skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Links to free ebooks:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327632

Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to end?:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1944913
> Assuming this is the case unless you are and oracle guru or moving legacy applications i cant see this being useful for anyone other then large organisations...

I hear this so often, but it's just not the whole story. Believe it or not, Oracle makes a really good product. There are a lot of features in Oracle Database that you can't find elsewhere. I'm not running a huge operation, but I have two good reasons to use Oracle:

1. Aside from providing a really good RDBMS, there are some neat features like VPD, Data Masking, and TDE that are compelling. If you work under SOX, HIPAA, PCI, etc., these things go a long way toward compliance.

2. I sell to huge operations, and they know and use Oracle. Nobody ever got fired for buying Oracle.

I do a ton of work with other systems (particularly Postgres), but when I put my audit or sales hats on, they're embroidered with Oracle logos.
I lIke THis
Marketing blather. IBM is irrelevant unless you're an old business. Also, I was disappointed they didn't bring up the fact that Watson himself met with Hitler in order to help him automate the Holocaust.
"NAND to Tetris" will give you a good grounding in the basics of hardware design, the low-levels of operating systems, implementation of languages. Basically, you get a good overview and practical experience tinkering with the whole thing.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7s383/from_nand...

I got the same thing from my CS education, but by accident. You can get it packaged neatly in one place from this course. This alone will put you in the top half of the programming community with regards to knowledge and overall understanding.
Yet not astonishing how the GCC team didn't fix it once, for everyone?

PS I am pretty sure Oracle, at least on Sun, used SPARCworks compiler, not GCC, from linking C++ against their libs.
Sample datasets for benchmarking and testing
Spotify pays major labels up to six times more than independants
Excellent point. I'm going to have some tests to run when I get in to work this morning.
This sounds exactly like Flattr to me, what do you mean by "it requires all parties to pay in"?
A company that's spent a long time getting good at a disruptive technology, something that appears simple yet requires a deep understanding, while the incumbent are all focused on incremental improvements of soon to be legacy technology.
Let me venture an explanation as to why this might be so: for any project a designer spends a week on, a programmer must then spend 2+ weeks on.

This leads to an interesting mechanic where designers have a much greater project throughput than programmers and subsequently have more time to nurture the all important client relationships.

It also means it takes more than one programmer to service one designer.
Final IPv4 Blocks Allocated
Sometimes we need to put some perspective on our little online world. There is a whole world of entrepreneurs out there that are starting businesses that are not yet another social network or even an online business.

Getting a bit tired of the narrow mindesness of the community about how heroic they are ,what great opninions they have, how cool they are. But they actually are just a big bag of hot air.

Think the whole Quora discussion is a bit more of the same: Look at me I have an opinion. I'm changing the world, I'm blah blah.

There are still children dying of hunger, even in America a lot of people are hungry, unemployed or don't receive decent medical care. So maybe in your little eco-sphere you are changing the world. But are you changing it for the better?

What's your opinion about this?
With porn sites, you're not paying for content.

You're paying for convience in the form of a large corpus of classified content right at your finger tips.

Yes, you can weed through spam and find everything yourself. You can deal with low quality versions vs high quality versions, and slowly build your collection to the point that its a mirror of the paysite but if that time and effort is better spent doing anything else (like say putting in a little overtime at $50+ per hour or spending it with your friends and family) then you will likely choose to pay for porn.

It's not that expensive anyways. At 35$ per month maximum, its barely the cost of a dinner downtown.
You don't go to college just to study.
Agner: A Giant Nebula of Erlang Repositories
>When I get a seat, will I be able to deal with the older people on my train squinting daggers at me? What do I do if someone is really mean to me again today? Do I look “disabled enough” to get a seat?

It's horrible that someone already dealing with a disability would have to worry about people always assuming the worst.

One time I had to step off a bus for a group to get by me. A couple saw me stepping back on without seeing me get off and gave me dirty looks while whispering to each other for the rest of the ride. It really bothered me. I can't imagine having to deal with that situation every day.

For some reason the bus experience really stuck with me. It's really easy, even or maybe especially for really nice people, to get angry and judgmental when they think someone isn't playing by the rules.
Link to actual code: http://google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#lM3pwaU8RUc/src/share/c...
> Like many, I'm puzzled why one would pay for porn on the internet when so much is given away for free. I don't just mean the amateur stuff--the pay sites give away a ton of their stuff as samples.

This didn't make any sense until I got to this

> looking for sample photo sets.

People don't pay for pictures. They pay for 2000+ HD quality videos, carefully and accurately categorised by various topic, by scene. They pay for getting exactly what they want now. They pay to stream in HD, and download HD quality video. They pay for updates. The pay for the exact niche they want.

I work in the industry. Piracy does hurt. We are looking to fight this through quality. Simply put, you can't get the same level of quality from us that you can from free sites. For some people, this doesn't matter. For some, it's the difference between VHS and BluRay.

Our focus is about quality. Quality in the content. Quality in the customer support we offer. Quality in the offers we provide. It's a business, and those that are successful treat it like such. It's actually sad that their is a negative perception around the business. Granted, I just assume that anyone with a negative outlook on the industry is ignorant. Anyone that lets that ignorance affect their judgement is a fool, and is fairly worthless.

Yes, quality customer service. Obviously being in a high risk industry means we have to jump through hoops to keep customers happy, especially when people make the assumption that porn sites are run by crooks.
If you think HFT is quite hard and challenging, then Forex isn't any easier: you can still lose a ton of money over an unforseen event somewhere in the World.

More seriously, as someone who trades for a living, here's what I've learned (the hard way, i.e., losing my own money makes for expensive lessons):

Forex is one of the most volatile markets on this side of the "Milky Way". Only Commodities (Natural Gas for instance) beat it. The average range of noise (noise, random movement, not signal) is enough to loose huge amounts of money.

Forex brokers offer a stupid amount of leverage. 50x, 100x (and even 200x) leverage is not trading. It's gambling. Which means that if you want to stay in the game you need a lot of trading capital (want to make a million trading forex? Start with a billion).

Depends on your experience but, if you don't have a lot, start with stocks (CFDs, for instance) or indexes for deep markets.

If you still want to go the "Forex route", some reading material has to include:
Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy. You don't need a PhD on it, but you do need to grasp the basics of interest rates, currency parities, inflation, growth, central banking, capital movements.

Statistics. Again, no need for a PhD, but the basics are useful/helpful.

Money Management. People want the "holly grail strategy indicator" that gets you 9 out of 10 profitable trades. That's a myth. The best traders in the industry usually lose 2 out of every 3 trades. The point here is: you make up what you lose with the winning trade. So the real point is not how to enter (though it's still important) but to know when to "exit" the trade.

Basic trading strategies. Some apply better to Forex, other to Stocks, but in general the same principles apply.

And do take care: the Forex market is full of "Win x times your inicial amount in n days with our y fullproof strategy/platform" scammy proposition.
Do you call Medical research old business?
Grandfathered in so to speak.
Samsung Galaxy Tab Return Rates Hit 16 Percent | AllThingsD
About damn time for Erlang to be getting this kind of thing. Ruby is not "all that" in terms of performance or its concurrency story, but Erlang feels a bit like the stone ages without all the nice gem stuff.
I just re-read your comment and realised I read "find a good bet" where you wrote "be a good bet". That's actually great advice and my previous answer makes no sense now.
That link is to tl;dr ... I think for many HN readers, TLDR is a top-level domain registry.
The article does say that, but it's not clear who the source for this is. Amazon and Apple declined to comment, and the only confirmed report from Sony is with regard to in-app purchases, and I'm pretty sure that was an existing condition.

So where is this new rule coming from?
To get really blown away, consider (again if necessary) that the average spacing between neighboring primes (primes!) less than N roughly approaches ln N [1]... Stunning.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem
> Are you confusing Windowing System with Window Manager?

His comment is fair considering the parent comment was confusing about why it took so long to get spaces (an aspect of window management) because of elements of the windowing system.
How are they grandfathered in? Who else is going to solve medical research that isn't a big company like IBM?

Do you expect Medical research to be all hip n cool and use Heroku? Or should they choose IBM for their research into solving complex problems with their custom software and their custom blades?
well, no more — agner is pretty much providing a seamless experience to erlang users.

For example, in order to use entop command line utility, you had to clone two repos, build both of them and use that script from the directory where you built entop. And lots of erlang packages are like that.

With agner, you just do $ agner install entop
and you're done, it's in your PATH
Replacing income tax with a consumption tax would see the super rich pay even less tax as they spend a smaller percentage of their income compared to those with a lower income.

I've heard this argument before, and this is going to sound pedantic, so I apologize, but just exactly how rich can you be if you don't spend your money on things?

Or, put a different way, the rich only (bother us/owe more/are easy targets/need to pay up) because a) they don't have to work to live, and b) they buy and own cool stuff we want.

Obviously being able to live without working is a goal for everybody, so I'm tossing that out. What I'm left with is that we identify rich people by the stuff they buy or own. Without that, you wouldn't really have rich people -- or if you had them, as far as their participation in society they would be just the same as anybody else. They'd be invisible -- both in their appearance and in their stress on the social fabric.

So if you want to sack the rich, do it by taxing the things that we identify with being rich -- buying and owning stuff. That way -- poof! -- there are instantly less rich people in the world, and you've created a stable societal goal for people to strive for which kind of boils down to "make as much money as you need to not work" which is a laudable goal for every society, I would think. Right?

Not trying to argue, just thinking out loud. I've spent some time thinking about this, and I think a consumption tax could be supported by folks no matter what their political philosophy or party. The idea is inherently less political than an income tax. Of course, we'll all get hung up on whether it should be progressive or not, but hey -- baby steps.
Ah, ok. Thanks for clarifying.
Police website crashes as 75,000 people a MINUTE log on
bq. My understanding is that whatever database AWS supports it will let you scale up as much as required

If by "as much as required" you mean "to larger single EC2 instances," yes. If you mean backing it with a SAN or transparently partitioning your data across multiple instance, no.

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/#22
Learn you some PLT. Specifically, study this:

http://www.paultaylor.eu/stable/prot.pdf

and this:

http://folli.loria.fr/cds/1999/library/pdf/curry-howard.pdf

and this:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/

very, very carefully.
Setup a tunnel. There are many great tunnel brokers available. It's free too. Then add a AAAA (DNS) record for your website. IPv6 isn't nearly so scary once people see that the big bad hex numbers can have names too:

$ dig +short AAAA ip6.16s.us

2001:4830:1600:2e4::2
The point of collecting payment for certificates is not that attackers can't afford it, but that it enables the CA to do some cursory verification, and creates a trail of evidence if the certificate is used for a scam later.
I'm quite disappointed with justin.tv. I recently signed up for a 1-day-trial and they added a $9.99 recurring payment to my paypal account. It seems a bit sneaky, something you would expect from a porn site, but not from a yc startup.
Try buying some assemble-your-own furniture from Target or Wal-Mart. You'll get that much more appreciation for the ease of assembling IKEA furniture and how much sturdier the IKEA furniture is.
It seems to me the probability that they are identical is zero (or at least zero at the limit).
Last I heard, the people with tanks were fans of the revolution...
Wait, did I hear that correctly. They went from 5 cofounders to 1300 employees in a year!?

This ... this makes me feel really bad about my entrepreneurial efforts.
Or to computer programmers? Or system administrators? Or DBAs?
Something about glasshouses and bricks seems apropos here.
Doesn't effect this test at all. But I think the most common reason I will hit checkout on something I don't intend on buying at the time is because shipping cost or payment methods aren't listed elsewhere on a site.

It would be interesting to now do another A/B with just the extra email info, looking at the 2 examples the lack of info about why you want the email is the major thing that would put me off.
Memory more complex than previously thought
Already (being) discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163762
Enterprise fanbois yawn at death of Apple Xserve
i wonder, how many people would confess that they want to be someone (i.e., businessmen, or a vc) to have a boatload of money, a home on tropical island and fly business class / private jet?

if i were a vc, i probably would not like this confession. i'd better encourage young people to value the startup life itself.
Pyplugin 0.6 released
VideoLAN celebrates 10 years of open source of VLC
The World Needs You to Do What You Love
Yeah. The switch to IPv6 will cause lots of things to break. This is unavoidable now.

It's worth noting that on the 8th of June this year, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and others are going dual stack IPv4+IPv6 for a 24 hour period to make people with broken setups aware that they have broken setups. "World IPv6 Day":

https://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/

Basically, if you're one of the people with a system which thinks it has IPv6 access but doesn't, then you're not going to be able to access Facebook, Google, Yahoo etc on that day.
O2 analyses customer calls to drive iPhone sales
SmartlyEdu is a well designed, easy to use learning platform made by students
The neural wiring that helps us adapt to the unexpected
The variation does in fact tells why they are asking for email info. It says: "we will send the product download link to that email id". I am guess other eCommerce stores if they want to collect email ids can simply tell the users that they will send receipt at this email id.
Gee people - this is so petty and doesn't do anyone any favours. Surely there are more important things for us to discuss?
Actually, if you check out the NYTimes article:
> The company plans to pay them “regardless of their participation”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/technology/01read.html?_r=...
My hunch is that it's meaningless at the limit.
Those most likely are not running against the internet as a whole or at random, or they would be screwed already.
VPNs and IPv4 networks that exist today won't disappear...
Yeah, but PostgreSQL is _so_ easy to get running there. Seriously. And no amount of magic cloud sprinkles is going to fix Amazon's terrible IO latency problems, for any database product.
Don't get lured in by the bright lights of VC-Vegas - instead focus on building a profitable business where you get money because people buy what you have to sell.

I think a lot of tech startups tend to miss this point and go straight for funding. They think that they'll just get big first and worry about "monetization" later. That's a crap-shoot! Such high risk is a tax for fools.

If you're really thinking about being in business for yourself, just start an honest business. Start with the nuts and bolts. Collect some invoices and sell some product. If your demand begins to out-pace your ability to deliver, then you have a good indication that you should go get funding.

It's just a perspective. The "funding first, revenue later" idea has worked. It's just not for everyone. You don't have to quit your job out-right to start a business. I know people who work at a part-time job while they work on their business. One day they hope to quit that too and let their business take them where ever it may. It's a viable alternative to the nerve-wracking pain of selling out to the VC merry-go-round.
How will the cost of owning a v4 space go up? It's yours, the price is set, and ARIN/IANA et al have not mentioned any intention of increasing price.
I did. I didn't survive too long...
This hangs eclipse 3.5.2 when saving the code :)
Some perspective on exactly how badly ISPs in Canada are overcharging for data
More details in the NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/technology/01read.html?_r=...

Isn't this just begging to get sued by some publisher who really doesn't want to participate? IANAL, but it seems like they'd have a decent case.
Are all those examples of "flat-pack furniture"? Self build is the cost plus labor plus the cost of the material to build, etc.

Simply looking at the final product and comparing the price ignores a lot of what makes IKEA what it is, and what they provide.
Walt Disney was the first UX Professional
Tired of explaining Linux's seemingly obtuse memory usage to confused newbies?
What about android?
Now this is very neat. I could see this being a useful extension to IDEs.
I am glad, my open source project doesn't have any of those issues...
a) Eventually (most likely next year or later), if you do not have IPv6 connectivity, there will be new content and sites added to the global internet that you will have no way of accessing at all from your v4 connected computer.

a2) Alternatively, in a year or so, you get service from a brand new ISP that has no v4 connectivity (so, you are v6 native), and you cannot access anything on the v4 Internet around the world (e.g. most things today).

b) Don't store IP addresses as 32bit integers, or as 15 character strings. Be aware that geolocation services probably don't do well with v6 addresses. Make sure your deployment platform has the infrastructure in place to serve both v4 and v6 customers (or at least v6 after a year or two) - AAAA dns records, etc.
How British police made me set up my next project on the cloud
Verizon iPhone iOS 4.2.6 still vulnerable to GeoHot’s Limera1n exploit or not?
It depends on how niche your tastes are. If you want to find Rule 34 on Family Guy characters, you're not going to get that in 1990.
yes, windows has a lot of virus. ok, we get it. we get it for over ten years. every year i hear "this year linux will be on every desktop". But it never happened. Just be more realistic please.

data source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
I think parent and GP both have an element of truth, but that the ultimate situation is more nuanced than either suggests. Customer demand is likely the biggest factor, but I'd be surprised if Oracle managed an exclusivity deal on RDS. Of the major RDBMS players, Oracle, for all their weirdness, all their proprietary functionality, all the damn-the-relational-model-here's-your-physical-row-identifiers, is a pretty logical choice as the first commercial offering.
Are Tree Rings Low Pass Temperature Filters?
LG prepares NFC mobile payment system for European market
Also, remember that some of those large companies are USING those /8's internally. No private addresses, just unreachable /8 public IPs - the way the internet is supposed to work.

We need to stop beating a dead horse and start deploying AAAA and v6 across the board. We used to only have 3 network sizes too (/8, /16, and /24), but we managed as an internet community to get rid of classful crap and move onto VLSM and CIDR.
From my understanding Apple spent a lot of time getting the form factor right for the iPad. A lot of thought went into ensuring the OS was adequate for the device. None of Apple's competitors was expecting a marketplace for tablet devices like the iPad.

All of iPad's competitors right now are jokes. It's as if companies think it's the shape of the device matters more than the experience of using the device. I guess knowing this is the difference between creating a market and just trying to build devices for a market.
Ikea vs Apple (infographic)
Please review my friend's life mapping tool startup, Map Our Lives
Yes

In fact right before iPad came out most competitors had products in the pipeline.

The second they saw what the iPad was they all scraped it.

At least you gotta give them credit for that.
What to do? & How to do?
Hi
I am an UG student keenly interested in robotics and automation. I like to work 24*7 but i don't know, what to do? and how to do?. Here I request you to give suggestions and guidelines.
Hi Guys,

My friends been hacking away on his first version of the site for some time. Given the knowledge here he asked me to gather some feedback, any would appreciated.

Thanks for your time.
Arabic has variants. Each Arabic country speaks a different variant, many words are changed. For example, in Tunisia, a good number of our daily used words are from French.

But that language is only used in public; books and newspapers uses the original language.
Megan McArdle: The Cost Of Meth Prohibition
An Open Source "Fork" You Might Have Missed: slf4j and log4j