skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that they have a 250 message/user/week limit (or something like that), it would seem that they're losing money on every message. Given their high volumes, they are probably in a position to negotiate lower pricing with operators, however. Maybe they feed straight into the mobile operators' networks? who knows.
Yeah, we met at the last STS meeting, and the drinking afterward. I showed you guys how to get there....
Listening to http://www.sky.fm/soundtracks/, perhaps. Their library isn't huge, but it's still fun.
One TB hard drives and ripping a CD, killing noobs in Quake and saying OH EM GEE, thinking I'm leet and txting on cellphones, these are a few of my favourite things.

<one more of those, I can't think of anything else>

When the host fails, when the server dies, when I can't code, I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don't feel so bad.
I think his argument is that the best objective measurement of a basketball player's skill is his ability to play basketball.
check for yourself at trends.google.com
apache and spring framwork are trending down, orm is mostly level
Yes :)

http://friendfeed.com/paul
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Here are some trends which are considered(by the industry experts) to be important.

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Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?
"Gupta is a neurosurgeon like the other two doctors quoted; what field could possibly be better for a story about cell phones and brain cancers?"

How about a 10th grade science student who understands what nonionizing radiation means.

"And now Sara will use what she learned in 9th grade science to tell us all why Dr. Gupta is a moron."
ok I am going to play the Luttgenstein/Chomsky blah blah blah argument.

you are arguing semantics that are reduced to arguments about differences in language. it is meaningless, mostly
I often just pop up with strange ideas/concepts in my head - it is just one of my quirks I guess.
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I think it's less of a death and more of a maturing. Early on in technological cycles, things seem to be rather inefficient and require more resources than when they mature. I think there is other evidence of improved efficiency in software development.

Combine that with the .com bust and the current non-recession that we are now not in, and I think many people have left the profession (for a variety of reasons). This lines up with the recent reports of a drop in CS majors in US colleges.

Ultimately, it's less about Java, .Net,open source and blub and more about what you do with the technology.

That's part of what attracts me to HN. People here are more focused on getting things done, and not religious wars on programming languages (the requisite weekly Lisp posts ;).
I find it pretty humorous when Scoble gets a hard on every time he's able to bring up FriendFeed.

Plus, the site is REALLY ugly. Like, really, really, really ugly.
Yes - http://friendfeed.com/raygrieselhuber
I think gifts like brain surgery comes more from the heretics that dug up corpses in defiance of the church then from god.
I don't have PHPMyAdmin installed locally, I use GUI client. And you also don't know the name of my databases. As I said, I hope it gets addressed quickly, but I just don't see it very likely that this will be exploited whatsoever.
Boy that looks clunky. I'd like to see the Apple version.

Why not just a small hand held projector the size of mouse (then you can swap machines if you need to).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=206605
I'm new to the Flash environment and actionscript, and I've been having trouble figuring out how to display a real progress bar for a file upload. The problem is that the file is not a local file on the user's machine -- it's a file that's created within the swf (specifically, an image file). Any as3 hackers know of a way to poll the progress of an upload like this? It's a URLRequest with the raw image packed into the data property, sent through a URLLoader.
I think the 250 message/user/week limit is only in the UK (someone correct me if I'm wrong) and maybe Europe too.
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I love friend feed :)
http://friendfeed.com/nickhac
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its nice webapp where you get to know what serious people are reading or sharing. Like digg but far wider in scope.
Comment troll is noise there

Most of the times I stumble on good site/article and really really nice pictures from flickr

and yes its unlike twitter. Twitter is like IM and you are allowed to communicate through status message. Its hip but how useful?
http://friendfeed.com/kfischer
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Imagine if J2ME-equipped handsets were subject to the same sort of malware ecosystem ... I think there's a very good reason for carriers to be nervous.

Now, that's true for something like Symbian (or iPhone) native applications, which pretty much get the run of the house.

However, J2ME was explicitly designed to make this kind of thing impossible. The user can just kill the JVM at any time, easily (too easily - all good J2ME apps should autosave!). The program itself is trapped in a sandbox which asks for explicit permission to do things that can cost money (data access, phone calls, etc). Hit up java.sun.com for a full explanation of the security model.

The smoking gun is, once again, the European carriers - well, and the Asian ones, and generally everyone not in North America - who allow arbitrary downloads and arbitrary IP access...and strangely enough, nobody's phone's been 0wned yet via J2ME.

I'm afraid this is really is just the American carriers being tight-fisted.
You might have missed the "going diving in a tropical paradise every morning" part of my post :)
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Why are you reposting the exact question you posted 2 days ago?
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Manning's "jQuery in Action" is quite good and has some decent examples. You can pick up a PDF copy from their site for very little.
I think the key here is that their architecture allowed for a bit of scaling. How many companies don't have that?

You were given a chance and you capitalized on it because you could. I wonder how many other companies failed to capitalize on their chance and went bust.
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Why not set the limit to the size of a CD (~700MB) as one of the most common things being transferred, in my experience, are CD images.
A good intro is "Learning jQuery" by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg although the jQuery web site offers some very good introductory material. I have found the "jQuery reference guide" (same authors) helpful to have around though.
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They use the API's from a third party gateway such as the ones mentioned in the comments of your other post, its very expensive to run.
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So, your approach when you don't get exactly the answers you want is to spam the question again and again until you do?

Get lost. Do your own research.
You didn't address my point. Can you think of any writer who improved his skills by learning a different language? Can you think of a mathematician who improved his skills by learning a different notational system? Did Michael Jordan become a better basketball player after playing minor league baseball?
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To me, that indicates a dependency problem. Specifically, a dependency isn't available yet for 64 bit.
Microsoft has this page on stress testing web applications: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231282.

Then there is always these tools: http://www.opensourcetesting.org/performance.php
Spammers are one worry. They'll get people spamming their affiliate links in all sorts of dodgy places.

Fraud is another! I've been running an affiliate site for some time. Expect many 37Signals blog posts about how to filter out philipinos and indonesians from accessing their apps. It seems like it's a cottage industry over there.

I hope they have good anti-fraud detection systems for their credit card transactions too.
Asking the same question twice in a row from a site like HN is spam, period. Don't want strong words? Don't spam.
The startup is targeted at the construction industry. Though they often send CDs with files on them, they don't send CD images (hell, most of them don't even know what a CD image is).
I would guess it's because of the JIT compiler to generate machine code (see the Tamarin project in firefox). Writing a compiler for many different platforms requires a significant amount of work. I can understand that they'd want to work on other platforms before the 64 bit processors, since those can still use the 32 bit version.
On the other hand, their two-bit flash player is quite widely distributed.
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One of the interesting things I have learnt working on paging gateways is (in the UK at least) infrastructure is designed for the case in which one station sends many messages to many consumers. If you are a station that receives many messages (of the order of thousands a month) via SMS then you will find yourself running into limitations inside the infrastructure; in that case you can't simply buy a block of a more pages as a sender - you have to wait until the next month when all the counters roll over before that station can receive messages again.
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Yes, I do.

There is a list of rooms here:
http://blogoscoped.com/friendfeed/rooms

Instead of placing a link to all my web accounts eg, Digg, YouTube etc, I can just share my friendfeed account URL. It also incorporates digg comments into my feed. I can now take control of my scattered web actitivies.

It has a lot of potential with just a few tweaks here and there.
Pardon the brevity of my previous post. I'm sorry if it appears that I'm arguing for it's own sake. I only meant to indicate that we currently have an implemented definition of "better" between posts--the HN ranking algorithm. I believe that the burden of proof belongs to the party challenging the status quo to provide an alternative and then argue why the alternative is indeed the preferred system.

During the debate over which ranking algorithm/definition is better where I believe the Luttgenstein/Chmosky argument is most applicable because we don't have a clearly agreed upon definition of what a better ranking algorithm is. However, until an alternative is provided, we cannot possibly reach and/or explore these semantic differences.
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Yeah I do, and you can follow the man himself at http://friendfeed.com/metatronscube :P
True. Even with a down arrow, it's not helped Reddit (helped == make me want to read the front page), hopefully the bitching is more effective.
YAML 1.2 (currently only available as a working draft) will be a superset of JSON. The current YAML 1.1 is not because of some issues like encoding, whitespace, escape characters, etc.

Also read the "Relation to JSON" section of the 1.2 draft: http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/#id2560236
http://friendfeed.com/ketan
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Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite cartoons: "Too Much Coffee Man, Doing Your Part"

http://tmcm.com/comics/webcomics/092_yourpart
FF ID posted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172345
Oh!...we have ALL soooo wanted to hack digg, don't get me started on digg...see if I had a.....
I thought the title meant it was using Altivec or SSE, but it's merely operating on a chunk of 4 bytes at a time dealing with misaligned data up front. Still a good article, despite my initial disappointment.

A similar article which originally taught me these tenants is:

http://rentzsch.com/papers/straightenUpAndFlyRight
Yes, and I relly like it.
These 8 items are NOT what's wrong with IT in your organization.

They are a barometer of how well your organization uses IT as a competitive weapon.

If you run an organization with any of these signals, don't blame IT, blame yourself. And fix it fast. Your competitors already have.
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How many times are we going to "kill" Java?
Hmm, I wish there was aggregation for search trends, I'm curious to see Baidu's statistics.

I'm a little surprised by the comments lambasting the lack of China's presence in the stats. Google isn't the dominant player in the Chinese search market and I don't think there is an entrenched competitor in the Indian market, so of course the results are going to be skewed.
it's merely operating on a chunk of 4 bytes at a time

If you have a modern CPU, that code operates on 8 bytes at a time. :-)
I can't help but think of Twitter every time someone mentions FriendFeed. I know I'm going to get a lot of flack for saying this, but FriendFeed now is exactly how Twitter was at the time of the SxSW rage. Everyone who wasn't using it "didn't know what they were missing" and it was going to be "the greatest thing since sliced email" and whatnot... Flash forward just several months, and the fad is over. These things can't sustain themselves, they take too much work, they're huge timesinks, and they have no real & tangible long-term benefits for their users. They may be fun at first, but as soon as the novelty wears off the number of users will also drop - as will he number of hard-core users that can't hear the service's name without wetting their pants in excitement.
Wow. Add that to my list of international places to visit. How many people speak at least a little English in the cities over there?
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Thanks for all the recommendations, that's awesome. I've had a few people suggest that I have to see L.A. if I'm in the area.

From my research, Sprint EVDO just added a cap very recently, or is planning on it...you might be grandfathered in.
Sure. But that's tautological. If that's really his point (and it seems to be, yes) then he's obviously playing a joke on his audience.
Every time I get on Linkedin (multiple times a day) the site is crawling. Half the time I get an error that asks me to go back to the homepage.
Now if the title was "CSRF against PhpMyAdmin" then it would make more sense. Given that PMA has a form dedicated to letting you run arbitrary SQL statements, the fact that it allows arbitrary statements to be run is not news.
I'm actually interested in spending a few months in Thailand. Quit my job a few weeks ago so I'm going to be relaxing at first, then work on the first project I have planned while continuing to travel.

How's the internet access where you are? Do you ever do anything else than diving for fun? Found Ko Tao on Wikipedia and it sounds great, but I'd like to see other parts of Thailand too. Have you been around?

My e-mail is in my profile if you prefer that.
Ruby and Smalltalk and dynamic runtimes, Emacs and shell scripts and UNIX command lines, Macros and lambdas and networking pings, These are a few of my favorite things.
A few other things: I should start by pointing out that your premise is flawed. I don't hate any ethnic group. I appreciate human diversity. Differences between human groups are real, and they appear to be somewhat genetic.

I was actually surprised to see how few race-y books I'd added to the wishlist. There's a sort of illicit thrill to buying something that you can't read in public.

By the way, if you're interested in the lynching issue you might give Thomas Sowell a read. He claims that there were more whites than blacks lynched prior to the Civil War. http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rednecks-Liberals-Thomas-Sowell/...

Again, I really appreciate that you can keep an open mind about this. When I first got interested in this issue, I didn't know the ethnic background of the guy who was arguing against me -- if I encountered these views from someone who considered his ethnic group smarter than mine, I would not have been nearly so open.

If you're open to considering the idea further, I would recommend adding http://isteve.blogspot.com and http://gnxp.com to your reading list for a little while. You'll find, as I did, that they present a view of the world that's just more consistent than the one most Americans are raised with.
The creationist comparison shows up other places, too. I've encountered it several times before, and you can Google "denialist creationist" to find more.

Me trying to refute martythemaniak may not impress you, but if when you first read that topmodded post you nodded vaguely, might there be some validity in Crichton's implication that the arguments invoked for AGW could be arguments for eugenics if you filed off the serial numbers? It's an offensive charge, but it's not a goofy one IMHO: it is far more true of the arguments for AGW than of the arguments for actual "settled science" like quantum mechanics or natural selection or antibiotics or the Big Bang.

"What are good sources to read, that are not opinionated?"

One non-opinionated source as background both for my exasperation about the Darwinist analogy, and for my claims about the flabbiness of 10-year-old climate predictions, which also happens to be interesting reading for hackers interested in machine learning: _The Minimum Description Length Principle_. Lots of math to help you think precisely about questions like "by how many bits did this hypothesis reduce the surprisingness of the world compared to alternative hypotheses?"

For sources more specific to the AGW controversy, good luck finding someone unopinionated. The controversy long ago became uncivil, and all sides are indignant about various scummy folk who have lined up on other sides. But I can point you to sources that seem (opinionated but) sound. As far as I know, the IPCC reports (see martythemaniak's URL) are a reasonably good presentation of the highbrow case for crisis AGW (high CO2 climate sensitivity, low natural variation): I've never seen an advocate claim that vital parts of the pro-crisis case were overlooked or horribly poorly presented there. And I think McIntyre's critiques of the IPCC reports --- mostly centered on the historical climate record reconstruction I mentioned --- are generally sound. He has a website, Climate Audit; he has also written the Mann critique up as at least one traditional journal paper. Besides his Mann critique, he has also done things like catching a Y2K bug in temperature records. (Of course that's not impressive as virtuoso rocket science, but I think it's pretty convincing evidence that he's a careful guy who does a lot of homework.) It is natural for AGWists to find him irritating, but it is inexcusable to try to dismiss him as a ignorant closedminded crank by analogy with modern disbelievers in natural selection.

And besides the math and technical background, some academic sociology background: McIntyre is not the only opinionated grouchy outsider who has torpedoed a politically correct prestigious academic consensus in the last decade or so, Cramer did too: http://law.bepress.com/nwwps/lep/art9/ .
There is something to be said about getting reasonable growth under your belt before going out and starting on the funding treadmill. Trying to get money when you're product isn't "worth it" is a huge time waster.
It's actually a 1200 MHz Celeron with the Core 2 Architecture (Conroe-L), with 533 MHz FSB
this was good: creative/hacking/new territory time in blocks of 3 hours. Other blocks of time to clean up your SVn repos, hard drive, client accounting, whatever.

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On the original page, commenter Kim has a hypothesis:

Essentially, all results from Google Trends are normalized.... More and more non-technical people are using google and thus the percentage of searches for programming declines.

Sounds reasonable to me. These graphs don't even have units on the Y axis. They're useless without some idea of what they're measuring: absolute or relative numbers?

Somebody needs to read How to Lie With Statistics.
An interesting article, I never saw the mentioned motherboard. It's by Intel, but doesn't use the Intel chipset. And it has versions with passively-cooled CPU (this alone holds much value to some of us silence fans)
CPU is of the latest Core 2 family (Conroe-L, 65nm process), but a lower-clocked Celeron, with a TDP of 19 W.

Here are the board's specs:
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d201gly2/

The chart of Intel Core 2 processors (search for "Celeron 220"):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microproc...
It's also a whole let less stressful when you already have enough stress to worry about
Great work. ;) Takes gumption
You're right, except for Celeron D part.
Celeron D was the last step of NetBurst architecture, notorious for its high power consumptions and thus screaming stock fans. This is Core 2 architecture, which runs much cooler and has better perfomance/MHz

Also, for some reason the spec shows Celeron 220 CPU which is 1,2 MHz, not 1,33:
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d201gly2/configs.h...
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This is what your customers think of asking for their email password
Well I didn't exactly resign, but the startup I work for is not going to get it's 2nd round of financing...