skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah:

"So much traffic/interest in the ASF leaving the JCP that blogs.apache.org is wonky. Oh yeah, it's Java. #JCPIsDead"

http://twitter.com/#!/jimjag/status/12939142254034944
The way I see it, any time you are building a system, you're an engineer. Theoretical computer scientists aren't really building systems, they're uncovering the mathematical foundation for the work that we do, so they don't count as scientists.

In contrast, someone implementing algorithm, is by this definition, an engineer. A good algorithm necessarily needs you to get your hands dirty with the nitty-gritties of the system the algorithm is going exist in. So, these guys are engineers.

I also think the guys who are deciding our taxes, studying economic policies and government should all be considered as engineers because these folks area also building systems, with the caveat that these systems have human beings inside them.
Ok stay with me on this.Books vs. Kindle
I was having a discussion with my sister as to which was preferable.I made the argument that a book is easier to carry around, can be written on for notes and thoughts and can be shared. She said the Kindle makes reading easier, less carbon footprint and is cooler. I must be old school but for at least thought provoking reading I will stick with my real books before they are gone.Am I really that old?
It cripples upward mobility for the rest of society. You could make an argument that upward mobility is one of Americas greatest strengths. It keeps people motivated and it allows the entire population the chance to contribute to advancement.
FWIW, I think your request was perfectly reasonable and your reaction acceptable: before getting married, you want to date first.

Remember that the population here is primarily composed of highly technical people. As a rule, they tend to have very black and white views of the world. That probably accounts for the negative responses you're seeing.
Is Netflix streaming its way towards disaster?
Yeah. I figure that at some point you've gotta make a decision: are you going to devote serious effort to chasing down frequent flyer miles and other rewards points or not? There are rewards for doing so, but you can also drive yourself crazy chasing after every last mile and wind up doing stupid things (like the people who deliberately spend extra hours on planes flying indirect routes to their destinations just to build up the miles).
climbing is very fun... worth learning all the lingo.
Adam?

http://oldcomputers.net/adam.html
NMA strange, hilarious propaganda video on Wikileaks
Hides other tabs and the address bar.
About two weeks ago I was walking from my house in SF and at 20th and Douglass (http://goo.gl/WD2SX) I saw 4 "HP Communications" trucks (http://www.hpcomminc.com/) installing multi-strand fiber on the telco poles.

I asked "What are you installing?"

"Fiber."

"For Google?" :)

"Yeah."

"The home project?"

"Yeah."

Check out this "Confidential" PDF: http://www.hpcomminc.com/pdf/Revised_Intro_Draft.pdf

Google Cache: http://goo.gl/FN2W4

---

So... it looks like the GFIOS project is moving forward.
It's broken on a touch screen since it tries to roll its own text input. The virtual keyboard doesn't appear.

Always use browser provided text input. There are a thousand things that can go wrong if you don't.
Programming a piece of software is very similar to writing a book. You're just telling a computer what to do in a somewhat unusual language. So software development, in my opinion, is neither science nor engineering, it's art.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+a+cable
I can buy a lot of notebooks for $40, but the real problem is the width of the pen is too big, thus making detail sketch work impossible.
Ask HN: Is there a list of incubators?
Just wondering if anybody has compiled a list of startup incubators?
The ambitious person’s dilemma
It is, but thanks to his portrayal in certain sci-fi shows I generally associate Neil deGrasse Tyson with the death of Pluto. I wasn't aware Mike Brown even existed until I read this article.
I say that the rulings and ideas here are... Backward.

I've seen a few times a website owner who asked that slashdot submissions be linked to a static page because of php content. Instead, slashdot posts directly to a php link, causing cpu, memory to go through the roof along with flooding the net channel empying quota. And he was powerless to stop it, because he couldn't even ssh into the machine.

We techies all know about the slashdot effect. How's it so much different, aside a tool called LOIC vs firefox and f5? Guess it does go down to intent?
It's not as though you'd expect anything better from New Scientist.
> Except that it would end up as 40+ planets

I think that would be fantastic personally. The semantics of "planet" vs. "asteroid" is clearly far more motivational in terms of sending spacecraft to study them, plot stories around them, etc.

A planet is a place (that one might go), an asteroid is just a marginally interesting hunk of rock.

(it's really just a matter of marketing to be honest)
Ask HN: Feedback on re-design of debugging.com
Hi all (first post so be nice hehe),

So a little background, I came into the web scene around 2000, and started off with some classic asp. Shortly thereafter .net came around and I decided to build myself a community site. So after a little bit of hacking, self-hosted out of my bedroom, csharpfriends.com was born. I ran that site pretty hard in the beginning years, and it did well for itself and provided a very nice side income for me.

Fast forward to 2009'ish, I was able to get my hands on debugging.com
I had a few ideas on what I wanted to do with it, all were programming and community related of course.
I love building community related properties, and currently debugging is on a ASP.NET MVC platform but version 2.0 that I am hacking away during my spare time is a Rails 3 app (cloud hosted and all).

So I'm working with a great designer right now, and happy with the progress so far but I am looking for some feedback.

Here is the current mockup in a few colors:

http://www.debugging.com/etc/page-2-green.png

http://www.debugging.com/etc/page-2-teal.png

http://www.debugging.com/etc/page-2-orange.png

http://www.debugging.com/etc/page-2-brown.png

Any and all feedback welcome (design, site direction, etc)

(Finally figured out my password on here after a few guesses, thank goodness there is no captcha..)
hence why i said, i didn't do this, but i could have. just pointing out that it can be done.
AppSumo is great, and there would certainly be some crossover between the two services.

However, DealsForHackers would focus on a wider range of offerings, beyond just software. Think discounted conference tickets, hardware discounts, hacker food (whatever that means), etc.
Yeah, but it turns out, one of the best thing you teach someone to write good software is a bunch of theory of computation. It both shows abstract thought and teaches them how things work.

I think you're getting hung up on the degree, which is called "Computer science" with the professions which use those who have the degrees, mainly, all the varieties of software construction efforts which all have lots of names.
IPhone Beats Android, In Search - AndroidFame.com
Initiative called an 'anti-science witch hunt' by scientists
Pretty surprised to see that it's WinForms based. .NET: not just for cubicle dwellers anymore!
Cool, thanks. Easy after being on reddit for so long. My only complaint is that the last update was in April... hopefully it will stay up-to-date with NV, which apparently hasn't been updated since February anyway.
I think programming is becoming a science.

Computer programming used to be applied maths. You followed the correct lemmas in the language and if you didn't make any errors you had a correct program.

Now there are so many layers of indirection between you and the world (huge complex APIS, graphics drivers, optimizing compilers, hyperthreading, cache, etc) that the actual behaviour of a program - especially in high performance, real time world - is no longer possible to calculate from the published specs.

It becomes experimental science, you adjust various parameters and measure the result. Certainly to get performance but sometimes just to get APIs to work together.
Agreed.

Look at the issue from somebody not versed in what has happened: because company X chose not to do business with somebody hackers love, hackers are shutting down company X on the internet.

That doesn't sound much like a sit-in. A sit-in doesn't involve botnets and thousands of people randomly dispersed around the globe.

Be nice if it were more like a sit-in, though. But there's just no room between "doing nothing" and "disrupting my business and my cash flow" -- at least none we seem to have found by now.

The author makes a great point that while there is all this nuance and distinction among people inside the story, for the vast majority of the apathetic this story, like all other ones, is going to be drawn like a comic-book, with good guys and bad guys. Time to wake up and figure out which box you're getting stuck into.
WikiLeaks is not a country. MasterCard is not a country.
No, but for the most part they don't need to.

1) It's not just LOIC users DDoSing. There are usually small to medium sized botnets involved, especially on big attacks.

2) You said it yourself - there are tens of thousands of clients involved, and it's often difficult to tell because of #3 (unless there's a TCP/UDP message specified, which is a surefire way to ID attacks)

3) Most LOIC users use the /hivemind option, which turns control over to a master in an IRC channel. It can selectively throttle (most) clients, and spread the work around the net to make the attack more difficult to block.

4) They've got a standard line for getting caught[1] (sorry for the offensive URL)

The other thing to note is the time and expense involved in trying to identify and prosecute a few thousand people for participating would be enormous. We'll have to see if they try this time.

[1] http://encyclopediadramatica.com/LOIC#Newfags_FAQs
I don't think your bellwether test is that good of a test.

Truth be told it was never intentionally a test. Both teaching my daughter and the volume license coincided. It may be that when the idea for the solution we where to provide was pitch I though hey it would be good to tech my daughter video editing. But I don't remember if that is where that spark started or not. Anyway, point is both occurred in the same time frame so I shopped the educational requirement first. I did however go into it with intention of establishing a rapport with a developer that could vend the second requirement.
>Actually, it can just turn the backlight off.

There has to be more to it than that, right? It would be trivial to allow LCD screens to turn off the back light.

Their blog (pixelqi.com) suggests that it has to do with some sort of reflective properties of their special LCD. I still don't get it.
A few of my other favorite compiler tricks:

MSVC's /showIncludes displays a list of what files include what files in tree form. Very handy for figuring out where that added Windows.h include is which killed your build turnaround time :).

With GCC, if you have a class that has at least one out-of-line virtual method it will reduce the size of the translation units that include that class's declaration. It assumes that the vtable will be resolved at link time and doesn't bother bloating other translation units unnecessarily.
"could care less" is a shortening of "could not care less", and the latter phrase is correct. the words themselves don't mean anything any more, it's a stock phrase.

i think the sentiment is, "I care so little that I don't even want to use all the words needed to say how little I care".
If this is indeed for Google, then congratulations San Francisco!
When I see products like Evernotes, i see geeks like us as the non target market. So many of us will never pay a penny for such service.

Here's a few, "I could solve this in a weekend" solutions:

* Write notes with vim and archive them with git. If using github, you get website publishing for free.

* Write notes with nano and automatically upload to S3 using inotify (Python: http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net)

* Write notes with emacs and mail() it to your gmail account.

* Write notes for future reminder (+dates) with ed. Via cron, parse the dates using GNU date, and mail() yourself a reminder.

If we are the target market, so few of us are willing to pay for the service.

Just my 2 cents...
Request Denied. I will continue to use free soloing as my "stick...to measure" the coolness of all other climbing endeavors.

And what you lose from ad hominem attacks is credibility.
That's a rate of 27 million per quarter, which is slightly more than both iPhone (14m) and BlackBerry(12m) combined.

As people continue to migrate from featurephones to smartphones, it seems Android will be the way most people interact with the new generation.
Yeah, here it is in their mailing list archive, though:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201012...

Edit: the blog post is back up.
Ask HN: Review my weekend project, InboxCleaner
InboxCleaner is a little tool to clear our direct messages on Twitter. I wrote it for myself after not liking any of the alternative systems out there.

Right now you can either delete everything, or limit it to a particular user. I'm working out any other filters that people might find useful; please let me know if you have any ideas!

You can take a look at it here: http://inboxcleaner.com
What would really be valuable and popular would be if you could find a way for us to get a group discount on these $80-$100 books that are priced as textbooks.

There is a huge amount of pent-up demand there.

Take the extreme but famous example of when one of those books, Lisp in Small Pieces, was mispriced for $13 including shipping at amazon.ca in 2007 -- it became the #1 seller, on a book that I imagine sells maybe a thousand copies in a year.

Nobody actually got their book (the publisher probably didn't have that many) and $13 is ridiculously cheap, but it's a fascinating story. Clearly, a lot of people had that book on their "someday wishlist" (a fantastic market for deal sites) or just appreciate a seemingly one-time deal on that kind of item.

If you can package books together, app-bundle style, or sell them out of season with the academic calendar, it would offer a good opportunity for price discrimination.

Also, although academic publishers are super-wary about the used book market, they also know that their textbooks are being torrented left and right. Maybe this would be a channel they could have more control in.
- Paypal Mass Payments and checks works to pretty large numbers. Minimum payout of $100 avoids writing two thousand $0.34 checks.

- Yes there are tax implications. You need to report payments to the IRS. Users probably need to fill out a 1099. You should get a 1099 before sending any money (even under the limit).

- Fraud. Someone might buy a bunch of accounts with stolen card numbers credited to their affiliate account. Then you pay them their commission. Later the card company reverses the charges and you're out the commission. A partial solution is to wait a month or so before paying out the commission.
Consola (vim)
Best place to look for this is StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4689/recommended-fonts-fo...

Every reasonable choice is listed there. Try them. Pick the one you like.
The labels for things have nothing to do with the state of nature, but rather with the way people work. The fact that we call Earth and Jupiter the same thing but consider the sun and Pluto to be different kinds of things is simply a choice that is meant to aid human understanding, not a statement about nature. There is no such thing as "chair" or "star" or "supermarket" in the laws of physics, those are just words we use to make sense of the world. We could say that the solar systems are made up of "gassies", and "rockies", and "icies", and "firies", and "clumpies" if we wanted instead of Gas Giants, Rocky Planets, Comets, Stars, and Asteroids, and it wouldn't make a damned bit of difference to the way nature actually works (if you get your descriptions of those kinds of things accurate enough, then you could still model the behavior of the solar system just as well as if you were using "planet" in your descriptions instead!), but, of course, it makes a difference to how people think about these things, which might help or hinder our analysis of them. (Note: as an example, if we were using "clumpies" for asteroids, then we might be arguing about whether Ceres is a "clumpy" or a "rocky", since it's much more regularly shaped than things like 216 Kleopatra... And speaking of classifying things, are dinosaurs lizards or birds? :p)
Clickable: http://inboxcleaner.com
Ben the Bodyguard: The Perils of Promotion That's Better Than the Product
Ok, here is the answer:

"If there has been we haven’t noticed. Taking down one wowza server wouldn’t cause us any problems. They would have to take down 5+ servers for us to notice."
Are you sure that the "smaller" batteries are lighter? It seems like they might be the same factor more dense also.
Db2 lock levels and mvcc
Always Split Test
Thought for Food: Imagined Consumption Reduces Actual Consumption
AppSumo has shown that there's definitely interest in this area.

This is so flippin' easy to build that it comes down to this - are you passionate about it?

If you are, and you can dedicate a year to seeing it through, you will build a nice business out of it.

If you expand your "hacker" definition to include the audience that buys gifts @ ThinkGeek.com you could be on to something big.

When I say this is easy here's what I mean:

a) The tech is a piece of cake.

b) The design is linear and lots of examples for inspiration in this space.

c) You will make it or break it based on the strength of the deals, just like everybody else competing in this space.

For instance if you found a way to convince ThinkGeek to provide you with a 5% off or something from them (plus a comission to you) in exchange for long-term featured advertising you would essentially be in front of every major "geek" audience from slashdot to reddit to etc in no time.

Plus the company that owns ThinkGeek owns Slashdot and you'd be a perfect aquisition if you expanded your market, aggregated an incredible list of geeks with credit cards.

So go out there and get it done! I want my 5% off ThinkGeek by Christmas.
The dropbox business model doesn't really work for encryption.
They hash files and avoid storing multiple copies of the same file, this is great for our business - we can 'instantly' upload large files if another user on our system already has an identical copy of that file - but it means that files can't be securely encrypted.

Basically trust Dropbox about as much as you trust email, if it matters encrypt it locally
Why not allow all of them? Janrain Engage may be worth looking into.

http://www.janrain.com/
It's cool, but I'm pretty sure I can flick through hundreds of photos much more efficiently with my mouse and keyboard (and without the tired shoulders).

I think gesture based interfaces may have some quick utility, like remotely operating equipment for small sequences of activities (gestures operating an Asimo comes to mind since it doesn't yet have a real input system like a mouse & keyboard -- come here, go there, stop, move aside, etc.) but I've yet to see a demo of this interface method, in this context, that isn't wildly less efficient than existing input methods.
How Secure Is Julian Assange's "Thermonuclear" Insurance File?
15 billio... Sweet jesus Are they talking dollars?!
The Wrapper vs. Library vs. Aspect Problem
I feel like it's arriving expeditiously for TechCrunch because Google isn't stupid - they know they want press around this OS release so they already planned to ship it to the major blogs. I'd be curious to see if any HNers have theirs yet.
I strongly disagree with this. Consider astrophysics and the work that is being done on the big questions. It's unclear how to apply most of the progress being made in these fields, but yet the understanding of these things has the potential to affect everything. If it takes 1000 years, it still might mean more fundamentally than all the intermediate applied science funded by companies for short-term profit.
My problem with Evernote is that it came as shovel-ware on a new netbook I bought. Don't know much else about it, but that part defiantly turned me off.
Groupon is far and away the exception, not the standard to measure against.
No there hasn't been a story like this -- ever. That's what makes it an interesting story.

Expect more like this. Eventually we'll get around to some issue that you can't feel so self-righteous about pursuing. Then the shoe will be on the other foot.
before getting married, you want to date first.

To add to your analogy, and you don't tell a girl you just met how much you have in the bank. That's the issue I am having seeing my flaw here, we like to say that we are above that. But telling a girl you just met how much is in the bank is foolish at best. Just as giving up your position in negotiating is foolish.

Anyway, I am not worried about the negative response. I am fine in the hot seat. I do however not like personal attacks. It is the prime reason I frequent HN because they have a stated mission to be above that form of rabble. I mentioned it less for myself and more for the fact that, if that's where we are going I need to stage my exit. I have no interest in contributing to a site that's members result to name calling. I don't want my ideas associated with it.
>All people are foolish in a lot of things.

>Stop generalizing.

I'm not saying anything. I'm just quoting.
Me too and I want to kick Evernote's ass
Deals for hackers seems like it could be a good way to start off with a narrow scope and a targetted audience, but by calling your site DealsForHackers you are essentially limiting yourself from ever growing beyond this relatively small audience.

Personally, I think there's a more interesting market opportunity in helping developers monetize from the daily deals space, rather than making a daily deals product meant for developers as end-users.

That having been said, I'm still a hacker and I'm still interested in good deals. Too bad you don't have a field for survey takers to provide our e-mails so you can inform us of when we can use your service.
How To Get Experience Working With Large Datasets
Why convince them? Just apply for them -- if the machines show up, I'm pretty sure they'd be 'convinced'..

(I applied for an individual machine, as well as a set for my office)
Look at the chart in the article.

The title should read "Raises are the key to employee engagement". Or something like that.

Just as the site name indicates, this is for the "rah rah" type of manager.
Good explanation here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2276198/
Can someone explain this to me? I find it incredibly limiting that the standard for launching a website is that you have to advertise. If you are offering a service like Yelp or Google, where you provide information through the browser, is it inevitable that you have to set up an ad network? Aren't freemium and product offerings enough? For any HNers with ads on their sites, what portion of your revenue is driven by ads?
Funkload + Fabric = quick and dirty distributed load system
Seems like quite a few HNers are receiving theirs today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1987536