skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google should tune into WIIFM:
http://larryborsato.com/blog/2010/01/wiifm/
...what exactly is the end customer going to do with this?

If the end customer is developers, then yes, it's interesting and google should promote it heavily at something like GoogleIO or other dev venue.

If it's for customers, it's going to need a killer app.

(edited to remove anchor tag)
It's good online programming becomes sane again.

I see you're actually eager to make a full leap from 'WEB' to native apps. I don't disagree, but I think REST+DOM/JS will still have its place there. A lightweight alternative to full-blown applications, interactive documents that load in the blink of an eye and transparently integrate with your ecosystem. I guess it's what web was supposed to be in the first place, but with some added zing.
It is definitely more-so under Obama than under any previous president.
I'm curious - who else is crowd-sourcing the headhunter business like this? Is this unusual (at least in this economy)?
Cerf: 2011 will be proving point for 'InterPlanetary Internet'
Powerlifting/Strength training

Comic books

Reading

Record Collecting (late 70s punk,60s/70s soul, and new house and techno 12"s)
She's an employee.
I don't understand. Maybe you can provide links.
The characters that I think I'm supposed to like (Dagny and the prince boyfriend) all seem to have gotten where they are by being born into awesome situations. Don't get me wrong - Dagny is a hell of a lot more sympathetic than her brother, for example - but it's hard to look at her as a "self-made woman" when the railroad has been a family business for like 5 generations.

That's true, but there seems to be a concerted effort throughout the story to tie her - in a sort of spiritual sense - to her grandfather who built the railroad originally. She thinks about him a lot and you get the sense that she is - at times - asking herself "Can I be as good a person as he was, can I be that brave, that strong, etc?"

By the end of the book I felt a lot of sympathy for both Dagny and Rearden.
I still like that analogy of REST to Plan-9's everything-behaves-like-file. It put it for me in an entirely different perspective. Sure enough, everything seems to have HTTP/RESTful API nowadays—maybe the total uniformity and transparency envisioned by Plan-9 creators is not so far away?
Do you know what ODBC is, and why most smart programmers dislike it and try to stomp out its stupidity?

The model for writing drivers, and plugging in drivers, in ODBC, is R. E. T. A. R. D. E. D.

Edit: I forgot to mention that using the drivers suck, too. The ODBC transaction interface is basically RPC, and is becoming out-moded with recent language research on remote batch execution.

Usually, you have a custom transport protocol for client/server, like the Microsoft SQL Server Tabular Data Stream protocol. It is ultimately not very extensible. Imagine something like LINQ today. Would be nice to just send that expression tree to SQL Server, and not have a client-side or middle-tier ORM tool have to transform the tree into SQL.
Last Tweet On Twidroyd Promotes Twitter’s Own App
Yay! More jobs for Massachusetts!
Would it be possible to port something like auto cad to chrome with this?
Well it was good to have LP candidates to vote for. I hope you guys make some inroads even though I won't be around to see it.

I went to Wake Forest, stayed around for a few years after in Winston-Salem and found that, as my friends from college moved and were getting better jobs elsewhere, I wasn't making new friends and my career was fairly stagnant (Winston isn't the best job market).
What do I need to know if I want to accept credit cards on my website?
It's pretty rare that my site shows up here, and my actual readership isn't huge, so I don't think that is the case. Any way to find out though?
I also spent half the article thinking that the author's struggles with vocabulary and grammar might explain his/her struggles to get ahead. Perhaps he/she is a non-native speaker and that's adding to the trouble?

I also noticed the many grammatical flaws in this post. I did a little digging, and the author does indeed appear to be a non-native speaker. (He's Italian: http://wiki.devicerandom.org/Who_am_I.)
Have there really been that many attempted assassinations on the Queen or her predecessors?

I'm completely confident that there is a tangible threat to the life of POTUS, but I don't how much at risk the Queen is. Quanti- and qualitatively.
Not that I know of, but I bet we could pull enough people together to make this a regular thing. In fact, I wouldn't mind volunteering some time to get this started.
Also from NASA this week: No evidence your neighbor is a Communist.
Fee differences are such a small piece of the puzzle. There are so many other differences between PayPal and merchant accounts that can make or break your business. And good luck escaping once you're locked in one way or another.

I cover it a little here: http://peachshake.com/2010/06/15/saas-subscription-billing-o...
Misleading subject line on the email from Twitter about this: "Important information about your Twitter application" (emphasis mine).

Turns out it wasn't about my application at all, it was twidroyd. Way to get my attention though.
UberMedia CEO Bill Gross says these are new issues Twitter never brought up before:

“We just talked to Twitter and discussed the various issues they raise. It took us by surprise because they didn’t raise them before."

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/18/ubermedia-bill-gross-twitte...
If by 'REST+DOM/JS' you mean "Random Bad, Hodge-Podge Code Filled with Callbacks and pervasive use of global variables", then yes, bad programming will always have a place - for PHP programmers.

Most really awesome apps being written these days, that use HTML, are using the CANVAS tag and doing stuff like building terrain maps of buildings and showing people holding 4.5" smart phones where in the building druglords are. Crazy stuff like that.
I did go to physics grad school, but eventually I came around. :-) http://railstutorial.org/book#author
How to Design a Great Press Page for Your Website
I'm here as well.... would be interested in checking it out.
Almost always certainly, but I'm not sure about the perfect one to one-ness. I take enormous pride in my work. It's important to me personally that I do a good job. There are tasks I have to do as part of my job I in no way love (integrating accounting systems for example), but I do them as well as I can because I consider that part of being a software professional. Or maybe I'm being too specific, I certainly love my job at the highest level and I do find the work interesting even the parts I don't love.
Poll: If you could meet any 3 people from the Obama event, who would they be?
If you could have dinner with any 3 of the Tech Luminaries that came to dinner meeting with President Obama, who would they be? http://mashable.com/2011/02/18/obama-toasts-tech-with-industry-luminaries/
Barack Obama, President of The United States
John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Carol Bartz, president and CEO, Yahoo!
John Chambers, CEO and chairman, Cisco Systems
Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
Larry Ellison, co-founder and CEO, Oracle
Reed Hastings, CEO, NetFlix
John Hennessy, president, Stanford University
Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO, Apple
Art Levinson, chairman and former CEO, Genentech
Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO, Google
Steve Westly, managing partner and founder, Westly Group
Mark Zuckerberg, founder, president and CEO, Facebook
Configure HTTP Basic Authentication for SoapUI
Empire state of code
Indeed, the OP cites the very same article.
Interestingly, interruptive presidential security is a relatively recent development. Truman used to walk freely around Washington, DC and his security staff didn't do much to stop him.

During the assassination attempt at Blair House, Truman actually opened the second story window and peered out to see what all the gunfire downstairs was about. (If I remember my McCullough correctly, he walked back to the White House just a few hours later with essentially no security.)
Start A Company Before Your MBA
It also forced me to go register without reading anything about the course and site, because only 1000 invites were available, and HN just linked it.
Thanks. Honestly, I feel bad about referring people to my own department these days because we give them such shitty offers. So I've stopped doing it until we are willing to hire real employees instead of insurance-less contractors.
Google Web Fonts serving 800k websites, growing 30% monthly
It is interesting how the micropayment zeitgeist has evolved

- Micropayments are not possible because fees and rakes amount to unsustainable cuts

- In some specific verticals (self published, digital) some micropayments are able to thrive despite the large cuts.

- Platform provider responds to those verticals by enforcing a micropayment fee structure on any transaction size
I'm interested!

Also consider the (physical) hacker community at http://www.atxhackerspace.org/ or one of the many co-working spaces. Sunday daytime will be easier for bars, less so for restaurants. Only a couple of coffee shops have space you can reserve; Genuine Joe has one I've used in the past.
You can click the "All" link in the upper left hand corner while logged in if you want to see uncustomized reddit.
How  Mobile Will Transform Commerce
As an ex-classical musician, I can attest to your first point. However, the science Ph.D. glut seems to be generating more angst these days than it used to. I attribute this in part to rising tuition costs and greater student debt loads and an ever increasing disparity between supply and demand. I believe this Economist article was recently referenced on HN:

http://www.economist.com/node/17723223?story_id=17723223

Indeed, the production of PhDs has far outstripped demand for university lecturers. In a recent book, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, an academic and a journalist, report that America produced more than 100,000 doctoral degrees between 2005 and 2009. In the same period there were just 16,000 new professorships. Using PhD students to do much of the undergraduate teaching cuts the number of full-time jobs.
The latest Mono 2.10 has NaCL support provided by Google. That means F#, C#, IronPython and IronRuby, and Java through IKVM, should work with little or no work.

This is a very exciting technical development but it remains unclear what the killer application will be.
This is a different perspective. It speaks to the developer relationship that Twitter worked so hard to cultivate in the early days, and turned around recently.
The $56 Billion ‘Black’ Budget
After working many years in information security, I agree with you 100%. Users are looking to get their work done and will click whatever it takes to get there.
The Other Book Revolution
I've heard it said that Metropolis is NYC during the day; Gotham City is NYC at night. (Alone. In Central Park.)
No way! Finally illustrator doc support!
ElephantDB seems to be a minimalist DB made for the very specific task of serving MapReduce results from Hadoop - it doesn't even support writes to the DB (which is fair enough as then persisting data once the MapReduce results get updated would be quite painful).

The main thing is it gets rid of the painful step of having to set up another datastore, run MapReduce, take the result and store it in the database. Hopefully due to it being a purely read-only datastore solution it can also be highly performant.

The main downside is that currently they don't allow updating the data simply (though they mention they're planning to in the future). Currently to update the data you either need downtime or switch between two rings of data and update them one at a time.

I'm wondering if this was made for use in production somewhere (as many large data websites could appreciate this sort of DB {Cloudera's example site TrendingTopics[1]}) or if this is just a side project?

Edit: The primary author of ElephantDB seems to work at BackType so I can see how they could theoretically use this sort of tool.

[1] http://www.trendingtopics.org/
[2] http://www.backtype.com/
Agile/Lean Retrospectives
There's also http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ (the highest-voted stories not appearing on any previous day.)
By scraping off the top end (intelligence-wise) of 4chan, that's how.)
Ah, I couldn't say since I don't use it myself. I know I've been asked to log in to view publicly disseminated document links.

If setting it to public solves the problem, by all means do that!
Since JSLint is not open source, how is this a fork? Do the authors have a special license?
CRTC Considering "Minimum bandwidth caps" as solution.
Please, write more letters to your MPs. The CRTC obviously doesn't understand any of what's going on or why it's a problem. They have to be made to understand.
How do I anonymously receive my uranium/LSD/weed in the US Mail? I could use a maildrop, but there's still a paper trail.
Didn't the Russians go broke by underestimating?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War#Faltering_Soviet_syste...
Yes. I think that's the entire point. Things like games and autocad have enormous codebases that will never be ported to javascript.

It's still not clear how much an advantage that is though. You can already share assets via the network while still using a local native application.
Agreed. Adobe doesn't make much money off of the Flash Player, just the Flash IDE, so they'd be thrilled if they could offload Flash Player's functionality and the horrible reputation it gives them and just focus on creating a good IDE.
Spoiler alert, that password is "readwriteweb"

First of all I was going to complain that I couldent get in. I was going to reply as an angry raging code monkey and demand a password. Then I kept reading. =\

The first 1000 readers that use the code "readwriteweb" will get access to the course materials, which is currently available by invitation-only.
I also prefer shorter books.

Some other advice -- short sections. I hate hitting a 50 page section. I like to finish a given section/chapter in one sitting.

Also, practical examples are nice, but make sure they're easy to digest. If I have to whip out my old calculus book to understand the problem you're solving then you're losing points -- unless you're doing a very targeted book I don't want to read, "But first we need to understand the math for wavelets..."
Does Google Extort AdWord Users?
Inside the Google Offices
We have one, it's called NoScript.
Does the Viewer work for you?

http://docs.google.com/viewer
Well, I wouldn’t call Truman’s presidency “recent”. Much has changed in the last sixty years.

But, on the topic, here are some interesting photos from JFK’s presidency. I especially like the second photo with Kennedy campaigning: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/the_presidency_of_j...
or in 2.6:

echo '{"a": "hello", "b": "world"}' | python -mjson.tool
My Gawker Redesign
> Oh really - how much extra do they pay?

That's a silly argument. There's nothing inconsistent about believing that it would be better off for the country as a whole if tax rates are higher, but not volunteering to personally pay higher than the current actual rate.

You play the game by the current rules, not the rules you are advocating the game change to.
Well REST and RESTful are at this point mostly buzzwords. I'd be happy to just use “Correct-HTTP” instead of REST and “Correct-HTTP+hyperlinks” instead of RESTful, especially since no one actually uses REST or RESTful when describing things, that do work by exchanging representations, outside of HTTP and webapps context.

I don't actually get what there is relevant about any possible business-oriented perspective you mention at the beginning. Actually, you have allocated most of your comment for advertising your blog…

As to your last paragraph, there's nothing like True REST etc. I'm not buzzword happy and I don't generalize things like that, as you can see in my other comments anyway. I wasn't referring to all those irrelevant things you've mentioned. My observation was that most web development—of various sort—was done by keeping state server-side. That approach is fine as long as you don't have multiple pieces of independent logic on one page. In that case the whole thing becomes complicated—you can either 1) use text-processing techniques, which is my hypothesis for why languages like PHP, Python and Perl are so popular for webdev or 2) abstract stateless HTTP protocol away, which results with very unfriendly and difficult to scale artifacts, like continuations.

The separations of concerns: server logic and presentation, that is possible by properly utilizing HTTP and by having powerful enough client-side environment (Javascript VMs) enable for a much saner approach, and that's why I think strongly typed languages are relevant for web once again.

Hope this clarifies my position :)
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Twitter in the University (part 2)
It was horrible. But let's keep some perspective on why that sabbatical existed. It wasn't merely because MS had decided they dominated the browser market and didn't need to innovate anymore.

More than anything it was because MS was afraid of continuing IE development. IE is what got MS into all the regulatory anti-trust trouble in the first place, MS was too afraid to make a new mis-step with IE which could land them in even more trouble.
Sorry I don't know how ODBC works in detail (I know what it is)… and I think you have commented on wrong post?
The sweepstakes part of the article seems like it can be made to work:

> "There is absolutely no incentive to make sweepstakes social. Why would you invite more people to join a sweepstakes? It reduces your own chances."

Then increase a user's chances as they spread it? Let them send a link to their friends - if they click it they both get an extra entry to the contest. Similar to how LivingSocial recently pulled off the Amazon gift card deal.

> Uploading a photo or video is a big investment on the part of the user, and they do not expect to do it for the vast majority of businesses.

Then make it easy. MMS your picture to NNNNN or email it to picture@contest.tld

It's not that users don't want to upload pictures, but taking a picture, copying to your computer, and then uploading it with your browser is a convoluted pain in the ass. Reduce friction and people will bite - especially when there's something in it for them (be the sexiest Facebook American Apparel model and win! get your friends to vote for your picture!)
It sounds like it might be for use in production. From the readme: "BackType uses ElephantDB to export views from TBs of data and serve them in the analytics applications and APIs of backtype.com and backtweets.com."
Pick up a good algorithms text, study it fervently. After you're familiar with most/all of the concepts, apply for a computer science masters or computer science PhD program.

If you can demonstrate knowledge in algorithms and have industry experience in computational fields, I don't see why you could not be accepted into grad-level CS program. At this point in your career, I doubt a BS will give you more benefit than simply working more in the field (inclusive to furthering your understanding of technical problems and solutions).
Four qualities of good graphical visualisations
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2234717
I think that the way to deal with micropayments is to sell them in bundles, like xboxlive points (MSDollars?). I could see amazon getting behind this with other platforms. Having your own currency is really nice for lock in, etc.
Does Higher Pay Make People More Loyal?
To me the appeal of native code is the ability to load custom drivers for, surprise, custom hardware. It doesn't seem like this can do that, for "security" reasons. Can it even talk to hardware APIs (aka open a device handle and go to town?)
The Power of Advantage Stacking
Just moved to Austin to do development, Would love to see a HN Meetup in the area!
If it's computer related you can teach yourself. You want to learn more languages etc. I think you would be better off learning programming concepts the right way from a CS textbook or some other computer science resource so that you are capable of learning every language. There really isn't that much to learn. Thousands of dollars worth of more school is not the answer in my opinion.
Awesome. We've had it on Mibbit for some time now to view pdf, ppt and doc files.

(Inline viewing next to chat, see screengrab)

http://blog.mibbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Picture-2....

Excellent we can now pass on support for the others.
Here's a really short slide deck with some details on how it fits into our workflow at BackType:
http://www.slideshare.net/michaelmontano/designing-for-massi...

Will have lots more on our tech blog next week.
They mean taxes are too low. 2 ways to make up a deficit: Raise taxes or cut services. They want the deficit fixed, and they want it done through taxes.
PayPal has micropayments. 5%+$.05 fee, so it'd be ten cents to process your .99 example.

I haven't figured out how to actually get these rates yet, but I've just started looking into micropayments options, and PayPal looks like one of the best.
Soon your browser will be synonymous with your computer. There is a bunch of projects that work towards that same goal

- Chrome OS + NaCl (another part of their framework is called pepper)
- WebOS
- Various JavaScript SDKs (specialized like Game Closure or heavyweight like Sproutcore or small like backbone)

I always found it inefficient to 'install' software in multiple locations. It gives you a lot of headaches wrt updates, piracy etc.. I'm excited to see where this goes!

Notably not participating in the development is Apple, but I have a feeling they may be working on something like this as well (remember how the iPhone initially launched with just a JS SDK)
I'm almost sure this kind of trick won't help your app get validated.
Pretty sure this is part of their ChromeOS strategy. It would be impressive and a big differentiator for a tablet (presumably an x86 tablet will exist at some point) to be able to run srs bzn programs.
irrelevant. no one is arguing about "why" or "standards".

the bottom line is that that it's the nature of the beast; it creates [your choice quantitative adjective] inconvenience.
its a chicken-egg situation - dont fund female founders, wont find female mentors. Not surprising at all.
"if you are logging in remotely from somewhere that is not your normal haunt, you can remotely add an entry to /etc/hosts.allow to let yourself past the gate"

If you're "not in your normal haunt" and your attempts to log in are blocked by ssh-faker, then how are you going to "remotely add an entry to /etc/hosts.allow to let yourself past the gate"?
never to be any humor, ever

You weren't funny at all, just obnoxious.
DXF and DWG import requires Sketchup Pro in the current version. Older versions of Sketchup at least up to 7 supported DXF/DWG (that's why I still have them installed).
"On the internet, nobody knows you are a stick drive."

The concept isn't particularly astonishing, Here is the TV show from 71 that used this for entertainment http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067551/

Of course with the Internet everything can be bigger/badder/etc. Looking at is from the perspective of algorithmic search (my current interest) its fascinating to see software which creates an entire "fake community" using things like markov-chain spam on hastily concocted php forum sites to simulate an organic community of interest.

Literally, there is no way to know. Maybe we'll know that AI is here when it devlops sentience and then posts something witty on our facebook wall. New trust models, not 'friending' anyone you haven't met in person, alternative communities for verbal interaction.

It just reminds me of the adage that demand creates products to fill that demand as soon as the economics favor creation.