skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good comparison.

It would be nice to see Rackspace add in firewall control, bring their new load balancer platform to the UK and have some control over the mapping of ip addresses (like Amazon's Elastic IP's).
Emphasis on "simple", it didn't hit a single rule when I tried out a complex .htaccess file. It's a great idea and a nice start, but I really have no need for a tool to debug only my simple .htaccess files!
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Another very useful feature of Rackspace is their iPhone & iPad app for managing servers on the move.

It can even provision new servers using Puppet or Chef.
I guess the issue could be though, if the employee is fresh out of college or moving into an unrelated position, that they may have no idea what a good salary for this position is going to be. I guess the danger of being to reasonable is that you will end up with the job, just underpaid compared to your peers because you didn't know what that market rate was.
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If you're referring to my disagreement, I disagree simply because IMHO, the price paid for Coffeescript is not worth it. But heck, whatever.
You win my Comment of the Day award
I blogeed about it http://oonwoye.com/2010/09/25/angelgate-dave-mcclure-and-re-...

summary is below.

Vote count should show up only after the discussion is no longer ‘hot’ (say after a day). So people are not unnecessarily influenced by the upvotes by others

No down voting: So people will not lose karma just for having an opposing view. Not gaining, is not as bad as losing
It is hilarious, read the whole piece.
The IOU should be from the company to the person who puts in the money. The interest rate agreed upon should be balance to the risk.
Senate Committee on Investigations issues final report on financial crisis
It was terrible, now its just about ok, so its moving in the right direction. Manning Lift in Action book really helps though.
Haha, I wouldn't really consider your post "raging" (if it was intended to be, it needs way more hyperbole), it was a response to your comment about the controversial nature.
Ask HN: Would you use a interview database?
I am playing with the idea of creating an interview database. You can subscribe to topics and receive an update whenever there is a new interview. Apart from that it is also possible to browse the database in the browser by topic,people etc. I feel there are so many great interviews lost in some blog archive. What do you think?
Death by Cloud - How Amazon is Killing Open Source Software
Atlanta Pain Management and pain relief through prescription medications.
More than twenty percent of adults in United States are suffering from chronic discomfort to an extent for which they seek assistance of pain doctors. Another major reason for visiting pain doctors are injuries, apart from cold, flu and other respiratory diseases. As per the report from National Institute of Health, thirty-nine million individuals in America find it difficult to obtain relief from injuries and chronic discomfort
This might seem like politics, but economics and financial regulation are frequent and valuable topics of discussion on HN; this report may presage significant changes. I knew about some of this stuff a year ago but couldn't disclose it publicly for legal reasons.

Long PDF, but tl;dr: massive incompetence + market manipulation + misleading of congress = probable sanctions for several major Wall St. banks, possible dismantling of the current banking regulation agency, the Office of Thrift Supervision.
If you want job training, go to welding school.

You'd earn much less than a Stanford CS graduate.
Yes, I'm from near the place these dancers are from (in Romania).
after removing the points on the comments, my comments bashing HN or Apple stopped being a consistent -1 to 3~7 (i post when the thread is already late)
I don't think the payment process is anything that you can just glance over. The CMS I have written accepts two forms of payment, SagePay and Commidea.

There are lots of good examples for SagePay in most languages. I found Commidea to be the worst integration I have ever had to do.

If you use SagePay iFrame as I do then you do not ever touch the credit card, it all is handled in an iFrame and they authorise the card etc. This gets you round the PCI DSS requirements.

All you need is a couple of pages to handle post backs etc to tell SagePay where to send the authorisation details etc.

The problem you will have is with membership. If you're in the UK then its hard to get a bank or merchant to allow you to take 1 year memberships and take payment for them. If for whatever reason your site fails after 6 months then it is the bank who has to pay back the membership money. For this reason, I use Paypal for membership items
Nice to see that Minecraft has seemingly created a new genre of first person world building games.
Well, if you could at least do a "display:none" on the points, at least hackerbrain would show the points. I'm sure those points are used by derivative sites during parsing. Can you please put them in the html?
Russian search engine Yandex launches early stage startup investment program
Indeed. To ship in the Netherland it would cost me $120 compared to $88 for a subscription.
May be finding a printer in Europe would help ?
About the same time I was playing too much Atari Star Wars I was also using HLH Orions on my CS course - the early models had bitslice based CPUs and had user programmable microcode:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLH_Orion
Indeed. I can't wait to see someone building an RTS using this. Imagine how awesome TA would be if you could alter terrain on the fly!
Global M2M Innovations to save lives
It would, but I don't think it would make enough of a difference.
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I'm really liking this thread. Everytime someone tries to dismiss a major or course as being somehow inferior, another person chimes in with a view point that blows said dismissal out of the water.

I'm sure there are CS majors now in the workforce that just crank out their requisite number of lines each day, the work that many like to deify as an analytical blend of art and science becoming a routine drag.

And there are welders who take pride in their work and are treated with religious respect by civil engineers.

Maybe it's more about the person than the major.
Doesn't the ordering of the comments on the page fulfill that requirement?
Morons drive the creation of assholes. You need to be able to use the spec to push morons to stop being morons.
Is this a completely new thing or is it based on Minecraft's engine?
One thing I'll say is that if 'without points' is kept, please change the arrow UI. It's now impossible to tell if you accidentally downvoted someone.

I like it sans-points over-all though.
When you compare Coffeescript to things like:
- Libraries - Code optimizing tools
- Debugging tools - etc
Those are totally different tools with
totally different use-cases

There's a world of difference between how typical projects are built in C++ versus Java, or in Java versus Ruby/Python, or in Ruby/Python versus Haskell.

And this has more to do with the capabilities of the runtimes, the introspection capabilities available, the available libraries, the debugging tools, the quality of the read-eval loop, the smartness of the compiler/VM to handle errors -- and a lot less to do with whether semicolons are optional.

You're trying to divorce these assets from the job of a programming language, or from the happiness experienced when using said language, but they are not divorceable, just as you can't separate a language from the compilers available (i.e. it's factually incorrect to say that languages themselves are not slow, as most languages in use have been influenced by known compiler/VM optimizations).

And my point about libraries does hold -- to use Rails, you need Ruby, and can't use it from Python because you would need a clone that's built for Python's capabilities, as while the type system is very similar, there are lots of differences (e.g. namespaces, scoping rules, decorators versus anonymous blocks, functions as first-class citizens versus Proc#call, mixins versus multiple-inheritance, method-dispatching itself, etc...).

But Javascript/CS are so similar that they can share libraries effortlessly. CS will never have the benefits of libraries, as those libraries will be usable from Javascript.

If I'm curt it's because I'm sick of
this nonsense every time CS comes up

Dude, if it makes you happier, more productive, do whatever floats your boat. Tickling your aesthetic senses is a perfectly valid point for using a tool. I was just expressing my opinion on the matter.

And truth is I couldn't care less if it is being adopted as a default in Rails. Heck, I've been proven wrong before, and it may actually work out for the best.
cranky, pissed off, lisp, hacker. right or wrong, cool.
I've always preferred the personal touch. Find the whois info, and hopefully there'll be contact info in there.

Failing that, go to the website (assuming there's one on it), and see if there's contact details on it somewhere.

If that still doesn't work, Sedo are fairly good at ferreting out information.

I'd always try to make the actual buyout overtures myself, as you get a better feel for the person that way, and you never know when the connection might come in useful in the future.

I'll try and get a mate of mine who's a domainer to respond to this with his thoughts.
This is a genuine use-case, and worth considering.

Perhaps a hide-by-default policy, but each page has a link you can click to show points on that page. The extra manual step will mean that most people won't bother unless they have a need to. Just make sure there's no 'show points' setting in the user profile, otherwise the extra step is removed.
We had one of these asshole developers ... one who would - exactly as the article says - follow the spec exactly, and when point to the spec when things went wrong.
He had no sympathy, because he was just doing as he was told.

We fixed him though. After one of his long rants about the spec, we told him that he was going to be tasked with writing the next spec.

All of a sudden, he had the other asshole developers pointing to his spec

It actually humbled him, and turned him into a good developer.
I love it, fortunately at some point I was asked to contribute an article and I received a free electronic subscription. Then I purchased a Kindle. HM + Kindle = a very cool way to consume interesting articles in a relaxing way (the .mobi is one of the default formats you receive your electronic issues).

Also both the printed edition and the PDF are very well done from the point of view of graphic design IMHO.
Microsoft New "Mango" Update Overview [VIdeo]
What if you're never given a spec.
Why do people even post this stuff?

When I clicked on this I guessed that this was going to be on of the best click-whore titles I'd seen for a while sitting over the top of an article that was far more reasonable and intelligent. Turns out not - the title is a fair representation of the article.

In it the author confesses that in the past he's been both a moron and an arsehole and having read the article I have no problem believing this. Sadly the rest of the piece is somewhat more questionable.

I'm not going to bother talking about the contents of the article - it's too obviously wrong to warrant the attention (yes these people exist but they're not the majority or representative) - but I'd like to ask this question.

If you're a developer who feels that everyone you've worked with is either an arsehole or a moron, what does it really say? Do you believe that this is the way the entire industry is (in which case do you really want to be working in it)? Or have you been particularly unlucky (in which case, really, what are the chances and shouldn't you look at your job selection)? Or is there perhaps something in your own attitude?

(P.S. And yes specs matter in many cases but this article says little useful about why).
I don't understand how people get to a point like this. Sure finding good devs is hard, but there are millions of us. You've always got choices (even in 2004) - and if you're not surrounded by good people then it's your own fault!
Then you should go and check TA Spring. It has all the good stuff from TA + modern graphics engine + terrain changing mechanics.

I remember this epic duel I played vs 2 other guys (yes my teammate quit) in a castle type map. Since I turtled too heavily for them to break through, eventually they just drowned me by blasting me with arty long enough for map's floor to erode beyond water level.
much simplified version: we've gone 49/51 so in event of contention someone (me) has the ability to make a final decision
The whole point of Joel is that you want to avoid addressing those variables because it leads to arguments. It's impossible to determine almost any variable without being subjective so you open the door to fights. The only non-subjective way is an equal split.
It's not correct to attribute the voxel game genre to Minecraft. It's just the first game of the genre to reach a considerable level of success.

Minecraft is just one of many games that were directly inspired by the underground hit Infiniminer.
Given that Minecraft isn't open source, this is a new thing.
In the TechCrunch article they quote you on the following:

"... Our founders are a little older than the typical incubator crowd, with some experience... "

Can you elaborate? Why? Is Angelpad less hacker-oriented in comparison to YC? How do you relate?
That sounds cool, but if I play a game I'm usually going for single-player. Does Spring have a useful AI yet?
Beer could be fresher for longer, says chemistry study
As I said in the TechCrunch comments -

If it's anything (it's not, but it's fun to pretend), it could be a sign of integration between the Mac and iOS App Stores. Even if one isn't actually being rolled into each other (which I would assume they wouldn't be unless iTunes was redesigned), it could just be saying "this is also available as a Mac app," possibly with a link to the Mac App Store page.
Apple are very good at getting people to hand over their credit card details before they even intend to make an app store purchase. Then, when it comes to buying something via an Apple store it doesn't require filling in any annoying forms to make the payment.
On Android meanwhile, once you see something you want to buy you then have the tedious task of typing in numbers and for a trivial app many people will feel it's not worth the effort.
The finger is on the device itself...
Not based on the Minecraft engine. The Minecraft engine is proprietary and closed-source. Also, it is (according to the developers) a bit of a runny mess, so licensing doesn't make sense either.
Why not? If it’s the one that made it popular then it’s the one that created the genre.

Edit: Well, ok, I don't want to put it in such absolute terms. But I do think that Minecraft deserves quite a large chunk of attribution for the genre.
OK here is an example off the top of my head. Let's say you have a join between two tables and the query planner wants to do a hash join, because given the statistics on all the tables, that makes perfect sense. Now let's say that you know that you only actually want the first 10 rows. Well a hash join is cheap per row, but expensive to set up. Nested loops are expensive per row, but cheap to set up. So, maybe, actually,as a DBA and a developer I do know what I want, and I can communicate my intent to the planner, and then let it decide.

Anyway, I'd be curious to know what flags the Postgres guys pass into GCC when compiling it. Or do they know better than it's "planner"?
It's not editorialising --- it's the first sentence from the article, and it gives us a better idea of the article content than the article's own title gives us.
Communications sector boosts M2M modules adoption
Surely for images served over the web the key measurement is the speed gain due to smaller filesize minus the loss due to extra decompression time. It is after all a project hosted under Google's speed project.

http://code.google.com/speed/webp/

Which elsewhere claims that 99 human years are wasted due to uncompressed web content each day.

http://code.google.com/speed/articles/use-compression.html

Opera certainly seem to think they can compress and decompress the WebP image on-the-fly and still come out ahead speed-wise compared with the original (at a cost of quality) and their old JPEG system (with improved quality), at least over low-bandwith connections.
If you go without salary, while the other people don't, and get IOUs, but the company goes bust anyhow, you'll be out of pocket but the other people won't. You're taking more risk; why not have more upside?

No one is suggesting that anyone gets a nice, ample, plush salary. This is a survival salary (anything more should not be allowed until the company can pay all founders). If the startup goes bust, a poor founder working 1 year on survival salary is no more "in pocket" than a wealthier founder working 1 year without salary. The valuable thing that they've both lost is a precious year of their life.

And if the startup has enough money to pay everyone, it makes no sense that someone would get more shares simply for taking less salary out. That's not what shares are for in an early startup.
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WTF is with the Comments
How to outsource?
Congratulations! Just ordered my first one :)
Why do people even post this stuff?

If I had to venture a guess: venting. The article is not trying to be rational, reasonable or show any sense of perspective. Given other articles by the same author, I'm inclined to say this one simply was never meant to be posted to HN or other fora. Should he not have posted it at all? I'm unsure: it's his blog and he has a right to vent. Perhaps some readers know the context and think it is pretty funny. In any case, I don't expect he was being serious.

The real question is: why does anyone bother to submit or, equally bad, upvote this? And then your question fully applies. My guess is it is being upvoted by people that do not actually have experience working in teams on 'specced' software. It's upvoted by people that imagine this is how it must be to implement a spec with a team.
Used them for years but every year they raise their prices that bit more. And nearly every search result displays there "Vetta" catalogue or $30 for a small image... I use dreamstime.com now.
That would be true if the employee is a bad employee who needs to be fired and in that case the sooner the better - leaving it to day 364 is just procrastination.

If an employee is good there is no way you would want to fire them, disrupt and demotivate the other employees plus have to go out and look for a replacement. The disruption hit would be far greater than the equity gain.
I thought 2.6 was suppose to be the stable release.
Ask HN: Image hosting for user uploads
This may be a fairly elementary question, but I was wondering what the best/cheapest way to do storage for user uploaded images is without relying on another platform like flickr or facebook. I'm assuming its S3 but would love to hear if there are other solutions out there.
I suggest it would be a good idea to try to clear the ownership issue as soon as possible. Am ambiguous agreement will come around and bite you when you have some degree of success. Everybody in the team will feel like they had a major contribution toward it and will want a bigger share of the equity.
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five days ago

http://programming.reddit.com/comments/glgrm/_/c1ofufz
The author is essentially arguing that platform-as-a-service companies like Amazon reduce the need for e.g. MySQL support contracts. This is probably true, but "killing open source software" is overblown.
Not sure how this is Amazon, or even cloud specific. Any hosting company, traditional or not, can build enough internal expertise to circumvent support-contracts with the OSS provider.
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The points would make sense if I could sort by upvotes received for a comment. As long as that is not the case, I prefer it with comments displayed without points.
Mobile Web Application Development for Futuristic Mobile Shopping Solutions
Mobile web application development industry is witnessing tremendous growth fired on by spiraling demand from the worldwide consumers. There are many apps available that serve different needs of different consumers.
There should be a tester with nginx due to rising popularity. I would love to try it.
It's an article about specifications and how people get in trouble with them - "why specs matter" is totally clear, "Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes" isn't.
Ask HN: Can local newspapers still have success?
Recently i have been asked to take over management of a local newspaper, everyone i talked too said the local newspaper niche is dead and they gave concrete examples. But i refuse to think it is really dead, it can't just die, especially today when everything goes local. Any examples or case studies of a successful local newspaper?
May be finding a printer in Europe would help?

it definitely would! I'm not aware of any magcloud for europe, but I would be happy if somebody proofs me wrong and HNM gets a distributor for europe.
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I trade registers and the help system (especially hyper-apropos) for narrowing and spellchecking.
That's a shame. I guess this game would progress more quickly if it could leverage Minecraft's engine, since it looks the concept is nearly the same.
The product is an ebook and software bundle aimed at technology / computer teachers. The goal of it is to assist in teaching students programming and computer science concepts, whilst subtly mixing in a lot of math and physics (making games). So it is indeed something to be used in the classroom. I meant to write this in my text, sorry I didn't include it that.
The site is awesome, I did basically nostromo's trick with my colleagues in the past and found that I had the highest salary by a reasonable margin but was the newest hire. Ah, the joys of negotiation... A webapp would be great for more distributed teams though!

Me and a couple of buddies made a basic version of Glassdoor back in college before they existed. It's called FuelForHire but it never took off because we never marketed it. I'm promoting it now in hopes it helps people figure out their salary, and on top of that it contains reviews of the hiring process, compensation package, and work environment to give the numbers some context. We DO NOT require you to write a review in order to view one like Glassdoor does, so stop by and take a look, although we'd love it if you did write a review!

http://www.fuelforhire.com

It's probably better suited for people to talk about their experiences at past companies instead of their current employer especially if you're paranoid about your anonymity but feel free to use as you see fit.

Again, the site was made 3 years ago when I was young and stupid, so there are a lot of issues (plaintext passwords, anyone?). If there's significant interest I'll start fixing them right away. Check it out:

http://www.fuelforhire.com
amazon and other cloud services are lowering the access barriere to an advanced server infrastructure significantly. (hey, even i as a private user now have a few instances (i.e.:vpn) in the cloud).

the cake gets bigger -> more demand for support services.
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I-WeddingVisuals is one of the best Wedding video production company in London, probably England. It used cinematographic approach to tell every story differently. We only produce high-end wedding video and films.
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What would be an interesting experiment would be no points and no name displayed. Let the comment rise or fall purely on its own merits rather than the rep of its author. It seems to me that some people need only to cough to get karma