skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it depends who you are targetting i guess, 1.40 sounds very high but prob what they want for some us targetting? I tried getting specific, going for slightly cheaper groups and it still recormended like 50 cents. dont know what your ads are but i didnt find people at all interested ads for products, very low conversion
Hmm, I feel differently. My basic perception is that under his rule, Google somehow lost its focus and transitioned from the indispensable service to just a product company. Put another way, currently it is easier to live without Google that it was 10 years ago (but to be fair, I can't say if that is due or despite Schmidt's leadership).
I cant help but think of the fonejacker cinema prank and laugh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOkJjjwmnk
I'm starting a hackerspace in Bilbao and will probably find myself in the same situation in 1-2 years. We have a huge awesome space (944m^2) for free but if it gets sold or rented we'll have to move out. The plan is to use this year to recruit members and save money to be able to rent a smaller place when we move out.

What you should do is just raise the fees for the members. 20e (8 for students) is a really low monthly fee for a hackerspace. Lots of spaces have monthly fees around 80$ with some reduced memberships (40-50$) for students or "starving hackers". Until now you were able to keep the membership cheap since you weren't paying rent but you should definitely raise the fees, a lot, if you want to survive.

I guess that you have already debated and voted on this. If you raise the fee so drastically you will probably lose half the members but at least you won't have to depend on donations. A couple years ago I was part of local Linux Users Group, we had a nice space with only 20 members and a 75e monthly fee. Raising the fee to pay the rent filtered the the people who didn't really commit to the project.

Find a smaller place if you need to but reducing the group to people who really "get it" will probably get you a smaller and much nicer hackerspace. Of course, if someone cannot pay but is really interested and can help around, you should make some exceptions.

The site says that you need 3000-3500e to move. If you have 80 members it's just 40euros per member, if the members really want to have a hackerspace it shouldn't be too hard to reach.
The wasteful corn ethanol subsidy is another example of American agri-corporatism.
Take baby steps to change behaviour. Don't believe in "will power".

http://www.slideshare.net/captology/stanford-6401325
The single worst thing that people do wrong when writing regular expressions is to use .* x when really they should use [^x]* x (i.e. the common case of looking for some kind of terminator 'x')

The worst case I ever saw had many .* running over some c++ source which would take several minutes per file. Presumably trying all combinations of backtracking. With the negated character class [^x] it was < .1 of a second.

Edit: I see his twitter feed has .* as the icon. Ha!

Edit2: My * are getting eaten by the formatter. There should be no space after them
'Social search' will be the next big thing unless there's anything else going on. Rest assured there will be a next big think regardless of whether or not it is of benefit to society.
Verizon Sues F.C.C. to Overturn Order on Blocking Web Sites
Ask HN: Please review my new Facebook app CrazyBookTitles.com
recommend books with funny titles to friends with CrazyBookTitles

http://apps.facebook.com/crazybooktitles/
StartupBootcamp, the First true Europen Startup Accelerator is out
I can vaguely remember this being referred to once before. I'm pretty sure it's just one of many things pg is doing to prevent people from sensationalizing submission titles. Another is a fairly short character limit.
One of my favorite things about XBMC is the plugins. The plugins are basically web scrapers that present content within the interface. If there isn't one you want for a particular website, build your own! They're written in python and could make a fun weekend project. Once your done commit it to the official repository.
Robots evolve both bodies and brains for robust walking
Damn, I thought needing something like 3GB to compile PyPy on 64-bit put us in some class on unreasonable usage, interesting to see that it's apparently not so crazy for large projects.
It'd be neat to start dynamically adding more cores or RAM or storage as you start to hit capacity on an instance.
People will be made happy giving or receiving mugs and t-shirts with good designs on them. By all means leave the ads out of the equation if you're not interested in exploiting that angle, but there's no need to leave money on the table.
He said it during a press event in New York. There were ppl live blogging in the room but somehow nobody picked up that part of what he said, but I remember at least one person tweeting it.

He said it in passing, while talking about the Google mobile strategy (the summary of what he said was "we sort of fell into this business, nobody really understands it just yet (mobile ads) or how big the opportunity will be")

I agree Android was setting itself up for an acquisition, same as what happen with Danger. They were probably aiming for a carrier or large non-Apple manufacturer.
Self-healing polymer repairs itself when exposed to light
Why all the hate for Apple? This article is about how opinion of Google has soured.

There's no hate for Apple. There is, however, perspective on human behavior, one of which is a "with us or against us" mentality.
Unfortunately, you are probably not going to get much favourable response here because we can't try your app without giving your app access to our intestines. If you've spent any time on HN, you know most people here hate it.

Do you have a version I can try without FB login?
The technique seems (from what little info they give) to be a simplified version of TM. A Harvard Cardiologist also created a simplified version of TM and you can probably get the book The Relaxation Response from a library.

Even better, here's an online step-by-step guide:

http://www.relaxationresponse.org/steps/
I think you're reading the tone wrong.

But you're completely wrong about your last objection. The thing that is disgusting is war, what makes it even more disgusting is when nobody cares because it is 'just a bunch of brown people killing each other'.

The complete apathy of western nations towards wars in distant places and genocide is disgusting. What the Kurds are going through and have gone through is disgusting. What is going on in Africa is disgusting. America trying to ban the promotion of abstinence in Aids torn countries (because it isn't 'culturally sensitive') is disgusting. What the Arabs did to the Jews back in the 60s (booted them out, seized their property without compensation) was disgusting. What the Arabs did to the Palestinians back in the 60s was almost as bad. That certain factions in western nations want Israel to make concessions (and get nothing back in return) with people who have written into their constitutions that the Israeli state should be abolished by force, is disgusting.

The use of children as soldiers, is disgusting.

What America did to Indonesia is disgusting (crushed a democracy, put a military dictator into power). That the Dutch were so oppressive that the conquering Imperial Japanese were seen as liberators, is disgusting. What the Japanese did to captured chinese women is disgusting. The Japanese treatment of POWs was disgusting. The American arrest and imprisonment of their own citizens of (distant) Japanese descent during WWII is disgusting. Extraordinary rendition is disgusting. Tazing people in wheelchairs or already behind bars is disgusting. American cops beating the crap out of ordinary black citizens for no good reason is disgusting. American treatment of immigration issues is disgusting. What the U.S. did to native Americans is disgusting. Guantanamo bay is disgusting.

What the British did to the Jews in the early 20th century is disgusting. That the Arabs thought Hitler was a great guy because he wanted to kill all the Jews is disgusting. What happened in Bosnia/Serbia is disgusting. What the British did to the Cypriots is disgusting too (betrayed them to the Turks).

But no, please feel outraged at me. I'm sure that is the appropriate response.

Speaking of Iran, wasn't there a democracy, that the US overthrew, tried to put a puppet in power and ended up with a rabid militant theocracy instead? And I'm the disgusting one? Seriously?

Did I mention the Americans regularly overthrowing democracies and trying to put puppets in their place? Has that ever worked for you guys? Why do you keep trying the same thing that fails over and over again? Are you insane?
The applications for this sort of material are pretty incredible. Rubbery materials can often tear/degrade easily; I can't tell you how many times I've torn some soft plastic and thought to myself, "Well, that's useless now..." This material has the potential to totally change that.

Also, did anyone think of Superman when reading this story? I couldn't help but be reminded that he, too, is healed by "the power of the yellow sun".
Don't forget Enron.
Champix Sells Out In Japan
That's an interesting point. Kind of a Monolithic IDE vs a microkernel IDE argument... Yeah... not so sure I like where this is going... :D
no. as the premise of the app is for you to recommend books to other people. I hate signups too.
I could make one for the other networks I suppose but I cant find a way to circumvent the basic recommendation premise.
each of the permissions taken are for the application to use legitimately and with permission from the user at every stage.
hope you give it a chance
The chat feature adds a nice big brother touch to this thing, really nice.
Cal Newport also does a great job in keeping up with a lot of the published literature in these fields. Check out his books and blog at http://calnewport.com. It's been incredibly helpful to me over the past few years.
They seem to bat maybe .200 with successes, but the thinking here is probably "Why not?". It costs them almost nothing, takes very minimal effort, and at worst creates another revenue stream for Google.
Seriously?

I like your blog but please never write something like algorithms are for people who can't afford more ram. Memory management and efficiency should always be a goal, or else you end up with browsers using 2gb of ram with 5 tabs open, and more crap like that.

Yes, memory is cheap. That shouldn't promote terrible code.
Vostok4 on January 21, 2011 12:09 AM

That was my first thought.

I still have a laptop I bought in '07 with just 1G of RAM. It works fine and I've never felt compelled to drop a grand or two every couple of years just so that I can.. what? Use more system resources to do the same things I always do?

The problem I've been having with NOT keeping up in the tech arms race at home is that this poor laptop can easily start paging memory with only a couple of Gnome apps open and FF running. It used to be a pretty decent machine.

There are contexts where it's "cheaper" to throw hardware at the problem. I don't think the desktop is one of those areas. Not everyone using them is an engineer being paid over a hundred dollars an hour.
Isn't Mercurial pretty popular with .NET developers these days, more so than Git (because of the - accurate or not I don't know - pervasive FUD about Git on Windows)? Our company uses it and so do several others I know. It's also the only DVCS supported by Microsoft's online code repository service. Surprised to see it not yet mentioned here among several source control posts.
For a little "walking around money".

But I imagine it's for liquidity's sake. Why would he think that the thing he has the most control in would stop being the best thing to invest in? It's like someone who owns a bagel shop selling some shares to own part of a coffee shop down the way.

Unless there are things out of Google's control that are coming, which might change the valuation. Or more importantly, impact their profit potential/share value increase potential?
The Borders Story: Is This the Final Chapter?
Linking Chromium on Windows hit swap for me with 8GB.
I agree with UML and CASE tools, it was always a time-waster that produce too many things and never used.

But I disagree with XML and OOP. XML was necessary for the first web APIs we had (they were called SOAP, in case you wasn't a developer that time). And OOP is everything you do, it's a way to write code more clear and maintainable (just forget everything about the 'reuse your code' and 'speed you development', OOP isn't just about this).
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Exactly. The .NET "community" is home to mostly enterprise devs who only ever code to pay the bills. Any developer that is hip to Herkou, and loves Git and automated testing and deployment, is not going to be starting a new .NET app. They'll start an app in Ruby, Python, Clojure, Haskell or Smalltalk (or something).

I'm only speaking from experience here. It's just not a community of tinkerers that's on the cutting edge. I can't think of a single exciting .NET open source project. All of the good stuff that I know of in .NET is commercial: Stack Overflow, Unity, umm... anything else? It's a community that waits for the next thing to be handed down from Microsoft.

Show me Heroku for Seaside... now we're talking!

P.S. If anybody wants to show me some vibrant cutting-edge open source projects built on .NET instead of just downvoting, I'd love to know. Thanks!
I found it really great ! Captures the whacky, artistic vibe that I think they wanted to create really well. (I had no problems in Chrome 8)
We use Git with Cygwin for .NET projects. Sometimes it is a real pain. Mostly it just works, though.
Ok I did. The problem is that the only interesting thing about the books is their titles. I can't recommend them to my friends because I haven't read any of them!

Maybe a more fun thing will be to ask people to create funny titles for famous books?
Where I come from, we consider all hypotheses null until significant proof has been shown to back it up. I've seen none of this proof - let alone the scientific method being used. Therefore, it's clearly false - not "100% I can prove it's a duck-false", but it walks, talks and acts like one.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/C_.html
I think it's more common with a total of 4 slots with sandy bridge though, since it's dual channel. The largest kit i could find in stock at my favorite store is 4x4GB, which is 16GB. So i guess if your only priority is memory amount, an i7 would be a good choice..
hi there! i am the creator of this software. Can you tell me which version of Chrome are you running so i can look into that.
If you have any suggestions regarding the UI in order to improve it, please do so! So i can make sure one day you'll dig this software ;-)
Your math is wrong. 10% (cannot be automated) + 0.9% (can and has been automated) = 10.9%

What you do with that extra 89.1% you just liberated is unspecified. You're making an assumption about what happens to that extra time, I think you should be more explicit about it. You say:

"The part that can't be automated remains constant, however"

You need to back that up somehow. I am unconvinced that this 90:10 ratio is some cosmic law.

Also, you are buying into the original authors deeply flawed premise that work that cannot be automated is tedious and distasteful.

I respectfully completely disagree. You have it exactly backwards. The tedious and distasteful stuff is first in line for automation, not last. The stuff that cannot be automated is always the most interesting stuff, because it is the bit that requires you to engage your brain.

Example: automation can give you really really bad software design, but for good software design nothing comes close to doing it 'by hand' (or rather 'by brain').
:-)
thats a very good idea. Thanks a lot.
What's the bottleneck on the Chromium build on your machine?
First true european startup accelerator?

Come on, this is HN. Cut the bullshit marketing crap and tell us what's cool about this, what's different, etc. Don't post a standard marketroid press release...
As far as I can see get your social network website running in the time it takes to make coffee (adapted from one of the sub-pages) is your core value proposition, and it should be in big letters on the home page instead of generic phrases like "leap-frog your competition and be a leader, not a follower" and sentences listing technologies.

Much of your text reads like it was written for search engines rather than humans to read, and your screenshots and examples could be a lot more attractive.

Looking at the price points you're looking to charge, paying a professional designer and copywriter would be worth the money here, assuming the end product is fit for purpose.
Thanks for the feedback MindTwister. I take note of it and will add a mute button dedicated to you. With your name on it. ;-)
>The point was: people are incoherent in their dismissal of argument from authority. E.g. many (most?) in anti-GM movement also acknowledge anthropogenic global warming as true, obviously having no issue with IPCC authority on it.

This is just using an ad hominem to attack people who cite the argument from authority fallacy. Science is also based on careful examination of empirical evidence, not unsubstantiated pronouncements by authority figures.
Just out of curiosity can you highlight the advantages lift has over other modern frameworks such as rails or django (and maybe some of the php frameworks). Most (or all) of the 7 things ship with rails 3. Stacking them up against one another might yield a better comparison.
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A VC: Greed and Fear
CSS background image hacks
"the fact that text/xml documents default to US-ASCII surprises a lot of people (including me), but the HTTP spec is very clear about it."

it's a [s]man's[/s] American world :) :(
I'm kind of with you on this. I'm not sure that certain segments of the software world have done themselves any favors by giving businesses and consumers the idea that software should always be free. No other industry works this way, where the core product is given away for free and the actual income must be garnered through donations/advertising/?.

Developing a product for fun is one thing, but taking the extra several months/years to polish it and make it saleable, along with setting up the necessary infrastructure to do so, is something that requires some possibility of profit. Without this possibility, most developers won't bother, and we end up with a ton of half-completed software projects that may have been something good if seen through to the end.

I see this as especially a problem with developer tools/languages, which are experiencing serious fragmentation and "language of the month" symptoms on the free side of the market, while also experiencing significant consolidation among the big players on the for-profit side of the market. A symptom of this dysfunction is that the biggest platform (for all intents and purposes, it is a "platform") in the world right now, the browser, only uses a single language - Javascript. I can't think of any platform in the past 40 years that only allowed the use of a single language.

Just to clarify: trial software and any business model that allows potential customers to try out software before buying is a perfectly legitimate business model. Giving away software for free, getting a bunch of users, and then dumping the project because you can't afford to support it anymore, is not. Such a model is a recipe for chaos and an industry in constant turmoil.
I think by "promote bad practices" you might mean "abstracts complexity away from the developer".

This is true of just about any API. Nobody blames the API when their ORM layer generates a massive SQL query based on complex query input. Understanding the performance characteristics of the 'backend' is assumed.
Next generation audio: Ghost update
Bring Me the Head of Eric Schmidt
If you have only one server, then you are going to add $xx; instead of spending $xxxx fixing it.

Google has to add $xx * the number of its' servers vs. $xxxx fixing it by one or two developers.
Rats- not mice. Huge difference
Isn't Search pretty much the only thing Google was known for before Schmidt's tenure? Everything from Gmail to Android to Chrome to Maps to Self-driving cars has been developed whilst Schmidt was CEO.

When Schmidt joined, Google was a search company. A damn good search company, but still just search. Now they're a phenomenally influential technology company, who's products affect billions of lives every day. The fact that they didn't just sit on piles of cash but have used it to revolutionize field after field of endeavour is a striking achievement in diversification.
Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision
Nokia Monitor Test 1.10 Portable + rus
There is this at the end of the page:

Terms of use: no crawlers, no wget, no site copying, use of pictures and text only with permission. No excessive rss feed checking.
Looks like it's great for building the things the authors thought you might want to build.

Just like every other "SuperMagic" framework, I suspect there's a lot of pain to be had once you step just a little outside of what it expects you to do with it.

We've all re-written Django inside of Django at least once, and thus have been burned by this sort of thing before. Personally, I think I'll wait to see some big projects written by people other than the framework designers before I agree that this is indeed the "best" web framework.
Minor correction: someone reimplemented a USB keyboard driver for Linux - f_hid has been part of the mainline kernel since ~1 year: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...

I don't know why they didn't just use that one - Presumably because their Android phone uses an ancient kernel version.
Meh... not too impressive. Parallel Rendering: why is this a big deal? Wiring is what ASP.NET has been doing for ages. I don't see the Wizard being more than a few lines of Clojure, and Seaside just completely blows it away.
Some activity in the vimperator project (even if it's a fork) is great. I've been using it for years, but some annoying bugs (that I've learned to live with) continue to persist, such as the state reverting on page load. On most sites, this is after you're able to interact with the page. You could be typing something in a form, then the state resets, and you press r only to have it reload the entire page.

Edit: Just installed Pentadactyl, it's also much faster.
Are you arguing, or are you angry-agreeing with me? The end result is the same: the OP's claim is bogus until proven otherwise.
The sell-off of shares Brin and Page were going to make was supposed to be spaced out over several years, so I think they still retain the majority of the voting power.

Anyway, eventually they'll be keeping 48% of votes, which de facto still grants them full control over the company.
I just signed up for it to take a look but couldn't find anything related to costs.

How is this thing costed?
So is usual non-cloud hosting. Well, not turning off my home desktop PC is certainly not "cloud", but, given I have fast and stable network connection and power supply, it works equally (?) well.

That's why my question emphasized the "cloud" word.
Not only is it a pain for users, but also for web application developers. I recently had to explicitly check for and strip out the Skype phone number highlighting code in the back-end of a simple database app.

Just look at the astonishing number of odd places that the highlighting codes have ended up on the web: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=begin_of_the_skype_highligh...