skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's just no class (as if there could be any in hacking) with LulzSec. I could be on the side of a hacker with cases like Kevin Mitnick. These guys are just dicks.
...my co-workers using windows

ftfy.
You realize that targeting individuals with that money would be 2-3 bucks per mexican. Give everyone a big mac and that'll solve everything?

Also, our southern border has been nearly militarized in the last 2 years, and there has been ZERO increase in crime or impact on the US side of the border, despite a whole lot of propagandizing by racist assholes. (here's one cite, you can find more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/05/02/20100502ar...)
Windows users that aren't privy to *nix culture generally don't find all of the "rm -rf ..." jokes all that funny. They get it, but it's sort of like telling a german joke in English to an English speaker only; they get it, but it looses it's humor if you aren't privy to the culture.
Well said. I'm not completely convinced this isn't the government, and I'm definitely not normally a tinfoil-hatter. I think the most likely scenario is that, like the ATF's blind eye toward gun-runners on the Mexico border, an agency or agencies have been ordered to turn a blind eye for now.

The chickens are coming home to roost on the ATF thing and I sincerely hope that, if my suspicions are true, they do the same on this.
Is that really the definition of a bubble though?

A bubble implies irrational valuations. Trying to value a company as if they are the next Google is the purpose of the stock market and can be perfectly rational.

Google sets a standard, and by its success, it demonstrates what other similar companies could do, which gives investors more confidence in upstarts like Facebook, which then leads to higher valuations. The state of our economy also leads to higher valuations - as money is worth less today than it was when Google went public, and there are fewer productive places for investors to put their money than when Google went public.

At times when valuations become increasingly irrational you could say we are approaching a bubble, but this article's author did not offer a rational argument to back up his points.
The Secure Cloud Bundle: Teaming Up To Go To Market
I see. I didn't know Windows didn't get that feature. I guess we still need pdfcreator and friends then!
They possibly did - a warning is not an error.

The tool flags these issues for the [OO]CSS writer to attend to. If I say "look out walking on that floor it's wet" that doesn't mean you can't choose to walk on the floor nor even that I'm telling you not to.
I completely agree with you but I think its okay that Microsoft builds a competitor to OpenCL. Would OpenGL improved as fast without DirectX? Little competition never hurts, lets just hope they don't push it into a monopoly.
Wealth, War, and Wisdom
Please stop upvoting this blogspam posted constantly by unixroot. He's clearly doing this to promote his site, thehackernews.com

I imagine he's made a killing lately with all the Lulzsec drama that gets reflex upvoted. Just more noise and blogspam. He submits several stories a day exclusively from that domain, thehackernews.com
What a bunch of garbage.
It is always dangerous to assume what answers are desired by an interviewer. Interviews are not just to get the job - it is to determine whether or not you would even want the job in the first place.

So in this particular case, I would answer something about how I have taught my kids multiple languages, taught them kung fu, helped them to develop their own hobbies and become their own people, while at the same time working with local non-profits on renewable energy technologies.

If they do not like that answer and would have preferred a list of open source/weekend projects, it is probably not a place I would have fit in anyway.
Seems like combining with benchmarks & review is something for of priority! This was first thing mentioned also on #startups channel. Thank you.

At this stage I'm far from covering all IaaS providers. There are at least 50 of them currently. But I'll keep adding new. I'll put slicehost on top then :)

SmartGWT seems to have a bug with sliders for Opera. Something with z-index I think.
Well thanks for going back to it! It does say exactly what you said in the third paragraph of the preview page, though. (code editing and live changes). It was supposed to be the 'hook point'. My copy writing isn't really that great, it seems :)

I was trying to make it short enough so people wouldn't be bored, but detailed enough that they would want to see the features in action.
Yep, you're correct. Another lesson learned: Cache Wordpress.
Still nothing ^^
I'm not convinced these are real. A lot of the passwords are surprisingly cryptic - not the usual collection of bananas and children's names you might expect.

Assuming that most people use the same username and password for most things, and that AOL users will be the least sophisticated I thought it would be interesting to verify 10 of the combinations which had an AOL address against AOL. Not a single one of them actually worked and I'm inclined to wonder whether (happily) this isn't just a hoax.
Their twitter account needs to be suspended. It's being used to distribute the proceeds of criminal activity.
Normal Unix method of doing this is via LD_PRELOAD, then you wrap unlink() in something that moves things to a folder. I used something - think it was libtrash - when I used Linux on the desktop, but haven't investigated what the OS X equivalent would be.
He might borked it lately
I wasn't aware of the photo-catalyst properties of bulk TiO2, so I'll have to agree with you there, but I'll say two things in defence of the article. Firstly, it does mention that a key factor in the effectiveness of TiO2 as a catalyst is the exposed surface area, so nano-sized TiO2 may be necessary to get the efficiency to make this viable. Perhaps bulk TiO2 just isn't enough. Secondly, nano-sized TiO2 responds to light differently (for example, I just did a lab experiment where TiO2 particles in nano behaved very differently under XRD from bulk TiO2). There might be other benefits that nano TiO2 offers that weren't mentioned in the article.
OpenCL is a language designed for writing programs where performance is important. I'm not sure how you could abstract away from it or compile down to it without losing some control over the code's performance characteristics.

A compiler would be better off compiling directly to either native code (if running on a CPU) or something like PTX (for NVidia GPUs).
It's a DELTREE on %whateveritis%
BTW, your site idea is genius. You are probably afraid to post your income because of competitors, but I know that is a great field. I 2007 or 2008 I made $3k from just a link on the RoR wiki. Then there was a lot of competition & the economy soured, but the affiliate business with the rate this webhost are great. There was just so much competition and I didn't have the differentiating idea that you have to focus on Rails with nice reviews and content and the google map too. Anyway good job, hope it works out well for you, but people may not like the Hacker news spam.
Hackers may not eat their own dog food!!
I don't think it is too surprising. They are bleeding cash and will someday have seriously stiff competition from at least Google, Amazon and Apple.

I do hope they do well; I really enjoy Pandora. But it has been an uphill battle for them to get this far, mostly because content owners are regressive-minded. And the battle will only get a lot more difficult as competition arises in the near future.
rmtrash

http://www.nightproductions.net/cli.htm

I prefer 'brew install rmtrash'
No it's not. Something like "Stupid academics and their ivory tower global warming theories" is anti-intellectual. The grandparent just values intuition above hard data. I don't necessarily agree, but don't go calling the grandparent anti-intellectual and rant about humanity's lack of "rationality" just because you disagree with them.
This guy pretty much gets it. Young programmers, particularly talented ones, are going to think that anything enterprise-y is just lame. Working at a startup feels like keeping it real in a kick-ass garage band. Working at SAP feels like playing triangle in a Gamma World City's Philharmonic. Even if it pays well and affords a modicum of respect, it just don't do.
Nuance acquires SVOX TTS company
Using Lines from Virgil In Place of Lorum Ipsum Text
Pool of Radiance had a bug where the uninstaller would wipe your hard drive. Oops.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q4/pool_of_radiance/pool-1....
Why would you poll the tasks? Cant the tasks wake up after their time is done, just fire an interrupt witht he number of the task.
An interview with Journey co-creator Jenova Chen
If you explain it the humor evaporates
Would that matter, as long as the contractors only work one of projects which are time limited?
Try it now! :)
Imho, what's mainly in dispute is what the effect of different actions will be.

An example would be, what would the effect be of stopping CO2 production alltogether ? Because the answer is so very different from what the politicians would want it to be :

stopping co2 production will have a tiny effect on global warming, or maybe none at all.

Global warming went into a feedback loop over 100 years ago, and while stopping co2 production might slow it down, it will not stop it, nor will it reverse any of it's effects.

Those glaciers are gone until the next ice age. Deal with it. It might be a good idea to pray you don't get to see them again in your lifetime, because you won't like what they bring with them.
I love Facebook for keeping in touch with friends I don't frequently communicate with. It's fun to see pictures and status updates occasionally. I have no intentions of ever leaving it (why would I?). I check it daily and it provides useful updates. The events are very useful as an RSVP service that nobody has to sign up for.

With that said, Facebook is not going to die any time soon. MySpace didn't last because it was childish and annoying. Facebook has many fixes in place that allow it to be a more grown up setting. You can ignore apps, ignore people, and the color schemes are not hideous. It just has too much to offer for it to simply die.

These claims are outrageous.
There's lots of stuff like that out there, I'm talking about something I can actually replace the rm binary with, a wrapper that precisely maintains the rm interface as described here: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin...

I like the idea of actually wrapping the unlink syscall, but I have no idea if/how darwin allows that.
I wouldn't say zero marketing :P
From an employer perspective, they're trying to gauge drive and interest. While these questions may not be completely fair, and will exclude a lot of competent people, it is a decently good way to measure what they're looking for. I suppose, it's just a sad situation.
Still not working (from France at least)
EDIT: ok now it works
As far as I know there is no visa that allows foreigners to travel to the US and work remotely back home. It would be a breach of the Visa Waiver program (or any other visa) which can lead to deportation.

I'd like to hear from people who did this, told the immigrations officer about their plans and were not turned back on the border.
I decided to change it to over 1 year instead of 2.
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HTML5 Music Player Plugin For jQuery
To what end? So they can create another? And another? And another? I'm quite sure they can create new accounts faster than Twitter can delete them, and the last thing Twitter wants to deal with is MORE spam. Smarter to contain the issue.
For me it was a big case of Not Invented Here syndrome that caused me to make my own compilers and languages. It is a great way to learn deep stuff about how languages work, and helps me debug issues that others can't fix.
and the entire windows directory, and the entire users directory, and ...
Very nice! Regarding the logo though, it needs to be rotated a few degrees counter-clockwise, so that the text is symmetrical to an imaginary x'x axis that splits it in half. This is because implicitly it is now pointing downwards, which people subconsciously relate to, you know, bad things.

Disclaimer: IMHO. Not trying to offend anyone. Etc.

Edit: I would also like to say that i find the name excellent. It conveys the point very well, you should not change it.
A nit: aren't biofuels, waste and peat only "green" in the sense that they are renewable. In terms of climate change (which is the point of this discussion), these sources still release CO2, no?
and 23.5% increase in "pixel area".
Of course, wouldn't that also mean that on days that you commute to work you're paying income tax in MA plus the above-average NH property tax?
The new title for this HN submission is a bit misleading. The article is basically a puff piece designed to give an insight into the family of a well known person, it's not designed as advice to parents or Fred Wilson telling people how to raise kids.
It's a pretty messy script anyway - rm'ing /usr/lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg doesn't strike me as the most delicate approach to the problem.
> If not it's impossible to determine who left which garbage bag and/or who clogged the chute*1.

Unless you throw away your mail, and the building's superintendent goes through it.

You probably don't even need mail, come to think of it. People buy similar things over time, and I'd wager that if you had one trash sample from every apartment in the building, you could track down a "mystery" bag with pretty significant confidence.
My passion for programming ebbs and flows. For months at a time I may work all day on one thing and come home and hack on an idea I had for serializing continuations. At other times I will instead focus on art, music, or just having fun.

However, everyone is different. I think having written and shared at least a small utility or library is a good indicator to me, I wouldn't discount someone because they had not written programs or libraries in their spare time. Especially if they come recommended and have a good work history.

I find all too often that interviews are just about impressing the interviewer. Everyone has their own idea of what makes a good programmer. When they sit across the table from a candidate I think many interviewers are looking for people that fit that mould.

edit: glaring spelling error
If you have a Declarative Batch Query, then you you get a bunch of SQL and plumbing code for free. The join and the iterative code you'd need to do that writing it "by hand" is 10x more.
Exactly. If you changed only RAM, then default was 20 HDD, while Linode 512 has only 16 GB.
FTC warns of cell phone radiation scams
As a guy who works for an american company, living in south america, i say: make this happen. please.
Here is the original bug report. https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/123

I've never heard of BumbleBee, but it must be great if a user can have their machine wiped out and still thank the library author for their work.
Some questions for Joel/anyone else:

Do you need to pay corporate income taxes in these states as well?

It is possible avoid state income taxes and collecting sales taxes by hiring these employees as independent contractors (if you were willing to give them whatever autonomy was sufficient)?

Do you know if there similar tax consequences to hiring employees who are residing overseas?

(Of course the real answer to all of these is consult an attorney.)
You'll probably lose some performance, but you can also make disproportionately large productivity gains. Performance loss generally isn't the largest limitation, but rather expressivity. That is, by providing higher-level abstractions, you're also saying "this is how you need to write your computations." In other words, you define a programming model. If the problem you want to solve does not cleanly map to that programming model, then you can't use it.

We've been playing this game every since Fortran was first invented. Yeah, you probably could get better performance if you wrote your application one level of abstraction lower, but once you get a sufficiently sophisticated compiler, the performance benefit is marginal compared to the programming time and effort. Further, libraries tend not to be written directly in assembly, and will often rely on other libraries. I could see implementing something similar to what MS showed purely as a C++ library.
The term "introversion" was introduced by Jung as describing a particular condition that pre-existed. He originates the term but not introversion itself which is extent but (possibly) unlabelled. (Aside: It usually turns out with these things that others had labelled it but not popularised their encapsulation of the concept or failed to be as encompassing or thorough - not sure if this is true here though.)

I think the real problem you have is with the loose use of the word "concept" by the parent.
Issues such as?
But there continue to be reports that GMail has some issues with the dots where andzdroid@gmail.com and andz.droid@gmail.com can be two different accounts:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=60cbf...
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=2d9f3...
It could also be that they just want to learn more about how what they work with functions. I have a hobby operating system that I'm working on (that doesn't do much of anything at the moment :), but I'm not creating it because I think other OS's are deficient or to fix something that bugs me. I just want to better understand how an OS works at the lowest levels and I learn best by experimenting.
Google to Encourage Americans to Get Online
From what I can tell based on a large purchase of domain names today by Google, the online search giant is planning some sort of campaign to encourage us to get online. Google has purchased a large number of State-related domain names including Get Online America, including the get online phrase along with a State name.
Is there any point in building yet another job board if it doesn't imply some exclusivity?
Engineering hints you'll rarely hear
Surely they could red-flag the term "LulzSec"?

Yes, I'm advocating some well-thought-out censorship in this case.

Anonymity + audience = lulzsec. If we remove the audience, we remove LulzSec.
> Working with this stuff is so complex that in Germany, it's an often-told inside joke in the IT industry that some small and medium sized businesses actually became insolvent by moving to an SAP-based system.

I've heard of this almost happening; a malfunctioning label printer can cause an entire plant to shut down for weeks while consultants work to find the problem.
The second comment was 300 words long with about 20 of them used for the setup and mention of karma. It was an attempt to explain the first, which is something I care about, and should be obvious considering it was so clearly not going to be popular with HNchan. So that doesn't seem like a meta discussion to me - although your comment and this reply most definitely are now.

Both mentions were probably more part social commentary than complaint. I mean it was already completely grey, and isn't the whole point of fading out comments so that other people aren't bothered by them? If so then fading out does not work because that comment was downvoted 20+ times. So after the first -4, we had 16 other people highlight the comment, read it, and downvote it. That's a broken system.

And notice I derisively referred to it as a signed integer - that was deliberate because in the great wide universe that is my life, an integer stored in database somewhere is something I care eternally less about than the content of my comments and the realization I hoped to spur...
I'm pretty sure you can travel under VW and still do business for a foreign corporation. Like if I come to the US for a trade show or to negotiate a deal, I can come under VW. I don't know what the specific rules are (I'm pretty sure you can't work for a US corporation) but I don't think there is a blanket prohibition on doing work for a foreign company.
Google Launches Tool for Online Reputation Management
BioWare hacked, 18,000 Neverwinter Nights forums accounts stolen
I agree with the title, but not the article. People are irrational. But this is an example of laziness, not irrationality.
I think this is a great idea, and would use it very actively.
What would be good is to get a shared GDOC going so you can capture the e-mails and cities of those interested?

E-mail to keep us all in the loop, and city to make local hiring easier?
You would need a threshold of course. But having that would also mean there would be a fringe demand for people who are above the threshold.

Thus, if this is done, there could be demand for a job board where non-threshold-meeting HN members can employ threshold-meeting HN members to post their job ads. Ok, partly kidding.
Pandora isn't bleeding cash.
Nano-size doesn't seem to play a crucial role in this application. The article is concerned with Italcementi's TX Active cement. Italcementi's main development is a photocatalytic hydraulic binder, and here's their patent:

https://data.epo.org/publication-server/getpdf.jsp?pn=094645...

In the patent, they claim that

"Any kind of photocatalyst able to oxidize in the presence of light, air and environmental humidity (oxygen and
water) the polluting substances contacting the surface of the hydraulic binder (or the relative mortars and concretes) in a hardened state is part of the present invention, particularly a titanium dioxide, mainly in the form of anatase, or a precursor thereof, optionally doped with other atoms different from Ti."
The iPad 2 leaks: A tale of bribery, theft and jail time
Groupon's most important lesson
Would it be acceptable for someone to post a list of just the passwords? I would love to add them to my collection of passwords that are not allowed.
Why would he need to explain it to the windows that are using his coworkers?

Also, it's very unclear to me what that the situation you are describing entails.

/s

Grammatically, your sentence is no less ambiguous.
They also fail to mention if it's a net loss. Sure, 6 million accounts were closed, but if 60 million new accounts were opened in that same time period, then there's not much point in worrying.
Not a problem assuming you're fine with 100% staff turnover.
We can help by getting them to have different passwords for different services. We can help them by forcing companies to make security a priority.

As a good internet citizen you should be more worried about the companies that you have accounts with and getting them to improve their security before this kind of thing happens to you.
Many people don't seem to actually differentiate though
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Interesting site, didn't get to play in too much detail but I got hung up on the OS slider -- maybe make this a radio or some sort of toggle since it's only 2 selection items?
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic with the "who would?" portion of your comment, but doesn't cpan run tests, by default, whenever installing something? And, most people who aren't Perl developers with their own private Perl installation install CPAN modules as root, so they are available to all users. So, to answer the question seriously: Most people.
True, I've worked at OtherBigName, and whereas we did make as much money off training as software, the documentation mostly suffered because writing good and useful documentation of spaghetti code is really really hard.