skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What puzzles me is that Georgian Telecom didn't put in place any secondary line/s to provide an alternative path in case of issues on the working path.

Update: Checking Railway Telecom site http://grt.ge/?m=static&s=5 (here for the interactive map: http://grt.ge/?m=static&s=6) looks like it's an optical network based on CWDM equipments with links that provide a bit more than two 10GE between the nodes, definitely not a top-notch network. Automated path protection facilities couldn't even be available for networks of this type.

Update 2: Just noticed that the two bigger 10GE paths create a channel only from Poti to Tbilisi, so bandwidth for communications between internal nodes is provided by the other links (slower optical links and the ethernet ones (copper? hm) shown on the map).
The important thing about IKEA to me is that they do offer cheap stuff that's quite nice. For example, I was looking for curtains a while ago, and found that IKEA offered a broad selection that were half the price of anyone else's cheapest garbage.

I never ever go through the whole showroom path, though - I just cut through the registers and head straight to the marketplace. Works well.
Oh, its not all that long ago. There were plenty of flat panels in 2004, lots of all-in-one printers, and "cloud computing" had already been around for several years in the form of 'Akamai Edge Computing'.
So, that's 10 things, of which 3 are major releases and uncontroversially appropriate. 7 in total. So, on average, either

1. these things will last at most (say) a day on the front page, in which case they take up ~ 1 slot there; or

2. they will attract enough interest from the HN community to stay on the front page for longer than a day.

I find it hard to see either of these as terrible outcomes, given that these submissions are of enough interest to get to the front page in the first place.
Is it time to address to the elephant in the room yet? Can we go ahead and admit to this growing affinity for ripping directly off OSX?

http://i.imgur.com/SbCBe.png
So the beta sucks?
It's not as technically difficult as it seems - see this discssion somewhere else in the thread. Definitely no crooked supply chain needed, except for the "don't ask, don't tell" mindset.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2419303
What Do Don Draper and GitHub Have In Common?
Ok, I will start to pitch the idea to the best of my abilities and will let you know what came out of it. :)
Ability to drag images is not what's keeping people on Outlook.
One Hand Clapping - Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan
My view on managers: Turn your org chart 180°. All managers are supporting those "above" them, this is their primary goal. Usually companies have this the other way round. This also means there is no problem with "useless" middle management (Scrum calls this manager type ScrumMaster).
I work on a 27" iMac with a 27" second monitor, and a third 19" on a Linux box with Synergy. My primary language is Python, so I do have a place for that shit in the real world.
Why "Closed" Android is Better for Everyone (It's Still Open in the Right Ways)
welcome to:

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Here an interactive map: http://grt.ge/?m=static&s=6 , mouse over the nodes to display a summary of the available connections.
See Armenia, Azerbaijan, etc... south of them.
Please do realize that there are youngsters who come across new terms, like linux, unix, design patterns, kernel, unix, oop, functional programming, open source, SEO etc. and many others, every single day for the first time.

Just because you and I have already gained (some) knowledge about these things, does not mean they will not be intellectually simulating for someone else, especially someone new to the profession/field.
I'm writing OCaml just one hour ago. Out of all the languages I know (and I'm very or reasonably proficient in many), it's still the easiest one.
____ will ____ you
Yes: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketproto...

Hopefully it will be re-enabled in Firefox 5.
Depends on your clientele. If they want to use one then you need to have one. I wouldn't make you're not having a fax machine a barrier to your customers. You can get multi-function printers pretty cheap these days so there isn't much of a cost.

The above being said there is no reason you need to advertise the fact that you accept them. Just be able to say yes if someone asks.
Somewhat similar:

http://littlegreatideas.com/willyou/
I wonder if that was his actual response to the email. While I think it's a great tone of voice for a blog (I loved it), I think there is a way to mitigate that situation and have you come out even better than you were before. Encourage them to build out their products and do it better than you. They will either fail to deliver and you've eliminated a competitor, or you can use his struggles to compete as ideas to generate if he happens to think of neat features you could implement as well. Never try to close doors you couldn't learn from by keeping open and exploring.
Couldn't they just strap solar panels all over the surface or on top of the wind mills to mitigate some of the inefficiencies? On a related note, whatever happened to the spray-on solar material using nanotechnology?
The solutions you describes are designed to keep calendar in sync with Earth rotation around the Sun and around its own axis. However, there is no real need to keep computer timers synchronized with Earth rotation.

The simplest way to keep track of time for computers is to count seconds from a certain agreed-upon point, without leaps, stretches, or arbitrary transition tables - without needless complexity. If I don't care about calendar (Earth rotation) I shouldn't care about any of that stuff either.

In short, no leap seconds would mean simpler, more reliable software.
Yes. It's "CORE DUO" as you can see.
Активиа
В допълнение към здравословния ефект на фибрите и бактерията е приятният и свеж вкус на парченцата ябълки. Фибрите са полезни за човешкото здраве и трябва да се консумират всеки ден. Съдържат се в зърнените култури, плодовете. Освен на влакнини те са богати и на други полезни елементи - витамини и минерали. Европейските препоръки са за увеличаване на дневната консумация на фибри.
Wow, If it works well, it is a boon for people who are not natural cooks, who want to make something homemade, with the ingredients at home.

(I suppose/believe/hope this is a significant market size.)

I would like to know more about the algorithm/science, behind the pairings (and its degree).
Small scissors were a sarcasm on my part :)

The point I was trying to make was that whoever lays "critical fiber optic cable" in a way than an elderly lady comes with any kind of a tool, should be put to trial instead of poor woman who is probably living in poverty trying to survive.
Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds
FCC considers mandatory data roaming across the USA
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Christan Audigier bikini $23

Ed Hardy Bikini $23

Smful short_t-shirt_woman $15

ed hardy short_tank_woman $16

Sandal $32

christian louboutin $80

Sunglass $15

COACH_Necklace $27

handbag $33

AF tank woman $17

puma slipper woman $30

http://www.fullmalls.com
2011 - 1 macbook pro * n-employees. Maybe some nice flat-panels if you're into that.
The problem with this is that there is a wide range of technical sophistication "out there". You may have a scanner and find it a "no brainer" to scan and email paper originals, but don't make the mistake that everyone falls into this category. Fax (as a stand-alone device) will eventually go away, but it will be around for many years to come. For many, the ease and convenience (and decidedly "low tech" requirements) of a fax machine is just too appealing. As to how this relates to your decision, get a low-cost Internet Fax account. If you prefer to scan and email, you can do this, while still providing a way for those who wish to fax to do so (and you get the fax as a PDF file in your email). It also gives you the option to scan and fax, when you encounter someone who can't or doesn't want to receive your scan via email.
I used to know it very well. Now, not as much. Even when I wrote C++, I basically wrote "C, with classes."
For the android version, could you put a QR code up for the download.
Trusteer vows to fight 'baseless' code-theft lawsuit
It doesn't matter. It seems there has been a least one study that suggests Montessori is "better" than standard school (the premise of this whole discussion).

But to try to extend that to say that almost anything BUT standard school is good puts a huge burden of proof on the original poster.

If a>b, it doesn't automatically make c-z better than b too.
Virgin Media busts £1bn a quarter
The new killer app is MMS
I used C exclusively for ten years - then I fell in love with Perl and never really looked back. Garbage collection was my downfall.
As a first reaction I thought, well, more than 50% of HNers fluent with C, the average age should be pretty high probably. But then I realized that actually the average HN age is probably around 25 (from other pools I saw here), so I guess, there are still a lot of fresh programmers learning C. I really hope so. I love higher level programming languages and spent a lot of time with Tcl, Scheme, FORTH, Joy, Ruby, and other languages, but I really hope that the next generations of programmers will still be able to stay near the metal when needed.
<trivial app> in <less than 100LOC> with <new tech>.

Old meme is old!

Writing a chat app is one thing. Writing a node.js 3D MMO is quite another.
This is a great idea, though probably not for everyone. I'm evaluating a whole slew of ones right now and could use the feedback and advice, especially being a "soloist". At some point I may put my short list together for advice, votes, and any other type of feedback. Good luck!
What is the most popular operating system that will make use of Gnome 3?

I'm a bit confused, I guess, as to how much they show in their screenshots is "GNOME Shell" which would not be shipped with Ubuntu.
An Attack Sheds Light on Internet Security Holes
I use C/C++ and assembly everyday as a game programmer. It is the incumbent development language for consoles (at least xbox and ps3 - I'm never done any dev on the Wii). I suppose its stay is due to the ease of access to the metal.
It's propably worth noting that lots of games use higher level scripting languages to do speed-insensetive tasks.
I'm guessing that the business model expects Moore's Law to resolve the issue of cost of static lifetime memberships.

I paid 17$ for a lifetime MixPanel membership several months ago and it goes basically unused. I was thinking even if I never use it, it's too good a deal to pass up. So there's a bit of the "new years' resolution gym membership" salesmanship going on. Sure you only get 17$, but your costs are $0 for those kind of customers. Pure profit margin.
it's great

another way to get a qr code in just one line:
https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=150x150&cht=qr...
That's nice in theory, but this isnt about manufacturers putting 3.0 on phones. It's about ROM developers doing it. You can get those Google apps pretty easily on your custom mod.
That is my favorite C++ style as well.
Thorium (not Uranium) the Future of Nuclear Power ‎
Solar power? In Scotland?
If you make an easy translation page for all the ingredients this would definitely be a bulls eye !!! Great app.
The problem is that it you are attempting to measure two different things with the same question: depth of knowledge and frequency of usage. It's possible that someone knows C quite well, but no longer (or never) uses it.

It's similar to offering 3 options for Marital Status: Single, Married or Divorced. It's impossible to interpret the results in any meaningful way (Divorced and single? Divorced and remarried? Is it important that I've ever been divorced? Or do you just want to know if I'm currently married or not?). It's better to separate these questions.
Hmmm... the android version just leads off to http://www.foodguts.com/

Both the original link and the above are powered by http://www.recipepuppy.com/

Which of course, is still owned and operated by the submittee... but still, it starts to make it feel like a link-farm. I'm a bit confused as to why you don't just have a single URL for it all, some kind of coherent high level interface to encapsulate it all.
I know C(#), it counts right? ;)
Hey, this is the missing part of my cooking web app, centered around ingredients you have at home.
This can become ultra powerful with some sort of an API. Is there any?
PROBLEM OF WORLD: MISSING EQUALITY  (siq, a message from the comodo hacker)
I understand the point that the writer makes but I don't understand the negativity of the point of view.

Yes, from what he writes, there are holes in the entrepreneurial environment in Ann Arbor. Members of that community must realize that or they wouldn't be bringing in people from outside.

What I don't get is how after accepting payment to be an asset in helping fill those holes he turns around and hits them with such a condescending post.

If you're being paid to be part of the solution then be part of the solution. If for no other reason then throwing your clients under the bus has a way of limiting future engagements.
C is the language I use when I just want to sit down and enjoy "resonating with the computer". Python, Java etc feel like I am "working", or "cheating" as the case may be in Python. With C you are conscious of the memory of the computer and the lovely datastructures you are forming on top of it and the whole elaborate dance. I hear that Lisp programmers get a similar feeling but I am not close to seeing that yet.
I'm 26 and know C very well. I use it at work and for hobby projects. Still, Python is my main language.
C is the third most widely known language on HN behind javascript and python. Source: http://hackernewsers.com/skills/index.html
I was more trying to provide a 1-5 type scale with some guidelines on how to vote. The sentences in the options should be ORed together more so than ANDed.

What if I added a phrase to option two: "Or I learned C extensively at one point, remember most of it, but don't use it regularly anymore" and to option three: "Or I learned C extensively at one point, but have forgotten most of it and don't use it anymore?"
That is interesting, whyy do you say that garbage collection was your downfall?
Well, it seems the old stigma against multi-language systems is fading. Even 5 years ago, it was more or less "the rule" that you chose one language for a project and you had to live with whatever trade-offs that choice left you with. Now, people are more willing to accept that you can write much of your system in a language designed for programmer convenience and only write the bottlenecks in a more performance-oriented language.
Why write C-with-classes if you can just write C-with-structures-and-function-pointers instead?
I think the most crucial slide is #15: Growing through social. The integration of social pressures into the core game mechanic is a vital part (IMHO) of the growth of Zynga.

If the Zynga games were stand-alone, their reach would be a tiny fraction of what they are. And it's not something that is tacked on as an afterthought - it's right there in the mechanic from the start.

Last year game designer Brian Meidell wrote an article about Farmville that covers similar ground, from a different perspective:
http://meidell.dk/archives/2010/11/25/what-i-learned-from-fa...
All You Need To Know About The DLF IPL 4 - The Copy Paste Blog
Good stuff. Let me know if you need any testers. :)
I don't think the top surface area of a typical wind turbine is even close to being large enough for that to pay back.

The largest turbines (Enercon E-126 [1]) are rated at 7 MW of wind power. The largest photovoltaic solar plant (Sarnia [2]) in the world is rated at 80 MW, i.e. about 11 of the largest wind turbines. The cell surface area of that plant is 966,000 square meters.

Again, I don't think the surface area of the top of a single wind turbine's gondola quite suffices.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine#Largest_capacity
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarnia_Photovoltaic_Power_Plant
During college days i have used lots of C for different projects but its been few years i haven't touched C, I think i have forgotten pointer and stuffs need to review
Who cares? Does that matter?
duplicate post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2419281
I left Slashdot to get away from these kinds of stories. Anything to do with politics especially and most of the time you would read the linked article or the comments to find the summary was just hysterical nonsense.
The Assassin in the Vineyard
One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan
This reminds me of yesterday's item for Hired For. I went to http://newyork.hiredfor.com and entered my e-mail address, so that I could be put on their exclusive invite list. (Their italics.) After submitting the form, I got this:

"Thanks! Want to get an early invitation? Invite at least 3 friends using the link below. The more friends you invite, the sooner you'll get access!"

Jesus Effing Christ. You just took my neutral-to-positive attitude toward you and pissed all over it with your greedy social media whoring.

I don't know who you are, Hired For. I am not about to tell my friends (or even my internet "friends") to visit your site unless I'm willing to vouch for it, and the only way you're going to get me to vouch for it is to, I don't know, let me use it.

Coerced sharing is not sharing.
KDE 4.0 also has the system configuration options all together like OSX.
I know C but none of those categories apply to me. Poll design is useful skill to learn!

I am not a pollster but by combining different facts into single options you are restricting the information you can gain from your poll or polls.

I taught C to engineering students at a university, I know it thoroughly, I haven't written a line of it in 12 years - the only option I can logically choose is the final option.
Whoever's downvoting - this isn't spam, I'm a long time HNer. We couldn't find what we wanted so we built our own, hopefully this will help some others out there. The app is free - we aren't charging early adopters.
I don't get your sarcasm. Selling heroin is a very good example of how unfettered free market capitalism leads to circumstances where people sell things that are harmful to their customers. Likewise tobacco. Likewise unsafe cars, Baby clothes made out of plastic that sticks to the skin when exposed to flame, and many other things that we have deemed enough of a harm to society that we attempt to fetter at least part of the free market.

So yes, obviously, heroin is a good example of places where we have decided that the free market is a bit too free. This is another example of a place where the free market might be a bit too free. Is there anything wrong with that?
Give Me a Quote
A perfect example: printed tickets (for movies, live music, airplanes, etc.) Instead of having to rely on a service to generate a barcode (pretty common) you could generate QR-codes right in the browser, which makes it that much easier to switch over to a QR based system.
Rasing money from Angels
ELIZA was written in SLIP, not C
Dumb people say dumb things. A few months ago I got an email demanding that I cease and desist from infringing on the author's patent application.

Just file it in the loony bin and move on.
Google kicks GrooveShark out of the Android Market
Unfortunately not that much since academia and a few other bits and pieces, 30 here, still do a lot with C++ and ObjC though rather than higher level languages
A full write-up is on it's way but in the meantime, here are some more details about our project & infrastructure.

Group Complete is a new take on mobile data collection that allows collaborative & real-time sharing of forms and data between mobile workers and back-office data consumers.

Group Complete makes enhancements to the already very good functionality found in Open Data Kit (http://opendatakit.org) including a built-in XForms editor and the ability to organize forms & data by folders. The filesystem/SQLite storage layer on Android has been replaced with CouchDB-on-Android. Mobile devices connect to a master instance of CouchDB (soon to be cluster) over SSL either via replication or direct access. This allows mobile workers to build forms, collect data and make changes regardless of whether an Internet connection is available.

Management of mobile clients is accomplished using a node.js/CouchDB application server that is also provisioned via SSL.

What's available now (for Android 2.2 -- 2.1 and 2.3 support is on the way) is a technology preview, more functionality will be made available as weekly updates are released.
Epsilon's epic fail: The numbers don't add up
I'm 30, and from Googling you seem to be 3 years older than me, but I don't think the use case for learning C has changed all that much over the course of my time as a programmer.

Already around '95 or so Perl was widely used, GUIs could be done in things like Tcl/Tk, basic apps were starting to move onto the web, desktop stuff was mostly in C++.

You learned C when you wanted to work on things like kernels or databases or high-performance daemons and whatnot. That's still mostly the case. Java has eaten into that a little bit, but that's not even a new phenomenon.

The things that people used C for 15 years ago are still the same things that it's used for today, and similarly, you didn't have to write stuff in C 15 years ago if you just wanted to bang out some little utility or "CGI script". I expect things to stay that way until there's some language which could reasonably replace C in its niche. Thusfar one has not emerged.
As per other comment thread, my intention wasn't to combine facts, more so to provide guidelines. If one of the statements doesn't apply but the overall "feel" of the option is right, I think you can go with that, since after all, the stated purpose of the poll is to see how well HN users know C. For your purposes, I might pick the first option, as it says C is either your main or best-known language. Best-known could be a reasonable statement in your case.
Odd, on my Mac Firefox 4.0 is by far the slowest (the smoothing pass is painful to watch), with Safari (5.0.4) coming in second and Chrome (10.0.648.204) is easily the fastest. MacBook Pro Mid-2009 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo. Didn't try Opera.
Humour is pretty much seen as noise on Hacker News. If a joke also has some insight about the article, it will get upvotes, but if it's just a joke it gets downvoted.
Google Gears still works on Firefox 3.x and IE 8, and can be used to emulate WebSQL. It doesn't support async queries, but it's still a good alternative.
gets old after the 3rd time.
Outsourcing to the lowest bidder leads to a massively over-budget, failed project.

Why does everyone have to relearn this same lesson over and over again? Hasn't there been enough massive software failures in this world for someone to start to take notice?