skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this...

"He lied to Steve Wozniak. When they made Breakout for Atari, Wozniak and Jobs were going to split the pay 50-50. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to do the job. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350. Again, no judgment. Young people do things. Show me someone who says he’s been honest from the day he was born and I’ll show you a liar. "

Less over the top than the others but still.

(Oh and for the record Steve Jobs DID NOT make the game Breakout. Jobs and Wozniak only designed the circuit board for the already conceived of game and that board wasn't actually used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(arcade_game))
Ibid 0.1.1 released: multi-protocol, general purpose chat bot
Cappuccino and Objective-J will certainly be extremely comfortable for those coming from a Cocoa or GNUStep background. But even for traditional web developers, Objective-J allows you to do some extremely powerful things that just wouldn't be possible otherwise. That said, it is still a strict superset of Javascript, so any valid Javascript is still valid Objective-J, and vice versa.

You can read more about it here: http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2008/12/08/on-leaky-abstractio...
Not making what you like should have a negative effect on your self esteem and therefore on your family.

There is no simple answer.

I personally began to choose work and I wasn't so happy with it. Then I choose my family and I feel better. But you have to consider I had the chance my corporate job didn't pressure me too much.

Furthermore my wife work at Hospital in a field where, last month, she saw four children die. It is something that make you think about priorities. And clearly, now family is my first priority. But I also don't forget my feeling have direct consequences on the happiness of my family.
Chicago Economist’s ‘Crazy Idea’ to Change Education Wins Billionaire's  Backing
> Now this is an excellent reason and timeframe for doing periodic reboots.

Most of the time you don't need to do complete reboots. Restarting services usually takes care of the majority of the sanity checks.
A revolution is way less creepy.
Mainframe shops regularly reboot their systems on a rolling basis.

A common pattern is that each logical partition gets rebooted once per month, on a rotating basis. Say you have 4 LPARs: LPAR 1 is rebooted on the first week, LPAR 2 on the second and so on.

The goal is to demonstrate that in case of catastrophic failure that the system will come up. If it doesn't come back up during the scheduled reboot, you have the advantage that you are rebooting outside production hours and have some time to fix the problem minus frantic phonecalls.

Meanwhile, the other LPARs will keep running as if nothing is going on.
Regarding the Breakup Notifier reliability:
"I had my boyfriend test it out by changing his status several times waiting about 10 minutes in between, and I never received an email notification. The site supposedly crawls Facebook every ten minutes for changes so it shouldn’t take long to be notified."

http://datingdissection.com/2011/02/21/breakup-notifier-make...
StripThis: text scripts into simple comics via HTML5
I use Shotwell to upload to Flickr and Picasa. So far, I am very happy with it.

It also keeps my photos happily organized.
Maybe so, though the space program is a clear exception and I think there are plenty of others--the modern 'neoconservative' platform, for example, pushes for high levels of both military and domestic spending, and is firmly rooted in nationalism. The point is that unchecked domestic power generally implies unchecked military power. And then there's the secret police...
Having never heard of Kuro5hin, I decided to google it. If it ever had a golden age, it must have fallen far. The current front page reads like a mix of 4chan, freerepublic, and the occasional tidbit of interesting content.

Seriously, a selection of headlines:

"OFFICIAL NOTICE: SITE CLOSED DUE TO AIDS"

"Judiciary Abdicated. Republic Dead. All Hail Emperor Obama"

"The New York Times Editorial Board Should Be Executed For Treason"

"Our lunatic Military"

What kind of content did it have originally?
The article started out ok, then took me in to a 41 page slide show!
I respectfully disagree. Looking at the website is sensory overload. There's too much information for the brain the process quickly.

The search bar should really be the focus of the homepage, and not everything else. When I visit a streaming website, I'm typically searching for a particular stream, and not just browsing.

The featured stream bar is annoying and there's really nothing to distinguish the different "Recommended" and "Recent Highlight" categories. Maybe it would be better to merge them into one category, and eliminate the "Community" "Trending" and "Events" panel.

The scrolling "Featured" bar is annoying and distracting.

Keep it simple.
That does look like it could be really interesting
Whenever I get an idea nowadays, I do something to pin it to my reality, and to make it tangible. I do it in a quick and ugly way, then figure out how to do it better, and learn only what I need for that.

Perfect.

After reading a number posts/articles similar to this, I feel like I'm pretty lucky to have gone the route I've taken. Being young and full of myself and thinking I can do pretty much anything I put my mind to is also a big factor, I'm sure. But it's also of course had negative impacts.

When I left my old lifestyle ("rockstar" lol emphasis on the quotations) I immediately dove into the little side project I was working on while in the band... and said, "Alright I'm gonna turn this into an actual business. Should be pretty easy... there's definitely tons of bands and management out there who would use it and I've already gotten most of it done." Little did I know, after working on it for a month, I saw vast potential in the basis of the project and decided to start over but make everything insanely flexible. Being arrogant as I was, I figured it wouldn't take more than a month or two. But of course it added on a few more months of (hard!) work and now almost 8 months later I'm literally less than a day away from actual release. (Look out for a rate my startup thread, hopefully tomorrow! ;))

Now, my determination (more like obsession) to get it 99% to what I'd imagined it to be months ago has led me to probably a situation that could be better. I probably could have released the app months ago at 50% and received awesome feedback along the way molding its design to exactly as customers want... while having a much larger customer-base and awareness than I do currently (practically none! :()... but I was afraid it would get a bad reputation early on and turn off more customers in the long run. But now in retrospect, if I'd known this from the beginning I'd have gone in a direction that allowed me to release much earlier without compromising the app's reputation. My mind was just so set on that one full idea I had from the beginning. I guess next time I'll be more prepared!
This introduces a new way to get kicked out of a walled garden: become too successful.

New way? Being too successful is probably one of the most common causes for being kicked out of walled gardens, usually under the pretext of "policy violation".

Nothing new about it.
Does anyone else remember singlestat.us? They did the same thing (on MySpace) back in 2006. They were shut down almost immediately.

http://techcrunch.com/2006/06/15/myspace-nukes-singlestatus/
You're choosing the wrong corps....
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> From 1910 to 1960: The masses received first value from the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, radio, television, electricity, indoor plumbing, sewage treatment, and antibiotics.
> From 1960 to 2010: We can carry our phones with us. Cool.

Not to be overly pedantic, but just to compare correct time periods: electrical distribution really got running in the 1890s, the telephone also is from the late 1800s, etc.

1960 to 2010 brought space exploration, the internet, economical airplane travel, computers, all sorts of cures/treatments for diseases, pretty much 100% of what is now called microbiology, and yes.. even mobile phones.

Just 15 years ago it was such a pain to get things done, due to the lack of widespread web and email. Some may say otherwise, but I feel life is much easier now - at least for those who can use the technologies well.
lots of customers

A customer is not necessarily someone who uses your product or service. That's a user. Think of a venn diagram....
They also sacked their fire fighting crew at about the same time.
OSCON has been great, in my experience. There's a wide variety of stuff to jump into:

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011
I absolutely would oppose such a system, and if my choices were somehow limited to this or keeping bags of cash under the mattress I'd go for the cash every time. My objection is fairly simple - I value my privacy. I don't want my financial status visible to everybody, and I don't see any particular upside for me in a system that allows that.
There are still bugs, I cannot change how many years of experience I have with languages. Currently stackoverflow thinks I have 10 (!) years of C# experience. That must mean I have designed the language...how can I change this?
Admirable on 1., and I didn't mean to sound critical on 2., but I'm sure it's a question lots of others have as well. I used impossibility when the link came up on HN a while ago, didn't notice it on your page. Good luck!
I wish I could upvote this twice! Should be required reading for undergraduates.
Yeah good point should of had JavaScript in there. Sorry if you visited in the hopes of some terminal tips.
Why I Love Yahoo [stock price analysis]
A wall street guy's take on "sum of parts" game at Yahoo.
They have an advertising model. People who organize political revolts log in and see Che's t-shirts for sale on the right side of the page.

Checking status automatically takes away some incentive from users from logging-on, there by less money for fb. Hence the shut-down.

Somebody else posted a project where they were going to create an app so that people could interact with fb through their email? If that takes off, expect it to be shut-down as well.
It's not that. It's more boneheaded stuff like injecting components supporting the GUI into the kernel.

When that happens, it doesn't resent those programs so much as that it's been violated and turned into a warped version of itself. Sort of like Jeff Goldblum's character in The Fly.
This is the iPhone game: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/game-dev-story/id396085661?mt...

It is hugely addictive, fantastic 12 or so hours of play time.
My laptop is running the demo at 65% CPU. I'm pretty sure my iPad or phone wouldn't be able to run it for any meaningful definition of "run".
You can always be kicked out of a walled garden.
As was previously mentioned, Objective-J is a strict superset of JavaScript, which means it only adds things. Basically, we took features that are repeatedly added by other JS libraries (and that we believe are really better served as language features) and made them language features. A good example of this is classical inheritance. Just about every JS framework or library implements classical inheritance in one way or another using functions. We believe its much more intuitive to just have a keyword. For a really in depth explanation of our thinking, check out this blog post:

http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2008/12/08/on-leaky-abstractio...
If you want to revolutionize medicine, you need to revolutionize how everyone in medicine is paid.

The revolutionary technology already exists: telemedicine (TM) through live video conferencing, store & forward of image data for dermatology, radiology, or ophthalmology, home health monitoring, wearable monitoring systems, online health management systems, personal health records, genome sequencing, its all here! So what's the problem? Doctors can't get paid for any of this.

Despite common belief, doctors don't get paid that much, particularly doctors that work in the public setting and must deal with Medicare (and in California, MediCal) patients. If a neurologist in San Francisco sees a Medicare patient in Los Angeles through video conferencing they can't bill Medicare because LA is not a non-Metropolitan Statistical Area. No doctor wants to deal with dismal MediCal rates. There are little to no codes to bill for home-based monitoring, and if even those exist, there is no code for a specialist to diagnose remotely. We have 30 years of academic literature praising TM. So who's holding everything up?

We need a new insurance company that focuses on TM and monitoring technologies from the start to usher in what everyone and their mom has been describing as "preventive" healthcare. Sure, we'll still need traditional methods for surgeries and catastrophic events, but I'd pay out of pocket to be able to forward an image of a rash to a dermatologist or the back of my throat to my physician any day. Fast, instant, convenient.

Someone in the comments mentioned Qliance, which looks promising. I'm surprised someone in SV hasn't taken advantage of something similar there. Geeks love to be on the cutting edge, why not be the cutting edge medical patient?
Don't get me started on outsourced IT ......

They came and stuck asset tags on all our IT equipment, then decided we were charged $100/year for support on each item.
Including a $15 ethernet hub that I got because I only have one socket near my desk.
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I'm the developer of Clarity (clarity-app.com), a Facebook Client for the Mac and I've had a similar experience. Here's another couple of things that are weird.

- you can't like pictures or even see likes for pictures

- you can't post on your wall if the attached image is located in your fcebook album: so if you want to post an image you have to upload it somewhere else.

- you can't rename friend lists

- lots of things are inaccessible if your friends have strict security settings (like their birthday, or their name)

- as outlined in the article: the notification data structure is a train wreck

- you can't approve friend requests

- some parts of the API are not documented at all, like the 'attachment' field on the posts table: it contains a dictionary, but in order to understand the keys and values you have to read the raw data from lots of posts, and even then you never know if one future entry breaks your app.

- and much more

One problem I had was that users expected much of this to work because it works on the Facebook iPhone app too. But that one is official and does not need to use the limited app API.
Readability Readies Apple “Love Letter”
He's right. The most important thing we tell each YC batch, immediately after interviews, is start now. Startups should be building stuff and talking to users, and not much else.
The Assymetrical Gift
Vice versa? :-)
Aren't you just futzing the constant, though? Sublinear doesn't mean O(Cn) where C < 1.
About time we see consequences for signing a non-compete agreements, if you ask me. Everyone I know signs these without giving it more consideration than running a yellow light, and expect to run away free the day after they leave.
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Any suggestions on how The Daily (or others) could prevent people from using tools like Charles to capture SSL traffic?
Take it off the queue and go on a 16 month sabbatical to somewhere really beautiful. Come back, check uptime, report to your boss that you've recreated it and you'll start digging in the code.

http://xkcd.com/583/
That's still O(n). Say you're looking for that string in a string of length n. You're search time will be n/16+c, which is O(n).
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I have been using Rackspace as my cloud provider and they have some pretty cool support people in there..
Thanks for the mention. I'm about to release a new UI based on initial customer feedback (no new features, though - just more intuitive/prettier). Should be deployed in a week or two.
You can't expect radical innovation every day. It takes time, just like it took time to build streets, cars, airplanes and mobile phones (50-100 years). We could however hope that the intervals between radical innovations are shorter, now that we have a more efficient way to use technology.

IMO Google brought radical innovation and it is only what, 10-12 years old? The next big thing is probably in works, but we can't foresee the future so we'll know that is radical, when it's here.
Check out SaaSPulse (http://saaspulse.com/). It's in private beta right now, but you may still be able to get in. It's a great product from the demo I've seen.
I actually disagree with the people at Discover magazine. "blatant anti-reality leanings"? give me a break. i welcome the possibility for the state to stop its fascist imposition of "Reality".

However this line -- "she once compared being gay to having cancer" makes me ready to disagree with the rep.
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I wish the SEC would focus on the real financial crimes.

Even at billion dollar valuations, these trades are being done by qualified investors and are insignificant in volume and dollar amounts compared to these systemic allegations: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-stre...
From the Q&A with Ken Jennings: http://live.washingtonpost.com/jeopardy-ken-jennings.html?hp...

Q: Seemed to me, for many of the questions, that the computer was just
better at buzzing in. Does Watson have an unfair advantage for timing the
buzz-in?

A: As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is
all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the
answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

Watson does have a big advantage in this regard, since it can knock out a
microsecond-precise buzz every single time with little or no variation. Human
reflexes can't compete with computer circuits in this regard. But I wouldn't
call this unfair...precise timing just happens to be one thing computers are
better at than we humans. It's not like I think Watson should try buzzing in
more erratically just to give homo sapiens a chance.
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Apple Set to Approve 'Readability' for Inclusion in App Store?
Like Windows Phone 7, Bing Gets "Live Tiles" Too
It was an engineering trade-off like any other. Would you be willing to reboot your computer once a month if it meant everything would be 1000x faster? Of course. So were the Mach designers, apparently.
Ask HN: Mocking bird alternatives?
Facebook also lets you delete updates from your wall, so that it's not obvious something changed. This circumvents that.
Not for nothing, but the noncompete situation for a GM isn't the same as the situation for general staff. It's easy for me to get up-in-arms about the harm noncompetes cause developers and marketers and operations people. Less so for someone with P&L responsibility.
This was my first thought after reading the title of this thread. Let your users fetch the data for you!
Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke your Facebook account
I had decided to set up a test account for an app I'm developing, so I googled "Facebook test account" and found this blog entry at position #1:

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/35/

I skimmed it for a link and clicked. The page loaded, I clicked the big button in the middle that said something like "Make [Your Name] a Test Account"...

...and my Facebook account was made unable to interact with friends and apps.

My real Facebook account. The one I use (well, formerly used) to admin multiple apps. The one I formerly used to keep in touch with hundreds of friends.

Instead of making a test account for me, it had made a test account out of me.

I contacted Facebook support, but other developers on the forum have done so with no luck. This is sickening.
Who in their right mind creates a button labeled "create test account" that irreversibly destroys the account of the person using the system?

And who, having committed such an atrocity of design, doesn't even help the people who accidentally click it? It is incomprehensible.

[Edit: It gets WORSE, if that is possible. The method that blog post talks about is outdated. It shouldn't be used any more. There is a much cleaner way to manage test users through official apis. They could at least edit that post to point to the up-to-date information. ]
Faaaaaake.
That's the mini display port. I call bs on this.
Turn your customers into active participants of your deals and projects
Don't business plans serve a different purpose then mock-ups? Are you sure you can just switch one with the other and call it the same thing. A mock-up may be contained within a business plan, but a mock-up can't replace a business plan.
Whose domain is it anyway?
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Proposal that Apple release a public CEO succession plan is rejected
Except that I've looked at a lot of OS memory management code and the savings are not 1000x.
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This is cool. I can use this on my instamapsearch project.
http://instamapsearch.com
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"overwhelmingly this is just pointless copy-and-paste of identical source code in blatant disregard of Occam's three-quarters-millennia-old advice."

So isn't this analogous to asking why there are so many implementations of the quadratic formula in various books? I think the problem is real, but this doesn't seem to be the proof of it.

If programming allowed us to use equational reasoning then such cutting and pasting wouldn't be considered a problem at all. We would simply recognize the formulas, perhaps with the aid of computer. Unfortunately we tossed away that option the first time someone designed languages that allowed statements like "x = x + 1". Maybe it's time to rethink that decision.
It's sort of a dive bar these days; a surprising proportion of the good posters are still there, but they just post different things, while they post "serious" stuff on their blogs or somewhere else. Most discussion goes on in the diaries (which are also dive-bar-ish, mixture of serious and unserious chat), while the front-page is a bit of an active joke. Hasn't had much serious content in probably 3-4 years, with the occasional exception.

(Actually that's a strangely common thing on the internet; the offensive-joker and troll types sometimes are the same people as the good-technical-content types. For example, the Rands of http://www.randsinrepose.com is also the Rands of http://www.jerkcity.com.)

As a half joke, I collected a bibliography of k5 articles that have been cited in academic papers, which includes some of the better ones: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/12/8/23637/9295 , http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2010/10/17/5512/5360
That sounds exactly like the major complaints about PayPal.
Has this happened to anyone else? Does anybody here work at Facebook and know something about this?
DrChrono (YC W11) Makes The iPad A Doctor’s Best Friend In The Exam Room
My business has a higher profit margin, about 80%, so by his definition of profitable, no sorry I win. =P

(course their revenue is orders of magnitude higher than mine, but the author judged based on profit margin)
I would love to hear an answer to this. CarFax had invalid information on my car, and it is a bitch to try and change it. I nearly took a loss on my car because of it. There needs to be a better solution.
Agreed I have had lots of performance problems with the canvas tag trying to simple things that ran blazingly fast in flash. HTML 5 (buzz) has a long way to go before it can really compete with flash. Similar demo running in flash.
http://www.flash-filter.net/rain-drop-water-effect.phtml
Documentation that references eth0 isn't badly written.