skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, I was all set to buy one, but if I can't even use WiFi from in Canada, that's a dealbreaker.
I'm drawing sketches for new version of Flipboard while watching game via twitter (on flt).
Not necessarily. If you run an ssh-agent locally and configure ForwardAgent to 'yes' for connections to your web server you can ssh to your server and use ssh from it without actually putting your private key on it.

I'd still recommend pushing to a server though.
Definitely. Startup work in full effect.
His entire point is that it's Oracle being disingenuous here, and the entire article goes on to explain that reasoning.
>Superb Owl

That is brilliant. Is there a linguistic term for this game? Sort of like reverse portmanteaus.

EDIT: It's a real owl! Unfortunately it is actually a butterfly http://www.neotropicalbutterflies.com/Site%20Revision/Pages/...
... and you have to purchase a data plan before you can use WiFi.

The iPad is still the only tablet in the history of personal computing that makes any sense.
I'm in the U.S., flagging this karma-whoring post.
Well actually just given up as its late UK time, always get a lot done in the quiet time on Sunday evenings when no one else is about!
Ok, Rails Guides definitely deserves mention for being one of the prettiest sources of documentation, but I don't know that it really deserves mention as being a great example of good documentation. I mean it isn't bad, but django's documentation beats the pants off of it.
But most people don't want technology. I don't want a website or any complicated stuff - I want to communicate with and see what my friends are doing (facebook). I don't need an amzingly clustered spider and ranking engine, I just want to find sutff (google). I don't want to talk about feeds and speeds, I just want a computer that "works" (apple). I don't want to talk with some IT Nerd about how Open Source software is superior and about technological lock-in, I just want a positive ROI and want to grow my business (Oracle).

// Oh - and HN's favourite -- I just want to play Bingo with my students.
I don't see HN as a hipster hangout...
In all seriousness, I picked up a digital tuner a few years back for about 40$ on woot. It is shocking the picture quality that can be picked up with a 3' antenna. Check out this rather impressive signal map to see if its a worthwhile investment:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=90
A subsidized high-risk pool probably amounts to the same thing, since almost anyone outside of a sufficiently large insurable group is practically uninsurable by definition. The mathematical necessity to maintain a large risk pool stubbornly resists ideological containment. I don't see why a for-profit entity would have any incentive to reallocate the subsidy that labor already provides to insurance companies (in the form of immobility, high startup costs and the cost of employer administration of health benefits) to pay for a minimal level of health insurance. It seems the government is better situated to provide some minimal level that would stimulate the kind of market for individual insurance that you refer to. I don't see such a market bootstrapping itself into existence--otherwise this already would have happened.
> Managing the codebase is straightforward

not always, often stuff is stored in the db that we want to work on in dev then deploy to production.

but it would be nice to be able to export a selection of nodes to code and preserve there id's, content and metadata. maybe you'll find a features contrib mod http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/11478 but i've never heard of one.
Our peers in the web industry who just happen to be women regularly face difficulties and indignities for no other reason than that they happen to be women. In terms of treating men and women as equals, we're decades behind most of the rest of the professional world.

It makes no sense, it is obnoxious, and GoDaddy spends millions every year to make it worse.

Edit: You are right, of course, that men are often degraded in advertisements. And it does irk me. But the vast majority of the time women get hit a lot harder than we do. This is especially true in computer-related lines of work.
I'm from the UK and the BBC has live coverage. I thought I'd sit down and watch, even though I don't understand the game, because I heard the ads during the Superbowl are great.

I tried to get into it but found myself giving up 15 minutes in. The wait for the ads was too long, so I'm looking at them on Youtube as they come.
Egyptian Division? You mean like ... Mubarak vs. the Protesters?
Probably not. You're better off logging your MySQL queries and filtering out the UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE queries for the tables you're interested in.
I did pasteup as a part-time job during high school at a rather behind-the-times paper in the mid 1990s. It was actually a lot of fun -- e.g. flowing a story from one column to another by loosely folding it into thirds then slicing it up.

Less fun was that they also did not have an insert machine, which meant I got rounded up after a printing to manually stuff a bunch of advertising into section C, then put section C into B, then that into A. Ugh.
Here's what I did to make me better at shipping software (which is slightly different than the question asked.)

I read moneyball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball) - a book about using sabremetrics to create a winning baseball team and realized that everything I knew about being a great programmer and creating a great team was wrong.

The key takeaway I took from the book is that the things we think make a great baseball player (such as RBIs and HR) aren't what help win a game. There are better stats, such as on-base percentage.

In the world of software, I correlate between winning a baseball game with shipping software. And I suspect that what we traditionally recognize as strong individual performance isn't really what leads to shipping great software (same as having someone hit a lot of HRs on your team doesn't mean you'll win a lot of games.)

Right now, I suspect that (so-callled) soft skills around communication and time management are the fundamentals stats that are more important. So I've focused heavily on things like personal and team time management, and writing skills.
Not sure how they can compete with the iPad at that price range.
Ever since I left my old job (heavy football culture) I haven’t really gave a damn for handegg. Working on my local city bus webapp instead.

The new FUEL PHP framework is great, BTW.
There are some seriously great fonts in that collection; I'd like to use some of them offline, but I can't seem to (easily) find a reference to their original sources or download links (I guess not all of them are licensed for non-web-font use, but I'm sure some of them are).
It depends on the economy, Australian tradespeople make the same if not more than good coders right now. We're growing so fast the demand for those skills is high and shows no signs of dropping off.
I don't see permissions or license mentioned anywhere for the fonts they're using - is the copyright situation handled here?

Museo Slab on myfonts.com is $20 for 100k views per month for example.
Unfortunately the link to the FAQ that specifically talked about 4chan's scaling is a dead link now.

I'm currently looking there and asking to see if anybody remembers what its called, and where the FAQ is. It was how to make these in photoshop

I WILL be posting here, to this thread when I have information about it.

Do not open these files unless you are in a secure location in a private area. It's nasty, but it's what links /b/ could provide.

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WARNING - WARNING - WARNING

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Thanks. Except, I'm not sure Hulu qualifies as a web startup since it's a joint venture by NBC et al. I see CareerBuilder is owned by Garnett and others, too. I just watched a salesforce/chatter ad, but again, no longer startups as they are public. Just curious.
Yup, doing both here, too. Was hoping for another halftime wardrobe malfunction, and getting close to having invite codes ready: http://yak.to
Oh. Wait, the Superbowl was this weekend? Oops. All I knew was that Pittsburgh was playing Green Bay.
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I guess without hearing my talk, this might be confusing. Rails Guides is in there as an example of Tutorial type documentation and a way to leverage your project's website.

This presentation was prepared for a Ruby conference, so the examples were geared toward the audience (ruby & rails centric).

More importantly though: When's the last time you used Rails Guides? There was a time when Django's documentation was light years better than anything Rails prepared, but I would very much disagree saying Rails Guides are poor in comparison today.
Except that Oracle is a platform company. As a CIO you are buying into a platform on top of which your in-house developers, or overpaid consultants, will be building a solution. ERP platforms are not Bingo Card Creator.
The original thread http://jenkins.361315.n4.nabble.com/Hudson-Dev-Can-I-get-my-...
The local small town county newspaper used a similar process up until about 4 years ago. They had long since tossed the paper tape equipment, and bought a couple of Macs around 1990 with a laser printer. The column strips were set in MS Word, printed on standard paper, then cut and pasted onto large markup boards using the same wax machine shown in those pictures. The boards were then carried 12 miles down to the next town where there was a press (similar to the Goss Community shown in the pics) and the paper was printed every Wednesday morning.

Now, they have Adobe InDesign, and they can produce a full color front and back page. The PDF is transmitted via the internet to a larger press plant a hundred miles away, and the papers are ready for pickup 18 hours later.

A serious improvement. Best looking local county paper in the area.
The parent post was modded down (it was zero when I read it) due to a disgraceful lack of mathematical ability in the hacker community. I see no other explanation. Insurance has to do with the law of large numbers. Without it, the most elementary business transactions become inconceivable. For competent programmers not to understand the trivial mathematics of risk pools is a cringe-inducing embarrassment. Of course insurance is not like housing. Suggesting that the government act like the insurer of last resort--which is one of its functions--and manage risk to enable markets to function is anything like asking the government to provide universal free housing is ignorant. Some kind of minimal assistance in the form of food, clothing and shelter to the most deprived persons (or the unemployed) is a kind of insurance against misfortunes that could affect anyone, but again this has to do with the law of large numbers. Beyond that minimal level of insurance the government might provide, universal free housing and food has absolutely nothing to do with insurance.

What is preposterous is the implicit idea that because insurance encourages risk-taking, the benefits of insurance must be ignored. That's the conservative fallacy of personal responsibility: that the possibility of the slightest cost (in the form of the riskier behavior enabled by insurance) outweighs any conceivable benefit, and that no cost-benefit analysis is possible. The cost of not understanding risk pools includes reduced economic growth, fewer startups and inflated insurance premiums. The lack of mathematical sophistication among hackers on this point should be humiliating.
Does running an experiment count?
See this recent Sonatype blog post for more background: http://www.sonatype.com/people/2011/02/hudsons-bright-future...

IMO, it sounds like Sonatype (which was already bundling a version of Hudson in their premium product) sees this recent fork as an opportunity to ramp up their contribution to the "offical" Hudson project and take some control.
To be fair, it has 32 gigs of internal storage, so comparing it against the ipad with half the storage isn't quite apples to apples (no pun intended.) It would be more fair to compare it with the $730 32gb w/ 3g ipad. When you could that with a higher resolution screen, dual cameras, /and/ a built in barometer, Id say its a near even deal (http://goo.gl/OYVrd for a full comparison chart).

That being said - its still too much. I just hope they give them out at IO this year.
Won't iterating over a heap-allocated array result in a load for every element? A lot of good C will keep a lot in L1, but it won't always be in registers or on the stack.
Did anyone else have the misfortune of seeing the halftime show? The biggest stage in the world, and they get the black eyed peas to perform?
This seems to be becoming more common, and Facebook as far as I can tell has no active process for it.

A professor I know had a phisher create a duplicate profile with the information/photo cloned from his, who then sent friend requests to all his friends, which a bunch of people reflexively accepted thinking maybe he got a new profile or something. Then people (esp. people over 30) were really confused over the next two weeks or so about which profile was the real one and which was the fake one, though I don't think anybody fell for the phishing scam. To avoid getting the messages the phisher started sending, some people just defriended both profiles!

Facebook didn't respond even after dozens of people clicked the report-this-profile button. Eventually it got taken down only when a friend-of-a-friend of his who works at Facebook promised to pass on the information to the right person.
There's no game theory involved. A million years is a blink of an eye on an evolutionary timescale. When the first civilization has Von Neumann machines, their closest competitor is most likely primordial goo. See http://andabien.com/html/evolution-timeline.htm to get an idea of how long it takes for life to evolve.

Even if there were multiple civilizations in a galaxy, a single "defector" civilization would have vastly more matter under its control than civilizations that did not use Von Neumann probes to expand. With such a huge advantage, they would quickly destroy all competitors.
At the low end $20/month plan, assuming a two year contract, that's $1280 total. Yikes.

The pricing psychology of the iPad starting at $500, then relatively small incremental updates that increase the size and give it 3G makes for a much easier sell.

The Xoom does look like nice hardware - I just wonder if they'll sell enough of them to reach economies of scale and drive the price down.
Some recent tweets from Jazon van Zyl make it sound like he's holding Kosuke's request hostage:

This wasn't anyone at Oracle. It was me after a preliminary infrastructure audit, it's not malicious or permanent. http://twitter.com/#!/jvanzyl/status/34413629902168064

This is my request to @kohsukekawa (http://bit.ly/fXsvd7) to air everything in a conversation that everyone can see http://twitter.com/#!/jvanzyl/status/34413629902168064

So in other words... let's have an IM chat for questions I have about the core architecture of a project you built, and then I'll restore your account?
I'm watching my first ever super bowl, and I'm full of chilli dogs. It's 2.30 am and I'm at work in 5 hours :-/
> A) not sure what dawkins has to do with anything.

Simple, he hates religion but spends a lot of time on it.
There are two types of people:

Those who watch the Super Bowl, and those who run ads during the Super Bowl.
Regarding comparison charts: http://www.marco.org/380868888

Even with the hardware advantage, it's software that makes the device - Honeycomb looks good, but iOS 5 should be nearly around the corner (hopefully with fixed notifications...).
You can say that about any statistic. The purpose of statistics is to abstract away a large amount of raw data into a summary that people can understand at a glance. Of course it's going to throw away information - some of which might be important - in the process.

But those errors are as likely to be on the upside as on the downside. I never would've guessed as a kid that I'd be able to take a phone with me anywhere, with 4G of storage, and a built-in GPS, and the collected information of humanity at my command, for a day's worth of wages for the phone and an hour per month for the service. The cost of a college education has skyrocketed far more quickly than inflation, but it's also never been easier to learn things yourself through the Internet and then demonstrate to potential employers that you've learned them. Health care is far more expensive in constant dollars than it was a generation ago, but that's largely because for many of the most expensive treatments today, the alternative back then was "Die".
That was difficult to read. That situation was a bummer, not soul-stealing. I wonder if the author understands how self-absorbed and rantish that article sounded to so many readers.

I think she severely overestimated the gravity of the situation.
Sort of. I'm finally getting around to making a bandcamp page for my unreleased music:

http://cubit.bandcamp.com/

This is a direct reaction to seeing this excellent chart from the "Knack for Getting Money" thread, and wanting to move as much finished work as I can from the middle category to the right-hand category:

http://joeyroth.com/charlatan-martyr-hustler/
We call it "Chinese whispers".
Nasdaq's Computer Network Hacked
All I hear about Jenkins/Hudson is in the context of this drama. Does anyone else actually use it?
>The decision to rename a project is certainly not, in and of itself, a fork. Mozilla's web browser went through a couple renames before landing on its present name of Firefox.

Bad example, since Firefox is a fork of Mozilla; it started as a stripped-down version.
and after working for ten years in one of the largest IT companies around, trust me that thing about selling to management works!At the end of the day it is the guy in suit who makes most decisions on buying software
Both are GPLd programs, most likely with copyright ownership spread across large numbers of contributors in many countries. The GPL says you can't distribute the program unless you include the complete source code. To legally distribute a version of a GPLd image manipulation program with a closed-source currency detection module in it, you would need to get every person who holds copyright in that program to agree - probably an impossible task given many probably feel strongly against this kind of restriction. Alternatively, it might be possible to get a law passed to exempt distributors from that terms of the license - but that would only apply in one country, and it would also need to override the 'freedom or death' term of the GPL.

Even if there was a Free / Open Source currency detection engine, I doubt it would be included in the projects unless it became a legal requirement.
I am skeptical of this article because I just looked up this data a month or so ago -- opened the UN's Excel document and everything -- and found that China had recently surpassed the US in manufacturing output.

Unfortunately I am limited to the iPhone right now, so can't re-investigate the data myself until later. I have no interest in diminishing the American economy nor in over-valuing the manufacturing sector, but facts are facts and I'm legitimately confused now.
Motorola seems to have two big problems: price and distribution. I think this illustrates Apple's buying power for components and the pricing that results. The second is going to be a bigger problem. Having to cripple your device (tying WiFi to cell service) because you best distribution is through the cell carier is going to be painful. They need to find a channel that allows them the ability that sells a WiFi model that can get the price down. Apple has their own stores and can buy big. If an Android tablet is to be successful, they need an entry leve to compete with the $499 iPad and iPod touch.
With such a huge advantage, they would quickly destroy all competitors.

Sorry, but I'm still not getting the 'advantage'. This strikes me as one of those games where the only winning move is not to play.
I'm the victim of a stalker, and I can say that it does tear up your life, feeling so powerless, but I still wish the author could have used a simpler, less affected tone. Even though I can Absolutely relate, and I even feared for my life, her approach didn't evoke much of my sympathy!
That seems to be the main problems with these metrics. They aren't looking at the popular libraries that make use of the language. If I search "Android OpenGL development" it should count as a query directed at Java. This survey doesn't seem to do that though.
I don't know about profoundly disturbing myself, but the 4-channel sample sure does sound odd, almost creepy. but what I thought was neat-o was that at 22 channels, it was a pretty decent approximation of how Alan Alda "normally" sounds.
Working on my new smartphone project.
The ability to search by URL. This would make it easier to ensure that the link you're about to submit hasn't already been posted and cut down on the number of duplicate links on HN.
Clearly some kind of deal was struck with Verizon. Since the initial Xoom press release said the WiFi version would come first and we have confirmation that it does exist (http://tinyurl.com/5wr82ge). Plus Verizon made a big deal about having it first at CES (http://tinyurl.com/28rqdvk)

My guess is Verizon gets the first Honeycomb tablet and Motorola gets a guarantee for a significant marketing push. I have no doubt there will be a WiFi only version the question is just how long it will be before we can buy it.
Tradespeople do fine in areas where the economy is good. They are still highly paid and unionized. My friend welds staircases in the Bay Area and gets paid more than most programmers. Is there really a case where an electrician or pipe fitter today makes a lower wage than they did in 1970? If anyone's salaries in the USA have remained stagnant or dropped, it's the average engineer.
You don't understand how controlling a significant fraction of a galaxy's matter is advantageous?
Has it been edited? In the version at the time of writing this comment, it says that they 'will not process the images', but it doesn't say why not.
Some people on HN are dicks sometimes. You weren't asked to judge him, I don't even think he wanted your sympathy. Read and enjoy, take what you need to take from it, and leave the rest.

One of my key takeaways was that he's since come a long way, are your feelings aimed at him 10 years ago? Doesn't read like that. I for one enjoyed it, and look forwards to the next installment landing in my inbox.

Genuinely, I don't understand how or why someone would read that post, and think to write the words you wrote. Full-circle: you came off like an ass.
Does brewing beer count? -dashes off as his wort boils over-
Why are utility company websites always this bad?
I just looked at your site, but I have no idea if I want an invite code. :)

Perhaps you could put at least some sort of teaser on the homepage as to what problem you might be solving or at least some clue as to the problem space.
Measuring manufacturing in $$$ might be a bit misleading. If China makes 4 $10 business shirts for every one $50 business shirt the US makes ... ?
The author is probably referring to the earlier name Firebird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/firefox-name-faq.htm...). Firefox is still a part of Mozilla project.
Football fosters too much conformity, just like every other organized religion.