skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gizmodo has videos and stuff here - http://gizmodo.com/5709153/the-first-private-orbital-spacecr...
many of the others are the ones pulling most of the strings

This seems to be a chicken-and-egg question to me. I'm not sure how you can determine whose strings are being pulled, and who are the pullers.

Is it really the corps that are coercing the politicians into misbehavior? Or is it the politicians that create an environment in which corporations can gain an advantage by doing so?
16, playing with fractals in C64 assembler. Great time !!
Not that I approve of MC's actions, but I think they're perfectly in their right to deny service to WL. I don't think their excuse of "illegal actions" cuts it, because as it's been pointed out, the illegality of their actions is still in a very gray area. However, I think they should be able to sever ties with a customer and I cannot see what law would prevent them from doing so in this case. WL is not in any protected class (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class).

I don't like that they've denied them service, but I believe it is and should be perfectly legal for them to do so. Can you explain why you think it should be illegal?
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Surely if the Times received a completed story with detailed research and corroborating video evidence, it would write some sort of story, but I don't see how this differs from the leaked cable content.

The true power of journalism comes from what doesn't get reported. The NYT wrote a story on Assange that referred to his "dwindling supporters" and made no mention of the odd technicalities in the rape case, and presented him as being an egomaniac. All of these may be true (or false) but the article cited no references for any of the negative claims. Also, the leaks are the story. Assange is not the story, as much as tabloids would like him to be.
What I wouldn't give to trade the thousands of lines of C++ code in this legacy app I have to maintain for Racket... can't wait to try the new release. :)
What I still dont get: was this server accessible from anywhere, or just from within the local cern network? when were the root nameservers put into service, so you could access any server via an URL?
I'm guessing the infrastructure for the internet was already in place - what Tim Berners-Lee established was a new protocol that enabled the simple exchange of documents between remote computers...
Am I getting this right?
Perhaps he did, but to be fair a DDOS is more like a sit in than tyre slashing. Inconvenience and delay, but no lasting damage.
Another thing to add the the Google-Fu toolbox. I wish I had this a bunch of times, since sometimes blogs will appear in search results that mention two topics I'm interested in, but not in the same article.
"Any website" is quite a claim. Google or Microsoft frontpages won't go down that easily.
I just came across this site, which lets people sell their services for $5: http://www.fiverr.com/
I find this extremely hard to believe. Have you visited freelancing sites to check this assumption?
What do you mean? In order to get a facebook api key, you have to have created an app as a facebook user.
From Tumblr to WordPress: The Missing Guide
An AI bot for n00b questions would be a genuinely useful thing.
Paypal should fight nothing. It is a public company with fiduciary duties to its shareholders. All this political nonsense is something that its shareholders can "fight" about on their own dime.
Seattle Police Track Stolen Vehicles Using Twitter
It's a cheap way for businesses to avoid litigation and bad publicity. Pay the fee, get a sticker to put on your door or website, and hope that most people think it's a mark of trust or quality. When consumers do complain, get them to vent on an online complaint form, provide some minimal mediation service, and hopefully the consumer won't take it any further.

I followed the complaint process for the southern New England BBB about five years ago for a local car dealership and BBB member (the complaint concerned misleading advertising). I discovered that the complaint was erased from the BBB database for the dealership a few months after the process ended (it was supposed to stay up for three years). I told the BBB about it, they added it back again, but a year later it was again removed.

Makes me wonder that the problem the LATimes identified (accredited businesses having more complaints but higher "grades") might actually be worse than described in the article.
As compared to total MC customers and daily transactions, I'm sure it's infinitesimal
Well, definitely less space than a nomad, since the iPod had less space than a nomad in the original quote we're both referencing (well, I'm referencing, and you're repeating).
I think you guys are looking at this all wrong. This isn't $15 for a complete and polished design. This is $15 for Marco's inspiration and thoughts being invested into my product! $15 is nothing to lose out on if it falls on its face, but imagine the benefit you could be missing had you not tried?
microsoft BizSpark has a program where startups get an MSDN Premium subscription for free. All you OS's, all your servers, including SQL Server. for free for 3 years. Hell, you can even get Office 2011 Mac through it.

Using warez is frankly ridiculous for startups running Windows software.
Zazzle is a large custom t-shirt company. We do not make custom tees for people, we are our own brand that offers select designs created by artists around the world.

If I was to compare us to an already established company, it would be much closer to Threadless, Design by Humans, or Uneetee than Zazzle. We are aware that we are not the first to create a shirt company in this manner, but we believe that there is plenty of room in the market, and that our original and exclusive designs will help us cave out our own niche in the market.
Standard reporter trick when you hear something you want to write about, but realize it's way too petty for anyone to give a shit: Spin it as, "Could this be a trend?"

Then, abracadabra! Your story about a kid copying a silly prank he saw in a movie becomes a story about a whole generation of people trying to follow in Mark Zuckerberg's footsteps.
Any engineering school in the country will require you to take a year of chemistry, a year of english, three semesters of calculus based physics, three semesters of calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, and a bit of programming. If you can't get good marks in these classes at a community college, Georgia Tech engineering classes will destroy you. If you do get good marks in these classes, Georgia Tech engineering will probably be very happy to admit you.

These classes will likely be less boring at a community college, because you will have smallers classes taught by an instructors who are more or less happy to be there (rather than auditorium-size classes taught by researchers who have better things to do).
Sorry, I really don't know much about most European schools, other then the few I'm stumbled upon.

I'd imagine that schools in Italy (possibly France) would focus more on art, design, fashion, etc. as opposed to service design, engineering, etc. But I have little to no evidence to back that up.
I'm too young to have remembered, but seems Noraid was a largely US-funded charity alleged to have paid for weapons for use by republican groups in Northern Ireland and mainland Britain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAID
One might even make the claim that many important issues were only pushed forward specifically _because_ it was inconvenient for everyone.
InstapaperFeed: A Great Way to Pull Good Reading Out of Twitter
Bliss, Sisal, Mercury, ECLiPSe, Esterel.

Bliss is Wulf's baby, and I have the book; sick compiler. Purely for the sake of idol-worship.

Sisal, very influential language. FP for scientific computing, high performance. Would love to implement it.

Mercury .. I never really got logic programming all that well, besides some elementary prolog. Would love to explore the domain further but hindered by the opaque works that spill over from logic.

ECLiPSe is a constraint-logic programming package. Never used a standalone CLP system before. Only via Mozart/Oz, AliceML and Common Lisp (via Screamer)

Esterel is a language for reactive programming: think real-time and embedded devices. I vaguely know the language (1-2 weeks) but I haven't got the theoretical backbone to tackle it fully. Need to study temporal logics, brush up on process algebra, and perhaps even take up some discrete event simulation before I can fully grok it.
He starts out saying he wasn't making a scientific essay, just an emotional one. And then he goes on to try to make it scientific.

He talks about international chess players, and how long the average person takes to get there, versus those with 'talent'. He then compares some famous players (without proving they have 'talent') to the average. They got there 10% quicker than the average (which includes 'talented' people, but that's not significant in his mind. That's not science. That's just picking some stats and pretending they mean what you say they mean.

I'm sure I could pick stats that 'prove' the opposite if I spent some time looking. I've got a friend who recently started painting and is mind-blowingly good compared to other students who have studied about as long, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind

> This view is common in modern cognitive psychology and is presumed by theorists of evolutionary psychology.
US citizens are most certainly subject to Iranian law. Just try to commit a crime there and see what happens.
Well that's obvious, right? But that's an inferior solution to CL supporting bookmarking. Why would I want to clutter up my Browser with temporary CL bookmarks that I will have to delete at a later time? Not good UX.
I'd be worried about malware.
Ruby Mendicant University Library
Build your own Sudoku for Windows Phone 7
Why does it leave you wondering that? Because the barometer of success is an early exit?

Engine Yard and Heroku are two different companies with very different products, both offer fully managed hosting, but the similarities end there. Heroku is optimized for ease-of-use, automation, and keeping support costs low by enforcing a completely blackbox architecture. Engine Yard is optimized for flexibility. In addition to AppCloud on EC2, they have XCloud which provides PCI compliance, networked data shares, and other things certain applications might need. If Heroku meets your needs it might be better, but Engine Yard covers a much wider set of needs. I expect both companies are quite profitable. I'm not seeing any strategic errors on either side.
The original HN thread was referring to how expensive Photoshop is.

But surely you can buy one license for $1,000. Setup one workspace that is for Photoshop only.

If your business relies on continuous access to Photoshop by all your employees, then you must plan for it.
Legal question: if you install it, can you be held liable?
We have not given up on the college degree idea yet, but we see it as a longer-term project in terms of setup, so we put it on the shelf while we were able to get this setup in a relatively quick order (a month).

So no, we haven't given up, and we too think there is a market for the site.
I believe that's the reason this entire site exists. (Portfolio building).
I am pretty sure they already do this. Any bank that doesn't do that is a joke. The higher the total number of frozen account the larger the amount of immediately available cash. They can use that for whatever they can use cash for, since they are the ones that control the freeze times.

At the start of the week the VP probably asks so "how much guarnteed money do we get to play with this week?" and then they get a number and they can do whatever they want, say provide short term loans or invest it some other way.
I don't have any relevant experience, but this sounds odd. If the product was good (better than Zenter), than why didn't they acquire Preezo at that later point in time?
My wife works for a large company that is in a similar situation. They are not a member of the BBB (thus not accredited) and there is one complaint on the BBB that was filed 3 years ago. This single complaint gives them a D- rating. A newly formed competitor of theirs, less than 2 years old, became a member of the BBB from the get go and is heavily promoting the fact that they have an A+ and the company my wife works for doesn't. The BBB wants approx $16,000 for them to become accredited. Unless they pay, they can't increase their rating to anything decent, even if they work with the BBB to resolve that single complaint from 3 years ago. It's pretty bogus.
A great read about politeness (though it had some negotiating impacts) causing a missed opportunity. I too err on the side of politeness when it comes to business interactions and I've learned that more often than not, when I'm dealing with someone remotely whether it be a colleague or a point of contact, that the squeaky wheel gets the oil.

I think it was a mistake to let it ride for so long. A few weeks, maybe two months, and I would have called them up and followed up. Even a short email positioning myself as asking more out of curiosity than need for an acquisition, etc.

Anyone else agree? Would you have followed up?
Well I've cancelled one of my account with Paypal now. More to come.
I used to work with a few companies that use warez software.

Let's just say that the situation weren't great in those companies.

While I'm not trying to judge people with their morality and all that stuff, there might be something that link between founders/owners that use pirated software and the quality or how their work, attitude, and behavior.

It feels like it is inline to the example of: your past performance might be a reflection of your work ethic kind of thing.

It is probably related to integrity of the owner.
That's an interesting take.

However, Tim Berners-Lee is English (born in London), and the CERN is located in Genève, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. In French, 'w' is pronounced "double-vé" (quick & dirty phonetic translation would be "doobleh-vay" in English). Neither English nor French really make pronouncing "www" easy.

I tried to find out how 'w' is pronounced in German, but I didn't have much luck. Does anybody knows?
It's built in.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5152
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/security-bullet-in-10000166/leg...

Visa and MasterCard can block payment providers if they believe those generate a lot of fraudulent activity, not because they disagree with those organisations activities.
There's a paradox, then, in the fact that he submitted a comment at all.
Shell (I'm including the mini-languages like awk), C, and Haskell.
I'm an iPhone developer as well and I know exactly where you're coming from. Unfortunately, Apple should and probably will reject your app as such.

Unfortunately Apple's standpoint is that the tabbar is a universally understood functionality that switches views.

Personally I think that if you subclass the tabbar and make your own visual style, and color icons, you'll have the same (if not better) understandability, a better aesthetic, and Apple will not reject the subclass.
To this day I can't figure out why people don't say "triple double-u". It's so much shorter, but more importantly, flows great.
I paid a designer and an integrator a little more than what Photoshop costs to launch http://talkerapp.com/

And I also used a trial version to finish up a few things.
Preezo sounds like it was built to be acquired from day one. I think that mindset makes it a lot more difficult to deal with missed opportunities and can really make the entire experience of building a product unenjoyable. This is probably why so many people suggest building something you want instead of what you think others will want; at least you can enjoy the fruits of your labor in the process.
Ha, I stick up my ass.

I would hope you and everyone else here has already seen this, but let me remind you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCvLTlQWT6A&t=4m30s

The entire 1.5hr interview is worth watching, but starting at the 4:30 mark and watch it for about 20 minutes (you'll have to find parts 5 6 and 7 in youtube). This was in May 2007. The first iPhone was announced in Jan 2007, and wasn't even for sale yet until June. And it wasn't until June that Jobs announced that the iPhone would be releasing an SDK for 3rd party apps.

Listen to what BOTH of them say about rich client experiences. Keep in mind that Apple was already working on the tablet at this point, earlier in the video the lady asks Steve about any new risky paradigm shifting devices and Steve says "I can't talk about it". Now we know it was obviously the iPad. Then and now, the two biggest software/technology companies in the world don't even see it being realistic to run apps in the browser, at least apps of any quality that people would want. They BOTH see enormous opportunities in rich clients and new human interfaces. Jobs spells it out: rich clients with internet services in the background. This is before the iPhone SDK was announced!

These guys are thinking about touch, voice, camera, kinect, and they see NO WAY it can happen in a browser. They've spent millions in R&D, and they see rich clients. You see a free JS library and think the rich client is dead! Laughable.

Gates and Jobs are crystal clear what THEIR view is, and they've been executing it through the products they're releasing. So I don't know where you get the idea that their objective is to promote webapps. Try listening to other people sometime, you might learn something from a random nobody commenter.
Let's all jump on the character assassination bandwagon!

What I've read so far is that "No" means "condom failure" or how dare you not call me back: http://takimag.com/article/julian_assanges_honey_trap_thats_...
PARC Readies Printed Electronics for Market
You're all Salesforce developers now! Muhahaha!
Agreed. As a starter upper, I'm always the little guy who's chasing the bigger guy (investor, client). I try not to be pushy, but if 1-2 weeks go by, I'll write a friendly what's up email and that usually works.
Who has more money and power in your opinion? The answer of course differs by country - it's one extreme in the US and another extreme in Russia or China.
I seem to notice that if one person get possession of the ball for a few kicks, he tends to kick it in a triangular path?
Run away. If they'll screw Adobe, they'll screw you.
To create an app as a facebook user, you need to give them either a college email address, a mobile number, or a credit card. Otherwise facebook connect, and enabling people to login to your site through facebook, is not possible.
I like to use multiple gps units.

Some lose signal when others don't. Some recommend different or wrong routes. Its handy when one of your gps units is telling you to levitate your car to get onto that raised freeway above you.
Video: Marc Benioff announces Heroku acquisition at Dreamforce
China Internet IPOs Surge
I'd say it goes back to the Balfour declaration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917
Jonathan Rochelle repeated wryly and with a smile, "Yes, time to go. Google is here,"

WTF? Is Google the mob or something? Almost seems like the next line should have been, "And I was never seen or heard from again."
It's kinda hard to talk about all acquisitions equally. Take Android for example: founded in 2003, acquired in by Google in 2005 and launched in 2008 (launched widely in 2009). I would call it both a successful acquisition and a successful Google product.

Groupon, OTOH, seemed like a wholly different thing - they already had a big name, lots of customers and independent identity. Seems like google wanted to buy them to move into a whole new area, rather than building them slowly into the company like Maps, Android, Docs etc
That's why we call it 'being a bully' and not 'committing a crime.'
Ask HN: Balance between discovering and producing
I'm having problems finding a reasonable balance between discovering and learning new things in the areas of programming, and just producing code now on my projects. I feel this is a problem with a lot of people that I meet as they tend to fall into either category but not both.

What are some techniques you use to fit both of these things into your life?

Background: I have a full-time job as a developer as well, but my background is in science and engineering so I'm constantly starving to learn and play around with new things.

TL;DR: Stuck between wanting to learn and wanting to produce. Halp!
I couldn't agree more! I'm currently finishing up my undergrad computer engineering degree, and it's really depressing to see people get $17 million for yet another service based on Twitter. (Money and product somewhat exaggeratedly made-up.)

I sometimes feel like the only one in my class who is interested in the low-level stuff like compilers and operating systems.
You can hit the right/left arrow keys, and up/down to navigate between sections and articles. I hadn't actually discovered this before reading your comment. Whether it's better or not than horiz/vertical scrolling is a debatable issue.
Each connection has a state attached to it - be it a TCP socket state in the kernel or an application-level state like that maintained by a web server. Create sufficient amount of connections and you will exhaust server's memory. A thread per connection is merely a way to trigger the very same problem faster.
Yes, in retrospect I was stupid not to at least have sent a short email or two. Honestly, I look back and wonder what the hell I was thinking.
It was accessible throughout the Internet. If you knew the http protocol you could telnet to port 80 and get pages (still works today).
I don't really buy the slippery slope argument. People have to draw an ethical line somewhere, and I'd say there's a huge gap between using a pirated copy of Photoshop when you have no revenue and lying to customers and investors about product capabilities and financials. It sounds like the OA had an experience with a crooked founder, and now feels like pirating software is an early sign of serious ethical flaws. Well, it's a firm moral stance and I respect him for it, but the fact that most junkies have smoked weed before doesn't mean that anyone who smokes a joint is destined to become a junky.
The <noscript> tag was notoriously buggy and iritating cross-browser, so I can see why they wouldn't want to implement it, like the <blink> tag.

If you use something like modernizr, which replaces the "no-js" class on your <html> tag with "js", you can just have a <div> or <p> simulate what <noscript> would have been. Have it "display: none" if the element is a child of "js". (trick courtesy Paul Irish)

For a quick summary/reference: http://javascript.about.com/od/hintsandtips/a/Html-5-And-Nos...
Definitely a frustrating story to read. That said, two things stand out:

1) Deals fall through. PG et all write about this all the time. It's probably easy to figure why they fail in hindsight, but that doesn't make them any easier to manage in the future.

2) It seems like the main premise of the idea was to get bought by google/yahoo/microsoft. That is a dangerous strategy to employ out of the gates (although back in 2005 there was no hacker news and a whole let less general knowledge about the black art of startups).
I saw an Azure book in a local bookstore yesterday and the content seems to be directed at CIOs, IT Manager and the like. I don't think Microsoft's marketing effort is weak though.

http://www.amazon.com/Applications-Microsoft-Platform-Patter...

As a side note, I wish Google would've done the same thing too: write a book that explains a scenario in a typical business environment (billing, invoicing, time tracking/vacation/time-off tracking) of what AppEngine can do for business users.

PS: I upvoted you though.