skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who is leaving my current job in large part because it forces me to work in a godawful web-based IDE, I think you need to think really, really hard about your motivations here. What problem does an IDE webapp solve which can't be solved any other way? Also, what problem does an IDE webapp solve which is so terrible, such an impediment to progress that it justifies throwing out the decades worth of development tools and experience we have on the command line or in traditional IDEs?

Honestly I've yet to come across such a problem. And any such benefits my company's internal web-based IDE might provide are entirely outweighed by the loss in productivity that comes from no longer having access to diff and patch and Unix pipes and vim and Git and all the other tools I've become entirely accustomed to on the Unix command line. Honestly, a MindTerm applet and a Unix shell account on a remote server would be a more functional "web-based IDE" than any I've seen, and certainly more functional than the one I'm leaving.

Obviously given enough time all of those tools could be replicated in a web-based environment, but why even bother? What's the killer app here?
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This guy's talking about how his G4 Powerbook started 'showing signs of age' during 2009.

Well, yeah. That would stand to reason.
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Last time I tried Groovy I found that the speed of it is really the pain of using it. It was considerably slower than plain Java.

I'd recommend Scala even if you skip all the functional parts of it (Clojure's too un-java to speak as an alternative.)
No, Tarsnap is designed for backups rather than random access -- it does things like cryptographically signing archives, which is obviously only possible if you have a concept of "this archive" vs. "that other archive".

(You can extract subsets of files, as per normal tar functionality, though, and Tarsnap only downloads the files you want plus the 512-byte tar headers it needs so that it can figure out which files match your specifications.)
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Is the recent attempt to take the FBI Agile a valid response?

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/01/11/ecg-problems-with-fbi-app...
IIRC, Redis uses skip lists in its implementation of sorted sets. Good rundown of the data structure.
Anyone know where all the engineers would be located in a plant like this - an onsite shielded bunker? What if they were to get hit by an explosion like this - remote redundant control far offsite?
Regarding WoW's artistic achievement, I've read a good observation about that - they've somehow created an art style whose longevity is not dependent on continually increasing gfx capabilities, but maintains an appeal even as other games get higher realism and whatnot. Timeless design in any domain is quite a feat.
First dump of Anon BofA Documents is up
Is that because, Google docs or docs?
Personally I find it easier to pair their rss feed (http://pycon.blip.tv/rss) with Miro that way I can view the summaries without having to click though. My laptop is so old that the flash player stutters and their html5 player is just awful. Miro does full screen effortlessly.
My understanding is that new heat continually gets added because the nuclear byproducts decay. It's exponential decay with a long half-life.

I hadn't thought of this, but it makes sense, considering that normally the cooling rods are kept in ponds for years after being removed from the reactor.
I don't think it's true to say no new heat is being added. The uranium fission process has stopped, but there are secondary radioactive elements created by the decay of uranium. These elements will continue to decay, as such the core is still producing the heat. Though eventually this heat will decline to a safe level, provided there isn't a meltdown beforehand.

The design oversight seems to be that they depend on external AC power or diesel generators for backup. Surely there should be an emergency generator that can run off the heat that the core still produces in order to at least partially operate the cooling system. Much like aeroplanes have a small dynamo that runs off a tiny wind emergency wind turbine so they can still operate the hydraulics with no engines running. A saving grace in the case of Gimli Glider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider).
Right - also there doesn't seem to be a story for closures and GCD.
From my time as a volunteer high school tech support helper, I remember the first year that Dell shipped us laptops without the external floppy drives. This was annoying to many of the old-timers who had established techniques around booting from a floppy.

We got over it.

We don't understand touchscreens well enough yet. We are using an old metaphor (the keyboard) and porting it completely literally. We might never replace the keyboard fully, but surely there is room to innovate.
If you look up the iPad 1 column, you'll see those two figures listed for the first question. I'm guessing those first rows got copypasted and somebody forgot to change the new rows to "na."
I don't see naked people in Saudi Arabia.
Ask HN: My site isn't sexy or social, but I'm very proud of it: what's next?
Hey HN.

A month ago, if asked at a party what I did I would not even mention that I’ve spent over two hundred hours in the last eight months learning web development and building a start up. I’d say that I’m an applied math major who wants to go into biomathematics but doesn’t want to use that degree for anything, never revealing that what I really want to do is run a web business.

Soon after the last time I hid my true passion during a conversation I decided to release my web app no matter how unfinished I felt it to be. Since the release I’ve received several users per day (although I don’t think I’ve gotten more than a few dedicated users) at a total cost of just under $30. Importantly, though, because of my ads I’ve been contacted by the director of education of a major university to see if she should recommend the app to students or not. We’re still talking, but this could be what brings the first good number of users to my site.

The app isn’t sexy and it isn’t going to change the world. Simply put, it’s a grade calculator and tracker. After using spreadsheets to figure out my grades for too long, I decided that there was at least a small need for a web app. Achiever, as I decided to call it, was born in February.

You can find it at http://www.getachiever.com

I’m curious, what do I do next? There is still technical work to do - the completion of the landing page design, the implementation of recurring billing - but I have arrived at what I believe to be the true challenge of web business: getting people to actually use my creation. Since it’s not a social app, I can’t create serious viral effects. Would, perhaps, letting users post their grades bring traffic? Should I try to market the app instead to universities?

A lot of the apps submitted to HN are sexy and took 24 hours to make and, seemingly, tend to include the letter three in the name. I didn’t want to go after sexy and social and business model-less (look where Twitter is this week). I wanted to make a well-built tool, like Basecamp, and charge people for it. I hope you still find my story interesting.

EDIT: Seems like the site's down. Hmm.
Start-ups? We need more finish-ups
Two scenarios:

1. With 2+ years of experience, the person should be able to solve a small programming assignment and upload it on GitHub / BitBucket.

2. Evaluating an absolute fresher is a little hard. Puzzle and a simple programming problem helps. Great care has to be taken in designing or even selecting what kind of puzzles to be asked. Also, the puzzles tend to get shared very quickly by candidates who appeared for the interview rounds. This needs to be factored in those puzzles.
Out of curiosity, why'd you go for the black model?
_why is indeed an inspiration to all of us.
i always make sure that i point out "Poignant Guide to Ruby" and other _why's brilliance to ruby newbies.
You've found one fresh out of grad school right here ;)
Second the Gandi recommendation.They mostly do one thing, be a registrar, and they do it well. There's truly no bullshit involved, as they point out in their logo.
If you enjoyed this article, you might want to look into the work of Joseph Tainter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter) and read his book, The Collapse of Complex Societies, http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Arc....
Except that Obj-C has pretty simple memory management. It's not like comparing with c or c++. More importantly Obj-C's system makes it easy to control when collection happens so you don't get pauses during inportant interactions. Does lua offer that?
Things get worse as the temperature goes up. Instead of the rods starting to melt, eventually the fuel could melt.

(Also, there's no chance of it going back online after getting flooded with seawater.)
I figured the white bezel would be distracting.
for (int R = _rand.Next(); (R & 1) == 1; R >>= 1)

For C# on .NET, this may work fine, but in general, this is a bad way of extracting a 0/1 choice from a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG). Many PRNGs use linear congruential generators, which are just a multiply and an add, and have highly predictable low bits as a result (frequently just a repeating pattern with a short period, as short as 4 or 8).

Safer:

while (_rand.Next(2) == 0)

- or even simply reading the bits off the other end.

Another nice thing about skip lists is that they are relatively easy to make into cheap persistent structures (aka functional structures), that is, structures where operations return a new immutable copy of the structure, but share most of the substructure with the previous version.
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Ingenuity at its finest. Elegant, functional, extremely durable and they even look neat! I wonder how well they work with non-Apple earbud styles, though?
Yes - it's pretty obvious that that CPU graph is not accurate.
It's amazing. The degree of organization there makes me feel I'm still in the stone age.
An interesting supplemental reading is the "two bowling balls" interview puzzle -- http://20bits.com/articles/interview-questions-two-bowling-b...

It's essentially a 2 level skip list (but could be generalized where you get one extra level per bowling ball), and brings out some basic calculus to optimize lookup performance even further.
You just provided a whole lot of technical information about the efficiency of your algorithm, and even some financial projections for your company. That's the sort of information that you should keep to yourself unless specifically asked for because it is the valuable part of your company. The problem you are trying to solve is the part you should actively talking about, because that's what's going to get people's interest.

You clearly have a great understanding of the technical side of things, but the business/marketing/financial side is just as difficult. It's impossible to be good at everything, you will want help, either in the form of a cofounder and/or a board that can advise you.

Another saying that my prof used to repeat was "you can be rich or you can be king, but not both." Entrepreneurs like to have control, that's why we start companies in the first place. We think we can solve a problem better than anyone else can. As a result, we try to control every aspect of the company. Unfortunately, this is the fastest way to hurt the company. If you want to control 100% of the company, you will only be able to grow so much. If you are hoping to own a yacht as you mentioned earlier, you're going to have to be willing to give up control and accept advice and help from others. Think of it this way: 25% of a big number is better than 100% of a small number.

Do you think Zuckerberg could have built Facebook to where it is today without help from more business-savvy people? Do you think Google would be as big as it is today if Page and Brin had maintained control instead of bringing in Schmidt to be CEO? Do you think Woz would have built Apple without Jobs? These are all examples of extremely intelligent people who needed help to grow their company. Like I said, it is impossible to be good at everything.

Running a startup is like raising a kid. It's hard enough to do that under normal circumstance. Why make it harder by making yourself a single parent?

Just some advice based on my own experiences, observations, and advice I've received from others.
$600 Linux vs $3000 Mac upgrade? The programs he now runs on Ubuntu are all available on OS X.

The more reasonable framing would be $600 Dell netbook (what he ended up buying) vs a low-end Mac laptop option.
The fact that these explosions aren't damaging the containment actually makes me pretty confident that nothing else will either.

Something has been bothering me: if Japan is so well prepared for earthquakes, how did they have a nuclear reactor right on the coast with no protection from tsunami? Wouldn't a barrier of some sort have prevented this whole mess? Or elevated backup generators?
I think you're basically correct, but the docking devices are likely to be more than dumb terminals in some cases. At work that cellphone may plug into another device which provides additional, higher-speed processor cores.
Are you suggesting that the important tweets are the automated tweets by non-twitter-specific applications? This is bizarre to me, because I typically only follow people that are tweeting interesting things per se. Discovering apps almost never happens; to the contrary, people sending a lot of automated tweets get unfollowed by me rather quickly.
This is all well and good, but speaking as a non-engineering college student, you're going to have to weed out A LOT of non-engineers at a general college career fair.

If you're hiring just for engineer/developer types, I would go straight to the college of engineering's professors and/or career center. You may be able to get the professors to send out e-mails to their students about the opportunity, or have the career center let you hold info sessions for interested students.
anorwell is right, I'm wrong:

Actually, his technique is way faster (1 random generation per element, vs. log(n) or log(u)), but you're absolutely right, you need to take the higher order bits first or your skiplist will be very far from correct.

(P.S. I'd love to have you reviewing my code ;-)
Why not just release the documents and let them speak for themselves? The fact that he feels the need to hype their release makes me suspicious that the extent of fraud might not be that great, thus the need to hype it ahead of time to make it seem like a bigger deal than it is.
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That's really not the reason that the Amiga failed. It was more due to lack of compatibility with the leading platforms, tight coupling to broadcast television video standards, and a shocking level of incompetence in Commodore management.
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Well, not quite: "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
Ask HN:  How do I deal with a control freak as a startup employee?
I have a coworker who I'm constantly getting into disagreements with. Which actually isn't a huge deal in and of itself. If you ask anyone I've ever worked with, the last thing they would tell you is that I'm afraid of disagreements. The problem is that I always find myself disagreeing over silly, pointless things.

At first I figured it was just a personality clash that would work itself out. But I'm beginning to think that it's not me that's the issue here. It's beginning to affect my productivity as I'm constantly going back and fixing quibbles this person has with my work (in once instance, I spent almost an entire day on this kind of thing).

If it were just that they were a disagreeable jerk, it wouldn't be a big deal. I'm pretty sure they'd be dealt with quickly. But I'm beginning to realize that this person has decent political skill (despite having sub-par people skills on average). I won't go into details, but I realize that some public discussions I had with them seem to have been more politically motivated than I realized at the time (with this person subtly blaming me for my people skills and ability to work with them).

The other problem is that they have kind of worked themselves into a position where management can't just get rid of them because they simply know too much about how our servers and code work. It would be far, far more convenient for them to just blame the new guy (me).

So is this a hopeless situation? I'm a bit hesitant to jump ship because my work history in the Valley hasn't been terrific. And besides that, I enjoy my job and the people I work with besides this person.
The issue wasn't the iPhone. It was that AT&Ts network, as of early this morning, was still not broadcasting the updated daylight savings time. Switching the phone option of "set time automatically" to "no", set the proper time.

Heck, my "atomic" clock is also still off an hour as well.
Yeah, I think Twitter fucked up this PR pretty badly. I get that it's time for them to make money, and that changes are necessary to that end. Yes, some devs are going to get screwed in the deal, that's a matter of course, but the last thing they should be doing is spreading FUD about their own platform, which is exactly what this announcement was.

I get that they were trying to be transparent, but that's greatly overrated in this case. API guidelines should be crystal clear. There's no way for them to have made them crystal clear from the beginning given the rapid iteration of the business plan. So what Twitter should have done is just iterate the guidelines along with their business plan. Sure it's gonna piss people off when changes come, but there's no way to prevent that without freaking everybody out in advance.
Cached version since it's spotty:

http://bankofamericasuck.com.nyud.net/03/13/ex-bank-of-ameic...
They've been released:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321373
i almost exclusively ssh into remote server to use my "ide", bash vim ack rpl and a host of std unix cmds.
The creator of Io created a kv db based on skip lists called skipdb that is worth a look.
I think the main control room and nearby offices are not bunker like but certainly reinforced to withstand damage from accidents. I have been onsite to a couple of reactors and most of the engineers are housed in regular administrative buildings with no special reinforcements but these are outside of the reactor building where the control room is located. There is no remote control room but there are (at least in the USA) dedicated communication channels to industry experts (probably GE engineers that designed these plants) available to assist and advise 24/7 during an accident. Unfortunately, one report said that 11 workers were injured in the explosion at Unit 3.
Certainly looks better than Dixie / styrofoam cups. I wonder how the performance compares.
Happy pi day indeed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTw45fPZa20
I don't know how big it is, but I believe b3ta.com is predominately UK.
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I'm thinking they wouldn't be public to the world - only to those in your friends list within those cliques.

That way if someone you don't want joins your clique, it shouldn't matter - if you're not friends with them.

Cliques should, ideally, correspond to smallish social circles. Such that you can easily monitor and make sure the right people are ending up in the 'right buckets.'

For example, excluding family and co-workers, I have two primary groups of friends. Those in my neighborhood, whom I know based on locality, and those scattered around the city, whom I know (and know each other) through mutual interests. One has nine individuals (with more - about 5-10 who are acquaintances, but not truly friends), and the other has eight individuals (with more - again, about 5-10 who are acquaintances).

Maybe I'm a-social or something. But. There is no overlap between these groups. I've introduced a few in one to a few in the other, but there's no reason for them to gel. They probably aren't friends on Facebook. Using cluster analysis, you could easily partition my groups of friends & acquaintances out.

Can you give an example of what kind of situation might confuse this system? What if it took further demographics into account as vertices with directed edges (whereas friendship, in the graph, is an undirected edge), such as age group, gender, location, employer?

I would assume that status updates only travel one hop on the graph, so that even if someone becomes a part of one of these clusters, if you don't have an explicit connection to them your status updates cannot be seen by them.

You could further weight the edges by how often you communicate with each other via the service.

What would probably happen - and pure conjecture here - is that you would be exposing your status updates to either the boundary of a cluster (you are on the outside of the cluster, with a few connections in), or to most of the cluster (you are in the center of the cluster, with many connections in it). Situation one is more likely with friends (unless they are very isolated friends indeed), while situation two is more likely with family and co workers. Likely, you (and perhaps your spouse) would be the only people in your family network that have direct connections to people in, say, a drinking-buddies network. Unless members of your family are also drinking buddies.
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