skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aussie rules football is a completely different game.

American football builds in a guaranteed 6+ head contacts per play, from linemen colliding with each other when the ball gets snapped each down. In Aussie rules, players distribute across the field, and the game isn't built around downs.

And in American football, when you tackle someone, the play is over. Aussie rules is much more fluid, and every time you tackle someone, you simultaneously risk taking yourself out of the play. In that regard, it's much more similar to hockey, where laying out a hard check might cost you a goal because it means you're sprawled out on the ice rather than getting back on defense.

Edit: also, a bunch of the worst hits in American football come thanks to the forward pass - a QB leads a crossing route too much, and the defenseless receiver gets jacked stretching out for the ball. There are no thrown passes in Aussie rules football.
Google To Build A Test 1 Gbps Network in Stanford
I go into any discussions about Apple products here knowing that I'll burn a bunch of karma -- but I do so anyway because I like to fantasize that I'm bringing some kind of interesting discussion to the table anyway.

The fundamentalism of the Apple fanboyism here on HN is quite intense and rabid compared to most places. At least that's my observation. It's pretty much impossible to have a constructively critical discussion about pretty much anything Apple does on HN. If you also notice, there's very rarely any dissenting comments either. No engagement in discussion, no debate, no back-and-forth like we'd have here on pretty much any topic.

I personally think it's a disservice (and disrespectful) to Apple and to HN considering what kind of site this is. If you can't critically comment on things that a company does right and wrong, and learn from that discussion and analysis, you may as well not even participate here.

It's just the worst kind of fundamentalism in action.
I will long remember this line and probably steal it... "As a grown adult male, the extra 2 lbs of weight does not bother me."
Mozilla Director Says Apple Trying to "Bypass the Web"
but it's equally a stretch to suggest that we're better off because Google pays less tax

In absolutely no way is it a stretch to say that and I'm terribly surprised you have any upvotes. Are you aware of how many services Google provides for free that make my life (and probably yours) better?

Google Search

Google Maps

Android

Google Navigation (on Android)

Google Patent Search

Google Book Search (Working with libraries to digitize old books)

Gmail

Google Translate

Google Code

Google Summer of Code

Thousands of tech talks made available online

Google Docs

Google Calendar

and a lot more...

One of the core tenets of capitalism is that the success an innovation of private companies benefits the public. This isn't true in all cases, but most certainly it is in the case of Google.

sometimes multimillion sums are better spent on schools and hospitals

Do I even need to cite a source that says throwing more money at the public school system won't stop them them being so shitty? That's a pretty common thing to hear now -- especially on HN, and I very much think it's true (from personal experience).

And with hospitals, what exactly do you want more money for? More beds? More nurses? More money for the uninsured? Are you sure that will fix our nation's healthcare problem? I'm not an expert by any means whatsoever on this topic, but as far as I know, the quality of America's healthcare system, bad or good, is largely a function of governmental policy.
International tax rate

They are paying lower US taxes by licensing their search IP to their Irish office at below-market price, but the US is far less impacted than Ireland or other international markets the US serves.
There was a large bank bailout, due to how much the banks had invested in property. A large percentage of government income (around 25%) came from 'Stamp Duty', the tax you must pay when you buy a house. When the property market collapsed, the government was getting less money that it was used to.

i.e. the collapse of the property market increased government spending/debt and decreased government income.
I'm tempted to just tell you to rent the classic Dustin Hoffman movie Tootsie and watch the first few minutes.

The basic reason why it is polite to give people flat, euphemistic turndowns -- not just at the end of interviews, but in lots of breakup situations, including exit interviews, declining of contracts, and breakups with SOs -- is that you don't want to prolong the agony or send mixed signals. You don't want to appear to be negotiating. You don't want to appear to be trying to cause excessive pain. You certainly don't want to provoke the person to burst into tears, physically attack you, stalk you for weeks, months, or years, or file a lawsuit.

You also don't want to tell a person that they're hopeless and will never succeed in the industry and then wake up to find out that they're Steve Jobs. That happens. It happens all the time. Interviewing is a mistake-prone, statistical process and decisions are based on hunches that cannot be explained, only rationalized, even to oneself.

There is a reason why constructive feedback is so valuable. People won't give it to you up front. I myself am much more direct online than in person -- in person I'm a hopeless softie, until you get me into an engineering situation or otherwise give me hints that you can take it. Not everyone has the emotional stamina to withstand the full force of MIT-style, anonymous-peer-review style power criticism.
> I don't think anyone would have read it to mean that all Google Groups Data will be destroyed.

Actually, that's exactly how I interpreted the headline.
I used to work in the ResHalls as Berkeley, and I can tell you a couple of reasons they haven't done a Gig-E upgrade. The first is that the upgrade from 10Mbps to 100Mbps was easy, because they just had to change out the switches and router blades, which require upgrades every few years anyway.

Going from 100 to 1000 is a lot harder, because the physical cables in the wall are on the cheap side (it is a University after all) and can't support Gig-E. So it would require a complete rewiring of the res Halls.

That, coupled with that fact that generally speaking there is little difference in speed when talking to the internet at 100 vs. 1000, it just isn't worth the upgrade. Most students don't notice/care, and also most of them just want to be able to move their laptops around without dealing with cables. They just want the internet to work wherever they happen to be on campus.
So right. Out of all this stuff listed in the article, the only thing that matters to the _average_ Mac consumer is the battery life.
Google makes Facebook...Disconnect
https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/google-facebook-disconnec/

Interesting product that could be a direct attack against the growth of Facebook, but more likely an effort to show that Google cares about user privacy. What do you think?

I think advocacy for privacy is an important effort for a company that has some much sensitive information at their finger tip. After all, if Google losses the trust of its users, the long term success of the company would certainly be in jeopardy.
I'm shocked nobody's recommended Douglas Crockford's ... well ... everything:

http://javascript.crockford.com/

Watch the "Javascript: The Good Parts" presentation:

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/06/08/video-crockford-goodstuff...

Also check out Dustin Diaz's stuff:

http://www.dustindiaz.com/

I found his screencasts where you watch him program to be incredibly helpful:

http://www.dustindiaz.com/screencast-episode-01/

Start your javascript programming with jQuery. Good javascript style is not at all like Java, so forget everything you know about Java and see how jQuery does it.
The point is U2 try to get people to be less selfish and more giving, all the while exploiting what they can to keep more of their money
Warning to those who download it in public or at work, it says "Whipping the Llama's Ass" on speaker when you first run it.
It's a smart move from Apple's point of view. Why should Apple work to support Flash or Java or any platform that is owned by someone else? Why not shift the burden of maintenance, and dealing with bugs, onto those who own the platform? And why not open the door to future Apple products that might compete in the same space?

Besides all that, this moves suggests a confidence that was unimaginable 10 or more years ago. Apple is no longer desperate for market share, the way it was in 1997.

All the same, it makes me sad. I like the JVM. I do not like Java itself, but I like Groovy and I have started to like Clojure.
Usually, the number of rejects are much much more than the accepted. Time is a big issue.

Take YC. 1000 apply; 40 get in. How long would it take to individually let the 960 that didn't get it why they couldn't get it?

It's not a perfect system...but I don't see how that would change given that it's about time.
Windows and Linux don't ship with Java because they depend on Sun to produce the runtime. Apple produces it for OS X.
It's also easier. When you try to be nice and offer constructive criticism/reasons why you said no, the other party can oftentimes get worked up and it becomes a much more stressful situation than it ought to be.
That comment would be more worthwhile if there were some examples though
I think the newer version of macruby, with greater bridgesupport, should help this out: http://www.macruby.org/blog/2010/10/08/bridgesupport-preview...
I was thinking about this yesterday as well. I know Apple bought their own processors for the iPhone. I'm not sure they'd run their desktops off an apple A4 chip - but I mean - look at AMD. Market cap is $5 billion. Apple has $50 billion in cash.

Apple could buy them and REALLY control the computer, end-to-end.
Patrick McKenzie and The Long Tail of Optimization [audio]
As alcohol is moderately expensive, I assume it would correlate with income, which does moderately correlate with intelligence.
Thanks. I was looking for this.
Is HN traffic really that heavy? Last summer I made #5 on one post and #1 on another one. Here are the stats for those two posts:

http://jlongster.com/media/static/stats.png

It's only a couple thousand. Maybe this link got passed around a lot more, but it's not too hard to scale up to several thousand.
Thanks for the links - I came across those during my research and they all seem to links angels to entrepreneurs/companies looking for investment. I am more interesting in seed/startup/angle funds that pick the companies to invest in during the early startup phase.
Heroku (and others that I haven't tried) solve this well, but they are expensive if you run a large site.

If I know that I want an obvious setup such as a reverse proxy + load balancer + multiple rails (or other) servers + a master/slave db setup on linode/slicehost/MT to save server costs, but do not want to do the sysadmin work, and maybe do not know enough about security etc......then OP's tool seems quite useful for me.

Ideally, I would like an interface that takes in parameters like the above, and generates scripts (such as stackscripts, or some similar alternative), that would just run and configure the systems.

Or in other words, give me a Heroku like interface to configure Linode/MT/slicehost :)

I would be willing to pay a reasonable upfront fee for it, though the price should obviously depend on the complexity of the configuration. I would also be willing to pay for monthly support. From a developer's perspective, I think this is basically outsourcing the sysadmin work which most people don't seem to want to do/learn, even though they realize how important it is for their site.
Sorry, no. This is what Puppet and Chef do, and they do it very very well. In addition, with companies like devstructure, it has become very easy to automatically generate a Puppet/Chef manifest.
Presumably this is a good test of high end usage. It seems like they are using this is a stress test, not so much a "regular usage" test.

Although, not all of those professors are Computer Science, and they have famillies that live with them, with kids and husbands and wives that have normal jobs.

Most of them probably use the Internet the same way as any well to do professional and their family would.
the possibility of saying something that could land them in legal trouble
When I worked for Kaplan (a subsidiary of the Washington Post), we were trained to not give any feedback after interviews or teacher auditions specifically for this reason. There was a situation where a potential teacher was not accepted after an audition and he asked why. A Kaplan representative told him that it was because he had a thick accent and that students would have trouble understanding him when he spoke. He filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and in the end Kaplan settled out of court. Pretty much any reason you give for not hiring someone could be interpreted as discrimination of some kind. It may not be enough to win a lawsuit, but it is enough to force you to settle to avoid the bad PR.
This could be an interesting browser plugin, but I have a hard time seeing a business model. FWIW, I wouldn't use it, simply because I tend to remember looking the word up, and if I can't remember what it means, I get frustrated and look it up again.

That said, I might be inclined to replace my lookup plugin if it works like this: Use the same functionality as any other define plugin (ie, right click -> define word), but with the extra feature that the next N times you see that word in your browser, the plugin highlights the word and then displays the definition if and only if you mouse over it.

Naturally, you'd add two items to the right-click menu. 1) define, 2) see recent definitions.

Not sure how much this helps, but good luck.
Inertia? Everyone else is using it.

It's exactly like using Adobe Photoshop. Sure, there's other tools that do some or most of what we need to get done at any given time but Photoshop has all the stuff all the time.

Pretty much the same with MS-Office. It does what we need it to do.

On a slightly different note, I've used Open Office in the past. It feels "clunky" and unfinished on a Mac. The development process is slow.

Ultimately (and yes, I realize this is selfish), I just want it to work so I can get on with my own work. If it doesn't work, there's always other options.
Given that they are deprecating their own Java runtime and that the major differentiation of said runtime from others is the much better approximation of the Mac UI in Java apps, and given that this deprecation is coming ~9 months ahead of OS X 10.7 Lion, I’m going to guess they are finally freshening up the OS X look & feel and don’t want to spend time keeping their JVM in lockstep.
Also, a nice free service provided by AOL:

http://www.webpagetest.org/

Pretty good result charts, with complete component breakdown, timings and recommendations.

(Edit: missed that jrosoff had already mentioned it, but I'll leave my note anyway)
As the article mentions briefly at the end, we already went through this once. Now, five years later, multi-nationals are back at the trough again.

Last time, it was sold as a "one time" deal. Of course, nothing was done to address the underlying systemic conditions.

I also wonder, a bit, what effect all that lowly taxed cash had on the broader economy. It sure didn't seem to go into any worthwhile domestic investments. (I'm being a bit flippant in this last comment, I concede.)
I guess it is. They appear to be removing all the reasons I signed up for lastfm and the main way I use it.

*
Library and recommended stations remain
That is a very common idea among right-wing Americans -- they'd rather have companies take care of us than the government.

No, right-wing Americans want to take care of themselves. They would just rather freely pay for certain services (health care, for instance) from competing private firms than be provided it by the government.

Framing the question as "who will clothe and feed and wash us" is implicitly a leftist framing. Taken literally, it rises to absurdity--physically, most people clothe and feed and wash themselves, and even more generally, it's hard to name a successful country where the government provides most people with clothing, food, or soap (though I'll grant the running water).
I'm not entirely sure, but perhaps you could ask "the National Child Development Study in the United Kingdom and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the United States".

You may doubt it, but their study indicates otherwise. Now there may be problems with their paper, but random "doubts" aren't them.
Gaping Face Time security hole
I would think more intelligent people would tend to be wealthier, and wealthier people can consume more alcohol. I realize there are plenty of broke alcoholics - but leaving out chronic alcoholics, I think you're more likely to have a bottle of wine with dinner if you're rich than poor.

A more tongue in cheek and/or political answer is to suggest that smart people realize how ruined the world is and drink to assuage their pain.

The article gives so little info, you could easily suggest other explanations by making other assumptions about the data; all they give is very dull vs. very intelligent.
That's nice, but what on Earth would any reasonable mortal do with one gigabit per second internet access?

My standard Comcast cable can download high-def video faster than I can play it. What more could one reasonably want?
I'm using a 13" MBP (with Core 2 Duo processor) for doing music recording / production. I only record a couple tracks at a time (but mix and playback more), so this may not count as uber-power-usage, but it's more than text editing, and it works fine.
Poll: Do you interview 1 on 1 or `N` on 1?
What interview process produces the maximum outcome of best candidates, best questions, and best use of time? Why?<p>Do you do 1 on 1? 2 on 1? 3 on 1?
We generally interview: 1 on 1
We generally interview: 2 on 1
We generally interview: 3 on 1
We generally interview: 4+ on 1
I wonder if Apple is planning a "superior platform" strategy? If they can move to an App Store being the norm for Mac users and solve lots of deeply ingrained security and compatibility problems in the process, Microsoft/Windows is going to have quite a hard time following. The record for Apple accomplishing big architectural shifts with minimal pain (OS X, PowerPC -> x86) is much better than for Microsoft. (Vista) It would be like a lightly-armed force luring heavily equipped force into boggy ground, where the latter gets stuck in the mud while the former only gets slowed down.
Exactly, the existence of chloroplasts (in the language of the the article: the "power generators" in every plant cell) is an obvious proof that "complex life probably evolved only once" can't be worse title.
It looks legit.
Here's the mixergy interview with the guy http://mixergy.com/andrew-fashion/

and here is the second post with screen caps of his earnings with his publisher id in the top right corner (for google)
http://www.andrewfashion.com/2009/12/04/young-stupid-how-i-l...
At OpenDNS, especially for engineering hires, we almost always do 2 on 1 or 3 on 1. I try never to let it get above 3 on 1 unless it's a second or closing interview.
Would You Tap Your Foot For $100,000 A Year?
And, sadly, that is actually a good reason not to hire someone to teach a class. As many unfortunate students can attest.
The fact that it's thin is a pretty nice feature. Makes for more space in the bag.

I also carry a lot of stuff in my bag, including a camera, a/c adaptor, and a some other computer equipment. 2 lbs doesn't seem like much but if I have to be mobile for a long period of time, it's definitely noticeable.

Would I get it? Probably not. I don't have that much expendable income to have a power laptop and a luxury netbook.
I got that implication from your response to cperciva, who was saying, in effect, that Google was acting neither unethically nor illegally.

Pointing out the "unfairness" of their reported tax rate does not directly refute cperciva's comment, but it seemed to stand in opposition to it nonetheless. I inferred that you think Google is at fault, here.
That would be hypocritical if they were trying to get people to be less selfish and to give more to the government. It's certainly not hypocritical if they're giving a significant portion of that would-be-taxed money to charities.
This usually hints at plain text storage of passwords, so: Please do not store passwords, store (salted) hashes instead.
Increased alcohol consumption is also linked to child abuse, divorce, DUI arrests, alcohol poisoning, people losing their jobs, fights, and brain damage.
Fantastic, I think that the fact it's on facebook helps to varify that the system is clean and the users are real. I think most of those other sites have programmed bot's to cheat.
Have you tried Audacious? What are you missing? There are more good & free players for Linux than I could count with my fingers.
This is an interesting point. I actually use my netbook for lots more than stuff on the net. I pretty much use it as an ultra portable laptop. I don't expect awesome performance for it, but hey, it was $270 so I get what I pay for. It can run some old games on it, I play Sim City 4k on it all the time and it does ok. I can run all of Office on it, do some light photo editing on it, etc.

I've used it in a pinch to replace my desktop when my 5 year old power supply bit the dust. It did "ok".

If you compare it to other ultra-portables, the MBA seems to be competitively priced compared some of the ultra high end stuff.

But you can still get ultraportables for about 1/2 of the MBA with competitive specs.

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/dell-inspiron-m101z/4505-312...
The Allais Paradox
LOL Google Ad irony: http://api.markup.io/v/1qy21z5axxkv
1) Internet Explorer 6

2) Internet Explorer 7

3) Price/quality of Visual Studio compared to other offerings - we can talk about memory footprint, MSDN subscriptions, odd versioning conflicts when trying to develop for SharePoint - oh wait.

4) SharePoint

5) http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/fake-steve-ballmer.jpg Honestly, this man disgusts me. His attitude and public reactions as the figurehead of Microsoft make me want to have nothing to do with Microsoft

6) Lack of POSIX compliant shell.

7) In small companies (and most families), programmers end up being IT staff. When was the last time any of you had to reformat or spend hours of your life cleaning a Mac or Linux machine because of malware? I'm not ignorant enough to think the gilded age of Mac and Linux being virtually malware free will last forever, but hey, enjoy it while it lasts.

8) http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/compare Which one is right for you? Fuck you! It's a desktop or a server. The consumer should have one choice, appropriately priced that lets them do everything they can.

9) The ridiculous price of MS Office Suite.

10) Webforms, VIEWSTATE. Seriously, fuck you VIEWSTATE, whoever designed this dumb ass approach should have their computing license revoked.
The researchers supposedly took earnings into account, though without looking at the raw data we can only speculate as to how effective they were at doing so.
ExpanDrive and the Mac App Store [we'll be rejected]