skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you're presenting a false dichotomy — I was just pointing it out. Having Bruno Maag design a typeface does not in any way prevent Nokia from hiring developers, and doesn't appear to be a major company-wide focus.

Nokia's problem is that it doesn't know how to compete with Google and Apple, not that it's resource-starved. Blindly throwing money at developers without an intelligent vision is how Nokia got into this mess to begin with.

When Apple redesigns its website or switches corporate typefaces, do you complain about Apple's abhorrent lack of focus? No. The people designing the website are not the ones who develop your software, so the iPhone didn't suffer from the redesign. The same is true of Nokia. This typeface doesn't make their hardware or software any better, but it also doesn't make it any worse — it's unrelated.
I remember having a blog that was crushed by a sudden, unthrottled interest from Baidu.
At least he didn't change "bridegroom" to "bridegoom" so it was spelled the way it was pronounced. Apparently the pronunciation has changed back again.
[pdf] Cooley LLP VC financing 2010 Report
Took Fundies a few semesters back and looking to take compilers with him next spring (they cancelled it this semester). Agree with what was said so far.
In my experience, it's not some. It's all.
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The vision thing...
And don't forget: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/karaoke.html
In fact, for those that have not done so yet, just read his entire website:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/
I read this when I was doing the original porting and TBH it's very lightweight.

Also (to reply to GP) c2hs is no use because we already have a very detailed and specific description of the interface, and a generator that does all the other bindings[1]. We want to know precisely how to translate our description into Haskell, we don't want to go through another layer.

[1] http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=tree;f=generator;...
Yes, wondered about ddos first when posting this, but now seems more unlikely. They did a fairly big platform overhaul last week, but most of the site doesn't run on it yet, plus the news.bbc.co.uk servers don't and they are usually their most robust.
Nothing on BBC news channel yet mentioning it, which you'd think there would be if was foul play.
I only said "some" because I can't speak authoritatively on that, but I suspect it's the overwhelming majority.
I take it its a card game, dice game or maybe a board game?

Is it real time or turn based?
Good article, but it's not all about Media attention.

I agree with the "Get Noticed" portion, but you may be able to get noticed from targeted marketing within a niche. If you target a core group of potential customers/users, even cold calling or getting involved in their community will get you noticed. If you have a good enough product, it'll "get noticed" through word of mouth, rather than Media Attention, which is a much better way of getting noticed.
Onion routing
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.bbc.co.uk
How to get 45,000 pre-launch signups in your 1st 20 days
This is what we've done at Fab.com since we put up a pre-launch splash-page on March 9th.

1. Create scarcity. Require future members to request an invite.

2. Create levels of priority access. The more friends who join, the higher level of attainment. See for yourself at http://fab.com/priority-access.

3. Provide easy ways for users to share on Facebook, Twitter, email contacts, etc.

4. Target influencers on Facebook. We took out a very small ad buy on Facebook targeted to less than 100,000 people who we thought would be big influencers. They have driven the viral growth.

We're now adding 4k users per day. Do a Twitter search for Fab.com and see for yourself the activity.

Oh, and it helps to be in a sexy category that a lot of people are interested, where there is no current leading online player (in our case online design sales).
Sean is indeed the guy that got VeloCity going and he deserves a huge amount of credit. Without him it would not have existed.

Bud Walker (head of business ops at the time) and Chris Read (head of Housing and Residences) also deserve some credit as well as Bud found the money and Chris found the space.

Students (never mind the city) at Waterloo have these same folks driving the new Student Success office. The student experience at Waterloo is going to get much better.

Now Ted is the guy that has given VeloCity elevated value and opportunity beyond what was already there from the amazing talent that has lived in the residence over the last 8 terms.

It just got really interesting.
I imagine it would make sense to keep records for a few billing cycles. It wouldn't be unreasonable to have to deal with a customer dispute 3-6 months in the future. But I imagine it's also just plain easier to truncate the logs every six months or every year.
I just fired off an e-mail to point out that they have a potentially serious security problem and they should get it fixed ASAP.

I see this as a civic duty, and think that this is the kind of action you're required to perform if you see a serious problem. Writing an e-mail takes ten seconds, but the potential damage could well cost serious money.
IRC, by its nature, is very distracting. (why bother be on a network if you're not in multiple channels?)

OT: I think convore will go the same way, unless the crew can seriously address the SvN problem.
Allegedly BGP routing issue:

23:26:01 <+GeeDee> cr0.ixnlon#sh ip bgp 132.185.132.21

23:26:01 <+GeeDee> % Network not in table
I think spaghetti code is fine, so long as you know you're writing it and that it needs to be rewritten sooner rather than later. I often need to prototype an idea, so I can test it and show it to others for comments, before I know whether it's actually an idea worth pursuing.

Fortunately for me, smart people were having this same discussion 10 or 15 years ago (just as I got to the age where I stopped thinking I knew everything), and interestingly referring to Fred Brooks' work, presumably from the late sixties:

http://www.webdeveloper.com/cgi-perl/cgi_perl_style.html

"Think first. Then hack. Now throw it out. Repeat. Fred Brooks says, `Build one to throw away.' Always rewrite your code from scratch, preferably twice. just as did it with drafts of papers in grammar school. It improves understanding, gets the creative juices flowing, and produces a far finer end-product."
What do billing cycles or customer disputes have to do with my location?
I agree. Photosynthesis would be to split carbon dioxide, release oxygen, and use the carbon to sythesize some organic compound.
nobody said there was a stock market bubble

That's what the word "bubble" refers to, though. If the OP didn't mean a stock market bubble, he should explain what he does mean. A "bubble" of investing? Why would it warrant the analogy of a bubble? What horrible things happen if and when VC investments don't pan out?

What people are trying to call a bubble is actually just an increase in investment by VCs, sometimes good investments, sometimes bad, and sometimes there are overvaluations.

But if you think we're in a bubble, you either don't remember the real bubble of 1999 or you misunderstood what the problem was.

I suggest you to check few graphs on Google/Yahoo Finance

Considering the deep trough we just came out of, it makes sense that we see a stock market uptick. Moving up != inherently bad.
Thankfully, nuclear missiles are only launched if radio stations are down, not websites.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090400/HMS-Apocalyp...

"How on earth does [the submarine commander] know if the PM has been killed and the normal chain of command obliterated? For obvious reasons, no one we spoke to would elaborate on the precise protocols. Suffice it to say that there is a complicated series of checks that the submarine commander must perform to establish the true situation—one of which, curiously, is to determine whether Radio 4 is still broadcasting."
Moreover, for many services, clients have no idea who is good at providing the service, and one of the best ways you can "advertise" that you can deliver the service well is to raise your rates. Some clients will assume, perhaps with warrant, that the most expensive providers do the best work, and thus really are least expensive in terms of value to the client. Try it.
I can’t resolve www.bbc.co.uk using any of the four name servers (ns1.thls.bbc.co.uk, ns1.bbc.co.uk, ns1.rbsov.bbc.co.uk and ns1.thdo.bbc.co.uk). The last IP address Netcraft saw was 212.58.246.90, which I also can’t access, but they definitely have DNS problems.
5. Regular self-congratulatory HN posts :-)
I never knew that.... I let http://www.startupwiki.co.uk slide because it was impossible to seed/get traction next to Crunchbase.

sigh

If anyone wants to collaborate on that I might be able to find the impetus to focus on it again.
I take this back. I've read all Mike's post in the lua mailing list, and found the reference where he talks about it, and in fact as not considering it (yet)

it was from old posting in 3/14/2006 5:50PM:

"* Garbage collection and heap allocation put Lua at a speed
disadvantage to languages with manual memory management. The impact
is less in Lua than other dynamic languages because of typed-value
storage and immutable shared strings. Adding a custom memory
allocator to the Lua core could be beneficial. Complex solutions
like escape analysis are not on my radar for LuaJIT (yet).
"
I don't want to be a hater but I can't say I've had the best service, I've sent 3 emails around my solution needs (one directly to Sheel from a comment he placed here on HN) but no response, from the looks of the other comments maybe mines a one off.
Color CEO explains how/why they raised $41M
Point taken. I know I'm sure glad things from when I was 17 aren't still on the Internet. I had no idea it was that old, I first read it a month ago. Good luck with your new endeavors.
Facebook Bowes to Israel Deletes “Third Palestinian Intifada” Page Unjustly
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." Steve Jobs http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/0...
What struck me about your post was the disdain you have for the tools that allow "non-professionals" to create applications. "But hey, I guess that’s what happens when you make the web so accessible that anyone thinks he can do it, too." Well, I remember the Internet before the web and you know what? I guess that's what happens when you make the Internet so accessible that anyone thinks they can do it.

I also notice you program in C# and Ruby, which (tongue in cheek) aren't real langauges. I mean, they're interpreted! You know, like BASIC. Meant for toy programs and people that don't know how computers really work. I still remember the time when applications (shrink wrapped applications) were written in Assembly language because even a compiled language like C produced "toy" applications (one reason why Lotus ate Microsoft's lunch in the early 80s---Lotus 1-2-3 was written in Assembly when Microsoft's Excel wasn't and it showed).

The whole point of things like assemblers, compilers and interpreters are to make programming easier so people can ignore gritty details and get on with their job. And as much as I hate PHP, it has allowed people who otherwise could not express their ideas, a way of expressing their ideas (personally, I wouldn't want to maintain their code or even look at it, but that's a separate issue).

As I read it, you seem upset that apps you deem stupid are getting funding and you aren't.
Hah! I was thinking more a lessons to share for others :-)

Also, thinking about releasing the code we used for our viral invites/priority access as open source so others can benefit from it.

Is such of interest to anyone?
this is unjust the page did not have any calls for violence but calls for peaceful demonstrations to end the Israeli occupation
How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
"Regarding obesity, exercise is far more important than diet. You can eat all kinds of, well, crap, and if you exercise, you'll still be physically fit and probably even look healthy."

Can you support this? I feel like most things I've read and most of what I've learned myself while training has been that diet in fact is a much bigger factor, to a level of say 75%/25%. It's very hard to exercise enough to undo a bad food decision, and even if you do exercise a ton, that's not going to reverse vitamin and nutrient deficiencies that may result from eating predominantly processed foods.

Moreover, the type of food you're eating has at least as much effect as its theoretical caloric content. 300 calories of raw carrots is not equal to 300 calories of potato chips, as far as your body is concerned. We're not calorimeters.
I think you are getting lost in the details. He is not saying that anyone of these things is a silver bullet. He is saying increase your value in 2, 3 or more of these categories, and you will increase your chances for success.

He is not even saying this is a complete list of intangible assets. These are just some examples of ways to get you closer to the finish line.
And the statement "Somewhere in that pool of rejected interns is the next Woz..." would be far more realistic than "Somewhere in that pool of rejected interns is the next Bill Gates..."

The Woz type and the Bill Gates type are different by miles.
I agree, actually, it is just that the timing seems rather bad. But of course they can not put their marketing staff on hold until they have a product worth marketing for...
This is pretty neat, and I'd definitely use this once it expanded to cover the stores I visit (WF, TJ's, Target) and a broader range of items. The one pitfall for the current market is that stores that don't run circulars or stores for which the circulars are harder to scrape are important but harder to get at.

For example, Whole Foods and TJ's are substantial players in the Bay Area market as well as discount stores like Target where there's a mix of the everyday low price model and sales on loss leaders. What are your plans to tackle stores like those?

Overall, this is a good start, and I look forward to seeing this fleshed out more.
The slow pages turns are a killer. Especially with PDFs. "As shown in Figure N" for any value of N not on the current page was what basically killed the usefulness of the device for me.
The Cosmonaut: A Touch Screen Stylus That Works
There were stat predictions from a firm called Ovum last week with similar numbers. WinPho7 was only slightly behind iOS rather than a little ahead. Oh, and that would be in 2016. Strangely those were headlined as being good news for Android, whereas people seem to have clicked that the big deal here is the prediction for Microsofts success.

Great minds think alike? Or do these companies sell their services as self-fulfilling prophets? I mean Micrsoft could throw billions at this market, but even then I think these estimates overstate Microsoft at Android's expense. Both show the market as effectively static beyond the Nokia->Microsoft transition when the last few years have been hectic.
Multicore coding standards aim to ease programming
bbc.com and bbcworldwide.com down too, so very likely routing issues. Hope the out of hours ops team are availble!
Everyone goes down eventually, if can go wrong....
Wozniak Talks To Entrepreneurs
132.185.0.0/16 is back up but 212.58.0.0/16 isn't.

EDIT: 132.185.0.0/16 has gone again. (actually it's a bit less than a /16 but I don't feel like looking it up)
"Copyright © 2011 Nokia. All rights reserved. Reproduction, transfer, distribution or storage of part or all of the contents in this document in any form without the prior written permission of Nokia is prohibited."
http://bbcworldnews-japan.com/ works (I assume that's colocated in Japan though)

Been down for a while now; no official Tweets from any of the official BBC Twitter accounts it seems.

Edit: It's backup now. Was done for about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
That's what the word "bubble" refers to, though

why? not at all. last spectacular bubble was in real estate - it was accompanied by stock market rise but not by any means stock market bubble.
> Regarding obesity, exercise is far more important than diet.

This might be true, and I suspect that it is, but it's not true of the trivial amounts of exercise prescribed by doctors to improve health. There was a Cochrane Review meta-analysis finding only a very small weight loss induced by exercise (something like 2kg) across a lot of studies, and this well-controlled experiment just published in the International Journal of Obesity found only a 1.8kg average weight loss in the exercise group:

http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v35/n3/full/ijo2010147a.ht...
Adiposity changes after a 1-year aerobic exercise intervention among postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled trial

But the mean duration of exercise per week in the exercise group was 178.5 minutes, just under three hours. The Afghans and Inuit being discussed here as a point of comparison probably get a great deal more than three hours of exercise per week. I'm thinking it's more like 30-60 hours.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any obesity studies comparing groups that are matched, except that one of them gets about 40 hours a week of exercise. Maybe a study looking at people who changed between physically-strenuous and non-physically-strenuous jobs?

(Me, I got three hours of exercise on Sunday. I bicycled 20km to go to two events, and at one of the events, I danced pretty intensely for more than an hour. I'm doing something similar tonight.)

Exercise has a lot of other good effects, though. Even the trivial amount of exercise often prescribed can substantially increase muscle mass, lower blood pressure, increase strength, reduce stress, and improve insulin sensitivity.

But it's not adequate to cure obesity.
> No, you're presenting a false dichotomy

Fair enough.

> Nokia's problem is that it doesn't know how to compete with Google and Apple

I would point out that visual identity has very little to do with it.

> not that it's resource-starved

That pressure will increase in the future.

> Blindly throwing money at developers without an intelligent vision is how Nokia got into this mess to begin with

I agree with that - just throwing money on the problem won't make it go away. They hired an outsider (Microsoft) to give them a coherent vision. They should act on it.

And yes, redesigning every printed material and web presence is a small fraction of their overall budget, but is a loss of focus nevertheless and hardly an irrelevant expenditure.
Noah Kagan talks startups, marketing, burritos and AppSumo
I expected better from a company like Google. Asking candidates for pre-canned code snippets to cutesy little CS problems on the whiteboard is miserable and the outcome depends too much on what the candidate studied in the last few weeks before the interview. It actually tells you very little about the kind of programmer a person is and the interview itself can get quite horrible on a personal level very fast.

A while ago, I used to conduct job interviews like this. Sort this, insert that, search for the other. I still feel sorry for some of the candidates I did this to. That process was the largest single mistake I made when hiring people. I should instead have asked for the code of some projects they had been working on recently and maybe discussed a few more creative things with them.

In fact, if I could ask a candidate just one question, it would be "what projects are you working on in your spare time?"
I would say "increase your chance of success" is less accurate than "open up new spaces in which you can be successful".

But, otherwise, yes, I agree with you.
FWIW, Apple redefined mobile computing while using an off-the-shelf font. Helvetica, no less.

The actual story is goofy no matter how you slice it. If someone wants to take a little potshot at WP7, where's the harm? We're really losing out to the vast and deep discussion that would otherwise be happening about Nokia's profoundly important piece of R&D here?
Records Show 56 Safety Violations at U.S. Nuclear Power Plants in Past 4 Years
They're up again.
One solution: they record your location data but will delete it on (your) demand.
There would be little point in carrying on without radio 4 anyway to be honest.
I don't think it's the same, FizzBuzz is so trivial that it's ludicrous not to be able to write it if you're even slightly technical.
When I was working in the financial sector, I came across an email thread involving a certain software vendor who had been notified of a SQL injection vulnerability. To fix it, they created an IF statement that did a string comparison to check for the exact SQL attack that had been used.
Oddly the password function is called only when you click on lower black image. If you click on the defined Area (which happens to cover right where the "Password-ed Area" text is, then it bypasses the function call all together and just lets you in.
And it's back, I guess we'll find out more tomorrow on the BBC blogs.
At least in Safari, the video player is clipped on the right side. A direct link to the video: http://blip.tv/play/AYKlwUYC
Gmail To Roll Out Ads That Learn From Your Inbox
AngelList: At what stage shall I publish my startup on AngelList? - Quora
Smart guys don't trade Forex.
Use placeholders in prepared statements. "Sanitising" your input, banning magic words etc is hacky and fragile by comparison.
how much did you make profit?
I guess the important thing here is that this system is isolated from the rest of the adsense platform.
All arguments valid, but I still kinda like the old typeface more.

It's true that it has too many variations, but probably the new one will have as well. I doubt that only 3-4 variations will exist, there'll be more - for devices, for logos, etc...

A refresh of the identity is a must every once in a while, it's the only explanation I see why the old one should be changed ;), but I doubt that their old docs will be redone in the new corporate branding, only the currently used will be redone and the new docs will use it.
So, to be fair to Google, I was not once asked anything like the train question nor was I asked to write a binary search in C then to read it out over the phone. I did implement a few things in Google docs, which is kind of ugly, but it wasn't anything ridiculous, and most of the functions were fairly short (20-30 lines).

They did, however, ask a whole bunch of conceptual questions, but I don't think this is all that surprising.
You can get a pay-go phone, sometimes with cheaper unlimited rates than AT&T and Verizon, although they won't subsidize the purchase of a nice smart phone. (And I'm not too happy with the data transfer speed on Boost.)

This obviously wouldn't prevent against a targeted attack. If the phone company or the government wanted to track YOU specifically, they could probably figure out your phone number by looking at the calls your family and friends have made and finding the union, and retrieve the info from there.

But if someone wants blanket info, i.e. a list off all the people at a G-20 protest or whatever, a computer won't be able to instantly figure out who you are. Someone would have to start investing real man-hours to accomplish this. This hopefully gets too cost-prohibitive for large scale tracking of the general population.
video on dark matter...

http://www.youtube.com/user/mathboysmom#p/u/1/r7-O6ADAW1U
HURD is 11 years older than Duke Nukem Forever, if that puts things in perspective. Is it the oldest (ongoing) major software project that has yet to ship?