skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks good for a first website. If you are planning on offering professional services, you might want to look into more "professional" looking wordpress themes. I would also create a simple logo and include actual pictures of the management team.
If you've ever done field tech work, freelance or otherwise, you'd know that mere physical incompatibility isn't going to stop some people from plugging nearly any connector into nearly any port.
I'm enjoying this site. I already found 2 things I didn't know were around me, but wanted to do.
Any language in which you built support for that kind of manipulations? I mean it's not like C magically gets features.
Professional Services – The first few stages of growth
I wrote a webapp to handle your contact form.

http://www.strikeform.com/

You just copy and paste a few lines of javascript onto your page and it generates a contact form, handles validation, and e-mail delivery. It's very basic, it asks for Name, E-mail, and Message. If anyone wants more features/fields added just let me know.

The reason I wrote this was because I got sick of having to make a contact us page for every site I was building, but I felt that having a contact us page is pretty important.
What's the main customer/application/market for Itanic, er, Itanium?
The beta was free and now the release is 99 cents. Kind of silly really, considering it amounts to a hill of beans to Apple in revenue.

Facetime functionality should have been built into iChat instead of a separate, lame app that does nothing else. Oh well.
Any chance you'd want to share some details about that?
They have syncing with SkyDrive. But no co-authoring that I know of. Link?
Intel's Thunderbolt - The Stealth Effort to Take Over Every Wire on Your Desk
Hope this is how the future of education looks like. Curses like these are too valuable to be locked in the ivory towers of ivy league schools. Kudos to MIT for releasing it and hope many other premier schools follow this lead.
This is really cool. I've been waiting for something like this to come around for a while. Planning dates with friends will be so much easier. "Hey, want to go to a movie?" "Nah! Let's go squirrel fishing instead."

I really hope it can stay focused on user-curated fun-adventure-type stuff.

The interface is quick and clean. Great job! Love the about page:

Who are we?
[insert a little text about why we are so fucking awesome]
[UPDATE: We've been too busy coding to get around to this]

p.s. I work at a local Boston startup. Is it cool if a bunch of us join you for the trampoline adventure?
Here are various sketches for the fictional USA Inc.'s logo

http://images.businessweek.com/mz/11/10/1110_mz_57meekerrigh...
Color me skeptical. The project will fail, of course, because it is too ambitious. There are too many required new developments for it all to come together: new chip, new OS, new forms of scheduling, a lot more bookkeeping, not to mention new programming paradigms and compiler technology. I would not be surprised that bookkeeping and bandwidth would eat up 90% of the processing cycles. (Obviously, I'm pulling this out of my nether end.)

It feels to me that is the next iteration of refinements of technology that is 40 - 50 years old. Caches are what, from 1970? Interconnect issues date from the same time. I think machine cycles are in abundance, the scarce resource is interconnections for data flow. So one of the first things you want to do is organize your data flow so that processing is local. Think simulations like vision processing, weather prediction, rendering, where a processor can work locally and pass on a reduced amount information to its neighbors. The interesting problems arise when the results have to be delivered non-locally. If you store them in main memory for the recipient to pick them up, you run into bandwidth problems.

So what I see as needed is gazillions of low level worker bees with modest bandwidth requirements that have semi-permanent connections to the consumers of their output. Think the human brain, Google search, image rendering.

Apologies for the rambling, lack of citations, etc. etc, but I am interested in HNer's views on these issues.
Android Developers Blog: Animation in Honeycomb
I think he was making a joke about it :)
Thinking up names sure can be tricky. Name trends are silly for web businesses, no doubt - word+ ster, word +r, and now word + ly.

MockupTiger actually fits a name trend I call 'adjective animal', which is very popular in the jewelry and gallery world - Sleepy Lizard Designs, Golden Swallow Jewelry, Soaring Eagle, stuff like that. I suppose there are web businesses with that sort of name, too, MailChimp for instance. It's a good combination - animals are symbolic, memorable, and having a mascot works well for many types of marketing and branding.

Just make sure nobody confuses you with my personal favorite auction site, http://valuetiger.com/ !
I really like your URL approach to A/B testing. I gave the product a try and found a couple of things you guys might want to fix:

- The copy to clipboard button isn't really working. At least not on Chrome 9.0.597 on OSX10.6.6

- Using cufon for the actual URL I want to copy isn't the best idea. It makes it really difficult to do a traditional "select and copy".

- There's no way to delete/edit a URL

- The title/description this for each URL may be a bit too much to ask. At least as an early user with just a couple of short URLs in the list.

Something more controversial (and also more important). What I expect from a URL shortener is a permanent redirect, not an iFrame. Some mayor website don't even allow rendering their pages inside iFrames (namely Twitter and Facebook)

I didn't find a feedback link in your page, that's why I'm doing this here.

Congrats for the realease!
It's a research project. User uptake is not a (major) factor.
The screenshot shows a link titled "Teamviewer"[1]... would this have been remotely installed by Anonymous or do you think the "church" was already using it?

Recently gave Teamviewer[2] a spin and it was incredibly easy to use, but was a little concerned about the security implications.

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:downloa...

[2] http://www.teamviewer.com
Email me, I have what you need.

gstacks00@aol.com
Data Fountain - Currency rates as water fountains
You don't have to use TDM. You can also use Firewire as a network interface.
I don't think his point is about what's subjectively the best language to build websites, but rather that language is not the focus of how to make a highly successful business.
Having a boarder is VERY different than having people drop in for a night here and there.

He could rent a room for $700 a month or $90/night. The latter works out better assuming he can rent it for 8 nights per month AND allows him to keep in available for friends/family who are coming into town, etc. I think the "fun" aspect of it is definitely part of it for some folks, but I'd wager it's less than you think.
Readability's not allowed in the App store, but international espionage is just fine?!
Support for high-res monitors in Lion
This is just a bad idea. Is this going to happen before we all get computer chips implanted in our arms?
ITA has some clever challenges (including an archive of past puzzles):

http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/work-at-ita/hiring-puzzle...

But then that's the thing, a lot of places have these kind of programming challenge puzzles.

What's the closest to a Putnam for programming challenges?

I know Facebook is trying to position their Hacker Cup this way, but it had a rough start that makes you wonder if it's the best thing for Facebook to run on its own.

It seems like there's an opportunity for a prominent and widely-sponsored event run by a third party.

I presume the sponsors would love a window of exclusivity to see the best results from recruitable competitors.

Even without the obvious recruiting benefits, it would at least capture the imaginations of aspiring programmers worldwide.
Except in this case it serves as a bridge to use something other than the Office suite to edit documents, which could be problematic for Microsoft and not necessarily something they want.
It totally depends on the make-up of the team. Flow, a product from Metalab http://getflow.com/ is in closed beta, but is an extremely polished looking app. They're a design oriented firm so it's unsurprising that visually it's at a much higher standard than if a team of 2 engineers put out a similar product.
This is probably a dumb question, but what does ElephantDB offer over HBase? It looks a lot simpler, but read only and with far fewer features.
This argument seems odd. Targeted advertising can be really cheap. For example you write some program that can scan sheet music and convert it internally into a music representation can be advertised on the top sheet music sites and probably get a solid ROI as a result. A MacWorld ad or DaringFireball ad for that probably doesn't make any sense though.
I work from home as well, ~1.25 years now. One of our bigger clients allows us to use one of their rooms as an office if any of us need to meet up, luckily it's like half a mile from my house. I like it and would have a hard time going back to working in an office. Though I do have a kid on the way and a wife soon to be home, we will see how much longer I say that :-p.

My two dogs keep me company and when I need a break I can just go outside and throw the tennis ball with them in the backyard, no more spending my breaks still thinking about a problem. Huge collection of music to keep me happy. Plus I now have a corner office with plenty of sunlight.
If you get rich, then throw some money at the big problem such as aging and death.

Once we start seeing real result, the rest of society will throw money at it too.

If you value life that much, you would throw some money once you have a modest income. It could be 10 dollars a month.

I don't mean immortality just for yourself, but for the people you love, and your friends.
All your cloud costs in one place like Mint.com for Clouds
But he couldn't find anyone to rent the rooms. AirBnB fixes that inefficiency and fixed that problem for him.
VM is also useful to handle fragmentation and to map parts of a large "array" to different NUMA nodes (so that it can be accessed by several threads without overloading a single memory channel). In a multi-process system, if you get rid of VM, you'll be pretty much obliged to have kernel-level relocating GC or to make array indexing involve software table lookup. I keep my TLB, thank you.
Canonical to take 75% of Banshee Amazon Sales
Glad to see a lot of people were able to book rooms there. I wasn't, but not for lack of trying.

I wish they would offer hosts more flexible controls for showing availability (and make sure hosts use them) so that people don't try to book places only to get negative responses from hosts who don't know if it'll be available at the time and to check back later. I was trying to book a place in SF for Google I/O and got a lot of responses saying that May is too far out for them to say for sure. It got pretty frustrating.

I don't have a place to host so I can't see what the controls exactly look like right now, but from browsing available properties it looks like the default case is that the place shows up as "available" unless there's an Airbnb booking in effect for a given date or the owner explicitly has blocked it out.

Given my experience searching for places, it'd be nicer if hosts had the option to say things like "don't show as available further out than X time into the future" or "default as unavailable except on specific days."
zlib didn't have licensing issues, it just wasn't fast enough
That's USB2, not USB3, and also something that 99% of computer users are not going to run into.
"It is possible to reduce this time down to 4 or 5 seconds using fsc (the Scala daemon compiler), but getting fsc to work reliably with Maven is a problem I haven't solved yet"

Have you looked into sbt? It has nice iterative complication support, among other things. It is (IMO) far superior to work with than ant or maven.
Thanks! I think we have switched over to InnoDB, you think that may be sufficient?
It looks like the questions are always in the same order. Random would be a step up, but using a proper spaced repitition algorithm would be best.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system
I think you're seeing this project too much from the perspective of whether it will succeed/fail in the marketplace. That is not the point of research. This should be viewed as an exploratory search for new paradigms in multicore computing. Some components might work out to something usable, most won't.
i bet the proliferation of skinny jeans is to blame. the person wearing the jeans can barely get their own hand in their pocket, how's a pickpocket supposed to do it undetected?
The future of tipping is 25%.

It used to be 15%, now it's often 20%. As current economic trends continue, expect it to go up. As for payment method, cash is best, and will continue to be preferred.
""It requires a certain amount of skill, finesse, cleverness, and planning, and the patience to do all that isn't there" among American young people."

So, it seems, in addition to hard science, we're getting our asses kicked in the pickpocketing area too!
that is running Windows
Because less than 0.1% of Firefox's users would ever need Firebug. Unlike Chrome, which is built on top of WebKit and therefore naturally inherits its built-in Developer Tools, Firefox was designed to be lean and focused unlike its notoriously bloated lets-include-everything predecessor. Being a clean, simple browser and leveraging the extension system for customization is the biggest strength of Firefox.
Glad to hear you're unstuck jpadvo (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2258827). If anyone else's real account is stuck in the Facebook Test Account network, please write in to us at http://www.facebook.com/devhelp and we'll help get you out. We've updated the old blog post you reference with a link to our new test account architecture (http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/429) which you should use exclusively for creating and managing test accounts going forwards. Sorry for the confusion.
YUI is open source, it's owned and contributed to by the YUI community.
Algeria officially lifts 19-year-long state of emergency
Ask HN: Is the current sun spot cycle affecting connectivity?
I came across a (non-tech) forum where many members, from different parts of the world, are complaining of the current sun spot cycle affecting their Internet connectivity.

Wonder if there's any substance to this.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprogram/archive/2010/12/20/m...

"Microsoft Office 2010 enables technology known as co-authoring, which gives you the ability to edit the same file at the same time as people in other locations. No more waiting in line to get your work done, no more getting locked out of your files, and more options for real-time collaboration with your team.
What applications enable co-authoring?
You can use co-authoring in the Office 2010 versions of Word and PowerPoint. Co-authoring via shared notebooks is also available in Microsoft OneNote 2010. And, simultaneous editing is also available in Microsoft Excel Web App and OneNote Web App."

Although it looks like there are kinda weird limitations on it, in that apparently Word and PowerPoint co-authoring only work in the desktop apps (and not in the web apps, but you have to save to SkyDrive), Excel co-authoring only works in the web app (and not in the desktop app), and OneNote is the only one that works in both the web app and desktop app.
You need to check out Freebase.
> Finding a good name is hard. Finding an available domain name is even harder. Fortunately, we do both. Really well.

and then you probably meant to say...

> Here are the examples of the names we created:

followed by a list of really good names.
There's a big difference between an OS and a VM, and they accomplish different things.

Not so much as you might think. Both Smalltalk and Lisp were OSes early on. If you dig around in some early Smalltalk images, you'll find the 4 stubs for "put the drive head down" "pick the drive head up" "move the drive head out" "move the drive head in."
We wanted to really focus on our story since we are hoping people will continue to use the apps we create and they will know us for being people the love. Rather than just focusing on the product.

We have combed through the code and believe we have eliminatd non-essential database calls but will look again. Also I guess we could always use static html for header/footer rather than including/requireing it.

*What is a slow query log?
This is a good question.

The answer is simplicity and robustness. HBase is a very complex system. It's a monster to configure and operate. If you don't need random write capabilities and a K/V data model is sufficient for you, HBase may be overkill.

ElephantDB has very little moving parts, so it "just works." Additionally, if you make an update and write bad data to ElephantDB, you can easily delete the bad version and roll back to a version with good data.

At the end of the day, they target different use cases.
If Mac apps are using them today it's because those devs have rolled their own and aren't using the system-provided ones.
It's amazing how quickly cloud costs can get out of hand with ephemeral dev servers, sloppy application code, and the like. At one job, I found a bad query that was costing us ~$112k/yr in excess EC2 costs and nobody had noticed the impact because nobody outside of finance was really paying attention to the costs.
If DHH went with HN's take on what Basecamp should cost, he'd be racing Honda Civics instead of supercars. Is my point.
Reading this I immediately turned to my bookshelf to confirm that my K&R book was still there.
Thunderbolt technology leverages the native PCI Express and
DisplayPort device drivers available in many operating systems today. This native software support means no extra software development is required to use a Thunderbolt technology enabled product.

http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/325136-001US_...
Apple has used LLVM in the past to run more advanced OpenGL implementations on lesser hardware - their Intel 950 graphic driver was one example of this:

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2006-August/00649...

Of course, this only covered vertex processing and other compute-intensive tasks, and thus wouldn't apply to many other OpenGL features.
We got about 20,000 hits just form last night! It was huge and very exciting for all of us. You can't imagine all the girl-like screaming going on in our dorms and our freaked our roommates.
Only the US has tipping like the US does.

no other country has that extra tax on the food/service price like that.

Also, i'm with Mr. Pink on this. Tipping for me is the employer passing the risk of not having clients to the employee. He should provide a steady salary to their employees and that's it. Then he should include that premium on the advertised price and ensure the service is good. Why should i as a client bet my evening on the willingness of the server to get a tip that time?
1. Find few friends you know that are involved in the tech industry, see if they're qualified, if not, ask them for leads to competent people.

2. Post on the web, that's less reliable, but you might find someone nearby.

CTO + lead, that's a hard role to find because you're looking at a more experienced person than someone relatively young. If you are determined, just network around your area and you might stumble upon your Sergey if your name happens to be Larry, you'll never know.
Are you interested in discussing a new app for the droids??
Very simple and uses the bar code scan, appealing for youth and to business with all parties between.

gstacks00@aol.com
I can confirm this first hand. Two pickpockets tried to get my stuff in Barcelona. One had his hand in my left pocket with my cell phone, the other one in the right pocket with my wallet and passport.

Sorry, folks, but my jeans pockets are like monkey traps. If you grab anything in there you won't be able to get your hand out. They pickpockets figured that out quickly and ran off without any loot. Tight jeans saved my vacation.
Let's be honest. When people "use Ruby" (or Python) you really don't know what proportion of them are using which version.

The reason is you have no data.

But interestingly, this is also the case with Perl - you have no data.
I agree with you completely. It is worth doing for what we learn, but what I was trying to say is that the real breakthroughs are going to come from other directions. The people who will get rich are probably the generation after that.
Online Credit Applications Ripe For Fraud
thanks to enhanced security features, it's harder for thieves to use stolen credit or debit cards than it was in the past.

The pickpockets just moved into technology: card skimming, phishing or general ID theft. Back in the day, you could lose your wallet, now you can get your bank account cleaned and a destroyed credit rating.
Nearing Deal with Universal, Spotify Eyes U.S. Launch
Interesting. I am not familiar with NSR, so I won't speak to it, but the meditation I have learned is much more flexible. There are some links in this thread that would probably prove valuable, but I'd encourage to try and find another practice. I know it helped me to start with other people.
Do you think releasing stuff like this might be bad for the university since the students have the possibility to learn without actually enrolling, thus depriving the university of some potentially good students?

Or is the effect opposite - good word, good press, good marketing.

Or, maybe I am completely of track and one has nothing to do with the other?
I don't have any hard numbers, but there's been a massive uptake in 1.9 since the release of 1.9.2. I've been doing all of my projects in 1.9 for a while now, and I very rarely run into compatibility errors.
That requires professors to be much "tougher" than they often like to be. Completely failing an assignment for reasons not actually relating to the content of the assignment is pretty unpopular here, among everybody.

It's also not impossible to fake a revision history (in fact, it's pretty damned easy), so if you start flat out failing kids only the honest students will get "caught".
Really? i'm still at 10%, 15% if service was good. $2 tops if it was empty and i had to wait.
Thanks pghimire, i thought it was a stupid idea to post it here but comments like yours helped.
I will add the management teams photos-those over there were just place holders.
Do you know how i can improve my pagerank?
Thanks
Oh no! Really sorry about that. Just make sure to submit a crash report and we'll get right on it. Or feel free to email us at support at our domain dot io.
Then, of course, you have problems of sample size. Nearly a million commits is a pretty good sample size; a hundred, not so much.
Mandalay bay does not have 100% occupancy 365 days per year. They probably don't even have 50% occupancy 365 days per year. But yes, it's about the size of a VERY large hotel.
Can't you do some degree of enforcement--even a reminder--by checking the referer header? Might not want to rely on it by refusing to process if it's not there, but perhaps making another hoop to jump through to try to make it easier to do it the right way. Like, a different API call for backend transactions that doesn't require a referer.

You still have the odd user cloaking it, though.
This would be good advice if I weren't the guy who gets the 1% downtime constantly....
NY Teacher Recruits Tech Start-ups to Offer Internships to His Middle Schoolers
Another recommendation -

Keisler's Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html

(pulled from this old slashdot thread)
http://books.slashdot.org/story/04/03/04/028253/Five-Free-Ca...
The Venus Project -- building the future
Porn sites shouldn't have any qualms about advertising this guy.
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