skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I recall correctly, this was also back when Apple was tooting the "standards are the wave of the future" horn pretty loudly during their short war with Adobe.

Now that that is more or less over, Apple is back to not really caring about it because frankly, most people have forgotten already.
We can also see the project's creation time on http://code.google.com/p/webrtc/updates/list, Jan 27 2011
Zencoder Batch Encoding - Leg up for Video.JS and Google WebM
Just so you know, GNOME stands for GNU Object Model Environment. Not that that negates your point, but I still disagree with you for other reasons. Firefox is in no way part of the operating system itself. I would argue that Bash and the core-utils on the other hand are. Also keep in mind that the GNU Project created the whole idea of a Free alternative to Unix and created the culture and licenses that made it possible. For example, Linux is even licensed under the GNU General Public License v2. They provided every part of the operating system except for the kernel (again the core-utils and bash but gcc, emacs, and screen are probably also worth mentioning). Linux as we know it would absolutely not exist if it weren't for the GNU Project. I see people disrespecting the FSF constantly and I just really don't understand why you would when you know how much they've done for Free software.
I'm not sure if they intend to or not, but who knows - wwdc is coming up, and this may be perfect timing for them to strike back.
What about clang?

The point isn't that GNU programs aren't useful -- it's just that the claim that GNU is so important it should be included as a mandatory prefix any time anyone mentions "Linux" in a context that is not kernel exclusive is grating and silly.
Yeah that changes the dynamic back to what I stated.

If you cant commit for 80 hours, thus 62.5 per hour, then how may I trust that I get '2 weeks' of work-effort/unit on my prototype?
The company that made the table saw that cut the lumber for my house doesn't get partial naming rights to my house either, I don't receive mail addressed

Mr. Black & Decker/Bane
"I picked Ubuntu natty (released in April) as a reference, ... and am considering only the “main” repository, supposedly the core of the distribution, actually packaged by Ubuntu and not repackaged from Debian."

I'm not sure I understand Ubuntu's "main," or what's "packaged by Ubuntu and not repackaged from Debian." Does this mean the author is not counting code that appears in both Debian and Ubuntu? Because I would expect a lot of that code to be GNU, and I would expect GNU code to make up a small proportion of the Ubuntu-only code.

But that must not be what it means, right? I thought nearly all of Ubuntu's "main" was just repackaged from Debian, in which case the remainder would be a very strange sample to draw on.
I agree - maybe I'm just drinking the YC gatorade here, but to me it shows scrappiness and dedication and does not seem especially immoral. Who did it hurt? For the people who were annoyed by the spam, it took 30 seconds out of their life to read and delete the email. For the ones who went ahead and posted their rental on airbnb, it probably led to more business plus the added benefit of getting to use airbnb's elegant interface instead of trying to keep track of dozens of craigslist emails. The only money that airbnb made from this lie was by finding people additional renters for their homes, which seems like an everybody wins scenario.

If it was outright illegal then they'll have to face the repercussions of that, but I doubt they'll lose much sleep feeling bad about what they've done.
Maybe it's too much like JavaScript and Ruby and...well, it is kind of a long list.
Apparently, the FaceTime team wasn't aware that it was to be made an open standard until Steve said it on stage:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standar...
SEO driven language design. Now I've seen everything.
Zed has nothing to do with the ruby community - even he says this. He wrote a web server in ruby once.

In his post he even goes on to say how much he likes python.
Depending on the version of MySQL that you're upgrading from and if you're upgrading in place vs starting fresh on a new system you won't be able to use Xtrabackup to handle the mysql.proc table due to backwards incompatibilities. I had an awful go of this upgrading from MySQL 5.0.51 to Percona 5.1.56 and wound up having to massage the stored procs and functions in one by one. Once we were migrated over though the xtrabackup tool is great for incremental backups.
The 'goto' statement was apparently much more urgent.
Ask HN: I have money, how do I spend it to grow my business?
Hi there,

I am the founder of taskarmy.com, a website that helps small businesses outsource to great freelancers from countries with lower cost of living.

I bootstrap taskarmy.com by doing .net and facebook app consulting three days a week and I find myself in a position where my business and my consulting work earn more money than I am spending and I don't know where to best spend it to grow my business faster.

I have one full-time Ruby on Rails developer working with me and one full-time marketer (I am still looking for a great writer/blogger).

I would appreciate if you could have a look at http://taskarmy.com and suggest where I should spend my extra cash (over $30K and less than $100K)

Should I spend it in PR? in SEO? in AdWords? in Facebook Ads? in design? in writing quality articles? etc...

Some more information:
1. I believe my website is well SEO'ed already
2. I set up AdWords but the keywords I can target to be profitable don't bring enough traffic (I am building up my mailing list to increase the customer lifetime value so that I can spend more on ads).
3. I procrastinate a lot when it comes to writing so I believe I'd need someone else to do any sort of writing work for me if this is what you would suggest.
4. taskarmy has an affiliate program (should I put more effort into it?)
5. taskarmy has a white labeling solution (should I put more effort into it?)

Thanks!

Aymeric
To second yahelc's post... definitely look into IUDs. My SO has been on the non-hormonal (copper) one for 2 years. The only downside was her first cycle post-insertion being rather painful. They are covered by most health insurance plans -- heck, she was on the state's insurance and even they covered it.
CUBRID it Programming Contest
CUBRID, an open source alternative to MySQL is sponsoring a programming contest at http://www.cubrid.org/cubrid_it.

They are announcing the second online programming contest which starts on June 1, 2011. This time they have prepared much more prizes for the participants.

There is only one SQL problem for which users have to provide the most optimized solution in PHP or Java. This page explains all the rules and other important details of the contest.
Have you been on craigslist? I fully expect to be spammed about anything I post on the site, it seems like a natural price to pay for being able to get the attention of hundreds of interested buyers instantly. And at least in this case the spam was a useful offer that was in line with what the posters were trying to do anyway.
Hellish vacation sparks Urbanspoon co-founder to start Dwellable
I don't think Kickstarter would approve it, but I'm about to release a plugin that might help : http://ignitiondeck.com

Hate to sound spammy, but this issue matters to me.
Its on engadget!

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/31/chaufr-lets-you-shout-sea...
The biggest GNU contributions are gcc, gdb and emacs.

Command line stuff is trivial. GNU made them for free first, but if they hadn't, someone else would have. The same cannot be said for gcc, gdb and emacs.
Sorry, I didn't mean to go all conspiracy theory here. I just felt a sleazy linkbait vibe from the article and wanted to provide my "fair and balanced" opinion.
Yep, sorry about that. You can still use the old code under the old license, but you can also use it under the new (and more permissive and favorable) license.
GNU and the free software movement aren't going to die just because most people think GNU/Linux is a ridiculous thing to call an operating system.

The core of GNU's argument is that they need GNU/Linux so people will recognize the importance of the movement, but the manner of people participating in this naming campaign is completely counterproductive.
I think in terms of a standard desktop user's install, a Debian machine configured for usual use is not going to differ all that greatly from an Ubuntu machine. A server config forsaking much of the user-friendly stuff, maybe.

I think my point there is that I don't think actual distribution "names" matter so much as what their intended purposes are for varying the "what" that is measured for this metric.
SpiraClock: A Visualization Technique for Nearby Events
All of those statements are clearly true.

Most people just want someone to give them a job and let them do it. Being told what to do by an authority figure is considerably easier than figuring out what to do on your own. College is a system of authority and assigned work, and that's a big part of why people like it.

I don't think the purpose of college is to provide people with education and a love of learning. Most people don't want that. The majority of people don't like to learn things. Learning is for nerds.

The purpose of college (or any form of institutionalized education) is to do all three of the things that you listed. It's a tool of our society. Changing it would only make it unappealing to the average person. People who love learning have wikipedia.
So, when you're standing at a cliff it doesn't matter whether you take a step forward or backward?
I don't know how you measure "impact," but this doesn't sound right to me. If you took away all the GNU code from a GNU/Linux system, my guess is that you would no longer have a working Unix system. I don't think that can be said of the other organizations you mention.

And if you mean social impact, I think it would be hard to overstate the role of GNU in getting the free software movement going. Yes, there is an ecosystem of self-sustaining projects and organizations now; but I have my doubts whether any of that would be there without the initial efforts of GNU.
Google Shows Off Its Groupon Killer, Launching Tomorrow – AllThingsD
This seems like a really ingenious way to simplify programming for both programmers and non-programmer-but-still-technically-savvy-people. For instance, this service provides a dead simple way to get an email or text alert for anything you can "trigger" on the available web services.

For programmers, this is also a simple way to hook into external services without having to download/learn their API.

I have been thinking about how to make web services more easily connectable for a while but all of my ideas required some participation from each service. Ifttt still requires a thin wrapper to expose a web service as a channel but after that everything has the same interface.
Thanks GP, I think this is my biggest peeve as well.

MRU CTRL-Tab is a well established Windows UI paradigm, don't ask power users to change without offering a way to disable this.

Also, while I really like searching from my location bar, I'm also not a big fan of the way the Google Omnibar Search retrieves history items using parts of the URL you visited. I much prefer the Firefox/Awesomebar method.

That said, I <3 Chrome because Chrome <3's Me
And what's the crime? Taking a picture of someone with the camera they stole?
Why not watch the DEFCON video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTFP6BYXAE

This is how one hacker got his computer back from a thief after tracking him for a few years.
Screenshots on the homepage are a bit confusing - seems like you should be able to sign up right from the homepage, but then you have to click through.
New Firefox Scare-ware Tricking Users Into Installing Fake Anti-Virus
Sprint trying to block T-Mobile AT&T deal
What about clang? It isn't part of the OS. It can't even build the OS yet. It's a nice project, and it might be a solid competitor to gcc in the near future, but the fact that it exists hardly refutes the point that gcc is a large, crucially important component of a modern Linux distribution.

(I should point out that I too find the whole GNU/Linux tiff silly, but equally silly are the folks who try to write the FSF out of the picture out of spite.)
Very clever use of technology.
Most people in the States have never heard of IUDs sadly. That leaves condoms as the primary hormone-free contraception option.
I'm not the OP, but one way would be to look at the dependency graph for packages. My guess is that a whole heck of a lot of them depend either directly or transitively on GNU code -- for example, GLibC.
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Do you have a source for that quote?
That's what they used to say about the "web-safe" color palatte, but I was hoping we'd put that problem behind us (along with avoiding alpha channels in PNGs and fixed background images).
This really was kind of shitty of them. On the one hand, I understand the excitement of being acquired by Twitter.
One the other, that was really shitty and, to be honest, seems very unprofessional to me. People should be in it to produce long-term services and get paid by customers, not by providing a service for a little bit, getting people dependent on it, and then yanking it out when it's profitable to do so.
clang builds Linux as of October. See http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2010-October/0117... .

gcc isn't really "part of the OS" either. Many distributions don't even include it in the default install. Ubuntu is a prominent such distribution.

I'm not trying to write FSF out of the picture. I appreciate their contributions and surely things like gcc, gdb, and emacs are hefty achievements. I am grateful to the FSF and the GNU Project for its legacy and its direct benefit to myself in terms of code provided. However, I don't feel that these contributions entitle GNU to a special prefix on the OS name any more than it entitles KDE, Mozilla, Xorg, or anyone else to a special prefix. I use code from all of those parties and quite appreciate that code, too.
I have no horse in this race, but $x billion company has traditionally referred to revenues. The usage of "___ company" to mean valuation is new (last five years), rare among traditional press outlets, and overrepresented among the startup/Silicon Valley crowd. The idiom may be changing in meaning, but if so, it's in the early stages.
Supposing Dave Gooden is correct...

The method seems risky at first, but when you think about the risk and how they solved the problem, it is perfectly acceptable.

To catch danger from unsolicited email (from the end recipient), the mail must first be reported. A complaint must be made. If the recipient doesn't report it, there is no action taken. Most of the time, it doesn't take but a few reports and then there are people digging into the scheme trying to figure out who is abusing the end users. This is because most people sending unsolicited email are not able to directly target their market. Viagra spammers have to send out boat loads of messages just to hit their market of old men with erectile disfunction who are too embarrassed to get the pills through traditional means AND not web savvy enough to realize that giving out their credit card information to a fly by night company selling drugs isn't the smartest idea.

Simply put - if you can directly target your market AND you have something that is game changing to those people - eg a superior product / experience / service compared to their current business efforts, you won't get flagged for spam. They'll check out your site, think it's the greatest, and become your customer because you make them money.

The problem for AirBnB was that Craigslist has evolved to try and prevent unsolicited mail of all kind - because most people or companies are NOT able to hit the sweet spot where they are sure that what they have to offer is exactly what the recipient wants, but doesn't know it until the email is received.

Having interns, family, friends, or other people who are genuinely excited about your business send email recommending it to exactly who will want it, without revealing their relationship to the business, is an acceptable, if temporary solution.

But you only need to build momentum, because if your product is amazing, the recipients of the previously unsolicited email will do all the word of mouth marketing for you.

So before you go and try and repeat this alleged successful route, make sure you have all the pieces to the puzzle before giving the mission a green light.

[cite: personal past experience at an ESP watching and doing the digging in resolving spam/fraud complaints]
I knew that bicycle helmets were just the thin end of the wedge!
No one wants to write them out of the picture. It's just not realistic to credit all the vital contributors in the name. Why is GNU not content with the CREDITS file?
I don't think it's gutsy.

1. They are a patent troll.

2. They have no brand to tarnish.

3. Even if they did have a brand to tarnish (oh, your THOSE patent trolls, no thanks I'll sell to someone else), their assests can easily be transferred to an array of successor companies with little impact to their ability to troll.

4. Their promise is not an enforceable contract. There's no "consideration" involved. If they don't pay, there's no legal recourse.

5. It looks to me like a plan to either:

a. Influence public opinion.

b. Provide a defense against tortious interference claims.

(note: I'm not a lawyer, this is just ignorant supposition).
These lectures were geared more toward budding computer scientists, whereas I feel that SICP was geared more towards experienced programmers. Hope they reach that target audience :).
Ask HN: What's the most cost effective payment processor for $1 transactions?
Right now we pay 32 cents fixed cost per transaction and 3% to 4% variable cost through Merchant Warehouse and use Authorize.net as the gateway. We're launching a product with a $1 price tag. Paying 36 cents on the dollar for processing seems excessive. Any suggestions for a cost effective payment processor for low value transactions? Thanks!
GitHub: Block the Bullies
The cock-up theory of technology news
There is an IETF realtime-web working group :

http://tools.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/charters

and this is part of Google's involvement with that.

However the original question is still valid, as this release might have been accelerated quite a bit because MS bought Skype.
Direct link: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/sp11/cs525/sched.htm
Firefox has been experimenting with autocompletion, it might make it into a future version. https://mozillalabs.com/prospector/2010/10/27/navigate-the-w... You can install the first-party addon without even restarting your browser. There are other experiments in the "Lab Kit" https://mozillalabs.com/blog/2010/11/its-time-to-get-your-la...
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A top law firm could just start a minimum wage internship which would have the same effect -- with $100,000 or more in law school debt, most people couldn't afford that either.

There are other ways to help people from outside the "circle" break in, this in fact the genesis of most diversity programs at white-shoe firms.
If you are replacing the connector and you don't care about reuse I find it is best to cut off the part then just do cleanup, remove as much as you can to eliminate the heatsinking. Then its up to tip size, temperature and flux...even still I can't say I have not lifted a few pads in my day.
the hardest part about working from home is the ability to switch modes from work to family and back. i'm not sure how to quantify that, but it is definitely in the pro column for going into the office.
I think it was meant to be a deliberate manifestation of Poe's law.
Why does GNU need to be in the title? That's the purpose of the CREDITS file. No one is trying to diminish GNU's contribution.
Why wasn't the kernel part separated from the support stuff?

It would seem the correct division (based on article) is

6% kernel

3% kernel support (i guess it would fall in "other")
I'm very curious if they misrepresented the nature of their growth to their investors. If they did, they could be in violation of securities laws, in addition to CAN-SPAM.
28 Percent of U.S. Organizations Use Cloud Computing
Open standard and open source are different things.

Having both an open standard and a full stack implementation (BSD-licensed) is ages ahead of just publishing some details about the protocol.
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Hmm, that doesn't fit with my recollection.

But when I Googled for "billion dollar company" then "million dollar company" the first usage I found that wasn't in some way tied to startups was http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/most-popular//red-mill-goes-t... where it clearly refers to revenue.

Ah well. Around here there is no question which usage is more common.

PS You may be amused that the top hit for "x billion dollar company" is http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2033232 which involves you.
Github responds to Zed Shaw's rant
"Most of us" live in places where crime is not a problem. Does anyone live in a place where crime is a problem as you describe it?

It seems that the Westerner attitude is that "somewhere else" things are really bad. New Orleans has close to the highest murder rate in the world.
A lynch mob is appropriate if the police refuse to act.

If elected officials do not enforce the law, the burden falls onto private citizens to do so. This is the common law with thousands of years of precedent.
Ninja and hacker are two very different words, hacker actually has some rich history and meaning to it. But it's true that it hardly means anything without a whole lot of context now that it seems to just mean 'programmer who doesn't wear a suit to work'
In a civilized society, you don't have to "deal" with ongoing intimidation. You take care of it. If bullies are tolerated, they grow bolder. Its the story of the decay of neighborhoods etc.

Again, the point was missed. Its not about a single incident. Its about zero tolerance for disrespect, intimidation, shakedown, public bullying. So somebody other than you can park without knuckling under to some jerk.
I compute the standard deviation of n(1) as sqrt(N p (1-p)) where p = 1/10. It's N iid realizations of a biased coin toss.

You left out the 1-p part, I think.

I totally agree with your sentiment that just eyeballing the plot is not the best route here. It's all too easy to convince yourself that the deviation isn't that bad, if you're just looking at the plot without error bars.
> Most people just want someone to give them a job and let them do it.

> I don't think the purpose of college is to provide people with education and a love of learning. Most people don't want that.

Your stance on this issue strikes me as one-dimensional and solipsistic. Maybe you're a very smart person who was unfairly persecuted for being different, or maybe you were persecuted for being different and placed the blame on a feature.

From my perspective, humans are learning machines, as evidenced by the totality of human output.

> People who love learning have wikipedia.

Wikipedia does not talk to you, debate your ideas, or force you to think in uncomfortable ways (`Discussion` does not count). I might be nitpicking your point, but autodidacts are well served by interfacing with people who can challenge their ideas and also help them articulate their opinions in person.

Edit: I'm getting downvoted, and I hope it's not because this comment comes across as rude. If it is, please message me directly; I tried hard on the tone.
Ctrl-F

Good point, but the UI's still inconsistent. If you open Options there is a Search options box. The passwords screen is modal, so that search box isn't accessible and you have two methods of search - a search field for Options and Ctrl-F for password. The other issue is that Ctrl-F doesn't consistently scroll to the highlighted item. When doing a Ctrl-F I often have to use the scroll bar to find the highlighted phrase.