skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN everyday.

FB about once a semester. I already spend too much time on more worthy information to even remember it exists. Its emails are automatically moved to a maildir folder that i tend to ignore.
Ask HN: Where to buy Computers, Monitors & Peripherals in bulk at a discount?
Any advice on where to buy discounted equipment in bulk? Looking for some cheapo Atom or the like computers, 19" LCD/LED monitors, and basic peripherals. They can be no-name brands.

Is there a minimum amount before such items get discounted? Say I was looking for 10, 20, 50 or 100. Or anyone have any secret spots to purchase items on the cheap?

Any info or leads appreciated.
Thanks!
Yes, that's why they follow with:

>We discuss why this view is the best we can do with current popular languages, and why it is inadequate moving forward. [...] In particular, we argue that parallel languages should not only promote high-level disciplined models, but they should also enforce the discipline.
It doesn't matter at all. Don't be embarassed. Anyone who reads your original comment will know exactly what you meant.

Some of the smartest people I know frequently mis-grammar a sentence every now and then. Sometimes even frequently.

A language is a tool for conveying ideas. If a given paragraph conveys the same mental result for each reader, then it doesn't matter if any given word is wrong; the tool has done its task. I wish more people would realize this and stop condemning frivolous mistakes...
Khronos Releases Final WebGL 1.0 Specification
Wow. Truly inspiring. A man who won't budge on design or ethics. I am happy to learn from people like Jack.
I'm insecure enough sharing code I know works. Code I know is stupid is untenable for me. It comes from starting off as a newb and being led down the wrong path by people who'd blog without really knowing they were wrong. So I'd waste my time, or worse, internalize a bad design pattern because I didn't know any better.

Hard to be that guy.
javascript:(function(d,l){l=d.createElement("link");l.rel="stylesheet";l.href="https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css/raw/master/evil.css";d.body.appendChild(l)})(document);
Like others have said, Djangy announcing their closure last week has people thinking about the future of Django hosting solutions. I was very disappointed to learn of this as I had just started a new site there and after weeks of frustrating hiccups with the service it had actually just started to work well. I had plans to move several other production sites there so any news in the Django front is highly pertinent to me and others in the same boat.
True Creators Only Feels Bad About Their Work, Never Themselves
Motorola Mobility Invests In HTML5 Game Developer Moblyng
And what determines what is important vs. what is not? Certainly something like spam is pure noise, but what justifies the repetition? I'm trying very hard not to see it as consensual groupthink, but coming up short. I see this in every community: a set of near-sacrosanct 'truths' emerges that inevitably must be defended, and part of that process involves repeating them, often under the guise of 'educating' others.

IMO, the argument is simply being reframed to avoid dealing with the larger and more difficult problem. I'm not interested in avoiding the real issue here -- compensation for creators in the age of easily-copied goods.

If we fix that, the semantics argument won't be an issue. After all, if we have a just system that fairly compensates individuals for creating while providing good incentives for consumers not to infringe, we don't need to nitpick about theft v. infringe.This, to me, serves as a good indication of what is actually important in this issue.
This is a great example of why mathematicians have difficulty getting others to use and understand their work. What the OP says is perfectly true, yet completely incomprehensible unless you already know what he's talking about, at which point you don't need to read what he's saying.
How Thomas Jefferson prepared for meetings
Disney acquires HTML5 game maker Rocket Pack
Amprius raises $25M for breakthrough batteries from Kleiner, Google CEO
Perhaps the 800 req/second number is a peak figure? 36 requests a second average isn't meaningful when your traffic is spiky.
You might want to list your location or at least country!
I don't think a single rule in that stylesheet is IE compatible. If your goal is to get people to switch back to that browser, then this would work beautifully.

This is truly evil on multiple levels.
Novell paints Red Hat Linux manager green
Yes, a dubious url indeed. But one that seems appropriate for the project at hand.

It seems we've degenerated further than even cubeduel, where there was some criterion for slandering someone. Here, it's just a general opportunity to rip into that guy you've always been after...

"i built chattel.me as a reaction to high school, consensus, the level of online activity as a measure of worth" Yeah, in high school, the folks whispering about you needed a perhaps minuscule amount of guts and connections to spread their rumors. Here, even that's gone... (you know that here, who votes you up or down is already anonymous ...)
You're oversimplifying. The misquote of the Samsung executive is the only thing he said that might be dishonest. Unlike the original statement by Samsung that they sold 2 million devices.

The fact is that executives in the industry make misleading statements all the time. These statements end up in headlines and do influence people. This is fact.

Does this mean I like it? Of course not. Do I think it would be better if Jobs was a lot more careful to say things that are unimpeachably clean - very much so.

I think they make these kinds of statements to try to counteract the kinds of falsehoods that others are making.

Other than the Samsung quote, Jobs didn't lie. How is exaggerating the outrage and pretending that he did, any better than what he's accused of?
Why can't we have both? There's no regulation on rating doctors at the present and it seems to me like the fact that there aren't a dearth of patient/consumer ratings of doctors already precludes your assertion that if we stop requiring certification that many will suddenly spring up.

There's also the problem that medical care is an inherently non-free market. If I'm bleeding to death, I don't have time to search the BBB's ratings on a hospital and decide which emergency room I'd prefer. The same is true for pricing: If I'm dying my demand for service is going to be irrespective of it's price.

Regulation is a critical component in the medical industry, in my opinion.
200K plus if you are serious.
While the comment might have come off as "ridiculous" I think the underlying theme is quite pertinent.

First, in response to Joel's comment, obviously Stack Overflow is personified as "Joel", the same way Apple is "Steve" and Windows is "Bill". What I find charming is your personification of it as collection of individuals who are are equally invested... it must be ponies and rainbows over there.

What's pertinent about the comment and probably at the heart of his "fascination" (mine too) is how this product is held up as a poster child for ASP.NET MVC, without giving the "whole story". The is very common of the Microsoft evangelists. Let's be clear, I am not accusing Joel of being a "loyalist" I think he is probably only pinned as one because of these evangelists running around trumpeting the use of ASP.NET MVC for this successful site. The true MS loyalists will never read this article or decide that Stack Overflow just "doesn't know about" the correct MS technology stack that could eliminate his need for any Open source.

So that's what's "fascinating". That an ASP.NET MVC application did not stay inside the reservation.

As for the right tool for the job nonsense, let's cut the bullshit. We all make religious decisions when we "start" a software project. You build out an idea your excited about in a language/platform your excited about. What's interesting here is that the real world of success has demanded an open source stack... and it could very well be cost and not capability. You are in FANTASY LAND if you think you would be paying a "couple grand" in licensing to scale out to what Stack Overflow must need to run its service. Add about 3 more zeros to that guess-timate.

End of the day, I don't think anyone regrets not going 100% open source you build it in what your excited about. The story I would be most interested in is what performance/cost analysis was done that steered them in the technology directions they took. I think we could all learn from that.
Ditto: The Social App For What You Should Be Doing
Timesearcher - Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data
There's a difference between over-hyping and telling lies.
Rebecca, thank you for posting these. I'd categorize myself among the n00bs the OP refers to, and your reasoned articles were very beneficial. I hadn't considered Dojo in the past, but I'm planning a very client-heavy JavaScript application in the near future, and I'll definitely check it out.
German government is switching back to Windows
Why Lean Startup IS About Saving Money
This also puts developers in a position where they're told to expect high piracy rates if they have the gall to write desktop applications and charge for them. This is more apparent the more you target the, ahem, 'power' user crowd, who is steeped in piracy.
I think you misunderstood me. When the CBO says their (the top 1%) effective tax rate is 32% they are including the corporate tax in that 32% for people that earn money on capital gains. That seems odd to me since those people didn't actually pay the corporate tax. The corporation did! If you take it out, you get something like the 17% that Buffet pays, which is the true value of the taxes he had to pay.

HN isn't meant for this kind of back and forth so i've started a post on my site if you want to continue over there.

http://yakkstr.com/posts/2749-How-much-do-the-rich-pay-in-ta...
Good riddance! (This place really is a time suck if you let it).

Congrats on grad school. I still owe you a coffee/beer if I run into you around town.
Profanity List: collection of bad words (potentially useful for anti spam)
Thanks for putting the info together! I scraped your pages and created a Twitter list of all the YC founders: http://twitter.com/#!/boctor/ycombinator

I already have a couple of Twitter name updates:
@kovasboguta doesn't exist
@dariusmonsef is now @bubs
It's not technically true just yet, but it almost certainly will be in a month's time.

Well, let him say it in a month's time. Until then, it's not true -- technically or otherwise.
I think both sites serve vastly different purposes for me.

Techmeme = What's the whole blogosphere talking about, what's hot, and let me see some different takes on the same subject.

Hacker News = What can I learn today, what blog post on some lesser known entrepreneur's blog is really insightful, what article can I read about someone's tech infrastructure setup, etc.

At different times I'm interested in one or the other. If I had to be on a desert island with one though, it'd be HN.
I like that it's driven by students. And for those complaining about context, if you read the title and didn't immediately get it you're probably not in their target demographic anyway.

It is horrendous, but schools force it upon you. Thankfully at my university we recently switched to Desire2Learn (D2L), which is much better but still not great. I can not for the life of me print PDFs reliably from the Content sections.

If you guys are ever hiring, let me know. I'm also a central PA student, though not at state.
Most people read such articles and come away aspiring to be more like the person described in it. What Jack Dorsey has done is amazing. It shows what's possible when someone is really driven.

I worry about how Jack feels. Is this a happy, content guy? It's certainly possible, but I thought I'd offer a slightly different perspective, based on the work I've done with people like this.

The impression from the outside is that they are on top of the world. The private story is often very different. Usually there is a huge drive at play in order to compensate for something else that is lacking inside.

You can look at it this way: One would get the impression that this person is extremely content because he is starting the biggest companies, driving a BMW, wearing the latest and best Prada clothes and Rolex watches. The implication is that by having, doing, and being the best, that person feels best internally. But if you needed all that in order to feel good, then the other 99.999% of the world would have to feel absolutely miserable. This is where the logic of the implication breaks down, because that is simply not the case.

The other way to see it is that one success is never enough. Neither are two. Or three, or four. The sense of having 'arrived' (finally being satisfied, approved of, secure) never comes. Even if the current endeavor becomes the biggest success, as soon as it's checked off, so to speak, a big sense of disappointment will follow, which will re-create the need to prove it again. So here too, it becomes clear that the external successes have almost nothing to do with how the person feels.
Not only is it technically possible, but it's being used reliably in production environments.

> ... have it editable in a way that you can quickly hook up your "bold" button, etc.

Today in any current browser you can do execCommand("bold") to embolden text.

> The problem is that it's implemented in five completely separate ways by five different browser vendors. Many things are implemented in mutually exclusive ways.

Implementing a unified XHR wrapper could also make someone aggravated, as there are different -- sometimes completely incompatible -- implementations across browsers. Having varying implementations comes with the territory and is not an indication of brokenness.

You keep making these blanket statements without providing any examples. Can you give one example of actual code that needs major workaround? Your off-the-cuff example of a bold button makes me wonder if it wasn't five years ago when you last tried to make this happen.

If anyone is interested in a more disciplined understanding of the various levels of support across browsers, here's Quirksmode's take on it: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/execCommand.html
High wage is the baseline. The working conditions are on top of those.
If nothing else, well-run quasi-independent liberal cities with a reputation for lower corruption are very good at attracting foreign investors, and multinational businesses that do more than just extract raw materials. Setting up artificial boundaries that allow the poverty of the rest of the country to be overlooked by visitors also adds to the business-friendly appeal, and despite the cynicism of such an approach could conceivably benefit the poorer parts of the country in the long run.

On the other hand Hong Kong is the exception to the rule that developed countries haven't exactly turned the few pieces of overseas territory they still control into beacons of prosperity. And the example of Singapore shows that effective organisation from within can build a viable modern city state from nothing at least as effectively as British-run Hong Kong. There are many factors the two had in common during their period of rapid economic growth; being in the thrall of a paternally-inclined colonialist wasn't one of them.
Apple iPad 2 is here and tablet rivals need to hit the drawing board
Is it so hard to accept that there are reasonable people in the world who disagree with you? Or is childish name-calling your way of dealing with that?
Just a point of reference, this is a chart from November:

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/images/stories/chitika_androi...

At that point probably close to 70% of all Android phones as measured by website traffic where clearly in the high end (Incredibles, Evo, Droid, Droid X, Droid 2, etc...).

If Android is dominating, it's doing from the top-down.
Malware in Android Market highlights Google's vulnerability
Fair enough - thanks!
The PyCon blog: Welcome to QNX
Thin identity -- the missing web service
Ah I meant to upvote your comment and hit the down arrow, sorry.
Fair enough - thanks! And a great point.
true. yet, for all the concern re libel and slander, none has yet to appear on the site. in fact, people just write about how great the other person is. i guess what they say is true: you get more flies with anonymous honey than with anonymous vinegar.
I do not know anything about the quality of either device's cameras, but I do know resolution is not the way to measure camera quality.

That applies even more to measuring how Skype-capable a device is. For Skype on an iPad, one could even argue that any resolution over 1024 by 768 is overkill.
The only surprise is that a journalist bothered to fact-check.

Most just put ditto remarks on a press release or a presentation. In tech journalism, there's been a meme that Jobs has a "reality distortion field", so there's free attention when someone actually bothers to look at Apple claims.
Shouldn't there be pictures of the people being rated? Would this be evolved to something like the hotornot sites a while back?
This is a great idea. Make sure you have the British Tax Offices on this list ;) Racked up a huge bill this month.
none of the dual-core are really shipping over 100 000 a month (threshold for volume considering iPad ships 1,000,000 per month)

No one is shipping over 100,000 month. And Apple has shipped zero dual-cores. Jobs should wait til it happens before he says it happened.
Re overengineered, I'm on board with what he's saying for certain circumstances. I have quite a large HTML/JS app I've written, and it's currently a little underengineered, and I'd like to refactor to add a bit of what he's done. (I've already done a lot of what he's done.)

Re: async, check out jQuery 1.5's "Deferred Objects". It's quite a nice little pattern.
Sure, just like any other user needs to upgrade if they want new features. That's the entire tech industry--not just Apple.
Why the downvotes? Is it unreasonable to question analysts reports now?
I doubt it. By the same thinking shouldn't yelp be liable to a libel suit by businesses which it has reviews about?
Have you actually compared the Nook Color and the iPad (version 1)?

They're very close on raw specs, e.g. both have Cortex A8 chips, the iPad running 200Mhz faster, and some of the specs are actually better on the Nook e.g. screen quality or memory (512 vs 256).

It's more like iPhone 3GS versus Nexus One than smartphone versus featurephone.
It seems fairly clear to me that China succeeded by inviting foreign investors in, offering them a good deal and keeping them on a tight leash. The last is a big "and".

You can contrast China's relative success to the failure of Mexican Maquiladoras. By allowing US companies to set-up shop in fashion that involved no commitment, no building of infrastructure and no requirements to keep capital in the country, Mexico opened itself up for the situation of today, where US companies in Mexico are closing shop and moving to ... China.

Edit: China also had the luxury of being so big a market that many investors have the "I can't afford not to be there" mentality. I'm not sure if any other country could duplicate that now.
Why is GHC doing thread scheduling?
I've worked with him. He seemed pretty happy or at least he seemed to have several things which he clearly enjoyed.
Yep, that's right. And the only competitors are the streak and Xoom in those terms.
http://chattel.me/humen/barack-obama-washington-dc-dc

Wasn't me.
More accurately, it's going to set someone up to be hit in a libel suit. The site is no more liable that tumblr is when someone starts a libelous blog using their system.
While most of the issues raised by the article are entirely valid, I did notice one point with which I have to take issue:

Flick a cigarette in a heavily patrolled community of color and you’re littering

Cigarette butts are litter, and there's the only reason I can think of for treating them differently from other forms of litter is that they're often burning when discarded and have the potential to start fires. Unlike many of the other behaviors cited as criminalizing poverty, this one is entirely voluntary. It is not, in any way a necessary consequence of being poor.
Honestly? That would have to be a really crappy camera if it wasn't good enough for basic video chatting. You wont even notice unless the resolution is lower than the resolution of the device (highly unlikely).
there's no libel suit without libel. (i challenge you to show me the libel on chattel.me. maybe that's a bad incentive. nevertheless, what i've written holds true in spirit. 1. no one cares about this website and as a result, there's no libel on it; 2. seems that even the opportunity for anonymous speech doesn't generate the amount of vitriol one might expect (maybe there should be a "... yet" after that), perhaps redeeming this project and all of humankind with it.)
Yes, I have to agree. I like my Kindle, but I wouldn't call it tablet. The Kindle is the equivalent of a single app on an iPad.
More mainstream hosting providers would have called that "the enterprise level" of hosting. So, "Barad-dur" is probably a not-so-subtle joke about the typical geek impression of the enterprise.
Me too! Currently working as Peoplesoft dev, but interested in transitioning back to front-end or media development. Based in Montreal, but open to remote or relocation.
That example you chose was a bit meta (perhaps intentionally so). I watched "Good Copy, Bad Copy" (which was fantastic by the way) and Tecno Brega is typically created by mashing up several popular songs into one. So yes, the artists are using the free CDs to advertise their IP, but their IP is derivative of IP from other artists.

I personally don't find fault in this, but it sort of weakens the argument that artists should give away their music by choice and make it up in concert sales when the music in question is composed of unlicensed tracks for which the original authors won't make a dime, regardless of the medium.
If I'm reading joker's summary of your argument correctly, you're saying that techmeme disproportionately covers blogs about tech news instead of blogs people write about their own lives or about generalized, uncontroversial knowledge; which makes it biased against women?

The biasing in this case seems almost an epiphenomenon; TC tries to focus on certain views of certain subjects and succeeds; whether those views are disproportionately written by men has little to do with anything.
"The compiler creates browser specific HTML and JavaScript to support all the major browsers correctly."

I would dispute this line actually, and this is in fact one of my few gripes with GWT. When working with GWT-Ext, I found there were definite cross-browser compatibility problems with some of the layout styles, these require some hacks to amend. One slight additional word of caution is that the testing facility that comes with it is no substitute for testing in a browser.

But its a nice tutorial, one on moving to GWT-Ext / SmartGWT might be an interesting follow up.

I must say I now prefer Vaadin, but different UI platforms / frameworks suit different developers and applications.