skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This depends on how quickly you can ramp up capacity if China starts to increase prices or decrease supply. My guess with developed countries is that the answer to that is "not quickly", as we tend to be more fastidious about bureaucracy. The rate of ramping back up capacity decreases even quicker once China starts to get an R&D advantage from economies of scale and years of research into improving their processes. Compare the hoo hah over rare earth metals.

Who's responsible for long-term planning of renewables in the US? The first result in DDG for "US renewable energy plan" is "US renewable energy plan 'shortsighted'":

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/...
Servers, proxies, chat bots. That's what node is good for. 90% of JS lovers like me are still waiting for a simpler/easier way of building web apps using JS on the server. The only one close enough to my dream is V8CGI ( http://code.google.com/p/v8cgi/ ) but it remains hidden in a dark dungeon at a haunted castle nobody dares to go, yet...
LG disappointed by Windows Phone 7 launch, keeping the faith
https://heatmap.mozillalabs.com/mozmetrics/?os=all&color...
MBA hiring: Back with a vengeance - Fortune Management
I added a micro-definition in the title. Here's the full description : continuous javascript integration using JSLint, Google Compiler and Node.js .
Nobody who does software security professionally would suggest Dancho is a "script kid". Your first tip-off might have been the article, where you'd learn that his disappearance was featured in the ZDNet security blog, where he is a contributor.
This was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this. For-profit colleges could be a viable venture if they were partly liable for the loans students must take to attend. That would align their profit motives with the success of students and investors.

Right now it's a pyramid scheme about to bust. Banks, and by virtue of lender of last resort, the government end up swallowing this debt.
So we're loaning the finance industry trillion dollars at essentially zero interest rate just so they can lend it back to federal government by buying treasuries and pocket the difference (and thus "recover from the crisis"), while China lends tens of billions dollars more than US does to solar energy companies. I hope I'm not the only one who finds the implications scary.
i think is a good idea. the final product is not ready yet but it is a step forward for ide development. It could also boost collaborative work among developers and it might improve security and availability(keeping the code away from the developer desktop it easier to backup, avoid code stealing, etc.)
"first 'successful'" means that it's my first project used in production by other developers. For me, it's enough to consider it 'successful' (with the quotes).
I've always appreciated having someone (a skilled professor, a peer, or an upperclassman) point out interesting things in whatever I am studying. That way, it's easier to get "the point" of the subject or lesson. A lot of textbooks are designed to complement that aspect, rather than to provide it.

I've always thought that people teaching other people required a tight feedback loop and was difficult to do not in person. I'm curious, did you notice that kind of interaction going on at OpenStudy?
Stuffed animal enthusiasts think differently than non-enthusiasts
This is exactly what is going to happen with the lithium battery technologies being developed for hybrids - lots of federal money being poured into research with no restrictions on where they are going to be made.

LiFePo4 battery technology was invented in the USA but now is mostly made in China.

Why do we protect corn with massive subsidies and massive import tariffs (creating horror shows of destructive ethanol, food products and animal feed) but not our technology and jobs?
It takes all three, smarts, hard work and luck. Your nature and your nurture affect the first two. Luck is the x factor that is out of our control to some degree. Although, smarts and hard work will increase our probability that we will find luck, i.e. Your location, the contacts you make, etc.

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Only the first one is a skill that 'non programmers' would readily exhibit, the rest of them are things that you learn as you go while you learn to program.

Outside of math I think you'll have a hard time explaining what recursion is to someone that does not already know how to code at a basic level (a subroutine that calls itself! wow!), seeing the concepts 'under' computer languages may be something you could discuss with linguists and/or mathematicians again but not with others and 'seeing the code flow' you might be able to talk over with a laywer or someone in to electronics (who can 'see' the currents flow when looking at a schematic).
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I feel pretty confident that learning to program rewires the brain in some ways. I think if you take a random set of 18-year-olds with at least some math aptitude and give them some analytical tasks, then give some of them a year or so of good programming instruction and practice, you will see different areas light up on MRI on the same tasks.

If he is saying programmers are born no different from other math/science/engineering types then I mostly agree. Of course if you compare those to the general population there are a lot of poet types who can't really learn math or symbolic systems so programmers are born somewhat different from the population as a whole.
This is what I see Facebook in 3 years: a place where older women play casual games.

Everyone else has already moved on to mobile apps, doing group texting, picture taking, video conferencing, game playing, and event meeting. Away from their parents.

And Facebook has no clout on mobile. They're but one of many social apps on Google and Apple's platform. In fact, you're seeing the beginning of the end of facebook, with instagram/hashable/groupme/etc picking up momentum.
I just got a bunch of offers from the valley. Here are some numbers:

3 big named, 10-40 people, post-A companies offered 100K-130K salary, and about 0.15%-0.2% equity.

One stealth, seed-funded company in which I would be a funding team member, offers 1%-3% equity with correspondent salary.
My 350GB of music is backed up on Backblaze (a wonderful service), but seeing those visualizations reminded me of the environmental impact of my digital packratting. That's a sizable data center keeping my data happy and backed up.
I agree. Facebook will have challenges. How long they survive will depend on how fast they can react to these challenges. They have, however, a '600 million users' advantage...
I think that incinerating the disk should erase the data. Magnetic material become normal materials after some temperature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature . Usually it is no more than 1000 C/ 1800 F, so a good fire should be enough.

Warning: I don't know if the fumes are toxic.
There's a big difference between "storage" and "processing". But it's true, Google stores plenty of data too.
I'd also recommend looking at webwallflower, which lists a lot of networking meetups not on meetup.com: http://webwallflower.com
I'd like to see a compiled list of open technologies Apple has chosen vs closed. "invariably closed" my arse.
For a ssjs implementation to win my heart this is how I would like to code my apps:

require session,models,template

function main(request,response){
session.start()
data = models.getEntries()
html = template.render('blog',data)
response.write(html)
}

Can not be simpler, hide all complexities from the coder so he can concentrate on building apps, not fighting with code.
> This is why I like the word "hacker" outside of it's more "modern" meaning. A programmer can be nearly anyone with some basic skills, but a hacker is a fundamentally different animal from the rest of the general population. The hacker doesn't even necessarily have to be better than the bulk of his non-hacker, regular programmer, peers (though I imagine you'll often find that to be the case) because it's not about skill, it's about mindset.

Not sure if you realize it, but this ties in perfectly with apl's original point about self-aggrandizement. What better way of congratulating yourself for being a different, superior kind of person than using a term which (by your definition) puts you into an exclusive club without even requiring you to be smarter?
The power and importance of "I don't know"
Are there similar sites to Hacker News?
I read Hacker News pretty religiously, but are there any other good sites out there with similar community and content? I also enjoy Techmeme for less geeky stuff.
Later in the same paragraph: Node.js is architected near perfectly for this situation. (And Proxlet demonstrates amazing throughput on minimal hardware to validate that).

That sounds like a good reason to me.
First thoughts on Erlang
I doubt that Facebook will be temporary in the way that Friendster and MySpace have proven to be but I think that they will peak and decline (in the US) in the not-too-distant future.

I think they have 2 strengths. Photos and the Social Graph.

Their dominance in photos seems to be nearly accidental but it will serve to prevent a MySpace/Friendster type decline. Tho there are ways to extract your photos, it's never going to be something most users are comfortable with. People won't want to walk away from their years of memories and will keep their Facebook accounts somewhat active as a repository for their photos.

The social graph is their biggest asset but I don't feel like they are capitalizing on it enough. I don't really play games so I only use Facebook to occassionally read my News Feed and, every month, I'm less and less interested in what I read there. They haven't created anything I NEED.

Their Facebook Connect/Single Sign On system is their attempt to make us dependent on the social graph but I don't think it's succeeded. Twitter, OpenID, Google, etc all have similar products and most websites have implemented more than one of them.

If I were Facebook, I'd buy or build a proper email product, an online productivity suite (Zoho, etc), and encourage 3rd parties to develop and promote apps that operate WITHIN Facebook and utilize the social graph to be interoperable/collaborative. (Right now, Facebook apps are mainly games and marketing efforts). Facebook as a place to "hangout" is going to decline but they might be able to offset their losses their with increases in other areas (work, education, etc).
Agreed. Facebook can't forever be what people want it to be. At some point, we will want something that is different enough, that FB can't adopt or morph into it.
You can get close with expressjs
apl is asserting a correlation, not a cause or even a symptom.

For example (and at the risk of revealing my poor music tastes :P), the phrase "volvo driving soccer mom" doesn't imply that all volvo drivers are soccer moms, nor that driving a volvo will make you a soccer mom.
As for the problem of cross-platform portability with new make-tools, and the complaint about having to learn a new language with make-replacements (two complaints raised in the posts comments), it might be possible to have a simple shell-script build the build-system, which then builds your code.

I made such a thing for C++ years ago. It adds a header and a footer to your pure C++ build-script, compiles it, and then runs it (compiling your program). It also included extension libraries that did some more advanced things, such as detect local dependencies, but still was very toy-like and unpolished. I never advertised it widely, especially after I started to use Ruby instead of C++ for the project it was related to.

Still, the basic idea of including the build-system in source-form with ones code might be interesting to some people... at least makes it easy to fix, deliver, and extend.

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=3730... (unix / linux only)
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I would put poets amongst the manipulators of symbols par excellence. They manipulate the language we humans use, programmers manipulate symbols defined to interact with a machine.
No, Facebook will persist beyond the heat-death of the universe.

Silly title. Everything's temporary.
First off, I didn't downvote you.
However, the comparison is wrong imho because disk storage is not simply about storing information. Disks also need fast read/write access, which DNA certainly doesn't have for us (for now?).
This is not necessarily a defense, but...

Until very recently in India, being anything other than a doctor, engineer or MBA meant earning salaries so poor that you'd end up depending on your children for financial support when you retired. This in turn drove you to spend as much money as you could on your children's education because it was an investment in your own future, while also serving as a badge of pride when your kids came home with straight As. So, you'd find folks who instead of trying to build a meager pension, would instead pool all their resources into a college education for their children. Indeed, many old Indian movies use the image of a son who abandons his parents in search of a glitzy life in the city to portray his villainy.

These professions were not natural callings but the only option out of an existence of drudgery. Things are changing now, with the advent of the BPO industry, and the subsequent higher earning power which can then fund other circles of vocations. Consequently you see several guys opting for the arts or other paths less followed.
Yeah, don't forget to set DEBUG = False. The above error message should never been seen by users. Also, when DEBUG = True Django stores all SQL queries (and other stuff I don't remember now)* in memory*. Not good.
Why Prototype JS Development is so slow?
I must have misread the title first time around (unless it changed). Did not see word 'my' there on first reading.
The difference is the explicit mention that neither group is superior. Splitting people up by how "smart" they are (how can you even begin to measure that?) is entirely uninteresting. Think of it more like a division between "Type A" and "Type B" personalities.

It's not about smarts or superiority, it's just a way of classifying motivation.
Racket is not a scheme.
It was completely unreadable for me, on firefox, ubuntu lynx. Fortunately, readability cleaned it up.
There is a NewTech meeting the first Tuesday of every month at DLA pipers in Palo Alto. They have 3-4 demos of products(typically web apps) followed by networking. It includes free pizza/wine/beer.
We are envisioning storage, a bunch of disconnected drives piled on top of each other is also not accessible for read/write access.
I tried to figure out the test, (and suspected there might be no scoring mechanism at all) but still felt obligated to answer the questions honestly, despite thinking that some were clearly the "programmer" answer.

Maybe I should get the "golden patsy" award for knowing how to game the system but not doing it.
Yes, we do. Heatmap from Mozilla [1], accompanying blog post [2].

Participants had to opt-in, the study collected data for five days from 9,667 people.

7.3 percent of all participants clicked the RSS button at least once in those five days. That places it behind the favicon (those seem to be accidental clicks [3], 9%), the Go button (11.4%), as well as the New Tab button in the tab bar (12.7%) and in front of the New Tab button in the toolbar (not displayed by default, 5.2%) as well as the Site Identity button for websites with SSL (4.8%).

A participant clicked the button 0.3 times on average, the 9,667 participants clicked about 3,000 times. Since we know that 7.3 percent of all those participants clicked the button, we also know that those who clicked the button did so about four times on average.

[1] https://heatmap.mozillalabs.com/mozmetrics/

[2] http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/07/01/firefox-main-wind...

[3] If a website doesn’t use SSL, clicking the favicon does nothing in Firefox except displaying a short note that the current website doesn’t use SSL. Since only 4.8% click when a website actually does use SSL (and when the favicon turns into the Site Identity button which is clearly identifiable as such) the majority of those who click on the favicon when it doesn’t look like a button which will display information about certificates seem to be clicking accidentally. Clicking the favicon selects the whole URL in some other browsers (Safari, Chrome, I don’t know about Internet Explorer) so my suspicion is that many of those 9% expect Firefox to do something similar. (I would and it drives me crazy.)
Because it's not an indicator anymore.
I'm far from an expert in this area but one aspect of the situation that I hadn't realized was that federal student loans aren't dischargeable through bankruptcy?

Does that put the onus back on the students who borrowed so much money?
Based upon the Google trends I estimate that Facebook will peak either at the end of this year or some time in the next.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook

Facebook isn't particularly good as an application, so anything which comes along which has more customisability and better privacy will not find it difficult to poach users from Facebook, just as Facebook did from MySpace.
I was hoping for more extensive and definitive. Bandwidth? Latency? Startup time? A meaningful sample with variation from day to day and an idea of variation across instances running at the same time?

For all the dollars being thrown at EC2, I'm surprised someone hasn't gone nuts with benchmarking this for the authority, notoriety and seo link juice.
I don't think Facebook can in any way be compared with Google.

Google has a sustainable business model (for now), Facebook doesn't. Google isn't limited to one product, they're no longer just a search company. Facebook on the other hand, would have a mountain to climb to expand into areas other than 'social'. By the time Google was Facebooks age, they were making money which was able to sustain the business. They didn't need outside investment (I assume).

For some reason, I think Facebook doesn't want an IPO because it would show the world how much money they're actually making, at which point everyone would lose faith. Let's not forget, Facebook is 6 years old.
Ten years ago, I worked at a startup with a fixed 50 hour week without getting burnt out or surfing the web but I don't think I could be as productive as I am now (45 hour week).
Ask HN: Are you planning to move HN to IPv6?
Are you planning to move HN to IPv6?

It would be great to see in IPv6 the content of this site.
Agreed - this argument about the 'cool kids' moving away from Facebook because it now serves such a broad demographic just hasn't materialised. My parents have been Facebook users for ~2 years now, and that's not unusual amongst those I know.
TrimPath Junction: RoR-like JavaScript framework
A full list of companies: https://github.com/ry/node/wiki
Also 95 / 2 = 47.5.

As a 5th grader, though, I'm sure this problem would only have made me hungry.
I know what HEAD^ (and HEAD^^^^^ or whatever) mean.

The fact that I have to make aliases for commonly used tasks is not a point in git's favor to me.
I see many debatable points:

- Blood is far from being that dense, but I'll assume you mean to calculate a theoretical limit.

- If you use the whole of a cell's DNA to encode information, the cell will die. It can't be used to freely encode information like a hard disk.

- There is no way to retrieve information in this system. This is a bit like packing a large amount of extremely high-density magnetic platters in a box and calling this a storage system, which is very different from using actual hard drives with all the complex reading/writing system (heads, space between the platters, magnets...). Even if they're not connected, it still takes room.

- Reliability of hard disks is far, far better than this. Encoding information as a single copy in a single cell is wildly unsafe. Even using multiple copies, it's likely to degrade with mutations.

Edit: I was under the impression that a base pair could only encode one bit of information, since only T-C and A-G are valid combinations. Wikipedia appears to disagree with me but I see no source; does anyone know why Wiki says a base pair could encode 2 bits?
it's not as easy as that, and not very new idea. Some RIRs (Regional Internet Registries) do not allow that. you would need to find some legacy space to do it, which it may be hard. and then some buyers.
also you only have a few years to recover your investment, by the time ipv4 is finished (not the IANA pool, but the actually stock from rirs), probably ipv6 would be a reality.
The button is grayed out (disabled) if the website offers no RSS feed. It’s still an indicator.
May be helpful to compare with the other recent article on this topic here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2100115
Spawn of Groupon
We use Node at Yobongo, and love it. Fantastic for our realtime communication infrastructure.
I can't seem to get this through npm. Has it been published?
David Brooks: Tree of Failure
I've been agitating on the mailing list. True cases of this seem to be fairly rare, and I have come up with a slightly more effective (but ridiculous) workaround: have the multiple target command create an archive of its output, and then each actual target depends on the archive and extracts itself from the archive.
I love Mercurial, but I agree with this. I tried using the bookmarks extension with a colleague who wanted to use branches this way and we had trouble figuring it out. Definitely not as easy as git (though getting new remote branches with git is another thing that drives me crazy and I have to look up every time).

git stash is another thing I really like about git. There are hg alternatives but they are not as easy to use (and if you go the mq route things become so complicated you might as well just use git).
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You'd be making above market and get 1% and get to lead the development effort? Amazing. That's like the holy trinity of tech startups if you ask me. :-)
I was saying that the article did not answer the question if there was a drop off in facebook games and facebook game activity. I assume that only fb can answer these questions.

I put them out there in case anyone did know the answers. The fact I've seen facebook gift cards in stores with Mafia Wars branding seems to me that there a fair few people still playing these games.
http://blog.posterous.com/hey-tumblr-users-got-comments-want...
Startup Quote: James Cash Penney, co-founder, J.C. Penney
Do you really uncommit that frequently? I just either amend my commits or keep adding new commits and squash them later.

The point is that you can make just about any workflow with git. The ones that git users less commonly use may not be have easy toplevel commands. People already complain about how many toplevel commands there are with git.
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

- James Cash Penney

http://startupquote.com/post/2763442372
Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle