skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the app is probably coded in such a way that it will ONLY run inside this server

Isn't this exactly what developers are currently doing? A lot of projects are heavily relying on .htaccess files and having the webserver do redirects/pretty URLs for them. They're putting part of the application logic in the webserver...
Yeah, I read that bit. I guess I wasn't clear: it means the iPad, iPhone4 and iPod Touch 4g have had the ability to output HDMI all along. It's pretty weird they'd keep that quiet IMO.
Ireland wasn't in a recession - that's the point.
I like the idea, but you should be able to remove people from the map. There's always that funny guy in your friend list who fills in Timbuktu as the place they're living in.
And illegal in the UK. There's an ongoing campaign about these -some nice examples can be seen at http://fuckyeahfreeinterns.tumblr.com/
Google Chrome now asks for your permission to let plugins run.
3D Infographic Maps Built with Lego
The anti-social network: boys jailed for $26m 'Crimebook' scam
If it encourages those companies to invest in linux in a similar way as Red Had does, I'm all for it.

And really, this is a very stupid definition of "obfuscate". This article is a non-article.
Haha thanks for the suggestion I'm glad you enjoyed the post
Ars Technica reported the demo units as already looking scuffed.
You may want to:

- Focus on the input on load

- Detect location on load

- Get some auto-completion going (less than 3 clicks)

- Have the option for Celsius and Fahrenheit on the first page (You have a lot of space for it)

- Browser back functionality is not working after #links

- Keep the Sharing bar out the first time (no repeats)

- What does the 0228 #USFL0228 stand for in that link for Jacksonville NAS, FL ? (I am not familiar with US Zip Codes that well)

Some related sites you may want to check

http://www.thefuckingweather.com/

http://time.is/ ( This one does time well imho)
That still doesn't tell me why I would use it over google images, for example.
Companies do take advantage of their employees' networks. Some pay well for a successful referral.
They've encouraged developers to use GPL, but they've never said it was bad to use BSD/Apache-licensed software. Their website uses the BSD-licensed nginx.
Actually, it is. PHP is a Web framework for C, except it uses its own syntax. Or to be more precise, PHP is a templating engine for C, only it got out of control.
World's Most Powerful Optical Microscope
I'd say get in touch with him by email. You might be able to do a bank transfer, a Western Union order or even, god forbid, send a cheque.
W now 6 years old (in the swedish alphabet) thanks to "Webb"
"the few lucky companies that got pre-release access to its SDK?" The iPad SDK was available to anybody willing to pay the 100 bucks to get into the iPhone dev program. I myself had an iPad app available on the same day the public was allowed to buy the hardware.
Er... there is http://www.google.com/profiles/iworkforthem#buzz and there is also https://profiles.google.com/iworkforthem/about

So there are 2 profile pages now?
> Can you hypothesize an external factor which would, in a single measurement period (either a semester or year), significantly reduce the scores of 20-30 students of a single teacher while not affecting the scores of other demographically similar students?

Yeah. Classes, like any small social group of people, have their own dynamics. While the teacher should be able to exercise some control and restraint, they'll obviously be less successful as teachers if that's where their energy is going. Whereas a well-behaved class, they can focus all their energy on teaching. If you adjust for the socioeconomic factors of each student individually, you can separate them out, but you can't separate out the overall dynamics of the group from the performance of the teacher.
It also shows the power of the internet to let ordinary people to get together to show some love quickly and easily.
To be fair, the original OS X was pretty backwards compatible--they ran OS 9 stuff in a virtual environment much like Windows 7 runs its older stuff. The Intel transition is the first time that Apple has been so lax about backwards compatibility. They dropped Classic on Intel Macs and they're about to drop PowerPC compatibility. It's a shame--I have OS 9 Games I would love to run on my MacBook Pro. Not to mention all the old programs I wrote.
Harvest as many signed first editions of every first-time author you can find. Write them letters and hopefully get some insightful or enlightening replies. Maybe even tell them what you're planning as they may respond more favourably with an eye on posterity.

To be in with a fair shot, you'll need quite a big hole though!

You might want to seal them so that poor quality paper doesn't degrade too much though.
As you get older you know how to pay attention to more things, or at least recognize them. It's not that it's noisier, our grandparents said the same thing, it's that older people's attentions can be grabbed by more things, their noise filters are stuck in the past. The younger someone is the less likely they'll clog their brain with stuff like knowing who Hugh Downs is, or having commercials trigger a memory.
Self control in one area seems to generalize to self control in other areas
So, how do I?

I don't have a PayPal account, and I'm trying to navigate their site to find out how to do a donation, but I can't find anything like it? The closest match is making an "International Payment", is that the one? And why do I need to select which country he is in?

Or should I sign up and perform some other action when logged in?
Donated $38.10, the amount declared as the inflation-adjusted registration fee. My message:

Thank you for my career.

I've run open source projects, built e-learning systems, helped charities in Colombia work together, worked with people revolutionizing journalism and (once, by accident) made a large number of Utah Mormons very angry. None of this would have happened without the software you created. Thank you.
Drawing Sprites - Canvas 2d vs. Web GL
For similar reasons, every programmer thinks he is the top 1% - including me ;)
ShowHN: Mobile Website Directory - nibzy.com
Its just a list of direct links to sites with nice mobile websites. I've created it because I find it easier to click on the links open a new window and then go back to the next site, rather than switching apps. The mobile sites are nicer to use on a tablet as well. Please let me know if theres any other useful mobile sites I can add. Thanks
In your mobile browser go to http://nibzy.com or if you want just the fast plain text version go to http://home.nibzy.com/plain
I had to pester a schoolfriend for weeks until he copied me this onto a disk when I was a poor 14 year old (no idea if he paid for it, but I doubt it given his rep!)

I probably would've gone into this field without it but I got a big head start regardless. I'm donating.

I should probably send some money my parents way too. Long distance modem calls weren't exactly cheap back then!
I think many people missed my main point. Here's another shot at explaining it better: http://zef.me/3753/planning-ahead-the-async-javascript-probl...
Being online via Trumpet Winsock was how I downloaded my first Linux distribution.

Knowing Linux at the right time (1998) was how I got my first job.

Donated.
I like the idea. Would prefer something customizable though so I can display my own links.
"frotz" on the ipad is a nice IF collection.
This whole thread should be required reading for startups, especially bootstrapped ones, but you made the key point in a sentence:

"19 out of 20 startups fail. That means that odds are that you will never see this code again. You'd be a fool to spend any more time on it than absolutely necessary."
How to win an Oscar: the Axorcist consults
IndexedDB: Indexing Problems
I'm curious about something. I remember paying $25 to some store at BYU to get Trumpet Winsock. Did you get anything from those type of purchases? If not, I'll donate. I might donate something anyway. :)

This little gem of software enabled me to get online with my first PC at college, so thanks for writing it!
While Trumpet was not the first access I had to the net, I am happy to say that Trumpet was [representative of] the first good access that I had to the net. It was easy to get running and did not intimidate.

Like all great tools, no news was always good news!

Checking in from Toronto, Canada to say a hearty "thanks, Peter!"
Subway Map Visualization With jQuery
Help rebuild Christchurch
If you're hiring then this may hold true, but it doesn't fit with my experience of contracting. Whilst the best organisations are looking to contract out to the best people, there are many companies looking for the cheapest subcontractor for short-term gains.
Well, it appears that I cannot send the money I wanted because Paypal has assigned my credit card to another account.

Thanks, Paypal, I didn't authorize that. I do not WANT you to lock my account, or have anything to do with you and your freezing account policy crap. I just want to donate to worthy causes.

That said, I'm in Finland. US-Only solutions don't work for obvious reasons (among them, outside the US we don't have 30-day-waits for check cashing...) so I'm looking for a way to set this right that I can use here.
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Except they didn't make any money, which is the sad irony of the whole situation. Yes, there are likely many others out there willing to do the work, but the fact that H&W, a DoJ-recommended firm, turned to HBGary et al, who didn't have any real experience doing what they said they could, suggests that this isn't something the gov't is doing regularly...yet.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm in no way criticising - I'd have loved to be able to do that! I was indulged in other ways though (£25 for a C compiler was a great gift).
I have no idea about the demand (I didn't use PC:s back then, so I never used Trumpet WinSock), but the product seems to be still on offer: http://www.trumpet.com.au/index.php/downloads.html.
Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know that we're doing a fundraiser at 99designs to help those affected by the earthquake in Christchurch.

We'll be donating 100% of our profits from today to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.
IndexedDB provides inadequate indexing and querying features:

1. It cannot index JSON objects with array values or support compound indexes.

2. There is no way to intersect or union indexes when querying.

3. There is no way for an application to pass in indexes to be modified when putting an object.

4. Indexes must be created or deleted in a special setVersion transaction.

IndexedDB takes on too much responsibility for trying to keep up with application state (when this is not needed, see point 3) and not enough responsibility for data storage, indexing, and querying (which is needed).
My theory is that people have absolutely no idea how to evaluate job candidates whatsoever. Interviewing trends come and go (e.g. Microsoft puzzle questions of the 90's), but I think people just latch onto whatever they hear as 'the' way to discern good developers. Along with that comes the superstition that if you're not rejecting x percent of applicants, you're not hiring the top y percent of talent.
I lamely predicted the iPad's failure when it first came out.

But now the same factors make me imagine the iPad might stay the top selling longer than the iPhone.

Tablets are an awkward, difficult form. They have lots of ergonomic and UI problems. But if Apple has somewhat solved these problems, duplicating its solutions could turn out to be harder than throwing features and hardware at the problem.

A too-heavy tablet is a much worse problem than a too-heavy laptop or even a too-heavy phone. And similarly for all the other trade-offs. UI problems
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Lack of regulation is the main reason for huge success of the web
It is 'lossy' though - they're providing you with less information than what was put in.
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yeah .. i would eventually if the site got any usage. Just something i hacked together in a weekend to make it easier for my links.
Just a footnote. MacTCP was only available as part of an Apple site-license. However it was also commonly distributed illegally by ISPs and magazines. Most home Mac users on the internet prior to about 1996 probably inadvertently warezed it. (MacSLIP/MacPPP was freeware however.)

Not that I'm suggesting you donate to Apple anymore than you already do :)
CentOS has been taking it further than a simple recompile, particularly in the kernel. They will often have updates and patches and customizations on the base RHEL distribution.
Also, don't forget South Korean and Hong Kong cinema. For example Scorsese's "The Departed" is a (inferior) remake after a Hong Kong trilogy.
the site doesn't do anything, when i click on go to your map ?
I happen to search around for some marketing info about Inception and found this:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/13/business/la-fi-ct-in...

From LA Times, Warner gambles on an unproven commodity. Quoting the first line:

"The studio and its partner have invested $160 million in 'Inception,' a film that is not a sequel, adapted from a comic book or inspired by a toy. They're hoping it follows the path of 'Matrix.'"

I have a couple of points to make.

1) Inception is a great idea .i.e. similar to Matrix, for which the entire world fell at its feet.

2) But unlike Matrix, it's difficult to make a series out of Inception.

3) And last, Inception production cost was $160 million and Warner Bros spend the equivalent amount in marketing ($100+)

So, even good films, those which are born out of new ideas, needs a good marketing plan. The only thing is that the studios should believe in the film!!
Before internet came to our parts I would make long distance calls to BBS's with a 2400baud modem, spending hours downloading classics like WinZip :)

My parents got a $900 phone bill once (a lot of money in South Africa). I mowed many lawns to pay that one off.
MetroUI style icons like WP7
Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has sued 397 companies
It's not clear what he means by apply. I assume he means that they only ever applied for one or two jobs without having been recruited/having a connection to the company already. Of course in another sense, everyone applies for every job they've ever had, because there's always some sort of approval process for hiring.

I don't think he means that top 1% only ever worked at one or two companies because that's certainly not true (that or he and I have very different ideas about what kind of people the top 1% are).
Interesting that tornado wasn't mentioned along with node.js. Any reasons why?
Did you by chance already make an account in the past few days?
It occurs to me that even if we set aside that Steve Jobs is a genius, has a RDF and "taste" etc, the fact remains that he (and Woz) invented the personal computer industry - and so he just has more experience than anyone.
Right, but Apple didn't have to worry about the thousands of corporate clients running Enterprise software that relied upon some specific API calls to handle billions of dollars in business. When Apple says, "too bad, upgrade", their customers mostly just do so. If Microsoft were to take that approach, they'd lose billions in revenue.

My point, however, wasn't really that OSX isn't backward-compatible, but rather that I'm sure there aren't many engineers at Microsoft who wouldn't love to throw out the whole Windows paradigm and build something new and better from scratch. Hell, I bet BillG himself would have loved to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish *nix. I think people have a tendency to view Windows' rather bloated codebase and adherence to outdated architecture as a failure of imagination on the part of its programmers, whereas it's really just a practicality necessitated by their user base.
Hrm. They specifically declined to state the exact location of the data center. Amazon's Tokyo physical products warehouse is way out in the middle of nowhere (near/in Funabashi) so assuming they built their own data center, real estate alone may not be the source of the cost delta. It could just be that they priced themselves to compete reasonably with their local "alternatives" (despite the apples/oranges quality of any such comparison).
Littlecosm Twitter game alpha release
Been watching this idea for a little while, now yongfook just opened up some alpha space.
It's not trivial to work with apache since it's an old bastard designed to run as a system service. It's fine for production but during development and testing it's a pain in the ass.
Though I agree with Joel on this central point here, I think it's important to take into account the randomness that applies to technical recruiting - it's hardly perfect (full disclosure: I am a lower-tier member of the 99%, having interviewed at 5-6 [internal, so not even as challenging as top tier software house] places and being rejected every time), the proliferation of 'puzzle' questions of the crossing-the-bridge-with-a-flashlight-and-some-pals ilk is a pretty good indication; I doubt many people would now agree that those kind of questions are a good means of hiring good engineers.

Steve Yegge writes at length about how tech hiring sucks, pretty much (cf. [1]), and how random chance plays a big role, and that's based on a great deal of hiring he's done himself.

I hate to be negative; I just think it's important to accept that hiring good engineers is hard. There are great people out there who interview terribly, and average people out there who interview wonderfully.

[1]:http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...
I disagree!

The Departed was based on the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. It has a prequel as well as a sequel too. I don't understand Chinese and had to rely on subs.

But, I had watched Infernal Affairs before Departed came. Martin Scorcese was awesome, Walhberg and Damon are my favs, but still, I liked the original more than the Hollywood adaptation.

I think you watched Departed first and then the original, which would have caused the original to look inferior with the Hollywood one.
Well, he should come along to the 'space, because it's an awesome place. But it's not a co-working space.

However, upstairs from the space, there is a coworking space called Rebel HQ - more details here: http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thre... . I've visited before, and it's a nice space full of nice people.
Last year I was interviewed by a company that frequently proclaims they hire the top 1% of candidates. The role was working on infrastructure apps using Python, as a Site Reliability Engineer...

The interviewer proclaimed he knew Python. Later, during a programming question, after he didn't quite understand the code presented as an answer, I reconfirmed this.

His response, quoting: 'I do know Python, but I'm not familiar with the curly brace style of creating a dictionary'.
That is exactly what I am curious about. Also later I figured that the Hacker news thread for this already exists: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2228137

Sorry for duplicating this.
Linux containers don't offer real separation right now, there are still data leaks and issues such as shutdown -h within a lxc causing the host to shutdown and many other issues. Lxc as of now is barely alpha quality.
A question to all:
When the nominees for this year's Academy Awards were released, one film was missing out. Even, it was missing out from all major film awards.

The Shutter Island.

It was a wonderful psych-thriller by master Scorcese, had some power packed performance by Leo, but didn't make it to any movie awards. Any takes?
I meant their products.

Apple has security flaws, a lack of backward compatibility, slow drivers, and so on. People in the know seem to say that Microsoft is streets ahead on engineering. But Apple picks their battles better, so their products always look solid.

I'm not in the know, but people say Apple is a lot more like a start-up. People will be yanked from one part of the company to another, to try and get new products off the ground. Resources get allocated by strategic goals (and executive whim), not left in productive (but possibly stale) areas.
There's a better solution. using pre-arranged coding challenges , and testing candidates using automated testing (including automated scoring mechanism), to filter quality candidates.

see http://codility.com/ .
It looks interesting but it would be nice to understand what I can actually do? Do I attack the other sprites on the screen or just do quests? I'm sort of lost in the interface right now.
The Sandbox makes things harder, but it's not infallible and has been bypassed before. For a pretty good walkthrough of the source (with links to even better more in-depth walkthroughs) have a look here: http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/chrome-sa...
There's quite a few sandboxing systems out there: sydbox which is a ptrace based sandbox, gentoo's sandbox which uses LD_PRELOAD, plash which uses a modified version of glibc and thus shared libs.. Take your pick. Personally I would just use openvz and be done with it.
Well, one could argue that "the preferred form" of changing the program is the source + version control, but the version control is not really "part" of the source, for all intents and purposes it's something "internal" they use to manage their development work. It's part of the developer's environment so to speak; not much unlike the editor and compiler.

As far as the GPL is concerned, the purpose of providing the source is not to "participate in the community", but to have the ability to change the program. Do the clients of RedHat lose their ability to change the "program"? I think they don't.
"a film that is not a sequel, adapted from a comic book or inspired by a toy. They're hoping it follows the path of 'Matrix.'"

So they invested in it because they thought it could be a successor (a sequel as it were) to The Matrix?
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This runs quite hard into the claim of 2011 being "the year of the iPad 2".

It also places the iPad events concurrently to the iPod September events (back to school), which isn't exactly great for Apple.
We'd better start a git repository to track easter eggs etc.
On it with the first two entries:

https://github.com/javins/gheggs
Insane HTML5 take on Google's interface
Submitted something on the same topic 2 days back http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2272535
'Tractor beam' is possible with lasers, say scientists
A laser can act as a "tractor beam", drawing small objects back toward the laser's source, scientists have said.It is known that light can provide a "push", for example in solar sails that propel spacecraft on a "wind of light".
Banks have money, thanks to the government. And they will find ways to lend that money till they again dig themselves a hole.
A bit of an aside: nowadays, there will be 2-3 Techcrunch stories on the front page of HN at any given time of day.

Is Techcrunch content really that appealing to the HN crowd? Why not just visit TC?

P.S. I also see ReadWriteWeb gaming the site hard.
Good point. Plus there is that bit about people not being able to give up those rights, even if they want to.
If you think you're hiring the top 1%, but you're not paying at top-1% levels, you're probably not actually hiring the top 1%.

That's my main takeaway anyhow. Extraordinary people command extraordinary compensation - if you can't cough up the cash you're not going to get to play.
The Tweet should contain the "title" of the video rather than saying "this is a great video"