skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redefine genres? They make movies like that still: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G5pyFhmAqE
They'll generally get charged if they don't follow standard precautions eg. getting sign off on the design from a second, independent engineer.
Hey, rather than using ob_start and ob_get_clean you can do:

$lines = explode("\n", print_r($obj,1));

Or better yet if we're playing golf:

array_map('error_log', explode("\n", print_r($obj, 1)));
IPad 2 Release Date Announced - Gvke
disclosure: we're a three person startup in Cambridge, and just spent the last week in the valley.

There are both pro/cons of the startup ecosystem in Boston.

-- Its harder to raise funding in Boston compared to SV. In addition, a big part of the funding discussion is timeline to revenues, which is just completely ignored at this stage in the valley.

-- Given this higher bar, the startups that do rise in the Boston ecosystem are of generally higher quality. I was at the launch conference last week, and several companies in the demo pit were honestly just "me-too" class projects. GreenGoose (at Launch) was an example of a Boston startup.

-- Nonethless for consumer web/mobile, Boston startups tend to be inferior to the valley ones. The reasons for this are multifold. (a) The angel/adviser community seems less comfortable funding companies that don't have a clear path to revenues. (b) The entrepreneurs themselves are not the best at designing products / UX etc. (c) The better Boston consumer web/mobile companies move west anyways

-- Given the less "bubble" ness in Boston, hiring top-notch engineers from MIT, Harvard, Olin or other good technical schools is a real option for startups. I'm hearing horror stories on the west coast+ NYC of companies that are funded and can't find the right engineers.
Apple is positioned in a way that if people leave the platform because they've been squelched by Apple, they can easily loosen their policy. The lack of a real competitor who offers the hardware/software integration (leading to the awesome user experience) is why they may still have some time to milk the platform for profit without risk of a mass exodus.
How can the World be so blind?
Ask HN: Business Plans or Pitch Decks?
Which do you focus your time on building and why?
The UCMJ is different from civilian court, but it's worth pointing out that the military very much is bound by a civilian court, in that decisions of the military appeals court can be overturned by SCOTUS.
>> This is also why I hate VC's (PG included), they force you to become inward focused rather than seeking external inputs (IE: Customers).

In my humble and limited experience with both PG and VCs, the focus has always been on customers.

I'm surprised that you include PG in your sweeping statement. He is a pretty outspoken advocate of launching early, listening to customers, and iterating.

Do you mind sharing where you get your perspective?
Actually I find that practice kind of pernicious. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
what's the name of the software/tool that he(Khan) uses to write ?
Tracking Signups with Loggly and Woot Lights
ah, i must have written that a very long time ago when the return parameter to print_r() wasn't available.

thanks, i've updated my local implementation.
And I might set up a separate Twitter called "ShittyVideos"

Haha just kidding, I think this is a cool idea/experiment, it'd be interesting to see what user reactions would be. Initially I would try to have a "dismiss" button just so you can see the ratio of users who tweeted vs. dismissed to see what kind of "annoyance index" you may be looking at here. Edit: ...what kind of "annoyance index" you may be looking at by disabling the dismiss button in the future

Definitely an interesting concept.
It means something thast Ellsburg supports Manning's actions, but it doesn't decide the question of whether he's a whistleblower (I don't think he remotely is either).
So, because a hundred thousand civilians have died in Iraq, your logic is that a few more would be a rounding error and thus an acceptable cost for getting the documents out? I don't agree with that logic.
digging the animated gif. very 1999, kind of like now ha ha.
How does tuple space, as discussed here, compare to something like Redis?
Are you a socialist?
So if its a low quality post don't waste your time complaining and commenting, move on / vote down if you have the privilege. I for one love that anybody can post just about anything. If I wanted my news censored by a few with power I would only watch Fox News.
Nah, I'm downvoting people (like you) who aren't bothering to read people's posts properly.

I think the main problem is that the American media is ridiculously pro-military/anti-wikileaks, so it's hard to get unbiased information.
Nice job on the self learning part. Not sure about interrupting my video viewing experience. Maybe have that option at the end of the video or pop up subtly in the middle somewhere.
Just incase you were wondering how far HTML(5) could go…
How to Draw Quadratic Curves on an HTML5 Canvas
BUJS #1 – getParameterByName
Bell Labs develops 2-inch cube that could replace unsightly cell towers
Quite true, but sad that a company like Apple would even entertain this path considering their roots and seemingly pure beginnings. A business is a business, but sometimes it behoves one to be better than the rest and not just financially (which Apple is as well). It isn't like they wouldn't stop making money if they chose to not do stuff like this.
I thought there were concerns that the labor laws in MA were not as worker-friendly as those in CA. Making it hard to move between companies/startups, etc. Or, being (more) able to enforce non-competes.
Per this article http://news.scotsman.com/world/Tunisia-Uprising-called-first... these leaked documents were an impetus that led to the fall of Tunisia's monarchy. Which then has brought on a domino effect in the Middle East; Egypt, Libya, Yemen, etc...

Depending on the long term out-come of the change in the Middle East(for the better) this guy's actions might not seem so bad in ten years?
It's hard to explore o.cn in detail because everything is in Chinese, but whatever they have is quite impressive. Not only is the 3D view really well rendered (i.e. easy on the eyes), they have incredible attention to detail, down to using billboards as ad space.
does anyone know if i can expect this to ever work with google apps for your domain?
That's nice and all, but I don't think they paid for the domain just to do that.
'Crazy U'
One thing the Symfony2 framework does that I sort of appreciate is limiting access to the page to calls from localhost only by default. It seems like that might mitigate some of the (no doubt gaping) security issues.
33% thinner is an engineering achievement.
My answer to: [Do intelligent people become entrepreneurs despite the risk?]
that always seemed weird to me.

The constitution guarantees inalienable rights, yet apparently the government thinks that you can sign your rights away
http://www.khanacademy.org/about/faq#equipment
It seems like this offers even less privacy and more scrapeability than Facebook. Can you elaborate on why you prefer it?
ME was released after 2000, but 2000 could not be "upgraded" to ME.
This has been a thought running through my mind for a while. The Khan Academy is fantastic! I've had a few great teachers/professors in my time, but I still think of him as the best. I would love to see Rosetta Stone style software mixed with his lessons.

Personally I was really interested in pursuing opportunities in educational software a while ago (If changing the world is your goal as an entrepreneur education is a pretty low hanging fruit) So I went to one of my old teachers. She has won several awards over the years, and is the kind of person open to new ideas. I decided to spend a few hours with her to learn how school has changed, and how we can use technology to make learning better. Going into the conversation I had the idea of a social network for students/teachers. However while talking I soon learned that what she really wants, and what would really help is more data. Students take various assessments, but the tests are fairly infrequent. In the time between assessments things change for each child, but the progress of the lesson may not proceed in proportion. It was at this point I changed my way of thinking. I don't think the most efficient education is had by retrofitting new technologies into the classic classroom. Instead like Khan described, the role of the teacher could be shifted to software that guides a student through learning while tracking their progress, repeating concepts as needed or advancing difficulty in a very dynamic manner. The teacher can than transition into a role as a guide, perhaps helping students learn more offline, helping students find answers to questions etc.
As much as I'm not so sure about the overall idea, it had never occurred to me to look at cli php from this angle before. Rather than homegrow the listener/invoker there I wonder how hard it would be to do this with xinetd.

Then there's the apc cache question, there would have to be some way of persisting/sharing it.

Full blown goofy, but a little fun to ponder.
Poll HN: Where do you spend more time, FB or HN?
Where do you spend more time, Facebook, or Hacker News?
This map only covers Guangzhou, actually. But I look forward to full coverage of China in a few hundred years!
The title is different on the two submissions. Could have been a factor?
Ask HN: Should I learn to code first then cook up startup idea or vice versa?
Hi HackerNews Elites,

I am a biomedical engineering major, so I only have very little programming knowledges. I sure don't know about any advanced programming skills. But I do have a little bit of experience with languages like MATLAB.

As a matter of fact, I have been wanting to start my own startup for quite a while. But I was at the crossroad of not knowing whether I should learn to code first and then think up startup idea, or the other way round. During these past few weeks or months, I have been struggling as to which to choose. But at the same time, I have also been cooking up some startup ideas and reading a lot of Hacker News posts to get a better idea of the startup world.

Since Hacker News has the best people in the startup world, I would be really grateful if you could offer some insights so that I could have a better idea of what to pursue.

Many thanks!
Ed
Ask HN: Detecting Bugs in Web Applications
Hi Hacker News,

I'm doing market research in the area of automatic bug detection. If any of you would like to fill out the following survey, my team and I would be quite grateful.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dENOanQwY3ZiUlFoSzE1Ym5aS3lGckE6MQ

Thanks!
Pretty cool free documentary titled Code Rush that films Netscape engineers during the Mozilla source code release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig
Automating infrastructure with CloudFormation, chef, cloud-init, and fog
clickable: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dENOanQwY3Z...
True. The real question is what is the cost of not opening the platform vs. opening the platform, considering their humble beginnings and cult following that powers a lot of their revenue.
unix S/A work, Would like to work with AWS. P/T remote
There's a major, important distinction between the kangaroo "military tribunals" Bush tried to set up for Gitmo detainees and the UCMJ. Nearly every veteran I've discussed the matter with would rather be prosecuted under the UCMJ than the civilian justice system.
i don't have facebook account so my vote is a bit of a no brainer.
The leaks include names, addresses, and even GPS coordinates for the homes of people who have cooperated with the Afghan government or the US. They also contains names and addresses of people who the US thought might be in danger and so needed to keep an eye on, because those people did such heinous crimes as teaching girls.

In the past, when the Taliban has found out the identities of such people they have often killed them, and their families.

Do you have some reason to believe that Taliban policy is only to kill such people when they find out about them themselves, and so if the unedited documents became public the Taliban would NOT go after the people named in them?

There's a reason (besides trying to milk this for all the publicity they can get) that Wikileaks doesn't just make all the documents available as is. They know that without redaction, they will get innocent people killed. That's why they are redacting them (with the help of the several newspapers they gave copies to).
Khan academy is a huge step forward, delivering key concepts in video forms. However, this approach only goes so far. Human interaction becomes important when higher-level concepts are introduced. For example, I can't imagine getting through my O.S course without the help of TAs, office hours, etc. Recreating that experience on-demand would be the holy grail.
Thanks for putting words in my mouth.

No, my logic is that the current status quo in Iraq is secrecy, and it makes it much easier for human rights abuses or slack rules of engagement to be swept under the rug. At least some proportion of those deaths would have been prevented if there was greater oversight from the general public, both American and overseas.
Mate first of all congratulations. While I cannot give you advice on how to invest your money, I would just caution against marketing your company as a "dipshit company". What is that hinting about your buyer and your product? Again I am guessing by "dipshit" company you actually mean a company that you felt was not adding any value and you found some one gullible enough to buy it. If you had a more positive connotation then my sincerest apologies!

But congratulations once again (another person I am not jealous of :D).
An interesting interview with Salman Khan:

http://www.bidoun.org/magazine/23-squares/the-math-of-khan-b...
Why the world needs a new bug tracker.
HP Accuses BlackBerry PlayBook Of Ripping Off WebOS
Reminds me so much of SimCity, only you can't raise taxes.
Actually, in Quebec (not sure about other provinces and the US), you can live comfortably (if we compare with hunter-gatherers) without working at all through welfare.
Alleged WikiLeaker could face death penalty
As I said in another comment, nearly every veteran I've discussed the matter with would rather be prosecuted under the UCMJ than the civilian justice system.

The process is fair. It's also a rather simple matter of fact that what Bradley Manning did is, in fact, illegal. You might think it should be legal to leak classified information, but in that case your complaint isn't with the justice system at all, it's with the laws it is enforcing.
That was one of the connections I was trying to make, though I agree it's not spelled out as well as it could be. The other is that Microsoft's decision to expand into so many different markets parallels Apple's decision to do the same. When you're a platform owner and you also want to build businesses on that platform, the "success" scenario for your businesses can end up looking like a failure scenario for your platform, and vice versa.

For example, it's some person's job at Apple to make the iBooks store the most successful ebook store, but it's another person's job to make the iOS platform the most attractive, popular platform. My point in the final paragraph was that the only way for Apple to reconcile this tension may be to decide that the complete domination of Apple's businesses built on the iOS platform actually would make iOS the most attractive, possible platform. Ergo, the "What's good for Apple is good for America" reference. But when Apple's businesses have so many practical and now financial advantages versus competitors, how sure can Apple really be that its iOS content businesses would be winning based on their merits and not because of their "unfair" advantages? (That is, assuming the platform isn't stunted even sooner by customers abandoning it as their favorite non-Apple businesses decide they can't or won't agree to Apple's latest round of policy changes.)
I would think that it should not be too long before Khan like education is available for every topic sometime in the next 100 years. Once these topics are available, I see distributing these videos to every child in replacement of national school. It's probably overly optimistic to think this could happen without having politicians infecting their ideology into the material but whatever, it's a dream. I would love to join an organization interested in doing just this if there was one.
I just figured it out! Now, in Chrome and FF4 it remembers the lists you select. I'm really excited about this...enjoy! :)
I think it is good to see someone thinking about what could be better. Yet I see a lot of what could be called "change for change's sake", and here's the problem with that...

Imagine you manage a project and its source tree. By far the most expensive cost is a person's time! You're likely to hire Objective-C developers, and instead of them starting immediately on your code, they will each see 100 things that are subtly different from what they know. Each of the new people for the lifetime of the project will have to learn a few dozen new tricks just to figure out what's going on.

Given sufficient benefits, this kind of retraining can be practical. For example, if the new language were to make programming much faster, or significantly reduce the chance of bugs, then there would be a payoff. But can Eero do those things?

There are also minor disadvantages...moving to something that no syntax-coloring tools would handle, that no text editor would auto-indent, etc. Some of this can be dealt with by spending an afternoon hacking up a "vim" colorizer for a new language; so not a huge deal, but still a problem that you only face because you didn't use Objective-C directly.
I think that advice flies in the face of best practices.

1. Your dev box isn't supposed to be very similar to production, this is why you have staging servers. My dev boxes have weird tooling and debug tools. They also run all services on a single box rather than distributed. Don't pretend dev is at all like prod, this assumption will disappoint you.

2. App servers, which generally speak HTTP and use a standard interface (in ruby Rack, in Python WSGI) and speak HTTP to a load balancer (probably nginx). Are simple and just work. They're less pain than setting up apache. `cd myproject && rails server` is nice.

3. There are about 10 billion things you can get wrong with setting up a production server. If you can't figure out how to proxy requests to an app server you have no business setting up a server in the first place. You've probably already lost.
It's getting to be difficult to avoid sites that are affiliated or offer Facebook*.

Even ycombinator (and indirectly Hacker News) is guilty of being loosely affiliated with Facebook.

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/facebook-to-begin-giving-y-...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/11/facebooks...
He used MS Paint for a long time (seriously).

But apparently he's upgraded to something called SmoothDraw3 and a Wacom Bamboo Tablet.

http://www.khanacademy.org/about/faq#equipment
The thing is that it isn't possible to down vote submissions on HN.
Can your satnav do this?
Apple iPad 2 Recent Launch Event Roundup | Technology Rekor
We used JavaSpaces/Jini in an EMRS system during the same period(and also tried GigaSpaces which was best impl) called Frontiers which was at some point used at many hospitals on both coasts.

It did make things very flexible as in we knew we could just start ripping pieces out of the system during testing to make sure every piece was completely autonomous and definitely redundant with data. Also had "agents" in self contained "hot reloadable" classes because we learned about the discarded classloader trick. Man, learned so much fun/crazy stuff at that job.
The headline for this article mentions Gruber, but the article is actually at niemanlab.org. Perhaps it is the actual linked article GHFigs was referring to?
Watson: Ken Jennings describes what it's like to play against a machine.
What evidence do you have?
Nice little incremental update. I think they did a pretty good job addressing some of the issues people had with the original model -- at least within the realm of what is technically possible while meeting the same price point.
I'd say I'm an intermediate JS/jQuery dev. Have played around with SASS and used PHP mixed with CSS on a project or two. Maybe we can talk and see if I'd be a fit?

*Note: located in Canada (Toronto), looking for remote/contract work

contact@mateuszwijas.com
I put the "Get Started Now" buttons on their own lines and indented them slightly.

And as for the logo, I have the g's hanging over the image so that the rest of the text lines up. I tried moving it up but it just looks weird to me. I prefer it to hang over like that... reminds me of when I was first learning to write... and the g's, p's, j's, etc. hung below the line.

I did add a slight stroke to the g's to make the bottom overhang stand out more.

Let me know if that's any better!
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1978)
That's exactly what needs to happen. The teacher as a knowledge spout doesn't make sense anymore in most places since we can get the knowledge from 100 other sources faster and probably better.

In addition and regards to your assessment point -- I agree assessments still need to happen, and perhaps even more regularly than now, but there needs to be a shift in the mindset around the purpose of the assessment. It's common to think of assessments as the primary method of getting "grade/mark points" and that's it, however the most beneficial part of assessing are the learning aspects.

Assessments:

1. Give the student a chance to use the knowledge they now have and strengthen it as a result,

2. Figure out where the student is for the benefit of the "teacher"/"guide" to better guide the student in further learning and,

3. Help the student figure out where they are themselves and where they're struggling and doing well.
The problem is that this encourages lazy development. Many developers love the ability of tools like Tomcat that allow you to run your web app inside of the application server itself, rather than having to configure a pesky Apache server.

The problem this creates is that once a developer has it running on their own machine inside Tomcat (or now this PHP built-in webserver) the app is probably coded in such a way that it will ONLY run inside this server, and will never scale. What's more, they often turn it into a production application with real customers depending on it, and blame you if you can't make it scale to handle hundreds or thousands of users.

This is the problem with using "built in" webservers. It encourages developer laziness, and encourages people to kick bad code over the fence to the operations team who has to make it reliable and run in production. Never mind that a built in PHP webserver will never scale to meet the needs of more than a few users.
I'll be the first to admit that the best ideas here aren't feasible in the foreseeable future.

But what I like about it is that this technology would make us more, rather than less, human.
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I'd say they compare closely to either Redis' hash or unsorted list implementations. It's hard to say exactly since the operations tuples support are similar to both.

This, of course, ignores the complexity of operations on Redis hash and list objects. I don't think any tuple space implementation has a known complexity for get or put operations.