skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's at a point where I don't see anything wrong with going either way.

I don't think IE9's abandonment of XP is going to slow the adoption of new web technology all that much, something that Mozilla seems to suggest. There is a lot of momentum behind them with mobile devices supporting them so well. Still, 40% of web users, even if those are among the lowest value web users, is worth developing around.

Mozilla isn't around to make a profit, so spending on XP users makes more sense. Abandoning them would have also made sense.
I'm working on something now which gives me a feeling I have never experienced before: Creating this product will create the need for it.

This is because, if your competitors have it, you must have it also. And if it exists, and your competitors can afford it, they will buy it.

It's a great feeling, I just hope I'm right!
exclusive? or are these restaurants constantly hiding?
Non-marketers overview of attribution
Chat Room In 10 Lines of JavaScript
I suppose that I'm assuming some kind of proprotionality in upvoting or downvoting, maybe even two varieties of proportionality.

First, I'm assuming that Windows-users are represented proportionally with the general population in the Hacker News population.

Second, I'm assuming that Windows-users and Linux-users would be equally inclined to up- or down-vote any given story. That is, the proportion of voters (your "small minority" that votes) is the same in Windows-users population and Linux-users population.

Your point about Haters vs Haters-fighters is well taken.
Why is there no styling for basic text fields?
Nice - This answered a lot of questions. Great discussion.
Definitely. Another term for mostly the same thing, in my book. I talked about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2340734

VPS providers give you the tools, cloud providers give you the tools and a few finished products with less flexibility. You can use VPS as part of a cloud implementation, just like you can use dedicated servers as part of a cloud implementation, too.
Dear Continental Airlines, you have a broken funnel
I took away the same thing. Thats a fantastic burn rate. especially compared to a [hardware] startup I worked at that had a burn rate that'll make your eyes water.
Twitter Growth Statistics [Infographic]
What proof do you have to back up your allegation?

I served 11.5 years in a government school (not the customary 13 because I was able to graduate early). My time there was awful. I would have learned more just by staying at home!

Government school didn't even help with getting into college. I had a D average in high school, so I privately educated myself for a few years in all kinds of ways, and got into a very nice university (and maintained a 3.89 gpa in a science major). So that's how I know government school is useless.

On top of that, my mother was a government school teacher. The horror stories she has about the way they run things are awful. This was all in the the strongest teacher's union state in the country (WI), which made the problem even worse. (When teachers want to set up a system to rate each other so that better teachers earn more money, the union throws such a fit that the plan never gets heard. When teachers want to teach foreign languages before or after school, the government school administrators throw a fit and shut it all down. This could not happen at a private school.)
Which is why I read the comments for linkbait-y titles before giving them the clicks. I just wish HN made this possible to do from RSS.
"fast-paced environment" means getting shit done. it means rolling hard like facebook, google, zynga, groupon, etc. it means launching fast. it means getting feedback fast. it means failing fast. it means the exact opposite of the folks complaining about it who work at ibm or hp or microsoft or yahoo or aol. or worse yet, some hole-in-the-wall enterprise vendor inflating internal budgets and wallowing in mediocrity.

fast-paced to me means "if you can't keep up, don't step up."

regardless, if you have to ask, it's not a place for you to work.

m3mnoch.
I used to. Then in '99 I bought an old Volkswagen microbus. That old rolling pile of junk was the coolest thing on the road (when she was in fact, on the road).

When I bought the VW I planned to restore her to showroom condition.

Never happened.

What did happen is that I developed an appreciation for "good enough". She'd just barely top 55 mph - good enough. She had rattles, a fuel gauge that never worked, a steering system that really kept me on my toes, and to balance it all out she had a ragtop - all in all, good enough.

You see, I had wanted a 21-window VW since I was like twelve years old. And when I finally got one I was determined to drive it. And I drove it all over the country - for years...

And maybe that's all you need to do - determine that you're going to "drive" your projects (even if they leak oil and rattle while you drive).
Developers express concern over pirated games on Android Market
Privacy and the Market for Lemons, or How Websites Are Like Used Cars
I think it might be near Odaiba.
"We need more finish-ups" is a nice turn of phrase but it seems more like a 37signals message than a Google message. Is failure okay or do you want to prioritize survival -- "finishing up" into a mature company?

We all know the startup model that Google has influenced and nurtured, and it's not about finishing up. That's clear from the "60% of the impossible" quote. To oversimplify, it's about ignoring revenue and giving away value in order to build huge amounts of usage. I am not criticizing that, and it has a lot to recommend it. But start-ups with that model are not going to finish up very often, just because they're risky.

So I'm a little confused. Are start-ups failing because they're trying to do the ordinary, and instead they need to aim for the impossible? Maybe this is the zen of Google.
Does Anne Hathaway News Drive Berkshire Hathaway's Stock?
There must be some kind of fallback because IE9 runs fine inside a virtual machine with disabled graphics acceleration.
We're using the Aristo theme as well with qooxdoo. Qooxdoo's theming framework is pretty nice, although I haven't tried jQuery's.

http://news.qooxdoo.org/aristo-theme
Aristo was ported to some of Dojo a couple versions ago: http://sitepen.com/~canderson/aristojo/140/dijit/themes/them... It's not as polished as this jQuery one though.
The elephant in the room is that Chrome is compatible with XP and this might the real FF competition. Heck, even Safari works on XP.
Digression discussion: What lesser forms of login would be acceptable in this day and age? Malinator-type temporary accounts? Facebook logins? Logins from a less-used social network?
Indeed it is - that was the point of the site.
This very moment our team is restoring Postgres volumes because the EBS volumes our primary and secondary were on both failed simultaneously.
) Read every single business-related post at patio11's blog [1]. That is great advice for any startup (due to the quality of the content), but for a startup selling to educators? Unmissable. In case you are unaware, patio11 is extremely popular on HN (for varied and valid reasons), and he runs a website which sells bingo cards to teachers.

) Agreed re: adverts - as a user, I would be annoyed that I am paying for your site and still seeing ads.

) Try outsourcing the creation of new material - the more subjects you cover, the better. There are many freelance where you can find teachers in various subjects, and your wife can act as "quality control".

) Use Adwords to bring more people to your site

) If you are specifically targeting Dutch schools, maybe creating a Hyves app will help? (Unless that is your employer :D )
[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/

) Perhaps try to attend some startup groups in the Netherlands? I live in Amsterdam, I should try and find one too... maar mijn Nederlands is niet geod.
This infographic seems to concentrate on viruses that made a big media splash, and not so much on historically important viruses.

For example: where's the "first virus"? That could be the "Animal" program for Univac, the Elk Cloner virus, or maybe Fred Cohen's 4.2BSD virus that he published about. Any of those are "important", maybe as firsts, maybe as intellectually important.

Where's the '88 Internet Worm? Where's the '88 HEPNet/SPAN Father Xmas worm? Both important as "firsts": first network worm, first non-IP worm. For that matter, where's the Bitnet CHRISMA.EXE mentioned?

One could go on in this vein for a while.
Weirdly enough, I find that fast-paced and slow-paced can be combined into an annoying hybrid I'll just call "unpaced." An unpaced organization has a hurry-up-and-wait mentality about decisionmaking, but once a decision has been made -- inevitably, right before a big delivery deadline has come and gone -- everyone is sent into an unnecessary crunch mode: the aptly named "fire drill."

Nine times out of ten, if you're at a company with a lot of fire drills, it's because somebody a few levels above you isn't managing timelines appropriately, or some folks at that level just aren't talking to each other. Point is, the "fast-paced" moments are usually symptoms of a deeper issue.
This is not a net neutrality issue.
Pretty inspiring, though I hope you add a live demo to your main site (maybe to handle support? :). I know as a potential customer, I'm hesitant to pay for anything I haven't seen and interacted with.
I think the IPO will heat up with LinkedIn, Pandora, Zynga, Facebook, etc. With all the money made, what will people do with it? They will be looking to reinvest. This drives up valuation. This "bubble" seems like it's being fueled by real money (money made by profitable companies) in the hands of investors and that's what makes it different.
People asked: "what do you mean by "pure" IaaS?" It is a legitimate question, as the bare iron needs an operating system, some utilities, in order to be usable. In reality "pure IaaS" is the absolute minimum PaaS required to set up a server or a cloud infrastructure.

How do we define the "minimum" PaaS? Some IaaS providers take themselves the decision -take it or leave it - on behalf of the customers. Very few IaaS providers, like CloudSigma, are offering customers the freedom to choose what they need, what it works for them, what they like.
Ok. One thing regarding the office space. The place we got was a 700 sq ft rectangle that looked like a run down warehouse. We spent approx 3k for the paint,flooring and cubicles. It is in an upcoming suburb. A similar space in a prime locality will cost at least 5x the price.
There's only a million other plotting libraries you can use with Python if you don't like what pyplot spits out. I think R's pie charts are hideous myself. (And I wouldn't ever use R's default output for a BI chart.)
It doesn't matter. Just pick one and execute.
The biggest issue I have with RDS is that I can't do a multi-master deployment to scale up writes. I've got a very write-heavy workload in my systems (roughly one write for every two reads).
I hate to bring this up but, as I have been spending more time hacking on open source Mono projects I can't help but ask what the legal future for Mono is currently (last I heard they where working on splitting out the possibly patented code). Does anyone have any input on this?
AT&T trying to crackdown on unauth. tethering
Also will probably bleed into future platforms - people stick with what they're comfortable with, so once they switch to FF/Chrome/Safari they'll likely seek out that browser on whatever new machine they get after their hardware dies.
Click the 'Reserve' button, and it goes to Opentable. Awesome way to surface availability.
This is also the case in Europe just with different numbers. There are three 230V legs, each within 120 degrees of phase difference from each other. If two are combined, you get 230V * (sin 60) * 2 = 400V which can be used for industrial applications.
Spoke too early. These slides are incredibly useful to prepare for investor questions. Maybe Facebook and Twitter didn't have everything figured out, but I still need numbers to work out a good story.
We have a live version in private beta. I plan to post it to HN for feedback as soon as we are ready for the public launch.
Show HN: PodCastle - Reddit for podcasts
I would expect Verizon to follow AT&T in this move within short time, just like how VZ eliminated the unlimited plan very soon after launching the iPhone.

It would make sense if Verizon and AT&T had these patterns of interaction (from their perspective). It sets a precedent for AT&T to make changes that are good for profits, and Verizon following suit, thus magnifying the effect. Since they are the two biggest providers of services in the US, it makes sense that they'd have an implicit agreement to collude.

Although it's hard for me to disagree with their offering tiered services (It makes sense from a social-surplus standpoint with respect to monopolies and monopoly pricing), as someone else already mentioned, this is symptomatic of the lack of competition (which also, to an extent makes sense because of the natural-monopoly nature of the industry).

In short, this is a result of a market failure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure) where there are a few possible solutions:

1. The government steps in and offers a competing service, at marginal cost. But who says the government can do it better, or even at parity?

2. The government auctions off a contract (Say, in terms of $/year) to a provider, and subsidizes them (at the unit level) such that marginal revenue = marginal cost. The good thing is that the final price of the auction in a competitive market (no collusion, implicit or explicit) incorporates the benefits of the stream of subsidies and monopoly profits. As a result of this, we can achieve a socially optimal (i.e. pareto efficient) outcome. The problem is that it's hard to know MC for sure.

3. The government imposes price caps slightly above marginal cost. Again, what's the marginal cost?

4. Break them up into little chunks. However, this would eliminate a lot of the benefits of natural monopolies and economies of scale.

All of them have some problems of their own, not to mention headwinds against political action
So where is the education in jumping from "we have no proof to determine what happened" to an outrageous claim about EBS?

It's very common to turn off fsync on a database for performance reasons.
It's far less common to have a network block device driver (which tend to be designed with intermittent outages in mind) lie about fsync.
A better approach to #5 (Do not copy a line more than once) is to make a "template" copy of the line, which will fail to compile, and then make a bunch of copies of that.

Example:

Template line:

EnableWindow(GetDlgItem(hwndDlg,),);

Copy/paste:

EnableWindow(GetDlgItem(hwndDlg,),);
EnableWindow(GetDlgItem(hwndDlg,),);
EnableWindow(GetDlgItem(hwndDlg,),);

Final edit:

EnableWindow(GetDlgItem(hwndDlg, IDC_PRIMARYSTATUS), TRUE);
EnableWindow(GetDlgItem(hwndDlg, IDC_CYCLETIMESPIN), FALSE);
EnableWindow(GetDlgItem(hwndDlg, IDC_CYCLETIME),);

Now when you try to compile, but forgot to update something (such as the missing boolean in the last line), the compiler will complain.
I want a fast-paced environment. And I want to work with people who also like a fast-paced environment.

A fast paced environment is not the same as a "ridiculous hours" environment (I've done that - 80 hrs per week, high pressure). Nor is it a "death march" environment.

What it should be is a place where people come in to work ready to go, work intensely for 8 or 9 hours, then go home to enjoy the rest of their lives. I work at one of the more aggressive large web companies and we have an "email blackout" policy on weekends, for example - if it's not an operations problem, we ask folks to wait until the work week to send emails about it so that folks can concentrate on enjoying their time off undiluted by work and be ready to go on Monday.
Tools to use, in case you aren't aware (like I wasn't, and Googled):

* A Mac app - MonoMac 1.0
* An iOS app - MonoTouch
* An Android app - MonoDroid
* A Windows Phone app - XNA/Silverlight
* Desktop apps on Linux - Mono/GTK#
* Desktop apps on Windows - regular SDKs
* XBox 360 games - XNA
* A production-level website - ASP.net
* An in-browser applet - Silverlight
* An embedded system (using .NET MF)

Did I get these right?
Adjusted. Better?
Some UI issue while mouse over SSL on Firefox 4
http://imgur.com/yktw8
There isn't really an optimal - it was mostly a set of accidents to do with already installed turbines and the number of generator poles in a particular design.

Lower frequencies were easier to build for early components, 50Hz is about the lowest frequency that you didn't notice flicker on a lamp. Almost all the early non-industrial use of electricity was for lighting - industry tended to generate their own power on-site using whatever equipement they happened to buy.

Telsa picked 60hz apparently because it allowed him to reuse
clock mechanism in test gear. He also felt that 60sec/60min so 60hz was a 'natural' solution
AT&T tells customers using unauthorized tethering methods to pay up or stop
I'm a front end guy as well and in the last couple of years I've been picking up PHP. Love it.
Calling All Hackers: TechStars wants Hackers
Weekend full moon the biggest in about 20 years
Hey Andrew,

I think you need 2 people - one marketing person and one developer. It's going to be hard to find someone who has killer technical skills and also gets how to do the SEO/online marketing that you need. Plus 3-person founding teams are the strongest.

I wish you were looking for a concept (and wanted to be part of my team) rather than had your own ideas and were willing to come to DC. You sound like a great person to work with. Good luck!
Love this book! It's the encyclopedia of parsing: it contains enough information to get a basic understanding of almost any parsing topic, but contains an awesome 417-entry annotated bibliography for references to primary sources.

See my Amazon.com review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R17E19PSPM2UO9/ref=cm_cr_dp_per...
RSA hacked
Yep. Also adding to that, Windows Phone 7 games are XNA as well (apps are Silverlight, games are XNA).
In the case of an emergency like this. I would think that most 60hz devices could work on 50hz, and most 50hz devices would work on 60hz.

things that would get screwed up are devices that use the signal to time events. some high voltage switches use these things, but overall, i bet washing machines, dish washers, computers, lights, tvs, and radios would just work.

even garage door openers should work.

clocks and larger equipment might be a bust and maybe some of the robotics stuff at plants might be a bit off, but maybe just maybe it would work. these things are designed to condition the power in most cases within a few percentage points anyways.

i bet if it's that dire, they give it a go.
Not quite - the US has a unique split neutral where an incoming 240V single phase is divided into +/- 120V to drive either 120V to earth or 240V heavy duty appliances. But the dryer supply in the US isn't a multi phase
Mozilla wants its cake and to eat it too. They'll whine that IE9 doesn't support XP, and then whine that IE9 isn't modern. If it's not modern then it really doesn't matter if it supports XP or not.

I personally can't stand XP as an OS. But I do understand Mozilla from a business perspective. Although I wish they weren't so sanctimonious about IE9 not supporting it since they really don't care and I think it just continues to make Mozilla look like whiners rather than doers, e.g., Google/Chrome.
I'm curious to find out what you guys / gals think about this. Is this just a fear tactic? Or, does ATT have a legit way to check if you're doing unauthorized tethering. Any of you get hit with this text on accident (false positive)?

EDIT
Removed the '(Ars)' from the title. N00b mistake :)
Same in chrome 10 windows 7
That's pretty insane growth, but I would imagine their financial growth doesn't match up to the same curve.
While it is simple and trite, how is it profound? All human activity is change by that definition.
Conspiracies are simply a replacement for religion. Just as religious people see God's will in any event, conspiracy theorists on Reddit see CIA/Mossad/etc behind everything. By definition, you can't disprove them.
awesome story! Very inspiring
It's practical in the sense that it contains the information required to actually implement the different parsing methods instead of just getting lost in the theory. I don't think it's a contradiction at all.
I think these explorations are very worthwhile. People tend to underestimate how much work it takes to implement all the distribution functions.

Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

I'm hoping to see how the lib authors:

1.) deal with model workflow (for example, how do I go from model building to prediction?);
2.) explain what data structures they hope to introduce (if all the authors did was make a strong matrix library for server-side javascript, that would be enough to make everyone's day);
3.) outsource the computational grunt work to C (or Fortran, if they're really adventurous)
There is an extended bibliography online for the second edition you've linked

ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/PTAPG_2nd_Edition/index.html

''' The printed book contains only the about 400 literature references that are referred to in the book itself, all of them with annotations. The complete list of literature references comprises about 1700 entries of which around 1100 are annotated. It can be found here. It consists of augmented versions of the Table of Contents, Chapter 18, the Authors' Index, and the Subject Index, each reflecting in its way the added entries. '''
I'd be surprised if FF4 didn't support SNI under XP, as FF3.6.15 seems to on my home machine (tested by accessing https://sni.velox.ch/). I don't know if earlier versions supported SNI on XP or not - I might fire up the portable versions (available from http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable under the heading "legacy versions") and try the test with them later.

The current stable version of Chrome seems to support the feature under XP too (though earlier versions didn't, see http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=0403... - and other relevant discussions & bug reports come up in a quick search too).

IE8 on XP fails as expected (certificate error due to the name not being presented to the test site which means the wrong certificate is handed out).

All three pass the test fine on my Vista machine here.
Actually, at least in Sweden, 3-phase 380/400V is available in most homes for power-hungry things like electric stoves, water heaters, etc. I've never seen this in the U.S, so combined with the lower voltage, you need really thick wires to support the 20+A you need to run a 2500W stove. Seems like a waste of copper. I wonder if the U.S. resistive losses are noticeably larger than in Europe. Certainly you notice extension cords for things like vacuum cleaners get very warm in the U.S.
itsabitpointlessdontyouthink?
I would also like to say that the second edition is one of the finest cs-books I have.
I wonder how bad the first .com bubble was for big investment firms in toto.

I know it was bad for the market, but how bad was it really for the investors?
Thanks for letting us know. Will fix it soon.
Not at the moment. It's only for Chrome.
> But how often do you use sites that need JS? e.g. real estate sites, google maps

That is why I use NoScript. I can temporarily enable JS on any page with one click.

Turns out I don't need to enable JS on 99% of the websites I visit.
This is pretty cool. Glad to see people making good use of what we put out there.
I am just getting into doing paypal payments through one of my websites. I found a opensource framework for C# and looks like it works well. I only expect payments of up to $5.00 at the moment, but I am open to new solutions. Anyone have a better place to make payments for purchases on a website?

Hopefully, there will be a framework for C# developers for this alternative...