skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't necessarily a bad thing -- it's basically static linking -- but the way it's done, it makes administration and troubleshooting a nightmare. As a platform, Java lacks the tools that a Unix sysadmin takes for granted. For example, with Debian or Ubuntu:

What version of a library is installed, if any: dpkg -l

What's the latest version available to be installed: apt-get update, apt-cache search

Update the library for all applications that link it: apt-get upgrade

These tools are important for administration, security, and troubleshooting. It mystifies me that Java developers and sysadmins managing Java servers don't demand them. Instead, they're willing to muck around in a web interface, go back to their dev box to look at Maven scripts, or go searching through the filesystem just to see what software is installed and running. Even if you're not averse to doing that by hand, how scriptable is it?

If you have a large Java environment with many different services running on dozens or hundreds of boxes, how do you get a report of which boxes have a particular version of a library installed? I know our sysadmins don't know how, and I know our Java developers don't care. They could develop the tools themselves, but they have no interest. The sysadmins do not do web pages; they are not going to spend all day going click-click-click to update a few dozen servers. They have told the Java developers not to expect the same level of support for their applications as our C++ programmers get because Java is an unmanageable platform, and the developers don't care. I really, really do not understand why our Java programmers are not writing scripts to automate any of these basic tasks.
Why Cloud9 Deserves your Attention
Cloud9 is the new IDE in the cloud. Entirely build on JavaScript.
In firefox, if flash crashes, it doesn't crash any tab; just the flash element (e.g. the youtube video box becomes gray)
After Chernobyl, Russia’s Nuclear Industry Emphasizes Reactor Safety
I should mention that under the hood, the live stream processing of download events is being done by SQLstream, the startup I work at. :-)
1. The item you link to is not a dupe - it's the launch of the Phono SDK. The link here is for a blog post that explains how to build a call center using the Phono SDK.

2. Flash is currently used for a small part of the interaction to deal with the actual microphone and speakers. The Phono architecture is explained here:

http://blog.phono.com/2010/10/25/behind-the-phone/

I know that the Voxeo Labs guys are working on other ways to control the microphone and speakers without using Flash. (I work for Voxeo, but not in the Voxeo Labs team.)
Don't forget that the majority of the people who worked on the Death Star were contractors.
Count me impressed. I use netbooks a lot and FF4 gave me the best browsing experience I've ever tried on a 10"-screen, Atom-CPU powered PC. Performance improvements and the amount of space it saves on a small screen for my usage are pretty amazing. Kudos Mozilla for another great release!

EDIT: Just noticed that FF4 allows me to resize text-fields that render quite small because of the small screen. Small, relative-sized text-fields can be easily resized to a convenient size.
We are not dealing with "FOSS extremists" here. This is a focused FUD campaign against Android, coming from people whose only "FOSS extremism" comes in the form of antipathy.
Has either Safari or Chrome fixed the known bugs in their CSS selector matching? No, because fixing those is not a priority for the core webkit developers.

Is it a good thing for designers for those bugs to be enshrined as a de-facto standard? I don't think so. The fact that other UAs don't have them might serve as pressure on webkit to fix them too. Maybe.
I wonder what this idiot's actual job was.
If someone picks and remains committed to a really bad idea, how great are they really?
The other thing to consider is, who would have standing to sue for their copyrights being violated and would have a desire to sue Google in what would be a risky lawsuit with little upside for the filer even if they win? The sets of "people with standing" and "people with any desire to sue Google for this" seem disjoint.
it's not a duplicate post, although both posts talk about Phono.

This post describes a very unique project that uses Phono as one of it's components (it also uses CouchDB, CouchApp and Node.js)

As to Phono's current use of Flash to access the speaker and microphone used for a phone call, the comments in the other post you reference more than thoroughly explain the rationale for this, and the current state of HTML 5 with respect to capturing input from a device.
It's in the firefox-stable PPA now for 10.04 and 10.10:

Instructions here: http://askubuntu.com/q/6339/235
You can use tab instead of the down arrow - pretty much identical to tab completion in the linux command line.
Humbly submitted to founders. Among people who have been in leadership positions or find themselves in a leadership position for the first time, I think many will agree reading a diverse set of perspectives is valuable, and a surprising number of leadership lessons translate between technical domains. This strives to contribute to the body of learning represented by Sun Tzu's Art of War and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations (also excellent reads).
Me-thinks that IE9's much touted 2.35 million downloads on day one is not going to seem so impressive by the end of today.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and tell you that John's probably happy at his own company, http://orderedlist.com/
Google working to reverse Chrome bloat
HooSaid: The Social Media Search Engine
The new Beta Social Site, HooSaid, may have discovered a fix for this problem that many users of social media have encounted. To put it simply, HooSaid is a search engine for social networks. Their site provides a search bar where users can enter in information they are searching for, just like a regular search engine. However, there is a major difference in the results this search engine provides.
I was speaking from the perspective of devices, namely phones. The way to launch apps is by clicking a "desktop" icon.

More broadly stated, you need a way to hook into the local environment so that HTML5 sites aren't distinguishable from locally-run/stored apps.
Are there live human instructors behind this or is it just videos?
This is a good point that I've only noticed recently. Address bar completion in Chrome is much much worse than in Firefox.
Millions risk ID theft via social networks
It's cool to see Linus being pragmatic here.
Interesting, do you have an Evo that you've used for the past year or are you anointing it top 3 status based on reviews alone?

If you actually have one, It would be interesting to know how it's held up after heavy use.

Personally, my experience with it, and those of people I know that have it has been less than stellar, though by no means awful.
The Death Star was a trap[1]. It wasn't semi-complete. It was fully operational[2] and designed to lure in the Rebel fleet to a single location. Destroying the rebels in detail had proved to be too time consuming.

[1] Ackbar, Return of the Jedi "It's a trap!"

[2] The Emperor, Return of the Jedi "As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!"
Stranger Making It Rain Hundy's in a Boston Starbucks
Job Seekers and Seth Godin: "Reject the Tyranny of Being Picked"
I hope this means the Hacker News community will never again promote Florian Mueller's bogus claims and FUD in here.
I have a feeling that the girls were treated to a full date. The research was just a small part of it... other research was in play.
I'm not sure where the headline came from, but the income figures in the report are adjusted for family size (and inflation). Since families are getting smaller, this causes an increase in their income measure. The actual median increase was 65% (page 8, line 2).
Are you perhaps confusing Born with Bohm? There is no possible sense in which QC critically depends on anything to do with Bohm.

Neither does it depend on very much about exactly what those Born probabilities mean. All that matters is that, e.g., when one of them is very close to 1 and the others very close to 0, you will almost always find yourself observing an outcome corresponding to the nearly-1 probability. Again: if you disbelieve that -- which is what you'd need to disbelieve to have a problem with QC here -- then what you are rejecting is not any particular interpretation, but quantum mechanics itself as a description of what the universe does.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wasn't kernel header files almost the exact case that SCO was suing Linux users over?

I don't think it's in anyone's interest to start claiming that header files are copyrightable.
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Hands on with Firefox 4 for Android (RC)
I found the article he links to at the end to be a more transparent explanation:

http://ghcmutterings.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/parallelism-co...
Bing Maps Japan Earthquake App: Before and After
What's this a reference to? Or is it just about Florian Mueller being an attention whore?
You want to talk to the SRWare Iron team.
Will there be time when everybody keeps his stuff at his own site and all of these "communities", aggregators, middlemen die out?
Unfortunately, chances are, you do have it all wrong. The most important thing as an entrepreneur is to not give up, but also to know when to fail. Successful entrepreneur's more often then not have many many more failed ventures then successful ones. It's a skill to know when to start all over again (as painful as it may be).
Definitely worth it. Went through it a few weeks ago and learned a lot - even though I've been using Rails for years. It goes into a lot of Rails 3 best practices too, so helps to make sure you're on the right track there. Really like the approach they take too -- sometimes writing code from scratch, sometimes refactoring bad code to best practices.
Has anyone else noticed that you can't drag the window from one space to another under OS X?
Tuning JavaScript at Disqus
Advice from a first-time entrepreneur - AccelGolf
Ask HN: I'm a cs grad student seeking advice
I'm currently enrolled in a master's program in computer science. I'm in my second semester and things seem to be going well. I've only been programming for a little less than 3 years, and I didn't earn a BS in computer science in my undergrad. What I'm looking for is advice.

I am not a good programmer. I have been improving a lot over the last year, but I feel a bit overwhelmed by the amount of things that I need to learn. There are so many different skills I want to have, but I don't know where to start.

Here is my question to you: What are the three most critical skills that you all think are absolutely fundamental to programming? I eventually plan to do web development, but the skills needn't be specific to that.
For whatever reason, the voters seem to think I didn't try that before commenting. FF4 does not behave as described on my WinXP box at work.
ctrl+w is fastest way to close tabs anyway

ctrl+tab to cycle through tabs
Ruby 1.9 overview
In Google's case, I find young, smart, cool people just like me who I trust not to be dicks

What is this? has any thought gone behind this?

I'm not your peer: I'm stupid, uncool and very, VERY old. That's why I decided to teach you fuckers a lesson and put on my fake cop uniform. With a few fake emails & and a phone call, I convinced Bobby, the head of security at data center #34 in Dallas to give me your life's records. Yours along with 5 million other people.
Great concept with this tool; I'm sure they have Outlook on the roadmap and that should entice a huge chunk of corporate workers who are locked to Outlook. The application of this concept could be much broader (I'm sure Noteleaf has this in mind)- as a LinkedIn junkie (many of my colleagues are of the same mentality), we find ourselves doing a lot of copying and pasting of names from disparate sources (including e-mail, calendar invites, websites, etc). The ability to pull up aggregated info on an individual by perhaps right clicking and selecting such an option would have massive value. I'm looking forward to seeing where they go with v2+
Depends on the project.

If it's something common and done to death, it makes sense to expect a timeline and cost.

If you're trying to innovate, such estimates are a kiss of death.
Y Combinator reality tv show
Daniel Loewenherz’s post on the full story behind Breakup Notifier (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2348702 or http://dlo.me/breakup-notifier/) got me thinking that it would awesome to have a web-based Y Combinator reality tv show or channel. Where viewers, from around the world, could literally see what it takes to create a startup.

I, for one, am tired of all the music, food, fashion, dieting, dating, celebrity, etc reality tv shows which currently exist and would love to learn something useful for a change. I’ve also observed that people enjoy watching “behind the scenes” footage. A look at the comments on any of the TechCrunch Cribs videos (http://bit.ly/gvEObR or http://tcrn.ch/g2i21X ) confirms this.

A tv show can also be beneficial to the startups themselves (just look at what Idols has done for musicians)
Creates brand loyalty and early adopters of products
You can get direct feedback from your audience during product development
Viewers could give you advice or make suggestions if your stuck … you don’t have to do it alone!

[An incentive to the Y Combinator team, the show could make money from both subscriptions (per episode/weekly/monthly/year) and advertisements, think about it]

How many of you guys would, would be interested in watching such a show? What would you want to see during the show? What reality show format would be best for Y Combinator? (try and give an example of tv show)
I'm sure there's an algorithm that will explore the search space according to some heuristic and get you there. </pun>

The thing I've consistently found that differentiates really great developers from the rest is the ability to think conceptually about problems. There are tons of people out there who may be able to implement something according to all sorts of best practices and patterns, but who can't actually reason about why those practices are there and when they become a hindrance.

This ability to reason about the act of programming isn't a sufficient condition for an "A" developer, but it's necessary. You simply won't ever know what to work on or how to improve otherwise.
People I know seem to really like it, I thought I would share it here. PyCon TV
HTC Evo owner here. Bought it on the day it came out.

Since then, I've upgrade the battery, and am currently running CyanogenMod 7 (Android 2.3.3).

I just purchased a Samsung Epic 4G for my wife 2 months ago ... and comparing stock Evo with stock Epic, Evo blows the Epic away. The battery life also seems to be much better than the Epic's.

The Evo is the best phone I've ever owned, and I've owned an iPhone 3GS.
Additional value would be to check associated Twitter/Facebook usernames - you're not just searching for a domain name, you're searching for a brand, right?

Great service though (impressed by Impossibility! too).
Life without a cell phone
American Diabetes Association hazardous to your health
I completely agree with this statement. In the software industry (and other tech industries like InfoSec), these type of certifications are fluff that anybody willing to spend a few hours studying a book can pass.
More discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2354776
First look review of Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1
Adobe AIR 2.6 Released - Welcomes iOS Support
Controlling Times Square’s Screens With a Phone, for Real This Time
Co-founder here. We're considering our infrastructure options, but our #1 priority is to make developer's lives easier, not to buy servers.

As for dilution - let's just say we feel very good about our current ownership.
> Sans the round tripping, which was the main point of this project.

The "main point" of Wayland has nothing to do with eliminating the (trivial) overhead of network transparency; rather, it's to finally get rid of all the legacy cruft that's accumulated in the X11 protocol over the years.

Much of X11, such as fonts, graphics primitives, and color palettes, is completely unused by modern clients (even remote ones) -- it makes sense to simplify the protocol by dropping such legacy features.
How Gondor Came to Eldarion: Django Hosting in the Cloud
Let's Talk About Culture Change
Concurrency is concerned with nondeterministic composition of programs (or their components). Parallelism is concerned with asymptotic efficiency of programs with deterministic behavior.

Interesting distinction. My understanding is that these terms are typically used interchangeably in a more general sense. Perhaps it would be better to come up with some different terms for these concepts.
Running Node.js on a Rooted Android Phone
Disqus was covering the text for some reason so I removed it. Thanks for pointing that out.
Just think of it as having missed RoR's Bad Old Days. :)
What happens to doctors who think outside the box?)
Scala popularity
hey guys, this is a short post in a series about a great book on diabetes care: http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-Achiev..., the author's ideas haven't penetrated as far as they need to, and I'm trying to fix that
Bandwidth.com Launches a Better Broadband Map
SuperHappyDevHouse
The Price Tag for Clean Water for All
A rough calc for World Water Day
Venture firms back i4i in Supreme Court patent fight vs. Microsoft
Google's Umbono: Startup incubator in South Africa
I haven't watched any Code School videos yet, but learning to code by video has always been my method of choice. I've been using the (awesome) videos from Lynda.com for years now and have always found them concise and helpful with really good content.
It would be nice to definitively shut down this line of attack against Linux. Having references with Stallman and Linus both claiming that using header files doesn't constitute deriving a work seems pretty iron clad to me.

I'm not a lawyer of course.
Also, there's a ton of downloads coming from a point in Northeast Siberia where, as far as I can tell on Google Maps, there isn't so much as a log cabin. Mapping anomaly, or giant, secret military base?
Discussion of original hoax:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322401
I would like to hear what advice investors and founders from established companies give to startups. As for show format, I prefer the "follow the founders/business" and watch it grow from week to week rather than the "your fired" model.
Sure,

So pretty much he is saying that concurrency and parallelism aren't the same thing. (Which is kind of a 'duh' if you think about it).

Parallelism is concerned with efficiency of the algorithm in a parallel environment. His example is that quick-sort is an easily parallelized algorithm (each level of recursion is two completely independent steps). This means that at each level, you can run the independent steps at the same time, meaning that in a parallel environment, you can see a big speed improvement.

Concurrency is more dealing with the control flow of a program. Concurrency tries to manage resources in a 'nondeterministic' environment.

Pretty much, its like an OS scheduler. The OS scheduler has to manage all of its resources, like the printer or the hard drive or whatever else, between different concurrently running processes, and prevent things like race conditions or deadlock. This isn't a parallelism issue, because you can have, for example, a single threaded processor with a multi-tasking operating system.

does that help?
I disagree with your second point in one sense - overall, journalism might be worse than in years past. However, the problem is that the editorial standards for journalism have been relaxed because the news organizations need to publish news stories 24/7 on tv and the Internet to compete.

There are still great journalists doing excellent work. However, their contribution has less impact because of the overall signal-to-noise ratio and also because we don't have enough great journalists to fill up a 24-hour news day.

It's similar to expansion in professional sports leagues. It's wonderful that new markets may get teams but that waters down the quality of the overall product because adding more teams doesn't mean you're adding more great players.
I consider myself something of an intermediate .Net guy who didn't think of trying Ruby on Rails much... but I'll admit that the set up for learning it presented here is interesting enough for me to change my mind about it!
Don't confuse correlation with causation - less interest in baby-making could be due to:

* better education
* higher income
Some travel and other interesting bits for you all
Your all losers for down voting us. us = the people who wrote their editor
I took the headline from table 1, and only gave 1 significant figure.

I went with this headline because I found the comparison of people to their parents far more interesting than the results on marriage, and figured others would as well.
It doesn't look like these are what you are looking for, but projecteuler.net and programmingpraxis.com are great. I imagine these are more for maintaining and honing skills, rather than building them, but still great.
PhantomJS - minimalistic headless WebKit
I did this until last year when I broke down and got a phone because I wanted to get into mobile development. It was worth it (financially), but the freedom she talks about in not owning a cell phone is real - and I miss it.
Second that. Video lessons are great, I'm a happy customer of both Lynda and Total Training. What really helped me to start learning web development is their ASP.NET lessons.
Several points

The study looks at income, not wealth ("riches").

To maintain a middle class lifestyle, one must today make a proportionally far larger expenditure for housing, education and transportation.

In constant dollars, cost per square foot of housing has increased dramatically (even with the recent declines).

It is now necessary to pay for daycare (due to two-income households) and for college (high school used to be sufficient).

Most households now have two cars rather than one (due to two-income households).

Further, because two income households make commitments based on two incomes, they are not prepared for the loss of income from either spouse, whereas formerly, there was reserve income potential in the stay-at-home child rearing spouse.

The above is mostly summarised from a presentation by Elizabeth Warren here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A
I use ctrl+w, but it's too close to ctrl+q. Is there a way to disable ctrl+q in firefox?
Summary: its a sales pitch.
do not compare facebook to a church or a masjed, facebook is a social media platform where we all from different religions and background come together share news and opinions. blocking one voice against the occupier, favoring anti islam stuff while censoring anti -israeli occupation voices is a racists move
Creating a Safer Web with Content Security Policy
I hope the addons also get updated for FF4. I upgraded to FF4, but I miss having the CS Lite addon.

'CS Lite' lets me manage cookie permissions for current site without having to go into the preference and go through the long process. Very useful since I usually block cookies and only turn on when needed. The reviews for CS Monster doesn't seem as good.
No, it's Programming, Motherfucker. There is no * in it.
When your security software leaves you to the wolves
Look at how coal is being used in Germany to produce energy. Nobody seems to complain about it. Coal is subsidized, because of fear of losing votes and strikes from coal miners.
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Съдържа микс от зърнени култури и плодове: пшеница, ечемик, овес, и стафиди. Всичко това е комбинирано с неустоимия вкус на парченца ягоди.