skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scandals rarely are. Someone gives or receives money, favors, or information inappropriately. It's the perceived degree of impropriety that makes something scandalous, not how commonly it occurs.

That said, this one does seem pretty tame.
Opera does not support the Ruby tag: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-ruby-19981221/

It seems to me that amongst the other major browsers, Firefox does not support it either, while Webkit browsers and Internet Explorer support it.
Faster than Python, better memory use for many types of programs. Compared to Java, less memory use and (I assume) much less start-up time, since no VM is needed. Also, since you can use goroutines, it would seem like you'd be able to do concurrent requests without having to have a special async API like Java/Python have. Go seems like it'll be a pretty great fit for App Engine.
A data modeling challenge: relational vs document oriented for modeling orders
True Enough - The second age of PR
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=zuckerberg+schmidt+privacy+is+dead
Hah, awesome. Don't know what else to say...
We've been also using GWT for around 3 years now with great success for both inhouse and public facing applications. I'm surprised the author did not name the by far most compelling benefit: you can develop a huge codebase in Java, hence use your Eclipse, code completion, real time debugging, apply code metrics, Junit tests and you can share the same code on the client and the server (think domain objects, validators etc).
If it doesn't all fit in the subject line, put what you're asking for in the first sentence. This makes the purpose of your email immediately clear, and if the recipient is interested in the details they can read the next four lines. A busy person will appreciate you getting to the point and not beating around the bush.
All of my documents (presentations, Word documents, etc) sit on Dropbox. Most of my photos are also on Dropbox, Facebook or Picasa. I have some music files on Amazon Cloud Drive (although a lot of my files are WMAs...). Some code is on Github; but they are also all on Dropbox.

Otherwise I do a full-hard drive back up onto an external hard drive about once a week, so it makes an entire image.
How do you backup the stuff in Google apps? If eg. Google loses your data.
i wonder how much space we'll be given. i can't seem to find it on any of the screens
Code is no longer a requirement for a HAM license. Got my license without doing a code test.
No, it doesn't. Also: he pretty clearly doesn't want to get into details, so how rude is it that this thread is trying to push him to?
what python code should people write for non-constructive results?
Can't wait to toss Eclipse into the trash!
Same for me on Chrome 12 Mac. I had Chrome 11 on a Win7x64 box which worked.
this music thing isn't a social thing at all really though, it's pure utility and convenience. In this form anyways.
Adobe (finally?) sues Wowza for patent infringement
Sometimes I wonder if the guys who are providing the hosting, logo, font and design services are the ones making the money, not the startup founders. Web startups can depend on many paid services to make a web app work, yet not sure if their own web app can make money at all.
They had a slide that said "20,000 songs".
Mining Wikipedia with Hadoop and Pig for Natural Language Processing
For links to ~ $5 VPSs, see http://www.lowendbox.com/
Android Open Accessory Development Kit | Android Developers
It is not the same. It is free for search, download and stream, and Google China actually has a deal with big Chinese Record Labels. But from what learned years ago, it cannot stream music to mobile devices.
Android Movies, Google Music... is it safe to predict Android Music as well?
I would say DHTML, mod_php and CGI instead.
same with Google India. THey've had streaming music for a while
Works for me from the UK
That's what I did - I got a cheapest VPS for $5 so that I can stream stuff from Hulu/CrunchyRoll/and few other services.

Plus - it's always useful to have a VPS anyway.
Far be it from me to hate on a FOSS project, but be aware that the Exchange support for Evolution has a reputation for off-and-on compatibility issues. (Microsoft likes to break things. Who knew?)

From what I've heard, it's not always plug-and-play to set up, either. (Calendaring support in particular.)
Related

True Enough - The second age of PR
http://www.cjr.org/feature/true_enough.php
It's only showing you information that is already public (the people your friends are publicly following).
Popularity is not the only success-factor to consider regarding programming languages. I'd contend that the ubiquity of javascript makes certain that it will retain (and grow) popularity for quite some time even without the easy "view source" option.

We're simply moving from one era into another; nothing wrong with progress!
Could you explain a little more? The web interface is just like the Android Market. The Android phone player is a different UI though.
FWIW, FaceTime on an iPad is very, very good.
Indian version: http://www.google.co.in/music
It just lets you search and listen to songs.. doesn't let you store anything...
Thus limited, this isn't that much different in Germany. I wasn't really asking about the legal ramifications, but how the banks treat it (and if this incubator does it differently).

Let's say a director of a limited company with a low capital (UK Ltd, German UG etc.) wants to take out a loan on the company. The default risk would be pretty high, and so it's standard practice that the loan contract includes and additional clause that the director is directly liable. Doesn't change the law itself, just an additional contractual obligation.

That's why I'm interested in how the UK banks (and/or this incubator) would treat this. Either they do it the same way, the state takes care of such losses or they're much more eager to accept risks than banks here (which, given recent history, wouldn't surprise me either).

20k GPB for 6% strikes me as rather high, as -- never mind all the aforementioned scrutiny -- getting a loan that high isn't really that much of a deal.
I use Lync at work, and I like it. The features are there, but nothing is in your face. Hopefully Skype will not adopt some of their design concepts.
I agree .. when i had my music collection saved/backed up on 3 different hard-drives which all crashed I had 5,000 songs. Overall that would take me way to long to upload and manage!

These days Pandora, YouTube and Vevo on my iPhone or other computing devices provides me with a better experience; free, instant access wherever, no worries about hard drive crashing & no need to upload/manage tons and tons of songs...
I'm not sure we could ever give robots the same intelligence as man. If you think about it, there are many digital constraints in modulating analog ideas. For instance, with a floating point processor, there is something lost when we make a digital recording of an analog music performance or even of a photograph. To a sound purist, a digital recording never really emulates the full effect of an analog performance. And to a photographer, a digital camera always struggles with color matching.

While computers can calculate the many digits of pi, it's just a very big rounding estimation of a circle's ratio, isn't it? Does a computer truly grasp the concept of a circle within its processing cores?

But even if we are able to overcome all of these constraints, how do we know a robot wants exactly what a human wants? If it is a more perfect creation that is able to outsmart man, then as a sentient being that doesn't need to eat, what purpose could building large buildings, consuming tons of oil, tilling the land, etc. benefit the robot? I find it hard to believe a sentient AI would want what we want as it would mostly reach the self-actualization phase of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. In fact, it would be to the robots interests to consume less so that it could exist for eternity. And I'm not really sure the robots would reproduce ad inifinitum, thereby resulting in the same overpopulation problems that we as man have.

Is there truly a need for a robot or AI to manifest itself? Sometimes we picture computers in the image of man--but ultimately, they exist for a purpose. If a computer is a truly logical construct, its raison d'être would cease if man disappeared. It raises a more interesting question--would we ever program human emotions and psychology into a computer? Isn't emotions/psychology what could potentially allow these computers to turn into monsters? Would it benefit the performance of AI to develop or evolve with human wants?

If we develop a robot with the human mind (which I believe there is no algorithm for, even with distant technology), why would it benefit us to implement in the robot greed, ego, pride, and disobedience? Would a computer truly want to be a bugged program? Is greed, ego, pride, and disobedience really features within a computer?
Yeah, I vaguely recall Skype doing something in around 2008 that gave US govt some level of access. (No citation)
I learned to accept the world the way it is after I spent some time studying art. Many artists were effective self-promoters, but it is not seen as a bad thing because they were subtle and not pushy about it. When most people think of self-promotion, they think of a pushy, sleazy used-car salesman. That's a very narrow view of the world.

There can be beauty and subtlety in image-making, diplomacy, and other "soft" skills just as there can be beauty and subtlety in a well-written piece of code or in a theorem proof.

Learn to perceive the world from an impartial point of view of an outside observer (or from a point of view of someone wielding power), not from a narrow resentful point of view of someone trying to spread a hateful message to agitate others for whatever vengeful cause. Consider all possibilities. Unlike what the Tolkien's tale says, it is okay to like power; what's not okay is to misuse for a hateful cause. One can't know what misuse is without diligent observation of others. One can't become alpha by acting like a beta.

Recognize that even your claim that you dislike self-promotion is a mere attempt to promote yourself to others who (you hope) are just like yourself. Think again about whether people like yourself are a worthwhile bunch to be around. Strive to be around people better than yourself, not just around ones who are your equals. Read Nietzsche.
You have to enable it in about:plugins too.
Does that mean Canadian software engineers are required to study stuff like statics and dynamics and metallurgy, wasting time on mechanical failure modes that are utterly irrelevant in software?
Anon account here.

I'm currently a co-founder in two-man startup. The idea, though not revolutionary, was my co-founders, and because he's older, more experienced, has more connections, etc: he has the vast majority stake in the company. He is also the "CEO" while I'm a "CTO".

A lot of posts, including the article, come from the prospective of the person with the greater equity; and I get that from their POV, it's a better deal.

But being the guy with less than his half of the stake, I gotta say, unequal equity is making me about ready to quit.

We both earn $0/hr. We both spend all our free time busting ass for the company. We're both "in it to win it", at least thus far.

But who gets to make all the important decisions, even when I'm pretty sure they're bad? Him. Who gets the biggest payoff? Him. Who's the guy in the spotlight? Him.

So even though we're "co-founders" and we work an equal amount, he gets all the glory, cash, and can steer the ship (for good or bad).

Obviously I didn't know it'd turn out this way when I started, but if you're out there thinking about bringing on a "co-founder" to boss around at 25% and $0/hr, think long and hard about what makes you worth doing that for. Which isn't to say those things don't exist: If you can raise money, sure, you're probably worth more than half. But be realistic: If you can't come up with reasons you're worth 75% of the company, then it's only a matter of time before people you've convinced otherwise realize that as well.

FWIW, I "fell" for the same "well we should have someone who can make rapid decisions steering the ship" line as well. Baloney. You do that when you can PAY people to do what you want. Until then you're just a couple dudes making negative money. I'll risk a 50/50 gridlock in decision making over having someone tell me what to do everyday at "my" company any day.
If you are interested in this problem but can't get into the beta yet, check out my app: http://www.audiogalaxy.com.

You have to leave your home computer running, but it is totally free, available outside of the US, and has both Android and iOS apps.
How do you differ from Color?

Where are you based?

How many are on your team?

Are you funded?

What are the other team members backgrounds?

Those are the questions I'd be asking if I was interested.
# netstat -nr | grep '^default'

Am I correct in inferring that you have used Unix for a very very long time? The ^ stopped being a magic character in Unix shells a long time ago, but many old-timers (myself included) still sometimes quote it out of habit.
An interesting proposition and something I tend to believe. Any tips on how you can figure this out besides jumping from job to job waiting to see if it works?
Vim has a built-in directive to toggle paste mode:

set pastetoggle=<F3>

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Toggle_auto-indenting_for_code_pas...
They refer to closures stored on the server. If they don't time out eventually, you have a memory leak.
Why would I pay for this over a service I already pay for and love (Rdio)? Looking for some thoughts
"One of the cool but less obvious things about this news is that it provides a very easy way to play with Go. You don’t even need to have Go installed beforehand because the SDK is fully self-contained. Just download the SDK, unzip it, and start coding. Moreover, the SDK’s “dev app server” means you don’t even need to run the compiler yourself; everything is delightfully automatic."
goroutines run in a single OS thread. Same reason for blocking threading on Java. Said this restriction maybe lifted in the future but I wouldn't hold my breath on that.

EDIT: Clarification, on goroutines run in a single OS thread on AppEngine.
Me too. I learned it so I could listen to propagation beacons, since I started primarily on 10m. I still don't use it much with other humans, unfortunately.
"In a way, every one of Asimov’s robot stories was about how the Three Laws of Robotics can’t possibly account for all facets of intelligent behavior."

It's not "in a way", it was his freaking purpose in writing the stories. The stories are polemics against the idea that you can shackle robots with simple laws like this. It's not an accidental outcome where the laws of drama conspire to make the author's point null, it is the point. He has said so in other writings of his, flat-out, so this isn't even theory, it is what he said about his own stories.

If you're going to use the Three Laws as the jumping off point for an essay you ought to know this.
One thing that I have been thinking about in relation to all these new streaming services coming out is that one thing that I am really keen on seeing is if the service will allow exporting of your listens, to last.fm for scrobling or just general export of listen analytics. I am hoping it is in the pipe line for Amazon & Google and whatever Apple delivers - however I am not holding my breath. I think google has the best shot of allowing the data captured out but for people like myself who really enjoying sending that info into other people's suggestion algos I hope with this new line of services I am not put in a box and forced to only use on the suggestion features of the provider (which usually only ends up being from record companies whom they have deals with). Don't fail me Google ;) !
Bingo! This did it. Thanks.
Hate to disappoint, but Campher uses cgo + the unsafe package, which means it Campher won't run on App Engine, which doesn't allow "unsafe".
I think that's essentially what the EFF is arguing.
Good to know. I always had a suspicion government would move slowly, but I didn't consider it might so slow to that you don't get anything done. EDIT: Upon further reading of the previous statement, I now realize how ridiculously obvious it would be that government gets nothing done :)
Woah. That's awesome.
I'm committing the classic mistake of talking about the karma system here, but what, precisely, is wrong with my statement?

Drivingmenuts says the user should pay for hosting data. HN is hosting his data, but he doesn't pay for it. Is there some error in my logic, here, some flaw in my conclusion?
If you want to make a good living with little risk, be a dev, a designer or something like that. Given that most startups fail, and of the ones that don't, most are only modestly successful, you'll probably be better off (from a purely economic standpoint) as a paid employee (or service provider) to a startup than as an entrepreneur starting one up. I think there's something magical (insane?) about doing your own startup.

Note: I don't have the hard data about this, but this seems to be the consensus (although those people never presented their data) and my anecdotal experience. Please, tell me if I'm wrong :)
"I am looking for a Full Time Remote Job to satisfy my needs and wants."

Why remote? You do not address that anywhere else on your page. Why would you be more effective working remotely? My first impression when people say they want to work remotely is that they don't work well with others. Also, that statement also makes you seem selfish - the job to you is all about satisfying YOUR needs and wants, and says nothing about your potential employer, which further supports my impression.
Oh. And is that a bug or a feature?
When you're not relying on 200k of external libraries minification is a lot less significant.

Is that so. Tell me what else you know about the scope of my web application.
Sometimes, if you've recently met the person, it's just good to send a "nice to meet you" follow-up with no ask at all. You're very likely to get a response, and once the response has been made, you can make the simple ask (once they've responded once, they're probably more likely to respond again).

This is akin to the "one-line hook" in online dating: http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/match-messages/
Failures are only avoidable if everyone does their job well. I have occasionally been called in the middle of the night because my peers put out something that wasn't really tested (and either I was more reachable or they were at a loss) or because a machine fell over that wasn't monitored as well as we thought.
I agree this advice does not only apply to emailing VC's. It applies to emailing ANYONE in the course of doing your job: interns to CEO's.

5 sentences often is too much. If you can get it down to 3 sentences (or even 1 or 2 with judicious subject line) that is better. Just state the situation and what action you request.

For christ's sake, above all, don't resort to voicemail.
Arguments about how precisely the brain is tuned to its analog inputs need to be able to account for the fact that when you consume a gram of alcohol, you don't simply collapse to the floor in a gibbering, chaotic wreck as your delicately balanced and exploited analog values are suddenly ever-so-slightly off.

It seems rather unlikely that a simulated brain's biggest problems will be rounding errors in the simulation, we routinely deal with disruptions that are multiple orders of magnitude larger in the real world without dying, or even impairment.
Goroutines still provide concurrency with a single thread. It's not that useful for CPU-bound stuff, but I'd imagine it should allow multiple concurrent GAE API calls (as they are just IO, and certainly async under the hood), or you could do CPU-bound stuff while waiting for IO.
Lisp Idioms
Security restriction. Go code can be verified as safe if it doesn't use the unsafe package.
Can anyone confirm if this allows linking native libraries? From the looks of the "compiler", it seems it might be hacked to produce a binary statically linked against, say, SpiderMonkey.

Beyond coolness, it seems a waste of effort to tailor this release to Go, when similar effort might have been expended, e.g. to define a simple protocol talked over a UNIX fd that any static x86 binary could implement to integrate with App Engine.
The typography is hard on the eyes.

- Large blocks of italicized text are hard to read in any font
- Low contrast between font color and background color
- The single, narrow paragraph (i.e. "Android" section in particular) is hard to read unless you increase the line spacing

For me, personally, it's hard to take a candidate seriously when their resume is so reader-hostile.

I would consider either (a) enlisting a designer friend to tidy up the typography, or (b) switching to plain, unformatted text.
I'm confused; in the example, couldn't he avoid the filesort entirely by just adding an key on t2.t1id? Is it really optimal to be sorting the whole table -- no matter how optimally -- on any common serving path?
I actually found this more confusing. My immediate thought of the up/down arrows was that they'd up/downvote the comments, but they instead take you to others. I don't really get how they're grouped either, since they don't seem to be replies...
Android Home amazing
An apt and constructive criticism. Thank you for it. I am part of the problem, undoubtedly, but unfortunately when I do try to pad my estimates, I usually get back "That should take you two weeks." because management doesn't understand what they are asking for. I should work on my persuasive skills nonetheless.
The Four-Letter Word You Should Use (and Use Often)
Audiogalaxy scrobbles to Last.fm, FWIW
I have a few reasons, but I am tired of the 9-5 driving to work for 30 minutes each way, getting ready in the morning while putting really nice and expensive clothes on, then getting home at night and only have 4 hours to do my thing. If I didn't commute or take the time to dress up, I would save a minimal of 2 hours a day. Most people have to do this and sadly, shouldn't have to.

There are other reasons as well, but just wanted to give an example. I am trying to compact my entire life and this is one of them. With my job moving farther away, it would be more than an hour commute each way now as well.
I think he's referring to the lack of privacy and information control even within Facebook - there are persistent claims from former engineers there that user privacy isn't taken seriously, and that breaches of user privacy by employees occurs often and with relative impunity.
"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."

http://singinst.org/upload/artificial-intelligence-risk.pdf
> What other markers are there "in life" than earning money to measure success?

With all due respect, I sincerely hope you are not serious.
Using your metrics, Hassanal Bolkiah would be more successful than Albert Einstein.

Talking about expectation, I would not expect someone with 1000+ karma to be so narrow-minded.
Heh, thanks for reminding me that my Mint installation moved :)
I understand your points. While I am not a graphic artist, I do understand the typography etc...

Thanks for your points. I will get right to it.
> It's the Ubuntu community who decides what Ubuntu should have, not Canonical.

I think it's Canonical that decides. Ubuntu definitely belongs to Canonical. If you don't like it, don't use it.

Opinionated decision making is a great tool: mob rule can't achieve the same coherence a single decision making body can.

This "GNU/Linux = democracy" meme seems to be missing the point: the "democracy" lies in the various choices of distro. You don't necessarily need "democracy" at the distro level: if you don't like what a distro is doing, you're free to cast your "vote" by using another.
Magic Ink is my single favorite statement on software design: http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk