skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesse, you and I chatted briefly at PyCon. I'm Asheesh, that person who gave that PyCon talk about outreach.

You (and this Python Mentors program) totally rock. It's hard to even name all the things the program gets right.
I'm having trouble determining whether you are serious, but I suspect the original poster was referring to reddit's programming community.
Google Dissolves Search Group Internally, Now Called “Knowledge”
You underestimate the power of a good couple INES-7 incidents.
If you're still looking for the video: http://twitter.com/#!/migueldeicaza/status/65513868599902208
Rackspace Shutting Down Slicehost
This will soon be the biggest barrier to support of IPv6: the cash they make from leasing and selling their allocated IPv4 address space.
Y'see, that's much more sensible... an 89% chance that he was within 300km of his last known location, given that he can't exactly get on a plane, sounds way more plausible than an 89% chance that he was in one particular medium-sized Pakistani town.

(Of course it's also unfalsifiable to say that he has a 90% chance of being somewhere...)

And yet the nature of the internet news cycle is such that I'll be reading for weeks to come that a group of geographers correctly predicted two years ago that he was in Abbottabad and that anyone with google maps could have found him ages ago. Sigh.
Tor project decides to fork Firefox
The Art of Giving and Getting Help - Part 1
The simple art of giving and getting help. This part focuses on giving good help.
There is no physical reason to use more than one pass on an HD.

And of course erasing an SSD is near-instant.
You're certainly not mistaken, I'm not a believer in that dulce et decorum est pro patria mori stuff.

I'd be pretty pissed off too if I was a military vet. The recruiters tell a bunch of lies to young idealistic kids who've been put through 13 years of indoctrination from a system designed to train them to be soliders and factory workers. Then the recruiter comes and tells them they can be a hero to their country and maybe get to attend college. When the kid gets back with their legs blown off no one gives a shit because they were sent off to fight a war that no one but civil servants believe in.

All this so that a defense contractor has an excuse to sell weapons.

It's frankly disgusting. I'm sorry if our system suckered anyone into a raw deal, I had nothing to do with it's establishment. Upon a plain reading of the constitution one who was going to serve in the military would believe that they could only be deployed by consent of congress which is not what happens in practice.
Awesome to hear! Can you give us any information on how their grades have developed? Of course, kindling fun and excitement for education and science is already a great, if not the most important, achievement. But I'm curious about the effect, that was discussed here before [1].
Derek Muller claims [2], that these videos give a false illusion of understanding. If I get him right: If your kids don't feel a bit confused and overwhelmed afterwards, they might have reinforced their prejudice about how think are and work.

Anyway, its great to see good people choosing a career in education!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2348476
[2] https://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/khan-academy-and-...
An excellent exploration of the art of understatement:

The derivation of the model also seems rather ad hoc in nature (fitting a power law to the assumption of a 99% intensity at Tora Bora and a 1% intensity at Washington DC).

Yep, that sounds pretty arbitrary! (I'd also be amazed if it was only 99 times less likely for him to be in Washington DC than Tora Bora...)
Do you have a link to go with that? Because... well, apparently not.
Yeah love him/hate him and everything else Facebook, it's a great example of providing a something people want/need and focusing purely on that during the start up phase. Personally Facebook makes me mad just looking at it lol. Thanks for commenting.
I'd probably look at how Yoyo, Kleenex, Google, and Hoover were doing by comparison. The first to haven't been verbified, but they've become a general term for the category of products they represent.

Google are still scared of Bing, but I think it has little, if anything, to do with its verbification.

"Tweet" is also too different from "Twitter" to be warrant worries, I think.
From 'Retrievability of high-level nuclear waste from geologic repositories - Regulatory and rock mechanics/design considerations' by Naiem S.Tanious, Mysore S.Nataraja, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Jaak J.K.Daemen, University of Arizona

"The NRC will require retrieval to protect public health and safety in the event the site, design, or operations proves to be unsuitable. Based on performance confirmation data, the NRC will determine whether the repository system or subsystem (natural or engineered) has failed or is expected to fail to meet the performance criteria. If such failure is determined at any time during the preclosure period, the NRC may direct the DOE to retrieve the waste. The DOE could retrieve waste for its own reasons without being directed by the NRC. Such activity, however, must be carried out under applicable NRC regulations governing movement of waste. It should be noted that the NRC retrievability provision in Part 60 is only intended to protect the public radiological health and safety."

Summary: in case the repository method is all screwed up and we gotta put it somewhere else.
How can you say whether it's a good deal without knowing how much they're paying? Historically Microsoft has grossly overpaid for search eyeballs, at least compared to the revenue each search gets them. They do seem to operate Bing on the "losing money on ever sale, but making it up on volume" principle.
The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Media
Nice idea, but looking at that site for a minute then skipping back to HN made my eyes go funny... :D
hmm: Hacker NEWS, 2 hours ago, May 3 2011; article, "Wed Apr 14, 2010"
Allow articles/conversations to be grouped. case in point: there were many articles essentially reporting that osama bin laden was dead. There are many articles focusing on different angles, such as the social media influence on the event, and i agree that they probably should be separate discussions. However, people post different articles reporting the same exact news from NY Times, BBC, and fox news, amongst other news outlets.
Completely self serving to post this -- I work for #9.
One thing that I have loved about slicehost is the chat.slicehost.com which is manned 24/7.

Anyone know if linode's irc channel is equally staffed by admins/support?
That's great. When you say "this method", could you explain what you mean? How does it have vast implications for your work?

In addition, I agree that it will make a great impact in the future. However isn't labeling it as "THE future" is going a little too far for now anyway? I would like to see a study on the type of person this type of study works for. If I'm not mistaken, it's not everyone?
What does github have to do with the Linux kernel? iIt's not hosted there, and I don't imagine cloning from git.kernel.org and pushing to github would provide much value (not to mention you'd probably blow right past the free account's space limit).
That's not a fair statement — branding all nuclear energy technology as a means to generate material for weapons is incorrect.

A good example? Thorium reactors [1], which generate very little in the way of weapons-grade by products. Why is it we cannot get our governments to allow research & construction into this arm of nuclear power?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Thorium_as_a_nuclear_fu...
Anyone who watched the 'documentary' and didn't get the obvious spoof has a serious irony deficiency and should eat more spinach.
Uniting Linux and Android devs at new summit
Yahoo's secret weapon: the ex-IBMer who worked with Google's founders
The real trick would be obtaining the 15% student discount with a BMW. If I could figure that out, I'd have a beemer in a flash.
I've been bitten by not having asserts (and, conversely, saved by having them) that I don't hold to the philosophy of "don't use asserts out of performance considerations".

assert( len != 0.0f );

If that alone is enough to slow down your program by any significant margin, then you're doing something wrong.

That said, I've experienced your standpoint --- A debug mode which was unusably slow. However, that results from programmers who rely too much on the optimizer. STL, for example, can perform very slowly in debug mode in certain circumstances.
Amazon may enter tablet fray in second half of 2011
I think it's a property of the sentiment itself, rather than the quote. But that's just me - I like it when evil people meet their comeuppance; I thought it was good that OBL was executed, although I'm not the air-punching, brewski chugging type. If I were to find and post a quote indicating my sentiments, no doubt there'd be people thinking I was a dick; it's not going to keep me awake at night.
If you use something like Git submodules, Mercurial subrepos, or Subversion externals, you can get the best of both worlds. Your repo contains just your code, but a fresh clone will set up dependencies automatically.

I've also seen really simple projects get by with just an "install_deps" task in the Makefile, which you run first thing on a new clone. ("The simplicity of Maven meets the dependency management of Make," the wags will say.)
If you choose to run that script then you're choosing to not vote at all (assuming votes can't be changed, which they can't now.) Which means you can't contribute to the "social confirmation up/down vote pile-on" problem either. So that particular problem would remain solved.
So maybe we just have to wait until the tech savvy judges filter through the system.

By which point, probably about a generation from now, some new issue will have come up that our once-savvy judges are now clueless about. Serious question: is there any way to solve the insane round trip ping times between law and technology?
"Warning! Our billing system has detected that your phone bill will be over $10,000, which is two orders of magnitude higher than any previous billing data."

As I already pointed out, this has affected more people than just those who steal SIM cards. And they should have known that an absurd level of charges were being racked up by a single SIM, so it's not like the phone company couldn't tell that it was abnormal.
It's worth noting that, until June 2006, Intel made their own ARM processors before selling the business to Marvell. They saw the conflict of interest between their ARM lines and their forthcoming Atom lines, and threw their weight behind the architecture that they controlled. ARM chips are also much less expensive than Intel is used to charging for it's silicon -- they wanted to keep their costly fabs churning on high margins products.

This would effectively be a retreat from those ideals, and reduce them back to the role of another commoditized supplier of ARM processors -- something they had hoped to avoid by pushing x86 in the low power market.

Porting processors between fabs is not easy. When Marvell made this transition in reverse, by buying the XScale ARM business from Intel, it took a long time to move from Intel's fab process to TSMC.
That seems rather ludicrous.
It's that other 10% ...
The whole thing didn't 'smell right to me' and when I read some time ago that it might have been a prank it became more obvious that this is where the stench emanated from...
It's not much of a deterrent if you only pay the damages (assuming a reasonable definition of damages, which apparently doesn't exist here).
You have a nonzero chance of getting away with the crime, in which case you don't pay - so your expected return for the crime is higher than for not committing it. This is exactly the kind of thing that higher deterrents are supposed to prevent.
I live in an area (not far from Sacramento) where half of the residents are still on dialup because there's nothing else available.

Just a data point.
I've done a bit of programming in lisps and scheme, and have recently been working on a ruby project. While I enjoy ruby, I'm finding it difficult to reason precisely about the code I write in it, because the semantics are so complex and everything is so dynamic and fragile. It makes me anxious as a build and add complexity.

With lisps and other languages like haskell, the semantics are extremely simple.

That's probably pretty vague, but it's another perspective.
So take the money and donate it. There is a lot of good that you can do with that sort of cash. There is no moral high ground in not taking it.
"Take a Photo; It’ll Last Longer"
Apple's Computers are getting faster and cheaper with every release. Almost as fast as the competition, in some cases faster. The difference is, that used Apple products don't loose their value as fast.

I got my first Mac this year and I have to acknowledge, this company earned their high profit margins very well.

Oh, and I agree with the other posters. You can not, as the author suggests, sell before a new release, if you need a computer all the time. He switched the product line, from a Pro to an Air, so this might be the reason why he has overseen this problem.
This is the plan. And that's the intent. They still want to make money off of addressing even though they shouldn't.
Psychology of rewards in web design
How odd to see a prediction like this on the same day that AT&T announced new bandwidth caps for its residential broadband services. Which some industry watchers speculate is partly intended precisely to impair streaming video services. Like Netflix.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/03/technology/att_broadband_cap...
In some way, that is honest, too. Very low-probability, but highly correlated risks (if it happens to you, it likely will happen to your neighbor, too) simply aren't a good fit for a capitalist system that does not look ahead more than say ten years.

If an insurance company were to insure against such risks it would happily collect money from its customers. After a couple of years, its shareholders would force it to make dividend payouts.

Then if the 'un'thinkable were to happen, it would go broke, and the customers would not get the money they paid for.
I can say it's a good deal because it coincides with Microsoft's search strategy. That strategy doesn't seem to require that their decisions be fiscally rewarding (I assume they're going after a really long tail).

Money isn't something Microsoft really has to sweat. They have decided that they want to have a go of having a search product. They fully realize that to do this will require them to spend a lot of money (essentially buying market position).

There will be a load of Blackberrys which will have Bing installed (even if Blackberry market share declines).

Therefore, I think this is a "good deal" for Microsoft. Whatever they're paying, they seem to be happy about it.
This sounds like the basis of a good argument for switching to an inquisitorial legal system (instead of an adversarial one). I find it unfortunate that a defendant has to be aware of and actively pursue every option for defense, and that "fact" within a courtroom differs from "fact" outside the courtroom. This is especially troubling because of the highly asymmetrical nature of the legal encounters the average person may have in his or her lifetime (e.g. corporation vs. person, government vs. person).
https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6

Github hosts mirrors of a few popular open-source projects, which is handy because they have much better source browsing than the alternatives.
Thank you very much! Looks like LuaJIT's beating GCC on almost everything now, and the JVM on most things. But that's with LuaJIT-specialized code that won't run on Lua, which is a little less exciting.
C vs. C++ on Stackoverflow
You've presented justifications for jaded cynicism toward the system, but none for disparagement or condescension to those who serve.

Yes, I was a young idealistic kid. Yes, I was lied to by recruiters. Sure, I was arguably indoctrinated by the system. You're free to be cynical about whatever you wish, of course, but that doesn't preclude you from acknowledging and respecting the special sacrifice I and many others have chosen, does it?

Please don't take this as an emotionally loaded attack; I'm not actually particularly offended by your sentiment, but I am interested in the perspective from which it comes.
It was recollection on my part; not backed by empirical evidence. For this exact case, though: wouldn't you better handle this with floating point exceptions?
How 1 developer handled learning a big competitor doing a similar thing
I'm extremely skeptical. I've not used 99designs, but I've used Freelancer and worked for clients with eLance. This seems to basically just be a design-focused clone of those sites.

A little bit of Google-fu brought me to this:
http://www.graphicpush.com/99designs-bullshit-20

I believe it. If you care about the way your product looks or the way people use it, you have to bring in an actual designer onto the project at some point, or you get the ~$3.50 product you bought on the Internet.

I guess I agree with your bigger point, as I really cant envision giving designers too much equity based on what should be the iterative and collaborative design process (unless they're in super-early), but I don't think the alternative is to sacrifice on design quality.
Agreed but to bring about legalization we need to normalize, and to do that in all communities. The intellectual community is one to target, one of many.
Building our own tracking engine with MongoDB
I take it then that your whole evaluation of psychedelics comes from your experience with alcohol and marijuana?
In the end it came down to price and size offering. Linode had a 128 or 192MB instance at the time that was insanely priced. Slicehost started at 256MB. There wasn't a lot to separate them otherwise.
Africans Teach High Schoolers to Change Communities with Social Media
Don't feel bad -- it's hard for anyone to say to what degree Guetta is a hoax.

Certainly Guetta is a real person who has been in LA making his own art under the MBW name for years. This is reasonably well-known, as the article you link to notes.

What's harder to tell is (1) to what degree Banksy and Shepard Fairey are behind the making of the MBW art work, and (2) to what degree the movie was shot by MBW and just arranged by Banksy as was claimed in the movie.

About (1), of course Guetta does not do all the MBW work. Lots of artists use fabricators; this is even shown in the movie. So in order to answer (1), all the sudden you're down in the details of which particular pieces Guetta did do, what percentage, whatever. Booo-ring.

You can ask very well-informed people who have followed the LA art scene for years (relatives hounded my wife to ask her friend, the editor of http://coagula.com/) and they can't fully answer these questions. Also, they don't want spend energy to find the answer, because the uncertainty is part of the point.

"Outsiders" seem to really want to know, however, perhaps because it will make them "insiders" in their own minds.
Even AT&T can't stop inevitability, as much as they will stomp and pout.
That was just a poorly managed open-source project. There are enough of them out there, but not contributing because of only one experience is like saying you won't ever listen to music again because you bought a nickelback album.
I have to admit, when I heard of Remembary I though... huh, that sounds like Momento. Doing a quick search of Remembary vs Momento immediately brought me to this post. Then I read how Andrew Burke, Remembary's developer, handled the same news. It was great to not only see him distinguish what makes his app attractive but also recognize the strengths of the competition (and where it would suit his potential customer's needs more).

Kudos!
My feelings were similar. On one hand it is perfectly normal and natural to be happy to see justice served at the end of a gun... we humans are social creatures, and the desire which we have to see wrongdoers punished is a normal and natural part of our emotional makeup.

On the other hand, as a civilized person I think that actively glorying in the death of an enemy is a bit unseemly. So I felt a bit of quiet satisfaction, made a few pithy comments to mark the occasion, and poured myself a glass of my most expensive whisky.

So basically in answer to the grandparent question: I think the appropriate response is to keep quiet about it. Let other folks express their own feelings about this historic occasion without feeling the need to elevate yourself above them.
For those interested in building cloud apps we at SpiderOak offer a 'Do it yourself' Storage API that is designed specifically towards backup, sync etc.

You can find more info @ https://spideroak.com/blog/20100928101634-spideroak-diy-a-sp...
The problem with many OS projects is that being distributed leads to isolation. Obviously, OS projects need to accept input worldwide, but they should work more to establish cores in major cities (San Francisco, New York, London) that meet once a month, and have "hackathons", on the weekends. A lot of communication that really can't happen through Git and mailing lists would occur, and the projects would come out a lot better. In-person interaction between developers, as much as is possible, would really help these projects a lot.
Glnk.it - a location based URL shortener
I agree. There are tons of interesting ways to make coffee, not all of which require investing hundreds (or thousands) of dollars in fancy espresso machines: i.e. french press vs. aeropress vs. traditional drip filter vs. gold cone, etc...
Zen and the Art of Crisis Management
As far as the phone company is concerned, I'm sure that they can break the charges down by SIM. They'd never have discovered which person was the culprit if they couldn't do that, after all.
Well aware of this (though I think it's actually $600 for the cheapest in the US). I'm simply pointing out that if you are planning to remain on a given network for a long time, there's no reason not to upgrade the phone every year to the newest available model AND make a little money.
The owner of Linode (caker) has clarified on IRC stating that the /128 will be provided to each node, however they will also provide a /64 per datacenter, per account upon request for a nominal fee. The /64 will be routed to your /128 so that you can control how the addresses in your /64 are handed out. The fee has not been disclosed, yet.
I could be wrong, but I don't think there's anything illegal about having a student buy a laptap and then immediately resell it to you. (On the other hand, it might be illegal to directly claim that you are a student when you really aren't.) Whether you think that's immoral probably has to do with how moral you think price discrimination is in general.
Hey folks, this is Max from Big Bang Technology in Toronto. You should read this article if you've ever pushed buggy code into production and had people around you start freaking the hell out.

Hope you enjoy, and I'm looking forward to the discussion.

Best,

Max
> I wonder how much more difficult this was before Github.

It wasn't really that more difficult. You either uploaded your patch into their bug tracker, or you sent it to them via email. Not a big deal at all. Many projects still work that way.

EDIT: Those who downvoted this comment, would you care to explain what's wrong with this statement? That would be very helpful. Thanks.
Having media files in there as well, would, I think destroy my antique iPhone 3G!

The iPhone app doesn't sync everything - it will download (and separately, cache) only the files you request.
This sounds awesome, but would be better with a demo so I don't have to login with Facebook.
That was a very tiny link at the bottom of the page ->"Lib". Thanks for the link. I wonder what their UX person says about those links.

I'd really like a rolling reader submitted list on the main page, but this is also good.