skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cute idea... but really this isn't measuring MIT's mood, but it's sociability. When people are alone, they tend to have a neutral expression regardless of their mood. This is also true in public but non-social situations like sitting on a bus or subway. Conversely, in North American culture anyway (and probably others, especially many European cultures), people tend to smile when they're talking with one another -- again, regardless of mood.
I think the parent commenter is saying that it is unproductive for a journalist to ask questions that they know the CEO cannot answer because of the CEO's fiduciary responsibility to their enterprise. That isn't saying not to ask, but to pick up on cues from the interviewee that pursuing a particular line of questioning isn't going to be successful.
People who use BB for BBM do not get $60 plans.. they get $25 plans that have unlimited bis traffic and very low normal data traffic. Not to mention you can pump media through it for free
Not UK based or anywhere close, but I don't think you need to go through all the trouble to redo it.

I will take you up on your offer of slides though, I only asked about the recording because I remembered seeing that Samy Kamkar talk online (though it might not have been at OWASP).
Any mention of new interest in robotics always reminds me of Cory Doctorow's article in Wired from 2004:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/machines.html

But for all of Asimov's ability to entertain us with his ideas, there's still no sign 65 years after his first robot story was penned of the artificial intelligence he envisioned. There's Asimo, Honda's million-dollar humaniform bot, which can move only when a real person is driving it, and Roomba, the autonomous robo-vacuum from iRobot whose movements resemble those of insects. Unlike rocketry - a real engineering discipline inspired by science fiction - intelligent robots (and virtual reality for that matter, which 20 years after cyberpunk is pretty much dead in the water) serve best as metaphors for the zeitgeist of their eras.

Which makes me wonder- will there be new interest in VR as well? Or has AR made the concept obsolete until relevant advances in neurology produce The Matrix-style mindjacking?
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Technically, you don't even need a degree in anything relevant to nutrition to call yourself a nutritionist. Dietitian on the other hand comes with more accreditation. For that reason, dietitians often refer to themselves as dietitians rather than nutritionists because it's more distinguished. I err towards suspicion when someone refers to himself/herself as simply a "nutritionist".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritionist
Would anyone recommend Play! over Lift?
TATA Docomo HSPA e-stick 21.1 Mbps 3G speed DATA CARD -
> default scripting language for Rails

I guess I'm somewhat out of the loop when it comes to Rails, but why does something written in a scripting language need a scripting language?
Missleading website if you have NoScript. The video panel collapses completely and it just looks like a link to vote in some pole...
My wife and I check out about 2 dozen books a week from our local library. That's usually 20 childrens book for our 3 year old and 4 for us. I don't think digital will be replacing our library experience, ever.

In college, however, I only checked out 1 book over 4 years. All of my books had to be purchased, or I was able to use online references.
النصف الآخر - موقع زواج للبيع بنصف سعر التكلفة
Can Unison intelligently control bandwidth allocation?

One of the reasons I use dropbox, even though I'm a hacker, is because Dropbox seems to sense my internet usage, and throttle its bandwidth appropriately.

Until unison (or some other solution) can work seamlessly in the background, when I'm working online, I prefer Dropbox.
Ah, I didn't notice until today.
True, but I'd wager the most lucrative forms of writing (outside the lottery win of a fiction bestseller or successfully navigating the Hollywood game) are only minimally related to the passions that drive people to major in English.

Majoring in English to write marketing copy is like majoring in CS to write soundboard Android apps. It'll help, but ...
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Those systems exist, but they are ad-hoc. That is, people implement their own in-house solutions as needed. We're trying to provide a language and runtime that allows developers to only focus on writing streaming applications - they don't need to worry about implementing their own infrastructure or way to describe their applications.
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icco Added a mobi version (Thanks!) and I put in an updated version that had a few bugs. There are definitely spacing issues etc but you can pretty easily understand the original meaning. Here's the main loop of code that extracts the text, if anyone has a better idea let me know:

source = open(link['href']).read

text = Readability::Document.new(source, :tags => %w[div p br font]).content
xhtml_text = Sanitize.clean(text, :elements => ['a', 'div', 'pre', 'br', 'font', 'p', 'img', 'table', 'tr', 'td'], :attributes => {:all => ['class', 'id', 'src', 'href']})
xhtml_text = Mustache.render(xhtml_template, :title => link.text, :content => xhtml_text)

where ePub formats expect something like

xhtml_template = <<XHTML
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>
<head>
<title>{{title}}</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>{{title}}</h2>
{{{content}}}
</body>
</html>
XHTML
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It's not recommended for serious use because:

* You have to include the "coffee-script.js" compiler file, which is medium large (mostly the generated parse table).

* It's harder to debug, because you're debugging through an eval(), without the compiled JavaScript handy.

Those two caveats aside, it works fine. All of the interactions on the CoffeeScript.org homepage are powered by it.
You might want to update the link to the actual article rather than a BBC tech landing page. :-)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9456798.s...
AWS Case Study: BackType
I'll see if I can find a citation, pretty sure it was in a paper I read about optimizations in the Erlang VM's scheduler. May be a recent thing.

Edit: Here's one (http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-January/0...):

"Regarding the issue of why a logger process in Erlang does not get overwhelved, this is the reply I got from Raimo Niskanen (Erlang team at Ericsson):

There is a small fix in the scheduler for the standard
producer/consumer problem: A process that sends to a
receiver having a large receive queue gets punished
with a large reduction (number of function calls)
count for the send operation, and will therefore
get smaller scheduling slots."

Sending to a mailbox costs reductions proportional to how many messages are already queued. While this isn't a perfect solution, it should influence the scheduler quite a bit. (Imagine trying to do that sort of thing in node.js!)
How to Succeed in Business (in 1 sentence)
That's _exactly_ my point. Exceptions (as typically implemented) fit within a stack-based mental model, Common Lisp's resumable exceptions and first-class continuations do not.
Mozilla Introduces Aurora, The Pre-Beta, Post-Nightly Firefox
You can also work on risk part of the equation, of course.
Microsoft benchmarks Windows Phone browser against iPhone 4 and Android, wins
go with a friend and a camcorder! i'm really interested in the subject.
I imagine they were removed to make commenting less of a game, but I was using them for a greasemonkey script to be able to highlight comments. That way on posts with lots of comments I was able to scan and find what other reads thought was insightful comments

I wouldn't mind if they were returned as an html attribute.
Ask HN: Amazon mobile traffic - numbers?
I was just wondering if there is a recent data about estimated Amazon mobile traffic available?
http://www.hackerbooks.com/book/learning-python-3rd-edition/...

http://bibliotechnical.com/books/learning-python

I made the latter; the problem I ran into was generating quality reviews and related information. I found it was going to take a lot of manual curation to get good results.

HN is also a tough crowd for this kind of project, I think you would be more profitable trying to optimize for people searching for 'java book' instead of those looking for the 'best java book given that I know how to program and know these other languages'.
To combat these kind of issues, maybe the law should move to some kind of a majority of three decisions, each hearing being random in all possible senses.
Anyone know if the life sciences ever experiences this as part of hype for a biotech boom? I'm sure they have a constant stream of enrollment for the med industry.
Twitter killer in the works?
Thanks for the responses so far. I guess I should elaborate a bit more:

- Yes, I do have to take 6-7 courses/semester. It's the program.

- I've already spent most of my time thus far "enjoying myself" so to speak. I'm not necessarily the nerd-kid going to engineering who needs to make friends, I'm closer to the opposite and now that I appreciate my education I want to take it more seriously.

- Why GPA? Well I like competition for one, and I want to prove to myself that I can excel at it despite the challenges. I guess I'm tired of pretending I'm smart while only getting a 3.2 GPA. Plus I may want to get into a good graduate school.

Someone mentioned something about test-taking: that's my main weakness for sure. I do well on projects and assignments, but tests just destroy me. I get too much "tunnel-vision" and seriously under-perform for the knowledge I have.

Also, what types of classes can/should be skipped? I feel like certain solving courses are worthless for lecture (for example, beginning-level electromagnetism which is well-documented online and reduces to a small number of vector calculus equations and definitions). But I feel something like computer organization is best attended.
It's pretty unfortunate that one of the leading videos is by a russian female who doesn't really know what's going on. Asteroids on an oscilloscope is much cooler than her.
Exactly, if you want to create a website for your high school chess club there is a ready made solution that while not perfect is fairly difficult to beat by hand. So the average became more complex because the simple problems had already been solved AND you are building generic solutions to cover more areas. In other words Facebook solved a lot of the problems people used to learn HTML to solve and now Facebook needs a few high quality designers not just a HS student with some time on their hands.

Net result fewer people learned HTML because it was not needed.
Sure, but I'm still going to want to sweeten food in moderation, and it appears that tilting towards glucose in doing so is better. (Though glucose is less sweet, possibly meaning I'll use more, and that's worth watching out for.)
Out of curiosity, what OS and browser? Opera on Ubuntu just displayed a big ass box of non-readable text but didn't gobble all my memory or anything.
SketchChair: Furniture Designed by You (with a HN connection)
Great stuff.

Does anyone else think that these Kickstarter videos are also perfect YC application videos? ;-)
Anyone who has questions has the option of posing them directly to Gary himself. The NYT has a Q&A that's open for a few days. Looks like he has already started responding.

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/well.blogs.nytimes.com...
Microsoft offers first details on next version of Windows Phone
The dose is discussed in the article. The hypothesis is that 90 pounds of added sugars per person per year is toxic (current levels of consumption). 40 pounds per person per year is supposed to be ok.
This is like text-book CEO stuff, right? I think his reaction and cutting the interview short confused the issue even more. If I didn't already know the background, I would think there really must be a security issue, not that some foreign governments are threatening RIM because it's too secure. I think he could've easily batted that one away, if he hadn't taken it like a personal insult.
I’ve spent much of the last decade doing journalistic research on diet and chronic disease — some of the more contrarian findings, on dietary fat, appeared in this magazine

---------------

I think thats compelling enough to make it worth the read.
cold fusion -> .NET -> php -> python -> ruby/rails
Absolutely. That's where the small organization shines. Once you get big, where big == more than a couple of hundred people, subcultures start to develop that may not share positive values. A few key negative people can poison an organization.
Apparently someone tried to do something like this in Canada, due to pressure from the telecoms the site was sacked.
The People Who Clean the World's Tallest Mountain
I wouldn't encourage people to take actions with a physical reward as their motivation.

First, it gets you the wrong type of users, because people completely uninterested in your service will get others to sign up just because there is something in it for them (or create fake accounts, bots, etc...). Second, if you use this approach it's hard to gauge real interest in your service. It should be interesting enough that people will want to show their friends with no reward, if it's not I'd solve that problem first.

If you feel you must incent them in some way, maybe a free month of the service, a "Founders" badge or something else that relates to your service but is intangible might be a better route.
Kinect SDK developers sign up announced; public release due spring
The concept is synonymous with how close you can get to 'system' where there is no additional abstraction.

A dinky example say is for instance you may need a password for X, but if you have access to disable the need for the password in X, you have lower level access. In the case at hand, with root level access you can read all the keys, passwords, settings in all the WP config files, otherwise you wouldn't be able to. You could also quietly add an additional password to the database allowing a bad application to run behind the scenes doing bad things with the data.

This makes for a very good simple CS test question.
The news articles come from Yahoo! Finance's RSS feeds for each ticker symbol. Some stories may be duplicated across multiple companies, and I'm currently not doing anything special to detect dupes.

(Btw, you will notice the same new stories in the iPhone Stocks app)
EFF Tech Projects 2011 - Flourish Conference
Cal Newport has a lot of really good things to say on this subject. I would strongly encourage you to read some his thoughts:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/10/16/the-passion-trap-how-t...

http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/02/14/zen-and-the-art-of-inv...

And especially: http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/11/12/the-pre-med-and-ira-gl... (And within this article, especially the 2 paragraphs starting at "This advice is less sexy than the popular notion that with a little self-reflection you can identify your dream job right away.")

There are probably no legitimate get-rich-quick schemes, and there are probably no legitimate get-perfectly-fulfilling-work-quick schemes either.
Smooth vs Rough. Robust vs Tough
Dr. Lustig is a nationally-recognized authority in the field of neuroendocrinology, with a specific emphasis on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. He is currently investigating the contribution of biochemical, neural, hormonal, and genetic influences in the expression of the current obesity epidemic both in children and adults. He has defined a syndrome of vagally-mediated beta-cell hyperactivity which leads to insulin hypersecretion and obesity, and which is treatable by insulin suppression. This phenomenon may occur in up to 20% of the obese population. He is interested in the hypothalamic signal transduction of insulin and leptin, and how these two systems interact. He is studying the cardiovascular morbidity associated with hyperinsulinemia, and developing methods to evaluate and prevent this phenomenon in children. He is also analyzing the contribution of the autonomic nervous system to insulin secretion and insulin resistance in obese children, and the utility of assessing insulin dynamics in targeting obesity therapy.
Stephen Elop: The Canadian Manchurian Candidate
I spent half my undergrad in labs, writing up formal scientific results. I wrote and was graded on plenty of scientific papers. I have a fine understanding of scientific publishing, data analysis, and experimental methods.

The fact that you misread me is your problem. I did not write there was conclusive evidence that sucrose is toxic. I said _conclusive evidence of a problem_ - which is different thing and is clearly true.
Many "weekend" projects are starting out as experiments or self-educating exercises. Depending on the overall scope or drive of the developer these have potential to become apps or small revenue generating adventures.

To your question though, I recently stumbled onto http://sleepyti.me from this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2399054 and it looks as though this exercise in learning jquery is now enough to cover his rent.
"In Lustig’s view, sugar should be thought of, like cigarettes and alcohol, as something that’s killing us."

I don't smoke, but I do drink alcohol in moderated amounts, and I'd disagree that alcohol is "killing us" [1], and feel that even if it were proved beyond a doubt that alcohol monotonically decreases lifespan, it helps make life enjoyable enough to be worth it. The same is true for processed sugar, in moderate amounts (though I'd take a ripe honeycrisp apple over a twinkie any day).

[1]http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-09/09/why-alcohol-i...
I'm actually curious about what this says about consuming fruits in large amounts ... since they are pretty much all fructose.

Some folks I know (I did for a bit) consume fruits with gusto, erroneously thinking they don't have effects close to what refined sugars have on the body
I know the verb "open-sources" is not well defined, but...

Publishing 2 github repositories, each with several classes which are mostly trivial, is not "opensourcing".

Much like the fact that a weekend project is not a "startup".
I know I personally have argued with him about it. He's very much in favor of ERB.
Gasoline prices aren't a good indicator of cost of living. They are a factor to be sure, but their prices are too overwhelmed by political policy (ie gasoline taxes) compared with other expenses, which introduces too much noise into the data.
It's not just London or not just UK either, the teens love Blackberry where I live too
I'm trying to choose a framework for a new project, and Play! has really caught my eye - I'm not really a Java guy, and the whole "enterprise" mindset is a bit of a turnoff for me, so Play is really tempting.

One of the concerns internally was that it has a much smaller community than more established frameworks - have you found this to be an issue?

Also, it sounds like you used it for a reasonably large project. How does code organization and maintainability compare with traditional frameworks?
It's a shame that this hack is necessary; it would have been so easy for the language designer to simply declare that any tab characters used as indentation result in a syntax error

then someone else would say that it's a shame that TABS aren't supported and that it would have been so easy for the language designer to support them. I'm sorry if it sounds snarky, but I find it arrogant to assume that design decisions are "easy" simply because they look easy to implement.
SF/Bay Area iPhone Developers (put 22 if you just want to see the results)

http://salaryshare.me/b57de74e7eecef0c5179516ee5e75a1f
I'm not a nutritionist, biologist, or doctor, but I have a huge sweet tooth, and I actually tried to answer this question on my humble little blog (http://foodconstrued.com/2011/02/sugar-cravings/) back in February.

My answer: It is not the sugar, but the empty calories leading to obesity and then to further health complications.
Was hoping to see "republished with permission" somewhere before downloading. Does PG give open license to reproduce/distribute?
This is pretty much the definition of an ad hominem argument. In the context of your post, calling Taubes a "journalist" is overly reductive and an attempt to discredit him without actually engaging his arguments. I would liken it to dismissing Bill Gates' thoughts on education by calling him a college dropout - it's a true statement but ignores the larger truth. According to his bio, Taubes studied applied physics at Harvard and has an MS in aerospace engineering from Stanford so I think he's capable of understanding scientific issues.
Details on the TCP "Split Handshake" Attack [pdf]
A few Terminal tricks for the new hackers
Please Stop Saying 'Cloud'
I'm saying that journalists can ask whatever they want - but companies, esp CEOs, are simply unlikely to answer a significant question that could be easily miss-interpreted by the media.

Thus assuming the objective isn't to "trip the CEO up" (which I don't think it was, it isn't a BBC style) then asking/rephrasing the question differently might have helped achieve the interview Rory was looking for.

In other words, Adolph's remark is spot on.
A couple perhaps nit-picks. First:

"As well as a slew of new features and improvements, we’re thrilled to announce that the community edition is now entirely GPLv3 licensed – permissive and accommodating to your needs!"

The GPL is not a permissive license as the term is usually understood in the free and open source communities. I believe the FSF is careful to distinguish GPL from permissive licenses.

Second: there are several places on the linked pages that compare this to MySQL, basically saying you can do with it whatever you could do with MySQL as far as the licensing goes.

MySQL is under GPLv2, not GPLv3, so the comparison to MySQL might mislead people.
My bad then. Since you were trying to make the same point as I was, I was under the impression you got it wrong.

To be fair, most replies in HN are arguments than "thought continuation"
my question is why they didn't use solr instead?
but we do seem to systematically devalue experience

Yes, it does seem like the only mainstream profession where having 20 years of real experience means virtually nothing.

IOW, our profession is so shallow that virtually anyone can do your job if they want to.
If you're using it for coffee, my solution to that problem was to start drinking a better quality of coffee, then you won't want to add sugar.
I've spent time with both of these frameworks and the answer is "it depends".

I'd recommend Play! over Lift if:

* You just want a data entry / CRUD style app
* You prefer MVC architecture
- Play! will feel pretty familiar if you've used Rails
* You don't know Scala

I'd recommend Lift over Play! if:

* You already know Scala
* You want to build more "reactive" apps
- Lift has excellent AJAX / Comet support built in
* You enjoy trying new ways of doing things
- Lift has many unique features, there aren't many similar frameworks

They're both fast, have excellent communities, decent documentation (I think Play's documentation is better today, but Lift's has been improving fairly rapidly). You can't go wrong with either one.

I should add - you can do AJAX & Comet in Play!. You can do MVC in Lift! One framework is just more adept than the other by default in their respective arenas.
It's definitely not a perfect analogy.

My point was that the BBC reporter was trying to create an issue out of something that is a core principle of the company (and something they do well in fact) and is intentionally misleading. I was trying to show the ridiculousness of it and help justify why the CEO got flustered and ended the interview.

So RIM is secure, the CEO is proud of it, and the question inferred that they're not secure.

Craigslist is free, the CEO is (probably) proud of it, and a question that infers that they have a problem because they don't charge for listings would be similar.