skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typing this from a Macbook 5,1 with 8gb onboard. Been running this way for months with no problems.

Under Snow Leopard, at least, this limitation does not apply.
> Or the 500,000 people who have donated to Wikipedia?

How many of those that donated thought that the advertisements would disappear after they gave money?
A higher level of abstraction. Unlike the bitwhacker where you pass simple serial commands, the communication is simplified with easy-to-use ruby methods.
Users best Xmas Messages: Goodbye says thanks for the humour
Sugar: The Bitter Truth

http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=16717
Should SSO solutions find existing users by that person from other sites?
It's a social world out there and anything and anyone are expected to be connected up and with that the easiest way of having people try out your service is by having Facebook/Twitter/Linked In logins.
The old 'password approach' is no longer such a feasible option.

But my question is: Do you feel that there is a need for multiple sign on solutions per user? If i have the option of signing in with Facebook and Twitter should the Twitter sign in automagically find my Facebook-created user and link those two up as well?
I'm just wondering as it's something i have been annoyed at for a while.

Or is it fine that multiple signup methods will also create multiple users?
The data returned from all these sites should have some sort of common data it should be able to find the others users by?
PS: Sorry if some sentences seem incoherent, English is not my native language :-) and this was supposed to be a Ask HN post.
this is great news!

we badly need shake-up in online travel agency space - companies like Expedia and Orbitz haven't innovated at all for the last decade. Great to see that change is coming from AA, who were pioneers of online travel engines in the first place.
Possible alternative articles on the matter since the wsj seems pretty serious about their paywall:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-02/expedia-drops-am...
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/01/01/expedia-drops-...
you just summed up the problem. democracy sucks.

I'm going to be the asshole here and say some of us have things to do. convincing what are probably history majors with too much time on their hands due to being history majors that corrections are needed would be a huge time sink for no reward.
Simple:

My country made me fight a war that I didn't want to take part in. I plan to immigrate to a better country for my kids so they wouldn't get enlisted and shipped to warzone without their consent.

A good career seems like the only way to achieve such goal.
Active Online Reputation Managers
william gibson, not neal stephenson. whippersnapper.
I take some umbrage at the ubiquitous slighting of PowerPoint, et al. The vast majority of "business" presentations are for an internal audience that is already partially pre-briefed and the presenter just uses the slides to jog his or her own memory of the important points to review in the meeting. It's essentially pre-written agenda+minutes, and it doesn't have to be anything more.

This is easily contrasted to the kinds of professional presenters you see at TED, or someone like Steve Jobs, but those are public presentations of novel content. Not at all the same, and it's not fair to directly compare the work these folks do to prepare and rehearse their presentations to what 9-to-5ers do. Nearly zero internal business presentations need to be so polished, either in formatting or delivery.
Memoriad Competition Software
Opening a door using SMS
I've just tried it. Even though I was completely conscious that I'm writing this line to break procrastination, it worked! I'm very surprised.
I realize for many, time stands still when gazing at Jimmy's fuzzy visage. But the 2010 campaign lasted 50 days; not even close to four months.

I see you did not even read the link that sparked this very thread.
The common data is the email. Yes, it's possible, there are companies that do this and sell the information for marketing purposes.
Interesting post. It would be nice if someone could link to a site or blog with more details and/or discussion about the new features in Emacs 24.
The world is going to eventually become far more reliant on wireless internet services - Google reneged on their promise to fight for net-neutrality, because they left wireless/mobile internet services unprotected.
I'm actually more interested in the "elastic memory" bit: http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zing/elastic-memory

When I used to work with JVM's all day I was always frustrated about having to decide how big a maximum heap for a given app would be. We had some xml processing tasks that almost never used much memory but every now and then would need tons. It was one part I couldn't thin-provision.

Am I right in interpreting this as shipping the JVM work off to a dedicated appliance-like server? Does that mean the memory profile on the appliance is the one that can be thin-provisioned?

Heap size tuning is one of those things that made me hate the JVM.
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True, but that doesn't seem likely to happen now, unless someone writes a killer app and refuse to port it to the other platform.
I am not able to see your email in the profile. Can you please update it?
Talking with the person. For a couple of hours.
2010 was very cyberpunk. All that was missing was Wintermute.
Thou/thee/thy/thine are still alive in parts of England.
Giving up on Ruby packaging
Mac DVD to iPad Converter - How to import DVD in iPad on Mac?
That is not an unicode issue. Unicode does not prescribe anything about glyphs. A font could choose to render 0x2163 as IIII or have a character variant for it that did, if it wanted to.
Thanks for making this free. The timing is perfect.
Meet the Twiblings
I wasn't attacking the conclusion, but only pointed out an error in his/her logic.
Honest Advice on Starting a Company: Mark Suster - Serial Entrepreneur
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2516
The searchwiki votes should have fed into a global spam filter. Search-specific curation is useless and personal spam lists fail to make use of economies of scale. Spam filtering is all about scale.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out!
$ cat >hello.s <<EOF
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$ as -o hello.o hello.s; cc -o hello hello.o; ./hello
hello world
Then there is the question of how non-donors feel. The ad campaign made me negative about WP (and I bet quite a few other people).

That's an important point that is harder to reveal through A/B testing. What would Wikipedia's fundraising look like if there were another online encyclopedia that appeared to be a credible contender? Is Wikipedia Google in this space, or is it AltaVista?
You could try the Doxie scanner: http://getdoxie.com/
Neither spam nor low quality results should appear on the first page of results. I don't see how the distinction necessarily changes how you treat the useless sites.
What about "ship"?

Meanwhile, has `git pull` had a `--rebase` since the dawn of Git time in 2005, or did it appear at one point?
As a college student myself, I know the deal. I have a networked four-in-one (networking optional, but very convenient if you can get it to work) Brother printer and an Evernote Pro account ($50 a year or so, or you can roll your own solution). Everything gets scanned into Evernote. Simple as that.

The main reason I went with the Brother MFP instead of the other options is that it has an auto-doc feeder, which is very nice for multiple-page documents. However, it is not a duplex feeder, so double-sided papers will be a pain.
Considering FreeBSD Jails
Chart: 2010's Best Performing Tech Companies
From the horse's mouth:

http://www.aa.com/i18n/urls/ota.jsp
I kind of knew/suspected the email would be the common data so it's not really a problem doing so but does it really matter? Is it needed or do most people just sign in with one site and stick to that?

I was actually more wondering what is common practice, i don't have any popular sites requiring logins myself so i was wondering what is the norm. Do your system link multiple accounts with the same email then?
Useful Marketing - what can we learn from Dannon?
I think the problem for a lot of people is that "the website" doesn't seem to be where the majority of the money is going. There are grants, "External contractors", salaries, ...

I personally think that most people would be happy if they just concentrated on keeping the site up and running. While they DO need a bit of workforce for that, they should stick to the "core" that is the website.

p.s.
I'm perfectly happy with another non-profit trying to make workshops, grants and other things, but I'd prefer there to be a "we're just the website" one too...
Apple never paid for any hype or something else. Remember the days before iPhone 4 launched? Heck it was even on my local boulevard newspaper. And no Apple didn't pay anything for it.

I think people just care about what is coming next from Apple cause they are bringing amazing products. Each year when a new iPhone launches there is something no-one even thought about, how amazing this could be but Apple is just not thinking about it they are making it real and available.

To be honest I'm a happy Apple customer but I'm also a Android developer so I know both sides and both platforms well.
I use Paint.net. It is simple, elegant, and free!
Typing the title into Google helps, not sure if the track the number in a cookie though.
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2516
Nothing really "killer" though Bidi is nice. I just setup emacs (trying to learn it to compare to Vim) the other day on my Mac.
Emac vs vi Editor war,wikipedia
Actually, Twitter does not seem to provide a email.
Healthy diet plan
'present-day alchemy'
Most engineers I know don't take the startup world seriously.

They believe me that there are diamonds in the rough, in terms of companies and individuals that would be great to work with, but the industry and community are unparalleled in self-parodying.

My colleagues' qualms have merit, the myopia is appalling.
How do you differentiate from Google Alerts ?
There might not be a tangible exchange (e.g. cash changing hands); this doesn't mean that a transaction isn't taking place.

It's never a case of 'free' - it would be more realistic to refer the phenomenon as 'zero-purchase-cost'. e.g. Facebook isn't free - users pay with their attention.
I've actually been looking at Amazon recently and found the number of positions available overwhelming. I think I would do well in dozens of the positions posted.

I don't know if I should be applying to a bunch of positions to get a better feel of which one is "best" or if I should approach it differently.

How would you suggest proceeding when so many positions seem to be relevant?
A number of employees have one or more kids. Off the top of my head, they live in New Jersey (commute on NJ Transit), Long Island (LIRR), upstate (Metro North), i.e. the traditional NY suburbs, as well as in Manhattan and Brooklyn; that is, pretty much the whole spectrum is represented. In general it's safe to say that living in Manhattan is always going to involve compromises. Manhattan apartments are small and expensive. There's a strong tendency for families to move out to the suburbs, where there's greenery, space, and good schools. This is helped by the relatively good commuting infrastructure; it takes some of the NJ guys less time to get to the office than it takes me to get in on the subway from our house in Brooklyn.

I'm a New Yorker, but I'm not a real estate maven, and it'd be hard for me to suggest specific neighborhoods without knowing the specifics of your situation. Renting or buying? One- or two-income household? What do you do, what does your spouse do? And so on. But there are lots of options, and most of them are represented by at least one person at the company, so if you come and interview you can ask around :-)
There is already an FF extension that does this. It's called OptimizeGoogle and they need help keeping it up to date. I've offered to help but the code is quite strange (came from an older extension called CustomizeGoogle) and I'm not sure it's worth saving.

A cross-browser effort that implements a few key features from OptimizeGoogle, would be a very good idea. I'd be up for that.
In 2010 IEA admits crude Peak Oil happened in 2006
As the contact page and the FAQ require signing in, I can't comment on the exact implementation. I suspect they monitor Google's cache as that's the only publicly available data that can power this service. This is the wrong way to do it for many reasons:

1. There can be a delay between crawling and the page showing up in the cache. I've seen it to be on the order of several days in some cases, even though the page was ranking well and getting traffic!

2. Email is not a good log format. It's just not. I suspect for this service you'll need to enter each URL you want to monitor manually (yikes!) and then you get an email. If your sitemaps are any good, you already have a good list of your website's URLs and this could be a massive copy-paste operation, but then you'll get bombarded with emails. One time when I implemented such a system, GMail locked for days.

3. A much better solution is to do it server side with a proper log like in MySQL or MongoDB or whatever. You can do this with a cron job that analyzes the HTTP server's log files at the end of each day, does clever number crunching, generates a report and emails you.

Clever number crunching means calculating numbers that affect your business's bottom line. You can monitor percentage of pages indexed, segment by sections, do trends over time analyses, and more clever stuff like time between crawl and first Google-referred traffic.
The CSS3 Resize Property
IPhone alarms hit by New Year glitch
There's a whole different kind of leverage to consider here: What will you lose if you fail to meet your resolution? Will it hurt you if you fail? If not, it should! Otherwise what is the source of your will to change?
I wish vim gets the bidi support as well.

It gets it automatically on a terminal that supports it (such as konsole) but having it sort of built in would be nice.
> Aggressively cut my calories and started going to the gym 5-7 nights a week... about 40 lbs between Feb and July

You consider this a success?
Did I miss the point of the article? Seems to be a rehash of of most sentiments behind the arguments of choosing between the two platforms except now its by the two big names at google.
145. Pointless presentation

More like "146. Pointless Blog Post".

From the title, I was expecting to read what one should do ahead of time to make one's slide presentation unnecessary. Something like "How to build a tag line so compelling that people will get it immediately," "Show everything a first timer needs to know on your front page," or "How to hit the reptilian brain in the first 10 seconds".

We already know that most presentations suck and want to learn what to do to avoid suckdom. That's advice I'd be interested in learning. Alas, it never came from this post.
> One of my clients is a Bank.

In that case, and based on their brush off, don't deal with IT. Send your concerns to the Internal Auditing department. They (usually) have the stroke to make people sit down and take things seriously. Internal Auditing is the ones who have to interface with federal regulators, and possibly with the SEC.
Upvoted for having a view I hadn't thought to consider.
Short, easy to follow, well designed and very "precise" tutorial. Thanks for sharing !!
I had this opinion, too, until I got a keyboard that was backlit.
actually there is some scientific research on topics like pair programming etc.

for example:
http://aisel.aisnet.org/misq/vol33/iss1/7/

which was published in MIS Quarterly in 2009
Aaaaah this is so frustrating. Now we have another country clamouring to build useless and vague "ideas" as patents. When will the madness end?
Strong troll.
A standard package system is THE feature of Emacs 24.
Loom Server Now Uses Optimistic Concurrency
Public graphs are movitational for me.

I made similar personal app at http://fatgrapher.com and one of the key features for me is the that my graph is public.

We used the principles: weigh/graph everyday, skip dinner whenever more than 1 pound behind the 'pace line'. The 'pace line' graphs ideal progress towards weight loss goal.
Apple never paid for marketing?
I started using RVM a little while ago, and... I am not that excited about it (although it is well done and mostly works as advertised). It seems like the direction Ruby is going is to have things like Rails applications that require their own version of Ruby and a whole slew of gems, which also means that if you have a number of applications, you start getting a large amount of duplication? I'm not entirely sure as I'm new to the system, but it adds an extra level of installed stuff that I'm not 100% comfortable with.

Edit: as an aside, Zed Shaw's wild attacks and untruthful accusations against Debian were some ugliness that the world could have done without. I hope Lucas finds other places to more productively (and happily) employ his talents in the free software world.
Very nice. What service are you using to send the SMSs?
Ask HN: Is it always rosy in hacker land?
Hello HNizens,

I don't really know how to express the confusion that I have right now, but its a new year so I would take advantage of this artificial milestone and try to seek some answers, even if they are given by someone else.

I do not want to do a long back story as it is dull and might deter people from reading the actual problem. Suffice it to say that I was once very interested in web development, learned a lot of RoR (and even ruby in general) and tried my hand on a lot of websites. But it started to bore me and I moved on to doing other things. I started gaining interest in electronics and chose Electronics and Communication as my college major. I don't really liked my classes(due to bad teaching and no choice based credit system), but I liked the subjects so guessed I made a right decision in leaving computer programming behind.

But even when self learning EE I was more inclined to the fine line where hardware meet software. I did a lot of microcontroller programming as a hobby but as was the case with web development I never got to doing serious projects.

I started on a one month internship at a robotics based start up 3 weeks back. With only one week left to go, I can safely say I have learned more here than I did in 1 and a half year of college classes (out of which first year was wasted in subjects like "Elements of Civil and Mechanical Engineering" and stupid topics like details of how a boiler works or how you do a land survey, I still cannot why a EE guy has to study elements of other disciplines in such detail).

But this is where the problem appears in a the foreground. While working there I realized I wasn't really happy 100% of the time. As anyone who has done any EE stuff might know it is really hard to debug as we cannot just look at the variables in a finely made screen as we do for software. I find myself feeling miserable when I am stuck with one problem for 4 days and don't have a clue where I went wrong.

When ever I see posts on HN I get a feeling that the people who really love their job are happy in it all the time. But I am happy for like 70% of the time. The other 30% I am very frustrated with the work I am doing and sometimes even doubt if I am in the right place. But my being unhappy may have a lot of other factors

1) I am not really a genius and this was the first time I was exposed to real engineering problems as opposed to simple (copyable from book) assignments.

2)EE is hard as it is, you cannot debug it easily. The problem can be anywhere from the power supply to the measuring instrument. You have to check each and every source of error, which quite a painstaking process.

3) I am not exactly working on my favourite problem all the time. This is an internship and I have to work on every problem that is handed to me, whether I like it or not.

4)I have never actually worked for 9 hours straight and this might be the period of adjustment I need. So the training may be over before I get accustomed to it.

So I ask HN, is the hacker land always rosy or even the best of the hackers some times do not enjoy what they are doing?
Wiki is really worth $16 million.
Android phones are draining battery very quickly.
Android's problem is that it has no problem...

People Who Buy Cell Phones

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HTC Sprint Evo 4G better than iPhone 4 in Top Gadgets of 2010
Makes applying security patches a whole bunch of fun too!
KeePass 2.14 released
You can easily set it to be pretty nice(hinting to slight or none, subpixel rendering). One very nice thing about linux is that it works very, very well for high-dpi screens.
This isn't so much to do with shaking the market up as a wrangle with Travelport over the size of their commissions. Refusing to play ball with the middleman isn't exactly innovation. It's not even a new step for American either; in the past they forced Kayak to remove Orbitz listings of AA flights. The consumer might theoretically gain from lower prices by only booking direct on AA's terms; in practice they lose the ability to easily compare/save on multi-flight itineraries across multiple unaffiliated carriers.

I'm not the biggest fan of the current travel site model, but I think it's a little unfair to suggest they haven't innovated at all over that period; Orbitz didn't even exist at the start of the last decade. What American are doing is no more likely to stimulate innovation than Microsoft deciding on behalf of their OEM vendors what software options consumers should be offered.
Emacs 24 also has a new minor mode, electric-pair-mode, that auto-inserts matching parens à la Textmate. Quite useful.
Amen. They could put it here: http://www.google.com/experimental/

Compare that to the GMail labs. It's pitiful.

They already have the exact opposite curation feature: the star system. And it's crazy.

When I search, and click one of the 10 results, and the result turns out to be satisfying, the last thing I want to do is click the back button and star it.

When the result turns out to be spam I necessarily have to hit the back button and try again. Staring me in the face is the now-purple link spam - let me X it.

Personal blacklists are the least Google could do, because my SERP is never going to be perfect. Feeding those blacklists back into the general SERP population is an interesting research project.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsReleaseDates

What changed to go from releases every 4-7 years, to releases every 1-2 years?
I find that I quite often simply look up a word on answers.com when I need a bi-lingual translation. They have a rather long list of dictionaries incorporated into their dataset.
I did a quick digging around and found that they apparently got them from Wizcom Tech [http://www.wizcomtech.com/]
See: http://www.answers.com/library/Translations

I'm actually also building a language webapp atm, but I'm lucky enough to have the excellent EDICT dataset from Jim Breen, which has already been linked here.
If I were expand beyond Japanese, I'd definitely start out looking for other such datasets.

Good luck
Not if the criticism is a blanket "this is total bullshit".