skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not, in English anyway, but most books these days are designed to have the spine text upright when the book is stacked with the cover facing up. Not surprisingly, Oracle went with the opposite.

I believe there is a Wikipedia article that discusses the direction of text on book spines in detail, but I can't recall the name of it.
With over $10 billion a year in hardware sales.
What was missing were compelling nominees for the executive board. I'd thought that e.g. Haavard Nord (former Trolltech CEO that took the company public, investor and on several small boards) would have made an interesting nomination. (Though I personally don't see abandoning Meego as a poor decision.) It was pretty clear that a collection of small-time anonymous shareholders weren't going to be welcomed by investors with open arms.
You know guys, I love Stack Overflow. It's always been an enormous help whenever I had a question that someone had an answer for.

But because I earned more than 1.500 reputation scores ( http://stackoverflow.com/users/69424/pestaa ), I feel I have the right to say, the atmosphere does not just feel right as the author states.

Here's how I feel (see the comments):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4131707/mysql-i-have-two-...

If someone's astounded by seeing a sensible answer on SO, something's wrong.

Hacker News works so much better by putting far less emphasis on karma, and that's why I decided to contribute to HN, and not SO anymore.
It seems that TFA is answering a slighty different question: "Can you find a great VC investment company outside of SHR". The difference is important, as there are certainly a few Tech Firms in, oh, Chicago, and Japan, New York who are bootstrapped. That is, their goal is more "how do I get my first paying customer" than "i need millions of eyeballs".
HTML5 Completion Date Announced
sigh

One day we'll stop comparing city-states to continental countries.

How about an apples-to-apples comparison. Hong Kong is part of China. How's the internet compare between the US and China? Average speed? Broadband penetration? Choice of ISPs? Freedom of access?

I come from a different continental-sized country also full of internet-speed whiners, and boy do they love pointing at tiny countries and outliers and making it sound like these are the norm. Huh, fancy that - South Korea is an order of magnitude ahead of everyone else in the world. Clearly we /must suck/, because we don't match that hypertech'd outlier!
The telcos have been charging for over 20 years to upgrade their system. Its a scandal.
http://www.newnetworks.com/roadmap.html
Sure its peak. What could possibly use that speed over time?
If you forced a person to give four answers to a question and rank them in probability of being correct, then at least 3 and possibly 4 of them will look 'batty'
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Bad mouthing actually works sometimes (read the plentyoffish story the other day?), but I agree it won't succeed in this audience.

Would you think it could compete with SO if EE completely switched gears? Like, releasing all the content under Creative Commons?
The 'real' story is that a motivated attacker will rarely fail.

You can take almost any intrusion and write it up in wildly different ways.

If HBGary had not failed in everything that you listed, odds are you would be listing some other comparable set of failures:

- something somewhere is always unpatched and out of date

- humans always deviate from best practices

- 99.99% of intrusions involve traditional threats, well known vulnerabilities, unpatched systems and human error

I could write up 100 different intrusions done in 100 different ways and almost always make the victim sound incompetent, or like a real life spy novel, or make the defenses sound like fort knox, or make the intruders sound like gods, or make it sound like my product would have prevented them, or draw the conclusion that the security environment is hopeless and out of control.

In the end it doesn't really matter how it happened or what I make it sound like.

Bottom line: Did you get owned [Y/N]
Powertrekk fuel cell charger (powers USB devices)
http://nokiaplans.com/

Wow.

(All letters except n, u, w are registered; most are jokes but a few are earnest.)
I don't disagree with any of that, except that no one has claimed that Twitter's issues are, "unprecedented".

Once again I will reiterate I am just pointing out that ck2's summation of Twitter understates the complexity of the problem they solve.
Coming soon: MicroBiz Balance
Why Mono is cool - paint in 99 lines of code
https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp/blob/master/sample/Scribble.cs
There's a big difference. Designers create a visible element (it's look, layout, color, position, etc.), developers code what that element does when a user interacts with it.
You're fine cloning a concept, just don't steal anything from the original (graphics, music, level design, name)
Business arguments aside, I really wish they would support IE9 on XP. If indeed IE9 has better web standards support than its predecessors, I, as a web developer, want IE users to switch.

It's hard enough to convince users to upgrade their browser. If you ALSO have to convince them to upgrade their OS, there's basically 0 chance of that happening.

I'm not saying MS is or isn't making the right decision for their business. I'm just saying that IE9 is a lot less exciting for web developers if it's got this big roadblock to adoption.
fwiw, to me, Stackoverflow is worth $12.95 per month because its quick and easy as well as providing both quality answers and quality discussions. EE on the other hand provides questionable value (how do I know that they have an answer before I pay? They've lied about it before; The person who asked the question is rarely (contrary to what EE think) qualified to choose the best answer, SO overcomes this by both letting the asker select an answer AND letting the community decide; SO provides a metadiscussion (the comments) about each individual question and answer, afaik EE provides no way of requesting additional information or someting on somebody elses answer without polluting the list of answers). SO also doesn't practice sleazy spam techniques to get my attention.

Of course, if SO decided to force people to pay, I would be less enthusiastic and that inconvenience would detract from its value.
- Hudson is a free continuous integration (CI) tool written by Kohsuke Kawaguchi in Sun. [1]

- Oracle took control of Hudson as part of their Sun acquisition.

- Hudson devs wanted to move the infrastructure from Java.net to Github due to frustration with Java.net.

- Oracle objected the move to Github. Oracle said they owned the trademark to the Hudson name and the devs were free to fork under a different name if they wanted to. [2]

- Devs forked Hudson as Jenkins. [3]

- BONUS: Hudson also moved to Github. [4]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_(software)

[2]: http://groups.google.com/group/hudson-users/msg/cf0d72a7d97f...

[3]: http://jenkins-ci.org/content/jenkins

[4]: http://java.net/projects/hudson/lists/dev/archive/2011-02/me...
My upload is about 10 times slower that download - that's the A in ADSL.

As it's about 2.5Mbps up and 25Mbps down I'm not hugely bothered - we have 100Mbps symmetric fiber connection at work and it's generally only noticeably faster when you do multiple gigabyte downloads.
These aren't two dim guys its playing against. For virtually every question asked, at least two contestants knew the answer. So no matter how good Watson is at knowing the answer (namely really really good), this isn't an advantage against a panel that is also really really good at knowing the answer. Watson's Jeopardy advantage must be elsewhere.

To quote Ken Jennings: "As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

"Watson does have a big advantage in this regard, since it can knock out a microsecond-precise buzz every single time with little or no variation. Human reflexes can't compete with computer circuits in this regard. "

He goes on to say that the game should not be changed to account for this.
Yeah, unfortunatelly that's true ):
Unfortunately, this seems like another example of FireFox optimizing for the wrong thing.

To the casual user, FireFox seems "slow" because it takes 30 seconds to start up when you click its icon. Chrome takes under 5 seconds, and is thus "fast".

Nobody but you and me care about how fast our javascript runs. The FF team is trying to please us, while ignoring the 99% of users who'd prefer to just be able to check their Facebook in the morning without waiting forever.
Security it's not about being totally impenetrable, it's about being too expensive to be attacked.
So that's how you do italics here. How baroque!
Yes, it seemed a bit uninspired.
This. A thousand times this. Watson absolutely CRUSHED the human players on pretty much every question that was basic facts. I know Watson can probably generate answers faster than humans on simple search stuff, but it seemed so bad at some points that I wondered: is Watson not wired in with some sort of delay that mimics the delay that humans have between deciding to buzz in and actually buzzing in? A lack of such a system would seem to skew the results somewhat.
That and the plan of action was basically "do what we were doing before, only better, and in fewer places". I think Android was a better option than that, and perhaps a better cultural fit in some ways.

And, if I may be permitted a bit of a dig: it was very Nokiaish of them to change their minds so quickly.
http://nokiaplanh.com/ would buy!
I'm still skeptical of this whole affair. They got their 15 mins of fame and came across as the ones trying to make a difference. I understand that they genuinely like Nokia, etc. but this was all too hasty and ill conceived.

The so called "9" never revealed or hinted towards who they were and all they were banking upon was "Meego is our saviour. We don't need Microsoft. We will revolt against the management" etc. without having really put an effort on having a long term plan beyond 1 blog post.

Also, how clairvoyant of them to say that most of the remaining talented software devs would have left by the time their "vision" came to fruition? Are they just talking about themselves here!?
Rubik's Cube, the world's top-selling puzzle game
$30M to build Watson to buy all this PR is brilliant. As was Deep Blue.

I just hope the next challenge isn't "defeat a standing army"
I understand the saying "the cobbler's children go barefoot;" if a security consulting company spent the man-hours to make sure their own systems were perfectly secure, they'd never have the spare time to bill any to their clients. Still, when making a trade-off between practicality and security, a security company should keep in mind the possible PR consequences.

This wasn't quite like Google choosing a linux kernel with a priv escalation bug or Apple leaving the JDK unpatched for 6 months. This was more like Google missing a great acquisition opportunity because they couldn't find the relevant documents on their internal fileserver, or Apple's website only rendering correctly in IE 5 because that's what they were using to test it.
The cheap plan actually does support snapshots. It might not forever - but if you sign up now it will.
> So who wants to build a real Q/A site based on this? Call it hal-18000.

You'd have to learn it to deal with thick accents like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ . Honestly, I don't know if that's possible, no matter how much training you'd put into the machine.
Sure. In one sense, anything is "modern" if it's developed this year, regardless of its feature set. So modern is probably the wrong word.

But the argument that a version of IE which hasn't even come out yet doesn't have features that other browsers have had for years are valid points.

I guess "IE9 sucks" was deemed not to be tactful enough.
How about Dan Boneh and David Brumley? They are security researchers with strong backgrounds in mathematics.
Ask HN: i want review for my first Facebook app(stranger chat) from people 
hello HN,
I have created my first facebook application,but i want review and suggestion from people,my facebook app name is "thechatbook",as we chat on facebook with people we know ,my app will give users chance to chat with new people randomly my app url is http://apps.facebook.com/thechatbookapp,pls visit my app and give me review and suggestion, thanks in advance
When was the last time Microsoft automatically updated IE to patch CSS bugs or add new implementations? Never, I believe. Chrome is patching bugs and adding new implementations pretty much every 6 weeks.

It's a shame that Microsoft haven't been using Windows Update to update their browser more regularly and so away with these large development cycles.
today i met a 10 years old kid in an elevator, he was quickly rotating the Rubik's Cube. He said he solves it in 35 seconds in average.

in the 80's in the USSR, it was popular among smart young guys, the same that loved programming calculators and computers. i didn't know it was still popular, when there is xbox and the likes!
1) I don't know about Mac, but most windows users I know pirated a lot of their software. Isn't that just as tight-fisted?

2) There is not much commercial software for sale for Linux at all, so I guess there is a chicken and egg problem.

3) Of course you will sell less Linux copies of a piece of software. There are less Linux users.

But to say Linux users are comparatively tight-fisted compared to users of other OSes, I'm not sure how you come up with that, Personnally, I'd buy a lot more games if they simply worked in Ubuntu... And if iTunes worked on Linux I'd buy more music there.
is it about Wikileaks?.. oh, no, not at all.
"Although Nokia and Microsoft gave us an endless supply of concept products over the years, they haven’t produced, for example, anything like the TiVo, the iPod, the iPhone, OS X, the iTunes App Store, or created brand new user experience paradigms, transformed calcified markets, captured the imagination of people, and so on. They didn’t have the organizational and intellectual discipline to go from concept to product."

Pure fanboyism. Nothing like OSX? Windows isn't like OSX? It's a gui system for running programs on your personal computer. Nothing like the TiVo, iPod, iPhone? Well... they see themselves more as a software company. Apple doesn't have a product that can even remotely compete with MS Office - like it or hate it, it is MS's 'killer app'. Transform calcified markets? MS IS the calcified market! They had so much of the market there was nowhere for them to go but down. Captured the imagination of people? People being led by the nose to say "ooh, shiny glass and brushed metal" are showing the same level of imagination as the people playing in the MS-corned PC games market.

"Real artists ship, dabblers create concept products"
Nonsense from the outset. Unless, of course, you think that a painter of masterpieces should never have once produced a preliminary sketch.
I would recommend Ubuntu Cola (http://www.ubuntu-trading.com/our-fairtrade-cola) if it's available. It's all over the place in little Sweden, and quite tasty as well as being Fairtrade which is nice. Plus, the name is somewhat amusing if you also run Ubuntu Linux on your computers. :)
Apple Opens a Door, Keeps Keys
The guidelines stipulate that the in-app price must be the same or less than your regular offer.

(You could possibly have a separate offer with iOS availability at a price that compensates for Apple's cut, which means you would get Apple's cut from everyone buying iOS availability outside the app.)
4chan doesn't really use pseudonyms, it's all anon. This means the speech itself is all you can go by and not the (pseudo)name of the poster. The idea itself gets judged without the bias of past posts or who actually made the post.
Agreed. Also, what is the actual iPhone app? Where was the ad(s) placed? Different kinds of apps will have different ctr. And ad placement is also very important.

Without context we can't validate your claims and hope to reproduce them. Thanks.
I'm a fan of semi stealth, your happy to talk about the idea, you want feedback from engaged users who will be your primary market, what you don't want is to plaster your startup all over the internet without something awesome to show people.

You want to be able to capitalize on limited attention when you can grab the spotlight, not when you have a landing page or a buggy product with no advantage over competitors.
Effect Mapping: game changing technique for agile release planning [pdf]
I haven't really followed it all, but my guess would be: Hudson is now Jenkins, and Hudson is dead. Except for a name change, no biggie.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten that mention of HN, I stand corrected.

Still, i fail to see how you can jump from that to "even MS responds to inconvinient stuff entering HN front page". If mention and quote is enough, then why would they have responded due to HN rather than DownloadSquad? Or the original Mozilla post itself? Or any other source such as Twitter?
Advantages And Hazard Of Outsourcing Web Development
now a day web development outsourcing is a fashion that has taken lately. Initially people were doubtful about sending work overseas, but now it is a blessing of modern era. It may be a factor in huge savings for small and medium enterprises, but also a difficult proposition because of the risks.
No, it's a comment on the comment it replied to.
Understanding a behaviour isn't the same as justifying it.
Water flea has more Genes than humans
Don't save your passwords as plaintext. Hash them - salt them - save them.
I agree badmouthing can work but I also agree that this wasn't one of those times. Maybe early on IF Joel and Jeff hadn't had the sort of following among developers that they have they could have stopped SO gaining traction, but it's certainly not a good strategy now.

As I say (in a recent edit), I don't know what the new business model is, just that you've got to question the old one given the changed market.

If I sell beans and there is a shop next door giving them away, the fact I don't know how to compete doesn't change the reality of the situation - that sooner or later customers are going to leave me.

The other issue they have to contend with is that your effectiveness as a site of this sort is proportional to the number and quality of users you have. As your users drift away, so do the chances of your being able to provide the remaining users with answers to their questions.
FIOS is supposedly available here, but the only variety I've seen offered is a $99/month bundle with TV and telephone, both of which are useless to me. What's the secret password to get 25/5 for $45/month?
Care to explain those issues?
FWIW, surely EE are in it to make profit. They've probably made a lot of money.

You don't make a user hostile site for the hell of it, or because you hate your users. You make a user hostile site to make money. And my guess is EE makes millions.

StackOverflow don't have to worry about profit.
Oracle strikes back with:

"You'll see more code coming from Oracle as well now that we are mostly caught up after having parts of the Hudson infrastructure stolen away from us during the Jenkins fork."

http://java.net/projects/hudson/lists/dev/archive/2011-02/me...
(These are all excellent points and it's been a pleasure to discus them with you.)

Yes, it should have been O(N * k^2). I just didn't think it was as bad as O(N^2). (Of course if you switch to Unicode, your trie gets even more exciting ;)

I guess suggestions on search queries is more complex since you're now talking about sentences. I'm not convinced that web text is nothing like the system dictionary though – that dictionary has 300 thousand words, which dwarfs even the most advanced user of the English language's lexicon. Also, proper nouns and new words still follow the phonetic structure of your base language, so will compress well, but you're right on acronyms and non-words. Do you have any references on the size of real-world vocabularies? Obviously personal experience with implementing such systems counts for a great deal.

Finally, I agree that a non-naive trie is the best data structure for this (in fact, they seem to be the best data structure full-stop – some tries beat hash tables on lookup by index) but if you are building on the primitives you've got, sorted sets don't seem too bad.
Big Collection Of Oldest Soviet Posters
Big Collection Of Oldest Soviet Posters
Java developers are what's wrong with java? no.
Java : One year with Oracle review
CubeDuel is Like FaceMash for LinkedIn and It's Twisted
Cool! - and thanks guys for voting on this news item.

Here is my similar response I wrote on my blog:

@Brutus Lyon.

1. That is the first time I have ever seen that Expert sign up page, and the fact that there is no reference to it, or easy way to find it does not really support your point. When I clicked sign up to the blog in order to post a comment, I was asked for payment information.

2. Seven seconds for a response? I bet that that was brilliant quality - What, 2 seconds to read, 5 seconds to type?

3. Still think this goes against what was originally said about accepting answers.

4. Oh, you mean the question askers do not always get to pick the answer... Going again against what was said.

Second lot...

1. Voting does not improve quality, it has the ability to show quality of an already existing answer. Pro users get down voted all the time.

2. The whole point of asking a question is because you do not understand a topic. Having people who do understand vote (typically because what they were going to write has already been written) limits duplicates and allows you to spot a good quality answer. There have been many many times when the top voted answer has not been accepted.

3. I don't at all think everything should be free, please read the last paragraph, and I understand I am being a hypocrite here. All I can say is that the landscape is changing and why should people have to pay to EE, when they can get it free elsewhere.

... The last few paragraphs of what you wrote.... SE has a few revenue generating techniques and already has adverts in a way that does not annoy the user. In fact, I have learnt about some new brilliant products through their targeted adverts (and am using one in a project right now). I will take this any day.

and one thing... EE Was successful, you have been stagnating for ages now. Take a look at any website that compares statistics. (Thanks to niyazpk from ycombinator - http://i.imgur.com/Vm1on.png
Infographics and statistics seem to be a new advertising strategy. I say this appreciatively mind you! I far prefer these sorts of posts than the generic PR babble produced by most companies. OkCupid[1] seemed to be one of the pioneers of the format and I'm glad to see others follow.

What exactly is the attraction however? Do we feel we get a more thorough understanding of ourselves or our friends when looking at this? When you look down at the figure that says "You have 97,000 photos in your network" does that give you a new found respect to the collaborative creative ability of your social circle? Of humanity overall?

I'm interested as whatever it is that attracts us to this page is as much a reflection on us as it is on the article.

[1] http://blog.okcupid.com/
I think it's becoming obvious Nokia's investors are betting against the company. The Microsoft partnership is not about making good phones people want. It's about getting resources, developing some IP assets and making time so the company can be divided and sold for its parts. It seems they consider this the best value for their money.
Sure, but I'd expect the top results to be BOTH pertinent and user-friendly.
You do have to feel for them though. The new sites on the block don't have to care about making money. They've got the VC money flowing nicely. So they can just have a free, open, lovely website.