skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They suck. #5 won't work on my phone. #7, #9, #11, #12 don't like me, too. Even something as simple as #10 works incorrectly. #8 has problems.
Hang-glider? It’s not powered so you need knowledge of thermals, but it’s basically what you want.

Or even paragliding (which is easier and cheaper). You’re sitting down so facing forwards rather than down, but it’s a beautiful way of seeing things from a new angle.
Reliability, availability and scale – an interlude
Original jekyll is better.
Can you elaborate on applying to work permission when arriving to the US? From what I knew you ned a visa before arriving to the US.
Nah, I'm nitpicking because I truly believe in equality. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

If a "women's" gym is the closest to his house and has the equipment he uses (e.g. I didn't know treadmills were gender-specific) then why shouldn't a man go? His money's the same as anyone else's.
Hogwash! it is not legally permitted to target advertising using real identities, ads are targeted at demographics, and a name has no value to ad targeting anyway, interests are what used for targeting ads not names.

There are many legitimate reasons to insist on real names within a social application, adding trustworthiness to sharing and trusting that you are communicating with the right person being among them.

Also it's in beta testing and a pseudonym option will be introduced:
https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/Fddn6rV8...

Edit: clarifying that ads aren't allowed to be targeted using real identity.
You last point doesn't follow. HN isn't a golf site. Certainly Augusta's policy has generated significant media attention.

And your broader points are just plain wrong: doing bad things in private doesn't make it OK. Doing things that are legal doesn't make them moral. Getting "up in arms about stuff" that doesn't directly affect you doesn't mean your opinions shouldn't be voiced.
Planned Obsolescence and Pyramids of Waste
As patio11 already noted, this is a bad idea. Further more, I don't see what it solves? Can't you just ssh into the box, and have that window open? Isn't this a window manager problem rather than a "rake/infrastructure" problem?
So you're saying that white people playing basketball don't talk trash?

The only time I've ever observed it is when non-blacks play in a primarily black group. I admit I've never played basketball at the Harvard Club (and only a few times in a group which wasn't majority black), however, so I could be wrong on this.

I specifically mentioned race because I want to disambiguate behavior and membership in a protected class.

Specifically, if cosgroveb is being intellectually honest, he will criticize a protected class just as harshly as he criticizes low status male gamers for the same behavior. I suspect he isn't, however, and he will merely say "it isn't exactly the same" and instead attempt to lower the status of young male gamers and people he disagrees with.

As for my biases, I am male and I have games installed on my computer (I doubt I've played in the past year, however). I've never engaged in smack talk during video games, however - only during basketball.
Ah, I knew that Web Sharing used Apache, but I didn't realize that it was packaged in such a way as to be usable for stuff beyond Web Sharing. The conf files seem to live in /etc.apache2. Thanks for that.
I would think it obvious: it actually works. The interface is thoughtfully laid out, navigation is leaps and bounds better than the iPhone application, and it's actually pleasant to use.
There's no evidence he said that one either.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
I'm fairly sure you're not supposed to walk along your putting line in golf because it can subtly change the curvature of the green. I know you're not supposed to step within a foot or two of the hole, and there could be enough break in that distance to make a putt miss.

I'm not sure if it's simply etiquette or if there is a little-known rule that penalizes you for doing so, but using your feet to detect a break seems, to me, to be a questionable practice in anything approaching a serious game.
Make sure to get featured on lifehacking websites.
Google told me on my own + page several of the pseudonyms I've used across the web.

Where exactly? I don't see anything like that on mine, and I'm curious whether Google knows who orangecat is. (Of course they may anyway even if they don't tell me).
Did Zuck steal their idea...maybe a little. But it was his brilliance that made Facebook into what it is today. They should take their $65 mil and be happy with it.
You are missing the point entirely. This isn't a justification at all, it is an explanation. The article asserts that they can monetize single real names. Some people don't have those, but if Google thinks that they can't monetize that, why should they care?

That is what the article is saying. It didn't miss a thing, it just didn't spell it out in simple english for you.

And for the record, I do not agree with the article that this is the cause of Google's actions.
If you have a copy of the private key and the public key, you can bruteforce the passphrase. So use a big passphrase instead of a password.
>>could NASA build such a ship? IMO, that's really just a question of would congress fund such a ship?

Sigh. To repeat a trivial point for the third time...

You have the opinion that NASA after 1970 could do any large project and push costs down by a factor of ten.

If a serious argument could be made, then one of the NASA fan boys would have posted it...
Isn't the real problem that he only has 1 sys-admin for his servers (as far as I can tell)? I mean he can have as many SSH Buddies as he wants but if the alert comes in when he is asleep or drunk or whatever it's pointless.

Maybe the alert goes to multiple buddies who have the tech skills to handle it ... maybe he could be their SSH Buddy in return? In other words, rather than a SSH-Buddy, have a pool of server sysadmin friends for emergencies.

ps. If the original poster is reading this, I would have posted this on your blog but I didn't have other account passwords to hand ... if your moderating all comments anyway, why not allow anonymous comments?
Apple to open mammoth 23,000 square foot retail store in Grand Central Terminal
Should I Get Norton Mobile Security for Android?
I wrote that article, and consider the title I assigned to it here on Hacker News to be its official title; this is also the title that I used when I linked to it on my Facebook Page. Why, therefore, it matters at all that these words "didn't exist anywhere in the article" is beyond me.

As for "buzzwords", if you deal at all with Google employees, this becomes an irritating mantra: systems that have less than a hundred million users are often considered "toys" (and, to be clear, I can totally understand why this would be this way to these people).

And yes: I think that the point that "this actually happens to everyone everywhere" is an interesting point, and was the first comment on this post by patio11. I found that a very interesting insight, as many of my examples are more "those cases that come up when dealing with a global user community full of interesting edge cases", which to me /defines/ "web scale".
Steve Blank's got more than enough bandwidth and ever since optimized web servers (e.g., Nginx), you really have to try to kill a webserver with static content these days. I wouldn't worry about it.
With the greatest respect, you've been on HN long enough to know that this isn't the forum for this kind of question. Reddit may be a better bet.
Java memory management white paper
I thought it looked nice, but then again I am on a fast enough connection that the wait was not really discernible.
For a counter-point, this is what Robert Scoble wrote about his conversation with Vic Gundotra, Google's head of social: https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/Fddn6rV8...

"He [Vic] says that he is trying to make sure a positive tone gets set here. Like when a restaurant doesn't allow people who aren't wearing shirts to enter.

He says it isn't about real names. He says he isn't using his legal name here. He says, instead, it is about having common names and removing people who spell their names in weird ways, like using upside-down characters, or who are using obviously fake names, like "god" or worse.

....

He also says they are working on ways to handle pseudonyms, but that will be a while before the team can turn on those features (everyone is working hard on a raft of different things and can't just react overnight to community needs)."

Just wondering: can non-Google+ users follow the link above and read the post? I ask because Dave Winer said "I can't point to those articles because only people with Google-Plus accounts can read them, apparently." But I could pull up that Google+ post just fine, even with a non-logged-in Firefox or incognito Chrome window?
I'm against strong general statements like this. But this is a really really nice book.

I bought it after reading Fred Wilson recommending it and it's been awesome so far. It reads like a book, not a manual, and minus a few parts (term sheets), it really wasn't hard to follow at all.

I'm about half-way done with it and it's good to get all this knowledge from a VC. I'm part of an accelerator this summer and I've recommended it to everyone else participating...it's really a wealth of knowledge presented in a clear and concise manner.
Samsung Smartphone Sales May Have Passed Apple in Q2
Despite how many people seem to claim that Facebook requires real names, I have numerous people in my list of friends that have never had a real name associated with them; these are not new accounts, nor are they inactive ones: these are real accounts my friends have been using for the last 8 years on the service. Facebook somehow "gets" this in a way that Google may be trying to "cargo cult" in some way, but if that's the case Google is missing the point and failing at it.
Amazon To Use Two-Finger Touchscreen To Keep Tablet Competitive With The iPad
in a vaccuum, yes, every codebase should be perfect and every bug should be addressed. in real life, the codebase is aligned with the business needs of the maintainers. mysql's codebase may be sloppy, but nobody else seems to care about this particular issue, and if they do it will be +1'd until it gets fixed.
The demo is just an image, he explains further down that he doesn't have a spot to host the demo. The font is easily replaced.

It's just a simple button that clicks down a bit when pushed. It's designed nicely enough with just CSS but I would still prefer using images until CSS3 is more common. There's a simple enough solution to do the same thing using a sprite sheet and CSS2.

It only interacts with the click event and needs to be expanded to include hover as well.

This seems more like an example of how to create the buttons as opposed to a drop-in solution. You would have to edit the css quite a bit to get it to work with your design unless you happen to like the button design offered.
One of the metrics they kept track of was something like "dollars per sale" (they had a slicker name for it, of course). That salesperson had probably just checked the store's $/sale listing (quickly available to the salespeople on the sales terminals) and was grumpy because his wasn't quite right.
Social media and SEO after G+
Agreed. It's well worth ones time to learn various different deployment tools. Everybody on a team should either contribute to making the build process better, or at least be familiar with how it works because their code has to go through that process to get published.
I agree. Fabric is fine for simple, one-time deployments, but as requirements grow and need to be updated later on, idempotence starts to shine.

For chef, there is a great tutorial by Opscode about deploying Django applications: http://help.opscode.com/kb/otherhelp/build-a-django-stack
Never heard of that "no arguments are best" java community idiom in the last 15 years, so can't comment on that.
We're actually about to launch (probably this weekend or next) a service that already exists. We just don't think our service has been done very well yet, so we're not that worried. We just decided that we won't over build it at first. We're launching something that solves the big problem and we'll see what the users want. Don't worry too much. Worse case, you have to make another startup. And that's just fun!
Coral cache: http://steveblank.files.wordpress.com.nyud.net/2010/08/fairc...

Although, it's hosted on wordpress.com, isn't it...
Nevertheless, that doesn’t in any way add to a debate over my specific comment

This assumes that the OP's only goal was to debate. I opine that his secondary goal was to be a little cheeky and possibly evoke a chuckle, which was successfully achieved with me! You can interpret the "curmudgeon" comment as an ad hominem to the extent that his exclusive concern was the logical presentation of his argument, which I do not think is true for most cases in human discourse, on or off the internet.
I've read through the rest of this thread, and I'm still not understanding the big deal about this tool.

If the entire dev environment is my macbook, and the app is localhost:3000, and the line to enable this thing exists only in the development environment initializer, and I leave it commented out all the time except for those rare cases where I want to inspect session variables and controller state or some other thing that can't really be done in irb, then what's the risk?

At least, that's how I would use it...

EDIT: Nevermind, patio11 explained it much better in his response above. I still think this could be a useful tool with CSRF protection.
Reasons matter. Women-only gyms don’t style themselves as protecting men from women.
Blockbuster trying to woo disgruntled Netflix users
No. I wish there was an IO monad (an exception monad) in Java. Or at least a common understanding in compilers and IDEs about a @Pure annotation.
American immigration means that last names are not great ways of determining nationality. My last name is German but I'm 5th or higher generation American.
Perhaps more of a guide, along the lines of QuirksMode, but if the book were set to regenerate on guide update, all would be well.
Look again at the other post from yesterday - the post that talks about how Google realises that there may be a case for not having a single name to rule them all, and that they were looking at way of making the alternative model work, i.e. make money for them.
http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-...

Andrei Zmievski has been giving this presentation on what happened to Unicode in PHP. A huge amount of work went into making it happen but it eventually could not continue due to several reasons, including design decisions, lack of contributors & interest in the project.
Sure, if you need training wheels on your bike...
Calling writing pedantic is another word for "I like sloppier thoughts than these".

Precise and verbose writing is a hallmark of writing by someone who has put thought into the subject.
I also love that you think reinforcing biases and helping to keep women out of the field qualifies as working "perfectly well". Perfectly well for you, I guess.

Say, I've noticed that most of the time when somebody argues vigorously in favor of some sexist behavior, they're a misogynist asshole. I'm sure you won't mind if I assume that describes you as well, right?
Imagine the Apple Thunderbolt Display… without the display
I'm fine with Google allowing "fake" names that look like real names, but not allowing names like "haxxor" or whatever.
The demo is actually a static picture :)
Exceeded my 5GB data cap on T-Mobile, my phone is now an expensive paper weight.
I have no idea why you're being downvoted. One of my friends has been named "Bubonic Johnson" ("Johnson" is not any part of his name) for over a year and Facebook hasn't nuked his account from orbit yet!
I'm at least as much within my rights to criticize sexist jackasses as they are to behave like sexist jackasses. Don't like it? Try not being a sexist jackass.
Ask HN: Plain Text Resumes?
What are everyone's (especially employers') thoughts on plain text resumes versus word docs or pdfs? I'm in the process of updating my resume and considering this option. I've bounced this idea off of a few people to generally negative reactions, but I can't really figure out why that should be. I know I'd rather receive resumes in plain text. I think it depends a lot on what kind of job you're applying for. But it seems to me that for programmers applying for programming work, plain text should be an accepted (or even preferred) format. Am I missing some reason this shouldn't be so?
I can read the post fine while logged in to my Google Apps (Google+ ineligible) account.
This is from 2005, love this line: "2009 developers will face cpus with 20+ cores".

btw. where is my jetpack goddamnit...
On the CSRF concern, which is totally valid, I've pushed a patch. From version 0.0.5 it uses a token to prevent this kind of attacks.

https://github.com/codegram/rack-webconsole/commit/d5060d0e8...
Should we worry about what the LHC is not finding?
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The women's gym only exists because the atmosphere at the "open" gym is misogynistic. It's just a workaround. The real solution is to make the "open" gym friendlier. Then having a men-only or women-only gym would be stranger.
It's true, though, that it was the "bigots" that formed the events and clubs that you mention in the first place. You can't escape that fact.
Creative js - all Creative JS/HTML5/CSS projects
Hmm...installing OpenSSH but leaving your root password as the default "alpine" is a security problem, downloading copied app files from the web is sketchy, and I also wouldn't trust adding the extra repository to get Installous or installing Installous on my device.

Here's a simpler and safer process:

1) On your iPad 2 running iOS 4.3.3, or your iPad 1 running iOS 4.3 through 4.3.3: open up Safari and visit jailbreakme.com for a one-click jailbreak that also installs Cydia. You can learn more about this jailbreak at the iPhone Dev Team blog: http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/7295551750/jailbreakme-times...

2) Open up Cydia, and on the right side of the Cydia for iPad homepage you'll see a link to FullForce, which is a free "tweak" by a reputable developer (http://twitter.com/rpetrich) who has updated it to enable the Facebook for iPad app. Install FullForce and configure it in your Settings app to apply to the Facebook for iPhone app. (I'm assuming you already have the Facebook app on your iPad. If not, you should get it from the App Store.) That's it!
It’s certainly legal. I see not one person here calling for it to be illegal.

What is, however, equally legal, is to be outraged about it and to make noise about it. They can hold their event, I can yell at them for doing so. Both legal, so I’m not exactly sure what your point is.
It's certainly legally permissible to target ads at individuals -- see, eg, retargeting.
WebMynd vs Pet Coupon site!
I saw this HN job post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2802652) from WebMynd where they make fun of a hypothetical pet coupons site. I am sure working for WebMynd will be technically rewarding than working for a pet coupons site!... But how many of you think a pet coupon site (if executed well) will make more money than WebMynd and therefore monetarily more rewarding for a developer?
> Personally, I'd be happy with settings of the form "To contacts in circle X, display the name Y", and "To strangers, display the name Z".

Most of my friends are in multiple circles (a "friends" circle and a circle based on why I know them). If I set different display names for two circles, what does it display to someone in both of them?
They are not using solar panels, they are creating a giant heat pump. They are therefore relying on there being a heat differential between the top and bottom of the tower.

Greenhouse gets hot, creates a pressure difference between inside the greenhouse and outside of the tower at the top, air flows up through turbines. It is very simple.

There are very few moving parts and it is always going to be colder at the top of the tower than at the bottom.

Note that it isn't pure desert floor, but a man made structure that will purposefully trap heat. Imagine how hot it would get if you sat in your car with the windows rolled up in the middle of the desert. Then think about how cold it would be at 2x the height of the empire state building.

It will be colder just because of the air pressure at that altitude. Even so, the ground cools at a much different rate than air does, so I'm sure night time generation is bolstered somewhat by that.

It will have a very high capacity factor because the only thing that you should ever have to 'fix' is the turbine, which should last quite a long time.

It seems likely that cf will be much higher than even that of nuclear.
Brand vs Brand
Re can anyone can read the posts - Yes!

Your g+ public profile page doubles as your blog of 'Public' posts.
Encounters with Paul Rand
Why tech stocks deserve to be cheaper than industrials
There are comments that I feel deserve 5-10 votes, but not 100.
Consensus is most categorically not cache invalidation. Consensus is about creating new information, namely a decision about which a group of machines/processes agree.

It's not insightful if it leads people to the wrong conclusions. It would be more insightful to impress on people that CS is a large and diverse field with more hard problems than can be reduced to a single pithy saying.
It's item 13 in the content policy. Of course, you didn't read that.
Scala at Oscon: Working hard to keep it simple
Regardless of who was hosting them before and how much their hosting costs were that were used to justify the paywall, Google Scholar should be brought in to host them all going forward. They're out in the open, might as well put them to good use.
If I understand the nature of the problem, that was a great engineering interview, but the position wasn't for an engineering position.

IMO- I agree: looking into the box and understanding it is much more fun and provides more than just using the black box.
In FPS games, maybe. But overall, there are more adult women playing games than boys under 18, and women make up about 42% of all gamers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games#Demographics
Hmm, so Gmail showing you ads based on the email you're currently reading is unlawful? I think you have a weird (i.e., excessively narrow) definition of "target advertising to inviduals".
I think you mix things. FP has nothing to do with stateless. Languages all have nothing to do with statelessness or statefulness, this is an application architecture term.

Objects have state, as have immutable data structures.

"doesn't use higher-order functions,"

But they use higher-order objects.

"classes and methods are designed for "inheritability"

No, at least for 10 years it has been debunked in Java that
inheritance is a good thing. Inheritance outside of some small domains like GUI libraries is a bad thing as inheritance is too rigid. Most bad Java developers use inheritance because they've been teached OO in a completly wrong way with dogs and cats or cars and trucks.

I think the common understanding for years in Java/C# etc. is that composition is much better than inheritance.

This article from 1998 describes the problem of inheritance vs. composition in java

http://www.artima.com/designtechniques/compoinhP.html

"Care to show any open-source Java code that uses FP techniques?"

No, because to be frank, I have not much knowledge about Java open source. And the projects I've looked into (Apache comes to mind) have sub-industry quality or are outright awful. Not sure why this is the case though.
AT&T promises Gingerbread for every postpaid Android phone released this year
iPhone vs Blackberry
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Homing Cloud, a dating site for real-estate.
Which has nothing to do with real names or identities.