skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the same amount of heat would be released in the environment, you would create energy (electricity) from nothing. And I think that there might be some scientists here, who do not think that this is possible.
Georgia's tough anti-illegal-immigrant law drove a sizable fraction of the migrant labor pool out of the state, and as a result, "millions of dollars' worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops [are] unharvested and rotting in the fields."
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/georgias...

Surely there would be some way to legalize low cost unskilled workers at the expense of giving them some basic rights.
‘Harry Potter’ Series to Be Sold as E-Books
You seem to be suggesting black and whites are different specis.
Help My Online Business Website is Going Down – What should I do?
Would a list of "a dollar bill" repeated 74 million times count?
Given that these have been available illegitimately in e within hours after publication, in multiple languages, worldwide, their sales will be very interesting to see and provide ammo for one or the other side of the piracy debate.
Not Unwanted. Exclusive. [Big Idea Series]
Seems like a very typical MS style publicity stunt, where they know full well someone was going to leak it out, but they dont want to be seen as publicly announcing it. I mean its filmed in very high quality for goodness sake and there's no shake on the camera, so a dedicated tripod-mounted camera? I think so.
What is their advertising revenue versus subscription revenue?

I have Hulu plus and I really don't care for it. I don't like the commercials forced upon me. Originally, Hulu would display the length of the commercial and keep it under 30 seconds. Hulu has been increasing commercial lengths and frequency and sometimes removes the time display for commercials, particularly the longer commercials.

I would like if Hulu had a 'channel' where I could watch a continuous stream of all the ads Hulu served. I do like commercials, but not the way the commercials interrupt the viewing experience, unlike Netflix.

Also, rewind and fast-forward is severely delayed. If you watch a TV show, and you missed something right before it went to commercial, you cannot rewind and watch the portion again and then the commercial. You must wait through the 2 one minute commercials to be able to rewind 15 seconds backward, but it takes another 10 seconds for the streaming server to respond to the request to rewind backwards for 15 seconds.

Compared to Netflix streaming, it is an inferior product technically. Netflix seems to have every movie Hulu Plus has, but charges less. Rewind and Fast-forward are near instant.

Netflix could kill Hulu by offering an enhanced TV streaming tier of service. I would rather give my money to Netflix. I would probably pay up to $30/month, maybe $35 if Netflix offered current season Comedy Central shows and Modern Family.

Why is Workaholics delayed by 3 episodes on Hulu?
"I don't know. When people think you're dying then they really really listen to you instead of just..."

"... Instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?"

"Yeah. Yeah."

- Fight Club
Or - as I picked up from some long forgotten blog post:

If you need Oracle, you'll know it. If you don't know that you need Oracle, you don't need Oracle.

I run MySQL, Oracle SQL Server, hundreds of databases, a couple in the 'many thousands of queries per second' range.

There are reasons for each database platform.
Well, what does "place" mean? Sure, if we are talking about work, you might be better off another place. But if you are looking to quit smoking but find it hard, would you argue that they should simply surrender and stick with smoking?
why did XML happen at all? JSON looks like the obvious solution. :\
The music industry would be crazy to nix this. Imagine selling special tracks exclusively through turntable.fm, branding rooms for DJs and celebs, etc.

Shazam pushes $100 M. in purchases towards iTunes etc each year. Turntable could blow that away.

But the industry is going to see people uploading DRM free tunes and freak about not getting enough of a cut.
NASA launches 100-year quest to send humans to the stars
The most organized guild I've been in, as an example, did not really have a governance structure. There was no such thing as DKP, and when a boss was down'd, everyone's immediate first question was "who needs this most?" - or rather, "who would bring the most benefit by taking this?" Raids were super smooth. In fact, on vent, we'd barely talk, other than to make jokes and tell stories.

Siege wars went well too. 40 of us vs over 200 people every time, and no one raged, and we never lost. This guild won siege for over 8 months straight without a single loss. I actually do have proof of this in the form of a 1gb video. I can upload it if you like. :P

Games now (I notice you mentioned Rifts) are different. I find most players now tend to be 30-50 year olds. I'm not sure why the shift in demographic...
There's a lot of useful guides for submitting to the App Store now too, with an official one hopefully coming soon:

http://www.brontesaurus.com/2011/04/signing-xcode-4-projects...

http://redwoodapp.posterous.com/macruby-and-xcode-4-build-a-...
We have some gravestones in runes out here where I live (on the west coast of Norway), roughly a thousand years old. It's a pretty cool sight.
Is twos compliment behavior guaranteed in C#?
Internet is a Legal Right in Finland
From 1 July every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection.

Finland has vowed to connect everyone to a 100Mbps connection by 2015.

In the UK the government has promised a minimum connection of at least 2Mbps to all homes by 2012 but has stopped short of enshrining this as a right in law.

The Finnish deal means that from 1 July all telecommunications companies will be obliged to provide all residents with broadband lines that can run at a minimum 1Mbps speed.
Alternate link, in case you hit the NYTimes paywall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13889578
Eve online uses mssql, however it is no longer their primary bottleneck from what I've read on the dev blogs in the last few years.
Isn't that what Canada is for?
I don't want to play grumpy old guy, but I'm getting a bit tired of breathless articles that omit key facts.

What's the efficiency? It's such an obvious question I can't imagine writing an article without that data. How about current costs of other green power? Difficultly of the subject area? Others who have tried?

I love these new tech stories, but one or two paragraphs of context can go a long way for the reader. We're left having the same old discussion: one person says "awesome!" and then another points out one of these obvious (and common) holes. It's the same discussion, over and over again.

It's not just the energy stories. I've seen dozens of startup stories that are long on hype and emotion and really short on explaining the market and how the company is executing -- the key things that any other startup person would want to know. Heck, I know everybody's excited about it, what I want is somebody giving me a bit of perspective.

Same goes for "new cancer treatment found!" articles, which are also long on emotion and short on context. I know emotion gets clicks, just wish we could do better here.
Eric Lippert was one of the highlights of working at Microsoft. He was (and I'm sure, still is) very active on the internal C# mailing list. His answers are always very entertaining to read. He has a smugness that is deserved and not irritating (mostly :)), and inside the walls of MS he turns that smugness up quite a bit higher.
I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but when I first read your post, I honestly thought that you were giving an example of how simple XML can be! After all, I can quickly glance at this bit of XML and understand what it is intended to represent. This doesn't look like SOAP-style xml to me at all, it looks like simple XML over HTTP.

It gets so much worse that this. Much of the generated XML I've seen (especially the stuff used for SOAP) is nearly unreadable by humans.
Arrested Development and Jericho agreed!

Never got into Firefly.
Anyone else use Informix?
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Cognomancers, at this point, will attempt to restate what they mean by "irrational" without using it or any close synonyms. They might also try to figure out if religiosity is correlated with greater levels of whatever they mean by "irrationality," or not.
Profound. Upvote.
Yup. I guess I didn't think about opening a context menu being IO bound...
Is that really the case with commercials and rewinding? I don't use Hulu frequently (I either buy the DVDs or torrent), but I thought that once you watched a commercial you could skip back and forth over it without having to watch it again.
Nokia should go all in on Windows Phone.
If I had met another hominid on my way, I doubt I would want to kill it right away because it horrifies me. I would rather expect the natural trigger that prevents me from killing other people to turn on.

I'm not saying that different species of hominids didn't kill each other, I just think that the main reason behind killings was fight for food and other resources, not the low level fear instinct that we experience during encounters with spiders, snakes and worms.
We/Our customers also use informix. We also use postgres a little bit too. The company was a startup about 15 years ago. Actually, looking at your past comments, looks like we may work at the same company.
This site is actually pretty cool. 5 different versions of the chicken dance. I appreciate that.
But if Yahoo buys them they are fucked, because Yahoo fucks everything up.

Viaweb?
Perhaps not, but there is a demand for killing off mosquitoes entirely, and in fact we've tried many times now...
Another consideration is that Netflix uses an HBO model, not a broadcast TV model. So a show is only worth however many new subscriptions it drives. Existing subscribers who watch the show are worthless, unless it prevents them from cancelling.
Akka is attempting to bring as many Erlang features as possible to Scala. They're doing a great job, but imho they won't be able to go all the way due to JVM lacking certain features
I agree with you, but I just wanted to provide a minor counterpoint to the doom and gloom. There are innumerable ways to screw up, but we are not left entirely out in the cold (standing naked in a parking lot) by the compilers.
The last time I was on a plane, I remember there being a "cancel call attendant" near the "call attendant" button on the remote. I believe that was on a 747.
He does realize that they already do this, right? I have an email from a friend from around 2006, all in a panic over a notice from Comcast that his IP address had been caught on a not-very-legal torrent.
It's kind of amazing what you can do with what was originally nothing more than a document markup language. It will also be an absolute nightmare with web advertisements. Now we will need Canvas/WebGL/HTML5 Audio block as well as FlashBlock.
I just tried to request site access ... kudos to these guys ... the request process itself was hilarious! Attention to detail ... that's where it's at.
Anyone else noticing that Github is becoming synonymous with "Git" - like kleenex is to tissues and xerox is to copying machines?

Crag do you mean GITHUB, the website and service, overall, or just GIT the version control system?
Netflix already has the scale.

Why would Netflix want a bunch of 'users' that want free streaming?

Netflix needs to license more current tv episodes and they could crush Hulu.

Wouldn't you rather the company spend money to license content instead of acquiring physical infrastructure considered obsolete after 6 months?
That is an attractive device, but so is the N9. Too bad the unlocked versions will be $850+.
Only if the individual serial numbers of each one are listed.

Actually scrub that, no, I want 74 million different, proper well constructed reasons with citations.
It's not JSON-schema, but Rx is a schema validation tool for JSON/YAML/etc. that works with many languages:

http://rx.codesimply.com/
Had to happen one day. Is it a good idea for companies to try to use their abundant spare CPU capacity for mining? If there is an intelligent client that does not impact the existing operations of a server but can run on lower priority then what is the harm in making some extra money on the side to cover the cost of operations. The client can be intelligent enough to understand if it makes sense to actually do the mining based on its estimate of how much effort is needed to get some good returns. In case too much processing is required which it does not have or is bigger than a certain threshold it can wait for the conditions to become more favorable.
Ask HN: Is this idea viable - email automation for SaaS
Following lean-startup methodolody :) to validate the market...

I know there are lot of SaaS companies here who can give some validation.

How do you deal with the signup process? At our previous startups, our signups were leaking at each step. I say step as we divide a user behavior into steps - someone who has completed an action migrates to the next step. Final step would be payment and initial step would be signup. Eg: for a live-chat company - step 1 - signup/verification step 2 - creating agents 3- creating departments 4- adding code to website 5- payment when it is due.

Initially, we had someone looking after the signup process helping them at each step but it outgrew what someone could do manually.

I am thinking of a service which can automate the emails targeting users at each step. The workflow will be done visually with lot of conditional nodes - wait, send email, check behavior, json, responder etc. and the analytics would be a few lines of javascript code which a SaaS company would install so that my service can track the behavior (step he is at currently).

Eg: emails are sent to a user mentioning about the use and why he needs to move to next step at each step if he has not completed it. This will ensure that a user is moving automatically to the next step (nearer to making a payment).

Does the idea resonate or make sense to SaaS companies here?
Actually early proponents of XML used to downplay this by claiming that it will be compressed on wire anyways and it's well-suited to higher compression
At the same time, it could also be someone with access to the footage which maybe was intended to remain for company use only who leaked it illegitimately.
The Half-Crazy, Uber-Positivity Generator
Apple to Start Making TVs for Your Living Room
Ideate: U-Deal from Loop in Local way
Cross site scripting. Evaling json enables a vector for javascript code injection and execution.
BuyWithMe, Inc. Filing Authorizes up to 4,300,000 of New Shares
Agreed. These kinds of things are not only greatly simplified and more powerful with a basic scripting language, but it's a great chance to expose people (especially kids) to programming.
Irish graduates: join a startup
Survey: 90% of Companies Say They've Been Hacked (In the last year)
pretty sure Netflix is already planning to do just that
Well in theory a proportion of the heat generated by a hot running CPU or GPU (or anything else that operates at a temperature significantly higher than the local ambient temperature) could be converted to useful energy, and you could feed the generated power back into the unit to reduce what it needs to sink from other sources.

Though of course you would have to work out if the energy savings are enough to outweigh the extra energy used in manufacturing such a device (remembering to account for the fact that the extra complexity of each unit may reduce the effective yield of the manufacturing process). It might cost far more energy to make than it'll ever save in its active life. Thermodynamics can be a bugger like that...
Probably couldn't use the Rails logo because of stupid trademarking, so they left it off.
Dropbox leaves user accounts unlocked for 4 hours
If I were the judge I would have reversed prior judgements (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555569). I'd never do business with either of those guys.
Good People, Great People and Startups
Not to disagree with you (you make a good point, after all), but couldn't this be a case of reporting on a minimal viable product? As you say, it happens in tech, too. The idea here is to generate interest. Sure, it's not complete yet, and they probably still have a long way to go, but the idea isn't to present a finished solution that is now going to market.

And it's not like reporters want to wait until something is being sold before writing a story, either.

I guess for me, as much as I want more information, I'm willing to accept what they are trying to do.
It's crashing quite a bit with me - all I do is to fire it up via /usr/local/bin/github while inside a repo. It displays the changes, but more often than not it crashes...
Turntable.fm is a lot of fun. I've been using it with offsite coworkers to create a sort of shared music space.

Unfortunately, it seems like only a matter of time before it gets shut down by the RIAA or riddled with enough advertising to make it sickening.
CPU mining really isn't enough to even break even on the costs involved. You really need a decent ATI GPU in order to get anywhere, which most servers don't have.
The most basic test for are A and B being the same species is can A and B (assuming opposing genders) have fertile offspring.
Ouch, the review is a bit rough, but I agree on point #3 - it's annoying having to double-click on every commit to take a quick peek at its changes.
JK Rowling announces 'Pottermore' collaborative fiction website
On the iPad version, at least, you often have to re-watch commercials because you rewind, or because the player bugged out and you had to close it and re-open it.

It really is an inferior experience compared to Netflix.
メンズエステ横浜口コミランキングで比較！！
If they know it's viable they know of its efficiency, potential drawbacks and advantages related to other technologies, so there's no reason why the reporter couldn't have asked for that information.
Nokia Sea Ray Windows Phone 7 revealed (video)
Feels like an intentional leak, probably wanted to deflect some heat from people saying they should have stuck with the N9.
facebook did before the same and this comes after israeli goverment sent a letter to Appale saying that the app is full of hatred!

It is hatred to call for the liberation from occupation!
Facts and Convictions
Lisp Programming with Cusp
Echoprint: Open-source music fingerprinting
"I've never heard it said that the use of pointers should be considered unsafe..."

Please pardon the bluntness, but that sounds like a fundamental failing of whomever you've been learning. Use of pointers in the C family of languages is unsafe. That's "unsafe" in the context of computer languages.

As for the analogy, the talk about policies and contracts is important. There's nothing in the hotel preventing you from using the key to gain unauthorized access to the room just like there's nothing in C++ to prevent you access memory you have no business trying to access.
ismarc, thank you for the comment! I really appreciate it -- I didn't know anyone else was using Piqi-RPC (other than myself).

I'd like to know more about your use case and the need for JavaScript generation. I'm open to new ideas. Could you please contact me at alavrik@piqi.org Thanks!
Java 7 unsupported under all non-Oracle virtualisation, no matter the guest OS?
What's with all the downvotes? If you disagree then post a reply. Hitting that downvote button sure is convenient isn't it?
A Conversation with Jimmy Fallon and Sean Parker
Apple Patent Confirms User-Created Widgets For iOS Are Comings
Standing desks rising in popularity
I thought that was what they were doing...
Godo one but here are edits.

~$450 would give you a starter place? Nothing fancy as the post mentioned.

$1/each way rickshaw is incorrect too
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870409970457628...
Game Maker is currently implementing Game Maker Studio that will allow iPhone, Android, HTML5, and Win/Mac executables. It's meant to be finished this year and allows you to make games without coding. However, there is a scripting language built in (GML) which can be used with the non-programming functionality or replaces it completely.

We've also got the App Game Kit coming soon
http://www.appgamekit.com/
People like to shit on reddit a lot here, but both the submission and the discussion over at /r/science [1] contains much more substance than discussion here. They link to the actual paper as well, which contains more details, such as efficiency.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/i6pfi/
They pretty much are. At least they're killing off their own smart phone OS.

But, you've given no reason why you think they should do so, and the market has, so far, said that Windows Phone is unexciting. I'm gonna believe the market over a random guy on the Internet, unless you've got a pretty good reason to think two losers will combine to make a winner.
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Surprising, and highly unlikely. If it's not too taxing for you, you could read the rest of the Wikipedia article to better understand when measures other than reproductive compatibility are employed.

The suggestion that color alone would be employed by modern biologists to differentiate species, to the exclusion of other more important factors, is specious.
Mom Loses Kids and is Sentenced For a Straightforward Spanking
It's not clear whether it's a game, online book, collaborative reading experience, collaborative writing experience, social network for Potter fans, or all of these things, but there are some image assets from the comments on the Guardian article that give an idea of what the website will look like:

http://assets.pottermore.com/emcp/downloads/pottermore_gateg...

http://assets.pottermore.com/emcp/downloads/pottermore_hogwa...

http://assets.pottermore.com/emcp/downloads/pottermore_chess...

http://assets.pottermore.com/emcp/downloads/pottermore_xmash...
I think the Daily Cap is intended for situations just like this. So if you see someone with 5k+ reputation it's a good sign they've given good answers to a fair few questions (or asked good questions) over a period of time rather than just got lucky with a question that found its way on to Twitter. Because reputation entitles you do certain things like close questions SO is careful about how you can earn it.
> you should take care not to fall into the latter

Like pg? "I never used Microsoft software" http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
We're using it in production and loving it.
From two days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2678576

Lots of comments.

Here are some more related stories:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674369

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2675328

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2676630

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2678029

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2678163

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2679144

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2683430
While I understand this reaction, I must say that the range of games being shown is pretty impressive. I think it depends on what are the actual limitations (the limitations that a poet accepts can lead to greater creativity, for example).
Will Nokia's first WP7 phone run Qt apps?
Freebie: Black User Interface PSD Kit
This is a prime illustration of how absurd our immigration policy has begun. To steal Kottke's sentiment: We need people like this on our team!
There is no technical or business problem to process millions (or even billions) of immigration cases.
Immigration cases pay for themselves.

I wish I could be in business of approving/rejecting immigration petitions. That would be a very profitable enterprise.

The problem is that US society is not culturally ready to stop unfair discrimination toward immigrants.
Silvio Berlusconi 'bunga bunga' sex parties iPhone app launched