skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As if those artificial limitations (really? one ebook for one user?) weren't bad enough, you can't "return" books early. So if I finish the latest [insert popular novel] in a day but my lending period is 2 weeks, the next person on the waiting list won't be getting it for another 13 days because of yet another artificial limitation.

It's been pointed out by many librarians in comments to articles/blog posts about the situation that the average rate of loss/wear and tear for physical books may be enough to warrant buying a new copy after 26 checkouts, but that the more suspicious thing is that 26 checkouts of an ebook for 2 weeks at a time back to back (and again, no early returns) is exactly one year.
Gotta say, that pause button(last tip) is genius!
This is a great article but again, like the last article posted here about your MVC setup, I'd personally like to see examples. For instance whats an example of good asynchronous code?
yeah, the montreal light bubble is pretty large, I grew up in Mont Rolland (by ste adele) and we still got some of the light pollution.
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Hey peregrine, I'm working on a solid example here: https://github.com/tglines/throughexample

I'm taking a bit of time with it to make sure its actually useful to people and not just a stub. Feel free to check out what I have up there so far.
VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?
Ask HN: Is it illegal to A/B test pricing?
I've seen the creator of Visual Website Optimizer mention both on his blog and on Quora that a/b testing pricing is potentially illegal.

I understand that it could be illegal if you do it based on user information (gender, location, etc.), but would showing different prices to different users based completely on random selection be illegal?

Note: I'm aware that it could potentially cause a stink if users find out about the different price points, but I'm mostly curious about the legality.
You’re ooonly cheating yourself – Bad Science
What Do You Think About Facebook's Expanded Like Button??
killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure.

killall terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted.

killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes. If no signal is specified, a default of 15 is used.

Try and guess where I got that info from.
Dropping out of college is hands-down the best decision I ever made. I think it's useful for some people, but saying that everyone has to go is dumb.
How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter
I usually go into things having thought them through and after doing research so I am usually pretty confident that I am right.

That being said, I am always open to other ideas and listening. If I am proven wrong I am more than willing to accept that.
One major difference between the 20 year old me and the almost-30 year old me is that I used to assume everyone else was more experienced and more knowledgable. Truth is, they usually were!

But now, I've seen significant character flaws in the most seemingly confident of people. I know how fragile, stubborn, and downright wrong people can be. Even en masse. So while I still second guess myself, I now have the confidence to forge ahead with something that feels right to me knowing that I'm not necessarily wrong.
I will make 3 statements:

1) hacker news has become www.reddit.com/r/nerdstuff

2) “Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” Niccolo Machiavelli

A lot of energy is being put into user driven content, which seems to start of useful but end up becoming crap. There must be an opportunity in there somewhere.

3) someone reply to my post with "this." so i can move on from this site, and find something useful to do.
8 total on the App store. Only 4 paid: $1, $1, $2.99, $4.99, make around $900-1200/month.
That would be interesting. Particularly, I'm curious about the python sandboxing.
>At the end of the day, you want the best programmers you can afford on any project, so I don't think it's a particularly compelling argument to say that Blub is a better language because it lets less-qualified people get work done faster.

That's complete pap. Of COURSE you want less capable people to get things done. That's the entire point of junior and midlevel developers. Less expensive is sometimes (not always) more useful than being super great. You act like only very good dev's with 8-13 year of industry experience are any use at all with that attitude. Some things really shouldn't require geniuses to do.
The best comment on that post is this by AngusM:

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“Dragons steal gold and jewels, you know … and they guard the plunder as long as they live (which is practically forever, unless they are killed), and never enjoy a brass ring of it. Indeed, they hardly know a good bit of work from a bad, though they usually have a good notion of current market value; and they can’t make a thing for themselves …” ["The Hobbit", J.R.R. Tolkien]
I believe it was a perfectly logical and most importantly fair decision to make. Rather than having taken the investment and not really being passionate about the work.
However the alternate course of action that they may take are:
1) Sell it to someone who would like to buy it and is passionate about it for the right reasons (not money)
2)Open Source the codebase
3) Simply write a post about the architecture

What I mean to simply say is "hand over your legacy". Don't just leave it to be forgotten.
I'm the inverse. The young me was overly confident and thought I was right about most things. The older I get, the more willing I am to accept I might be wrong about just about anything.
Show HN: Push Browser: Chrome to Phone + android2cloud for iOS
I have just launched Push Browser, a combination of Google Chrome extension and iOS apps that enables sharing links between devices easily. It is like Chrome to Phone <http://lifehacker.com/#!5581392/chrome-to-phone-sends-web-and-map-links-to-android-almost-instantly> and android2cloud <http://lifehacker.com/#!5604248/android2cloud-opens-urls-from-your-phone-in-chrome> but for iOS devices, and it works both ways!

Please check out http://pushbrowserapp.com

The Next Web has posted a review of Push Browser here http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/02/27/push-browser-brings-googles-chrome-to-phone-to-ios/
Ask HN: Review my first affiliate page attempt
Hello again, HN. In my ever-expanding quest to make a living online, I decided to give an affiliate page a shot for some passive income (based on a product I actually do use and believe in).

The products are electronic cigarettes, and the page is an overview (with affiliate links, of course) to three of the top brands.

The address is: http://whichecigarettefor.me/ (http://whichecigarette.com also redirects to the first address)

I'm looking for thoughts on:

- SEO efficacy

- Presentation of the info (I know it's a bit text-heavy)

- Ideas on how to get the word out without being ridiculously spammy...

- Anything else you've got: suggestions, criticisms, etc.

Thanks in advance!
I must admit that I don't read much news at all. What's our reputation?
Out of curiosity, why did you do a specific app for Singapore?
Clickable: http://whichecigarettefor.me/
I would argue that you've come at this problem from the employee side (ie, "I have a job but I might jump for a better job - someone should make a website for that"), but the employer side is where you'd be better off spending your time. There are less employers than employees and they have their resources spread more thinly. For them, I think quality, rather than quantity, is your main value proposition.

The neat thing about already-employed potential hires is that their employment is a kind of social proof. They were hired at X, therefore they must be pretty good.

How about this: take signups, but ask them for their current employer and their field. Now an employer can say things like "I want to poach employees from [Google,Apple,Microsoft] in Engineering" and have a place they can do that.
For those of you who have published, what do you think? Is the amount that you're making commensurate at all with the effort that you put in? Would you do it again/are you continuing to write more?
Skiwoche klosters
Our private and familial run house with a lot of love to detail is the ideal accommodation to just feel like at home away from home. Our homemade breakfast buffet from local products is awaiting you in our breakfast room with a great view over the Gotschna.
git gui works wells for me on Windows with msysgit. It's ugly, and there are a good number of small issues, but it definitely provides a reasonable user experience.

And of course, the command line option through msysgit is great.
Thanks! Just what I was looking for!
Good or not, I think one thing everyone can agree on is to go to college first. There are two sides to this debate. To go to college at all, and to drop out after you're in college. I think at the very least going, is worthwhile for everyone even IF college isn't made for everyone and in many cases may not help out at all in things you learn in the classroom. Afterall, there are other aspects of college you can gain from, both on and off campus.
> 2) Disagree: Prosecutors only caring about their kill ratio is a
> plus to me. This is what they should be doing. If they slack in
> any way because they think the accused might be innocent they
> are taking away the power of decision from the judge or the jury.

What about the prosecutors that do things like test the limits of laws just so that they can be 'tough on crime.' Example are: prosecuting people under wiretap laws for filming the police, or prosecuting teenagers as child pornographers for sending nude images to each other through MMS.

Prosecuting people for filming the police has less to do with 'punishing criminals' and more to do with political posturing with the police force (i.e. you rub my back, I'll rub yours).

Prosecuting teens for 'sexting' is more about: 1) looking good with the locals for being 'tough on crime,' and 2) forcing the prosecutor's morals on other people (i.e. "I don't think that teens should be sexting, so I'll go all-out against them to show them that it's wrong, even of the punishment grossly outweighs the crime.").

> 3) Wha?: Judges only care about exercising power?
> This seems like a blanket statement, like an absolute,
> which are typically wrong.

Read the judges' decision in the teen sexting case in Florida that went to the state supreme court (I think that it was a state-level case and not a federal-level case, where Florida was just were the Xth Federal District Court is located...).
"Appropriate for HN" seems to mean "HN is whatever I think it should be."

Maybe you could start up a thread or write something that addresses your perceptions so it can be discussed. Or you can keep acting like a melodramatic clown with a dog-eared dollar looking mournfully at the last functioning drink machine in a post-apocalyptic world.

A world of possibilities awaits.
First big one, http://www.teaapp.com, rounding third. Should be out by pi day.
Clickable: http://pushbrowserapp.com
After registering thehobbitmovies.com I received a not too friendly letter from the Tolkien estate instructing me to hand over the domain.

I declined their request and may put a site up at some point. For now it is a reminder that it is easy for people to tell you do something they do not have a right to tell you.
Create an account without using OpenID? As for why it needs it, no clue.
This.

(is he gone yet?)
If I understood it correctly, this has been possible for years in OSX. You just need to be “fast user switched out” instead of logged out:
- Log in with user A
- Fast User Switch to user B
- Log in to user A with VNC. It works just fine.
From the guidelines:

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"
Is one month really adequate advance notice to tell people on a platform that their data is going to be permanently deleted? I think I’d be upset that I had so little advance notice — what if I was about to go on vacation? I understand they had a “zero lock in” architecture, so maybe it isn’t that big of a deal. And yet, what can you really compare this to? (Etherpad? They gave users a bit more time.) Thoughts?
Please let this be an accessible (read: affordable) alternative to Spotfire and Tableau. I can glean from one of the small screenshots it's similar software.

How about a video demo? I sense it's a cool product, but if the only way to get a demo is via your rep, chances are it costs too much for me.
Investing in "quirky"
I've published about 10 apps so far, but only the games Strikes ( http://bit.ly/playstrikes ) and Missile Master ( http://bit.ly/mmtrailer ) have seen much sales so far. Being a one man shop located in Malaysia, it's not been easy to get noticed in the US app store, which is still by far the most important market (and the most competitive).
Integrating Chef or Puppet with CF seems backwards, that only leads to vendor lockin.

Personally I'm using ruby-fog to automate the machine provisioning (alongside with puppet), which makes it easy to mix and match the resources from 6 Cloud providers in every imaginable way.
Also a one man shop in an Asian country. Can I mail you for more info?
One thing that has always settled the wrong way with me about television police shows is that they hardly ever approach this topic. I can only imagine what it's like to be a prosecutor or a detective and wondering if you caught the right person. Maybe it's not every case, but as you mentioned, there have to be those one or two where they just keep you awake some nights.

It probably just doesn't make for good television to dwell on this topic. The good guy almost always puts away the bad guy and there's no question about it being the right decision.

I realize cop shows probably portray only a slim resemblance to reality. When I see a show or movie portraying something to do with computers or nuclear reactors there's always that feeling of "that's not how it is in real life!" No doubt, police officers watch the (many, many) shows about their profession with the same thought. However, like it or not, it's these shows that shape the average person's perception of law enforcement. It's the only exposure we get to it, with the exception of maybe being pulled over a handful of times throughout our lives.

Disclaimer: I don't watch any legal shows like Law & Order - maybe they do a better job with this?
Do apps prior to the official SDK count? If so, I'm at 30+. :)
Presumably because he lives there (or was contracted to do it by someone who does) and whatever API/system taxis use there is probably not the same as one used anywhere else.
Beautiful site!
Does an implementation of Venti exist?

I'd bet on git. It has the mind-share already.

Now, I can already run "webcheckout $url" and get a git repository for any of the websites I run, as well as all of the wikis and blogs of customers at my startup, Branchable.com.

That is implemented via a proto-RFC called the "rel=vcs microformat", which simply adds a little data to web pages to indicate where the underlaying data can be cloned from. <http://kitenet.net/~joey/rfc/rel-vcs/>;
"lifetime" textdrive customer here. I don't ever remember getting a "free" upgrade. I was just offered a $45/month upgrade for a joyent smartmachine, but while a large discount, is not 'free'.

I would be interested in getting my account into a virtual env but I can't really justify paying $45/month at this moment...what are my options?
You talk as if there were never test scores to think about before. There always have been. You can take that strawman and smoke it.

"Engaging" is far, far more important than you realize. Kids who are bored will absorb less and be distracted more easily. Of course, "engaging" must be a means, not an end. A teacher's not an entertainer. What do you think the word "engaging" means, anyways? Or did you not bother to learn that one because it wasn't necessary for a test?

The problem is not the taking of tests. The problem is focusing on tests at the expense of everything else.
Pressure for change builds across Arab world
I don't think it maters much where you are located. Getting noticed in the app store is next to impossible. :-(
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It's better to admit you're wrong and proven right than to admit you're right and proven wrong. This is how I feel when someone tell me they found a bug in my code.
Congrats on your success...however, I have to point out something. When you said Rackspace, were you talking about Rackspace Managed Hosting (where you pay $1k/mo in a yearly contract) ? Or were you referring to Rackspace Cloud (where you pay per usage) ?

Either would work from a technical point of view, but I think the former reinforces the notion of premature optimization.

In your case, it was absolutely worth it - but how many people are going to decide to use InnoDB and memcached and get a trickle of traffic ? Probably the vast majority.

I think you did the right thing, went with what was best for you at the time and migrated as needed. Although, perhaps you thought it was crazy stressful, imagine if you signed a $15K yearly contract and Mashable and CNN never covered you and you never got that huge influx of traffic.

So yes, in your case, if you had moved to those specific infrastructure stuff before getting that large spike in traffic, it would have made your situation much more bearable.

But for everyone else, that there is no guarantee that they will get the traffic - I would caution against preparing for the best case scenario (when unfortunately the likely result will be a modest amount of traffic).

Just my $0.02.
My take on this:

- Go to a college on the cheap, and don't break the bank. This often means an in-state, public school - frankly, where your diploma is from matters little from a recruitment standpoint after you've proven yourself in a job or two. You probably have a choice of a few of them - pick the one that has the best program in what you're interested in.

- Also, basic english and math will likely transfer from a community college, and you'll pay a small fraction of what you'd pay to take similar courses at the big name school. This frees you up to take stuff you're more interested in, and saves money.

- Avoid getting in debt if you can. If you must, try to take as little as possible, and rid yourself of it quickly.

- Explore. Take weird classes you might be interested in, you never know how it'll be useful - the example used most often is Steve Jobs taking a calligraphy course => modern fonts in classic Mac OS => desktop publishing revolution.

- Look for mentorship opportunities, and feel out your career path. Do internships, etc. You want to get a feel for how businesses work, and what being an employee entails, so you know what you like/what to avoid/how to be a better employee/boss in the future.

- Take advantage of "student only" opportunities. Many companies and organizations will give you hardware/software/conference/professional membership discounts. It makes sense to take advantage of these.

- Have social life. Meet interesting people. College is different that high school - you have more freedom, and consequences. If you're not living with the parents, then get used to managing the rest of your life.
RDP on windows. If they can figure out how to use expensive specialized software, they can figure out Windows Remote Desktop.

(My university does this... pretty much so engineering students can use matlab at home... badly winces)
This matches my experience reasonably well.

Some other random tips:

1) If you do go to college, live on campus! Commuters tend to fall into two categories. Those who miss out on lots of fun stuff and those who live at home and never grow out of their high school friends.

2) Schoolwork comes second. This does mean get failing grades or drink all day long (but one semester of that might not hurt). It means that you should take advantage of your ample spare time to do something fun or interesting. It's OK to miss a class here or there to get the most out of the overall experience. And if you don't have ample spare time, take fewer/easier classes.

3) Figure out a way to learn something real. Do research, take courses in areas you don't know much about, get a non-trivial part time job, do contract work, something, anything. Because if you're good at something, why coast through classes and do busy work? Why not get better at something you suck at? Got a bunch of assignments that are too easy, but time consuming? Tell your professor, then negotiate with them to do less, but more valuable work.
AAARGH! Of course, I meant DON'T have to pay for health insurance.
My first iOS app (under my own name as opposed to a freelance job, of which I've done a couple) was approved a couple days into February, and I look to be on track to have made about $200 from it this month.

I wrote it over a weekend when I most definitely would have otherwise been spending that time browsing HN or watching television. With that in mind I feel like I have still gotten a net positive value out of the time, because I'd rather have $200 and the satisfaction of having made something people wanted, as opposed to $0 and the feeling of uselessness after having burned a weekend loafing around.
May be the question is : Why does HN need to use ClickPass for OpenID which wants access to my Google Contacts ?

Check here : "Clickpass harvests users’ address books"..
http://blog.teampatent.com/2009/03/30/clickpass-harvests-add...

Edit : updated with link.
I don't know why we keep returning to wear-leveling as a priority.

If SSD hardware life-cycle is so short that apex capacity isn't reached, garbage collection isn't required to maintain performance, and cell degradation is irrelevant.

I expect to use a storage medium at advertised capacity, at the advertised speed, for the life of the device. With TRIM support this is possible, no compromise necessary.
My certainty about things varies all over the place. Everybody's does.

However: no matter how right I think I am about something, I can almost always dispassionately consider a counterargument. And when that happens, the only way to lose the argument is to start out wrong and stay wrong. Being right to begin with: victory! Being wrong initially, but then changing your mind to become right: victory! You can win an argument by "losing" it. This makes changing my mind pretty much painless, which is nice. It's definitely easier than tying my ego to my supposed inerrancy.

This state of mind took a lot of practice over the course of several years to achieve, and I'm still far from perfect here, but it's definitely worth the trouble.
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Great use of color and illustration to keep it classy yet inviting. Copy is spot on, too. Congrats.