skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1.5 yrs part time for my work on bliss, of which a little over one year was with a commercially available product. Once RP, I went full time.

This was aided by both shrinking my outgoings as well as growing revenue. I cut out as many monthly outgoings as possible, went PAYG with my mobile phone, stopped spending daft amounts of money on wine... You've got to work out what's more important - cable television or your startup?
Not sure if this is still the case, but from what I remember from using GAE about a year ago, it was not possible to register users (logging in was done with a Google account).
How does it muck about with the kernel address space again? Oh right, by writing to magic locations in memory. The same way that you interface with virtually all hardware, for that matter.
C++0x introduces a bunch of smart pointers to the standard library (and boost provides them externally for previous versions). What are the advantages of garbage collection over these?
I don't think the insights offered by TII necessarily disagree with the OP. In fact, I'd say the whole concept of Mr Market chimes in quite well. Both imply a policy of wariness when approaching company values.
There is probably another reason here. WPF and Silverlight were meant to bring rich beautiful interfaces to Windows. But they did not succeed not because of the technology. The reason is precisely because a majority of the people who are prepared to learn .NET is the old breed of developers who still think in terms of WIMP interfaces. So years after WPF, there are few good looking apps in the wild.

In contrast, the devsigner community in HTML is vibrant and competitive. Just look at how many beautiful SaaS apps there are.

MS needs these people working on their stack and they realize Silverlight and WPF is a hard sell for these people who already have HTML chops. If they could get these devsigners working on Windows, it will present a shot in the arm for better looking UI on Windows again.
@NL

The problem is not the technical write up.

Affiliate Link

He said: I am still taking the “no affiliation sales” stance.
He posted that on his page http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/advertisement-situation-at-low...
Which contradicts http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/vpslink-february-sale-and-10-o...

The Ethical debate belongs at a different venue.. but you must concede that these are two conflicting policies. but whatever.. its no big deal. I have no problem with folks making money off affiliate marketing.

-Im not even saying that he has a bad site. or a bad guy. Im not even saying that his post was incorrect. what I am saying is: 1) Provocative Title 2) Immediately references to a sketchy forum 3) affiliate link + ads -- these are usually the signs of link-bait.

*Im not even commenting on the merit of the article or whether it belongs on HN or not.. Im just commenting on how painful it is for me to see it on HN.
When I was in primary school only 1 had a computer. I wish I remembered more, or there was an archive of these.
JAILBREAKME 3.0 TO JAILBREAK IPAD2 ON IOS4.3-COMING SOON?
Ask HN: Review my startup, Kickertape.com
Hi all,

This is the first time I've made a post, but I've been reading the forum for sometime now. Anyway, I've just launched my first ever app this last week:

http://www.kickertape.com

I'm interested in genuine and honest feedback on the site generally, but probably specifically the UI (is it clear what to do?) and the gameplay... I'm too close to it, so wonder if it's interesting enough? Or is it boring as batsh!t?!

Please, be honest!

For those who're interested... my background is in environmental engineering, economics and finance. No IT! But, I've taught myself ASP.NET and SQL, based on my previous experience programming VBA macros for finance... just to build this site, which I had the idea for about four years ago. It's all my own work from scratch - the good and the bad!

I'm just having a go and enjoying the challenge.

Have a great day :-D

Sean.
If you find a bug in actively maintained software like PulseAudio, please report it. The best thing to do here is not to work around a bug, but to participate in the community and help to improve the software.
It's really not such a big deal if you use "new" parsimoniously and use containers and RAII as much as you can.

I can count on my hands the number of new and delete I have written in my code in the last three years.
Lame excuses.
Why don't you give what users need?
Problogger's YouTube account is suspended over 5-month-old alleged spam
I've long thought that being a psychopath hardly precludes/excuses one from acting morally. If most psychopaths turn out to be anti-social criminals I'd say the blame is ultimately because they failed to identify the value of moral behaviour (to the individual) and logically follow through on the principles which arise. Perhaps because society does not teach these things adequately. If most non-psychopaths turn out not to be criminals, however, arguably it could be a mixture of some people just blindly following their empathy and other people taking a principled stance on things.
Open source doesn't really make a difference, there's still ownership, and there's still often corporate use. Someone suing over the GCC could sue Apple, Oracle, IBM, RedHat, etc, but wouldn't bother suing Linus or Stallman.
UI looks clean. But what are you providing new? There are other similar exchanges?. What is new/unique about this one?
Yes, you just learned the very thing that is under debate here: that unless your mom trolls though HN discussions, she would never guess that opening a web browser and navigating to that cryptic URL is the mechanism for installing a printer.

Oh, sorry, I left out the "click shit" part. Do some of that, too.
It's by antimatter15, not Google.
http://pagekite.net/ is a FOSS Python implementation of a similar concept.

It doesn't rely on SSH, supports SSL and CNAMEs and works quite well on Windows as well as Linux/OSX. You can sign up for service or run your own.

I am the author. :-)
A version of this where everyone not pale pink wasnt mapped to #000 might be interesting. Asia alone must account for more than 30% of the world's population.
When has freedom ever meant violating the rights of others?
I think the real cost is in the ~50,000 engineers* who are trying to clone Facebook, not in the ~300 who are actually working on it.

* Made up number.
My opinion, as someone who has very successfully raised "good kids" with a lot of these types of negative traits: Psychopaths often turn out badly because they are treated so negatively by other people for being different. So they basically get abuse heaped upon them. What goes around, comes around. (In other words: "normal" people who think they are so fucking moral are often assholes who help create monsters.)
First, it's a bit late to bolt this on to the language now that mountains and mountains of libraries and applications have been written to use manual memory management.

Second, a lot of people use C++ because they need low-level control of memory use and can't tolerate GC pauses. If you're writing the kind of app in which GC is acceptable why not use Java or an even higher level language like Scala instead?
>Arguably, font rendering is still awful, and so are default fonts in all the distros.

In comparison to what? Cleartype on windows is absolute shit, and OSX just looks blurry. In Linux I can tweak the aliasing and hinting options to be the way I like them.
Theres no need to further debate this with you.
Ask HN: Why do men have boobs?
Yup, I've been thinking about this for a while, maybe it is a point for evolutionists against creationists. Duh. What do you think ?
Two FYIs for you:

1.) Downvoted comments never show as more than -4, -4 means "at least 5 people have downvoted, possibly a lot more"

2.) People thinking that you're talking nonsense doesn't equate to "censorship in the West".
That's the configuration mechanism in a minimal system where just about everything is disabled. In any kind of system that a novice would be using, it shows up in all the expected places.
The website looks really good and i truly wanted to register..but as always... only facebook... this make me sad...
Any job that someone's willing to pay to have done - by paying for the job, they indicate that it's worth that much money, and hence at least as useful as that money was.
That's exactly where I am now - an Ubuntu box for development and a Macbook Air and iPad for everything else. If I had the time to configure the Ubuntu box I could probably even leave the Air at home (although I would miss Acorn) - but at the moment too much is bust.

However, with iOS5 Apple have probably done themselves out of a further Mac sale from me - between the two of them, the iPad and Linux will cover my needs.
Ellenálhatatlan hajhosszabbítás árak
Talán már téged is elfogott a vágy, hogy hosszú, dús hajad legyen. De nem tudtad hova fordulj, hol juthatsz hasznos információkhoz a hajhosszabbítással kapcsolatban. Látogasd meg weboldalunkat, ahol tájékozódhatsz a hajhosszabbítás technikáiról, képekről.
Great read, thanks. Incidentally, the link at the end 404s: http://blog.bufferapp.com/tagged/building_buffer (looks like it should be http://blog.bufferapp.com/category/building-buffer)
Draw: how constraints inspire art
Global Grind
Seems cool, but not better than Snap Circuits.
Google http://www.livescience.com/4971-men-breasts.html
I never claimed it was. But all other things being equal, it's better to be wrong less often, to make fewer mistakes. And when you do make mistakes, it's better to gracefully correct. But in any given case, it really is better to not make the mistake at all.
I guess my point of difference - although easily replicated - is the integration with social networking... the idea is that playing the game is not an individual pursuit, but rather an opportunity to compete with your friends. To that end, I've made it as easy as possible to achieve all of this with Facebook and, depending on how it goes, perhaps other social networks in future...
Sorry! This was a calculated choice, which may yet come back to bite me. Thanks anyway for checking it out though.
Well, I am not talking nonsense, I am probably much better informed about the topic that most other here.

With "censorship" I do not mean government censorship but self-sensorship. It's implated in the heads that certain things are "correct" and whoever dares to question one of these things gets punished.

That's what "Ideology" is all about. When the reality is ignored in favour of "the Truth".

I actually did the work and lived (and still live) in those places to have a look myself. Nobody cares, because everybody knows "the Truth" already.

Downvote me for it.
In languages where it's appropriate.

Not in those where being close to the metal matters.
Put a thousand books from the British Library on your iPad for free
More importantly, you left out the "minimal Debian box" part. With modern desktop environments, you can just plug your printer, wait a few seconds for it to tell you it's installed, and your done. Way easier than on any other OS.
First startup, within 30 days (or less) we had revenue and profit to sustain cost. Currently working on finding next idea so nothing yet.
Mac OS X Lion Can Run in Chrome OS-Like Browser Only Mode
Get an accountability partner. I'll help you.
This is partly misleading. It's accurate that steel is made up of grains, analogous to grains of sand, but the things you mentioned are more correctly phases, several of which can exist within a grain.

e.g. Pearlite, which you mention, consists of two phases, cementite and ferrite. And these phases can form at the edges of grains, or within grains, depending on growth conditions.

But this isn't the important thing. The important thing is that it's meaningless to talk about how strong "single grains" can be, and how wonderful it would be if we could make large single crystals. And it's meaningless for two reasons: firstly, there are always trade-offs. If you make a large single crystal (i.e. a single grain) you'll sacrifice toughness, because cracks will be able to easily propagate straight through the crystal, without any grain boundaries to stop them. And secondly, you have entropy. Whenever you try and make a large version of something small, entropy dictates you will always have defects. This is why, for example, carbon nanotubes will never scale (which is not to say they won't be useful, they will be!) but if you try and make a centimetre long nanotube it'll be full of defects and will never, ever, be as good as a single microscopic nanotube which is almost perfect.

Anyway, the point is, there's no perfect material. No "good parts" and "bad parts," there's always a trade-off. Sometimes the "bad" parts can do very useful things. As an example, if you make a very strong steel, good luck trying to shape it into anything useful! Imagine if you have a lump of the "best" material in the world, if you can't find a chisel to carve it into something, then it's not going to do anyone any good...

And claims like those given in the parent article are always a little dubious. It's hard for people to imagine the scale of the steel industry, and I personally know of processes that are great in the lab for both steel and other metals which have wonderful efficiencies but just can't be scaled. A kg of steel should cost about the same to make as a bottle of water. If the equipment/size/energy-to-run-equipment investment is just a little too high per kg, it's not going to be useful for anyone at the kinds of scales it needs to be...

That said, despite the difficulties there has been huge progress made in the last few decades, and this might be one of them! Without more information I couldn't say (and it's not my area of expertise anyway), so I wish them luck.
Sorry - I forgot to say thanks for having a look!
I've also heard stories of men breastfeeding.
If you are an US American, you may want to go to your nearest Indian reserve and ask them.
turntable.fm has built exactly that and has a very passionate set of early users. Unless you want to start your own startup, you should probably go work for them.
Is it impossible to succeed in a crowded software market?
@NL

You are replying to my post and this is a threaded forum, not Twitter.

1) Provocative Title

If it bleeds it leads. And what would be a better title exactly?

2) Immediately references to a sketchy forum

WebHostingTalk is the biggest forum about webhosting in the world. It's pretty important if you work in that field.

3) affiliate link + ads

Welcome to the internet.
It's rather harder to count the number of times there were idioms you could have used but didn't because using them in C++ wouldn't have been practical or efficient. I'm thinking in particular of closures which captured state, and functional/monadic style chained method calls each building on the previous function's return value (think: something like .NET LINQ).
Aha, thanks for that Mark, it's because we moved from Tumblr to Wordpress. Much appreciated.
I get pitting edema from sitting too much - I actually get less swelling from standing. From the little bit of reading I've done on this, I think it's because my legs are more tired, and so I stretch every twenty minutes or so. Go figure.

For my hillbilly-engineering standing desk, I put a folding table onto two plastic totes. It's not terribly stable, but damn if it ain't cheap.
Generally, yes. There are a lot of hard decisions out there, where even if there is a right choice, it is only obvious in retrospect. This isn't one of those cases. The engineers involved knew it was a bad idea. They were so convinced it was a bad idea that they defied their boss to ensure there was a backup plan. And they were right to do so.

Jobs had to admit he was wrong. Good for him. But this story is silent on the question of whether he took the next step: figuring out how he was blinded, and why he made this mistake so that he would not make the same mistake in the future. Some mistakes are inevitable. Many are not.
The mere fact that you have to use smart pointerS is enough of a drawback; not only do you need to start decorating various types explicitly, but you must choose which smart pointer types are appropriate, and avoid issues of circular references (in the case of refcounting) and persistence of references (in the case of scope-guarded objects tied to a stack frame); worry about logical ownership hand-off from one smart pointer container to another, etc.

The real power of GC, though, is freedom to use idioms that are simply impractical, or especially, not exception safe, in its absence (see my comment earlier).
No wonder they want to hide the URL bar in the new Chrome!
Do you mind telling me about some projects in those fields(health specially)?. I'm learning about data mining/machine learning and I'd love to know how this fields are applied to solve important problems and what I can do to help.
Good thing I took out that aluminum flooring last week.
A cloud hangs over the sysadmin
that's a great example of what i am talking about
yes. that's right.
There are almost 7 billion people on the planet. What is really sad is that most will never have the opportunity to contribute in any meaningful way. In reality we should be lamenting that we don't have 100 million more "brilliant" people working on the "important" problems.
26,000 Porn websites passwords exposed by LulzSec
If the payouts include stock grants I could see this not being the case.
Samurai Web Testing Framework LiveCD
6 Popular Ideas That Fail
For assets (or future assets), you need to discount them by a probability that the investor could ever actually see that money, either via dividends, or via a 'liquidity event' of one sort or another, since an asset isn't really your asset if you can never touch it. Warren Buffet sees to that by buying controlling stakes in companies, so not only do the companies have assets that could theoretically be liquidated for a profit, but he could actually liquidate the company if he wanted to (or at least, could force it to start selling off assets and returning their value as dividends).
Show HN: I built a service to find cool people on Github
Nobody gets popular anywhere talking about responsibilities. That is a basic fact of the human condition. It would be easier to duck the issue by installing dictatorships everywhere and ensuring nobody ever had to think about their responsibilities ever again. You would make many friends if you implemented such a plan.

However, those dictatorships would have to be run by humans. That is a limitation of current technology, perhaps, but it is a constraint we have to live with now. Humans in power abuse the power they have; it is impossible to imagine otherwise. That is another fact of the human condition.

Asking for downvotes is infantile.
1) Provocative Title
---> As for a better title -- who knows..
the title: "Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS" ---> it begs the question... "why wouldn't you be able to Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS?" -- So, you end up clicking on it. For this HN crowd - Im pretty sure that was going thru a lot of peoples head when they read the title.. (at least for me - but who knows)

2) Immediately references to a sketchy forum
WebHostingTalk is the biggest forum about webhosting in the world. It's pretty important if you work in that field*

---> That's debatable. I've worked in the web hosting industry for a very long time and I almost never go to that forum unless, im baited to it.

3) affiliate link + ads
Welcome to the internet.
I've got nothing against affiliates, or ads... heck - affiliate marketing is a very important part of the internet marketing ecosystem.
however, the very obvious absence of affiliates or ads on HN makes it a very nice place.
I think the concept is cool but twitter is probably not the best vehicle of choice for me personally. Maybe it'll work well for others.
Looks like you beat me to it. Thanks, appreciate it!
As I was checking the referrers to Beyond The Pedway, I noticed Groupon had a page listing all of it's media mentions including my interview from 2 years ago.

I figured I'd share it here since it's such an old interview, most folks coming to my site don't know it exists.
I migrated from Kubuntu to Xubuntu when Lucid came out, it runs greatly on older notebooks for that matter, even Xubuntu Natty today.

While the issues mentioned in the article are valid, it's still so much easier for me to maintain all family (and several friends) pc/laptops around, after I migrated them from Windows to Kubuntu/Xubuntu. The desktops just work and don't break, which is not something you can say about the Windows tamagotchi thing - you need to care about this one, or keep it restricted.
I don't know much about patent law. However, when I search for "cooling metal with water" on Google Patents, I get over 27000 hits. So, the concern is there that maybe someone does.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cooling+steel+with+water&...
Just out of curiosity.

Where would you look instead?

Could be cool to get a list of alternative ways to twitter and facebook.

Are other sites having profiles that could be accessed such as SO etc?
Presumably if they were doing anything as complicated as a modern CPU they would have a unified last level of memory and some mechanism for guaranteeing synchronization.

Honestly, even C execution could probably be speeded up by having separate stack and heap memory pipelines. To do that efficiently on an OoO machine you'd probably need three sets of instructions for memory accesses to the stack - two sets for where you know ahead of time which part of memory you're dealing with and one for where you don't. The first two would be there to help out the scheduler.

Thinking about the C ABI a bit more and how you can have a function call with a pointer to who-knows-what place in memory maybe this isn't actually such a great idea in practice for C, but it should be great for languages which can provide more guarantees.
Bug: it found some people on github but all link to github.com/${login}
Is there a list of the books somewhere?
It would be great if you could bulk select those you wanted to follow.
Seems like they could have at least used the whole screen.
It's really interesting how the article reads as a reply to (most of) the comments here on hackernews and not the other way around. I have a feeling that a lot of people commenting here simply read the title and nothing more. Otherwise, why would you put forth an "argument" which is exactly one of the arguments discussed in the article as false? I'm probably going to get heat for posting this, but I feel it's kind of ironic. Normally HN gives me a good extension to the article in question: Other ideas, other points of view and expands on the article. Not so here...
"... the Apache MapReduce clustered data-processing architecture ..." I'm not very familiar with internals of Hadoop - but thought this was mostly Java.
Probably used for kiosks?
Traditionally, the united states restricts freedom of speech legally in a few fairly well defined cases. In all of them, due process is involved.

These domain seizures are such a disturbing issue because there is no due process. They don't even attempt to pretend like it exists.

Since when has freedom ever meant violating the rights of others indeed.
Polymorphism as with sockaddr and XEvent types is safe. The values are always (in a correct program) read as the same type they were written so there is no type punning.
It could be a "safe mode/single user mode" for mortals — you fix your computer by Googling (or booking appointment with Apple Genius :)
What WhatsApp doesn't tell you
WhatsApp stores every sent and received messages, even if user "removed" them. Also, coordinates are logged in msgstore.db if messages are sent when the GPS is enabled.
I've known a couple of folks who worked at apple, and described the experience as "Hell on Earth".