skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My understanding was that you actually have to be careful not to write code that runs for too long, in order to avoid messing up your request times by ruining the cooperative scheduling scheme used in the language."

That is my understanding as well - because a long running task will block everything, you have to be MORE careful in node.js than in a traditional threaded environment. I actually think that this model works really well in 10% of applications, and a threaded model is a better choice in 90% of applications.

I also believe 'less mature developers' see, 'wow, server side javascript', get excited by that, and don't put enough attention on the more important architectural differences of node.js
Ask him "What is your second-best idea?" Also: "Please share an example of a 'Fortune 5000' business that has not yet been built, but if it were would be a very clever business model."
Who do you sue or blame in this Situation ?
Diary of an Android Virgin: Google Nexus S absolute power entertains absolutely
Irrelevant, TMI was an incident of precisely this kind.
Oh yeah, I realize that, but the timing of it just seemed too close. That comment really summed up that thread... so anyhow, when I saw this article that was the first thing I thought of.
From clicking around it seems like probably >75%
MS will also allow Malware to run on PC's with this!
I used to love playing Blockles on OMGPOP. I doubt the name is the only factor in Tetris choosing to shut it down though since Blockles didn't use Tetris anywhere.
this comment helped me get around the import errors when using nosegae + webtest.

http://code.google.com/p/nose-gae/issues/detail?id=45#c1

totally a PITA but once it is working having a set of smoke tests for all of our urls is invaluable.
I think that, sadly, $0.99 is the expected price of iPhone users, and it is integral in climbing the charts, unless you have an extremely sophisticated or high quality game.
I generally find that if you are well read the first steps towards scaling ASP.Net / IIS are reasonably well guided. E.g. we've had things like solid caching support at a variety of different levels (app, cache, output etc) built right into the server / framework for a long time.

The web forms model has been a huge issue for programmers who are not mindful of its consequences and I'm glad MVC is making headway. I'm also happy to see MS starting to think about more developer oriented tool sets with projects like Nuget and Entity Framework Code First.

Scaling to higher levels is always going to require an awareness of design and architecture more fundamental than knowing any particular technology well.
If you are a billionaire you buy a news network and then hire a pundit, heck a whole panel of pundits to say whatever negative things you want to say about anybody.
Ask HN: What do you think of starting a crowdfunding platform by crowdfunding?
Not my idea, instead it belongs to an acquaintance. In theory it sounds good: a crowdfunding platform to finance poorer people's travels. The guy explains it but gives little detail on his donation page: http://www.kapipal.com/wegetthere

I even suggested the use of Kickstarter, but over there the starter of the funding campaign must have a US address, US bank account, etc.
However, I think that Kickstarter can actually revert fraud attempts, while Kapipal says it's not their responsibility.

Not trying to get you to donate, I'm just curious if you think what he's doing is okay or not. I'm thinking of asking the same question or Reddit.
Yes, BridgeBasher gave me a good seed to start with around 1.2 million total downloads, most of which were obtained when it was free.
Gates was/is very much a tech guy. Here is a quote from his Wikipedia article

At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy an ASR-33 teletype terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment, he said, "There was just something neat about the machine." After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, he and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans—for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.
I really wish I hadn't put my e-mail on this page...I'm already getting spam now. Can anyone delete my previous comment with my e-mail?
The [long] night before an iPhone app launch
It's even worse if you're in a 3-year contract (common in Canada). With that said, it's not to difficult to delay gratification and hold upgrades off for a few years.
Yes, just a popup that asked if they wanted to be notified when I released my new game.
I can code, play a tune on guitar and tap out a rhythm but oh my, you do not want to hear me sing. I'm not sure the maths carries over that far!
#startups Channel Chatter Visualized
What do you dislike about Firefox's UI? I could never go back from Firefox 4 to Firefox 2 or 3.
I think this is where I'd set the requirement, rather than requiring writing code.

If they can make (and talk through) a mockup that demonstrates a grasp of the problems of real-life UI/UX design -- including the little details that normally just get hand-waved over, like "when & where exactly will we get all of the data that's required to build this screen?" -- that counts for quite a lot.

Writing code for someone who doesn't have the background has a huge learning curve -- if someone sets them down with the exact language(s), libraries, editors, references, etc. to use, it's not so bad, but someone who doesn't know the landscape will go down a lot of very time-consuming dead ends on their own, and the lessons they'll learn will very likely not be worth the time wasted (assuming they have no plans to change careers...).
The iPhone doesn't need to get any smaller, and the display won't need any more increases in resolution. That's practically it's only noticeable physical feature. Anything they add to it at this point will be hard to notice unless it adds substantial new functionality.

They can always improve on speed, camera resolution, and storage; they could add LTE and NFC, but I can't think of much else that would even need hardware support that they couldn't add in software.
Still looking for an Engadget alternative, if anyone knows one...
I would tend to doubt that the changes will be that small, considering the massive negative media attention 'antennagate' got--I think it's likely that they'll at least move the antenna to eliminate that problem, which would seem to necessitate some appearance redesigns as well.

They might not, but it would somewhat surprise me.
The Next Stage of Behavior-Based Email Automation
For a non-pro setup you're going to be accepting significant scope limitations in production - you're not going to be scanning the full real time feed across the whole market. Without colocation HFT isn't really an option either. So you can restrict your strategies to medium frequency against a small universe of assets which makes the technical side easier. Also the data side you won't need a full set of data, e.g. tickdata.com has data at $20/symbol/year (https://store.tickdata.com/prices?productMarketId=PRODUCT_MA...)
Two Davids become a Stronger David Amongst Many Goliaths
Hey Sachin,

My site is rorywalker.com and it also takes ages to load.
Maybe I'm being unnecessarily cynical.

Yup.
WePay (YC 09) Celebrates As Engagement Quintuples In Last 90 Days
Nicely put, I think Distraction is the #1 issue because of which CEO's fail in their day to day activities. Try to focus on one thing at a time and accomplish it, rather than juggling multiple items and not completing any.
The data was from the IRC logs over the last 18 months or so. Data was scraped from the log files looking for messages that were directed at other users which created this directed graph. The data was then fed to Gephi to get the svg output.

A SVG Version of the file: http://stuff.janitha.com/startups_chatter.2.svg feel free to do whatever with it.

edit: a much higher resolution render by 'count': http://zoom.it/Lxrz
I like to create. I'm a developer who doesn't feel too bad about his own design skills (even if they are quite obviously minimalist) - but I like to create things.

It's funny, my biggest weakness is shared between all my creative 'abilities', which is that I don't ever have the patience to 'learn' anything. I can practice all day long, and indeed, I've created quite a few songs on guitar that I'm proud of, but with the exception of a very few, I simply do not have the patience to sit down and learn somebody else's song, played somebody else's way.

(Oddly enough, this has RECENTLY changed slightly, in that I am doing my level best to learn how to play Rodrigo y Gabriela's version of 'Stairway to Heaven', which is, best I can figure, nigh impossible.)
Kudos! The trend information will be very helpful for anyone in the web data mining or field. For my part, I thank you, kind sir!
In retrospect I think the collider would have been a better investment than the ISS because it would have yielded science that has game changing potential for us as a species and more science that we can use. I'd rather understand what we're made of than know how flora and fauna behave in orbital space.
That's awesome, happy to hear he's doing so well.
How about a W-2 contractor with benefits?
As someone who has done this for 5+ years now (before that 10 years at various large / medium corps. and startups), I'd advise you that you won't find good opportunities via Dice and Craigslist. Nearly all of my contracts have come from references / networking (i.e. people I worked with once who hire me back as a consultant to build something / solve a problem). You're just looking in the wrong place.
I would love to use HelloFax, but most things that I actually need to sign these days are, almost by definition, sensitive or confidential.

E.g.: Investor agreements, stock plans, contracts, etc.

Would anyone else feel uncomfortable about handing over copies of all this to a startup?
Inspiring, thanks for being a good example for the rest of us junior- and intern-level devs.
I worked at Los Alamos as an undergrad. I didn't know they did bio research. Go LANL!
Thank you for a lesson in basic averages. You're still completely clueless.

You're attempting to measure health based on diet between two groups. One group regularly receives medical and dental care. One group does not.

I don't care what bat-shit psycho crap you want, because if you find some hillfolk in the US who haven't seen a doctor in their lives, they're going to have a life expectancy in their mid 50's because most of them are likely to die from abscessed teeth or broken legs or a frigging cold.

You're literally comparing dogs to wolves for health. Dogs live in houses and go to vets, and yes get fed shitty food. Wolves live in the wild and face hardships with no access to care and die young.

You can't pick and choose who to factor in and out for health and get a useful result, it's idiotic. Total mortality figures is a better statistic than selected mortality statistic, because infant mortality is a golden example of the total capability of a countries health care. Basically, if you can't afford to wash your hands in alcohol before delivering a baby to make it hygienic, then you're fucked.

I don't care if my diet isn't causing me longevity, I have a doctor. He's called a Cardiac Surgeon and he performs heart surgeries. This is why I live in the west and did not die as a 7 year old of sepsis from a broken leg.
I suppose automating this is not too difficult. Something like:

$ git bisect start --good <sha> --run rspec spec/path/to/failing_spec.rb
... wait longer ...
5243cafebabe is the last bad commit
or if it's an attempt to save money by having a single code base (or both?)

From what I recall, Skype's Windows UI is actually written in Delphi - maybe that has changed now, but I think don't they actually have a unified code base for the user interface.
You can be a great developer and/or leader and build product or company that bright developers will want to work at.
Another tactic for getting yourself out of a rut is to just try something new. The more different to your current activities the better. Something physical that involves other people is a good bet, but anything that strikes you as interesting is good. As a student you probably have access to loads of clubs/societies that do all kinds of odd activities, take advantage of this.

Also, +1 to all the comments suggesting you see a doctor/counselor.
So the iPhone self-destructs now after twelve months? Devilish what Apple is coming up with these days.

Normal people don't buy a new iPhone every year. And even nerds should know that the market is moving at such a speed that it will be nearly impossible for them to own the latest and greatest at any point in time. All iPhones were at least 24 month devices.
Dark Matter
In our dimension, nothing can exceed the speed of light. Light travels in waves.Whn it moves near a high gravitational field, the tip of that wave exceeds the speed of light, and moves into another dimension as dark matter... Unseen in our dimension, yet able to exert a gravitational force. This is the reason light is both a wave and a pulse.
Some thoughts from personal experience:

- Stop thinking.

- Take a blank sheet of paper.

- Write 1 simple task at the top, e.g. do the laundry.

- Do not write any more tasks.

- Put the paper somewhere in your face.

- Complete said task. Force yourself to do so.

- No interruptions, get it done.

- Cross off the task.

Congratulations, you've set a goal and achieved it. Trivial, but it's progress. You are now allowed to turn the brain back on and think. Momentum is good. Breathe deep! I noticed that at extreme low points I damn near stop. Perhaps this is why exercise is recommended so much, to help you move and breathe again.

Mentally I've found two things help:

- Knowing that there is a way forward out of this mess. May require outside help and support to convince you of this.

- Simplifying and focusing on one small thing at a time. There are very few things in life that really must be done right now, some will have to wait and until there is space there's no point stressing about them.

If you have understanding friends or family, TALK.
You mean that antenna stuff nobody cares about anymore?
do any of the canadian carriers not allow upgrades at the two year mark (with a three year contract extension, of course)? i know rogers and telus both do (did).
Very probably. Point still stands though, what's the point of funding independent AIDS/HIV research if the government is funding it on a national security agenda.

Given this audience, perhaps that's rhetorical question - but I thought worth asking.
Would you be at all interested in one-off writing?

I'm not looking to advance my writing career, but I am competing in Baltimore's "Startup Weekend" event next week, and I'd love to share my experiences from that, as someone who's never attended anything like it.
I've mentored with x264 (for Videolan) for 3 years, this year going to be the 4th.

It's an absolutely amazing program and has led to an enormous amount of success for our students so far. Almost all of our successful students have gone on to get real jobs (contract, part-time, or full-time) from their work on x264. Most had absolutely no experience in anything they worked on before they started.

Examples:

Holger Lubitz (2008): Got contract work from Avail Media and CoreCodec for his amazing assembly code skills.

David Conrad (2009): Got hired by Apple due in large part to his multimedia experience with x264 and ffmpeg.

Dylan Yudaken (2009): Used Summer of Code as a reference to get a software dev job in Britain (he's from South Africa).

Oskar Arvidsson (2010): Now working part-time for CoreCodec to improve their assembly code.

Simon Horlicks (2010): Getting paid by Avail Media to finish up his (huge) 2010 Summer of Code project.

Daniel Kang (Google Code-In, 2010): Won top-10 in GCI, got into MIT as a result, and is probably going to get work from CoreCodec. Oh, and he's only 17.

Additionally, x264 has a dual-licensing program -- all successful students, having contributed a large chunk to the codebase, get a share of the profits (like any other major developer).

Here's our ideas page for this year: http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_x264_2011
Apple's events are almost always an hour. With that in mind, it is hard to see how any of these hardware announcements, event LTE, would take up an hour long presentation.
First color photographs of Mercury released by NASA
Ahh it all make sense now. Lots of these news articles come from slashdot
It's important to keep in mind that for Apple, hardware and software are not independent products. The software, as great as it often is on its own, exists to sell the hardware. Most of the iPhone's most compelling features, judging from what Apple chooses to promote, come in the form of software that takes advantage of new hardware. Think FaceTime with the iPhone 4, or video recording with the iPhone 3GS. These aren't the kind of big splash features that can typically come with just a software update.

Also consider the significant fact that new iPhones come with huge public exposure. Usually glowing stories on The Today Show and Good Morning America, articles in The New York Times, etc. This is publicity you can't buy. Free iOS updates, even if they have major version numbers attached to them, just don't have the same sex appeal with the public.

New hardware just seems to focus the customer's mind in a way that I'm not sure software can.
I know this upsets publishers but I don't see how this could possibly be illegal.
> People are upvoting things not because they are valuable, but because they are entertaining.

That's the biggest change I've noticed as well, and I would expand your observation to cover comments too. it seems like jokes get upvoted significantly more often now than they did a year or two ago.
'The problem is that I can't believe a word you said'

Thats fair, but the thing is that its YOUR PROBLEM(as a recruiter), not mine as a great "closed source" engineer

I know bunch of people who work on very cool and interesting problems/projects binded NDAs and have no problem on finding a new job if they want to. Hell Facebook, twitter, google are all closed source(mostly) so wouldnt you hire ex-Facebook engineer if he has no open source commitments?

Lets face it - its employees market, where companies compete for bright engineers. If you are saying that you only want open source commitments - thats fine, but you are betting on smaller market and missing some great talents. So you are more "lazy" recruiter, who dont want to look deeper, do facts check, test candidate etc. But again its your own problem, not mine.
The "My Organizations" section just keeps a'spinnin...
agree - they are all leaving one by one - something is definitely up - it's not like AOL was going to close EG so it's really interesting.
So honestly while I am super excited about the possibility of AIDS being a fear of the past, heres my criticism:

I read sometime ago that the conundrum with AIDS is that the better the immune system response, the faster it spreads. Because the response basically brings it's food to it faster. So vaccines seemed to actually do more harm.

I'm very curious on this, and would hope to see more on this particular story, and with more details than a "almost ready for human trial yay!"
Expect a Chrome extension in the near future, among others. If they don't do it soon, someone else will. That way it's just a button press while you're on the page. Should be pretty easily doable by tracking google->internet links and storing them temporarily so you can +1 them after the fact.
I tried to retort by pointing out the fact that she puts cream in her coffee (thus cooling it), while we drink ours black. Apparently, this was not a valid excuse for her.
So the great part of this is that pretty much you can live to a ripe old age. The issue is price. If we can TREAT it for a person's life, thats great. That is no solution for a massive epidemic in Africa though where we'd be lucky to vaccinate everyone if we could, nevermind a long-term treatment.
Actually, i typically err far on the other side. There are many pieces of information that i read hours or days before they appear here or in other social media aggregators, and that has lead me to the impression that i should be contributing more.

Additionally, i do feel that i have some sense of the hacker news demographic having both been a part of it, and watching the sort of content that does generate discussion.

So i'm cognizant of the problem, and i'd like to think that gives me at least some ability to compensate from the bias.
I've been feeling the same way myself the past couple of days. Not sure if it's due to the weather and all the rain recently. But I've been feeling burnt out myself. I don't have any solutions at the moment, except I think on Friday I'm going to take a personal day off (1st time this year) and stay away from the computer and go out of the city and just hang around. Maybe the change of scenery might do me some good.

As for you - sorry no advice but maybe go somewhere you haven't gone before yet preferably outdoors. Good luck!
I'd sense a massive lawsuit if scientists caught major wind of a guaranteed vaccine and sat on it

That's why you do this phase in poor countries. Duh.

For instance, contraceptives were widely tested in Puerto Rico in the 50's before being put on the national market in the 60's. They weren't initially sold in Puerto Rico, though, because there wasn't enough money in it yet. [Caveat: I don't know this from personal experience - it's common knowledge in Puerto Rico, but then it's common knowledge here in Indiana that Barack Obama is a foreign-born Muslim, so ... take it all with a grain of salt.]
True, that is incredible that we can kick this disease pretty hard now. However the problem still stands, the only known solution is a bone marrow transplant and that requires a corpse + a 50/50 chance to die.
IMO, Grades in courses are irrelevant in GSOC. As a mentor I don't even bother looking at that sort of thing. I just see how well they do on the qualification tasks we give out, how well the student interacts on IRC, and whether there are any things that might interfere with an effective summer (e.g. having another job at the same time, etc).
AnandTech is the best technology site I know of. However they are not a 20 post per day blog.
It's persuasive until you actually try and do it. Then you find that you can't make anything nearly as nice and it takes you 10 times as long to do it because you spend forever figuring out weird quirks of mobile browsers that make not much sense at all.

At least that was my experience.
A 4" display would be a pretty big deal. As would 3D support.