skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy was formerly at MSFT. The same guy who when quit, Ballmer threw a chair at him. Not sure if he was worth the chair now.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2005/09/1106.ars
Yes, tungle is pretty great, i use it for most of my meeting bookings. The ability to give free times and that if i book another time in one of my linked calendars, is exactly what the calendar world needs. The view options i'm not sure about.
Nobody understood Ubuntu One.
4/11 people (P7, P9, P11, P12) thought the Me menu icon might be a close button

With silly corporate-ad-campaign-flavored names like "One" and "Me" it's no wonder.
The best learning you can do at a University is learning about yourself and being on your own (for most people this is the first time they have freedom from their parents).

It's also a chance to meet people different from your high school, which in many areas, are rather homogeneous.

All of these things can be learned after college, however, the learning curve is much steeper...

Finally, I don't know many people who say "I wish I dropped out of college and started a business" although I know I would give my left arm to live as an undergrad for another semester
So basically no way to automate backups. In the real world, that usually translates into "doesn't really have backups".
Not sure how anyone could of missed the whole teleport = instantaneous thing... Thankfully Wikipedia is here to save the day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fiction_containing_tele...
It may not be the word "teleportation" that triggers it. A lot of popular science fiction, e.g. the Commonwealth Saga, uses quantum entanglement as a plot device for instantaneous communication.
Google Is A Bit Unpolished When It Comes To Chrome
Beijing Property Market Plunges
I'm curious. How poorly designed and cobbled together would a language have to be for you not to use it?

I realize there's a sliding scale of practicality vs. purity, but let's be frank, PHP is a mess. I'd use good tools in my work.
If he's dealing with EBS he probably doesn't want to use ephemeral and the fact that not persistent.
Safari will be the first browser to auto-block google ads. Jobs will send a one-liner "99% of people don't click on that crap."

Watch.
Dijkstra Archive
I am really surprised one thing didn't come up. It's about the super+(?) shortcut.

If you press them very quickly, say 'super+D', then it will take to desktop and open dash as well. To be safe, you have press 'super', wait till numbers appear on the icons in launcher and then press 'D'
But that should be the point. I am still not convinced why Unity is necessary.
Bootstrapping from COPY CON
did you read that link? Balmer went nuts when http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lucovsky quit
I'm assuming this due to modern fantasy borrowing the term from sci-fi (ie, "teleport" as a way to magically whisk someone/thing from one location to another instantaneously)... which popular culture has adopted wholesale.
1) if a student wants to pull an exploit they can, whether its in a process or a thread. The security angle just isn't there.

2) look at the docs for @deprecated: http://cupi2.uniandes.edu.co/web/javadoc/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api... "A program element annotated @Deprecated is one that programmers are discouraged from using, typically because it is dangerous, or because a better alternative exists. Compilers warn when a deprecated program element is used or overridden in non-deprecated code."

It says it is dangerous, and says nothing about it being removed in a future release.

That's the really big misunderstanding here. @deprecated as an API annotation does not mean "going to be removed in a future release".

Go use deprecated functions and be pleased when the compiler warns you nicely.
I can't remember where I got this quote from, but early on I learned that there are basically three ways to beat the US in technology:

1. The Japanese Way - Innovate By Leapfrogging.
2. The Indian Way - Innovate By Piggybacking.
3. The Chinese Way - Innovate By Copying.

Looking at how things have been over the years, China isn't going to stop a strategy that has worked across industries.
The museum is awesome. It's amazing what you can accumulate if you put your mind to it and have a ton of money to back up your intentions.

They were hoping to get one of the space shuttles, but that didn't work out. Seattle's Museum of Flight lost out on that one as well.
Looks like the policies* are starting to work. Good. Hopefully they can avoid "The Bubble Which Will Dwarf All Other Bubbles"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-china-property-...
and the word "teleportation" here is probably more a link bait than anything else.

One thing I like about HN is that if I see a link that sounds too, umm, bait-y, I can just look at the comments here and avoid wasting my time (or at least getting excited without cause).
Love this product. Its so intuitive and very user centric.
Somewhat related... Derek Sivers attempted to port CD Baby to Ruby on Rails, but ended up abandoning the port effort after 2 years and switched back to PHP. See his post on why he came back to PHP and what he learned from Rails (from 2007):
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...
Yep, that's all. But hey, it's iOS where you can - given enough hype and marketing - make everything sell well.

I wouldn't dream of installing a SSH client on my iPad - simply because the keyboard has no physical feedback. I can't type on that thing. I guess there will be many people who will buy this app and still will be disappointed afterwards.
Thanks for posting this. I'd always wondered how that experiment turned out.
School failed spectacularly "at transforming my ability to think". In my experience, solving the problems you face when trying to create successful company does a much better job.
I'm not sure what you were disagreeing with, but I have to disagree with your disagreeing because if 5/11 people crashed the thing in an hour, it's completely unusable for many people, me included.
Direct link to github:

https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-3d-demo
Amazing, it's just a user interface.
drchrono runs on the iPad and on the cloud backend of drchrono.com. So drchrono can and does integrate with other vendors and systems to share data and take actions. For instance we transmit billing data to insurance companies and order electronic prescriptions over the Surescripts network.
I think you are greatly understimate how great less relevant ads are.

Much less data/less identifying data gathered -> slightly less relevant ads and a huge win fore everyone. Not that this will lead to that but it would be great if it did.
The perils of tweaking Google by hand (2007)
Perl REFCOUNTers and AnyEvent
Perl use reference counting to destroy unused objects.When an object references another one, that itself references the previous one, the two objects will never be destroyed automatically. With closures it can happen very quickly and here is our solution
A decent hoster or mail service provider takes care of that for you. They have at least 2 different backups, one on site and one off site. You don't take care of that yourself and the backup is entirely transparent to you. This is why service providers can make money: because they can take care of things for you. It is their raison d'être. Taking care of that yourself is as ridiculous as hosting the email servers yourself. It's not cost effective anymore. The only conclusion from this story is that Google is not a decent hoster or email service provider. The company using them can be excused for expecting better service and they are rightfully moving their business elsewhere.
RIM Chiefs Defend PlayBook Tablet Against Critics as Its Debut Approaches
> is being chastised already for hiring people and investing in the company

What else do you expect of front-running, HFT, bailout-soaking wall street?

They no longer respect sustainable growth and want overnight riches.
Are you, by chance, a Python programmer?
Exactly what I was going for when I released klein.php (https://github.com/chriso/klein.php)

Sure, you could do the same thing with other frameworks, but most of the other frameworks are full of bloat and not particularly fast. I think it's better to have a few components that do one thing really well rather than a monolithic framework that tries to handle every aspect.
The problem with zookeeper is there is no safe way to dynamically change the nodes in the cluster. That's where Paxos comes in since it is provably correct even with nodes joining and leaving.
You just got played. It was done very well but nevertheless.
"I can't remember where I got this quote from, "

probably this paper?( by the Lemelson-MIT program - warning pdf) http://web.mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/downloads/sustaina...

"Innovation to help achieve the goals of sustainable development can start in many ways, including: “copy-catting” (i.e. Japan, Korea and China first mimicking manufacturing techniques and then becoming world leaders.); “piggy-backing” (i.e. India performing service work for rich countries and adapting information technology to local needs); and “leap-frogging” (skipping over technologies that are inappropriate in a given place and time and adopting more sustainable solutions).

....................

“Copycats” imitate ideas, technologies and techniques from other countries and improve and adapt them. During its first few decades, the United States took the key
secrets of the Industrial Revolution from England, Scotland and France and launched its own industrial economy. Two centuries later, Japan and then Korea developed by
adapting American manufacturing, raising the quality and lowering costs. These days, China is doing it with much success, moving up the innovation ladder at a rapid rate.

“Piggybackers” ride on the backs of rich nations by doing more and more of their manufacturing and service work at far lower costs. India is practicing the art of
piggybacking right now, using advanced computing and communications technologies to perform software development, tele-services, and even high-level innovation at a fraction of the labor costs compared to performing the same jobs in the United States or Western Europe. A recent study showed that one in ten U.S. software jobs will be exported to places like India and China over the next five years.

Finally, “leapfrogs” skip over inappropriate technologies and embrace new ones, such as Finland’s sudden break from Soviet domination and its rapid adoption and development of new inventions like wireless networks.

"
Chain Calendar web app for helping you stick to your goals
Thanks, was wondering if this was good or bad news!
Not for us ex-nokia fans.
I studied Electrical Engineering at university. I have an enduring memory of sitting outside at a restaurant, on a beautiful day, with my roommate, who was a political science major. At one point he started pulling out his notes and an essay and wanted my thoughts, and we spent the next hour discussing various minutae of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Another memory that vividly stands out is being at a friend's house party one evening. One guy, a arts major from Argentina, for some reason made what seemed like the best tasting beer in the world in a red bucket, and we talked for a while about how he managed to make it. Afterwards he displayed an unusual, tenacious, and passionate interest in alternating-current (AC) and as I started breaking down the basic physics and EE behind it a larger and larger group of people gathered around to pester me with questions.

I love computers man but not everything is online. That's why you should go to university. Like jeffepp said, I state without qualification that my undergrad was the best time of my life.
or mine: https://github.com/chriso/klein.php
I think its cool.
Yeah I agree with most of the comments here. PHP is a clumsy mess, but it gets the job done and I am a firm believer in importance of being first to market.

Cite my sources: When I came out of university I had what I thought was a very good grasp of what software should be, and that "elegant" well written software would dominate the market.
Totally not true. The best example is the accounting system "Attache" in Australia ... it was the WORST software I have ever used. They only recently (in the last couple of years) got the ability to open more than one window at a time in an mdi windows application !! .. Attache is without a doubt the most successful accounting software in Australia, despite the fact that it's a dog. Why?? Because they were first to market. They were there on Day 1 with a product that met the minimum requirements (e.g. it RAN)

I often see people who underestimate the importance of being first to market ... I truly think it's very important
Ask HN: Email Service Provider For Web Apps
I know all about companies such as Mail Chimp and aweber but they seem more for email campaigns to a group of people. Yet with each public app I create I need to add email capabilities for password resets, confirmations or notifications. Is there a company that I can integrate with that would do this for me.

So I would just call an API method saying, send an email to this email, with this template (that I preloaded in their system) and this data. Then I could use the companies email tracking capabilities, unsubscribe and other list management functionality without having to do it all on my site.
0% for me - i use my twitter as a combination tumblelog and async irc, as, it seems, do most of the people i follow (with varying ratios between the two)
jobs? especially in the computer industry.
Ironically, Sequoia Capital invested both in DianDian and Tumblr. Great Firewall is really good for copying and monetizing startup businss.

http://fan.renren.it/a/ITxinwen/hulianwang/20110325/79864.ht...
How To Reduce Stress and Live For 100 Years
http://mailgun.net/
How the government is killing Indian Startups
Brief points on wiki are pretty insightful: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chinese_prope...
Postmark.

http://postmarkapp.com
How to negotiate deadlines with professors.

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The Chinese Own Us, and Other Fallacies
That article is four years old now, but I'd still advise against porting a large, complex legacy PHP app to Rails. Starting from scratch with PHP in 2011 seems like a much more questionable move though. Rails works well if you start with its conventions in mind.
Tumblr will have the last laugh here. There's practically no market for tasteful online advertising or paid software in China. So, while he might rack-up users it will be hard to monetize this.
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The entire Chinese startup scene fascinates me - we don't peer into it often enough
Regular expression generator
The headline is terrible. The idea that much of the value generated in startups is by quants optimizing numbers is interesting.

The critique that web companies don't leave a technical legacy is not really valid. Most businesses don't leave a legacy.
The content seems very anecdotal - I see a lot of conclusions being drawn from a few examples in 'hot' startups like Facebook, Zynga & Color which represent only a fraction of SV startups (and are possibly outliers).
Develop your website in Magento application to get a best interface 
Magento is an open source platform through which one can develop outstanding ecommerce websites. A Magento based website comes with customization and integration option and it further offers shopping cart integration option as well
"The four most expensive words in the English language are 'this time it's different.'" - John Templeton
I agree. Using a third party service is reasonable. The important thing is having a backup plan.

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+1 Indeed. Its the classic problem.
Gnumeric only makes sense if you know how to pronounce "gnu".
very close, but Mailgun are programmable mail boxes, I can easily do the coding for sending emails etc, I already have that, I was more after the list management and list statistics/tracking when sending emails.
When someone says "pulseaudio 2.0", they mean it in a derogatory sense ;)

Also, the statement about Ubuntu being less stable than debian testing. I don't know the GPs specific instance, but Ubuntu has basically made debian a usable desktop.
Trying to generate any serious revenue from 11k page views is nearly impossible using ad networks. Even with the best possible eCPMs (which you won't get) you're talking about a couple hundred dollars.

The best shot for a low traffic site to make money with advertising is selling direct "sponsorship" style ads. Get some relevant companies to pay you $500-$1000/mo each to have an ad on your site.
I worked for 18 months as a fire & rescue person at an airport. While it was a real airport (terminal building, check in desks etc) it was a small regional airport, and thus we typically had only 1 or 2 scheduled movements per day.

We had one ATC at the airport (they came and went in 3 month rotations). They were in the tower most of the time monday to friday (during normal office hours) and obviously there for all scheduled flights, day or night - but equally he didn't feel the need to hang around. Plus of course toilet excursions.

We had a traffic-control radio in our office, so we could hear the movements and (on weekends for example) issue a simple phrase like "good morning echo-foxtrot, this is xxxxxx, proceed with unmanned tower approach".

Our section was obviously manned 24/7 so in theory we could hear distress calls as well, but I don't think we ever did. One helicopter made an approach over the hangar, and landed on the hard-stand (not exactly what they're supposed to do) but apparently he'd pretty much run out of fuel. (According to the pilot he didn't turn the engine off after landing - he ran out of gas.)
it is inspiring, ascii art of 3d game is valid, maybe we can convert some good old 3d games into ascii?
Now Kaifu-Lee's http://innovation-works.com itself got copied

http://aodaren.com/copy-works
I am really surprised one thing didn't come up. It's about the super+(?) shortcut.

Really?? You are surprised that the test group didn't somehow magically discover an edge case in a feature they didn't know existed and has no discovery mechanism?
Thank you for the straightforward answer - I think I was having a slow day yesterday!
Anything technical and application based can be learnt without. In my personal experience the best courses were the ones that looked beneath the surface, that answered "why" not "how"; so I would suggest only humanities and liberal arts. Take philosophy, sociology, anthropology, those can be almost life changing. Unless you're researching under a like-minded professor, studying anything technical at the undergraduate level is a waste of time because you can do that on your own. One exception: if you want access to the particle accelerator you might have to be registered in the physics department.

I want to add I am quite impressed by your sensibility.
http://sendgrid.com/
This Time is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/files/faculty/51_This_Time_...
Improving foreign policy would be a cheap way to reduce military costs - relying on a militia was the American tradition up until the Cold War and is indeed one of the reasons you have the right to arms.
It's worth noting that month-on-month price fluctuations are prone to noise and are fairly poor indicators of a more general price trend. This is why the Case-Shiller housing indices are a three month moving average.

That said, no doubt there are declines to come in the Chinese property market.
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Why not making it an option?
You've got to love their name: "Innovation Works".
Apologies, I think my brain took a holiday yesterday.
Holy lord is that a lot of risk to accumulate doing a full rewrite and deploying it all at once. I think the hardest part about rewriting an app is knowing about all the edge cases, kludges, etc. that accumulate over the years. It makes sense that the person who knows the most about the product and its dirty secrets would be much more capable of rewriting the app quickly than a newly hired employee.

As a counterpoint, last year I joined a startup as the first technical member. I migrated a PHP application written by an inept contractor (terrible DB layout, SQL queries in the views, most features buggy and incomplete, etc.) to Rails piece-meal. I had very little experience with Rails or PHP prior to this, but was able to rewrite the app in the course of a few months, while adding new features and continuing product development. I simply placed nginx in front of both the PHP and Rails app servers and rewrote the auth system for both apps so that cookies/credentials could be shared. Then it was a matter of migrating sections of the app over one-by-one. There was some hairiness in how the Rails side linked to non-Rails pages, but that code was gradually replaced as the rewrite progressed.

Even despite the abominable DB schema from the original PHP app (which, in fairness, had nothing to do with PHP), Rails was flexible enough to allow me to override its conventions and map tables to models with joins, etc. Overall, it was much simpler than I thought it would be and after the rewrite was complete, it was pretty simple to write migrations to start organizing the DB schema into something coherent.
You are using the word created wrong. Infiniminer created the genre; Minecraft popularized the genre.
This is just plain smart strategy.
This sounds great, but in practice is impossible. Are you personally as an individual going to take care of 100% of your own backups? Are you going to drive the tape over to the other facility that you own, make regular checks that you can restore, etc? No.

Ultimately you are going to rely on someone else and something else. Be it your IT guy, the company that hosts your backups, the power company, the company that makes the machines you keep your backups on, etc. You can distribute this so that you rely on lots of someone else's and any one or more of them can fail, but often you'll still have one point of failure somewhere (the guy who monitors the distributed backups for example).
New Nintendo Wii 2 coming soon [Report]
Can anyone qualified/familiar with the situation comment on what the probable effect the (likely) QE3 in June will have on the Chinese housing market and consumer buying appetite?
It's easy to forget how little we knew about the Solar System prior to the wave of exploration in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. A great deal of unfounded but seemingly logical speculation was wiped away and replaced with solid observationally backed theory.

As heroic and remarkable an era of exploration as any. Indeed, perhaps all the more remarkable for its speed.
postmarkapp.com is amazing. They have API's and also standard SMTP provider.
I think a lot of this is not about security or service level. It's psychological, it's about control/trust. When it's under your control and you can fix things yourself, you psychologically feel more safe. If you rely on someone else and they say "we're working on it" but don't give you an estimate, you feel a lack of control. It may be that doing things yourself has worse uptime/performance/etc than relying on someone else, but the psychological effect of that loss of control when something bad happens is huge.
Could not read the article either but I'm eccentric because the fundamental material creativity exercises on is the self!
The time to avoid a bubble was a while back.

The problem with bubbles is there's no staying still with them. It's exponential growth or .. exponential decline.

My guess is they'll make a desperate effort to "reflate" things to avoid that scary exponential decline part. We'll see what happens.