skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Rails not have a release candidate process? If not, that's odd. If so, you should test the release candidates, that's what they're for!
How does this compare to people's real world experiences?
The comic in question: http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=1&lo...

Excellent story (Inception with a Ducktales flavour).

With thanks to ctdonath for the link, in the first place. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2255484
There are some good flash adventure games. "Alice is Dead", "Hansel and Gretel" to name two.
They are not dead, just less popular. Check out Gray Matter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Matter_(video_game)) or 999 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999:_Nine_Hours,_Nine_Persons,_...) - very good and recently released adventure games.
tl;dr: Marketers control Hollywood production and are risk-averse gatekeepers. A bubble in independent/boutique production disrupted that side-channel.

It's not a complete picture; why doesn't the independent/boutique side fire back up? I think a better explanation is technology/distribution, i.e. HDTV + cable/internet. TV's mentioned in the article, but only as kind of a silver-lining; really it seems more like a classic disruptive technology. Shows like Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad are highly visual and would until recently have been better as movies; now plenty of people have nice TVs, and they work fine there.

So the movie theater's niche is now reduced to material which needs to be huge in size, enormously loud, 3D, or seen primarily by people who refuse to or can't buy HDTVs. Everything else seems transitional.
IPad 2 Smart Cover (video)
Radical Solution to Google's Hiring "Problem"
How can we make it easier to rediscover great content from our past?
Show HN: I made a human powered travel search engine
As we've learned from the whole HBGary Federal thing, there is plenty of money to be made in doing the government's dirty work.
1. I believe I was referring to Marko Rodriguez’ attempt, documented here: http://markorodriguez.com/2011/02/18/mysql-vs-neo4j-on-a-lar... I love Marko to bits and he often publishes work of great insight; but I'm not sure what he was trying to demonstrate with this one.

2. I'm not going to try to get into Ben’s head — I'll let him answer that.

3. Downtown Seattle. I have no idea what emergency was going on but there sure was something :)
The Crate Review System is a true classic that's worth reading even though a few of the jokes are outdated: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html
The graphic ones took all the depth out of the text adventures, but offered eye candy. So the trend goes...
Kinda, we are trying to make it easier to capture what matters (things, people, places) and be able to pivot on that data. Productivity is a nice onramp for that.

Folks have been asking for ToDo functionality for a while now, I want to keep the productivity features to an absolute minimum.
Funny how this guy's up for 8-10 years for stealing GS's high-frequency trading algorithms while the people partially responsible in the derivatives, mortgage, and insurance industries and the credit markets for the biggest financial crisis ever are enjoying their bonuses and bailouts.
Including the death and/or injuries of loved ones? i.e. you were driving, got T-boned, now your sister can't walk?

I know people that's happened to, and they tend to "own it," and I'm not sure that's healthy,
I just started replaying the Monkey Island games this week after about 15 years since I last played the original. Definitely one of the "best of breed". Sam & Max were enjoyable, as well as the Indiana Jones games, but Monkey Island was perfect in that it never took itself seriously so it didn't suffer from the "why the hell do I have to do this?" factor that some adventure games did.

In general, I think LucasArts was probably the best at this in the 90's.
This is a testament to how much trouble Microsoft goes through to maintain compatibility.

I wonder whether malware from those early days would continue to run, or if newer versions of the OS would block it.
A 15 byte IP (pretending all IPs are made of four 3 digit numbers)

An IP address is just a 32 digit binary number. 4 bytes, not 15. The dotted quad notation is just to help the humans typing them in.
I've always wondered how they chose their featured apps. Any more insight?
I'm sorry to say this but you'll probably have a hard time getting well received by anyone who has seen this thread.

The most influential members of this board are popular because of the value they bring here. They really take their time before posting a comment or sharing a URL and often the things/ideas they share are very insightful.
I wonder if Japanese developers are happy with the prices. Looks like they are the highest of all regions so far. (I'm interested in Spot Instances specifically)
"Prosecutors depicted Mr. Aleynikov, a Russian-born immigrant, as a brazen thief..."

Pot calling the kettle black.
Images and some additional info:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/microsphere-nanosc...
Looking forward to someone doing the same sort of thing with other OSs.
You simply offer them a discounted rate to sign up for the premium service. Those who are willing and able to pay will, and those who would have never (knowingly) given you ten cents will enjoy reduced service.
For good stories, and especially intelligent stories, novels have it all over movies. That is the main reason most of the movies I watch are action or special effects oriented, that is the only thing the medium has that decent novels don't. Even in those cases though, novels can have some advantage - the novelization of the first Iron Man movie had lots of back story and asides that made the movie more interesting.
I was primarily inspired by this Derek Sivers blog post http://sivers.org/semi-expert and my own frustration when often booking flights and finding from a friend that I could have saved tons of money by using a low cost airline that is not on search engines.
it does, and someone pointed out exactly this in the comments, but I guess some things slip through
Want Next-Gen Support for Your Node Apps? Joyent Launches No.de
I guess I wasn't aware of any etiquette about not posting IP addresses. No harm meant... Is there a way to actually edit, or delete a post for that matter?
"To buttress its argument, the government said that Mr. Aleynikov is going through a divorce and “has an increasingly distant relationship with his older daughter,” visiting “his children only on alternate weekends.”"

Why am I not surprised...
It's like taking every upgrade I've ever done with Windows and condensing it down to 9:49 (omit the various reinstalls)
There's a camera app for that.

(It probably comes with one of those annoying vintage filters, however.)
Impressive, but I have to wonder how many compromises had to be made, and advancements abandoned, to keep apps like Reversi and Dosshell all the way up through Win7...
Anonleaks: HBGary Email Viewer
I've been using namespaces with path methods like namespace_resource_path in 3.0.1 without issues... I think they just made the rules for calling a route more strict since without the namespace prepended on the path method could lead to confusion.
"... Half of the mice were allowed to run on a wheel for 45 minutes three times a week, beginning at 3 months. These rodent runners were required to maintain a fairly brisk pace, Dr. Tarnopolsky said: “It was about like a person running a 50- or 55-minute 10K.” (A 10K race is 6.2 miles.) The mice continued this regimen for five months. ..."

Do this every day for five months, year in year out? A 10km/hr pace might not seem fast but I'll bet you most people will not keep this up for long. The will power required, level of exertion and increased injury sees to this.
Spoken like a true conspiracy theorist.
It makes it a lot harder, a light dusting of caffeine can be helpful though.

The purpose of vipassana meditation is "awareness" and alcohol really gets in the way of that because it makes it hard to focus. This kind of meditation is an activity.
Shakespeare's plays were almost exclusively based on earlier works. Pure originality is mythical and overrated. What matters is quality, not conformance to some particular checklist of artistic purity characteristics.
I was thinking in terms of most logs I've seen where it's stored as text.
As a married (14 years) father of 3 that just turned 40, I couldn't agree with you more!
Apart from being a image disaster, I don't think that would actually work.

A hiring strategy for Google (and one I believe they're following, judging by the calls my friends are getting) is combing places like development mailing lists or open source projects contributors and proposing these people jobs. I'd say that's how they get their rock stars.

And for people that are not destined to lead teams or research groups, they're simply doing what any large company does: have a HR department and hire folks that pass the filters, then evaluate them while they're there.
> I came to a conclusion that for me was fundamental: My
employwers are stealing my life.

There is no theft, just voluntary trade. He exchanges his time and effort for a pay check and then blames his employer for the deal he accepted.
YouTern would never suggest giving login information to an employer, or anyone else. And it highly unlikely -- unheard of, even -- that a recruiter would ask for login info or passwords.

We've heard of several applications that contain fields for links to social media sites, including Facebook... so assuming the commenter used "login" when they actually meant "URL" or "link".
Nice design and excellent idea. Just one reservation: the words Human Powered and Search dont tend to go well together, you may want to change the tag line.
brilliant a testament to MS software compatability
"Mirroring supported only by iPad 2."
I will put this out there:

Top Gun is a good movie (even if it is pretty shallow).

Twitter is a good technology.
I love the idea. I've considered this idea many times.

In terms of execution: the formfields should be on top of the page. Put the "your email" field at the bottom. You want people to start thinking about what to enter in those fields. You need to put less text on the homepage, or lay it out better visually so it doesn't feel so much as a wall of text.

For SEO: you could start publishing recommendations/tips (after they were paid for) on aggregated pages too, to get people to link to those, and to show what your value is before people actually use you.
You can't do it with this level of preciseness in the Mac family at least. Between OS X, probably as long as you're not on non-intel processors.

Like other commenter said, Windows/MS really goes all the way for backwards compatibility.
You need to contact them and they have a team decide if they will feature you.

They look at how closely you follow the Android HIG, level of polish in the app, have you been recently featured, etc.

We also send them beta version of our apps and they give us great feedback.
Gabriel is such an excellent speaker, I'm not sure why - something about him just makes you want to listen.
OK, I did not know that. I love the writing in Portal.
Now let's see someone do this on real hardware, upgrading the machine as they go.
Why shouldn’t I just go to StackOverflow and use the tag feature to filter for the Ruby questions?
Brilliant.

A number of comments:

* He mentions there is no multi tasking in dosshell. I'm not 100% sure about MS-DOS 5.0, but in ver 6.0 you could switch between tasks in dosshell [EDIT: this is also true for version 5.0, you can see the option at 1:13 in his video]. To switch tasks you need to first enable it through the "Options" menu ("Enable Task Swapper") and then you can either switch tasks by the all too familiar Alt+Tab or pressing Ctrl+Esc to bring up an ancient Task Manager (then titled "Active Task List").

* I may be mistaken, but in later service packs Win2000 had much better DOS emulation... Just mentioning it because he did test XP SP2 and later versions of Win2000 may have handled Doom2 better.

This video got me to dig out my old DOS book to make sure I remember correctly... ah, the memories :) Very interesting to see many dialogs we all know from Windows even in DOS (i.e. the Run and Associate File extension dialogs in dosshell)
With embedded browser views (a la webkit), this is actually pretty doable.
Does that matter much? The Facebook Likernet is coming, and the FSF will be represented on it, regardless of its preferences.

Also, an FSF fan club without the most doctrinaire FSFers (who refuse to use Facebook) is an interesting syncretic phenomenon in itself, for reasons that both overlap and diverge from the reasons the FSF itself is interesting.
Awesome stuff. I would have enjoyed a detour through Microsoft Bob, somewhere around Windows 3.1 or 95.
Not only is this solution is just as arbitrary as any other filter, it would have a profound impact on company culture.
Human Queue: Chat Roulette Meets XSS Meets /dev/null
How is Assanage more influential? A lot of the opposition groups behind the mass uprisings sweeping the Arab world credit Facebook as a key tool for organizing their revolutions.

Facebook is seriously changing people's lives on a large scale. Wikileaks has mostly provided diplomatic gossip, with a few things tossed in that will harm people, and a smaller number of things tossed in that will help people.
If you want to talk about "survival", you can easily survive comfortably, much more comfortably than hunter-gatherers, today on even less work. Buying lots of junk and traveling are not needed for comfortable survival, if you want them, buy them, but don't confuse them with even comfortable survival.
And the Back to the Future series is AMAZING.

Episode 1 is free right now: http://www.telltalegames.com/bttfoffer
How is a government lawyer a "brazen thief"?
Apple iPad 2 and SmartCover hands-on demo
Your other points are reasonable, but the risk of increased injury is easily addressed by choice of exercise - swimming, rowing, etc.
Agreed. Judging from banter on the web the iOS notification system is approaching "Fix The F Finder" levels of frustration.
Just an FYI, Linode used to have UML "back in the day."

There was an interesting quote about a year ago from the CEO of Linode regarding uncertainty of staying with Xen and instead moving on to KVM.

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/news/151637...
Decent graphics are murder for adventure games. With some of the oldest adventure games, there were only a few places you could plausibly click on and see a result. Hunting for the interactable object in a 3D textured and shadered world is less intuitive.
"Federal prosecutors acknowledged that in the ten weeks since the guilty verdict, Mr. Aleynikov had not violated his bail conditions, which included home detention with electronic monitoring."

Preposterous bullying. They are just trying to send a message to their best buddies/cohorts at Goldman Sachs that they are willing to do whatever it takes to appease them. We have seen this type of posturing time and time again.
Planned Obsolescence
Wow thanks! I'll send you an email right now.
Does Google take that fee, or does it go to the mobile carrier?
Very cool. I think you should add some more examples to give the user more confidence in your proficiencies.
Seems like the kind of thing that Google might want to test before actually implementing. Surveys are notoriously inaccurate and fraught with other concerns, but a "Would you have been willing to have paid a $25 application fee" question on the application itself would give some idea of the false positive (not discouraging unqualified applicants) and false negative (scaring away people they end up hiring) rates.
They might not be as popular percentage-wise, but what are the sales totals and revenue like compared directly to those titles, I wonder? The total market must be a lot larger than it was back then.
Easily modified code does not need to be scrapped whole-hog and can be incrementally updated, so I agree with you that being in production for a long time is not an indicator of design quality with either valence.
This doesn't make sense to me at all. Assuming the goal is to increase the percentage of applications that are "high quality," I think an application fee would be detrimental.

If you are a highly desirable employee, you probably have many potential employment options. If Google imposes both an additional cost and additional step to its application process, then only applicants where:

Chance to work at Google + Application Fee/hassle > Chance to work somewhere else

Will apply.
Advising Simperium (YC S10)
Thanks, I put so much text to try to explain the idea and credentials as to not seem like one of "You give me money and I give you this awesome secret to saving and becoming a millionaire in a year" but I agree it is a bit too much.
There are many many attempts at solving this problem, both libraries and preprocessors. None seem to satisfy a large audience, most people seem to deal with the callback nesting and hope to avoid cases where it gets super ugly.

I have a lot bookmarked on github, these are mostly libraries.

https://github.com/coolaj86/futures
https://github.com/substack/node-seq
https://github.com/marcuswestin/fun
https://github.com/creationix/step
https://github.com/chriso/chain.js
https://github.com/substack/node-chainsaw
https://github.com/caolan/async
https://github.com/kriszyp/promised-io
https://github.com/kriszyp/node-promise
https://github.com/technoweenie/node-chain-gang
https://github.com/creationix/do
https://github.com/willconant/flow-js
https://github.com/creationix/conductor

Some branches of CoffeeScript are also trying to ease the pain. Defer keyword didn't make it into CoffeeScript main. My impression is CoffeeScript makes callback hell less ugly anyway, so there is less need for adding a complex language feature that generates unreadable JavaScript.
In my experience, when I am thinking about doing something (no matter how big or small), it generally turns out better when I do it instead of when I don't.
God, the memories. I remember booting up Windows 95 for the first time -- I was so stoked. Everything was so new and smooth and perfect.

Plus -- and this is the important thing -- PPP worked much, much better than 3.1 + trumpet winsock.

Some time around 98SE I was dual booting into BeOS, which was so damn fast it wasn't funny. But it wasn't to be.

And I remember browbeating Red Hat 3 into connecting to the internet as well.
Great stuff - thanks for the work!

Minor UI nits:

- your value proposition is in the "it's XXX but you can get there for YYY". Put that front and center and give it a better visual treatment than the insufficiently anti-aliased black sans ;)

- the $10 sleeve makes you think hard where it's at right now. Move everything related to $10 only in one spot. The entire copy under "EXPERIENCED TRAVELERS HELP YOU SAVE TIME AND MONEY" could be compressed to a couple bullet points.

- "How do we do it" doesn't need to be on the front page - it distract from the goal of getting me to try
Releasing the film in more cinemas, and focusing on opening weekend, are also responses to film piracy, rampant outside developed countries. If enforcement gets harsher in the US, people can go for a "movie week" in some third world city every year, and watch a year of good movies for free in a friend's apartment. Realistically, the movie industry needs to focus on blitzing the opening weekend.
Same story from the BBC, submitted yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2276966

No discussion there, added to get a difference reprot of the same story.
What Obama and Congress Should Do for Cybersecurity
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281544
Definitely, RPGs and adventure games work well with touch screen devices that lack traditional game inputs (game controllers, keyboards), especially compared to action or platform type games.
25 here as well. Started with python, moved to Javascript (building chrome extensions), and currently have been getting into obj-c/iOS building iphone apps. I'm working full time right now, and find it a little difficult to progress because I'm so tired after after work. I'm really trying to push myself though. I want to move to webapps (django) at some point, but have to scratch a few itches on the iphone platform first.
When exactly was that? Because, the time of westerns was also the time of GREAT movies (and some great westerns).
It's like the live feed chat that is always on websites - but it doesn't crash, this is pretty awesome.
I never used the upgrade option. I'd always get a new hard drive with my upgrade (to get OEM price) and install clean, usually using the original hard drive as a slave. The next cycle that hard drive would become an archive on the new slave.

I have backed up files from 1996 on my home desktop.
What about for sandboxing processes? I've been investigating UML for this use as it seems "lighter" than the other approaches you've outlined yet still gives good network separation and reasonable control from a supervising process. I've also been investigating AppArmor but it seems a little like wrapping a blanket around a bomb so far.. but I'm really just walking around in the dark so far.
Show HN: Useful site for BlackBerry devs
The infographic has the wrong specs for the TouchPad. It has dual 1.2GHz processors and 1GB of RAM.
Not to mention their 'beta testing' of Asheron's Call's anti-griefing features by playing an effeminate sailor and harassing people.

The highlight for me though was their guest book. Rather than write their own, they and their entire readership would go and crash someone else's, with a new one each week. Here's a wayback link: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19991010010423/http://www.o...

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have archived any of the actual postings, but they were as deranged as they sound :)
IIRC the Roman Army had hit its sweet spot at a 15-mile (~25km) march a day. They'd force march on occasion, but this was rarely before battle. They wanted their soldiers rested before battle.

I'd guess that exercising much beyond 2 miles/hour is going to be detrimental to your body if done daily. Our bodies were built for endurance, which is why our locomotion is derived from gravity. Our ancestors hunted animals that survived by their endurance.
Not news. UML is at least 12 years old.
Funniest comment in that article that I've read all month:

Ok, Ok, you don’t have to beat me over the head with more research. You’ve convinced me.

I’m going to force the mice in my apartment to exercise more.
I am facing the exact same decision set in many respects.

1. I have one good app in dev process in a market segment that is hot, Custom HomeScreens

2. I know that I need some more apps, was thinking some quick 2d games via using andengine.

3. I do have some fulltime inquiries that might work
as base income to fund the full 12 month weekend-evening dev cycle.

Pull Tim Bray's recent blog posts on making money in the android market. There also was some recent HN articles on
android dev's making $120,000 yearly with a paired free and
paid approach.

BTW, what dev processes are you using thus far? I am switching to combination TDD and BDD approach using robolectric and robotium/android-mock to take some of the pain out.
The Battle for Second Place
I'd be interested in a comparison of how India, China, Egypt, Vietnam, etc. compare. Perhaps a luminosity per capita index in rural and urban areas?