skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bringing people to Montreal in the summer is a pretty easy recruitment strategy.
Double Jeopardy doesn't protect you from being tried in multiple jurisdictions.

An American example is the "D.C. Snipper" who was charged in Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. to maximize jailtime and possibility of conviction.
Can you post your contact information? Thanks
My husband's company opened a (English-speaking) branch office in Montreal two years ago. Language is definitely an issue for working spouses. It is very difficult to find an English-only job in Montreal if you don't work in tech or finance. Plus, the insular Anglophone community that used to make it possible to function in Montreal without French doesn't exist anymore. You need to learn French. Thankfully, if you're willing to put in the work, the Quebec gov't offers ridiculously cheap intensive French lessons that can be scheduled around a 9-5 job.

Also, if your children were originally enrolled in English, they can get into an English-language primary school in Quebec.
Badoo
I don't see Linux share on that? I ask because we use Apache on WS08. I'm sure we're not the common case, but it would be useful to know if Apache==99% Linux or 75% Linux.
> The desirable aspect of this system is obvious - the only people who see your data are people who've seen a QR code from someone in your social graph - your FaceTorrent profile will never, ever be indexed by Google.

What if Google started offering, say, free Google Coupons (assuming they roll their own groupon) in exchange for befriending them on FaceTorrent? Not all of my friends and relatives value privacy as much as I do.
Copa America 2011
A Closer Look at Maxima
McWeddings? Sure. Or Tie The Knot at Taco Bell
Piracy - it's probably better to make free, ad-supported apps. Fragmentation. What you're able to do as a seller depends on the country you live in. The Android store is terrible (from what I've read and heard). General discoverability - Apple does a fine job of promoting apps. Messed up rules that will ruin your entire business[1]. Google's "Don't be evil" is bull[2].

It's my impression that iOS developers make more money - although cross-platform development can be considered.

I am probably never going to own an Android phone, so I won't be developing apps for myself which makes development too artificial.

This blog post has made me consider looking into Palm/WebOS, though.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1670880

[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/cspnb/daring_fireball...
Its not working for me Brian, which is a shame as I was going to draw some male genitalia.
More than almost anything else, killing seems fundamental to nature as I understand nature. I would, in fact, say that "kill or be killed" is THE natural contract.
I'm convinced this is actually a good idea ...

> I stopped using PowerPoint slides.

There's a great start.

> immediately pose a programming puzzle using this concept to the class

Instant reinforcement of the ideas

> ask students to work on the problem for 5-10 minutes

Enough time to get into the issues concerned, not enough time to get stuck and frustrated

> volunteers to present their solution by writing it on the whiteboard.

Present your work to others for everyone to learn.

> discuss and correct the presented solutions from
> the perspective of a potential interviewer

Immediate feedback for everyone, further analysis of the problem and the ideas involved.

It won't suit everyone, but ...

> Will I teach all the remaining technical material
> in the course using this method? Of course not.

I wonder which method will prove more effective.
Ask HN: Good mobile open source projects?
Hello HN,

I'm working for a company building their app on iOS, Blackberry OS and Android. To hopefully improve my skill set, I'd like to work on some open source libraries or apps for any of these platforms. Most "apps" seemed to be fairly easy (in a technical sense) to implement once you've got the basics of UI + Communicating with REST APIs down.

Are there any interesting mobile open source projects I'm missing completely ?
Oracle RAC may come closest to addressing most of these issues. Of course it is pricey. However it fulfills pretty much all the constraints mentioned here - application transparency while scaling(sharding does not involve changing the app), horizontal scalability(add nodes as needed), failover for both read & write transactions. It sounds like sale-pitch for RAC but it seems to geared to deal with these kind of scenarios.
yeah, you can get something like this to the front page of reddit easily, if you and a couple of guys use a tor browser, and create fake logins, and upboat the content.

Reddit doesn't have good defenses against tor browsing. Tor browsing/hack is the best way to beat reddit defences, since you can circumvent reddit's IP logging, and cookies.
I rent. There's no shame in renting. Most people whose home was repossed aren't homeless - they went back to renting.

I didn't buy a house because I educated myself about the 3X rule. You should only buy a house that is worth 3X your income.

Did Wall Street screw a lot of vulnerable people? Yes. But people like Elizabeth Warren, who leads the new Consumer Protection Bureau are making substantive improvements to the system.
Good point. I do wish the neuroscientists concerned would be more active drawing the distinction that you have made.
BMW launches "i Ventures"
I think, I found an answer here. :)
Only works with WebSocket browsers. You'll need Chrome or Safari
Technology Agnostic: Developing In An Adapting World
They still ask silly questions. It's almost like Jeopardy for Nerds.

* Convert decimal 11 to binary.

* How many bits are in Unix permissions.

* What does set UID mean.

* How do you rm a file named -f

* How are hard links different from soft links

* What does const mean

* More and more Jeopardy for Geeks questions

It was like a Unix/C trivia game. No reasonable person would name a file -f (but that's beside the point)...it's just fun thinking of all the ways you could remove it if you ever had to.
Freedoms Quantified
Thank you for your answer. It's a valid example but I guess it doesn't prove the point that the web isn't up to the job of serving applications. Maybe in mobile that's true, maybe mobile it's the future. For now I would counterargue that web app market is much bigger than the mobile app market.

For whoever downmoded me RTFM: http://paulgraham.com/road.html. If there is a new road ahead write a new road ahead essay close to that form so I can understand. I won't stand for empty vanguardism.
Why is every thing that I post on Hacker News turned to dead meat? Please don't sell the idea that you've found illegal activity, since its my forth posting on HN today. And NONE is spam or in disagreement with your policies.

Earlier I also tried registering with my Facebook id, and your system returned "facebook login failed".

- Arvind
As far as I know he was the only one who have succeeded in not only hacking in, but also not being traced back despite all of Valves efforts. (They even got the FBI involved.) How many of the "hackpplicants" can you say the same about? The only reason Valve even knew who did it was because he came forward to them. He admired Gabe and his team so much that his dream is to join them. All of this indicate to me that he would make an awesome employee. I have little doubt that he would have poured his heart and soul into the company had he been given the chance. In fact that is the main reason why I found the story to be so tragic.
For my part, I know that I love it when I see English Canadians trying to speak French - I do my best to help them practice. I could be pissed at someone who's lived in Quebec for a loong time (5 years +) and who still doesn't speak French, but that's about the only case.

All in all, it's only a question of motivation. If you're focused and you keep practicing, you will get better... the trick is to prevent people from switching the conversation language (back to English) when they see you're having a hard time.

Bonne chance :)
Oh well, this happens everywhere in non-english-speaking countries.
What about ad revenue? Angry Birds appears to be making more money from Google ads than iOS sales, from what I can tell...
You mean like Zune, Windows Phone, and Xbox?
It's useful to differentiate between "SQL Databases do not scale" and "SQL Databases do not _cost effectively_ scale". The second argument is more accurate.

Vertical scaling of a DB is definitely an option for many people and has been used to scale many applications. However, the cost curve associated with buying bigger and bigger hardware is super-linear; doubling CPU & Memory in a single system leads to more than doubling the hardware cost. This can be problematic for many businesses whose revenue growth is exceeded by cost growth of the database.

Sharding is also an option for scaling, leveraged to great success by Facebook, Yahoo, and many others. However as the article points out, sharding prevents the developer from using many of the features that make a relational database a productive development environment. There are lots of foot guns that emerge in a sharded SQL environment and if you have not set up your development constraints appropriately, you can slow the pace of development considerably. This again leads to a cost problem because the incremental costs of adding features grows as you add more things like sharding around your database.

SQL is not useless and not hopeless. In a large number of cases, SQL is the right solution. However the techniques used to scale SQL tend to be options only to very large budget organisations. NoSQL solutions tend to be more cost effective in their scaling approach (scale out vs. scale up) without crippling the developers productivity. For these reasons, NoSQL solutions tend to be the better choice for the cost-conscious.
> But just because it's typical to have the urge to do crazy things when you're in a rough spot doesn't mean that you should do them, or that it will solve anything.

What I learned from an undergrad education in psychology was: Everything works for some people 100% of the time. In that if you map human psychology down to a binary point (e.g. feeling stressed? shake things up or buckle down), you'll find that for about half the population one generalized choice or the other is going to be perfect and unfortunately you can't know which half you are in, or which half you are dealing with until after the fact usually.
This just came across the news ticker on CNN. Congrats?
I'm not sure I agree with this article, but Montreal does have one thing in it's favor when it comes to the tech industry: incredible subsidies. With the low wages and cost of living, plus gov't handouts, it can be cheaper to hire developers in Montreal than in Beijing.
I spent a week in Montreal a few months ago, I'm an American and speak no french at all, and I didn't have any issues. All in all, I found it a pretty cool place to spend time, and somewhere I'd consider moving.

I even spent a day at a pretty nice coworking spot there: http://station-c.com/en
X-Callback-URL: URL specification for iOS interapp communication
How Bill Gates' Favorite Teacher Wants to Disrupt Education
Valve maintains systems that contain sensitive financial information, sensitive internal IP, and a whole library of external IP from other publishers. This wasn't a script kiddie pulling things off bit-torrent, this was an elaborate penetration into a corporate network.

If I was in Valve's position, I would blackball him from working there because he couldn't be trusted, and the damage he caused.

Damage caused was at least time spent cleaning up his mess in their network. Conversely it sounds like Valve had a very weak security setup in their network.
That would be quite expensive both for the server and the client. Besides, I certainly wouldn't use a site that tracks my mouse movement to determine whether I'm a human or not.
Hundreds of tiny systems that all integrate together in various complex ways? I mean, it's not like you can "mysqldump bankofamerica_production > backup.dump" or anything, right?
The Two-Way Prototype
Now that more artists are taking a risk when they sell music, the pirates should have no excuses. The music isn't too expensive, DRM is slowly going away, you can try before you buy, and the artists aren't getting screwed by labels.

I suspect music piracy will continue though.
"a 25 hour day",

I sometimes live a 36+ hour day: (10 + x) hours of sleep + (12 + 4 + y) hours of waking.
Another misleading story reports that blogs ‘r’ dead
Looks like 40 concurrent users is the max. Process crashed but its back up now
The reason this doesn't work is because Apple had to pick a number - 30%. For some businesses, that makes perfect sense. for others 1% or maybe 70% might make sense. But rigidly adhering to 30% (no doubt because of the massive complexity of the alternative) is going to cut lots of business out just because it doesn't make sense. Apple needs to rethink this - it's clumsy.
DB2 pureScale (http://programmingzen.com/2009/10/21/what-is-db2-purescale/). Checkmate.
Nothing scales indefinitely, not even RoR. But that wasn't what the article complained about. If the author had written "SQL Databases Don't Scale Indefinitely" I wouldn't have any complaint about it.

My point is that there are plenty of real-world examples of SQL databases that are scaled way beyond any RoR web app's needs, so flatly claiming they don't scale is wrong.

The solution banks (and other large organizations) have arrived at -- using multiple databases with different transactional and availability requirements -- IS a solution to scaling large databases. There's no requirement that SQL databases be monolithic. Even the original article describes using a MySQL master for updates and one or more slaves for reads. That's a valid scalability solution if your application can live with the possibility of stale data in the slaves.
You could tell that these guys were having a blast making the games, and the games showed it. That, in my opinion, tends to highlight the big problem with a lot of sterile games nowadays: designed by committee and handed off to underpaid developers in a cubicle.

Thank goodness for indie games, they seem to retain that spark.
"By now if you haven’t heard of Klout and in a moment of vanity checked your own Klout score, you’re in the online minority. "

I have not checked my Klout score, and indeed until just now had no idea what Klout actually was. When I looked at Klout's homepage, it requires a Twitter account to search for someone. I don't use Twitter and I know I'm not the only one, so I think this is pretty bogus as far as a reputation measurement goes.

I don't know how how this guy has decided that means I'm in an online minority, but I do know that his Bartonphink score just took a dip.
I agree with the author's concepts, but I find this book unreadable. It's just too darned dense -- needlessly dense.
DIY telepresence robot uses PrimeSense Kinect drivers
If it provides enough legitimate content to be useful to the users, it will get upvotes regardless of its ulterior motives. At a certain point an advertisement is entertaining enough to be viewed voluntarily. cf Old Spice guy.
However, they've artificially retained control of the channel via DRM, software that doesn't allow you to install whatever you want on your own hardware.

Why don't you just remove Apple's software and install your own?
P.S. We’d we be glad to deliver Readability for iOS – with in-app purchasing – if you’d carve out 70% from your 30% fee and share it with writers and publishers, just as we do.

This will never happen, but if it did I'd be ecstatic. It could be a great PR move and really help Readability's goals to fund independent content producers online.
I probably should mention that this area is somewhat barren of tech jobs.

So is my area, so students here don't limit their search to the local area. Most people I know who have done a co-op (me included) did so at least a couple hundred miles away from school.
He's more right than wrong, esp when compared to our naturalism.
Is anyone here looking for a potential employee from Ottawa? Already a Canadian and available for the whole summer ;)
TenThings.me tells your friends your secrets (Wired UK)
Box2dweb
The same thing happens in the Android Market. Apps get removed for policies that have always been there, and then they complain that they exist AFTER they develop the app.

READ THE TOS PEOPLE.
Wesabe's Bank Aggregation Engine Open Sourced
What are you talking about? And how does it matter to the story? The guy found a way to stick it to the man, with no prior training in law.

I think a demonstration that you can do today what was unthinkable a little more than a decade ago is a point well worth reading whatever you don't like about the home description.
I disagree that Apple's tools are superior.

XCode is a really unpleasant IDE to work in imo because it has so many separate windows, even in the All-In-One view. Admittedly, this could just be because I am so used to the VS/Eclipse single tabbed window style.

I dislike that XCode is only available on OS X which adds the cost of (expensive) mac hardware to app development (or the difficulty/annoyance of updating a hackintosh every time a new version of OS X comes out).

And finally, it is annoying to have to download/install an 800MB-1GB version of XCode every time a new version comes out.
Author here. Yes, you can get the original (rather messy) code from https://github.com/mnmldave/scraper. There are brief installation instructions in the README.

It should be noted that the javascript is passed thru Google's Closure compiler before packaging, in case you're looking to verify.
Immersion in DC's tech scene
Customers Get Dryad, DryadLINQ (Microsoft's Map-Reduce)
Tell HN: Chris McCann, StartupDigest CEO, speaking in SF tomorrow, 2/22
Not working for me in Chrome 9.0.597.98
Scientists warn of $2,000bn solar ‘Katrina’
It certainly looks like the industry is run with a bunch of shell scripts. Buddy scripts, of course.

[Edit: Or maybe they're "features", not bugs.]
Man Tweets without Really Thinking About it First
This is code for pulling transaction data from a huge number of financial institutions. Consider it an alternative to Yodlee.
"It's not that SQL databases do not scale per se, they just can't arbitrarily scale."

Tell that to Clustrix, Vertica, and VoltDB.

SQL is a query language, Relational is a data model, neither one prevents scaling out.
FIFA 11 by EA SPORTS v 1.2.0
Cows vs Aliens v 1.0
I've always been super jealous at how much Chinese speakers can say in Chinese on Twitter.
I'm not sure what you mean. "Windows", to me, refers to the desktop OS, which is certainly licensed, and has no corresponding hardware component available from Microsoft directly.

Microsoft definitely has their own crazy and draconian licensing and "ownership" issues, but I can't tell from your comment which one of the thousands of possible example cases you're referring to.

If you have a well-reasoned counterpoint, please post it. I'd honestly love to hear a different perspective.
Perhaps. But it sure as hell won't be including any immigrant folk in it, which is quite against the spirit of free software. Any immigrant in Montreal who is even remotely into that sorta stuff that I personally know have moved onto more welcoming lands such as the US (me, and some others) or Ontario/British Columbia (several others). In my opinion, Montreal is still very much a preferred destination for francophone immigrants from impoverished nations who aren't functional in a non-francophone environment, but the English speaking folk (South Asia/China/Rest of the World, if you prefer) are usually better off elsewhere. Really pains me to say this, I gotta say ...
Not different as in exclusive. Writing ∈ communication in this case. It's strongly indicative. (ps: we're not talking about 1 typo here, I should probably have clarified that.)
[disclosure: I'm a personal friend of the author of this article.]

I lived in Montreal for three years, or four winters, depending upon how you count.

I believe that Montreal has the most important element necessary to become an open-source startup hub, namely a lot of good talent. The language barrier exists, but is not strong enough that it has hindered any open-source efforts in Montreal (as far as I've seen).

The main hurdle to Montreal becoming any sort of startup hub is cultural. IMHO, Montrealais are not very opportunistic in starting and pursuing business.

I don't think this is Montreal-specific in any way, many cities are like this.

I think people are inspired most of all by other people they meet in their day-to-day lives, not images on TV or in media. The current difficulty is that Montrealais have very few positive role models around them, to show how it's done. In SF or NYC, you could easily move in a social circle that contains a successful business entrepreneur. "Oh, if he could do it, then I can do that too!" But most people in Montreal don't happen to know a successful tech entrepreneur, not even as an acquaintance in passing.

Note that I have found that Montrealais ARE very opportunistic when it comes to social entrepreneurism. Witness social events The Strip Spelling Bee http://stripspellingbee.blogspot.com/ (and other productions by Perpetual Emotion Machine Productions, like Slow Dance Night), musical innovation particularly in low-fi and DIY subgeneres, and non-profit activism like Head and Hands.

But business ambition is regarded with skepticism at best, and is generally considered a form of elitism and lack of social consciousness.
MakerBot Introduces Water Soluble 3D Printer Filament
Cloud.com's Mark Hinkle, VP of Community (SCALE 9x Interviews)
Hey, I'm totally with you. But just because you don't like a law doesn't make it not a law. I think the DMCA is here to stay unless and until Congress fixes it.
I totally agree that it's a hard place to have a startup. That's one of the reasons ecosystems matter to founders (see http://nextmontreal.com/12-reasons-a-healthy-startup-ecosyst... for my thoughts on the matter).

I think if there's critical mass, there can be a strong ecosystem here if we specialize.
Ah, yea. The domain has nothing to do with the content, really. It was just a domain that I had.

I'm kind of brainstorming some ideas, but the goal is to keep it simple and minimal. Focus on doing well at locating people's contact info.
NodeJS screencasts at nodetuts.com
I don't think that the op will want to show a 404 page. If a user is logged in, I will redirect the user to the homepage. Why let the user accesses the login page if the user has already logged in?

I guess that is what the op trying to do.
First look at the new Yobongo commercial and screenshots
TinyGrab abandons iOS because of new App Store rules
We don't like it, but Apple's got every allowance and reason to do this. Either Readability will cave to Apple's pricing model, or somebody else will come in with the same technology and do so. Apple believes that the competitive position they have attained allows them to dictate pricing terms. The market will decide whether they are correct.

The only argument against Apple that holds water is abuse of monopolistic power, but I don't think that will fly given that the whole market of Android and Windows and other phones also exists.
But now it is. Is your faith zero-sum?
More info - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/DryadLINQ/

Hopefully they'll release this soon for Windows Azure.
I always keep a Leatherman in my bag, amazing how many times I've used it. Android phone for looking things up.
I really hope the defense argument doesn't hinge on proving the PS3 is a cell phone.
My friend needs some data for a survey on utility computing.  Can you help?