skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've used Windows 7 for 5+ years.
IPhone 5 leaked in engineering images?
... Now we have: http://www.noticiashacker.com/noticia/ag5ub3RpY2lhc2hhY2tlcn...

I may have created a monster.
Funny thing, we have a start-up in submission to YC that should help with that. We hope to release a demo to HN in a couple of days.
Flexibility and power come with complexity, and in his case, provide no practical benefits to most organizations. I use git regularly when interacting with open source projects, but don't see the value in it's added complexity and decentralization in corporate environments.
Largest earthquakes by magnitude
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He said he's been using Visual Studio for 5+ years, not Windows 7.
Ask HN: Which open source license do you use?
Tutorial: Make an iPhone game in an hour with Cocos2D
This just might be my favorite part of this back-and-forth:

Hacker News, como NH pero en inglés (news.ycombinator.com)
4 puntos, entregado por manelik hace 41 minutos | 2 comentarios

(In case you don't speak Spanish, this is: Hacker News, like NH but in English.)
...which is why both the Python and C++ examples used a vector.

The post I was replying to said "If I want a linked list or any other common data structure in C++". The discussion is about how easy it is to use basic data types, not about what those data types are.
Poll: What natural disasters are of the biggest risk where you live?
Choose all the disasters that you think are prominent or create a lot of concern in your area.

Relevant: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usc0001xgp/

List taken from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters
Avalanches
Blizzards
Cyclones
Floods/landslides
Heat waves
Limnic eruptions
Pandemics/diseases
Tsunamis
Volcanic eruptions
Wildfires
One thing that I believe in myself, and that I coach my team on, is that there are three currencies that you can accept as payment: money (including stock, bonuses, etc); title; and training.

To me, it may be worth staying (temporarily) at a job where you feel that you are underpaid in money, if you are getting lots of opportunities to learn new skills, or you are managing a larger team or scope of work than you would have at another company. Think of it as similar to the time spent in an MBA or other post-graduate training program.

The hard part is to discern when you are being given a growth opportunity, and when you are just being used.
Nice. I'd love a timer on the page somewhere.

Also maybe add introspective sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsort

I vaguely remember seeing something like this on HN before.

Ah, here we go http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/
I was very dismissive of GOOG. Floating an IT company at this time when their only product is a search engine that will be replaced by the first better engine to come along? Stay away from that!

In retrospect I should have gone into as much debt as possible and put all that money into Google shares, but figuring out how to make money when you have access to time travel is pretty easy :-)
Apple's 1997 Think Different ad lives on the TextEdit icon today (just zoom in)
What these government numbskulls don't seem to understand is that what Amazon is doing isn't fundamentally any different from what Sears was doing over a century ago with their mail-order catalog.

Amazon it's receiving an "unfair" anything, they are operating well within the law and long established acceptable business practices. Politicians are just being greedy, plain and simple.
Too-late-to-edit: here's LLVM too: http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#2.8

Courtesy of rayiner at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2311657
So there's millions of Chinese women and girls out there who've never received an education, and this is a country that is trying to build a middle class...
Deb Roy: The birth of a word
Why eating Italian food out sucks
The point is that you don't have to worry about the difference in Python, because you don't use Python for the parts where performance matters. If you've got a million instances in your collection, you probably want to write your data structure and key traversal functions in C. Python has a sequence protocol, so you can easily wrap it to operate on it just like a native list (which is really a vector), but the operations that need to be fast should be in heavily-optimized C.

In every system I've written, there's been a large chunk of code that runs on startup, or implements a feature that only 1% of users care about, or performs setup for one of these expensive operations but itself only touches a few data items. This usually consumes about 90% of the code but only about 1% of the runtime. Heck, probably 50% of my code never makes it to production at all, because it's exploratory or analysis code that's intended to define the problem, not implement the solution. Why not write it in a language that makes you really productive, and spend the time saved to optimize the hell out of the remaining 10%?
Here is a better article about what is actually happening:
http://www.businessinsider.com/raj-trial-prosecution-opening...
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Here's the ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HmFwpfAunM
Perhaps, but I don't think the situation would be as awful as you suggest.

It is possible to write significant revenue-producing commercial software using Lua for control logic calling compiled modules, and expect it to perform every bit as fast as a similar app written 100% in a compiled language.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Lightroom yet.

http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/10/09/lua-in-lightroom/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Lightroom
At the time, the book seemed like a fresh breath of air, since it focused on solving real 'daily work'-style problems in Haskell. I used to recommend it to friends, but most of them were not so happy. The first few chapters are nice, but after that the examples really become contrived. Instead of giving simple standalone examples to explain a concept, the book starts using examples that tend to linger. People get bored or stuck and stop around chapter 6 to 8.

I am hopeful that Learn You a Haskell will serve as a good introduction to Haskell, and will recommend it to anyone interested.

RWH is still a fine book; once you understand Haskell, it's still great to go through the examples and exercises. But it is not a good starting point.
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It looks like a PR piece for a company called The Energy Project. The HBR blogger forgot to remove their link at the end: "For more tips on sleep and other forms of renewal visit our web site." (links to http://theenergyproject.com/tips).
Down boy, down.
So far, the links are far better than the ones here, at least there is no techcrunch, thenextweb, onstartups, all jacquesmattheij.com posts (sorry guys), all daringfireball.net posts, new Mega-Angels pissed or Steve Jobs got a new haircut.

Just pure programming and a little of startups. Good stuff.
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i'm curious exactly what this entails as well...it sounds to me like "please build me something in exchange for some equity". if there are indeed developers interested in this, I am interested in working with these developers.

One thing I'd love to have built:
http://baberuth.posterous.com/idea-regular-donations-to-me
I don't suppose having your LLC based out of state is going to save you here is it?
Check the fine print (http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/support.aspx?tab=P...): It's only free for 3 developers per company. Arguably enough for personal use, but won't cover many organizations.
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Stripped naked every night, Bradley Manning tells of prison ordeal
I like this one from when he was at NeXT. No so much about marketing, but more about product strategy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9dmcRbuTMY

Of course he was wrong. The workstation market did not develop a professional workstation segment, Macs and PCs just got powerful enough to make workstations irrelevant.
I learned it from a class. We blazed through the SICP in 15 weeks. I'd advise the same. Use MIT's OpenCourseWare as a guide: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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Reminds me of why I like Vim so much: every one of its users has a working set of commands that they know, and provided that enough users are in close quarters and can occasionally watch each other work, they pick up bits and pieces of each other's command sets. (Until they all converge on the entirety of the Vim manual, of course.)

Of course, it also scares non-Vim-users to watch us work so quickly. ;)
8.9 earthquake hits Japan
The link you used to direct to your site showed:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Unknown MySQL server host 'criticrania.db.6354580.hostedresource.com' (2) in /home/content/80/6354580/html/criticrania.com/functions.php on line 2
Unknown MySQL server host 'criticrania.db.6354580.hostedresource.com' (2)

From the root (http://www.criticrania.com/), it seems however to work fine.

Wait, I'm getting what seems to be random error messages.

E.g., /movies.php, showed an error on a visit, but was OK when revisited after a while. Another time, the root gave an error, when reloaded it worked fine.

Retried /homepage.php, it works fine now.

You better look into that.
A Hacker's Notes for Learning Spanish
GPLv3, mostly. I've used the Apache License and 3-clause BSD aswell in the past, when those fit my needs better.
What does being unemployed have to do with lack of qualification?...Why would [the notion that the newly unemployed are less likely to be well qualified] be true?

People who are not well qualified for their jobs tend to be the ones who lose their jobs. People who have been unemployed for a long time become increasingly desperate and apply to a lot of jobs they're not well qualified for. Well-qualified people tend to get hired quickly or at least hold onto the jobs they already have, so they spend less time being unemployed.

How is this not obvious? It's hard for me to believe you're asking these questions in good faith.

If people who are unemployed generally did happen to lack qualifications, why not judge them on their (lack of) qualifications?

Judging someone's qualifications is a difficult and expensive process. Determining whether someone is currently employed or not can be done by a cursory skim of a cover letter and resume. If you have 500 cover letters and resumes for a single job opening to go through and a full day of real work to do, are you going to schedule 500 interviews or are you going to use filters? But now I'm repeating myself.
If the cofounders have only known each other for about 1 month, how do you /know/ you'll work well together? You can't reassure someone of something that isn't yet clear...
Live stream: http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/6810.htm

Or direct 256k: mms://nhk-world.gekimedia.net/nhkw-highm

They have revised the earthquake to 8.4 as of 11:08PM PST.
Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills
Spending your time to try discrediting publicly two people that are working hard to help others reaching their goals just for you to feel better with yourself and feel superior is a terrible thing to do.
You can't call a codec an SDK. You're also wrong about the definition of codec. There are plenty of hardware codecs, thus not falling in the category of "Software Development Kit." It just so happens that they did bundle the new codec with a new SDK, though.
other live stream: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

watching the 3-meter tsunami roll over land is surreal
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I think we're past that point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_web
Thats the funny thing about the world. We all don't share the same reality.
Patrick McKenzie tweet https://twitter.com/#!/patio11/status/46086466836762624
Here is an explanation.

Residents of Illinois owe sales tax on their purchases. The state knows that people won't choose to pay this, so the state makes merchants collect the tax. If the merchants are based in the state, the courts say the state can do this. If the merchants are not based in the state, then the courts have ruled this to be interstate commerce, which is something that only the federal government has power over, and therefore the states can't do it. (The issue is hardly new. It was settled over a century ago with catalog companies.)

Note that the tax is theoretically owed by the residents of the state regardless of where the merchant is. But in practice people wind up paying the tax at Walmart, and not at Amazon. Which gives Amazon an advantage.
Peter Bregman: Living with your hands off your ears
I just talked to my parents in Hawaii, there's a tsunami warning for 3 am HST. I reminded my dad to sandbag the doors of his restaurant in Waikiki (Vit's Hawaiian Steakhouse) before he closes for the night.

It's just outside of the "tsunami zone" in Waikiki, so I know my dad will probably be working until the police make him evacuate. He did that on the last tsunami warning, and Vit's was pretty much the only restaurant open for several blocks. There was a line out of the door, haha.
Puppet is not a server provisioning tool.

Unless I misunderstand you, it certainly is when using Vagrant.
It was crazy scary, and I was all the way down in Nagoya.
There doesn't seem to be too much damage in Miyagi (where the earthquake was) but some fires broke out apparently.

Luckily, it seemed to be a long, hard earthquake rather than a short hard earthquake, which means that buildings are able to withstand the shaking better. The shaking went on for about 3 minutes here, and there were some after shocks that lasted for about a minute.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake was only a 7.2, and it was much more destructive.
Amazon in France pays sales tax, just like everybody. Sales tax in France is 20% (19,6% to be precise). Is that a problem for Amazon in France? It doesn't seem so.

I can't find a justification why online retailers should be exempt from sales tax; the reason invoked by Amazon US is that sales tax are a local tax, at the state level, and they happen to be located in a different state (they're always in a different state).

This reasoning is preposterous; the sales happens where the customer is, and that's where the tax is due. That's what will happen eventually; they are just buying time -- and not very elegantly.
You are correct sir: http://bit.ly/hFkxpK
Yes, OK, Bluster is probably a better word. You pretend to be comfortable until you are.

Basically, you're not going to suddenly become great as a CEO, but if you don't at least give off SOME confidence, your employees, partners, board, competitors, customers won't have any faith.
Massive 8.9-magnitude quake hits Japan
For some reason I'm getting the audio but no video. Anyone else having that problem?
It definitely gets a little tough around the Parser example, but it does lighten up again once you get through the monad transformer section, though.

For someone who's done some functional programming before, Real World Haskell is probably a good starting point; otherwise something like YAHT would probably be better.
If you are an expert in the intricacies of C++, please
consider this knowledge a kind of martial art - something
a real master never uses.

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/why.html
Why not just ask what you want, then? If you're leaving somewhere, there's probably a good chance it's about money. Even if it's not, the only reason to ask in this fashion is because every now and then you get someone who low balls themselves.

Otherwise saying "What do you want?" is just as useful without the judgmental overtones of not looking above your station.
Perhaps. He's changed his post since I replied.
Japan Earthquake-Video
The earthquake seems to be being revised upwards, not downwards. At least according to aljazeera.
Aptana crashed my box...

That's why I don't use IDE's. ;)
The kindle edition isn't too bad, either, though you have to read it in Landscape mode to minimize the number of odd line-breaks in the code.
Surely MacPorts or Ubuntu in a VM? Sorted! :)
Interesting you mention Heroku as they first started out with a Rails editor. That seemed to be one of their big features aside from hosting Rails applications.
Massive 8.9-magnitude quake hits Japan - Tsunami Follows
It's time for the Congress to get involved here.

Pass a law that each state can specify a single tax rate for any shipments into that state. Then all retailers everywhere would have to collect that tax and pass it on to the state.

If the state wants to distribute the money locally let them handle it themself - the retailer sends a summary with the city names, and total amount, and the state can figure out how to distribute it.

I'm a fan of taxing via sales tax instead of income tax.
"advantage" != "unfair advantage"
Also I found this interesting:

>
A massive 8.8 magnitude quake hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, shaking buildings in the capital Tokyo
>

Why would you talk about the earthquake in Tokyo, when it happened in Miyagi? Tokyo only got hit with a 3 or 4. [EDIT: updated to 5 JMS. Tokyo got hit pretty hard too]

The actual earthquake was around 240 miles away. That's the same distance from New York to Boston.
Was pretty crazy. myGengo office had a light break, but otherwise we weren't too badly affected.

Hope goes out to those more affected, looks insane from what I'm seeing.
Yeah, I think it now stands at 8.9.
Gadget Makers Face Shortages of Essential Elements
When General Electric faced a shortage of the metal called rhenium, few Americans knew or cared.
They might have paid more attention if they had realized that rhenium forms part of the steel alloys in turbine blades used by almost all commercial, military and even space rocket engines.
And there's already a growing Wikipedia article on the earthquake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake
Tsunami hits north-eastern Japan after massive quake
So since most of y'all understand American geography better than Japanese geography:

My friends in Osaka (San Fran) felt it.

I live in Ogaki (Kansas). There was a mild panic in the mall, and our trains stopped for a few minutes.

Folks in Tokyo are largely shaken but not terribly affected (Boston/DC ish).

Miyagi/etc (Maine-ish) got a wee bit whacked by a tsunami. They had a few minutes of warning. Reports will come in for a few hours, but we're really good at dealing with this.
They're not always in a different state. If you live in California, you pay sales tax on online purchases pretty much always.
I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody affected by the earthquake but your comment made me remember this:

http://xkcd.com/723/
Is there any system currently able to mass-call all cellphones from any/all carriers within a given geo-location radius? Or any type of push notification service for natural disasters.

Seems like this happened during the day but watching the news made me think about disasters that happen at night. How are people notified to get the hell out of there??
Enhorabuena. It's a very good idea, precisely for the reasons you state. Only one comment, though. It's not only for Latin American hackers, there are also Iberian speakers of Spanish who may benefit!
Probably the same reason Californians talk about the entire state no matter where the quake hits the state.

Also, Al Jazeera is reporting 4+ million homes are without power in Tokyo.
There's no magic there, it's simply experience. Do something risky, see nothing goes wrong, understand that the risk was lower than you originally estimated, lather, rinse, repeat.
Try the stream from YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish .
I found the way the news dealt with the Tsunamis amusing.

Video: No Tsunamis. Clear water

Announcer: 6 Meter Tsunami Warning

American News: 10 METER TSUNAMIS!!!! BWAAAA!!!!
It was a steal at ~89 in January of 2009 as well.
Osaka is kind of cool but gets a bit...weird...at times, there isn't much to speak of in Ogaki, and Miyagi is a fishing town?
Same. Was able to get video from http://www.livestation.com/channels/3-al-jazeera-english-eng...
Interestingly, at the same time you can write fully-integrated software on Maemo with Qt, even though the platform itself is GTK+. There was no need for a rewrite to achieve a consistent developer story.
I actually first heard about this earthquake on Twitter (all eyewitness reports, no second hand information). I immediately checked all news sites I could think of (European, US) but none were yet reporting on it.
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Just an aside: the only downvotes I remember getting on HN are on Apple submissions. I eventually worked out that even the mildest criticism of Apple products, no matter how carefully articulated and justified, and no matter how intellectually interesting the point, would get downvotes. I also found that praising Apple would always get upvotes.

So these days, I mostly don't comment on Apple stories. It's not worth it, if you want to have an interesting discussion.
Does anyone else find themselves wishing that Instapaper could intelligently pull multiple-page articles, like Readability does? You can of course solve the issue by finding the printer-ready version of an article (if there is one), but that extra step feels so unnecessary..

(aside from that quibble, love Instapaper and congrats on the great new release!)
It's not that the purchase is exempt from tax, it's that Amazon isn't responsible for collecting it. The onus falls on the consumer to pay the sales tax directly to the state. Nobody does though, which is why they want Amazon to collect it.

If you're looking for justification, refer to the Supreme Court ruling that established it, which said that requiring these companies to comply with the varied sales tax rules and regulations of 45 states and some 7,500 different local taxing jurisdictions would burden interstate commerce.
I remember being astonished on how bad the S60 UX was, when compared to the mid-90s Psion that was built on the same codebase.
Airport 2 km inland is flooded, amazing helicopter shots of the water sliding across the land.
I'm still feeling shakes every few minutes. It's like living in a house on a block of jello. Long rolling waves. I'm in central Tokyo and our china cabinet was shaken pretty badly:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/poswald/5516954100/in/photostre...

I know some people up in sendai that I'm a bit worried about.
If there was a package manager for os x that shipped binaries we wouldn't be in this predicament either. brew building from source is just as much to blame as os x not shipping gcc with default install.
Is this post appropriate for HN?
Thinking about an iPad 2? Honest recommendations after the first year.
The key assumption here is that you both have someone to pair program with, and that they're patient enough to teach you key commands. I wish I could learn a new IDE this way.
How are people notified to get the hell out of there??

Are you familiar with the term "air raid siren"? The coast is wall-to-wall peppered with squack boxes. About a minute prior to the earthquake there would have been a "Earthquake is imminent -- brace yourself." broadcast and within a minute there would have been a "A tsunami warning is in effect for (here). Go to shelter immediately. Repeat..."

There are a couple levels of alerts they can pull, from "Be careful" to "MOVE NOW." Miyagi just got "MOVE NOW."
You are totally correct, latin american and Iberian Hackers and people from any other place who happen to speak spanish!
The point was magic, automatic updates.