skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do, and I dislike immensely the fact that this means Google may be data mining personal messages I send privately to friends and I have no way to no or avoid it.

This is one reason all personal communications over the Internet should long since have defaulted to encryption. I don't mind Google offering a useful service, but there's really no (technical) need for them to have access to all that data while they're doing it.
The most interesting part of that article was that they produce prototype boards on the same assembly line as production. No waiting for boards to come in. If they want a board made simply queue it and it's done.

They were agile before it was cool to be agile.

EDIT: Also, I had a NeXT Cube and NeXT Turbostation with laser printer. They were fantastic. We've barely budged the needle since then.
I love the overtones of this article indirectly (but surely not accidentally) refer to self-replicating machines ala Von Neumann:

Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata : http://cba.mit.edu/events/03.11.ASE/docs/VonNeumann.pdf
Like a lot of sites there is the print button which includes the entire article.

http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=...
Here's a better quality video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7foG1rtlA
Just verified, they have an "Other" selection. This isn't forcing anyone into a bucket.
Ah, very useful article. Wait, this isn't 2008?
Modded back up. Maybe it was FB employees? :-)
We would generally only work for one customer at a time, otherwise we're just spread too thin. But yes, I guess the concentrated time is a big issue.

Although, a lot of employees (again, anecdotally) also have side projects? Why is that different?
An introduction to CoffeeScript
Funny, I'd like to move more of my stuff to Wordpress. Though I've not used Posterous in quite some time.
Wow, I searched for design and the recommended books are spot on! Congrats!
Keep the president in a cage? I'm liking this idea already.
what will they pay me. (FU Pay me)
As far as dependency management goes SBT can consume Maven dependencies, Apache Ivy dependencies or just manually added JARs to a 'lib' directory.
Yea, I have said before that canceling Netscape 5 (codenamed Mariner) was a mistake.
Just for the record, Washington state minimum wage is now $8.67 per hour:

http://www.lni.wa.gov/workplacerights/wages/minimum/

...and we have the highest minimum wage in the nation. Here's a list of the minimum wages for all states:

http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm
I agree with you completely wrt China/FB. However, given your comment's assertion, I thought you might find the stories of those incidents interesting as I did.
You pay for the registration and update of names with namecoins and the data is stored in the namecoin blockchain. In this way it is decentralized. Lookups are done directly from the blockchain.
Erlang is 100% bug free. Use that instead.
Software G Forces: The Effects of Acceleration
The best I could find on the fate of this factory was from Wikipedia [1].

"NeXT withdrew from the hardware business in 1993 and the company was renamed NeXT Software Inc; subsequently 300 of the 540 staff employees were laid off. NeXT negotiated to sell the hardware business including the Fremont factory to Canon. Canon later pulled out of the deal. Work on the PowerPC machines was stopped along with all hardware production."

The choice of storage technology always seemed to me to be the reason it didn't take off. Kind of a bummer that it didn't work out (some would say it did, à la Apple).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1993.E2.80.931996:_NeXT_So...
invite needed.
matty69@gmail.com

much obliged
Jeni Tennison: What Do URIs Mean Anyway?
I'm moving there in approximately 30 hours. Urk.
Interface Design Quotes
None of those threads deal with services that serve international customers.

Oft-mentioned services like Chargify, CheddarGetter and Spreedly have limited international support. Often it's difficult to determine the extent of the support, and I have been searching through support forums to find out what I need.

CheddarGetter, for example, supports "all currencies" (their claim) and a number of international gateways and merchant accounts, but does not offer any languages other than English. So they didn't think that one through.

Recurly has several languages, but does not offer any template system for their hosted payment pages, so no custom translation is possible. (None of the other services I have mentioned support templating, either.)

My experience, from dealing with 5-6 different SaaS billing vendors, is that it's as though globalization hasn't happened yet. All the current SaaS billing vendors are US companies who have no clue about the rest of the world.

There are international-friendly non-SaaS vendors, but they have web pages built from stock photos of soulless, snappily-dressed consultants (eg., http://www.wirecard.com/) and the only way to sign up is to call them and talk to a sales person.
Ask HN: C++ lexer/parser generator
What C++ parser (and possibly lexer) generator would you guys recommend? I've used bison/flex and I'm aware of bison++ and flex++, but I'm looking for other options.
MacBook Pro @ home

Windows Desktop @ work
Shhhh, you're on HN. Google is the be all end all. Look how they gather in denial.
We recently did just this with a client.

They weren't sure if the idea they had would float. They had a potential investor and the investment weighed in on if their idea would actually work in practice. We recognised that we could build their MVP pretty quickly, so we agreed to do it for a thousand box, so long as they agreed that if their investor liked it and they got funded, we would get an extra (substantially bigger) amount to finish and polish the job.

We developed the MVP for them for 1k and they ended up getting funded by their investor. So that part turned out well. We have now proceeded to polish the product for them at the higher fixed rate.

For the most part it has been a success in that it has helped another startup realise their idea, and we have and will be getting paid accordingly. We placed quite a bit of faith in our client in following through with the subsequent job that justified our initial time investment, and that is something we were only able to do once we met with the client and formed a trust with them. Knowing your client and forming a trust is something more valuable than any web form/screenshot submission or even a contract.

What we have learnt from this exercise:
* The initial agreement period took a far longer than expected, almost a couple of months for a really simple $1k prototype.
* The customer pivoted several times in terms of functionality, feature creeping all over us. We tried to account for this to begin with, but the amount their idea changed was quite unexpected.
* Our client was very organised in terms of getting real users for beta tests. Every week we produced a new build, and tested it with a significant amount of real users. This helped the product turn into something valuable very quickly. We are going to try and make this mandatory for every client we work with from now.
* We would not have taken on the $1k prototype job if we weren't confident that they hire us to finish the job for the extra substantial fee.

So in summary, I think the $1k prototype is a great idea as long as you find a client you can trust who understands the outcome of the MVP, and also that you believe in their idea.
Could this # be the # of registered Google+ users
refreshed the page and it went back to normal. Its also interesting that the people in the circles are not people I know to be in my friend of circles.
http://twitpic.com/5ls0qv
Oh man, Camino uses Gecko 1.9.0 which is the same version Firefox 3.0 shipped with (but the buttons work in firefox 3.0).

I traced down the bug to a conflict in my blog's css with the buttons. Somewhere they are inheriting styles that break them. The code for the buttons on github does not have this problem.

I would love to fix this, but Camino doesn't appear to have any sort of developer tool. How are you suppose to debug things?
Gingrich, Staffless and Debt-Ridden, Turns to Google+
Do you have suggestions? I'd like to see what creative hn-reader can come up with.
We recently did just this with a client.

They weren't sure if the idea they had would float. They had a potential investor and the investment weighed in on if their idea would actually work in practice. We recognised that we could build their MVP pretty quickly, so we agreed to do it for a thousand bux, so long as they agreed that if their investor liked it and they got funded, we would get an extra (substantially bigger) amount to finish and polish the job.

We developed the MVP for them for 1k and they ended up getting funded by their investor. So that part turned out well. We have now proceeded to polish the product for them at the higher fixed rate.

For the most part it has been a success in that it has helped another startup realise their idea, and we have and will be getting paid accordingly. We placed quite a bit of faith in our client in following through with the subsequent job that justified our initial time investment, and that is something we were only able to do once we met with the client and formed a trust with them. Knowing your client and forming a trust is something more valuable than any web form/screenshot submission or even a contract.

What we have learnt from this exercise:

* The initial agreement period took a far longer than expected, almost a couple of months for a really simple $1k prototype.

* People need a lot of hand holding, especially when forming their idea into a product... Far more than what $1k would justify.

* The customer pivoted several times in terms of functionality, feature creeping all over us. We tried to account for this to begin with, but the amount their idea changed was quite unexpected.

* Our client was very organised in terms of getting real users for beta tests. Every week we produced a new build, and tested it with a significant amount of real users. This helped the product turn into something valuable very quickly. We are going to try and make this mandatory for every client we work with from now.

* We would not have taken on the $1k prototype job if we weren't confident that they hire us to finish the job for the extra substantial fee.

So in summary, I think the $1k prototype is a great idea as long as you find a client you can trust who understands the outcome of the MVP, and also that you believe in their idea.
I guess you gotta start thinking offline, then.
inb4 Google buys your company ;p
You're refusing to acknowledge the difference between intellectual property and physical property, something that everyone, including the law, acknowledges are different. That's not an argument, that's ignorance. As I already said earlier when you pulled this, goodbye.
Why is getting paid to express an opinion morally questionable?

When GLAAD's members pay them to express positions in support of gay rights, is that morally questionable? Or is it only morally questionable when they express opinions that you do not like?

I suspect the conversation between GLAAD, AT&T, and their membership will go something like this:

Members: You're losing $500K per year
GLAAD: AT&T can you match this?
AT&T: Will $600K suffice?
GLAAD: OK.
Here's what I want from a non-technical cofounder
Who the hell voted me down and why. That's actually ridiculous.
Not surprising considering that some grossly disproportionate number of early Google+ users are hard edged techies. Tech publishers will do well with it.
never mind! I'm tired... :)
They could call it "Rent: Seeking"
Do you have a link where you read that? Not implying it's not true-- just want to know more and searches are coming up empty
An Autistic Ethos: It’s All About Respect
Or, "an IT ethos is an autistic ethos is an IT ethos." Jeff Ello's Computerworld article The Unspoken Truth About Managing Geeks as a template for understanding autism -- and vice versa.
Show HN: Job Change Notifier - Breakup Notifier for LinkedIn
Bingo. Also, "fiduciary responsibility" can justify absolutely anything, provided your timeframe is short enough. Bouncing paychecks, for instance, will do wonders for a company's cash position - provided your business plans don't extend further than the middle of next week.
I remember well going to a NeXT exhibit at Michigan State. I was blown away by the beauty of the machine but thought the disk storage and lack of color graphics were deal killers.

The sales guy working the booth was quick to let me know that I could order a machine with a hard drive and that I didn't have to take the optical disk. In fact he said everyone was ordering them that way. But he grew silent when asked when asked about the availability of color monitors.

Sure wish I had known when the universities NeXT cubes went through salvage because I would have certaintly bought one - they were absolutely beautiful.
Rock, paper, Azure - $5k Azure bot challenge
Casey Anthony Trial
Report on the Casey Anthony Trial verdict
Scroll down to find the (IMO) more interesting papers. As mentioned in a few comments on the linked page, people tended to submit and upvote very meta articles.
I'm assuming that you have relatively recent experience in order to make this kind of statement. If you are happy with the cost, quality, capability and flexibility of your US-based contract manufacturing solution, please name names as there are many people who would be interested.
Modulo regulatory approval, of course. Most of my family works in various manufacturing industries (high end foundry, steel mills, etc.) and you're looking at years to get even the most basic permits through unless you are in one of the states that allow you to "purchase" fast-track approval. Companies end up buying the old, dead husks of manufacturing plants that went out of business not because they want any of the machines or people but because their permits are often still valid and in some cases transferable to your other locations.

Even if you wanted to expand to meet increasing demand, the opportunity will be gone before you can get approval to build out for it (even in relatively business-friendly states like IN). And the company-purchase strategy has to be taken carefully, both because business capital is hard to come by today and because manufacturing operates with margins so small that there's no room for error.

Further, you have the risk of OSHA shutting you down or penalizing you to unprofitability. As I understand it, safety regulations are much like traffic laws -- if a police officer wants to pull you over while you're driving, they can almost definitely find something to charge you with, even if it's just their interpretation -- and the same is true of your OSHA inspector.

Wages/productivity play a large portion of being a good place to do high end manufacturing, but are still a relatively small part of your ability to profitably grow and run a manufacturing business.
Or, another failed startup. This is the scary road you tread when you're in a space that might raise the eyebrows of a company like Google. High risk, high reward. I wish them luck!
How do people evaluate a website's credibility?
Ward Cunningham's use of parser generator to explore semi-structured texts
No, it's exactly the same. It's reading the things you are using to understand what they do.
Instead of creating a cookie manually, you can save 4 lines and use the .set_cookie()[1] method on the response object.

Also, take a look at the render()[2] shortcut function to collapse the template loading, context settings, and rendering steps into one.

[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/request-response/#...
[2]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/http/shortcuts/...
You can directly implement views based on the request method with django's class based views (View) in 1.3.
The dispatch method does almost exactly what your restful function does.

Just inherit from View, and define get(), post(), etc.
In Mr. Jobs's specific case, he doesn't seem to be convinced, since Apple manufactures virtually nothing in the United States.
That makes me more upset than the original story.
Apropos of nothing, burning a NeXTcube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvQ-BJD2rU
I'm no Nostradamus, but the indications are clear: the world of Big Tech is about to get very hostile. If Google+ takes off, then Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Microsoft are going to come out with guns blazing. Acquisitions, mergers, app removals.

The cloud music front is still up for grabs, something that should be Apple's to dominate, but so far it's not. Will Apple allow Google's cloud service on the iPhone? What if Google+ has some kind of cloud music functionality? Disallow both services?

Twitter, who just buddied up with Apple, obviously has zero interest in Google+'s very Twitter like stream and @ replies.

Microsoft is in bed with Facebook, and Microsoft has no interest in Android, let alone anything else to do with Google.

The Tech Wars are coming.
I am still amazed at the fact that the minimum wage was so low. In Ontario, the general minimum wage is $10.25 increased in March 2010 from what used to be $9.50 .

The student minimum wage (which applies to students under the age of 18 who work 28 hours a week or less when school is in session or work during a school break or summer holiday) is $9.60 increased from what used to be $8.90.
(pilot) Probably wouldn't be significant. If you go walk around at an airfield you'll notice all types of similar imperfections on airplanes and they still fly perfectly fine and are classified as airworthy.

There are a few exceptions (propeller, cracks, etc...) but planes are a lot more forgiving to surface deformities than you would imagine.
In what way? Entrepreneurs are still failing and then eventually hitting home runs. Steve's full name is still Steven P. Jobs. And the US can still complete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer.
It is $22 Billion today's dollar from the 16th Century. Today's dollar and 16th century's dollar is totally different in value! The fed should be blamed.
Job Change Notifier sends you an email alert whenever any of your LinkedIn connections change jobs. I built this as a weekend project using the LinkedIn API.

For startups (like ours) that sell their products to other companies, you can find out when your company's allies get promoted or move into decision-making roles. Or, use it to generally keep up to date on your professional network.
I'm pretty sure the average person can easily rent a helicopter for a few hours. A Greek prisoner escaped that way, with a bit of help from his friends.
Wicket and Tapestry are trying to do the similar thing. Not as good as Enlive though.
Never say never but, WRT nuclear power plants...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_building

"In 1988, Sandia National Laboratories conducted a test of slamming a jet fighter into a large concrete block at 481 miles per hour (775 km/h). The airplane left only a 2.5-inch-deep (64 mm) gouge in the concrete. Although the block was not constructed like a containment building missile shield, it was not anchored, etc., the results were considered indicative. A subsequent study by EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, concluded that commercial airliners did not pose a danger."

WRT prisons, landing with an airplane is going to be challenging (minimum landing distance is 500m) and taking off is likely impossible (minimum take-off distance is 520m[1]). Given the improbability of leaving the prison, it will be a self-correcting issue. ;-)

[1] http://www.aircraftcompare.com/helicopter-airplane/Terrafugi...
Providence Equity Partners To Acquire Blackboard For $1.64 Billion In Cash
Reservations in the US are a special class of enclave, which means a sovereign nation that physically exists inside another country. Other examples include Lesotho (contained within South Africa) or Vatican City (contained within Italy). What doesn't exist, and what I have a hard time imagining, is this sort of "distributed enclave" that's been suggested - an entity that exists in multiple places, each of which is within a different sovereign entity. It seems like a flimsy arrangement. Who's to stop any one country from taking over "internet territory" within their borders?
If by manufacturing, you mean chemicals, pharmaceuticals, processed agricultural products, pulp&paper, and heavy industrial equipment. Electronics and consumer products manufacturing is dead in the US.
Does this really read in an entire xml file of all your posts for every request, just to redirect? Seems inefficient. I think redis might be a good fit for this.
"And the US can still complete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer."

Assuming that you're referring to the type of electronics manufacturing that NeXT was doing at its plant, can you provide any evidence to support this assertion?
The state should enforce visitation and joint custody rights. Whether it is by giving the foreigner a right to stay in the US, or by enabling and enforcing the travel of the child is up to the US government. I think that will be fair enough for those foreigners who are citizens of another country. It is slightly more complicated for refugees or stateless people, but it still should be on similar lines. Anything less is a travesty of human rights and justice.

Japan gets a lot of flak for their policies on this issue, but it should be dealt with in all countries and for all people, including illegal immigrants, deported people or unpopular groups because while the state or people can choose to deport someone, they shouldn't ever be able to steal your kids. The post I linked to seemed to be using it as an immigration issue. That is not what I am arguing though.
Why don’t women get drag-and-drop?
I just fancied going down the hosted route for a change, less maintenance, no comment spam to worry about, besides I didn't need half the features Wordpress offers.

There are a couple of feature that Posterous could do with though, like custom slug, easier comment handing, javascript.
I'll manage though, it's a nice change for now.
As a follow up, I think that having a proper 'template' of what you would consider ideal specs would go a long way in helping those that can produce such a thing as well as weeding out those that may not be up to the task.

I could get rather detailed, but my fear is that the more detailed I get, the larger scope of a project it will appear as.
Moller is an investment scam. The Moller skycar is a pretty fiberglass shell he's been hawking to magazines and television news programs for forty years. I'm amazed anyone still falls for it.
You can pay for a VPN and get Hulu (and Pandora, and whatever else you're not "allowed" to use) in Canada. It's crazy that this is the kind of thing we have to do in order to circumvent the silly IP/location restrictions that exist today.
PirateBay will be whatever it needs to be, so will other, similar websites. Domain seizures don't even sound like a viable method of actually thwarting piracy.
"Also, I think the parent post was referring to the fact that Steve Jobs is now CEO of Apple which IIRC does most of their manufacturing overseas (SE Asia)."

Does Apple have any manufacturing operations currently? I would be surprised if they did.
I don't think so. This bug has been around since the introduction of our current chunk allocation model. So many many years.
The thing still needs a runway...
IMO, significant whitespace shines when used along with a proper editor.

Also, even without an editor, the cleanliness pays off. And you would indent properly anyway...
I'm not so sure. The price of getting releases out every 6 weeks is that we must be conservative with what we backport.
Tell PG: HN seems to be broken...
At the moment, items from about number 61 onwards are nearly all Ask / Show text submissions, many low scoring, and some as old as 999 days...
Are there currently any TLDs that are not under the control of a country?
Also, setting the cookie 'todos' to todolist.id will allow anyone to manipulate the value of that cookie in order to read anyone's cookies.