just sublimating any real effort to do so. Next year, rather than a status update loosely related to cup size or bedroom positions, how about link to the Breast Cancer Foundation’s donation page?"
It's common to find a 70+ year old electrician or plumber because those trades have had high demand for generations, ours is still young enough where stereotypes still have some hold over coming reality.
The big problem with age is focus (and price). I find myself a lot less interested in coding 18 hours a day just for kicks.

It's like pizza when you're a kid. You could eat it every day for every meal. As an adult, you still like pizza, but even twice a week feels like too much.

And in most regards, I think its fine. I had my day of the 90 hour work week. I'll let the new guys take their turn.
You bring up a great point -- acceptable losses.

This gets into utilitarianism, what makes people better overall? It's the next logical step in the discussion. I didn't have time to go there this morning. Maybe I can follow up with it in a future article.
Very interesting, Chirag, and thanks for the suggestions. I was following your projects in the past but somehow I missed drop-search until know. I think there is room for more experimentation and new services, as the majority of sites currently lack a usable search, so I'm happy to see others attacking the same problem.
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No, I don't think you are wrong on the just bill the family. If there were some framework in the law to do it, I would be all for that, but there really isn't. Plus, you have the additional problem of liability for both injury and damage.

It isn't a matter of toughness. I grew up in North Dakota and you help your neighbor. The problem is your neighbor didn't help you to begin with and there is no way that the "Good Samaritan" approach won't land you in more trouble.

I really think a lot of the reporting on the incident is not focused on why the family did not pitch in with their neighbors and pay the fee to insure service. Was it just selfishness or was their a financial reason?
Without a doubt your 'appearance' can go a long way towards dictating your rate. Your appearance can be comprised of:

- How you dress
- The language you use
- The presentation of your proposal
- Once you have the gig, the manner in which you conduct business

It's no secret that if you want to charge more than your competitors, one of the best ways to do so is to build an image that compliments that idea.
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Is that the case where the police said it wasn't theirs, then complained when he put it up for sale on Ebay?
Currently we only index the blog posts and the demo shows the suggestion feature only. We will probably add the option of searching for arbitrary queries. When the widget will be integrated on websites, the result will take you to the given page, instead of the lightbox used in the demo.
Isn't is basically the same deal as with a rocket, except that instead of the reaction mass being in a tank, the airplane takes the air in front of it and bats in downwards with the wing?
The article's version of events yields a more intuitive narrative flow.

> ...the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Traal literally (it said "Ravenous Bugblatter beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists" instead of "Ravenous Bugblatter beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists") they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf. http://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book2.html
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I believe law enforcement is allowed to say anything they want to. As a civilian, you're not allowed to lie to most LEOs; but they're allowed to lie to you.
Thanks for the response. Yes, monitoring is in the works. That is certainly an interesting business model, thanks for suggesting it.
I approached this article thinking about how evil oracle is. But I left it hoping oracle does this well. They had a good point about no price increases in the last 6 years.

I'm not a fan of monetizing software through support, but I would love see some people hitting it big and proving me wrong.
++. No way in hell I am letting Quora know who all my friends are, without first checking out the site and building trust. OpenID (like stackoverflow) or GTFO.
I find it interesting that the worlds 2nd and 3rd largest economies, one of which has the worlds largest population, aren't even on the list.
Interesting, I was not aware of picosearch. Do you have an example link where auto-complete is used with suggestions from website contents?

I agree that competition is good in this space, especially since most websites don't have a usable search, let alone one with meaningful suggestions.

Thanks for your comment.
TIL what FUD stands for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
I've never bought into ageism. I've known too many brillant older guys. My grandfather was an aerospace engineer, and sharp enough to put me to shame until the day he died.

Overall I'd say its confirmation bias. Think about how many people we encounter every day that don't have a clue. That ratio doesn't change with age. Age just becomes a convienient scapegoat.
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I don't think the peace prize should be counted if one is writing on countries with the "best brains". My understanding is that people who win the peace prize are usually ones fighting an oppressive regime, which is commendable, but not a huge intellectual feat.
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I agree, it'd be a very hard political decision. But the hurf-durf about us being beyond-broke is overblown, at least currently.

I do however agree that the trajectory we are on is going to screw us.
TIL what TIL stands for :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Til
Okay, my experience comes from an installation in August 2010.
Appreciate the update.
you can thumb through "programming interview exposed" most of the larger tech companies go by same "process" for tech positions.
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If it works for text adventure games, then it will work for the command line, vi and other tools of that era (apart from the missing "ESC" key), with multi-week battery life.
Or perhaps this adds injury to insult.
You could look into how Instiki (http://www.instiki.org/show/HomePage) packages itself?

It provides a Mac OS X app that includes all of its dependencies in the app - including Rails.

If you're patient, eventually MacRuby will support Rails and can generate compiled .app bundles. But if you need it NOW, I'd look into how Instiki works.
He doesn't have a logo.
When a specific pro athlete loses his place on a team, he is replaced by another pro athlete that will absorb the money.

While not being able to easily remove (or identify) bad teachers is a problem, the solution to that issue will not increase the pool of money available to pay the remaining good teachers (unless the solution involves removing but not replacing the bad teachers)

A teacher's salary is less "an average of the salary of their colleagues" as it is a division of the money allocated to education from taxes (and fundraisers).
I used http://maps.cloudmade.com/ for a mobile app did last year. It's a really great app for sketching and getting the overall look and feel right.
Ugh, except the Terms ARE in English. They took me less than 15 seconds to find: http://www.libyanspider.com/services/lydomains/terms.php
What do you think makes it problematic that it has "only 2-3x the javascript performance of an iPhone 4"?

I could see problems if its 2D or 3D graphics were slow, but Javascript? Are you thinking of specific sites that require lots of it?
edw519? I kid, I kid.
At Playtomic:

- mongohq.com for some MongoDB databases, gradually shifting some bits and pieces over to that

- Google Apps for email

- Google Analytics for the website

- Amazon S3 for file storage

- tadalist.com for stuff I should be doing now

- dnspark.net for my DNS stuff, I have enough servers to do this myself pretty robustly but @ 200m hits a day and growing I'd much rather pay $13 a year and use them.
This story has a positive side. It inspired me, and probably many others, to renew their long-expired EFF (http://www.eff.org) memberships. They and the ACLU have expressed interest.
Yet another example: Lars Bak wrote V8 in his 40s. There are some details in "The genius behind Google’s browser" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/03775904-177c-11de-8c9d-0000779fd2...
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I just installed Adobe Reader 9 on XP and it didn't install AIR.
I would, but it was submitted less than a month ago here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678415

It really is a good article and worth the read.
I think it's good, at a basic level, to refuse to do things that shock your morality, even just a little bit. I was once told our company was going to be pitching to do work for one of those companies that sneak charges onto your credit card and then claim that you asked for it. I said, "You'll be doing that project without me." It's a risk, that you might be considered to be not a team player, but I think it makes you feel better in the long run.
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iProducts are expensive if you factor in the iTunes media sales/rentals, vs. free content on something like hulu, pandora (or bittorrent). While Apple TV makes sense if you use it as a Netflix box (although everyone has an xbox360 or ps3 already for that), renting TV shows looks quite expensive.
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Love the part with discouraged colouring - they actually remind me of the trippy part of 2001: A Space Odyssey where Dave goes through the monolith. How long until someone makes a completely crazy Maps mashup using exactly those colours?
Yes. And the clients where happy with them, because they also went the extra mile and gave top-notch service for the whole event (and not only dumping some equipment on them) --- but they charged a top-notch price, too.

(And on of they ways to charge the high price was not too charge a high price only for the staff that really matters and costs, but may not be visible to the client beforehand---but they charged a lot for the stuff where the naive client can _imagine_ that it's expensive. If they did not offer the high quality in the rest of what they did, this would have been a rip-off, but it turned to be more of a cross-subsidy. (And since they only sell packages anyway, it does not really matter, how the invoice explains the high fees.))
The title is very misleading.

The article is more like, "What the middle-aged can learn from Babbage's life".

I give credits for the authors perspective, though.

I am calling this out because I was expecting a reference to an original article written by Charles Babbage and did not see one.

Imagine if someone wrote an article titled "Einstein's final message to the world" and you only see a list of life achievements of Albert Einstein from the authors perspective.
A very relevant book on this aspect is:
http://www.amazon.com/Truth-Beauty-Aesthetics-Motivations-Sc...

The author compares and contrasts the differences between early blossoming and late blossoming intellects. The science/math geniuses belong usually to the former and the artists to the latter. Perhaps, programming is more art than we have been led to believe.
Actually, that IBM research went into a lot of products including System Z that can be configured to have several processors dedicated to XML parsing. The results are really impressive: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/xml/gxla1per...
While it may not be considered by most as a "startup" at this point, I think that in the long run Wikipedia will have a major impact on education, in the sense of the knowledge base of the average individual.

I can't quantify the amount I've learned from wikipedia articles over the years, but I'm quite certain it's an awful lot. If I had grown up with access to it I'm pretty sure the impact would be far greater.

Sure, when I was a kid we had an encyclopedia, but A) a lot of kids don't, and B) wikipedia is thousands of times more powerful than an encyclopedia (and reading one article will often lead one down a path through various other articles too).

Is it going to replace public schools? Obviously not. But it has and will change education for the better.
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Did they request your IP from slashdot or did they find some other way of independently tracking you down?
Forgive my ignorance; I know nothing of the history of the author. But I must say I'm confused - I didn't think the tone was so bad, and I thought there was quite a bit of decent content in there for folks new to Clojure. What exactly was so offensive?
Just one small nit: Website Payments Pro was raised to $30/mo a little bit back. We used this for some time and it worked reasonably well, but there are other options that don't cost as much.

We use a combination of our own merchant account through a reseller and Authorize.net, which has about half the monthly fees of the PayPal option and lower rates.
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Nobels per million people (population figures from putting "population of X" into Google):

US 1.05; UK 1.91; Germany 1.25; France: 0.91; Sweden 3.04

The ordering is very different from the BBC's (12345 -> 52314). I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that you get quite a different top 5 this way too.
It would be a normal response in a non-software patent case, too.

When accused of violating a patent, you generally respond by (1) denying that your product practices the patent, (2) alleging that you have a license that allows you to practice the patent, and (3) alleging that the patent isn't even valid. For the latter you generally allege that it fails pretty much every requirement of a valid patent (invention is obvious, it was not novel, the people on the patent aren't the real inventors, they failed to disclose relevant prior art that they knew about to the patent office, they didn't pay maintenance fees, and anything else that you can think of that is at least remotely plausible).

Basically, all Google is saying is that they aren't going to concede anything Oracle is claiming much beyond that Oracle got their address right, Oracle picked a legally acceptable court to file in, and Oracle appears to own some patents.
..and that's precisely the revelation that made me realise that all of my previous physics teachers had been lying to me.
They probably have their own equivalent to the Nobel prize.
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I was just about to post this same thing-- is the content of the article wrong or misleading?
You can criticize this being "food", but you can't criticize the fact that if you are forced to eat this, then it's better than starving. It'll sustain you, and if you need more than that then something is seriously wrong in the world.

It's super easy to supplement with another $1-200 of dried goods like lentils, black beans and rice from your local grain mill. Replace the air in the food safe 5 gallon buckets you store the stuff in with nitrogen or co2, and you have five years of quality food.
Nice. (Though the quote is completely nuts.)
I have these problems developing with backend Facebook calls. In theory facebook servers and our servers shouldn't have a load of latency between them but it really makes the site noticeably slower. Definitely slow enough that I would have to remove all the back end calls on page load if we were to push facebook connect more.
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Worth noting they also have a very reliable DNS service. Both master and slave.
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Listen guys.. I do not believe he is a "troll".

I see that many HN readers are claiming that the author is a troll. I believe the author is genuinely trying to help, although I do see that it's easy to interpret his quirky sense of humor and writing style, and label it as a tad arrogant. Having danish friends, I can tell you that danish people are often like this. Sarcasm and jokes belong in their world and it's perfectly normal for outsiders to miss the subtle humor. In all fairness, Lau Jensen should really consider this next time he writes an article targeted at an international audience.

On the other hand and technically speaking, I think it's great that he offers constructive criticism. If I was Uncle Bob I'd certainly appreciate it.
Namespaces, as an abstract idea, are great. But I find XML's version confusing in practice. It's partly the several different ways of configuring defaults (four I think), and partly the syntax.

You'd think they'd be as easy as Java:

set-and-forget defaults (eg. java.util.*); or
explicitly qualify everything (in import or in use).
In practice, collisions are rare.

Is it harder in XML because arbitrary XML documents are commonly nested? (which can't happen to Java source code)
I got this one too, back at the beginning of Sept. $45 then. I guess he must be doing good enough to raise the rate.
Glenn Beck and his ilk are total crocks, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss food preparedness as paranoia. Ask anyone that has been through a serious natural disaster and they'll let you know really quick that a survival bag (radio, camp stove, water filter etc) plus food is important.
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Though the quote is completely nuts.

haha Yeah, but he meant well. :)
> Are you sure? I can't find any confirmation,

Confirmation of what? you don't specify:)
"You are in a maze of twisty little book reviews, all alike."
SPF records are just TXT records, which they do support?
I understand theres an actual "SPF" record type also but last I checked its not very widely adopted and the TXT version is exactly the same anyhow.
Ask HN: How much transparency should there be in a startup culture?
When a company is in a growth phase (start-ups or expanding companies), how much transparency should there be?

How much transparency have some of you seen in your experience?

When I say transparency I refer to cash flow, operations, etc. as well as creating a corporate culture of mutual respect instead of a domineering hierarchy of leadership.

From my perspective I see growing companies having a need to be open and honest with their stakeholders since they're being asked to embed work into their lives to a much greater detail then usual.

Thoughts?
I guess at least while people are picking Superberries, they don't kill anyone.
I'm surprised he wrote blog post to respond to one person's comment on a different site.

I think it is a fair price point, given what you get out of the box. The other devices don't include the specs and keyboard that Logitech is.

You can make the argument that you don't need this beefy a system for Internet TV, but don't insult consumers' intelligence by saying that no one will buy this box/keyboard from Logitech because Google offers free services online.

I think consumers are smart enough to realize that while software is easily made free, hardware costs money.
A time machine in Rails.
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Why would someone leave this file out in the open on the internet to begin with? The Filezilla team doesn't consider this a bug:

http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/4507

It's a design decision to store passwords in plain text in a file that is never intended to be shared openly.

It's not like Filezilla is alone here. Any application that stores passwords either in plain text or with reversible encryption can be attacked by local system processes.
From 2-7 months, although typically 3-6

(Also from the article ;) )
i think most people now would ask, "how is this better than yelp?"
I'm actually working on getting my dad up and going on Android development. He has an app addressing a vertical he is involved with. He's in his early 60s. Hell, considering when I wanted games growing up, his solution was to give me the K&R book and told me to write my own. I guess this is the least I can do.
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Yes, and Bill Gates surely adds up to 666%. (You just have to choose the numbers right.)
In other words, the Wired author just made up stuff that sounded good.
It certainly doesn't help the cause to come off as a crazy timecube looking website.
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Like many words in English it does not have such a discrete meaning.

A story or experience can have a "message" the same way it might have a "moral". In fact "moral" is often defined as: the message conveyed by a story.

"Example" would have been a poorer word in its place.
Hey now, you just gotta slam that Agile sticker on your devs, mix it with lots of Scrum and voilà you got yourself the perfect coders!
Talk about timely, I seriously just found exactly the same email while reviewing my spam folder just 2 minutes ago. They used my contact form and, even though the mail was essential from myself to myself, Gmail recognized it as spam. Awesome.
But with a large keypress lag. I wonder how it would do for Nethack? Perhaps MUDs will make a comeback?