skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put another way, what I'm saying is that what you call "life benefits" actually are "career benefits". There is a big picture coupling of the two. Don't short change your life experience - it may or may not be at college, but the job offer is a red herring.

As they say - "Youth is wasted on the young". Wrap your mind around that and live your youthful days to the fullest. Prove them wrong.
That's not it, unless I'm missing something big.

Flash and Java both disallow cross-domain requests unless specifically allowed by a crossdomain.xml file (or you use a DNS rebinding attack on Java). Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, if you can make an HTTP request in Java or Flash you can read back the result.
> Half of the houses then didn't indoor bathrooms

Just in case anyone gets a wrong impression of life in the 60s, this is not true.
Autorun was introduced in Windows 95. The security world, especially on consumer OSes, and especially again on Windows 9x, was very, very different back then. CIH wouldn't come around for another three years. CD-R burners were pretty expensive and pretty rare, cheap USB drives were a twinkle in someone's eye that wouldn't materialize for another five years at least. We don't know that the problem wasn't noticed; maybe it just wasn't considered to be crucial. Consider the magic-like benefits it would have been weighed against: all you have to do is put the CD in!

Edit: the USB specification and first USB consumer products weren't released until 1996. Further food for thought.
well said. i didn't think of that perspective.

my own experience was more along the lines of feeling a disconnect between classwork and how it applied to the real world.
Perhaps in your imagination. Speaking of clarity, I hope you will come to some clarity in your mind that you are the only person here trying to insert these qualifiers into this discussion.
The prior development tools for native Symbian have been horrid, combined with difficult signing process etc. However, the transition to Qt and Qt Quick -based apps makes it all very easy and convenient thus enabling the potential better. It's true that it isn't the most exciting platform right now, but it's certainly on the right path.
i agree with most of what you say, but i think a key is more balance between the two. not purely "real world", and not strictly "academic world". somewhere in between.
Well, when you insert a tape into a VCR you still have to hit PLAY before it does anything. Not that there's anything wrong setting your computer to automatically play a CD.

But it's not about audio, it's about software.

Starting with Windows 3.0, Microsoft's approach to Windows OS usability involved hiding the file system from the user. Autorun is merely an extension of that philosophy. It allows Microsoft to hide a CD-ROM's ugly MS-DOS file system from the user.

An alternate approach is to make the file system less ugly.
I agree.

But isn't it considered de rigeur to end a case study with a trite, meaningless yet upbeat platitude? You know, "Here's how this guy is successful, now go forth and be successful like him, because YOU CAN DO IT!"

In any case, I welcome any and all suggestions for an alternate ending.
I have to admit that my current major Emacs trouble is moving between Linux and OSX. Switching meta and hyper causes me major brain-fry (alt is immediately left of the space bar on every keyboard but those made by Apple).
I find it amusing how many people still assume that a site with many page views somehow needs to have a big engineering team behind it.

Yes, 1 billion page views is a relatively serious load, technically. But there's not much difference between a small team building the software to handle it and a huge enterprise department doing the same.

In fact, the small team will often produce better results. When given enough motivation, money and coffee.
Why did the hash bang make sense at all though?

What was wrong with twitter.com/username that hash bangs somehow fix?
I've read a similar article which was on the frontpage of HN not so long ago. And it was better.
Why would you use ThatHigh as an example to illustrate this ? I think this site did poorly. And just looking at how much fan they have on their facebook can pretty much prove my point (I got like 95k fans on my page just by liking something with my facebook account. Never did anything else than that to promote my website)
We are trying to work around that. Facebook DOES NOT allow us to obtain your friend's email (without them explicitly agreeing).
What user-unfriendly VCRs did you use?
What about Meego? If they actually gave it some resources, rather than treat it as an afterthought, it could be great. To date Symbian has sucked all the resources from Meego, but one of the clearest messages was finally admitting reality on Symbian - 'if we continue like before, we will get further and further behind'.
Well not half but quite a bit since the digg diaspora, but lately it's been especially bad lately.
I prefer "These are some suggestions about what you can do in a similar situation, if you have any other please post comments, thanks for reading."
The push only involved auditing use of APIs. High-level decisions were, generally, not re-thought.

For a more concrete example, if you were hosting IE within a window of your process, you had to harden the heck out of anything that IE could host, how it accessed URLs and the hosting environment, etc. But, nobody was going to ask you WHY you were hosting IE in the first place.
Don't retained earnings become a part of owner's equity after dividends?

To me, a buck is a buck. Spend it all "wisely."
House rejects extension of 'Patriot Act' powers
Study claims "Brain implants have long-lasting effect on depression"
It's always irritated me that ForEach isn't available on IEnumerable<T>
"increasing its viral factor" Care to recommend a few?
One downvote on a site where the voting arrows are tiny and close together and votes can't be reversed is a "seminal moment that speaks volumes about a community"? I think you're being a little melodramatic.

Anyway, Apple has always had a disproportionate share of any market it seriously participated in — the big difference is that 10 years ago Apple was a very small part of a single market. Some fluctuations will probably happen over the next half a decade, but you can bet that Apple will remain absurdly profitable in a way that embarrasses most of its competitors. It's just something that Apple is good at.
I think it's probably a "designed" fault. (Hey, it's not a bug, it's a feature!)

The problem, like you say, is that you have to wrap it up at the end. This works as good as anything.

But for a novice, it can look as if the "wrapping up" part is where the real summary goes, and that's not true at all. In fact, by summarizing, you miss out on all the good stuff.

So perhaps you're stuck.

I'd like to see somebody talk to a dozen of these guys and ask them questions along the lines of "so, when you realized that you were going to have to be a sock puppet for the rest of your natural life, when and how did you finally figure out to do X?" The dry-erase marking, for example. Great idea. But why that and not door-hanging, or radio ads, or wearing a sandwich board on main street? Why did they choose those particular ad-hoc things that finally made a breakthrough?

I don't believe it's all random. Somebody had some hunches in there somewhere. There are a million random things you can do to try to drive traffic. Somehow some folks pick better things than others.
Why do you need it in the first place? I'd believe there's way to make it work without the email.
Do Not Track arrives in Firefox beta, ad industry not on board yet
Back when autorun was implemented, there wasn't any realistic way of getting those off a system even if you did compromise it through autorun.
The simplest way I've found to format the keyboard shortcuts is to type "C-h k [your keyboard combination]" (which is C-h for help, k for keybinding), and then when it says e.g. "C-x M-. is undefined", plug the key description into the following:

(global-set-key (kbd "keybinding") 'function-you-want-it-to-call)

The article goes into the significance of global-set-key vs. local-set-key; until you have more specific intentions, global-set-key is probably what you want.

I've done a couple sessions teaching developers in using Emacs, and one point I always stress is that the Emacs help system is exhaustive, but you have to learn how it's organized. (It uses funny terminology sometimes.)
That movie has nothing to do with your content categories. Change the name.
The traffic numbers are legit and not inflated, if that's what you're wondering about.

Honestly, I don't know that many people who have built a community site of similar traffic level that quickly, especially without doing any SEO.

If you can put me in touch with others who have accomplished something like this, I would love to write about them too.
Hiding a device's filesystem from the user would later prove to be a relatively unpopular solution. </sarcasm>
I think they might be looking at Android rather than WinMo7 (ok, maybe I'm just being hopeful...)

The memo repeatedly mentions innovation and market leadership.

With WinMo7 locked down as tightly as it is it is very difficult for a company to be innovative in that market.

OTOH, Android already has quite a diverse ecosystem, and would allow Nokia the opportunity to do it's own thing while still supporting an active developer community.

If Nokia was interested in WinMo7, why would they invest heavily in a Silicon Valley Engineering office (as opposed to a Seattle office)?

Finally, there is already a (very active, community) port of Qt to Android (http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthouse/). If Nokia got behind that it would give them a roadmap that would avoid alienating app developers who were hoping to support MeeGo.
"""How do you keep the edge-users (who may not any replies) engaged and feeling... adored?"""

We have thought about doing something similar to likealittle in terms of messages but our messages are too personal.

What do you feel that would keep the users engaged while they are waiting to be adored back? (We can't force the other party to adore you back.)
Mmmm... Google
Yes, it does take advantage. As of OS version 3, if an image is not retained by anything other than the UIImage named image cache and the app receives a low memory warning, the in-memory image is destroyed.

-Ken (Cocoa Frameworks)
A strong Nokia is good for smart phones. I hope Elop is smart and doesn't get bogged down in the tablet fight. Nokia needs to focus on doing smart phones well. Plenty of market there as 6 billion people will be buyers.
The first thing I thought of was apoptosis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis
The second picture in your link reminds me a lot of the NY (City) Public Library reading room. Loved that place when I lived there, one of my favorites. I understand Isaac Asimov did too.
Do you mean, specifically, the "lesson plan book" market?

Are there other similar things that teachers have to deal with, that he could expand into?
I love being able to change one number in my call to the Google servers for what jQuery branch I want and immediately see speed improvements in my apps/sites. Although some updates require you to make some changes to code, I haven't noticed that be the case this time around though.

edit: oh yeah, and that grid looks sexy. I was looking for something like that ages ago and they all failed pretty bad.
> Your job title isn't some kind of license to refuse work you don't want to do.

Why, yes it is. If you're a janitor you're not expected to code.

In some places a job title and job description are even mandatory and they are used in case of a labour dispute. Whether this is a good for companies and employees is a separate question, but it's a big stretch to say that job titles aren't relevant.
Typically things with major, and potentially changing, fiscal impact include a sunset provision.
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I'm very curious how this will effect QT...
maybe he wants a truce because he's losing?
This is where I get to offer a famed quote from one our politicians in Queensland, Australia, who was arguing against daylight saving when Queensland was considering adopting DST in the 1980s.

She said we shouldn't adopt DST because the extra hour of sunlight - and I quote directly here - would "fade the curtains".
Agreed. Client side rendering for most things is instant. Client side rendering scales better than server side, in my opinion. 1 user or 1,000 users using your website, will not affect the rendering time on the client's machine (just the data transfer times), but will affect the rendering time on the server.
Is anyone using pure.js? That's been one on my radar since they use pure HTML templates with JSON models. I don't think it does data binding to update the template automatically after the first render if the model changes, but apart from that, it seems preferable to using custom templates like jQuery or Mustache etc.

http://beebole.com/pure/

That having been said, I haven't started using it yet. I'm open to other viewpoints.
I am in the process of starting one.

There are a lot of issues around what you are offering; the barriers are varied and many.

But they are all surmountable - though you need to take a shotgun approach.

For example - if you went to Health 2.0 yo would have noted several things: 1) the founders of health 2.0 are money hungry and unscrupulous 2) everyone was focused on the silo of the PHR 3) The small practice iPad application space is really crowded 4) big EHRs are walled gardens - big monolithic gorillas with no interest in partnering or providing data via HL7 compliant channels

5) EVERYONE suffers because of this.

6) the secret killer in the space is Cisco.

Typical hospital IT organizations are either HUGE (kaiser) or outsourced and incompetent (Eclipsys / Perot) or in-house and understaffed (city/county like SF DPH/DPT)

What specifically are you interested in?
"(in that libertarians believe is as little government as possible while liberals believe in a larger government)."

Oh please, liberals don't want larger government in everything, just fiscal issues. They are as socially liberal as the libertarians in congress like Ron Paul.
I wasn't the one to downvote you, but: that's not really comparable. You could say that a $1k computer in a company valued at $5m is the same as FaceBook spending $10m at their valuation... but it makes absolutely no difference.
If you don't want to spend a ton on a laptop but want a decent machine, get a dell latitude D820 used on CL - you can get them for as much as $300 - runs ubuntu great.
Breaking the web with hash-bangs
Oh - also Greg Herlein is selling a decent one:

http://blog.herlein.com/2011/02/selling-my-linux-notebook/

he's on HN as Herlein I think...
|EDIT: Arrowed down. This is one of those seminal moments that speak volumes about a community, and I think HN is done (just furthering an observation that has grown). Account and site abandoned.

Wow seriously, overreaction much? I don't know how long after you edited your comment but you're +8 now. It seems a little petty to dismiss all of HN because your comment was downvoted. Big deal. You just have to put up with some downvoting and realize not everyone is always going to have the same opinion as yourself.

My guess is you'll be back tomorrow or the next day judging by your comment history.
The problem is that openness at the cost of user experience isn't good enough to keep a company alive. Ideally you'd get both, of course; but so far Nokia has been unable to deliver on user experience compared to iPhone and even Android.
It's Official: The Smartphone Market Is Now Bigger Than The PC Market
> This is the way forward, a company that wants to develop native apps for mobile must already work with so many different systems. A new startup is going to focus on an iphone app, if they are successful or well capitalized from the start then they will look at android. The third choice in the market is shaping to be windows 7 phone.

I agree with what you said here. But to take it a step further I'd say that the number one rule I've learned from doing mobile native apps the last few years is that ideally one should NOT be making mobile native apps. Make a web app, that just happens to look and interact decently on a mobile device. Saves developers a lot of pain and a lot of time otherwise invested in a more narrow platform set of skills.
"Java as a language is horrible language because the only problem it solves well is how to inflate a consulting bill, or how to waste developers time figuring out what exceptions a method throws. Only exception a method needs to throw is JavaOutTheDoor."

You hover your mouse pointer over the method call and a pop-up window tells you what exceptions it can throw.

Better yet, right click the method call and tell it to insert the try and catch block(s) for you.

This is how professional Java developers work. It only takes a few seconds.
Django Security Releases Issued
Your points are all valid.

I chose the white board markers because I wanted something that people would remember. Students especially are subjected to so much spam every day in their classes, dorms, lunchrooms, everywhere. The whiteboard idea was chosen because of its efficiency: maybe $5 for the markers plus a few hours of work, in exchange for people remembering what they've read? Worth it.

Someone even got pissed off. Any press is good press, when we're talking about a site like this. A student was really pissed (rightfully so, most likely) that we spammed his dorm. I'd probably be pissed too. But he remembered it, and everybody he told instantly went to the website to see what all the fuss was about.

I realize I'm just answering this one instance of the more general problem: we need resources for why people choose these things, not merely what they chose to do.

I think this is a really hard problem. Hunches are really difficult to pinpoint.
Patriot Act is a bad thing. It kept Islamo Fascists from running airplanes into skyscraper. WooHoo, time to get back to the good ol' days.
That's a bit of a catch-22, isn't it? "Wow, you hate our company. I'm glad we made you hate us so we could find out." Note: an unnecessary undesirable job.

Not to mention he's not screwing a company, he's leaving a contract under established terms after discovering an incompatibility. When you screw up and get fired, you don't really get to say "I'm glad I screwed up before you had the chance to fire me."
Most VCRs I used would automatically play tapes that had the anti-erase tab removed (such as commercially prerecorded movies), but would require pressing play if the anti-erase tab was present to avoid losing position on a tape with recording in progress (e.g. one used for time shifting multiple episodes).
denial of service is never a good architecture.

just batch them up and shove one big data set down the pipe in a singe request.
I tried it with a friend that knew german and it didn't work that well on Android. He wasn't a native speaker though.
All I can say is that I haven't had a mahalo page pollute my search results for months. Keep up the good work google!
Google has basically solved the question of how to determine what is most "relevant" based on inbound and outbound links, etc. What Google (or Bing, or any other competitor) has to figure out now is how to source the best "authority" per search. This is almost the holy grail of search - find me the best, most relevant item to the arbitrary, nebulous concept I'm poorly phrasing. There are a ton of amateurish suggestions I could make, but I'm not in any position or power to suggest anything.

I do think that given what the article points out, Aol's purchase of the HuffPo seems more ill-advised. If Google is able to determine that the large majority of the content on HuffPo is rehash of another site, kiss that investment goodbye. I've always been on a mission to get as close to the source of things as I can. I'm all for relevant analysis, but summarizing an article word for word is tough to accept.
The internet at the Minneapolis Public Libraries block port 22 and filter the internet. No looking at Flickr for you!

The Minneapolis Public Library merged with the county a year ago, and I'm not sure if the policy changed.
IMO, that's because Samsung doesn't have a clue and would rather hedge their bets. Most people I know who has a Samsung Galaxy, Captivate, etc have complained endlessly about the wait for updates.

Samsung's business is in selling phones, not developing a software platform and therein lies the problem. They make their bread and butter on planned obsolescence and in the process screw over their customers.
PyCon 2011 will feature "startup stories"
I believe it! Since I have already picked up Python, I guess rails is going to be my next learning experience this Spring Break...
To be perfectly clear, Sam is not wrong. Flash and Java both let you issue requests with that header. However, if you try and make a cross-origin request, they'll both throw exceptions unless you have permission (in the form of a crossdomain.xml file). I assume that's where the redirects come into play, although I can't imagine how you redirect someone's POST request to a different domain.
Looks cool. From looking at their public github projects it seems like they use Ruby + Rack a lot. I would love to know the implementation details. Can't wait for my beta invite.

Business-wise, I do wonder how many people will be interested in hosted RDF data storage. I am comparing them with companies like cloudant.com for CouchDB and mongohq.com for MongoDB: more wider used data stores.
The state of web typography today, available techniques with their pros and cons
RCA SelectaVision. It had a wire remote with a nice big play button.
This is very helpful, it can be intimidating to apply to YC seeing all the brilliant founders and applications. Seeing this kind of feedback shows what it takes, what is possible and what you've gotta do.

Thanks in advance!
I'm just messing with you both.

Resetting sessions on CSRF failures is going to suck for us.
It was my fourth birthday
Their paper (stub placeholder) "Storing RDF Data using Cassandra" may indicate that they are using Cassandra for distributed DF storage. Very cool. https://github.com/datagraph/papers

Their FAQ (bottom of the page) mentions Ruby, Rails, custom Lisp distributed SPARQL query engine, Redis, message queues, etc.
I agree with everything you said except I think there's a 0% chance of Microsoft buying Nokia, it doesn't fit their business model. Companies would not be as willing to license WP7 if MSFT were competing directly with them and able to undercut their competitor's prices.
I'm using the N900's browser right now. It's quite enjoyable for the most part :)
I think wikipedia could kill this whole circus if they started a 'casualpedia' spinoff/superset that allowed people to contribute content beyond strictly encyclopaedic articles - and still without the advertising.

In fact, maybe that's what they wanted all those donations for...
Do you support FreeBSD when you release code for Linux?

I thought not. Same thing here.
Find out their monthly burn rate and divide by 600MM

So, in may 2008 they were said to burn 150MM / year.

Lets assume thats doubled - so, 300 MM per year.

300/12 = 25MM per month
25/600 = .04 cents per month, per user.
Ask HN: Which language would you learn this year?
It's well known that Pragmatic Programmer advices to learn a new language every year, which would you learn this year?

I'm doubting about scheme/clojure/other-lisp-dialect because it's a really different world, java because there are lots of interesting projects and libraries for java, and smalltalk because it blown my mind when I first saw it. Which would you choose? Why?