skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A picture's worth a thousand words."

Voices have their good points. They convey a lot of emotion and such. On the other hand, I found that has a big downside as well, especially when dealing with something like a serious health crisis: People can't keep negative emotions out of their voices, emotions which can be unwelcome to the person in crisis. If you are dying and wanting to "get a life", not dealing with the emotions in someone's voice can be a benefit of being online. To me, it's not "more real" or "less real". It's just a different means to communicate, one with different strengths and weaknesses. It's better suited for some things, less well suited for others, but to me it is no less "real".

Oh, and have an upvote.
Which suggests that even sites with a medium-to-large internet presence [...] can do so with "uninteresting" architecture

Absolutely. Hardware is evolving so fast (Moore's Law & friends) that we humans have a hard time to keep up mentally.

Go back six years in time and the traffic they're dealing would have required roughly 24 servers, instead of the 3 that they have today.

This is of course a rough extrapolation and six years seems like an eternity on the internet-calendar.

However we're quickly approaching a point where there's only two scales left to worry about: "normal" and "web-scale", with only a few hundred sites falling into the latter category.
Ask HN: Kod + Ruby?
Does anyone use Kod as an IDE for Ruby or Rails? Is it worthwhile using it as a free alternative to TextMate?
Startups in Talent War for "rockstarninja engineers"
No need to lie, just use the company name instead of the royal we. Further, if you need to get more detailed and/ or personal, create a separate blog post on your site as a "message from the founder." In the end no one really cares if they like your site. Back when Pud ran f-ckedcompany.com, a very popular web 1.0 site, everyone assumed he ran it alone, it had no negative effect I could discern. Don't sweat it!
Strange thing to get angry about...
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but I felt I had to say it.

If you have a good business idea it will work outside the USA, therefore you don't need a visa to succeed.
> In terms of material wealth Western commerce structures have produced more. High levels of pollution, propping up of corrupt regimes in exchange for access to resources for cheap cost, environmental damage done to poor countries, etc.

It is inarguable that all these things have occurred. The point I hope to politely contest is that this is a function of Western commerce structures to a greater degree than other commerce structures.

The reason is that the Soviet Union had ecological catastrophe on a scale far beyond anything observed in the West:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...

Basically, for every Three Mile Island class event in the West, you had a Chernobyl (or more than one) under the communist regimes.

Put another way -- there's no question that large corporations will pollute if they can get away with it, which is why some form of externality regulation is necessary. But large governments will also pollute if they can get away with it, and in the absence of independent power structures formed by individuals (= capitalism/markets), there is only politics -- and governments outside the West have tended to be less answerable to their people.

Thus, a non-Western commerce structure which produced less material wealth (namely communism) also produced "high levels of pollution" and "environmental damage in poor countries". Communists also certainly propped up corrupt regimes in return for access to resources at cheap cost (e.g. the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was in part driven by their desire to get to the Gulf).

I'm not trying to split hairs here by any means, just saying that the "overthrow of capitalism" which the original post advocates will not solve the very real problems you identify, and the historical record indicates that it may in fact exacerbate them. Now, there might be a third solution[1] which is not communism or capitalism that does not result in the problems you describe, but (IMO) it's unlikely to simply be an intermediate between the two.

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[1] I found the following article by Steven Johnson interesting, on how open source doesn't fit into the market-oriented frame of capitalism nor the command-and-control frame of socialism/communism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/business/31every.html

I think the paradox he observes is that people are motivated by socioeconomic status, and that open source contributors are more interested in the "socio" (= props from other programmers) than the "economic" part of that equation. Given that the "economic" part dominated thought in the 20th century, even to the extent that people actually used it as a proxy for (rather than correlate of!) social class, it might be profitable to think more in terms of the "socio" end[2] of things should one want to start improving society.

[2] I hesitate to use the term "game mechanics" in such a discussion, but this kind of thing makes recycling fun, and takes it out of the market frame:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSiHjMU-MUo
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No of of course not. I'm a sole founder - I founded Pen.io and a bunch of other stuff. I recently was at the Launch conference. The judges new I was a sole founder and that didn't stop me winning an award and get a bunch of attention from both press and investors. Of course, it might not matter with my app, but even from the sound of yours, I doubt people will worry that much about the people behind it.

If you worry about silly things like that, you won't get anywhere.
large centralized system with ALL the private data.. being accessed from hundreds of thousands points. What can go wrong..? (watch for a torrent with all your medical records coming to a p2p near you)
2011: The Year of Social Media Reckoning Tech
I'd suggest you to paste it into something like http://pastebin.com/ with syntax highlighting and proper formatting otherwise no one is going to take a look
If you have a user with good karma, Anonymous Coward comments on ./ doesn't get less karma (at least they didn't back when I was using it).
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"It is a statistical reality that young men have more accidents than women so it should be reflected in their premiums."
I am so tired of seeing that line of comment thrown around. It is incorrect.

Statistically, a woman is more likely to have an accident than a man while driving. The difference lies in the severity of the accident.
A woman is more likely to have a minor bump or scrape [many of which will go unclaimed via insurance as it will be cheaper than the excess], while a man will end up with far more damage which requires going through insurance.

Also, I've seen report of studies that show that while younger women are safer drivers than younger men [taking less risks]; older men are safer drivers than older women. Yet the premiums have never reflected this.

Anecdotally, I've seen more women drive badly than men too - I see vastly more women on the phone while driving than men. Then there's also the school runs, which are more likely to be women driven, where the driver will be potentially getting distracted by unruly children in the back.
Again anecdotally, I've had to make a lot of dangerous manoeuvres to avoid terrible driving from women, who have then driven on oblivious to the near damage they've caused. [My dad's saying has been "women cause accidents; men have them"]
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Maybe it's different in the US, but in the UK there's no statistical difference between earnings 3.5 years after university graduation due to parental background once you adjust for university/degree subject.

(children from poorer backgrounds are less likely to go into good universities or study high-earning subjects, but if they do then they'll earn as much as their better off peers)
Meego (at least with regards to Nokia) transitioned into curiosity territory on the day of the announcement... if not from the morning press release, then definitely by the time we saw the CEO Q&A.

What Nokia does with Qt merely indicates the method and alacrity by which it will die in their hands, not Nokia's seriousness about it as a future platform (they're just stuck with it for a while on Symbian).
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What kind of projects are you creating? Shallow ad based content sites or something more involved?
I don't know about Garamond specifically, but copyright applies to images also, and some fonts are copyrighted. In fact, with the automatic copyright that came in with the copyright changes in the 1970s, all modern fonts are copyrighted. Many have been released for public use, but if you want to use an unusual font in your work, you should check to make sure that it is available.
I feel that Many changes have 'evolved' with the need to now 'protect' both consumers and (own) Data becoming a main issue or, concern for publishers. In particular,those of the big media Co's, like Microsoft, Google & Yahoo, not to mention the concerns of a Facebook.

http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/36191-lookingconfident/144...

Time will tell, of course.
> I'm just saying that people should refute the claims in
> the paper instead of attacking the delivery method.

At the risk of merely echoing what's been said countless times: (perceived) journal quality is simply a reliable heuristic for judging paper quality. Sure, some stuff published in Nature is crap, and some third-tier journals publish important research every now and then.

But in 90% of all cases, the paper-journal quality correlation works rather well.
This is a good first approximation of what programmers do all day, although actually programming a coffe-making robot to operate in a kitchen is considerably harder--it involves solving a large number of vision and mechanical problems, not all of which we understand.

That said, much of the expertise of a professional programmer involves big programs, and how to keep them from turning into unmanageable hairballs. This is where, say, engineers who know how to program generally have trouble.

Still, as a first approximation, this analogy is rather decent.
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Colour me clueless, but I've been seeing this go around Twitter and now here, and I don't get it. Why is this cool?
I could be mistaken, but I think he means that if you browse through some of the submitted designs on dribbble, you can see a clear trend of noise being added into many designs these days. Not dribbble's design itself (although, it DOES use noise in its backgrounds)
In the long run everyone's insurance premiums go up. They wont reduce male drivers premiums because they "can't" so they will increase female ones.

This ruling is terrible, I have been benefiting from having my girlfriend on my insurance for 10 years.
> On the other hand, there's quite a long tradition of
> eminent, tenured, (and often aging) scientists going a
> little bit off the deep end, especially in areas outside
> of their actual expertise.

Look no further than Watson and Crick.
Given the number of one line paragraphs in the post, it does seem to have been written by a Virtual Assistant or many.
TL;DR - Self-confidence makes a difference to success in life. People who come from privileged backgrounds naturally exude confidence.
I wonder how many times Chesley Sullenberger had to break a simulated plane in half before he could land a real one in the Hudson River.
If it makes you feel any better, my knowledge of C and Php is of no real use. Also the entire idea of Frameworks with URL templating, MVC is too irritating when I want to know how and why something is happening.

There has to be a book that teaches it from the perspective of a beginner. Wish someone could answer that.
Agree, Singleton loaded by Classloader is most robust way of doing it but they I just think why people discovered double check locking pattern for creating singleton instance ?
Insurance companies are loving this, probably rubbing their hands together in glee. Especially in the UK as insurance is a legal requirement and this year has already increased by nearly 30% for no reason at all.
FaceCube: Copy Real Life with a Kinect and 3D Printer
Ubuntu 11.10 named Oneiric Ocelot
Great article. Recommends building on conventional hash-less URIs and using progressive enhancement e.g onClick handlers to implement hash-bang URIs.

Three particularly interesting ideas:

* sites should support the _escaped_fragment_ query parameter, the result of which should be a redirection to the appropriate hashless URI

* if you’re serving large amounts of document-oriented content through hash-bang URIs, consider swapping things around and having hashless URIs for the content that then transclude in the large headers, footers and side bars that form the static part of your site [can't envisage how this would work]

* "I suspect we might find a third class of service arise: trusted third-party proxies using headless browsers to construct static versions of pages without storing either data or application logic"
If it's a back story, then there's nothing to suggest you haven't brought more people on board since.
I guess that means Nokia is just doing lip service with statements like that, gradually laying off Qt/Meego/Linux workforce meanwhile. Money talks, bullshit walks.
"If you hire a programmer who is asking for $500 a month or more, then you will most likely be getting a real top notch developer with tons of experience and who can do ANYTHING with minimal supervision."

Dear author, this is a very, very dubious claim.
Здравословно хранене, дори когато си в движение
Науката за храненето изследва метаболитните и физиологичните реакции на организма към различните режими на хранене. Човешкото тяло съдържа химически съединения като вода, въглехидрати (захар, скорбяла и фибри), аминокиселини (в белтъците), мастни киселини (в мазнините) и нуклеинови киселини (ДНК и РНК).
It's not a "news" for me. Because i live in Turkey. In our country Youtube is banned since 2008. And people got used to it. They were always like that: first month everybody says "this is not acceptable, i'm as mad as hell and i'm not gonna take this anymore" but after a couple of weeks everybody gets used to it. no problem. is youtube banned? yes. try facebook videos.

it's like iran but nobody recognizes it. everything is banned or restricted but they are taking no action against governemnt.

can't get alcohol, can't kiss girlfriend in a park or even hold her hand etc. but nobody complains about it.
Remember when there were some issues with LSE's Windows-based solution? You had Linux/FOSS fanboys all over saying that this was obviously the fault of Windows and what not and that Linux would fare much better.

I'm wondering what sort of response they will have to this and why they weren't as eager to report this to social news-sites as they were with the Windows-story.

Maybe this will finally make them realize that shitty (design-)decisions can be made on any platform and for complex software the underlying OS/kernel doesn't really matter all that much. We can only hope.
sorry, I don see any problem here.

If the fact that "Statistically, male drivers are more dangerous" would mean that no matter how safe am i driving, my insurance cost will be higher than my wife's insurance would prob make me feel discriminated based my gender. I want my_insurance= f(driving_experience, incident_count, my_car, my_area, etc) not my gender.
And a follow-up FYI for Android users, Google Listen is fantastic.
I don't think there's any particular reason to use a hash-bang style to get the same functionality - /content/uuid could be parsed as easily.

maybe I missed something by skimming the article... I was initially hoping to read something about using one way functions to derive UUIDs from document content :/
> The ruling will take effect on 21 December 2012.

Great; we'll get to enjoy that for one day ;)
Thanks for clarifying! (Still, you get a global speedup because the "inner" algorithm is fast for small n.)
The Young and the Perceptive
If the name in question is truly generic then consider a name like "BlackJack Pro" or "BlackJack Plus". That way you get the benefit of appearing alongside your competitor's implementation in any search for BlackJack, and give the impression you're offering a superior product.

If the name isn't truly generic you might run into major trademark issues doing that, of course.
I think FB adds will get to revolve around "performance based advertising" (targeting users) on a global scale. Google will then find its way 'in' via it's Invite Media. Facebook will help provide the Data, as will Google et al ...Data is the 'key', I feel...

http://seekingalpha.com/user/36191/instablog/search?terms=Pe...
Short summary of the article. The outage was caused by the introduction of new requirements by LSE for end-of-day price reporting. The data vendors were the ones who had the responsibility to adhere to these new rules, by making changes to their systems. Unfortunately, the "big bang" approach to the switch-over proved fatal.

From the article:

“I am astonished they did not run the systems in parallel,” said a source at one of the major data vendors. “At least for a few weeks or months as necessary.”

The LSE argues that it gave plenty of proper testing and preparation time, and that the vendors should have been ready. It has been working with them to resolve the issues.
You should do what makes you happy, but you should realize that the film "Inside Job" wasn't designed to be an objective overview but rather an attack piece against the financial industry. It's as reliable as a Goldman Sachs press release.

However if you're not comfortable with restriction and tracking, you're right the financial sector probably isn't right for you. The financial sector like the medical and defence sectors are hugely regulated (with good reasons), so computers, etc. tend to be locked down far more than in other sectors.
I think sigpfe is talking about corecursive definitions, which can produce infinite data structures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corecursion
Why did they sell?

Because the licensing/support business is way outside of their area of expertise, and they were almost guaranteed to screw it up.

Why would they continue to invest?

For the same reason anybody invests in open source. Even with the big Windows shift, QT is still a part of their success moving forward. Without investing in QT, that part of their success would be controlled by a third party (or even worse, nobody).

Do I necessarily buy the above 2 statements? Not necessarily. Actions speak louder than words, but this action might not say much. How many QT developers they lay off is the action that means something. Currently, they're still hiring, so...
Only a million people and an unemployment rate of 7.5% (vs BW: 4.5%, Bavaria: 4.6%). But compared to the east, they're doing all right.

(also: nice wine and good weather)
Although the Xoom performs well, its reliability leaves a lot to be desired. During a week of very heavy use, I had between 5 and 8 incidents of applications force-closing every day. The issue wasn't isolated to third-party applications—Google's own software crashed pretty regularly.

[...]

Android in general is not especially robust, but the stability issues I encountered on the Xoom seem worse than the relatively minor stability problems I've had over the past few years with my various Android phones. I imagine that the stability problems will be ironed out as Google improves the platform.

And I would want to put up with this because ... ?

Waiting on promised fixes from Google, Motorola, or Verizon doesn't strike me as worth the money.

(And, no, I'm not arguing in favor of Apple's iOS devices. In fact, I feel poorly served by both Apple and Google - egregious policies on the one hand, and poor workmanship and customer service on the other.)
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In some areas (e.g. law) I wouldn't expect there to be much difference in that time - in Scotland at least, 3.5 years after you graduate with a law degree you've only been qualified for 6 months! (The law degree is followed by a postgraduate course for a year then two years training before you qualify).

I'd be interested to see the results for 10 years after graduating!
Perhaps you are not familiar with the terminology... In most of the world, "libertarian" means libertarian socialism. The historically correct meaning. Some right-wingers in 1950's US appropriated the term to mean extreme capitalism. Discussed earlier:

(http://raganwald.posterous.com/hello-my-name-is-reginald-and...)

The usual claims against communism don't apply, as libertarian socialists historically opposed both communism and capitalism. (In the senses you mean.)
If you're starting on a new app today then I'd suggest to embrace the history-API instead of entering the world of pain that is hashtags.

http://caniuse.com/#search=history

Adoption will sky-rocket when Firefox 4.0 rolls out, as that is the last major browser to not support it yet.

Oh yes, and then there's IE... This is where my suggestion becomes opinionated: Screw IE and display a polite message to the remaining IE-visitors.
I don't know if it's the same brand, but they use it in the conference rooms at one of the places I work and it's terrible. It's so difficult to clean that they've already repainted after just a couple of months. Now no one is allowed to keep their work on them overnight, and they've banned low-odor markers (apparently those stain more?).
And I hope you do not die at all and get a chance to upload your brain to a super computer and experience the ultimate singularity.
How to become an Android developer?
OSX video streaming the easy way
If this is how you get rich, then I'd rather stay poor.
I think this is fun (and I'm glad to see no longer attributed to Shaw). A lot of people - especially native English speakers who apply these sorts of rules without ever thinking about them - would benefit from thinking a bit more carefully about orthography and how it signals pronunciation correctly in English. Trivial example is double consonant used to signal short preceding vowel (buggle* vs bugle - even though buggle is not a word we all know how to pronounce it).

Made me think for some reason of Freeman Dyson's interesting essay How We Know about information theory and encodings which was posted on HN a few days ago: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/mar/10/how-we-...
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It reads like a sales pitch. I couldn't bare reading it all the way through.
Nokia and Digia working together to grow the Qt community
Only a tiny percentage of law graduates go onto become lawyers (<10%), so it's probably doesn't have a significant impact on the overall data even for law degrees.

Certainly it's possible that in some careers that there is a divide, but due to the the careers not being common that it doesn't show up in the stats. But there's no evidence this is the case.
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> I use onlinejobs.ph and bestjobs.ph to find people.

He probably is talking about Philippines market.
As usual comments welcome and very desired! Article is for the beginners as I really needed something similar when I have been starting...
It's entirely down to you, I wouldn't be afraid of being a singular smart individual in your firm, lots of other people do it. Peldi was a single person founder and he managed to bootstrap himself to $2 million, from Italy no less - http://balsamiq.com/company