skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Display Postscript was used in NeXT's NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP as well as the initial release of Apple's Mac OS X Server 1.0 (Rhapsody), but for OS X proper, Apple switched to Quartz 2D which is closer to PDF than Postscript.

EDIT: And X11 first appeared in 1984 and wasn't released in current form until September 1987, NeXT's partnership with Adobe created their version of Display Postscript in 1987 (the first version appeared in 1986), so X11 didn't have a long history as a protocol at that point.
Don't let the hype get to you. Just focus on developing your product and make sure you solidify your customer acquisition process. These people will only be around for a short while, afterwards they will move to the next featured thing. Make sure the basis of your business is strong.
There's also the Mac Mini! The missing piece is something more powerful than the Mini, but more efficient than the Pro.
Chronicle of a failed experiment
Thanks, I was thinking along the same logic. What do you think about market niche i should focus on initially?
http://openjdk.java.net/groups/conformance/JckAccess/index.h...
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/08/openjdk-jck
Sorry, my mother tongue is responsible for that. Or you can always argue that, eventually, they will abandon them.
I'm not sure if that's true. While newer languages like python and ruby have taken the desktop app and web app arena by storm, most system/embedded level stuff is still done in C/C++. The usual arguments for this are that

A) The language gives you more control over memory management so you can squeeze as much performance out of every cycle.

B) There's a ton of existing libraries and legacy code in these languages. (Arguably one of the only reasons C++ gained any sort of traction was because of its advertised compatibility with C)

We've put up with the "shortcomings" of C (most programmers learned or think in OOP) and C++ (abundance of so-called gotchas and quirky areas of the language, Alan Kay's famous quote about C++'s OOP) and it still leaves much to be desired in my opinion. Java was an interesting development, but its GC disqualifies it for many systems or high-performance programming until recently. I don't have much experience with obj-c but it looks like another contender in this space as well.

There does seem to be a desire for a true "heir" to C as evidenced by D, Google's Go, and Mozilla's Rust. In fact, I'd be happy if someone just took the Java language and stripped out the GC instead of trying to restrict myself to a "safe" subset of C++.

I'm rooting for all of these projects because I'd love to see some of of the benefits of modern programming language theory brought to this sector of programming. This is an area where when there's competition everybody wins.
"Custom Plan
We have special offers for Serious Businesses
Please get in touch"

I wouldn't call them "Serious Businesses." For one, it looks odd as a proper noun. Secondly, it makes it sound like you're putting down smaller businesses or single people.

Also, periods would be nice.
Now that's a generous and tempting offer, but how would it actually work? First, they usually want to know about the work relation you had with the reference. Just inventing something is dangerous and ethically questionable, recruiters or not. Then, what if the hiring company actually contacted you?
I have no idea, I'm not very conversant with how your business works. Just do what you feel is best, build strongly on the biggest, then expand to the smaller ones till you discover the one that takes off strongest.
Now that you have turned 22 can I please give you some advice...
It'd be great to see an Xserve-inspired 1U kit that'd let you mount a couple of Mac minis side by side (or a 5U kit that let you mount a dozen Mac minis Xserve RAID style).
You rock. This weekend I was planning to start evaluating A/B testing frameworks for my ASP.NET-based travel site. I was really hoping I could find something like Patrick's framework and here it just dropped in my lap.

Thanks for releasing this. I'll let you know how it goes. HN delivers again!
Wonder how many more potential tablet users there are out there, especially at the iPad's price point.
I tend to doubt that Al Qaeda is some poor, misunderstood group of people who just want to be our friends if we'd only let them.
Talking about static typing without investigating something like Haskell (as mentioned by others) seems limiting, particularly since Guido picked up a couple of things from Haskell like the list comprehensions presented in this post.

And then you'll discover that Haskell's type system is limited as well. Learn some Qi - http://www.lambdassociates.org/qilisp.htm.
"The glorious history of HR in software companies"- A footnote from one of PG's essays that I made into a blog post.

http://cycle-gap.blogspot.com/2007/09/glorious-history-of-hr...
Exactly. I like what the mathematician Paul Halmos had to say on the same subject:

Archimedes taught us that a small quantity added to itself often enough becomes a large quantity (or, in proverbial terms, every little bit helps). When it comes to accomplishing the bulk of the world’s work, and, in particular, when it comes to writing a book, I believe that the converse of Archimedes’ teaching is also true: the only way to write a large book is to keep writing a small bit of it, steadily every day, with no exception, with no holiday. A good technique, to help the steadiness of your rate of production, is to stop each day by priming the pump for the next day. What will you begin with tomorrow? What is the content of the next section to be; what is its title?
Oracle Uses Pricing To Start the MySQL Retirement Party
What happens when Internet Explorer breaks big-time
That sites redirecting my iPad to the mobile subdomain/site. You don't want to do that.
To be honest, after PG's recent post about rising spam wave from low carma accounts (I have 160), I was afraid to post my link. Link posted above is correct though.
State Creep
> It's a fair point. Nevertheless, when faced with a tenfold increase in the risk of death, I suspect most people would opt for dealing with the TSA.

Only when presented in an alarming but meaningless manner like that.
It really is unfair to paint all recruiters with such a wide swath. Don't get me wrong, I've considered becoming one because I have a technical background and feel like I could provide a real value to a client just to show the bad ones up.

However, you do find some gems. When I find them, I keep them updated at ALL times about where I'm at what my situation is. I even have a few friended on FB (which is a big deal for me) because they're friends now.

They will always call me when something I'm a really good fit for comes up just to see if anything has changed since the last time we talked. They trust you because you make them look good and in return you get "first dibs" on really good positions.
Thanks, i will change it! My eng sucks, sorry.
Keep going and build upon that initial momentum.

A few other thoughts:

"Videolla is a media business revolution!" on your homepage is enclosed in quotation marks. If it is a real quote, attribute it correctly and let people know of its source.

Getting the [Site in 70 seconds] video onto the main page is something that could also increase your conversions.

Seeing the word "Sign" twice in your menu bar (Sign In/Sign Up) somehow does not look right to my eye. I believe something similar to Log In/Sign Up might improve usability of your site by approximately 0.0018%.

Details like these are not necessarily what you should focus on right now. But as your schedule permits, you might want to allocate some resources to A/B testing if you are not already doing so. Find out what works. Rinse and repeat.
Just open the page in a background tab and ignore it until the advert is finished. How are adverts on free videos any worse than adverts on television?
Great job Jason. I was looking for something like this for a long time.

I have few questions which are not explained much on your site:
- you say it does not use database but stores result on the client? how does it work? can I loose the results when IIS is restarted etc. ?
- any screenshot of your dashboard?

I know its probably not your main business so you dont want to waste lots of time on it but I think it is a great idea and you should make a business out of it. We currently pay $150 a month for VWO and its a fantastic tool but it limits us to test on certain websites which have lots of traffic as VWO and any other tool on the market charges per number of visitors tested. Your tool as its self-hosted solution wouldn't have these economics so you can charge few hundred dollars for a license with unlimited tests etc.
Not really at all. That scribd link is there because Hacker News is run by Y-Combinator and scribd is a YC company.
Myanmar cut off the Internet ahead of elections
You have to ask yourself why the position of "recruiter" even exists in today's market.
Thats interesting(I spend couple days making this mobile version). Why? I dont have iPad, but tested it on iphone and adroid. Can you please check if same happens when you go to youtube or it has some custom version for iPad?
According to the 'Transition Guide' that Apple released, you can stand 2 Mac Pros on a shelf side by side, using 12U of rack space.

Sounds practical to me :-|.
.tv domains are sinking
Thanks for very practical suggestions!
"I'm calling epic troll of the US-Internet World on this one."

That would be magnificent and a giant feat of social engineering, but I don't think it is. It's too subtle, there are too many unknown factors to be able to control the situation (how were they going to know that a person with a high-profile blog would respond with just a claim of 100$?) and the time line is too long for a troll. Nor is there a (positive) connection to any brand.

But if it is, hats off.
Here's the last ones recommended on HN. Some other good ones here.

I added in a good Javascript book -- JQuery is awesome, but you have to be careful with performance issues.

http://www.hn-books.com/#B0=89&B1=119&BC=2&EC=0&...
Don't forget to configure the advanced IMAP settings for gmail. By default, you get the spam, sent items, and all mail folders as well -- disable them. Otherwise, it's hello to 2x copies of every message and re-scanning folders you don't care about...
Not exactly: many languages are open; my focus was on the ease/speed tradeoff.

Haskell and the ml family only have ease-of-use for people who think higher order predicate calculi have ease-of-use - some of whom will vigorously argue that everyone should find them easy-to-use.

(I don't know enough scala to form a judgment, but I haven't heard it being touted as primarily having ease-of-use, in contrast to Python and Ruby.)
http://www.bitc-lang.org/
http://www.ats-lang.org/

Those might show promise as nice languages with speed comparable to C.
agreed, such people and publications are an embarrassment to journalists at large.

Though I am not one to suggest getting a lawyer, I would take the steps towards that direction, including DCMA takedown and the like, as suggested by several others.

If this editor has been knowingly doing 'this' activity (clearly violating copyright) a class action lawsuit against the entire company could be in short order for copyright violation en masse.

Having to pay a lawyer sucks and is expensive, but outright theft and then re-branding with their own copyright is disgusting.

I wonder how interested groups like EFF and ACLU would be in this story.
I suspect I'm not the only one tempted to convert the nearest fountain into an antenna. Very nice indeed.
Finding a Technical Co-Founder
I haven't yet seen any explanation for what happened. Have you?
Is there a distribution I can download that is already using Wayland? I'd like to take a look. For my part, the desktop manager is the one thing holding me back from Linux. (OK, that and Visual Studio)
But of course, people will inevitably spin this as proof that MacOSX is about to be locked down like iOS.

I like Apple, but I don't think it's spin to see this as just another move towards Apple Electronics being only a consumer oriented company. The question is then what else will Apple consider not consumer oriented? MacPros? MBPs? Any device not running iOS?

Apples secrecy and the lack of any sort of roadmap only lead to more speculation and uncertainty.
‘Invisible’ Material Can Now Fool Your Eyes
Don’t start picking out the pattern of your cloak, yet. But invisibility just became a whole lot more likely.
It's not 'gone from itunes'. They didn't have the capacity to handle more customers, so they stopped selling it. For once, Apple had nothing to do with the decision.
Well the first thing you need to do is get market validation.

You got a few signups...but your actual market validation is whether someone would actually buy the videos. Noone is going to pay you a subscription if they aren't making sales.
Especially as the upcoming BitC language seems to have sound _and_ complete type inference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitC
Over the last 4 years I've done two years of boxing, one year of MMA, and am currently doing Wing Chun. The boxing was through my college and was pretty good; great fitness and cool people and I learned a lot about the basics, though I never felt I was actually in a position to feel confident about defending myself.

Then I switched to MMA and basically got my ass kicked (and kicked a few asses) for the next year but I figure any pain I get in the ring/dojo is one I won't get outside of it. With boxing as my base it was an uphill battle to learn everything else. It's easiest to have BJJ as your base and learn the rest from there. But I did learn a lot and felt pretty good at the end.

Wing Chun was a decision to try a more traditional style but one I felt had a lot of promise for being very practical and boy was I right. They are very efficient and it's basically learning a few moves that they have decided are the best and doing them a thousand times. Everything in it has a point and a reason.
Some advice: If you don't like dealing with recruiters, come up with your own marketing strategy that doesn't involve recruiters.
Don't get me wrong; I wouldn't mind an eternal or greatly extended life. But seeing as how I will not be cognizant of my nonexistence upon my death, I don't think it's worth getting too hung up about. I am probably too old to make the cutoff for the singularity -- or whatever similar event might kick off the path to eternal or thousand-year lifespans. So I find that it's best to maintain a cautiously optimistic attitude about my mortality. I am not expecting immortality, but it would be nice.

Would you condemn others to the same fate?

I don't think that's a fair question, given that I haven't said anything of the sort. I would love for everyone to live as long as they could and prosper to whatever extent they could. I bear no animus to anyone who will win the birth lottery and be born into the age of 1,000-year lifespans. Similarly, I do not revel in the unfortunate fates of those who were born in the dark ages.
You are right. But, you are clearly not spamming! If genuine posts like these don't contain links, then we are only worsening the problem.
Known as 'hedcut':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedcuts

Some WSJ artists:

http://www.nolinovak.com/

http://nancyjanuzzi.com/
Your career is a game of Dungeons & Dragons, not Monopoly
"Sounds good? Sign up for our private beta below and receive 20% discount when we go public"

So you're charging me to have my friends encourage me to work out? I don't understand what I'd be paying for. I could simply ask my friends to encourage me.

That said, I don't think it's a bad idea, but a subscription might not be the right way to monetize it. Gyms might have affiliate programs of some kind, or be willing to pay for leads.

One more thought, a free iphone/android app that lets people easily and quickly let you know they worked out would probably be good marketing.
I don't believe so. Wayland is in the really early stage of development right now, which makes me read this announcement as "Ubuntu is going to start committing developers to Wayland.

You can build it with these instructions: https://groups.google.com/group/wayland-display-server/web/b... .
Except C#'s still quite verbose. Doubly so if you heavily use generics and functional programming. You just aren't as free in the style of code that works.

For one sample point, I rewrote one of FreeSWITCH's C modules in C# and F#. The F# version had 1/20th the number of type annotations.
Now that you have a few customers, why don't you put up some testimonials? For your site, video testimonials would be great as they would help your customers promote themselves too and showcase the technology at the same time.
Oh to be able to run around a garden with a chainsaw. Sadly I like in a block of flats, and you'd be glared at for smoking outside. Lucky you.
Oracle owns Java. They will attempt to turn it into a profit center. The Google suit is one example. Another way is to make their database/s and products perform better, by integrating them more tightly with Oracle's version of Java (which includes BEA System's version) - analogously to MS making Office apps perform better under Windows.

Sure, it's against the concept of a public spec, and OpenJDK; and it might not work, or at worst fragment the Java standard and destroy much of its value - but I can't see how Oracle could help themselves from doing this. It's inevitable.
Can you elaborate on why? What is it you like about Fantom? Why should I check it out?
"How Facebook optimizes MySQL" would be a better title.
512Mb is 64MB. It's quite a lot for an embedded computer, IMHO.
arrrrgh. i just back buttoned to the article, and went forward to try and find my list again, and its gone. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do today.
Yes this is a real problem and it's not just Facebook. Designers are often young and typically have very, very good eyesight, much better than the average population.

Out in the real world, the average young person probably has good eyesight and the average middle aged person has so-so eyesight and older people generally have crappy eyesight.

But then there are lots of people of all ages who have poor vision, weird quirks, colour blindness, tunnel vision, or clinical blindness.

Arbitrarily reducing a font from small to teeny is basically a slap in the face to anyone with less than perfect eyesight.

Yes, a user can adjust their browser settings to enlarge the fonts but when you do that to Facebook, for example, it makes all the text larger and the whole thing looks like shite.
Steve Blank in NYC Next Friday
"Most people give long winded answers when they're trying to weasel out of giving the straight answer that they don't want to give because it'll make them look bad."

It's well-known that "geeks" generally try to answer questions literally, and as accurately as possible. It's also pretty well known that the better at a field you are, the less highly you think of yourself (the Dunning–Kruger effect.)

Put those two together, and you'll see that geeks who are very good in a field will tend to give long-winded answers explaining exactly what they know and don't, instead of a simple answer. I do this myself all the time.
Assuming the work is of any difficultly, your ability to get anything done in an open floor plan office will depend on your ability to focus despite the vastly increased distractions. And heaven help you if you aren't facing a wall.

You can possibly do the music with headphones thing (although that tends to result in higher error rates) and using noise canceling ones can make a small but significant difference.

One question: does this company do this because they don't have much money or because they think it's a good idea. If the latter, I'd pass unless desperate, they don't understand what they're doing (again assuming the work is at all difficult).
tl;dr Recruiters suck and only care about arbitrary bullshit.

This statement acurately describes 95% of my colleagues.

I will happily accept the challenge of changing your perception of our industry. I'm a technical recruiter that covers the London market. Feel free to send me your CV. My details are in my profile. Also, feel free to have a look through my comment history. I'm not on this site to pick up leads or push for business, I'm here because I have a legitimate interest in the industry and I find that HN is a fantastic gauge as to the pulse of the industry.
> It's my data. If I want to bring it to another service, I should be able to

Technically, you can. You can already move your data from Facebook to Google, or any place else. You just can't use an API to do it with. Google isn't imposing conditions on data. Instead, they are imposing restrictions on using it's API to access that data. You might consider it splitting hairs, but it's important.

As a business, I shouldn't be required to build things into my API I don't want, and I shouldn't be required to give access to anyone that asks my API. I should be allowed to build an API as I deem necessary.

While it's beneficial for users to have access to easily transport their data from one service to another, that should be my choice to set up.
Do you mind if I ask whether you changed the title? My memory has the original title as "Apple abandons their XServe line".
Do you think that the increase in latency for fetching new emails is correlated to the increase in labels used in gmail?
And if you're a corporate wage slave, you're obviously playing fourth edition.
Your City Sucks: Altanta
Remind me to tell you of the time a recruiter at a very large bank attempted to place me as their VP of Technical Operations for the Tokyo branch office.

"If I might ask, what gave you the impression that I had sufficient leadership experience to be appropriate for this position?"

"Your CV says that you ran a multinational software company from Japan for four years."

"..."
> Wow, this is a serious blow to all mac shops. There are tons of Xserve around.

They're clearly saying they'll keep supporting the existing Xserves (as much as they have so far, which is not much), you can keep buying it until January, and the Mac Mini Server [0] does not seem deprecated, so I assume there will be a 10.7 Server.

IOW, no this is not a serious blow to anybody, please RTFA.

[0] http://www.apple.com/macmini/server/
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872289

Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872306