skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And that startup time of JVM is orders of magnitude worse than pretty much anything else.

This one never ceases to annoy me.

The JVM is optimized for LONG RUNNING PROCESSES. It's targeted specifically toward running on servers, because that's the default use case. There's about a million options switches, gc controls, etc if you want to run it in another way.

If you want fast startup time, try compiling with gcj or something.

In any event, I run a javac->java loop many times an hour when developing, and the startup time is un-noticable.
Dup (different url, same content):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106553
I hope the author of this post thought pretty carefully about posting that.

There have already been a number of people associated with Stuxnet and/or the Iranian nuclear program who have gone missing/died from strange accidents/been assassinated. [1][2]

In simple terms, claiming someone possibly wrote Stuxnet puts their life in danger.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/06/iran_claims_stuxnet_...

[2] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nucl...
Thanks, yes Dawg aggregates but does not mix all feeds from different social networks in one. You can slide and view each network seperately. No clicks :).
Clickable http://www.ideaswatch.com/
Yes, companies like TweetDeck, HootSuite are leading segment but still I feel,there is a space . Any thoughts on it ?
I want to see it go on 'are you smarter than a fifth grader'. The sorts of questions they should ask aren't ones that require knowledge but creativity, understanding, and elision of concepts. For example:

If Dog is three and elephant is eight then what is ostrich?

Guarantee a fifth grader gets seven, but Watson is stumped.
Please click here http://www.zubhalabs.com to get beta
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Redlining

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/rich-black-flunking/C...
Ha, I was thinking of creating something pretty similar as my next project. Or the next after that.

Thanks, you saved me a bunch of work! :)

By the way, gotta love the "Exclude sci-fi" checkbox.
But here's the thing: Who is pushing the idea that people want the God of War cow? Are players really asking for that, or is it a fantasy on the part of publishers?

Publishers definitely like the idea of pumping up their games with unnecessarily large budgets, even though it works against them on a risk/reward basis, because, at least in theory, throwing money into a game will lead to a work of higher quality than the competition. And internally, everyone in charge of such projects can fall back on the prestige and instant attention assumed from having such an obviously detailed, polished work.

And yet Nintendo has never felt much need to compete on that level. They give their games plenty of marketing, for sure, but product development stays pretty tight. As far as the public knows, they never let a product explode into a monumental 4-year effort. But their games are still good and still attract a sizable audience, and they've had the most success of the big publishers in substantially expanding the game market.

Comparing the two approaches, I take the opinion that most of the console publishers are overextending themselves with an outdated strategy. It was more compelling to try to push the budget upwards in past eras, where the technology was just barely making new things possible each time, and the market was full of early-adopter types who wanted to see the shiniest thing around. But the differences between the best-looking games of 2011 and the best-looking games of 2006 are pretty subtle to the uninitiated viewer, nothing like the gap between any previous five-year comparison. And the overall trend of gaming has been towards more accessibility and less (overt) complexity. So our notions of quality have to change with it, and that greatly upsets the balance of power in game development.
This isn't a big deal.

Anyone who followed browser development back then (1994) knows how it worked. Decisions about what went into browsers were based on how easily they could be implemented as much as what others were doing.

Yes, CSS was discussed in 1994. So was VRML (I think) and god knows how many other things. I mean, the Cello browser didn't render JPEGs (!).

Browser authors made stuff up that they thought was useful. The usually did this by adding tags, because that was a lot easier than creating a whole other language like CSS
Pity they didn't use some standard FOSS license, rather than rolling their own.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NASA
It would appear that Steve Jobs agrees too. In his "Thoughts on Flash" he mentions several times that HTML5 is an Open Standard and contrasts this favourably with Flash. But when he talks about H.264 he refers to it simply as an industry standard.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Never remind Americans that they deliberately slaughtered over 100,000 civilians with nuclear weapons - they don't like it.
So, TC journalists putting some petty out-of-context bickering with someone into the publication. How media 2.0.
Or:
"Take the first letter of the color of an eggplant. What zodiac sign also starts with that letter?"
Then you need to stay as quiet as you possibly can until you do.
Near match domains receive no special bonus.

Look at it this way: having an exact match means you're committing yourself to the search term, either by being first to it or by spending a lot of money to buy the domain from whomever was first. Either is likely to be a signal of quality. Near match, however, just means you had $8 to spare. (For similar reasons, cheap-domain.com or cheapdomain.biz do not receive any bonuses.)
>If you've ever seen the film Away We Go, well, one of the families in that film were the spitting image.

Just curious, which family in the film are you referring to? I only have a vague recall of them.
The 10 Most Powerful Women in Silicon Valley
Maybe they are more active than us, actually using those online accounts, whereas Facebook for me and my acquaintances is just a way to publish socially-acceptable meaningless crap from time to time, not to mention lots of people I know with Facebook accounts are just lurkers.
Do you know of anything we can have a look at which gives a better overview of kernel architecture?

I am really more interested in learning more about good kernel architecture and rolling one the "Right Way" than I am in getting a working but crappy kernel.
So what you are saying is that US leaders believe that they are on a holy mission to eradicate Evil from the world?

And that some opposition leaders believe that shooting a selected list of politicians who they disagree with is a good thing for US democracy?

So if western politicians really mean what they say then I believe that same goes for Iranian politicians.

Nigga please!
Ten Years Of Wikipedia
Is it possible for anyone to start a GPL-infringement suit, or does everything have to pass through the FSF?
Hello boys, I should be fascinated to know the reactions by the posters if the sender / receiver of this story were exchanged, It would teach us an important fact.
Silicon Valley concerns in forefront during visit by China's president
Er, do you mean "complement"?
Cloud Business News Roundup: January 10 - 16, 2011
Yes, and the reason is, that they have a very strict social code of conduct, which is why people there take great care of their public (official) persona.

Because of this pressure, people need vents to express what they think about in private and the last thing they want is to connect these to their public persona, which would have much more severe social and business impact than in western countries.
Yes, if you can figure out how to eat while you're creating it.
Schneier says the right to privacy is a right to control personal information. While that's true, it's only part of it, and it doesn't capture the fundamental problem of privacy. The fundamental problem is about those situations where you can look into your neighbor's back yard, but you decide not to do so. It's therefore more of a civil obligation. The corresponding right for the neighbor is to have the expectation of not being watched.

http://www.anthonyettenroc.com/anthony/2011/1/16/google-and-...
UPDATE:

Thank you all for your comments. I tried all the methods/services.

Biggest luck I had with Wordoid. After few thousands of variations I came with 50 .com names.

When I tried they real availability it was about 30 free names. I guess that Wordoid just pings domains or have some long cache for whois. However, in sign of appreciation I used affiliate link.

So final name is: shopeful.com. I hope that "e" in the middle will be ok.
Scientists discover way to recharge laptops and cell phones
More intimate internet.
authors did not contact W3Schools ahead of time.

I've seen a lot of aggression against w3schools but this is worse. An angry rant website. So much nitpicking. So much tantrums. They seem not to be interested in making w3schools better but want to destroy them.

From w3fools:

The markup of the W3Schools site itself is awful and does not conform to best practices: table in table in table in table, with lots of inline styles.

Completely irrelevant. Don't shoot the messenger.

I use what my search engine gives me. w3schools is usually on top. I learned a lot from w3schools and sometimes even directly go to it for reference.

edit: Apparently there was a previous discussion here, on a draft version. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2082089
I think you (and the author) are wrong. It is a good list.

Sure Google's algorithm is continually evolving and uses 10,000 ranking factors. But the web is made of links, and links will always be trust factors for a search engine.

Google just wants to make sure they are 'genuine organic' links.
Awesome speech. I created a shortened video with the best parts. Its easier to share and saves your friends some time.

http://www.cule.tv/#pv=23001
Trying to prevent Iran getting the bomb will indeed 'piss them off'. However, as they are already an extremely 'pissed off' theocracy, it is still a sensible thing to do.

Looking at things from the perspective of crazed theocrats is undoubtedly useful, but you shouldn't make the mistake of going the extra step and empathising to such an extent that you start believing that their position should be respected.

This second point seems to be a problem with a lot of people - by all means "put yourself in their shoes, man!" but after doing so, don't end up 'role playing' as them when deciding what is the right thing to do.
Apple's Vision of a Solar Cell iPhone Supports Prototype in the Wild
i can see how a designer might be impactful at an incubator but i can't see how a designer can be impactful at a VC firm. you really need to have great design on your team not at your investor
If anyone is still following this thread, I changed the layout of the site, made an overview page, and lowered the price to $79.

If you're interested in a free copy of the software, email me vmc@leftnode.com.
Well there's a reason why everything that mentions w3schools gets down voted into oblivion over at Stackoverflow.

The site is horrible. Period.

> Completely irrelevant. Don't shoot the messenger.

Aha. Well, if they can't even get their own site right, why should I listen to them in the first place?

Sorry, but that's like hiring a Web Design whose own Web Site consists of nothing more than yellow 20px Comic Sans text on a blue background that uses a million blink tags.
Of course anyone can do that. The EFF or FSF can be of great assistance though.
Actually, you can listen to track 1 and 2 (rame à l'envers and les maux oubliés) and only download track 2. Track 1 and track 3 will be a part of an upcoming album later in 2011 if I ever manage to kick my butt to get things done for good.

Thank you guys a lot for showing interest into my music :)
As far I understand it, if you are a copyright owner and your copyright is being infringed, you can start the suit.

In fact, generally (at least) the FSF will only take up lawsuits when it involves infringement against their own copyright. That is one reason why they suggest that if you are writing GPL software, then you should assign copyright to them.
pOnce replied about it :)
It's not been composed for the game, it's more or less tracks I had on my HDs and pOnce wanted for the game.
What horrible website those W3Fools have.
There's also a very prevalent and unfortunate number of perverts as well. It's no wonder women wouldn't want to show their identity. The fact that they have women-only cabins in the public transportation systems is telling enough.
I think he's right when he says that you need to want it as much as you want to breathe to be successful. But I think he's setting his audience up for failure by not pointing out that "success" is defined by that which you want as much as you want to breathe. When you find something that you want that much, going after it with all your being will come naturally. If you actually prefer sleep to whatever he calls "success", then maybe you're better off spending your time sleeping. How else are you going to find a dream to follow?
Facebook is actually starting to get popular in Japan, but it will have a slow start just like everything else has had recently.

For some reason Japan still has this image of being a technologically advanced nation. I guess regarding hardware and infrastructure they are still advanced, but when it comes to the web and software they are waaaaay behind. Both in what they build, and in what they use.

The iPhone didn't really take off until a full year after it went on sale here (2 years after the US), android phones are just now starting to be sold, Twitter blew up recently but that wasn't until it was already a household name in the rest of the world. Nearly all mobile websites here are written in a carrier proprietary subset of WAP/HTML. Most non-mobile sites are entirely flash. The most popular search engine is still Yahoo. Shift-JIS encoding is more widely used than the world standard UTF-8. The list goes on and on.

I've been living in Japan for 4 years so I can speak from first hand experience. Before I came here I had the same image of Japan, but after being here for a while I can tell you that your image of Japan is not how it really is.

The Nintendo and Walkman era has ended. I wish people outside of Japan would finally realize this and stop acting surprised when Japan doesn't seem to be following the latest tech trend.
20-30% fully diluted is typical if you are taking money from a VC in a seed or A round. There are always exceptions (i.e. you are a "hot" company). In fact, a lot of VCs care less about valuations and are more focused on their percentage ownership after the financing.

Fully diluted means after they carve out an option pool from your pre-money. Venture Hacks has a great post about the Option Pool Shuffle that you should read if you're not familiar with it.
I will say this as loud as possible: Killing Palestinians ans kicking them out of their own land is wrong, no matter what happened some years ago in some where else in this world by some one else.
Sounds interesting - definitely something I would try out. We played a bit the crm114 on beepl, I have a pretty sweet python wrapper for it if you like to see.. The project sits on http://alpha.beepl.com - we use crm114 to 1) identify most interesting answer, 2) also to identify "good" questions (those seeking an answer) on twitter, 3) to combat spam. http://crm114.sf.net It's a good shit! I say go for it!
Maybe they should have called it "Poogle"
First thing, TechCrunch isn't the be-all-end-all of tech sites. Number two, Mike Butcher's self proclaimed description of himself is "Butcher by name, Butcher by nature"

It's a real shame that a lot of people think TechCrunch is the place you need to go to "Make It"

So you got a bad review, pfff

My only advice would be, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try, try, try again.
Worth reading just for this paragraph:

I began having difficulty finding people to discuss ideas and thoughts with. When I did find someone who I could brainstorm and bounce ideas off of it was a very surreal feeling. I loved every minute of it and did not want to stop. Even today I have very few of these conversations but cherish the people I can have these conversations with. I enjoy my ideas being challenged. I enjoy being challenged, period. My level of excitement in these conversations are off the hook.
TC especially europe is nothing to stress, it hasn't got many people watching it anyone, looks at alexa for traffic reviews. You'll get better feedback on HN
Free Software Bookstore
I'm not sure how you can say that with such confidence. Hardware support for a particular codec comes from a high level of demand for use of that codec. Demand comes from content producers and consumers. If Microsoft, Apple and the other consumer hardware vendors are committed to H.264 and the only major producer that is serving VP8 (YouTube) is also serving H.264, I'm not seeing where this demand is going to come from.
If I was a anime fan, I'd love this lol
> The site is horrible. Period.

They don't claim to be web designers. The web site is easy to use and a great resource for beginners. Their XPath tutorial was much better than other tutorials when I needed to get a quick start a couple of years ago.

The table discussion is irrelevant to the users. Most of them never look at the source code and is interested in the actual tutorials. If table based layout invalidates a site, you should stop using Google, HN and Stack Overflow...
It can be useful to have a tl;dr, but you seem to be describing something completely different. Fraser didn't get trolled, nor was he trolling. He was contributing constructively, but he changed his style. He didn't get trolled, he just got ignored (after hints that he should change his style).

If you think someone was being trolled, can you explain why and how you came to that conclusion?
Do they really?

Firstly, the perceived lack-of-outdoors-usability hasn't stopped them selling a ton of the first generation model already.

Secondly, my experience of using an ipad outdoors -- limited, because I don't have a garden -- is that it's fine except in direct bright sunlight from a cloudless sky (i.e. a single focal very bright light source): it's still readable on a day with high broken cloud and sunlight. The extreme case (bright sunlight, blue sky) is still manageable if you can position the ipad so it's not reflecting the sun straight in your eyes.

Seriously. There has been progress in the daylight-usability of backlit LCD displays over the past decade ...
Thanks for writing this up—usually being TechCrunched is a very positive thing for a startup, but sometimes it's not.

I'd actually say that it was, in the long run, a positive experience. You improved your product. The negative press probably brought in a lot of users. And now you're in a better position.

Good on you. Keep working at it.
A world without _bad_ advertising:

Opt-in + Opt-out advertising.

Asking your friends, alpha-geeks are better.

Trusty recommendation engines where I place my interests and earn my respect by don't trying to fool me.
Human beings have been altering their state of consciousness with various substances for all of recorded history and probably for all time. Mostly use of drugs was in an approved social or religious context that provided structure and meaning to the experience. Certainly, there is always the risk of some kind of harm, but history has demonstrated fairly conclusively that the most harm comes when drug use is illegal. When you take away the social, cultural and spiritual support for the experience. When you create an underground market for drugs etc.
I think that the biggest problem is that people don't know for what to use things like that. Here at HN population is smart and they will know what and how. But if you like to catch broader developer population I think it will be great to provide separate APIs for things like sentiment analysis, comment spam analysis, images or any other concrete problem solution. If you have a platform, why not to simplify all and solve someones pain.

Ofcourse, general API will also have an audience, but on this way you will separate yourself from players like Google.
developers like notch have shown that they can make games that will become immensely successful in new genres, such as sandbox games

I would be the first one to want that to be true (since I'm trying to break into indie gamedev). However, only notch with minecraft showed that so far, and while it is an immense success for an indie game - sales figures are modest in contrast to AAA games.
How are people working in a hotel not random?
Read on. As tl correctly points out, EA doesn't employ 1,000 Minecraft developers. Their staff consists of maybe 3-5 Notch-like people, quite a few idiots, and 900 thoroughly average developers.

This specific group of people maximizes profits by producing big AAA titles which require some genius but mainly a lot of solid work. If they started churning out 1000 pseudo-Minecrafts every year, 99% would crash and burn. The rest would make good profit -- not as much as one Call of Duty, though. For EA- or Blizzard-like entities, the Minecraft-model makes a lot less sense than producing predictable juggernauts like Starcraft III and Halo 43.
I think you'll agree that privacy is about not leaking personal informations in unwanted ways, period. "Control" sounds like an excellent fit. Now there are various means of control.

One of them would be the expectation you speak of. The goal stays the same though: I don't want my neighbour to know the size of my d---. I want to control who knows that.

Another mean would be trust. When I tell something private to a friend, I may trust her not to tell anyone else. I still want to control who knows that "something private".

Yet another is plain paying attention. If my backyard is visible from the outside, then someone may look inside accidentally. In that case, I cannot reasonably expect no one will see. Same thing with Facebook, only worse.
It doesn't concern me that much, but I'd rather fill the drive with random data myself first. I can do the ATA-erase thing afterwards.

On a related note, I also have zero trust in manufacturer-supplied encryption that sits in the drives. There is no way for me to verify whether it actually does anything.
Advertising is only annoying when it isn't targeted enough. Perfectly targeted advertising will be indistinguishable from any other piece of information in the near future with advanced recommendation engines.

I'd be curious to know how will this perfectly targeted advertising find its perfect targets for, say, selling V1aGra.
I moved to Warsaw Poland in 1992 for one year of foreign study. The wall had come down 3 years earlier and Poland was quickly transitioning. There were no billboards when I moved there. Nothing. Nada. There might have been the occasional Coca Cola sign on the side of a kiosk but billboards didn't exist.

I distinctly remember when I saw the first billboard in Warsaw. After the first one they just started popping up everywhere, on all the streets. I remember the psychological realization that Poland was now somehow joining in some international conversation. The adverts made me feel less isolated in Poland. But also made me feel small and insignificant. Seeing adverts for the first time in a year, and the first time in my new country, was a catalyst for a psychological reevaluation of my place in the world.

This experience led me to believe that advertising disempowers while also connecting people. And its affect is psychological. Not physical but still profound.
Tumblr appears to be very popular over there. Instgrrm too.

Can anyone from Japan comment on these two?
No, although cheques are (in the UK at least, I'm not sure about internationally) about to become a thing of the past.
It's a hard problem; 99% of everything is irrelevant to 99% of all people.
Yeah, I'm quite surprised by that. I just thought I would mention it in passing.