skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not amazingly performant on my G2, but I haven't noticed any major slowdowns or the like. Then again, I've been pretty impressed with the performance of this phone in general; it just does not seem to suffer from performance lags at all. As somebody coming from a G1 that was on its last legs, it's been pretty awesome.
About 10 years worth, I'm unqualified anyway.
Hey Americano- outsource your job here
IANAL, but i believe that as long as you don't try to implement your own JVM, you're safe from lawsuits. Imagine that Microsoft sues some Linux company because of some windows patents(didn't they actually do that?), would that stop you from using either Linux or Windows?
I have a split-test/feedback group prepared.
> "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.

A lot of businesses seem to put things like that in quotes, and I've never been able to find an explanation for why. Based on the ones I've seen on things like plumber's or electrician's vans and in print ads, it seems that the things in quotes tend to be either slogans or be statements about how the service is performed or the quality of the business itself ("Fast, Courteous Service!", "Proudly Serving the Community Since 1923").

Anyone know why quoting these things is common?

I've got a couple of guesses but have not been able to find anything to back them. One would be that it is to make the slogan stand out a bit in an ad. The idea being that when people see the ad, such as on the side of a truck, by emphasizing the slogan people will be more likely to remember it. Then, someday later when people need a plumber, they might remember the slogan and tend to call that plumber first.

My other guess is that the quotes are supposed to make it seem like the company is speaking. The rest of the ad gives the cold, hard facts, but the quoted slogan or phrase is more personal.
While I cant test the app since i dont have a valid .edu address, one thing you might wanna take care of is some sort of moderation. Anonymous boards can lead to the same set of issues that plagued juicycampus.
As tempting as it is to think they just need a clue, maybe the reality is that HN readers tend to already have jobs or own their own businesses, and they aren't as good a target for recruitment which is more of a numbers game.
The how isn't much use without the why.

Planned on it.
Maybe you should cultivate some fucking respect. Yahoo, which gave us such critical technologies as Hadoop and Pig, just gave us what appears to be a robust distributed stream processing thingamabob. They open sourced it first, and will quickly bring the docs and presentation up to speed. Instead of mouthing off, just say, 'thanks!' or nothing at all.
I bypass the GUI all together and find battery life is increased even further!
No. Flash itself is poorly coded for the mac.

Grooveshark is currently in the background, not playing anything. On my work PC, running XP, it doesn't use any cpu at all. On my personal mac, it constantly hovers at 45% core usage, meaning if I open grooveshark at home, my fans kick on in a 60 degree room.
Rather avoid imp specific like ELF.

I'll encourage reusing existing code/libraries.
I'm not sure about the easy to fix concept. By all accounts the X codebase is one nasty beast to wrap your head around. The protocols are well documented, but the actual code - it takes some crazy digging to actually understand it enough to be able to fix things in X-land.
Everyone Hates Ticketmaster — But No One Can Take It Down
Ask HN: Which Linode Datacenter to choose?
When you sign up for Linode, you get to choose what datacenter your server is in.
Can anyone share their experience with the different datacenters? Other than 'choose a datacenter close to your users' can you offer advice on choosing the best datacenter?
Was I the only one who expected to be redirected to The Onion?
MerchantCircle to Take Over Operations of the Popular Bloglines Platform
look for some website templates at themeforest.com -- you can use them as a base to increase usability.
At work, I'm even doing it the other way around: Windows runs as a guest in Linux. Nothing get's done in Windows unless it's more work to do it in Linux. Interestingly, for me that's only two things: VPNs and Citrix Metaframe to connect to clients. That's it.

I can't stress how much more productive you'll be. And we're a shop selling Windows software to Banks and bigger corporations.
It is 2010: in our industry, virtual relationships can easily carry as much weight as physical ones - Bang on
Beg your pardon?
does this mean my hometown will fade into even greater obscurity (as quantified by google search results)?

:(

http://www.wayland.k12.ma.us/
One of the things that I admire most about W. Richard Stevens's books is that he checked the return value of everything, even printfs. Anal, sure, but that's what you're supposed to do in C and when you write demo code that doesn't, even if you surround it with warnings like "DO NOT DO THIS", beginners will still do it. Better to get the habits in right from the start.
I used to work as a sysadmin at a small development shop that had 6 programmers. Those guys didn't have root access either, but it's not because they weren't competent; it was the only way we could keep the machines consistent. Otherwise, people were installing things all over the place and, in a lot of cases, the same program would be installed differently on each machine.
It's shady for TechEye to quote CNET without linking to the article that contains Microsoft's response.
Is there an ab testing tool worth looking at on the django side of the fence?
On the bright side, forcing yourself to write bulletproof code for the book may well be the best way to become qualified.
See elsewhere in this thread:

[Flash] appears to under-perform on every platform I have except Windows (Windows in VMware + Flash is better than native Mac Flash, I swear!).

Flash has been an albatross for Mac users for a decade. It has performed terribly, crashed our browsers, and with the rise of YouTube &co. forced us to use it to watch videos via a hilarious, incredible, inefficient hack instead of a real native video player.

We are really (and understandably) happy to get rid of it, especially if that means we get to skip the worst kinds of ads and online videos don't churn the CPU anymore.

For all its usefulness, Flash just isn't worth the hassle for Mac users, and it's largely Adobe's fault that we find this to be the case.
Weird Bicycles
These are some of the weirdest and most funny-looking bicycles in the world.
I'm trying to set up a test account for HN users, and in the process it looks like I've messed something up. Thanks for the feedback so far, I'm trying to fix things...

EDIT: Test account: username: "hn@hn.edu", pass is "hn"
I've just spent several days improving the startup time of my ASP.NET based business. Some things to note:

* Install both the 'Google PageSpeed' and 'YSlow' plugins for Firefox. They provide great metrics and tell you what's actually slowing down your page.

* Ensure that all images are sent out with a long expiry time. This is not the default setting for IIS. Just setting a long expiry for images, CSS and JS will easily give you a power-boost in your performance.

* Minimize JS and CSS using the 'Chirpy' plugin.

* Make sure to retrieve any library code for its respective CDN (ie. Microsoft AJAX<, Facebook etc.)

* And of-course, as above, make sure your plug-ins load asynchronously. The default code given to me for the 'Add-This' plug-in was synchronous and took about 1.5 seconds to retrieve. Quite silly that they don't give you asynch code by default for these plugins!
Most days there were around 270,000 story topics to choose from, typically paying between $3 and $15. In their span and dullness and fascinating particulars, they reflected a more granular portrait of twenty-first-century American interests than the trending search topics on Google or Yahoo ever will. We are not deep in wonder. We are bankrupt and considering divorce in Oklahoma. We want to know how to make money with candy stands at miniature-golf courses. We want do-it-yourself plans for an electric unicycle and for dog wheelchairs. We are curious about Hungarian customs regulations and how to use a spinal-cord monitor during scoliosis surgery. Also, please, we would like instructions on How to Set Up a Pony Ride with No Ponies.

This is the best thing I've seen on CJR in a long time.
Scary... only if you haven't been paying attention for a while (2 years or more). Still, neat chart.
Ahh, the No True Scotsman fallacy again!

Hamish: No Flash site is inferior to its HTML5 equivalent in terms of battery life.

Angus: Youtube's Flash implementation uses more battery than their HTML5 equivalent on my machine.

Hamish: No well-coded Flash site is inferior to its HTML5 equivalent in terms of battery life.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/No_true_Scots...
An employer is willing to pay an extra 20% to save themselves the time and effort of having to source & interview the hundreds of applications themselves.

As for recruiters taking 20%, that's a comparitively low figure for such a high daily rate. If one of my clients was requesting a £500 a day calibre candidate I wouldn't touch it for anything less than 30% in reality.

We are providing a service, plain and simple. The service fee is calculated in relation to the calibre of candidate as the more senior the candidate, the more difficult they are to find.
I prefer "man hier" at the command line. Much more succinct than either of those:

e.g. http://linux.die.net/man/7/hier
If you want to share your app ideas with the world and see what everyone thinks, you can post them on App Garden (http://appgarden.ambitiouslemon.com). I launched it just yesterday. There are more details about it in this blog post: http://bit.ly/cdjlV1
"Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products," a Microsoft spokesperson told CNET. "With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant."

That's exactly what I would say if I actually did want a bunch of hackers trying to create drivers for other platforms.
partially agree, i do believe to become a good programmer takes years but today tech help you to do programming more easily, like PHP and its frameworks. So it depends on how hard the problem you are solving is. Someone can pick up decent html/css lessons in shorter time and build a prototype, he then can hire other later when profit.
A friend's startup is doing well in this space: http://showclix.com/

Lynsie was on Mixergy, to talk about it: http://mixergy.com/lynsie-camuso-showclix-interview/
This is certainly where I'll send anyone who asks "where can I find a DVD player that looks like a panini maker?".
Have you looked at AWS's DevPay?
http://aws.amazon.com/devpay/

If your customers could provide you with an image of their server you could add that to your AWS account, and then bill them through DevPay for their usage. However, there might be some limitations with DevPay that I am not aware of, and it might not give you and your users the flexibility you need. On the plus side, it would keep everything self-contained - the user no longer needs to worry about paying you and Amazon.

Also, I agree with elliottcarlson - anyone planning to use your site would be able to follow instructions to create/share their AWS keys.

I like the site/idea, good luck.
Those are indeed interesting and relevant points but they don't have much to do with climate science per se. Climate science is about understanding how climate works, not costs of adaptation or geoengineering.
Part of the reason agencies command such high fee's is because of the influence their brand & network has with candidates. There are thousands of self employed recruiters fighting over the scraps and a lot of highly successful self-employed recruiters earning a mint by utilising the personal network they have cultivated from being in the business for many years. I personally haven't been in the game long enough to be able to rely on my own contacts to build a business.
Consumers' right to file class actions is in danger
History tells us that if they get big enough, Ticketmaster will make them an offer they can't refuse.
No problem, and I didn't know if you were in the U.S. or not. In the U.K. I think they're called "Pawnbrokers"...
Focus on those that know at first. Roll through some clients and get really comfortable with support. Then after you have a solid support structure and a reputation you can start to go after the guys who don't know. You don't need to hold everybody's hand upfront, you won't have time.
All of those old tutorials can likely be found here: http://www.textfiles.com/programming/
There _is_ a Little MLer (with examples in Caml and Standard ML), which teaches type-based programming very well, and would be worth reading for anyone setting out to learn Haskell, I imagine (I respect Haskell's purity, but program in ML and Scala, the same way I respect Ada's safety, but program in C, so a better Haskeller than myself may disagree. :-)).

However, none of the Little ___er books are, of themselves, good ways to learn to use the language they are in; they're more like finger exercises when learning piano -- they reinforce your mental muscles to make thinking in the right way for those languages feel more natural.
I use F# for a high-level language right now; at the rate that it’s improving, I have a hard time imagining I’ll want anything else as my main high-level software language in five years. I wish it had better support for script-y tasks, but for now I’m “stuck” with Ruby for that sort of thing [1].

I use C when I need to do low-level manipulation. D or Go might be better, and one of the two will probably be compelling in five years. I was really hoping that BitC (a low-level language with a modern type system) would take off, but development on that seems to have stalled.

For hardware, I really hope that bluespec becomes mainstream. I use it as an HDL on my spare time projects. It’s nearly as expressive as Haskell; other HDLs (Verilog and VHDL) are about as expressive as assembly language, so the advantage you by switching from a mainstream language to bluespec is much larger than the advantage you get by switching from C++ or Java to F#/Haskell/Scala.

[1] Want to do a cross-platform directory copy? You can use
Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FileSystem.CopyDirectory, which doesn’t preserve permissions under Linux/Mono, or write your own function. And that’s an example of something that’s well supported.
Ticketmaster's entire purpose is to be hated. It allows performers and venues to charge closer to market-clearing prices, while directing customer anger away from them.
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"Neither OSX nor Windows use X and both of them look much nicer."

What does the graphics design of OSX and Windows have to do with how X is architected? Which effects provided by the OSX or Windows interface cannot be done by a compositing X window manager?

"Both Windows and OSX do remote desktop just fine for the minority who need it."

X network transparency has nothing to do with remote desktop - as a matter of fact X doesn't have that notion or any support for it. The X protocol is strictly for per-application event and drawing. There is a huge class of problems that X can solve where remote desktop would be useless.
I always wondered about screwball policies like that. It just seems so incredibly short-sighted to not use the best tools for the job.

"If you want me to defend you from the bad people on the net, then don't send me to a gun fight with only a knife."
http://metagovernment.org/wiki/Main_Page
It's sad because there are plenty of people out there like this.
I'm expecting the target will be college campuses.
How is it not ethical to use the results of your own labor for your own benefit? To presume that our labor (whether you think the quality is "crap" or not) belongs to other people or "society" is to presume that we are slaves to others and that somehow it is unethical to work for ones own benefit.
>I'm not sure it makes sense any more to teach C to beginners

Good thing I'm not writing it for beginners.

>I'll probably be releasing code from my first medium-sized C project in a week or so... anyone care to offer tips on how to get more experienced eyeballs on it?

Uh, that's a toughie actually. IRC can be pretty rough.
Why You Should Be Using Virtualisation In Your Development Environment
another feature request - when i close a parent task, close out its children. or at least, prompt me if i want to do that.
make navigation into sub items respect the back button.
"Self-sustaining" might be a better metric.
I Googled juicycampus, which lead me to collegeacb.com, which looks just like what I'm trying to do. Oh well, I guess if other people are doing it that means it's not a stupid idea?

Yeah, moderation will be an issue -- I'm thinking some kind of voting and / or flagging system could help with that.
Reverse Search Philosophy
Conservatives say they don't believe in evolution, but act like they do (in the sense they tolerate "animal spirits" in economics, a sexual division of labor, and racial disparities which may be genetic in origin). Liberals say they believe in evolution, but act like they don't. And our most destructive policies happen at the intersection of these two forms of hypocrisy.

A runner-up: "social security" is not the exact nature of the problem we face. Instead, the problem is the dependency ratio: old people can live off of million-dollar 401K portfolios and the proceeds from selling million-dollar houses, or live off of social security--in either scenario, the working population will be forced to accept lower available consumption (and low returns on their savings) for a given level of income.
Shitcan is a funny word and all, but this news has been on HN four times already today!
I guess I'm a minority of that minority, in that I love X for its ability to run single applications remotely over the network. Neither Windows nor OSX do this well (if at all). Frankly, I don't want a whole desktop when I can just run the desired application in its own window(s), well integrated with the platform I happen to be on at the moment. Currently, most Linux distributions support this out of the box, and it's easy enough to install Cygwin on Windows or XQuartz on OSX. Hopefully, this will still be possible under Wayland.
I "learned C" in my CS101 classes as a first language. I liked it, and was able to get around a little in it, but I never retained any of it. I plan on studying this book. Here's my "gimme, gimme, gimme" list:

- Please make it bulletproof code, as mentioned above. I would hate to spend time relearning C the hard way AND the wrong way.

- Please get me to the point where I can make use of other libraries effectively. I'd like to understand the include/linking process at least as thoroughly as I understand python's import process.

- Please prefer readability over cleverness.

Thanks.
Shaolin Eagle Claw Kung-fu or Shaolin Xing Yi Quan!
s/aid/id/
One of the best charts we've ever posted---says alot about how network organization contributes to the spread terror. All kids of connections there.
I trained in Eskrima (~aka Kali or Arnis) for several years and loved it. It's a Filipino art most commonly recognized as stick fighting or knife fighting, but is a complete system of hand-to-hand combat. After having sticks flying at you for awhile, suddenly hands aren't nearly as threatening. To get the most out of it, do expect to get a little bruised and sore. The bruising stops as you learn the relaxation aspects of the art, though you still get a good sore.

Most schools do not train eskrima as aerobic exercise, as might be typical of other arts, but generally are strictly technique and drill oriented. If you're looking to lose a lot of weight through martial arts training, another art might be better suited. But if you want to learn basic, effective techniques for self-defense and can handle the exercise and fitness aspects on your own, then I highly recommend looking for a good school near you. Doce Pares is a very well-respected organization that I can't say enough good things about.
No, it wouldn’t. Gamers buy discrete cards. Gamers do not use Linux.

(In fact, I’m having trouble coming up with a reason for a desktop Linux user to buy a discrete graphics card)
I'd like to see other schools - e.g. what ABC school's students REALLY think of their school. I feel like there is a very small set of use cases for a thing like this, and it's missing some of the bigger ones.
On the dot.
Yes, I'm facing the chicken-and-egg users problem here, and a better call to action could help. It's complicated by the fact that I don't want to show a user any content until I know which school they're from, because I want users to know that when they post only people from the same school will see it.
Oh, I know. I personally think that's why it's so simple though - they have to take a green kid coming into the army that possibly never fought before and give him something in 6 months that will help him survive. There's simply not enough time to get into anything technical that requires reflexes that take years to train.
What API? There is no API, there's a protocol.

Switching from TCP sockets to Unix domain sockets requires changing about 3-4 lines of connect code, but everything else remains the same. You get a lot of localhost performance for free with almost no changes.
Well, thanks everybody for your answers, I see that it's a bit of a tie on what would be the best way of handling this.

Probably I'll go somewhere in between and decide on a case by case basis.
Define "Selfishness" in this context.

In a broad sense, it's very hard to argue that selfish genes don't explain most human behavior. Certainly, I would spend my time differently if I weren't the result of a couple billion years of brutal gene-versus-gene competition.
Gruber writes: You don’t think Apple is filling that North Carolina data center with Xserves, do you?

What hardware and OS/distro does Apple run in its large service-oriented datacenters?
This is awesome. I have something similar as a project on the back burner because I haven't been able to find anything really simple and generic like this. I was trying to solve simple creation of lists and the zoom in feature is exactly what I was looking for. Nice work.

Now for a tiny feature request. I like to make sections with ample white space between them. When I have an empty bullet, can you hide the bullet? Similar to what gmail tasks does.

And I want simple formatting. Textile? Markdown? Is this supported already? I just want to make junk bold and italicized. :)
Not going to bother demonstrating perfect tutorial code. All they'll learn from that is to write flawless tutorial code.

Might as well put Lance Armstrong on a bicycle in front of a 5 year old and expect them to learn how to ride a bicycle by watching Lance go in a circle.
That's one of the few projects that I'd be willing to contribute personal funds to see done... If done well enough. That's the trick.