skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you explained yourself quite well. I just didn't read it correctly.

As a compiled .dll you drop into your project, you could probably market it to decision makers and get them to force it on the devs, hoping that nobody every bothered to decompile it and realize it's only a few hundred lines of code.

I'm sure there's a business in the self-hosted AB space, but for the moment I'm not excited enough about it to pursue it.
Fact-Check The Rhyme: Correcting errors in "The Anthology of Rap"
My Big Idea Today: Saturate the Groupon Model
I wonder what kind of machines they are using in their giant new data center.
Does anybody else feel like Quova could be confusing for Quora? I smell a trademark suit down the road.
Ask HN: What language features have particularly appealed to you?
What language features have you come across that particularly appealed to you?

This isn't a "which is your favourite language?" question but rather which feature of a language most appealed to you. I was thinking the other day of which features of various languages most appealed to me and came up with the following list:

* Erlang's Pattern Matching
* Lisps Macros

* The ADTs in ML Variants

* Go's Interfaces

* Clojures Protocols

* Tail Recursion in various Functional languages.

What would make your list?
Why Body Language Matters in the Office
One important thing I would like to see in such a book is one or more chapters devoted to memory management best practices.
You should have responded in the affirmative, just to see how far the rabbit hole would go.

At least that's what I'd want to do, except I'd probably wimp out.
With all due respect, I think you need to step off of your high horse and realize that there is value created, even in crappy apps that spam. Sure it's not as "beautiful" as a well done app that took many man hours of creation/polishing, etc. but it gets the job done and gives access to some people who may not otherwise have it.

Also, making cash in order to buy the freedom to do the things that make you happy I believe is righteous.

Further, I fail to see how their actions are "scamming people"? They are creating FREE apps. If the user doesn't like it, they can delete it. It is not as though they are SELLING subpar apps and then giving people the finger when they as for a refund. There is no scam in a value for value transaction and, by downloading a free app, it seems to me they ought to expect them not to be of the highest quality and/or to have ads.
But clearly this isn't your forte, so why not find someone who can focus on that area. That leaves you to manage product development, vision and to test the work that's been done to create a product. I'm just not of the mindset that doing something twice is the right way to go. Especially when speed is a factor.
Xmonad core doesn't provide any kind of X11 encapsulation and convenience interface, every single xmonad extension, any piece of configuration, can (and does) directly use X11, both API and behavior. After all, it's an X11 window manager. You have to rewrite everything.
On first glance Gordon - this looks like a great or even an amazing piece of work!

Looking forward to spending a bit more time on it later on.
Colin
Papers are, as the name implies, intended to print on dead trees. At least in the academia world you'd like to be published. PDF is the (only?) solution that allows dot-perfect control on paper.

No web technology currently addresses this issue in a satisfying way, not to mention lack of complex math/chemistry/etc formulas. Even the use of specialized symbols on the web is pain.
It's a Miami thing...
But you still have queues as 100,000 people all have to get into the airport through one security point.

At my local airport they have even built it underground so you queue for security in a long sloping concrete passageway - brilliantly designed for maximum casualties, hardest exit and most difficult to fight a fire in
One thing that Libertarians will say about a limited federal government is that it allows state and local governments to experiment with different choices.

One, to allow for local governments to account for local differences that a far-removed federal government couldn't see or understand. And two, to allow for a large number of experiments to occur with subsequent successes and failures so that the right answer can be eventually teased out.
Maybe someone can edit the headline to correct the spelling? Thanks.
Remote desktop is easy, there's no reason to make it the focus of the GUI subsystem.
BlackBerry Style 9670
Cloud Computing 101
100% agreed, I see way too many people struggling with realloc/calloc in ##C, let along comprehending heap fragmentation.
Well, I'm mainly referring to the very early prototype stage, where you spend as little as you can. If you have some early funding (either self funding or family) then you can use VWO instead of a free A/B testing framework (A/Bingo for example).

You still need to know how to manipulate some of the front end and back end code to show the user your A/B tests. On page SEO at least requires some knowledge of HTML. You're right about marketing such as adwords and LTV not requiring any code though.
> Other than administering client macs, there really wasn't any benefit to running a cluster of mac servers.

Bingo. Apple's server offering have always been (and will continue to be) expected to support a whole network of apple hardware. In that situation, xserves don't really make sense anymore, they're fairly crappy general-purpose servers and you don't need an xserve to support an OSX-based network and OSX's group utilities. The Mini Server is much smaller for minor networks, and the base Mac Pro Server offering is the same price as the entry-price Xserve, not really rackable but with far superior hardware: 2.26 quad, 3GB RAM and 160GB HDD for the Xserve, 2.8 quad, 8GB RAM and 2x1TB HDD for the Mac Pro.

Plus the Mac Pro

* comes with a GPU if you want a render farm

* scales to more memory (up to 32GB versus 24 for the Xserve, and bumping the Mac Pro to 24GB is $450 cheaper than the Xserve)

* scales to much bigger CPUs (you can get a better CPU on the Xserve by switching to the $3600 model, which starts with 2x2.26GHz quads and can get up to 2x2.93 quads, but the mac pro can still be upgraded to 2x2.93 hexas)
The Paul Graham Email Style?
You have to understand one very important thing. Recruiters are the email advertisement newsletters of the real world. Someone (or yourself) places your email in a bucket and boom, you're getting this great offers, so yo go check one out. Then the offer is asking you to provide more info about yourself and then asks you to get other people involved. After a while of this process you start to get the impression that the offer is not worth it, and if you ever actually bought something you realize it was actually vastly overpriced (underpaid?). So you then click on the unsubscribe link, but alas they keep sending you stuff, and then you get emails of the people you placed in a similar position. Six months later you get emails from people you don't know asking you how you could be so stupid to start a chain reaction of people giving out other people's details, and then by chance you save a telemarketer from suicide and he then tells you the story of how he used to be in charge of a newsletter. He helps you unsubscribe and all, and then tells you: "Oh who cares about the offer (job?) it was no good anyways, we just wanted to get as many names and emails from you so we could tell our bosses that we deserve that 20 dollar bonus at the end of the month."

Conclusion: Don't deal with recruiters, you need to build yourself as a brand and create your own reputation wherever you want to work. No excuses.
If the Light Goes Out: Edmund Clarks pictures of Guantánamo Bay
HTML is not even close to provide the level of support needed for math in scientific papers. Using HTML is like going back 30 years, when we had things like troff, and later TeX.
Like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoex
Any suitable GPS equipment for this region, similarly what would be the best software app for anyone wanting to track our progress?
Can you provide humanitarian aid without facilitating conflicts?
It never ceases to amaze me the absolute depth of knowledge available on HN.
It was removed years ago, before Facebook was generally available outside of Zuck-blessed institutions, but I definitely recall using it during the 2004-2005 academic year. I'm mainly contesting the absolute claim that Facebook has never allowed this.
You could always give the player a plastic gun with tracking dots and a trigger. :)
It does make for a ridiculous API though. No one writes X for this reason, but I suspect it would speed things up a lot if everyone writing for the platform didn't have to go through multiple layers of better APIs to talk to the actual display subsystem.
On the new MacBook Air. And why we’re investing in the Cloud above it.
Hacker extorted teenage girls with a webcam trojan
What is the benefit for getting the case litigated in Texas?
Not being an english speaker, I did not know the connotation of the word. Even looking on google, I still don't get what exactly a pawn shop is.

Anyway, I will definitely change the name, then! Thank you for this feedback, nobody ever made me notice this.
I took most of my initial cues from Alan Graham / BoingBoing, though I will freely admit that I haven't gone as far down the home automation rabbit hole as he has. I should also mention that he's now advocating iPads for home automation (I still prefer Minis for various reasons, especially storage capacity for things like video feed and logging).

Some of these links are practically ancient, but they're where I started, and they are good jumping-off points:

http://macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/13/home_automation...

http://boingboing.net/2010/06/24/ipad-home-automation.html

Let's be honest: the reason I don't go as far on home automation as he does is a) I'm not really interested in being a power user of some of the home auto features he advocates; b) I am too lazy/occupied to write a custom UI that would theoretically be foolproof enough for guests...let alone myself first thing in the morning before coffee. :)

Dislaimer 2: Alan is very much a kitchen-sink approach kind of guy (as is evident in the pics of his rather ungainly and uber-comprehensive UI), whereas I am a minimalist.
Gartner: CEOs should ensure Apple's iPad finds a place in their company
Interesting that they completely ignore dynamic branching, but I guess the target audience are mostly classical "embedded" developers rather than mobile app devs. If you're writing iOS apps in Objective-C, you're paying a penalty for every method call, as it goes through the objc_msgSend() dispatch mechanism every time. I'm extremely surprised Apple haven't added more "clever" optimisations to the compiler, such as a JVM-like call site cache for de-facto monomorphic calls. (hacking clang/llvm to do that is an item on my endless list of things to do on a rainy day) This would essentially allow branch prediction and instruction prefetching on messages for a vast majority of cases. C++ virtual calls are typically cheaper than Objective-C messages but can also benefit from this sort of treatment (just not as much).
The narrow minded comment made me chuckle. I no longer surprised by how myopic certain people can be. In my personal experience moving between Chicago, Appalachia, LA and now deep in the rural heart of Texas is that "broad mindeded" people (especially those in larger cities) often overestimate their own tolerance, and see no reason to be tolerant of, interested in understanding the rural or southern culture within their own country, and have a profoundly limited, almost cartoonish understanding of the motivations, predjudices and attitudes of the same. I remember with particular humor a roadtrip with people that I had worked with in some rough areas of Chicago to Lvingston, TN. During the trip a couple of the group got into a discussion without every having stepped from the van about how backward and prejudiced the people in the area were.
I think all of it is terrible advice (don't try hard? don't work? good luck with that), but others have already covered that below. I just wanted to point out that apparently the author still opens unsolicited Word documents from emails. Not a good idea: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/7/25/
Right...

http://gizmodo.com/5682457/this-is-the-worlds-loudest-alarm-... via the Telegraph

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/05/parrot-minikit-smart-wind... via techdigest

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/05/mac-pro-server-config-added-t... "via engadget" via apple.

All useless summaries with useless internal links and tagged with every conceivable word a person might put into Google.

They all produce original content on occasion but it's not their business.
yeah. the author has put the cart before the horse.
to be able "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee" was the outcome of hard work.

effort comes first, effortlessness comes later.
Text Roulette
Ask HN: What percentage of Y Combinator apps are successful/profitable?
I see lots of YC apps covered by TC, featured by few other popular media and wondering what percentage of the app make it big.
Can someone please describe what AB testing is or point me to something that explains it?
I don't know if this is outside of the scope of your plans, but threading issues are a big one that jump out for me. POSIX threads can cause all kinds of wonderful headaches, it would be nice to see some solid advice on the does and dont's.
Nicaragua Blames Google Maps For Costa Rica Incursion
Unable to use International or Sharia law in your defense in Oklahoma
It seems that timing is everything. BTW, I find "Dup" comments valuable when the original had commentary we would otherwise miss or when the original was deleted by mods. This appears to be the case with your second link, so thank you.

However, if the original failed to get votes and is reposted later, I'm personally all for it. HN's algorithm is rather capricious, trying again may garner interest, and that's a good thing for HN.

Example:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803432 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801632
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Wouldn't the stream of water be pretty easily deformed by wind or the motion of the ship?
The economist is publishing articles blaming 'the greenies' for your car failing by banning toxic metals in your oil.

It's a standard economist article - they are basically just fox news with a higher reading age.
Why would running two systems help performance. A better designed system that doesn't have to have network transparency code paths should be able to run faster than X and Linux applications are written in Qt or GTK anyway. Port those two and call it done.
When/If you are seeking a cash exit and the product is stable, growing & profitable.
Acura TSX Car Purchase
It's a licensed version of Foxit PDF reader fwiw. It's not open source unfortunately.
Yes, I was based in the UK, but now I'm moving it to Amsterdam. So the name is not a concern. It will require some redesign for the logo, but that's not a big deal.
Thank you for the feedback.
Video Editing Tablet
I plan to follow Zed's model for 52 exercises, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't cover multi-threading and a perhaps a few different concurrency models in the latter half.
Rands in Repose: How to Build a Conversation
I think your goal will be more easily and better achieved by writing a "So You Found Python Easy?" book. C is not (IMO) a good language to teach people that are just starting to program.

However, if you wish to try anyway, I recommend looking at "Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux" by Jeff Duntemann. It aims to teach people assembly language as their first language, so you may find it useful.
> When you act so as to maximize your income, you have found society's consensus that what you are doing is the most important and valuable thing you could offer.

That's not how economics works.
Interesting. It looks cleaner than adding C# to Windows Powershell scripts. I'm not sure it increases flexibility over Powershell as a scripting environment.
This post reminds me of the old joke where a young woman wants to marry a religious man.

Her father asked him, "What will you do with your life?"

"Pray," he replied.

"And how do you intend to provide for my daughter?"

"God will provide for us."

Later, when the man's wife asked how his meeting with his prospective son-in-law went, he replied, "Very well. He already thinks I'm God.
If you have two paying customers it means you have something people want. Congratulations! That means you actually have a business. Now, all you have to do is keep growing and improving. One thing I would do is reach out to those first customers, and thank them for being early customers. Ask them how you might help them even more, and why they found you valuable enough to buy. If you can find out more about them, then you should be able to find more people like them, and target your marketing to them. Good luck!
They use an e-democracy or electronic direct democracy. This is exactly what my startup is focused on. An e-democracy for America.

http://www.openpoll.us

/shameless plug
That URL is really... something.
Neither OSX nor Windows use X and both of them look much nicer. In my opinion the last 20 years of X were a mistake that should have been aborted a long time ago. Both Windows and OSX do remote desktop just fine for the minority who need it.
Just buy this one
I'm doing this book precisely because programmers who already know a language aren't ever getting around to learning systems programming or how things work.
When 24/7/365 Fails: Turning Off Work On Weekends
I suggest you to take articles like that with a grain of salt. It seems like a perfect example of productivity porn (a term popularized Merilin Mann), a compelling advice which makes you feel better for a moment, but doesn't really change anything. Moreover it comes from a blog that features mostly X Ways To Do Something posts and feels like a promotional material for the author. On the other hand the site is extremely popular, so maybe it's just me who don't get the self-help spirit.
"It's a standard economist article - they are basically just fox news with a higher reading age."

Are you implying that the Economist is a right wing propaganda rag?

Actually it's an economically very liberal magazine and _extremely_ liberal on social issues.

And for hating greens? They published a special report on forests a couple weeks ago, which could have come straight from the WWF.

It seems you're quite prejudiced here, without really being informed.
I can't help but look at this design and wonder how Apple would have done it.
We had a conversation about this on IRC yesterday. Lots of opportunity out there in this space, and all of the groupon clones prove that.

My angle was going international. It looks like it hasn't really caught on in other parts of the world.
Pretty much all of CLOS:

- Multimethods

- :before, :after and :around methods

- The concept of a Meta Object Protocol
I bought the Roku a few months back. I don't have cable and wanted to watch a few shows here and there.It's pretty simple to use, but to me it doesn't feel like a parent proof device.

The UI is split up into "Channels" which are essentially different applications that grab video listings. The most popular one is netflix. It should be noted that you cannot browse netflix from the Roku (yet). Your instant queue is displayed on the top row, and then various other options are displayed below it. There are groups like "Recently Watched", "Critically Acclaimed Movies From The 80s", "Dark Documentaries", and then recommendations, one from netflix and a few others based on things you've just watched, and a search feature. All of these, except the instant queue, search and netflix recommendations appear to be random.

I have had one technical problem with the netflix channel. From what I can gather, when netflix goes down and you try to access the channel it can lock the channel up, making all videos you try to watch unavailable. The only solution was a factory reset.

There are some other good channels as well, MLB.tv, Nasa.tv (haven't had much success), Khan Academy, TED Talks, and a few others. There is a way to stream videos from your PC but it's a bit of a nightmare.

All in all, it's a great little device, and I'm happy with the purchase but it may be one of those "you get what you pay for" things, but I've never seen any of the other devices. If you need more help feel free to email.
Intriguing idea, but why the last bit about Thomas Jefferson? One cannot know what he would have thought of Internet. And more importantly, it doesn't really matter at all.
Is it just me, or is there anyone else on OS X thinks the rendering of the default Preview.app is so much better than Chrome?

One of the few reasons I constantly bounce between Safari and Chrome is the ability to render PDF beautifully. I haven't yet seen a better PDF rendering engine than the OS X built-in one.
I am not sure why the economist is producing articles about flat tappet cam engines. It is well known that new engine oils contain lower amounts of ZDDP, it is known to harm catalytic converters. It is also not as necessary in roller engines (anything new).

Overall engine oils have gotten much better, but if you run a flat tappet cam most people use a break-in oil, or an additive like GM EOS. Or use a heavy duty engine oil (HDEO) like a diesel oil.

But really anyone who needs these things would not be reading the economist for advice about valve spring pressures wiping cam lobes. As another commenter mentioned, with a good assembly lube (lots of moly) and pre-lube the engine should be fine. Plus if you are running a flat tappet cam the design of the engine will allow you to easily pre-oil it via the distributer shaft.

But zddp additive or a racing/HDEO is a good idea for this type of engine.
My favorite recruiter story:

In summer 2008, I was looking for work. At one point, I saw a job listing at The Hive [1], calling for Erlang. I don't have much Erlang experience (one proof-of-concept DNS server), but it's on my résumé. I applied, just in case.

Well. It turned out that, when you Googled "erlang resume", I was on the third page. Over the next month or so, I heard from about 20 bottom-feeder recruiters, with that same job. Most of them were trying to claim that the job was with a client of theirs, but none of them knew anything that wasn't in the listing on Dice. It got to the point where my wife could recognize a new one on the phone, even if they didn't say "Erlang" to her.

(Mind you, I've also had good experiences with recruiters. But "he wasn't a fool" doesn't make as good a story.)

[1] http://www.thehive.com/
It's a great start, but for some reason the page won't load past the metrics diagram on my iPhone.

Maybe it's just my phone being stupid, but you might wanna check for a fixed height CSS bug or something?
ah so true.
This commenter gets annoyed by authors who write about themselves in the third person. This comment writer suspects the article's author thinks he makes himself sound less ignorant when he writes in the third person. Maybe the economist's editorial guidelines demand pieces light on content (or facts to backup the premise) be written this way to distract the reader; thinks this comment writer.
Make that 40-man design shops & Biotech labs that don't have the manpower to maintain a decent analysis pipeline. I saw a bio Xserve setup a few years ago & was blown away by ... how 'shiny' the setup was. But that was about it: Xserves make no sense if what you're after is raw power.