skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saw ass.io and giggled. Hehehe.
Lots of random tutorials on the internet beyond what was mentioned in my blog post. One thing I forgot to mention is that there wasn't one resource that did everything for me — @kennethlove's tutorial got me about 30% of the way, then it was googling for everything else I needed and learning from StackOverflow/my awesome friends/etc. No Django application really did everything for me as well — every one I installed I had to override in some way to make it fit to my product.

So there wasn't "one" resource — it was a lot of scrappy Googling and asking for help for every problem that got in my way.
clickable: http://www.mylastiphone.com
New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi Users
The funny thing is that because of this article, Goldfellow's budget is going to get completely drained. I already clicked twice.
X's Y operations are much faster than some arbitrary Z library which hasn't been optimised as well.
How to Become More Assertive to Seize Opportunities
The Egyptian Behind #Jan25: “Twitter Is A Very Important Tool For Protesters”
Then why are welders paid more?

At my company welders are paid less than programmers, but you can probably blame that on the welder's being in a union more than anything else.
I've been asked a lot about where my group of friends should go to dinner
Swapping to node.js doesn't solve any of their scalability problems. The problems they have to solve with scaling their current system will be identical to how they will have to scale stream servers written in node.
Do these embedded documents pass link popularity?
I did too, had to stop myself from spending the $75 on something I definitely didn't need :)
Yep, we're working on it. Sorry for the problems.

Update

Site performance should be much better again. Now having an issue with our domain search due to too many connections.
I've never heard of Kasparov actually crying after losing to Deep Blue. Reference?
Google Opens Up Infographic Tools for Everyone's Use
Not too surprising. Any talk of outsourcing will hit a pretty personal nerve among the hacker and programmer community.
How Hudl Convinced 2,300 Schools to Pay Over $800/yr to Improve Their Games
Strictly speaking, what you say is true, but practically those are significant and relevant benefits of Java.

Considering that performance is always a trade-off with price - if you think about price/performance ratio - the ability to write programs quickly is of relevance.
Cool idea. :)

1. The header is beautiful, but very hard to read. Changing the font might help new users remember Copypasta's name.

2. It is strange that I need to approve/reject corrections by email. I understood the email's explanation perfectly, but I also expected to find the approve/reject feature on the site itself.

I am testing Copypasta on my blog, http://natanyellin.com. (See the sidebar.) I'll let you know how it goes.
nearly all of them: at least in nyc they tend toward bizdev instead of hacking
Creators: Watson has no speed advantage as it crushes humans in Jeopardy
I'm more interested in a Q&A with Watson about Ken Jennings
As a class of problems, probably (although it hasn't been proven either way), but in terms of programs it comes down to the vagaries of data structures and algorithms - if the dataflow in your reduction graph makes it look like a linked list, there's only one way to reduce it.

Guy Steele gave a really good talk about this at ICFP 2009: http://labs.oracle.com/projects/plrg/Publications/ICFPAugust...
I've been deliberately avoiding this thread, but I should probably step in and say that I felt no offense at the original comment, and the comment I'm replying to is a great way to explain why.

I did put gender reference in the title — it would garner me more notice since I'm a minority. Therefore, doesn't bother me if someone points out something I was already pointing out. It's feels more ridiculous when people are like, "Shh, don't mention she's female, it'll be construed that you're sexist."

There is a lot of grey area here, but I'm glad the original commenter hasn't been downvoted to oblivion for what seemed a very honest comment.
I saw benchmarks posted comparing a Java supercompiler vs C, and Java + supercompiler actually beat raw C for quite a few test cases. I can't seem to find the study I saw, but if you search for "supercompilers" there's lots of information available.
That's because doctors and lawyers impact individual lives directly, and often profoundly.

Explain how any developer has done this recently.

We're hardwired to respect individual stories, not tales of aggregate success (affecting millions of lives in a small positive way)... which is why it's only when those small effects are made tangible by specific personal stories does it sink in.

This is why politicians talk about how the impacted the life of some small child or working mother, etc etc..
You're a technologist, so you see the solution to all problems as technology.

But the problem also could have been solved with good management and communication. Give employees the power to communicate and raise issues/questions.
is it the same system as StartupDigest? It's a pretty broken system, afaik.
There's a lot more lock-in with a phone than there is with a theme park. If I go to Disneyland and I don't like any of the restaurants there (which is the case), I can just eat at the Denny's across the street. A more apropos comparison would be North Korea.

Again, if Apple allowed apps from outside the App Store on iOS devices, none of this would be that much of a problem. You could still sell to these people, but you just wouldn't be going through Apple to do it. Apple is essentially abusing its monopoly position in the mobile app market combined with its control of the phone itself to strong-arm money out of people.

Just so people understand my position: I've used Apple products almost exclusively since 1984. My primary computer is a MacBook Pro, and my phone is an iPhone 3GS. I'm not the sort of person who loves hating on Apple. But this really is nothing more than Apple being exactly the sort of bully Microsoft was in the '90s, and I don't like it.
Looks like about 1 order of magnitude, not several.
Which is why I think California is still in a bubble. When will it actually pop?
Maybe this will be the lowest voted comment of all time.

Regarding the "Women have it hard in startups" argument floating around the world lately; it clearly doesn't gel with my observations here at hackernews. This post coupled with "the pregnant post" demonstrate the disproportionate attention women founders get. The cognitive dissonance is about to bust out of my forehead.

NEWS: Women have it easy in startups, all they have to do is put something together and say "I made a startup" and "I am a woman". BAM! Instantly at the top for hours.

It's true. You know it. You instantly got the reference about "the pregnant post". You were going to say something but you chickened out.
Li-ion batteries - how to take care of them
Succeeding in Online Content
That sounds cool. Can they tell you from which European ethnic groups you come from too? How specific are they about this? Do they say French, German, etc...? Or do they say South of France Celtic, Germanic tribe from the North and so on?
How does it work for EADS ? (Airbus manufacturer)
Never, ever, got it with the motorola- same network, same callee.
The quick answer is that MongoDB mmaps it's entire data set, so if you've got more data than ram (likely) the OS is going to constantly have all excess ram allocated to Mongo. This becomes an issue because Redis (very reasonably) assumes that malloc will return quickly, however, if the OS decides it's going to give Redis a dirty page, that malloc call just became disk bound.
The U.S. government has had the ability to seize property for quite a while. The earliest I recall it happening is with drug related crimes. These laws were passed in the '80s allowing officers to seize not just drugs, but all your property and bank accounts prior to trial. This has been argued in court many times and our judges have upheld the feds ability to make such seizures.

The IRS has quite a few powers that seem to violate due process as well.

As to your comment about living in "communist russia" and dealing with corrupt cops...I'm pretty sure what you described happens daily in Atlanta and LA.

Democracy belongs to those who show up and pay up.
Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven Mrgan
Forgive my ignorance, and no offense intended, but how is an email extension considered a startup, and furthermore: a YC startup?

I realize that it's useful, and a great product, and I'm not implying otherwise, but this model seems to stretch the startup concept very thin.
The first two rules of Apple are that you talk about Apple. Constantly.
List of most known mobile device emulators
Try to comment :)
Looks great! We use and love ServerDensity (http://www.serverdensity.com). They just released an amazing looking MongoDB monitoring plugin as well (http://blog.boxedice.com/2011/02/15/mongodb-monitoring-dashb...). Any idea what your pricing will be?
>> It's a collaboration of MS employees and community members and they take outside contributions. Not sure what's wrong with that.

I agree, nothing wrong with that. I think a lot of the stuff that MS has been doing under Scott Guthrie in recent years has been very good in regards to fostering a better community.

>> It needed to be in VS to take off.

Do you think NuGet would be successful if MS had not officially endorsed the project?
> While not the most honest move, it is a brilliant PR coup.

You misspelled vaporware.

Apple announced something they're gonna roll out in the next rev. of iOS. Google put out a press release.
I'm too cheap to get it, but I think that threep.io is a perfect domain... ;)
In my city (Vancouver) only 7% of the workforce makes over 100k a year. I don't know what the professional breakdowns are but I would consider myself pretty fortunate if I was in that 7%. Hell, I consider myself fortunate even though I am not in that category.
For anyone looking for books coming out on clojure, you can still get the 35% discount on the MEAP version of Joy Of Clojure from manning, with the coupon code: clojure35

http://www.manning.com/fogus/

(when you buy the meap book you get early access to content in pdf form)
Q: "There was an article in the Post the other day about trivia now being trivial because of the ability to look up everything in an instant..."

A: "...in a not-too-distant future where nobody knows their state capitals anymore, maybe trivia geeks will be revered for their even more fantastical-seeming abilities! We will be like gods to you, carried on litters to your feasts."
New social media hub needing testing 
We are a web development company launching a new social media hub for women. We are looking for feedback on the site. Can you sign up at www.lifo.com and give me feedback on the site?
This question isn't intended to be confrontational, I'd genuinely love to know your approach if you're willing to share: How do you deal with 1 star App Store reviews from people complaining that very basic features are missing? Specifically, how do you prevent that from tarnishing your App's reputation while you work to get the most requested features added in an update?
Why do you believe that components are home made? They are only home-designed.

Nearly all of the iPhone is built and assembled outside of Apple and outside of the US. The (non-standard parts of the) hardware are "designed by Apple in California", and the bulk of the software is created in Cupertino as well.

http://texyt.com/iphone+manufacturer+supplier+assembler+not+...
You just don't get it. Apple owns the App Store. Apple therefore has the right to dictate the terms of the App Store, because they own it. Developers get to choose to use the app store and agree to Apple's terms if they want. End of story.
they want you to keep spare batteries in the fridge?? Ridiculous on 2 levels. 1. Most people won't do that. 2. my macbook has a battery?
Presumably it's something like 'can be used outside of a walled payment ecosystem like the app store'
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I agree, and I can't wait for someone (or, more likely, some group) to figure out how to parallelise arbitrary programs across GPUs and CPUs in a way that is transparent to the programmer - or as nearly so as possible.

I spend a lot of my "fun time" writing agent-based systems which involve multiple objects all running the same set of code within a single environment. A person could be forgiven for thinking that computers should be able to "just run it" on all these CPU or GPU cores but it doesn't work out that way right now unfortunately. I have tried Haskell but it's quite hard to do real work with, or maybe I am just dumb :-)

No doubt answers will come with time. Perhaps the "pain" of slow CPU cores will force one (or some) of us to put in some time to writing the type of solution I refer to in my first paragraph. (The related concept of "peak oil" springs to mind.)
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> The Innovator's Solution (by Christensen, who wrote the Innovator's
> Dilemma) says that assembly can be profitable or non-profitable,
> depending on what qualities are currently in demand in the market.

> As an example, Dell made a lot of money being an assembler.

But Dell is also the support agent. They purchase components (that
they select) and place them into a chassis (that they designed) and
sell that product. Their second product is service and support, few
companies using Dell servers or workstations would buy them without
also having a service plan (for failed components, software/hardware
issues and the like). When a harddrive fails, you don't open the
computer see that's its Western Digital and give them a call. Instead,
you contact Dell and they send you an equivalent size drive, perhaps
Seagate this time. This service and support is an added value to the
customer. Dell becomes an intermediary between the company and the
coponent manufacturers. Since there are multiple producers of roughly
equivalent components Dell is also able to do this for relatively low
cost to themselves -- they can buy in bulk, they can select parts
based on quality metrics like MTBF to reduce service rates.

Boeing isn't setup in the same way for the 787. Nearly every component
has a sole-provider. When it fails or needs servicing airlines won't
be calling Boeing just so they can pay extra for services they can get
directly from the manufacturer of the component.

For an example, consider line-replaceable units (LRUs). These are
typically custom built for the aircraft to meet its particular
size/connector requirements. That means it's a one-off product though
internally it may be essentially the same as every other similarly
functioning LRU that manufacturer provides. The time and cost invested
to field an LRU is enormous. Not only does a company have to satisfy
its QA and Boeing's QA processes, it must also get past the FAA. The
controls that are required to get software through are a substantial
burden (especially when done in the typical last-minute fashion) that
no one else will likely try and reproduce a company's product either.

So now an airline has a failed or service-needing component. They
contact company X who offers them tech data to try and service it
themselves for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, or for
hundreds or thousands of dollars per part the airline can send the
part to company X for servicing. If Boeing owned the parts, then they
could make the profit off of this portion, but as it is they
(presently) offer no additional value (convenience, quality of
service) to prevent the airlines from bypassing them. Company X reaps
all the benefits of this relationship, and Boeing gets the profit only
on the initial sale, and on whatever components they happen to
control (there's more I'm sure, but a lot is also lost).
FWIW, I'd recommend Java NIO, it's served me really well on Mibbit, so feel free to ping me if you decide to go that route.

Whatever language you choose though there's plenty of interesting scaling problems to work on ;)
Work share deals are just part of getting contracts signed for items at this price point. Given the resulting cost and schedule overruns, and that Boeing has not pulled everything back in-house (yet?), we may want to rethink the degree to which these agreements were secondary motivators for outsourcing...the cost of efficient breach in terms of damages to suppliers and lost sales would have to be greater still than eating the current and projected overruns.
Real Time Speech Recognition Engine
There is so much bullsh*t in that post that its almost laughable!
Nice idea but runs slow. Seems to be reloading the editing widget each time.
Sometimes I almost feel like Stallman intentionally used the word 'free' in the license to confuse people. Many people think that it means you can do whatever you want with it and get in legal trouble down the line. This is why I won't use any GPLd libraries in any of my projects. It's too risky.
Being born in a foreign country, I have to smile when I see a blog entry like this one. I agree that the salary is relative to where people are living and I get the point of the writer. To specify an example, let's say that some Silicon Valley engineer wants to buy a $1M house. With $100K salary, it will make 10 years of salary.

Now, let's move to another country: Spain in this case. A normal salary for a junior engineer is around 15K/year (euro) up to 30K for a senior developer. A big house (for europeans, 950sq ft) in a normal neighbor in Barcelona costs around 400K (euro), which would be like... 26 years of salary?

And I have compared different houses, for what I have seen, in general the price $/sq.ft. is pretty similar between both cities.

As I said, I understand that the engineers might not get back what they produce (and I agree) but I just wanted to give another point of view.
Except they are still stuck with any badly implemented language "features" in their own language that they only spent 2 months on. Language design and implementation is hard, just ask the dozens/hundreds of full time developers that work on ruby, java, php or .net itself.
Sony’s S1 PlayStation tablet won’t look like any other
That doesn't mean we rate them higher, or they are used for web-surfing more.
If you own an iPhone, you've got a ticket and are inside Apple's themepark. You can't leave until the end of the day, or you get charged extra (ETF). Suddenly, Apple pisses off the vendors by killing off their profits. A couple of the vendors talk about going to a different, more open theme park once its announced. You're stuck inside Apple's park, and you're hungry. But the pretzel guy just left because he can't make a profit selling pretzels in Apple's theme park. Why should I be happy as a customer here again? Because Apple's made it so I can pay the pretzel guy (who is no longer here) slightly easier?
What are your rates? Haha
N=?NP, Physics, Feynman, and Quantum Computing
A refreshing alternative to the usual 'we need a rockstar/ninja/cowboy coder'.

"...tremendous coding stamina which results in voluminous output... likes it from the back..."
Shame, eie.io is gone

[Edit: I stole this idea from PowerPC, which has an eieio (Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O) instruction]
I disagree with you that expanding beyond wedding (at least, on one branded site) is a good idea. Niche domains and sites are going to garner more trust from consumers than a giant website that does everything. Look at tinyprints.com and weddingpaperdivas.com — you can start covering more areas, but splitting the sites into different branded areas will probably do more good than doing everything with one website.

Templates are a WeddingType.com area, and will be explored. :)
Lakers most popular NBA team, has the loudest fans; Spurs most underrated
This seems a bit condescending.

(most) Everyone is aware of the situation and understands the risks -- it does not mean they cannot complain about the margin cut killing their business or the requirement to enforce the margin cut for content both in and out of the app store (even when said content is not linked to by the app).

I dont see how giving away things for free is relevant.
@Derleth - thx for asking. Here is one source, the Harvard School of Public Health:

(intro)...Surprisingly little is known about protein and health...

(from the section: Protein Package)

Animal protein and vegetable protein probably have the same effects on health. It's the protein package that's likely to make a difference.

A 6-ounce broiled porterhouse steak is a great source of complete protein—38 grams worth. But it also delivers 44 grams of fat, 16 of them saturated. (2) That's almost three-fourths of the recommended daily intake for saturated fat. The same amount of salmon gives you 34 grams of protein and 18 grams of fat, 4 of them saturated. (2) A cup of cooked lentils has 18 grams of protein, but under 1 gram of fat. (2)

The bottom line is that it's important to pay attention to what comes along with the protein in your food choices.
Damn. eie.io has gone
How did your previous ones "die"? Software is not mortal. Why can't your past web apps be product material for a startup? Did you just lose interest?

You may not like this answer, but the actual hacking and coding is a very small part of launching an independent software company. Your "marketing cofounder" is really in for more like 90% of the work. If all you want to do is code, well, you're in competition with millions of coders worldwide who are willing and able to work more cheaply.

patio11, one of HN's most respected members and best contributors, makes his living on a product that he himself characterizes as "hello world hooked up to a random number generator." His business building was all in figuring out and optimizing AdWords and email responders and the payment pages and logos and colors and so on. Does that truly hold your interest to dive into?
I don't understand the outrage here. The App Store is private property. The owner of that property (Apple) has the right to use that property as they see fit. Developers are also free to agree to the terms of the App Store or not. The purchasers of Apple products are also free to buy things from the App Store if they choose to.

How is this unfair, evil, or wrong I don't understand. Unfashionable, yes. Wrong or unfair, no.
Great to have your stamp of approval — I'm sure you remember the WeddingInviteLove idea from my plan of attack back in the day. :)
>2nd rule - you wanna develop for Apple, you gotta play by their rules.

How did this come to life? I don't wanna develop for Apple, i wanna develop for persons who own specific material artefacts to allow the persons to modify or extend the functionality or appearance or any other aspect of those artefacts.
Nazi 3D films from 1936 discovered
I love the header, a friend of mine made it to save me from my graphical misery. It's really just a temporary name so I'm happy with "pretty but not extremely readable" for the moment.

The email based admin was primarily an experiment. I was trying to stick as close to the workflow of "user emails change, we respond" as possible. I'm sticking a real management page up here at some point, though, because the email based admin is pretty fragile.