skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, already in the Mixxt group for BarCamp Berlin.

Poorly attended is fine -- you can have an interesting gathering with just a few folks. More what I've been trying to do is to make it around to the other entrepreneurs meetups to make sure that there's not something with a similar character already going on -- there's no sense in splitting things up. Business & Beer and OpenCoffee are quite a different atmosphere, WebMontag is the last one on my checklist, which I've missed due to scheduling conflicts the last couple goes around.
"What will be Ruby's legacy?"
I'd take the manifesto over any stack of "Agile Programming with Blub" books any day, or the advice of any Agile Coach, for that matter.

Each statement is giving you information. "When faced with one of these two things to concentrate on, we suggest you concentrate on the first one." That information might be obvious to you as an expert, but is non-obvious to some people, including many decision makers that don't develop software on a day-to-day basis.

Is it an exact recipe to follow? Nope, but neither is development an exact science, or something you can do by rote following of a checklist. Which is exactly the point of the first item in the manifesto, incidentally.
Let’s face it, people with access to special power or information are always threatened by a future where their pet special thing is now common and mundane.
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Not on OpenBSD at all. That's Solaris. (http://openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#wwwsolaris)
Not when cvsweb is running on Solaris.
That's an HTML-escaped less-than. (I assume pastebin inserted the space between the '&' than the 'lt;'. This is line 75's unescaped:

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It's not against the law, Techcrunch is just wrong.
For an individual, this solution would be great. For a business, not so much, in that having an actual backup (and putting contracts on paper) is essential.
When did I "clearly defines a 'code of conduct' as a rigid set of rules that should always apply" ? As qqq pointed out in his or her first comment on my statement, I make the case for infrequency, not prohibition. In my next reply, I affirm that. How did I change my mind?

How did I come off as having a 'sense of superiority'? Please inform me so that I can avoid doing the same in the future.

I always get principle and principal confused, thanks for clarifying.
Implementing a given design, especially when it's minimalist, is not the hard part.
As the old joke goes, you cannot spell 'geek' without double-E.

I've worked with them. Much respect for electrical engineers.
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But I fear that it a typical team is told to check their changes in every few hours, this is going to cause more harm than good.

Let's examine the "typical team" scenario.

1. Can't tell everyone to check in changes every few hours, because it'll hopelessly break everyone's builds all the time.

2. Can't tell everyone to only check in concrete working chunks, because then people will only check in once every week. Unless people work on isolated components, this will have a tendency to make merging progressively harder.

3. In CVS and Subversion, can't tell people to use private branches, because manual merge tracking means that revisions in non-trivial branches can get lost. (This happened to me on several occasions, and the main reason why I hate, loathe, and despise Subversion.)

4. Can't tell people to use distributed source control, for a variety of reasons. Politics. Fear of change. Lack of IDE integration, for the majority of "typical teams" out there who do not understand command line tools. Lack of interest in learning better tools ("this already works for us," and never mind that you just spent a week before the release unravelling the mess everyone made of the Subversion repository). Stuff like "git rebase --interactive" and "git add --patch" is easy to use, but I personally have found it enormously difficult to explain to other people the value of clean, well-ordered, well-isolated revisions.

Basically, in a team where everyone proficiently, comfortably, and cleanly wields git or hg, source control shouldn't be a problem. In any other team, there will be problems. On my current project, I've been keeping my life sane by using git-svn, but the rest of the team can't and won't adopt better tools, and it struggles with the Subversion soup.
Was standardizing on JavaScript a mistake?
Stroustrup on C++0x
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I don't think you read closely enough: they define the failure rate as describing the likelihood of complete loss of the volume, not minor data corruption.

Unless you're mirroring your data across multiple drives, there is no way ZFS can magically recreate a volume that simply ceases to exist. Think of it this way: how would ZFS help you in your own server room if a non-mirrored disk caught fire and melted? Answer: it wouldn't. You'd go to backups, like you would with any other filesystem.
The way Jeff talks, one would say he doesn't know about git-svn: commit locally a zillion times, then just push once to the remote, shared svn server.

Which is to say: the fear of "breaking the build" should not stop you from doing anything you want locally.
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Thanks for the feedback slater. It's true that geolocation data is probably less accurate outside the US. And since I'm on a budget I use only free services (the paid data sources would have more accuracy). I might be missing your point, though. Emmen is only 4.4km from Lucerne, so the map search area is nearly identical. Is your issue that it says "Emmen" at the top?
Even more importantly, you can catch and contain the shitty coders nice and early.
The money would've been better spent had it gone to me.
so we can just say ECBS

This might reflect what I think of the whole cloud-hype, but I read that as "Easy BS". Maybe not the name you want coined for something which is supposed to be good, not shit ;)
On this topic, it doesn't sit well with me that he mentions the explosion of change in the first 5,000 days as justification for whatever predictions he wants to make about the next. Using that logic, I could say all kinds of things about the universe are likely now because so much crazy stuff happened during the big bang.
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...not to mention all the loafer lightener.
Cracker broke into Homeland Security telephone system and racked up about $12,000 in calls
BTW, 'cheat' is pretty sweet. Console hackers should try it.

http://cheat.errtheblog.com/
Please share any tools created to leverage this!
Yet on the show, Jerry had a Mac.
What a Launch! Phew... A big thank you to everyone on HN from the NewsCred team
What's the deal with Apple? I can buy twice the hardware for 1/2 the price when I go the PC route.
Judge Rules That Content Owners Must Consider Fair Use Before Sending Takedowns
Amazon adds persistent storage to compute cloud
Downturn Hits Tech Expo Industry: DigitalLife NYC Canceled
I have to say, this seems like really good advice, it's in line with most of what I have experienced, except for John Markoff responded to my first email.
The way you describe Plato as 'bronze-age' makes it seem like you've never read anything he wrote. I agree that many of his ideas are antiquated (most of his metaphysics, for example); yet, other ideas are still valid (like his theory of justice). While I agree that including Plato in this course is beating it to death, I don't agree that all philosophy classes should write off Plato as worthless.
Could we kill this thread? It's troll-bait bait.
The last time around, the committee invented lots of features on the fly, many of which turned out to have far-reaching negative effects. (Think of the books that have been written on subjects like writing exception-safe code.) So I wouldn't lean too hard on "I know the committee thinks of backwards compatibility".
Videosynth...
BTW, I'll do a follow up post detailing how we did the marketing and P.R. I've gotten a ton of e-mails, and I thought its only right that I give back to the community what I've learned. I think any startup here can make it through the noise if you are creative (and passionate about it).
I agree with the low information diet, I also agree that it is difficult as ever to stick to it.

I found his book to be inspiring and extremely useful from a startup stand point and a "muse" stand point. He was just cover story for Mens Journal:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/08/19/4hww-cover-s...
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That kind of response will never get you any mod points. Accuse him of pandering to the lowest common denominator, bonus points if you quote pg.
Just seems hacky to me. Opening a whole data center to shave off 70ms? Now I see why they need 500+ million.
Software Freedom Law Center releases guide to GPL compliance
Please don't turn HN into DLM...
Yeah, but the problem is that this leads to a bunch of good software for software developers. :)

There's a huge population out there with wants and needs that aren't captured by the tastes of a typical geek. That's where the money is, which is why you get so many dumb (dumb in hindsight, that is) startup ideas. The risk is higher doing something outside your own "internal market", but the payoff is higher too.
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What's funny is when I first saw the title of this blog, I thought it was the reverse-- Signal vs. Noise (37signals) implementing SquareSpace CMS in Rails in 18 minutes. That would certainly be more interesting to me, anyway.
Sarah Lacy's counter argument to PG's 6.4% point
Are there any cussers that are not offended by anything? What offends someone who swears? Does telling you to not use profanities offend you? Are you obscene because you are offended?
It does make decisions, at first it just reacts to stimulation for example it runs it into a wall and they give it a shock, next time when it sees the wall it doesn't run into it! Which is pretty amazing.
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I agree that the article's not too great -- I think that the big bang-for-the-buck for most of these features (except closures) will do is make for much cleaner, more streamlined library support that'll make day to day "hey this module's terribly boring but it needs to be written" code much nicer.

Addition of closures, on the other hand, will make C++ a viable back-end target for a lot of cool language hackery. :o)
This was posted on full-disclosure August 6th.

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Aug/0074.html
When will the Ruby fanboys stop being such fanboys? This is just more of the same masturbatory "we're great" bullshit which seems to be so popular in the Ruby community.

Referring to Rails:

"we sent out a press release to everyone we knew suggesting that we would be building all future projects on this new open source framework that nobody had ever heard of."

So I guess I shouldn't expect much level-headed writing from a guy who would make that stupid a business decision. How about taking six months to quietly build some internal sites, a couple pilots for clients, and to actually learn the language and framework? My shop's transitioning into using Drupal for most projects, but it's not as simple as flicking a switch.

I like this nugget too:

"Ruby has captured the hearts and imaginations of artists and the poets."

Both the "artists" and the "poets" links go to blogs of people who are pretty obviously software developers first and foremost.
For bigger changes I just work over a new branch.
Hell Yes! Where do I sign up ;)
I've run http://Dibs.net on EC2 for over a year, with images served up on S3. Several servers have uptimes since I booted them in June '07. I have nothing but good things to say about my experience with AWS.

If you can, I highly recommend going to the AWS Start Up Tour (http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/08/2008-aws-start.html) It's a good place to meet people and last year Jeff Bezos and John Doerr showed up to the one in Palo Alto.

Edit: Forgot to mention - I run PostgreSQL on instance storage with log shipping and backups to S3, and a couple of MySQL DBs for Cacti and geolocation lookups. EBS will help a lot in this area, which is kind of a pain right now. Can't wait to start using it.
SCons is fine for working with builtin rules. It's kind of a mess for writing elaborate custom rules, for the same reason that python is a poor command line tool integration language when compared with the shell (of which make is, essentially, a superset). The same is true for cmake, or the GNU autotools, or ant, etc...

I happen to like make. It's true that as a programming language it's pretty weak. And it doesn't do anything for the "C portability" problems that the other tools try (with varying degrees of success) to solve. But as a way to wrap a bunch of short shell scripts together with some dependency management in an easy to maintain way, it's better than anything else I've seen.
Water Refineries
Anderson's "Long Tail" could be shorter than thought.
I predict that people like Kevin Kelly will continue to make predictions that are backward-looking. He indicts himself: Wired's predictions were all about "TV, but more so". And now his prediction is, "The web, but more so." And then he projects forward into this fantasy-fulfillment scenario of harmony and unity among all devices, as if these machines aren't going to be owned and operated by squabbling humans, and as if data can be meaningful to all devices in all ways.
The cost/benefit of giving up equity or taking VC funding is highly personal, situational decision. The correct answer is "It depends".

The folks that YC funds, by and large, have no business experience at all, so it is likely well worth it for them. But you can "go to school" (the school of hard knocks, that is) to learn those things YC brings too. That learning process takes time - time you may not have.

Ironically, in a serious downturn you turn out to have plenty of time. Companies like Flickr came out in a fairly relaxed time - nothing much was happening anyway. They actually took their time (Flickr was a side project of a site they called Game Never Ending which was on for a long time ...)

By comparison, we are now in a relatively frenzied times, and success is necessarily harder to achieve, so every bit of assistance you can get may be worth it.

To visualize the kind of "no body cares" times, look at the business of starting a classy restaurant right about now (with restaurant chains all around folding). You have to be pretty passionate to keep going at it. Funding? Unlikely.
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He's definitely a Mac guy, but I can't blame him. For $10m I'd promote cigarettes to cute at-risk kids.
Hey, whatever happened to DNFTT?

"Profanity Works" is a perfect example of trolling (controversial and irrelevant message in an online community, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response or disrupting normal on-topic discussion).

Why are we biting? Is the obvious trollness obscured by the fact that it comes from 37Signals?
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A programming language should be simple to understand. C was simple. Adding classes/inheritance to C was not such a bad idea either. However, everything else in C++ just makes it massively complicated and a general pain in the neck to work with. In my opinion, all the crazies who insist on managing their own memory in the year 2008 should consider D (GC'd by default, but you can mess with the GC and use free()/malloc() if you want) [another poster already mentioned this]

If you are not aware of the reasons C++ sucks, check out the C++ FQA (frequently questioned answers):

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/picture.html

Finally, I completely agree with others who say: Adding more and more features to a language DOES NOT make it easier to use.
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Looking for front page comments for ScribbleWiki; but, will take comments in general as well.
The fundamental right to privacy is actually based on the right to personal safety, or the right to protect yourself from the mob. In any particular context, an individual may well have the need to hide something. For example, one might happen to be gay and alone on a bus with 7 violent homophobes. This is an extreme case, but history is rife with examples where even the "society at large" context was manifestly unjust. (Our own towards homosexuals, for example. Last night, I was hired as a musician for a Baptist singles ministry group. I thought it was prudent that I kept conversation away from certain topics.)

Saying that there's no right to privacy implies that all contexts are benevolent and just. But we know that the world is not always just, so there must be a right to privacy.
If there's one thing Calacanis knows how to do, its PR. I don't wanna be mean, but honestly, how else does something like Mahalo get that much funding and coverage?
> How did I come off as having a 'sense of superiority'? Please inform me so that I can avoid doing the same in the future.

By saying that your way of being raised -- not to swear -- was "right".
Indexed in an hour on google:

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Didn't Survival Research Labs have a mecha that had 4 legs, each of which was acutated by an electrode attached to a pet hamster's leg? If the writeup in Whole Earth Signals was correct, there was also a microphone that translated the hamster's squeaks into blasts from a flame thrower.
I like that design and I think it's a very popular template style. It's popular for a reason - people like it.
I would suggest increasing the line-height and font-size of your main text.

Good luck!
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Why don't you outsource it to some smart people who know how to manage a community for couple of months and after a month or two, you can have him as a partner. With this you will have to choose a right guy who is interested in improving the site. Don't care about competition, techcrunch would not cover them and they might not be able to get the traction you have now. So just hold on to it, its not everyday you get a chance to be the centre of attention ( for good or bad). Utilize it in your favor.
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Things will have degenerated to the point where only an offshoot of English exists. However, this will have a vocabulary consisting only of the word "like."
Would you expect to be paid more because you have to pay for your own electricity

As someone who is in the process of hiring people, if you brought that up to me during the interview/hiring phase, it would be a black mark. Why? I'm offering you a great deal - WFH - yet here you are being greedy and wanting more. Depending on the needs, I might feel comfortable paying for internet but that's the only thing.

Right or wrong, that's my first thoughts.
What we need is a more diverse population of developers.
I was thinking instead of light sensor how about a smoke detector?
You might want to rethink the contrast and the color combinations on the band through the middle. Looks nice overall though.
It's fine to learn by copying. However, during that process you can try to not copy, and instead reason out some problems on your own. By not copying, you learn more. If your short-term goal is not education, however, copy away.
Techmeme Goes On An Embargo Breaking Witchhunt
What made you decide to have "Online Collaboration Tool" in large font on the front page?
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$1.5 Million to take on Craigslist. Good Luck.
'Microsoft explains the concept thusly: "Windows, Not Walls," which involves "break[ing] down barriers that prevent people and ideas from connecting." '

you can't have windows without walls :D So windows now has no walls(they are broken down) so now the windows just float around?(strange, but they do actually float around in Vista :D) Weird
AFAICT, Sarah Lacy's counter argument paraphrased is: Okay, so if Y Combinator can improve your chances by 10%, then the small equity cut is arguably a fair price. But you can get the same mentoring for free! The free stuff might even be as good!

So is her argument that paying for anything you can get for free is a rip-off? No, she's not even saying that. She's saying it might possibly be a bad deal. That's not even a counter argument. That's FUD.
If by 'journalist' you mean someone who how a vocation of providing the public with important news and information, you for have a fundamental misunderstanding of the modern news-media. True journalists, I'm afraid, are few and far between. Muckracking is a far more profitable occupation, both in terms of finance and popularity. It's why idiots with voting power are a better filter than your standard copy-editor. Money and power are self reinforcing pursuits; truth and integrity are not.

</pessimism>

On the plus side: once you realize how the system works, you are free to game it to get your message across. It becomes amazing the kind of stunts you can perform.
Yes, that makes sense, logically. But it ignores the plain fact that there’s no way to know if Y Combinator improves the company any more or less than on-the-fly learning would or—better yet—free mentorship from someone who has been there. In other words, maybe your startup is 10% better after going through an incubator.

Wait, that's it? The phrase 'average outcome' ignores the fact that there are multiple possible outcomes? I don't think 'The Equity Equation' meant to imply that the question was "Y Combinator funding, or doing nothing," -- it was about getting funding versus alternatives. So the entire criticism seems rooted in coming up with ex post reasons to hate YC.

I am trying to read Lacy's book, because it's informative. But the writing is excruciating. Next time, I hope she does the same interviews, but then hands off the notes to someone who can actually write.
for (std::vector<int>::const_iterator i = vec.begin(); i != vec.end(); ++i)

Versus,

for (auto i = vec.begin(); i != vec.end(); ++i)

How is auto an astonishingly bad addition again?

Rvalue references solve a problem that library writers who are concerned with performance have. That most programmers don't need rvalue references misses the point - most programmers will probably depend on a library that benefits from rvalue references.
Yeah, and to add to that, some of the text on the front page is a bit less compelling than you probably want it to be.
This is interesting, especially after yesterdays thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=281741). I think we determined social functionality wasn't the answer. Hope they read that before they launch :)
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I'm not saying that it's bad. I'm wondering the reasons? Does the text really add value to what ScribbleWiki does?
Vague recollection...he had a IIc in the first season.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIc
The way to take on Craigslist is 1) to be better than they are, which is not hard, and 2) to have some way of getting past their network effect advantage. 2) is hard. Maybe it can be accomplished in a particular niche. But you aren't going to be able to take them on across the board without a lot of resources.
The arrows on the right of the blocks are misleading. They look like links, or at least active content, but don't do anything.
Yeah, nice grid. I would make the boxes at the bottom the same size, it seems odd that one is larger than the others. Also, its very grid-like, but that one section of text in the middle is centered. Looks odd.
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