skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been moving my domains one by one away from godaddy as they expire, and I can confirm that this is the general procedure. The only thing different for me is that it all seems to happen in about 30 minutes. I'm using dynadot.com as my new registrar and the domains seem to transfer very quickly. So quickly that I've tempted luck a couple times and transferred on the day the domains expire. I know, I know, but it all worked out O.K. But I'd recommend doing it a couple weeks early, just in case.
Android is Google's. They don't have to release anything except the kernel (which is a lot already). They can give it to whoever they think will improve it and make it more popular. The kernel is GPL, but the rest is Apache. Google can keep it to themselves and their preferred partners forever. It's their software and they own it.
> To nitpick, the discpline of physics covers everything - or it damn well ought to

Everything in the universe. But there's still math.
More detail here: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/03/23/transparency-t...

I haven't made any apps with data.gov, but I refer to it regularly for research material and statistical data and have found many useful resources that I would not have thought to look for otherwise. It's far from perfect, but seeing small improvements all the time and it's certainly easier to have a single resource for feed discovery.

Cutting the budget for this seems perverse, at best.
News is not a bug report. History repeats itself.
You're saying this is not anti-competitive?

One of the ways that search engines attract users is through distribution of search boxes through Web sites. Unfortunately, Google contractually blocks leading Web sites in Europe from distributing competing search boxes. It is obviously difficult for competing search engines to gain users when nearly every search box is powered by Google. Google's exclusivity terms have even blocked Microsoft from distributing its Windows Live services, such as email and online document storage, through European telecommunications companies because these services are monetized through Bing search boxes.

How is Google contractually blocking other search boxes any different than MS telling Dell that if they ship Linux boxes then they can't ship Windows?

The hypocrisy here is staggering.
Hacker Monthly April 2011 Issue
They don't even make an exception for the Brits.
Wow, I didn't realise grep had a separate --mmap option. Interesting.

I don't think it would make much difference in the parent's case of many, small, fragmented files because if you're mmapping each file in turn and it's not cached, it still needs to be loaded from disk - it just happens in a page fault instead of the read() call.

Possibly if you mmapped all of the files and then used madvise() or something to prefetch in front of where you are in the list of files. Maybe grep does that, I don't know?

I guess the case where that technique would help is actually when you have a combination of (a) many files, (b) a computationally expensive pattern match (even just -i is a measurable hit) and (c) largeish files.

Because on many small files and a simple match, the disk I/O is still going to be the major component - even if you prefetch you still can't get around needing to load all the file contents from disk.
The problem with C++ casting isn't that there are 4 different typecast operators. On the contrary, that allows you to more clearly state your intent to the compiler and prevent unexpected bugs. The problem with C++ casting is that they allow you to do C-style casting at all.
Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators
I wait for my email to hit 500-600 (I skim and try to address important stuff as it comes in) and then just delete them all. I do let everyone know when Ive cleaned out my mailbox. I get 100-200 emails a day and I just cant read them all.

I also only read email every few hours or so.
Local root exploits are few and far between, unless you're running Android.
What incentive would there be for everyone to remove their content from YouTube?
Possibly if you mmapped all of the files and then used madvise() or something to prefetch in front of where you are. Maybe grep does that, I don't know?

It doesn't do that, and that's the first method I used in my hack.

fadvise() works just as well though, I think.
I think "employed on a startup" and "employed on a large company" should be separate options. A tiny startup is hardly "The Man" isn't it?
Do you think so? The outward stream would probably be more directed than the inward stream, which comes in more diffuse. (Though I don't know if that matters.)

An actual experiment would be nice.
> The real story is that local villagers are not allowed to kill elephants and are fined if they do so.

The real back-story is that Zimbabwe used to have a fairly urbanized population. Many young people worked in cities and larger towns (and only their parents had homes in rural areas).

Zanu-PF is strong in rural areas. The reason for this are numerous - it is much easier to co-opt tribal leadership, easier to organize genocide (e.g. Gukurukundi) and more difficult for opposition groups to organize in rural areas. The opposition (Movement for Democratic Change) had its roots in the trade union movement - which was undoubtedly urban.

By destroying the formal economy and urban settlements (e.g. Murambatsvina) Mugabe forced urban people to do one of two things:
1. Become illegal immigrants in South Africa.
2. Become subsistence farmers in rural areas.

With this he accomplished his goals – illegal immigrants in other countries can’t vote and those in rural areas came under his power.

So this is what you are sitting with now: a large formerly urban population busying itself with subsistence farming to try and eek out a living (while living in squalor with a low life expectancy).

> the american smartass bribed corrupted local government to let him shoot the elephant.

There are actually two problems. Firstly, all Zimbabwean game farms are basically completely poached of animals. People need food and bushmeat is as good as any.

Secondly, expensive game (such as Rhino) was hunted illegally.

I doubt the second case is of concern – since elephants are not that expensive.
An image blog running on Dropbox
Steve controls one hardware manufacturer's fate. Andy rest of. So yes, they are less hypocritical.
IT'S Not JUST GLENN BECK: FOX News Has Lost 21% Of Its Audience This Year
Top Computer Scientists Back WikiLeaks Associates in Twitter Case
Movie Studios Approve $30 Rental Plan, Theater Owners Mightily Upset
Exactly - they own it, and they are free to give it to whoever they like and withhold it from whoever they like.

What part of that isn't about controlling other players?
Specially because it should be economics and budgets and financial stuff the focus of math in those formative years. And statistics too!

Not everyone will be an engineer, but almost everyone will have to deal with money in their life. And the world would be 1000 times better if only people could understand a little more statistics.
Define "search properly".

I am sure the MSDN content on Microsoft's site that's indexed by Google is indexed by crawling the pages. I am sure if Bing folks ask the MSDN folks for access to that data and won't be turned down.

Bing can crawl the entirety of YouTube all they want, grab each and every snippet of information I can see on my screen. Why would they need anything more?
Ok, so many years ago we used NX at work because it was a nice protocol that let us run the GUI version of Nessus and a few other tools via Wine on our (then) colo[1]. Anyway, we found that NX was as protectable as Citrix. Several months later we binned it and just VPN'd through the colo. I imagine that unless things have improved from a security standpoint, Canonical's images that they're using for this are going to get owned.

With the exception of one customer with whom we've worked with continuously for 7 years, every single Citrix deployment we've ever looked at has been exploitable to some extent.

[1] - Courtesy of the awesome http://goscomb.net - they're not cheap but damn they're good for UK connectivity.
> Searches for "Japan Tsunami" and "Justing Beiber" are not revenue generating searches.

The first one probably isn't, but it's not too hard to imagine monetizing the second search. You might need automatic spelling correction, though.
Kivy: Rapid Multitouch Application Development
Number theory was obscure in the sense, that nobody found any use for its more advanced theorems.
Really? You don't see how flying in a rich westerner into some poverty-stricken region of the developing world to carry out an endangered wild big-game trophy hunt might be more controversial than killing an animal farmed for food for its intended purpose? I don't buy it, and as someone with so much at stake, he should have known better.
It might be the Ultimate Truth, but it also begs the question. Of course you need to make programs do less, the question is how you actually do it...
They have keyloggers in China. Not from Samsung though.
China already has a large and fast-growing domestic market.

Insofar as they want to build apartment blocks and manufacture cars for Chinese consumers, the Chinese need steel. For that they need iron ore, and for iron ore Australia and Brazil are the main sources.
Complete audio of Howard Stern interview w/Twitter co-founder Biz Stone [mp3]
Are you under the impression Google can take 2.3 away from anyone? They own it and they can't. What they are doing is saying they won't release 3.x for now source and not really disclosing the reasons. Anything can be behind that decision, including the inclusion of non-Google code in the specific products.

I prefer to think along those lines.
That is not a good deal, but is a pretty typical deal.
You aren't entitled to whinge about it quite yet. Wait until they hire their college bud as vp of product for $140k and 5 equity points. When that happens print out a calendar that ends on the date of your 1 year vesting cliff and tape it above your bed. Welcome to the glamorous world of startups.
Wait, so it hits theatres, and then a WHOLE 60 DAYS after it is in the theatre one can get that movie on-demand? For as low as $30?

No wonder why people pirate.

The problem is that the vallue of movie entertainment is artificially high - and they are struggling to keep it there. The game is lost. It will come down.
It may take weeks to learn for the right person. But I doubt the right person is available. Do you know any really good developer who isn't really busy?
It is extremely ironic then, that the Canadian open data movement has held up the US as an example of transparency and openness, and a model for the sorts of disclosure that the Canadian federal government should live up to.

This is such a momentous leap backwards, i just don't know where to begin. There is no other source for this data. We're still figuring out the best use for it, but if the government doesn't provide it in this manner, the only way we're going to get access to it is via laborious and time consuming FOIA requests. And then, only if you know the data exists.

This really is fucked.
part good, part bad. there needs to be room for new kinds of categories...
It doesn't do that, and that's the first method I used in my hack.

Fair enough. :) If you feel like sharing then I'm very curious as to what the additional methods were.
Certs after your name are no substitute for common sense and good practices.
Exactly! I think that's what I was more interested in learning when I proposed this poll... Essentially what level of autonomy people have over how they spend and manage their time and energy.
Good news for you:

http://vimeo.com/upload/video

http://blip.tv/dashboard/upload

You have choice!

edit: and I love how blip.tv gets the podcast RSS thing.
If Facebook wants to create a Facebook/Andoid phone that is completely independent of Google, they can definitely do this. Sure they have to forgo gmail / calendar and the other proprietary apps, but they could easily write their own. It's all open source.

The difference is Gruber could never create a Gruber / iOS phone that is completely independent of Apple.
Was Data.gov really that expensive to maintain? What is this cut really saving? $20 / month?
I usually recognise things, and then use SearchYC for them. I do also have an interest in the old, good articles, and I'm working on a system to make them more readily available, accessible, browsable and discoverable.

If anything comes of it I'll certainly announce it here, if I'm still here.
Parsons hunting Leopard in Zimbabwe in 2009 with some propaganda at the start of the video on why killing leopard is a good thing:

http://www.video.me/ViewVideo.aspx?vid=501

As a citizen of a southern African country I can tell you that A) The educated locals are disgusted by this kind of hunting for sport as opposed to food and B) I can assure you that the "foreign currency" that it supposedly brings in is not converted to Zim dollars and spent on the local economy.
Hahaha. Oh good ol' post-merger SoftLayer.

This is nothing new for them. They have a long history of violating their own TOS and shutting down customers, without warning, for arbitrary and capricious reasons, then blaming/citing someone else for "making" them do it.

See Wikileaks and SimpleCDN for the most visible examples; there are many more, though.

We left SL last year and couldn't be happier.
To read in vim:

curl http://ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/ | vim -
One thing to check: what is your current locale? GNU grep is much, much slower when it's multibyte-aware, even if you're searching for an ascii string. Try repeating your test with LC_ALL=C grep (don't forget to take the filecache into account).

You can check the current values of your locale with `locale`.
...there are legitimate reasons why people feel they're achieving less. These include the boring literal truths of jobs shipped overseas, stagnant wages, and a taxation system that benefits the rich and hurts the middle class and poor.

The author is trying to make too much of a sociopolitical connection to the proliferation of gaming. Achieving virtual points directly appeals to reward pathways in humans because the achievement is objective and directly gratified. That's really all there is to it. Maybe you can find a correlation between escapism tendencies and quality of living, but it's tangential to the discussion.

If eating broccoli instead of Fun Dip increased some numbers on a real-time nutritional profile HUD on our forearm that we could check for gratification, we'd eat more greens. But the reality is that humans are incredibly dissonant. Forgoing dietary fiber for a morning Snickers bar might increase our chances of anal polyps in the future, but we don't really care. Achieving arbitrary points (like experience/level-up systems in games) appeals so well to our fundamental nature that taking successful games and adding this achievement level on top of it is a business model in itself.

The world would be a different place if you received a +1 on your Recycled Items counter on your personal profile before you hit the gym to add +2 to your Fitness Level. It's less about corporate interest doom and gloom, and more about the nature of humans.
I liked Gandi.net's attitude but I couldn't get over their prices. I ended up at dynadot.com which has a fairly busy home page but a pretty clean UI when dealing with your account. It's prices are more in line with what I expect and they seem to have a good reputation.
Who does Gruber think chose to partner with HTC/Qualcomm for G1 and Nexus One/Froyo, Samsung for Nexus S/Gingerbread, and Motorola/Nvidia for Xoom/Honeycomb for early access if he's upset about Andy Rubin calling the shots now?
from the sources it seems to be a doing of the House. Do we have any Republican here? Can such a person elaborate on the merits of this decision, please.
Am I Twitter famous?
Google's Pulling an Apple
All those poor single people..
Yes very droll. If a human was destroying the food supply of the village then things would probably end badly for them too.

Probably not being killed for meat though but YMMV.
Now I just need a reddit version!
I believe it's hard to push this particular idea too much. How much responsibility does a Cisco or Juniper bear for this? How much responsibility does a Cisco or Juniper employee bear for this?

Also, how much should the Western Nation residents fear companies that are so willing to do this sort of thing?
I'm not under that impression. I am under the impression that they have given the 3.x source to some people and not to others, thus choosing who gets to use it. Normally we refer to that as 'control'.

They didn't say Android 2.3 is open. They said that Android was open and the purpose was so that no one entity could control the innovation of other players, and yet that is exactly what they are doing.

You seem to be defending Google on the basis of their freedoms. If you read what I've written, you'll see that I haven't argued they don't have the right to do what they are doing. I haven't even argued that it's bad.

I am merely pointing out that they have gone back on what they said. You haven't said anything that refutes this.
This "article" contains no information whatsoever. It's only an advertisement for some DVDs.

Please don't make the mistake of clicking it unless you really want to read some bad ad copy.
Ubuntu 11.04 Beta "Natty"
We all knew this.
Amazon's move in credit purchase in Brick-and-mortar stores
observing != generalising or blaming or finger pointing

I'm not sure how you are getting that from what I have posted.
But they have to wait (who knows how much...) to create Facebook/Android Tablet.
Searching for a Cinderella story
I've never used AirBnB myself but I've always thought about this as well. Clearly both parties should be aware they're taking a risk staying at a strangers place, and while it'd be great to be able to trust everybody in this world, sadly we can't.
Can't Microsoft make their AdCenter better than the deals those sites have with Google?

I would love to see the real complaint and not just Brad Smith's Technet post.

"It is obviously difficult for competing search engines to gain users when nearly every search box is powered by Google"

I loved that part. People around me in the office wondered why I laughed so loud.
Libya-Owned Bank Drew at Least $5 Billion From Fed
If you only consider hosting, but gathering data and formating takes more than $20.
Other recent "Ubuntu" submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393713

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392444

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392868

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393527
well, that was supposed to be joke and u guys are downvoting!!!
Validating Emails
Outliers and coexistence are the new normal for big data
How does this work? Is this only a plugin for my browser, or is it a plugin for my browser ... that also stores my data or at least metadata on the ActiveInbox servers.

If I use this, am I reliant for security and uptime only on google as I am now, or must I now also be concerned about ActiveInbox's server security and uptime?
Please share your favorite color scheme(s) !

My favorite for gvim/MacVim is molokai: http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim , seconded by vividchalk when i'm on the terminal: https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk

Haven't found any good color scheme for iterm2 yet. Currently i'm using thayer: http://ecto-plazm.deviantart.com/gallery/
What about academia? Working in a university is very different from being employed in a company as it implies more independence and freedom to pursue own research interests.
Watch out YC - There’s a new accelerator in town who doesn’t take equity
None. Does Google need to provide one too?

But Microsoft, since it's so offended by what Google is doing, could resurrect Soapbox. They should have plenty of cash coming from those Android patents, BTW. They could also have bought YouTube (Google had their own Google Video, but that was going nowhere and credit goes to them for seeing YouTube first).
If you are self-employed (the situation we're discussing), and you work for the man (your assertion), then by logical deduction you are the man — which is what I said.
Google has a lot of smaller projects that are very useful and well-written:

- Closure Compiler for Javascript: http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/

- Sparse hashtable: http://goog-sparsehash.sourceforge.net/

- Chromium

- Android

- V8 JS engine

- WebM

And this more comprehensive list: http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:google
Defeat NYT Paypal by chopping URL
Just delete everything after .html in the URL.
I don't claim to understand. Maybe there are problems with the ambition of the project, not the cost. Or maybe not enough people actually use it.

But, shutting down a visionary (and probably inevitable) effort to open and modernize government feels like a backlash.
It was a total hack, so I just opened files ahead of time, fadvised them, then closed them.
This will not end well for Tesla. Clarkson is a masterful grudge-holder and nothing they produce will ever receive a fair review ever again.
Maybe.

After writing the previous post that I realized it sounds a lot like a Feynman sprinkler. So now I'm less sure.
I agree there is a ton of space here, and I really think the enabling technology to make this happen is Square.

See my post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351573

Basically, all the small business applications can be app-ized and run from a cloud connected iPad.

Where I said:

HNers:

I think that Square is an exceptional business enabled by a novel piece of hardware, their headphone jack card reader.

It would seem - then, that the card reader and payment service could actually be seen as a platform play.

Platforms are technologies that are useful themselves - but enable far reaching, broader use cases in ways, that at times, can be unforeseen.

Square could enable a range of cottage industries by providing other applications built on their solution.

We have the ability for mobile payments, as it were, and thus we should see a need for dead-simple mobile business management apps; inventory, supply chain, vendor management, invoicing, product lists etc.

This leads me to believe that Square is a platform that through its deployment applications can be built upon it that will change the way commerce can happen on the individual level.

Further - it would seem that there is also a great opportunity for sales distribution here as well. A product distributor could reach out to and enable a mobile sales force providing all these applications to their sales force in the field on a single device - as the merchants sell product, it can be tracked in real time and supplies replenished.

This could work very well in connected, yet less-developed countries such as rural Philippines, China and other parts of Asia.

Couple this with prepaid charge cards -- and the ability to LOAD cards in the longer term, and there are some significant opportunities that can be built using square alone.