skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Webcatting: Saw this last month at NYU's ITP

http://itp.nyu.edu/~nbe206/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/s...

Natalie's blog: http://itp.nyu.edu/~nbe206/blog/
Until very recently, if you had Ubuntu, you had Rhythmbox.
Facebook is definitely waning among my friends, but strong areas remains:

1. Social graph. Many are not active Facebook users but are keeping the accounts cos all their contacts are there. Facebook has actually helped people found their long loss friends and classmates.

2. Sharing links, picture and video. Facebook is replacing email as a means to share interesting contents. One friend actually visits Facebook just to read those contents posted by friends instead of going to the source such as YouTube. "It is easier". Twitter is an obvious alternative.

3. Facebook is the new Flickr.

4. Games. Hopefully when people think of FarmVille or CityVille they think of Zynga and not Facebook. Zynga should seriously break loose of this eco, build its own currency/credit system and focus on iOS/Android platforms.

5. All-in-one ness. Grandmas and aunties love this. Contacts, photos, video, links, cute apps are all-in-one. But this will mean less and less, as this group of not savvy web users will decrease with time.
Surely eliminating troll patents would reduce the burden on the system, not the other way around.
Except he's talking about laptops.
The second actually splits the variable across the comparison. ("you have" and "left in your tank").
To be fair, I never said C was pretty. I have no real problem with Perl aside from its overabundance of punctuation.
Yeah, I was confused by the lack of people using Heroku.
OTOH, measuring this kind of things is quite hard - it is only a couple of cycles assuming the optimistic case, so smaller than most measurement methods overhead.

People often wrongly assume that you can just execute many times the thing in a loop, and compute the average, which is the wrong statistic (you want the min, not the average when measing the speed of something which has a fixed cost).

By itself, the question is pretty stupid - maybe that's what the interviewer was getting at ?
However, time permitting. I guess I will send them the dbus-monitor trace of the d-feet call.
Every quarter the publicly-traded tech companies hold earnings calls. After the company gives its spiel, it allows the analysts to ask questions. These calls are open to the public, and I suggest you listen in on one for a company you know well; the questions you hear will tell you pretty much all you need to know about these analysts.
You're not the only one :/
The removal was supposedly requested by VLC developers due to licensing issues as previously reported (http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/01/vlc-for-iphone-and-ipad-s...).

I'm glad I downloaded it when it was released.
VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store
What is special about tumblr? (honest question.)

I've only thought of it as a blogging platform that focused on small, "multimedia" posts (pictures, video, a short quote, etc)
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> Is this only pre-acquisition companies?

Yes, it's a "List of active Y Combinator startups that haven't exited yet."

https://github.com/jpf/domain-profiler/blob/master/ycombinat...
... you think the reaction would be substantially different if the Bush administration seriously proposed this? Same script, different actors. The best measure of how much of our political arena our politicians aren't actually serious about is which opinions flip 180 when control passes from the demopublicans to the republicrats. "Hey, remember how we were against the idea of the Internet being controlled by the government? Now it's peachy keen!" "Remember how all that spending was like, terrible last year? Now it's our turn and we have a moral imperative to spend! Wheee!"

(And just to be clear, no, neither of those are targeted at one party in particular.)
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1. subscriber names, user names, screen names, or other identities;

Wait, does this mean they are requesting information of people who follow WikiLeaks on Twitter?
Blackboard (the webapp) itself isn't that bad

I can name a few problems with Blackboard (the webapp). I've seen both sides of it; I've suffered through 7 semesters with BB as a student, and 2 as a teaching assistant.

It uses frames. When you open a link in a new tab, you get the bare page without the top/left nav bars. Really? They couldn't even use a little 1998 Javascript to get the page to reload inside the frameset?

Too many modules are enabled by default, which causes confusion when profs use things differently. Does the syllabus go in "Course Information" or "Course Documents"? Or, since it contains the prof's email, "Staff Information"? Do homework assignments go under "Assignments" or "Course Documents"?

There are two ways to upload files. One is convenient for both students and teachers, one is not. Guess which one is more obvious? The nonintuitive one, Digital Dropbox, is buried two pages deep. It has two choices: "Add File" and "Send File". If you add a file, but don't send it, the teacher never sees it. From the teacher's end, Digital Dropbox renames files, for your convenience. Yes, BB, thanks so much for renaming my students' Java files so that I can't compile them. Also, for your convenience, any .html files that are uploaded get their extension changed to .rtf, prompting more shell scripts just to de-BlackBoard your students' files.

The better upload option is for teachers to allow submissions in the Assignments tab. This makes way more sense, since you can view and complete the assignment all on one page. To enable this, the teacher has to select an assignment type of "Assignment", instead of the default "Content Unit". As a TA, I only knew this existed because one semester, one of my profs used this. (Once, out of all the classes I took that had digital submission.)

The grading page is horrible. It has a table for the grades, like you would expect, with one column per assignment, and one row per student. If you have more than 5ish assignments or 15 students, it overflows the page. This would be fine, except the table doesn't respond to the scroll wheel. It has a scrollbar on the right, and a scrollbar on the bottom, and watches their position with Javascript. When you scroll one of these, the table contents are updated to reflect that position of the table. This makes scrolling awkward every time - the screen flashes a bit, and you have no idea how many columns Blackboard decided you wanted to scroll until you look at the header row. Oh, and every time you resize the page, the table is reset to the top-left.

TL;DR These people need some serious UX help, fast.
You'll be able to use your government issued id and your credit card to buy stuff on Amazon that now you have to buy with ... your credit card.
Bill's family & friends have set up a page on 1000Memories to share memories of his life.

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Super angel Jeff Clavier raising $35M fund
ok, seriously? What makes this HN worthy?
I'm pretty sure it's not <blink>, as Chrome doesn't respond to <blink> anymore. That means they re-implemented it in Javascript
I don't think this is an issue, actually. Developers and hackers are faced with the need to learn new technologies or programming languages every now and then, that have different philosophies or ways of doing things, and hence different standards of quality. Writing idiomatic and good Python code is not equal to writing idiomatic and good C.

So, what makes a good developer is, in my opinion, the capacity to re-learn, to specifically break bad habits. Let's face it, we've all learned (and still learn) crappy techniques first. If anything, people who wanted to learn it the RIGHT way from the start, that I've met, tended to get bogged down in dogmatism of a specific technology or design idea, unable to see the benefits of other ways of doing things.

In the end, if a person who has learned at W3Schools can't recognize some of the things he has learned as inefficient or false, then this person clearly chose the wrong calling to pursue.
Aaah.. the subtle sexist bias even in Marissa comes through. From the article:

Indeed, Mayer invokes her mother a lot, which makes sense, given her steadfast devotion to the ease of the end user.
That's not really the point though - the different engines provided are for different tasks.

MyISAM for example supports fulltext indexes by default which was/is probably one of the most useful features for web development which explains why MySQL is so popular in that arena.

Whatever default was selected by MySQL is irrelevant - do your research and pick the right tool for the job.
1435 mm for the metric people. ;-)
We -- at AppHarbor -- are pursuing just that opportunity. Drop me a line at mf@appharbor.com if you want an invite.
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Supposedly, that's only half true:

http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag
I had it running and it stopped working. Boo.
Tabs vs. spaces is basically an implementation detail of the editor. The point is that the code should always look the same.

This is a semantic issue that doesn't even go away in pseudocode.
Is Verizon any better in that respect? I remember Verizon getting slammed for mysterious data charges and famously it took them years to sort out their FIOS billing system. I don't think of Verizon as a company with a reputation for great customer support. I would actually consider switching to Verizon simply because AT&T can't seem to figure out how to make my auto pay work correctly. It fails every month. I wait for them to call and they assure me it will work next time and of course it doesn't. The last AT&T rep I talked to about this actually said "it probably won't work" which in a strange way was a satisfying answer to me. Better than the drone-like confidence in "THE SYSTEM" most of these support departments rely on.
Let's compromise and make it ;=.
There are alternatives to all these services.

People have used S3 even before hosting at EC2, and if you like, you can use Blob Storage without hosting at Azure too.

Table Storage, message queues and distributed caching exists in various flavors - and your point about not everybody needing these things are indeed true.

A common interface to avoid vender lock-in will be the next big step...
She actually died of tuberculosis, not cancer.
Which chapter was that? I finished reading it about a week ago and don't remember that being in there.
From what I understand of FileVo, they were running a file upload service, not retaining any identifying information on uploaders, and not taking any steps to prevent copyrighted files from being uploaded. Softlayer's decision to terminate their hosting was no different from what any other hosting company would do (and, in fact, what they would be legally required to do!).
Will someone please summarize? The link makes only a vague statement about incompatibility between GPL code and the App Store...
Ask HN: How to balance multiple projects?
Background:

I'm currently working on iOS projects and have one new app in the app store and three more 'definite' ones at idea/planning stage. I say definite as these are the ideas that I've vetted with my partner as worth some exploratory work. The app that's in the store has a timeline set up for adding several new features that have been planned and I'm also spending some time reaching out to reviewers, etc for marketing that product.

I'm also looking (not aggressively) for contracting work as I'd like to pick some up in the next month or two, but that's something I'll slot time for when the time comes.

My question:

I normally have a laser-like focus on projects and will work nearly non-stop until the next goal is reached (prototype, version 1, etc). But I've started to see myself bounce around between projects more that normal. I'm still working constantly, but I'm not really spending enough time with each project to make significant progress (or the level for progress that I'm used to).

I'm wondering if people here have proven tricks for working on multiple projects in parallel. Do you divide by days? Hours? Do you set smaller goals for each project and work serially through them? Don't fight things and just do whatever you feel like until you find a rhythm?

It's not a question of over-working as I do get out of the house on a somewhat regular basis for recreation - this isn't a procrastination or burnout question. Also, it's not a question for me of task management in the sense that I forget what's next. I know what's 'in the queue' at all times. I'm wondering what people have found most effective for moving several projects (in various stages) forward aggressively.

Thanks

Edit: typo
> Net neutrality has always been about "a controllable space with gov't teeth."

Eh? No. It was formed as a reaction to plans announced by the big telcos to monetize traffic flowing through their networks. Specifically, they were going to hobble the connection speeds of any popular website like YouTube unless they were paid money. So people who weren't even their customers could have their traffic throttled merely because it happened to cross their network.

At the time, everyone from the ACLU to the Christian Coalition was outraged by this naked money grab. Basically, almost everyone hated the idea.

Then a bunch of lobbyists came into play and split us up about what we should do in response. So you have the current false choice of "let the government regulate the internet" and "let free enterprise screw everyone over."

What everyone wants is an internet where a suddenly popular site only has to pay its own ISP for bandwidth, not one where every single network operator comes to them for a handout saying, "That's a nice website you got there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it."

Getting there is the hard part.
Looks are almost always relevant to people's opinion of you. That's true for men and women, but it's only in articles about women that it seems to be pointed out as if to undermine their accomplishments.
I'm from a similarly "Indian" background, and I should admit reading this article was nauseating. I know the zombie people this kind of approach makes with no identity of their own, and it's nothing to be proud of. I have a question - so how many of these kids with "Chinese" way of raising are leaders in their industry? If they excelled all through their academics, does this mean they'll excel in real life too? Will they have the same kind of linear challenges that an academic setting offers?
I'm interested (genuinely) in what portion of this you think is pure evil. I don't think trying to maintain a proper balance between population growth and resources isn't evil, so China's focus on "One Child" (particularly given it's already massive population, and massive impact on the planet once that population starts to develop a higher standard of living) is reasonable.

Infanticide, would be seen by most of us in the first world as evil - though there are many ethical reasons why it would be acceptable in historical civilizations where the addition of a new child could result in communal risk/starvation (Think tribal societies that were on the edge of survival - not really relevant in most societies today, and certainly not in China).

But, is forced sterilization evil, per se? Or is it just our western cultures sense of what is right and wrong?

Where do you draw the line, and do you accept that a country has some right to control it's population through mechanisms such as penalties for second children, withholding government care, etc...

I'm really quite interested in knowing where the debate lines are drawn with this.
I remember getting marked off once in either my algebra 1 or geometry class for leaving some answers in the form "3 = x". (What, you gave me an equation of "5 = 3x - 4"! It's harder to follow the work you make me do if I suddenly swap everything.) Anyway, I never found it jarring, though I can see why others might. (And if you've never had exposure to TI basic.. 3->x.)
Oh yes, a very common case, people driving on their private roads.
Ask HN: What exactly is a well rounded person?
I have more often than not failed to understand some social terms which are used to describe a person in many a places.

Two of those phrases, which have been reading for quite a while and never understood the meaning are "a well rounded person" and "building character".

Care to explain this to me?
In other words, it will be possible to avoid this ID, but so ridiculously impractical for most people that almost everyone will be expected to have and use one.

Yeah, that sounds about right to me.
This month you should run through one with your clothes off.
FSF said it best:
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-...
How does this work for people who've downloaded it? I've got the better part of Family Guy's run on my iPhone playing with VLC. That combo has brought me more enjoyment than all of my other apps combined.

On a side note: I recently made the difficult decision of creating a library from scratch since the only one available was GPL. I guess that was the correct decision after all?
I understand this is not acceptable behavior here, but are you out of your mind!?
"This end should not have come to a surprise to anyone."

Also, is it terribly selfish of me to find this enjoyable partly because of the App Store apologists and partly because it means there will be more focus on VLC for Android?
A library of what? For what?
yes, I find it really useful
I agree with most of your post, but not the fact that engineers cannot work on different jobs for different clients. What would limit them? Many of the EE freelancers are around working for different clients.
DBMSs are complex things. Any DBA proficient in both systems can show you a query (and table layout) in PostgreSQL that outperforms InnoDB and vice versa.
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-October...
But isn't "the best job" the job where you are most happy working? If I am interested in pottery why the hell would I want a software engineering job (whatever that means).
Verizon is pretty clever. They'll probably just create an iPhone Plan that is 50 cents more a month and over 2 years you've paid for the privilege of not having bloatware forced on you. I don't think they would dare charge more than AT&T for the hardware itself since consumers are so fixated on the sticker price and easily misled on the longer term costs of the contract they're signing. I always figured the incredibly pricey cases & accessories are a big factor here too. If you show up, buy an iPhone, and walk out with a $30-$40 case they've probably made more money off you than VZW bloat would have.
Ahhhh. I had missed that article last year. Thanks!
Going off of what has happened in the past, you can keep using that copy you downloaded (and the use the copy on your computer to load it onto more devices) as long as you want. It's just not sold anymore.
sounds interesting! I'll drop by sometime.
I'm having a feeling in a few years, if his persistent why the blog post was a bit silly.
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-October...

This is the original post by Rémi Denis-Courmont, on the VLC developers mailing list pertaining to the takedown notice filed at the end of October. In it he links to another FSF post about incompatibilities between the App Store licensing terms, and the GPL, as well as his rational for filing the takedown notice

EDIT: Sorry Callahad for the dupe, you typed faster than I did.
Late CM-5 was 64-node MIPS connected through hypercube or fat tree. I think you can fit several MIPSes into one high-class FPGA - it looks like 4 would fit nicely into Virtex 5 TXT series, not so sure about more.

I think that you will need custom boards for interconnection.

So it will be some costly project.

Plasma, a simple MIPS-I variant: http://opencores.org/project,plasma
A contentious view: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853496; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1849687
> Any modern should not allow 'if(flag=0)'.

This is how you set default values for optional argument in Ruby and is very common.
> prevent the internet from going the way of cable TV

Not sure what you mean by this? Preventing government-granted local/regional monopolies? That seems to argue against government intervention.
Sorry, but that patent does not cover linked lists.

It covers the merging to two lists using linked lists so that there are multiple ways to loop though a list of items.

Fairly obvious? I would say so. But not the sensational claim that "linked lists are patented".

By making such bogus claims, you actually hurt the cause of people who want real patent reform.

This opinion coming from someone who had to go through the legal system to file and defend bogus patent infringement cases.
http://uxmovement.com/forms/best-way-to-align-buttons-on-for...

In examples provided, 'submit' is used. "Never say 'Submit'" indeed.
People often bring personal appearance up when talking about Larry Ellison, mostly in the context of what a snappy dresser the guy is as compared to the rest of Silicon Valley.
"the different engines provided are for different tasks"

You should think of them more like separate DBMSs that are tied together in one system. The semantics change depending on the storage engine, so they aren't just drop-in replacements.

"MyISAM for example supports fulltext indexes..."

PostgreSQL has supported full text search for a long time.
Ask HN: (for a friend) Project tips for CS students?
I'm asking on behalf of a friend, who says thus (paraphrased for the HN audience):

"Four of us Computer Science students are doing a Senior Design design class. We need to finish a complete project over 2 quarters. Only problem is the suggested projects seem uninteresting, and we can't think of anything exciting either. The sky is limit when it comes to projects, mobile, web, app, whatever we want we can do.

Please give us some project ideas! Oh and we'll do a combined 4 person tell-all about it when the project is over and done with!

2 have worked lightly in graphics, nothing very advanced, just light work with OpenGL, and know the Qt toolkit.
2 have built a DBMS from near scratch.
1 has work experience in social media.
2 have work experience in QA/QC.
1 studies econ.
1 has a more Comp Eng. background with computer architecture, circuits, etc.
1 is a rare CS girl :O

We've all finished most of our required classes, so we've touched things like OSes, algorithms, various programming languages, computer architecture.

On top of it all we rarely see sunlight... they like to keep us CS students in a dark dingy basement, with no wifi or cell phone reception."

Got any tips for them?
more info is in Greenwalds blog from which the pdf links:

http://salon.com/a/s3yIfAA

Also (German) http://goo.gl/Wnuup

see chat with @WLLegal on Twitter for more updates
Oh of course multiple clients but not constantly changing right?

I mean an "engineer" doesn't get hired to just fix a few lines of code or add a function. That's a programmer, a hacker-for-hire.
Of course this is App Store's problem, and VLC for iOS should be no problem to install from Cydia.