skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hercules is cool -- I last goofed around with it almost 10 years ago, but it was complete enough then to run VM/370 and MVS/370. If you're interested, start here: http://www.cbttape.org/vm6.htm and http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/
I feel like Spolsky is just doing this whole VC-backed startup thing just to see how crazy and ridiculous it is, so he can credibly make fun of it in his future writing.

Future blog post:

"We didn't even have any idea how to go beyond programming questions. Our our 'technology' if you can call it that was trivial. We had no business model. My personal job board had higher revenue. Still, these crazy guys in suits offered to give us millions of dollars at ridiculous valuations because I'm a blogging celebrity and we did what any sane person would do: we took it! It was fun while it lasted..."
Grassroots Mapping
I'm inclined towards a 30-45 year term of copyright myself, but that sort of change would have to come from Congress. I'm just not optimistic that this is the breakthrough case we've all been waiting for.
That 64GB iPhone is real, and could be a sign of what’s to come
For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme. -- Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy
i've also on many occasions just straight up asked for double meat, and i've never been charged, probably because it's always another person ringing it up.
Your experience is with an application running on a mainframe and is probably typical. The OP was referring to the OS itself which is continuously developed with fanatical dedication to backwards compatibility.
http://static.arstechnica.com/2011/03/08/teddy_bear_ruling.p...

The tapes ultimately came to light because of discovery requests for relevant evidence. I couldn't quickly find any relevant information about discovery rules in Nebraska courts, but I'd be surprised if failing to reveal the recordings was legal here.
Building Your Own OpenStack Cloud? Rackspace Wants to Support It
I'm guessing you can't log in right now either.

I don't see much downtime. I use in the morning, say till 10 or so, and in evening after 6:30. When are all the downtimes? I'll hit a glitch from time to time but it's usually very short-lived.

I don't know - they finally got funds together to hire a couple or three folks, so maybe uptime will improve. Reddit users won't deal well with mucho downtime. Something will get done. If there is another comparable site or community, I haven't heard of it.
What happens to companies like Intellectual Ventures which actualy has a great portfolio but no real products?
Incisive critique of our community (read from the oldest post upward)
Facebook Is AOLifying the Internet and That Sucks
bug report: http://drktd.com/574Y
beanstream in canada is actually quite good, easy to setup, low fees, and has a good api (credit card data stored on their server). i looked at braintree, but couldn't use them b/c of canadian merchant. beanstream also lets you do funky things with canada/us currency (collect and settle in us funds, settle in US banks, etc.)
There are some interesting sites there. I hope the home improvement one becomes really popular. I can see that as becoming an incredibly useful resource. Especially for people (like me) who are clumsy with handy work.
The support for the other UI libraries makes this really useful, the article as written makes no allusions to this.
The value of cache memory is the "hit ratio". If increasing cache size by 50% increases cache-hit from 95% to 99%, is worth it, as the 5% of cache-misses could reduce CPU performance to one half.
Why are you looping over array, when you are checking over the bounds of args? Shouldn't it be
s += args[i];

Normally, you loop over the thing you're checking the bounds for.

The fact that this has been sitting on HN front page all day and there's no single, satisfactory answer (I mean, is this a satisfactory answer?) is to me a Key Failure of the for loop. For loops just don't capture very much in terms of semantics.

Why are we befuddled by what this piece of code does? You can get into stupid pedantry about what a closure is (yes, looking at the top comment here), and various other details, but that misses the point of the article, which is that for-loop are practically an anti-pattern.

As a community, we've long realized that functions like fold, filter and map are good things, better than our equivalent of the for-loop, which is recursing over the data-structure. You better have a solid reason to write your own pattern match over a list. In all my years of writing functional code, I've only once had to write a function that recursed over a list, and boy was it a regrettable function.
Of course if you have xbox you can always voice command it to pause if you really want it to pause when you get up.
This is why I've always been a huge fan of Unreal Technology. You could definitely call me a fanboy since I played the original Unreal (the game on which UT was based) avidly for years... but for good reason. Just like most males my age, I've played tons of first person shooters... but I've always felt Unreal was way ahead of its time, not just with graphics but with gameplay as well. Although the gameplay of the Unreal series has steadily declined since the original but these days it's still hard to find a game on its level in the sense of how many different ways can be approached to be good at the game.

But back to the graphics, rendering these graphics in realtime with a high framerate is definitely possible... but not presently feasible. The only problem I've noticed with the Unreal series and its graphics is as I just said: it's ahead of its time. Sure, there's hardware out there that can handle it no problem... but the average consumer can't afford it. I have a feeling that even when the next generation of consoles is released, they'll still struggle to handle the Unreal Engine at its full potential. But I guess someone has to raise the bar.

I remember when UT3 came out... I was so stoked. My gaming PC was probably only a year behind the top (affordable) components at the time... and I wasn't about to go spend $500+ on a new video card, ram, and all that. I figured I'd be able to run it decently enough... but boy was I wrong. I got 30 fps tops (and that was when nothing was going on!) and if you've played an FPS like Unreal competitively, you'd know that the only way you stand a chance at dodging rockets and sniping people midair and all that awesome stuff possible with the Unreal series... you need upwards of 60 fps, consistently. So I only played the new game for a couple of weeks before giving up. It's probably for the best too because I needed to concentrate on my studies haha... but the moral of the story is the entire game basically died within a few months because only a small handful of people could run it.
Denmark And Sweden To Replace Stamps With Text Messages
Well you should really consider any accupation as the active zone. But very creative use of the Kinect.
Sounds like you've never had to do anything with ClearCase, VSS, TFS, or any of those other abortions.

Perforce may be a VCS for managers by managers, but at least it's a technically competent implementation of a bad idea.
I will donate ASAP. This man's work allowed us to get on the net with our old 386sx and Win 3.1 machine using Mosaic. I don't know if it was paid for or not, I'm too young to remember, but this guy deserves it for his effort and how its affected me. Thank you.
Military physician, in Frisco next week, no schedule. What to do?
My wife is in a conference all week and we decided I'd come visit for a couple of those days while my parents watch our kids back in San Diego. I basically have two 7 hour chunks to fill.

I have two thoughts:

-- I would like to simply to get the lay of the land downtown, the Valley, and, maybe, Sonoma, maybe scout out the universities my kids might be applying to later. This is a very easy, low-risk way to fill the time. Here's a tentative collection of destinations: http://goo.gl/3DXqs. If you would like to suggest something, I would love to hear it.

-- A more intriguing idea I was toying with was to offer to meet with anyone exploring medical, military, disaster response, educational, or parenting start-ups. Not that I'm so awesome, or have any money, just a 35 year-old, married-with-kids, military doctor who happens to have some years of experience in each of those fields and will be the Bay area with nothing to do for a couple days and would love to meet some of you. I also worked on the team behind a content management system for medical schools after Hurricane Katrina (tmedweb.tulane.edu), and have done some design consulting/hacking work/interning (nic.org, edwardtufte.com).
I would be laughing, but I just a couple days ago I was googling for information on an actual Stack Overflow error.
This report constitutes a policy statement that is heartening to those seeking reform of patent abuses in that its recommendations might prove influential with the USPTO (which is at the front lines of dealing with such practical issues as how to deal with indefinite claims), with courts (which ultimately interpret challenged claims in the context of infringement fights), or with Congress (which ultimately sets standards in this area). Among its several recommendations, the report calls out the activities of "patent assertion" entities (i.e., trolls) for the adverse effects their activities have on innovation. The long-term hope is that such a report, in so persuasively highlighting the problems caused by trolling activities, will influence the USPTO, the courts, and the Congress to implement real reforms to curb the abuses.

The immediate impact on any party that is highly litigious in this area (troll or not) will be negligible, in my view. The courts will apply existing law to the pending fights and will decide the cases one way or the other without regard to longer-term policy principles. This does not mean that aggressive litigants will always win (Blackboard didn't) but it does mean they will pose difficult problems for those who have to endure their bullying tactics.

Still, it is nice to see some of the major problems truly identified and dealt with in a sharp way, as this report does. A real surprise, coming from the FTC.
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The advantage of registering for GST is that you can enjoy the benefits of claiming input tax incurred in the course of your business.
Why not change jobs and work for a company that is NOT in this field, and then launch the product?
I didn't realize that legally recognizing independent invention was even on the table. How could such a thing ever be proven or disproven?
Note that these aren't graphics from a next-gen console. It's just a tech demo of what Epic would like next-gen consoles to be able to support.

Personally, I think next-gen consoles are a ways off. Consumers aren't that interested in another console generation. Good visuals are already a solved problem with today's hardware, and people are exploring new, simpler types of gaming on the web and mobile devices.

Basically, the 90s obsession with pushing for better graphics is long gone. It's more about art style now.
How does the Instagram iPhone app implement a custom tab bar notification?
I've got a 27" iMac, and I've recently moved to a 79 character limit on Python, Ruby, shell scripts, Sass, Javascript, and pretty much everything else but HTML/Haml.

I now write better (i.e. flatter) code that is easier to compare to my other (better :-P) code.

Highly recommended.
You think Besthesda is an exception? Oblivion was pretty crippled in features and gameplay compared to Morrowind and Daggerfall despite having physics and "realistic" faces. The AI was embarrassing. Bethesda is one of the main culprits in trading gameplay for graphics as well as latching onto "next-gen" marketing hype.
Fries in a Wendy's frosty is far superior. There is something about the consistency that is just right. For those who haven't tried it, just think of it as the American fast-food version of Thai food: that magic combination of sweet and savory.
What is ED? Erectile dysfunction?
What good are public variables then?
That's a much better question for you to focus on. Or better yet, to ask some customers about.
Idiomatic efficient Haskell append?
Very small programs to improve programming skills?
It probably had a modem that didn't pay Hayes to license the patent on enforcing a delay in switching from data mode to command mode (+++ did that, and then ATH0 was the AT command to hang up the phone -- normally you'd have to wait a couple seconds, type +++, wait a couple more seconds, and then you'd get an OK and could type AT commands).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Independent_Escape_Sequenc...
Adobe converts Flash to HTML5
Did you really think there were many of those folks around? The fact that the parent got lots of upvotes, and no follow-up questions, might have been a clue.
So, what is the valuation of stack exchange?
I find it interesting that now both the FTC and a good chunk of the Supreme Court* have warned against vague patents. So far it has been generally hard to challenge patents on grounds of vagueness, as it can only be done in court during an infringement lawsuit. The new patent reform bill provides a mechanism for doing so through the Patent Office, and if it is enacted, it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

*In the recent Bilski case, four justices noted the "potential vagueness of business method patents." Four more justices thought that business methods were unpatentable outright.
Facebook Photo Sharing Reflects Focus on Female Appearance
NASA's Solar System Exploration Roadmap for the next 10 years
Funny, that. List comprehensions are actually sytactically and semantically more difficult than folds, modulo your logic.

Honestly, I suspect the Haskell style and the curious Python cultural disdain for real lambadas have far more to do with your confort than any absolute metric of comprehension.
5 Top Reasons Why a Good Blog Is A Great Web-Asset to Any Business
We did a phone survey at the office, and it was just the opposite. The techie people mostly had iPhones, while the normals had Android phones or Blackberries.
Hey this was a very entertaining writeup by misstatiana. I liked sort of running around with these guys from finance on Wall Street to China to cream puff franchises to YC. I got the sense that Eddy and Daishin are two guys who know how to have fun and kick butt at the same time.
It's actually a really good point. A game like this can do better on Android because iOS has so many more well-known, competing games in the genre. Since Android has so little, the user base is funneled through fewer games.

As for fanboys, I find Android fanboys to be the worst because they loudly tout "openness" as if it justifies everything.
3D Fractal anaglyphs
I also have 13 megapixel versions of a couple of them, will probably post them tomorrow.
I didn't read the article but I'll tell you how Twitter can become profitable, and I feel somewhat qualified to say this, given Twitter (and others) have emulated my own site (http://twitya.com) in more ways than one over the last couple years.

Search advertising: so I run a search within the web client.. why isn't there advertising on the right hand side?

Rev share with Tweeters: the tweeters bring traffic to Twitter, so how and when will they be rewarded beyond just having free usage of the system? Twitter should have buy-a-tweet and offer rev-share to those who select to use it. The key is relevance - they need to insert tweets that people will want to read. The tweets can even go in the right column. Or, they can go in stream, immediately under the tweets from the users who have opted-in. If the viewer doesn't like the ad tweet, they can unfollow that account of the tweet, to which the ad belongs. The web interface can limit the number of ad tweets a timeline has seen over the course of a day.

-- so accounts get a new metric beyond followers, following, listed, created, etc -- "ad intensity" based on some ratio of ad tweets/normal tweets/time.

-- additionally, you can have power users pay a fee to not see the ad tweets, or some percentage of them, and that becomes another metric in the API for a user: "% ads being blocked." Then there can be some interesting configurations options, like trading ad-insertions for ad-blocking.

Power client: why doesn't Twitter have power-client version of their web interface, with multi-account capability? OK, some people will get it for free elsewhere, but not everyone.
Usually when I combine Chipotle meats, it does not come out well.

The corn does, though.

If you get the vegetarian version, you get guacomole free and you can use the beans for protein.
Except iOS and Android have the exact same format - large touch screen. The technical differences won't be relevant to 99% of customers, it's the advertising and brand recognition that will make the difference.
Android surpassed Apple in smartphone marketshare
Maybe you could also add the option to control the lights by waving your hand in the air. Say in a slow 90 degree motion to the right, as well voice commands.

Anyway this is really cool!
Chik-Fil-A Hack(more like an easter egg):

Employees are required to say "My pleasure" whenever a customer says thank you.

I try to see how many times I can get them to say "My pleasure."
Ha ha..kinda similar to the DataStage Exchange forum..

http://www.dsxchange.com/

I typed in the url once with an extra 'e' and my company's internet filter blocked it. ;-)
One developer with an average game that has no competitors (unlike on iOS) means Scoble was right?

One of his arguments is that the platform is slower and less efficient than iOS, so developers are going to want to target it to show off their programing skill or something. It's a ridiculous article full of wishful thinking.
Ask anyone who works at Wendy's how often the frosty machine is cleaned.
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I was playing this on IE9. It took me 2 minutes to realize that there was a O and an a in the url bar somewhere. Damn you half width address bar!

At least it worked when I resized the address bar.
That settles it, guys! One game proves that Android's app problem is over.
F1 Live Streaming: Samsung 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab looks super slim
1997-2009 - win 95, 98, xo, vista, 7 RC.
2009 - up to now - Ubuntu starting from 9.04

Never going back to windows or switching to mac!
McDonald's has "All-American" Hamburger and Cheeseburger meals. It is a small fries, small drink, and single-patty burger.
I love that quote, and the article as a whole.
I don't know if his hour-long talk at BoS2010 will get posted eventually, but a major theme was that value was shifting from creating "technology" to creating communities around a shared experience. StackOverflow is more sophisticated than the clone-it-in-a-weekend crowd gives it credit for, but even if it were Baby's First CRUD App, it would be Baby's First CRUD App Which Contributes Hundreds Of Millions In Productivity To Developers. That community and their accumulated knowledge have value even if the technology is a hacked-together Wordpress plugin (and again, it isn't).

It is an open question whether they successfully move beyond developers. If they do, gadzooks, good news for the world. There are similar expert questions with canonical right answers which are a) difficult to find at present and b) extraordinarily consequential for people.

I had two canonical examples in recent weeks on tax and visa questions, for myself and other people. Answering one took a week of research and directly lead to $5,000 in my pocket. It is ungoogleable at present. The one asked by a friend of mine is similarly ungoogleable, the right answer is easy but nonobvious and virtually undocumented, and many of the numerous wrong answers lead to deportation.
I see that that wasn't clearly written. What I meant was "I don't consider a CLI to be a legitimate interface (in general)". Obviously Git's is "legit" because, as you say, that's how it was designed. But I'm against such designs.

You can't use Git completely without a GUI [1] and not having everything in a GUI means I'm forever typing some command and then typing another command (or several) to make sure what I expect is actually what happened. To "visualize", if you will. In a GUI I could just see it and this would save a lot of time.

[1] Diffs are visual (vi is a GUI). I'm sure some clown will show how it's possible to use ed or something so you can really do everything without a GUI, but the effort that will take demonstrates my point nicely.
I am not sure the Windows precedent applies here. At the height of the reign of Windows the landscape as far as the competition goes was extremely different. To point out one of the many contrasts - Apple did not have the kind of money it has today or the strong auxiliary channels: apps, music, ebooks etc to support its main product line.

I don't think anyone can say the world is going to be 90% Android or 90% iOS as far as handhelds are concerned. It is a market that is still opening up and there are at least three distinct pricing segments in it. Plenty of space for the top 2-3 to grow without killing anyone else.
Now, that could be considered a restaurant hack. Writing a blog post about discovering a well-documented 'secret' (i.e. "we want the general population to order quickly") menu is not hacking. At all.

Also, I'm sorry to say that In-n-Out is simply not that good. There are countless local, independents that serve a much better burger, and have a variety of fresh, seasonal shakes.
Wasn't the PS2 also a '10 year console'? Perhaps there was no official announcement that it was a 10 year console, but it technically nearly was/is! (The PS2 was released in 2000 and was still going on in 2009!)
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You can use rpc + message queues for that.

client request1 --> web server --> rpc server --> work queue

<process other requests>

client request1 <-- web server <-- rpc server <-- done queue

Of course you need to create consumers to operate on the work queue, process the jobs and put them in a different queue (eg. 'done queue') signaling the rpc server that you finished the job so that the rpc server in turn will reply back to the web server.
IIRC, it was made for the express purposes of providing something better than that which was poorly named and didn't know how to really prevent people from reading it.

Unless I'm just missing a joke here.
I haven't experienced much downtime. I think I'm more weary of the quality of content than the down time. The quality of content has gone down quite a bit. There seems to be a group of topics/meme/techniques which dominates the top posts. You can even call them the "Strange Attractors" of Redditsphere.
Pretty sure iOS developers were too busy drooling over the iPad 2 to suddenly switch to a practically user-less tablet platform.
Mathematically annoying advertising (xkcd)
That's actually quite clever.