skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You gave me a new idea. I have two hobbies, one is a niche, and its subredit is dead in the water. The other is so broad its subredit suffers a bit from the fun&games comments.

Which brings me to this. HN is a pretty nice community. What would happen if we make it a subredit, /r/hn? Its a pretty cool place with a group of growing, devoted followers. All is good. So one day, it gets promoted to the default frontpage. How long before the lol cats outnumber the hackers?
You'll be remembered far longer. That is an incentive. Think Andrew Carnegie.
Would svg be better? I mean, lighter and legible.
Nomadic Web Development
Wow. Is it possible nobody thought of this already? This seems like an extremely excellent no-brainer of an idea.
Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing
Is your career earthquake-proof?
Naturally, the large airless portions of the surface would be pocked by craters, with enormous scree fields washing center-ward from from many of those craters, as the debris fell back to earth to bounce, slide, and roll "downhill".
$58 p/y Assuming the stock prices will remain the same, http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL
Is there any idea to know if I'm a nice guy or not? I never had a girl friend, or talked to a girl for more than 10 minutes alone. I completely ignore if I look good or I'm bad. Any measures or software to estimate that?
How about Stack Exchange joining the TeX User Group as institutional member?
For me the standout feature of reddit is the ease of commenting and browsing comments. Being able to reply, edit and even delete your comment inline without leaving the thread probably raised my level of contribution more than an order of magnitude. I don't understand why more sites (HN, hint hint?) don't make commenting this easy.
Sorry about that. I was not aware of that rule. Here is the unshortened link http://notebook.jearvondharrie.com/2011/08/25/bookmarklet-fo...
Erlang is about concurrency and message-passing, so for my first exercise I’m going to try to create some simple network services.

Create some simple toy services that use raw message passing, just to get familiar with how things work at a low level. But when you get ready to do anything production-grade, or even find yourself thinking about things like "how do I ensure all my processes get started before I start trying to send messages" start learning OTP. A great tool for generating skeleton OTP applications and helping with a lot of the associated housekeeping is rebar.

The book by Martin Logan, mentioned in another comment, is a great primer on OTP once you have the basics of Erlang under your belt.
"More like I thought it should be"

Not "more than".
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Which is a shame, because that's where I put my second HDD.
4 I still disable js by default. Even still it usually doesn't add much to my browsing experience. It could, but I've rarely met a web designer who actually cared about the user's goals - almost every one of them was intent on using their favorite flashiness with no regard usability.

4.1 Who blocks JS without also blocking Flash?

5 This is what I'm talking about. Flash devs were busy building exactly what they wanted while HTML developers - by virtue of not using absolute layout, etc, were delivering what users could actually use.
Tell HN: Sunspider Benchmarks for TouchPad, iPad 1 and 2, and Galaxy Tab
Just got my HP TouchPad, and thought I'd share the Sunspider JavaScript Benchmarks (0.91) for some of the major tablets built-in browsers:

HP TouchPad (32GB), WebOS: 4106ms
Apple iPad 1, iOS 4: 3233ms
Samsung Galaxy Tab, Android: 2077ms
Apple iPad 2, iOS 4: ~2000ms

WebOS's poor performance jibes with what was written here http://randomfoo.net/2011/08/21/hp-touchpad-webos (ie, that its running an older version of Webkit).

If anyone has other tablets, please chime in with how it benchmarks by running it here: http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html
No, you misquoted mynegation. He said "which looks more like I though[t] it should be." As in, "which is similar to (what I expected/what it ought) to be."

There's still ambiguity, like you said, but its different ambiguity
single 27-inch apple display at home. i hate switching between dual screens so this is a perfect setup for me
Court: Law banning recording of police officers in public is unconstitutional
Thanks for this. The weird ending had me mystified and not thinking well of an otherwise good movie. It finally all makes sense. I'm going to have to rewatch it this weekend.
You're right, my mistake. Rest assured that the irony here does not escape me :)
Better links:

Referenced blog post: http://randomfoo.net/2011/08/21/hp-touchpad-webos

Benchmark tool: http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html

To put these numbers in some context, Chrome 13 runs the benchmark in 328ms.
Sending emails to get people to *come back* just makes them look bad
Reminds me of a man who was actually able to get artificial vision through a camera wired directly to his brain. The article is over a decade old, makes me wonder what happened to that technology.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0YUG/is_2_10/ai_n1860...
So, best buy had more than 50% of the lot? That's surprising.
Behind Apple's products is longtime designer Ive
Ask HN: What did you do on the first day of your start-up?
Over-familiar is a big "problem" in appreciating beauty, no matter how beautiful a face is, if you look at it every day, it will eventually become about average.
Search is about taking you to the place you want to go to; facebook really wants to be the interesting place.

Their whole strategy seems to center on making sure everything in the web is a gateway to facebook but that facebook itself is where the fun is at. See for example those boxes websites can use saying "such and such friend liked such and such article"; they take you to facebook, never out of it. I really don't see entering search as something they should even want to do.
many Apple shareholders would agree wholeheartedly with this statement.

With that said, all that cash they are sitting on is really interesting, considering they've been hoarding it for a while. Jobs was criticized for this in the financial arena, but his position always referred back to the days when Apple almost went down the drain. That has made them ultra-conservative from a financial perspective.
I read that as the 380 million in 10 years deferred CEO bonus, in addition to his current 60 million/year total compensation, would total to around 1 billion at the end of 10 years. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it will be well north of 1 billion, once stock price appreciation is accounted for. Hope he considers taking the http://givingpledge.org/ :)
I said the same thing when they came out with the "like" button last year. Liking something is just a new-fangled way of doing page / domain ranking.
Tennis racquets
Not likely. A quick test of several compression formats shows that this file can only be shrunk by about 20KB, so it's already had most of the redundancy removed. Re-encoding the same information as SVG isn't going to make it more compact. What would make for a more compact download would be removing detail: the coastlines could be simplified, and perhaps not all the roads need to be shown. That would also speed up client-side rendering time, which is the biggest downside compared to raster images.
There's a five year cliff.
I wanted to do the same thing, but boy is it hard to ignore all the little details that OSX gets perfectly. Back to old MBP.
One's based on raw, direct data, the other is an estimate based on imperfect, partially-related data.
We're crossing into new cultural space. Would implies that its the way things have become, but it still deserves some thought about the ultimate social ethics involved. Should implies that yes, of course he should be paid at this scale, it would be unfair otherwise. I think its a distinction and conversation worth having.
Ask HN: Why do most popular programming languages not have headers?
Header files are great. They let me, as a developer, tell both other developers and the compiler how to use my class in a clean and understandable format. Why do most popular languages not support this?

I'm an Objective-C developer at heart, and perhaps shockingly to most Cocoa novices, header files are the norm. My personal coding style involves only putting things that should be public in the header file, and keeping everything that doesn't have to be public in the implementation file. That includes all ivars, all internal methods (hidden inside a class extension in the implementation file). Headers are for public methods, protocols and public constants, typedefs and enums only.

Unfortunately, I also do quite a lot of coding in PHP, Ruby and even Java, and (especially when building re-usable libraries) find myself wishing for header files. People have gotten around it by inventing PHPDoc, JavaDoc and so on, using @keywords to awkwardly describe and document their code. But it's still a huge pain to figure out how to use a class, when you have to browse through all the implementation to be able to see the method signatures. We've built tools to make it easier for us—but it all seems like inventing a solution to an artificial problems.

Why not just design languages to support headers?
Apotheker wants to make his stupid plan of turning HP into a software company look brilliant. It's not. Building tablets is more profitable than licensing WebOS will ever be. Who'll want it when Android has far more apps available and a very low licensing cost? Even if they manage to extract $12 per device sold, they will have to sell 100 million of them to recover Palm's acquisition cost alone. This is lunacy. I love WebOS, but this is a very bad plan.
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Someone said somewhere that most people are over-educated.
How much education do you need to work checkout in Tesco?
To listen to some, British education has been a mess since the 60's (apostrophe?)
Despite that, Britain still muddles along nearish to the top of the wealth league.
The kids are spending all their time on playboy (as my dad refers to games consoles) but maybe that will yet somehow be a blessing cos they'll all have exactly the skills needed in the future when human and computer work as one!
Till the day I die, I expect education and the NHS to be in a 'state of crisis'
HawtDispatch
This dovetails to some degree with recent studies showing female asset managers both are less risk-tolerant and provide better overall returns than male asset managers, on average.
I wonder if a viable business model would work where the first 1000 people pay $25, the next 1000 pay $50, the next pay $75, etc, etc (obviously the math would have to be investigated further). You'd have to order online for it to work I think but it would be an interesting way to get people lined up immediately. Although since they killed Palm Pre 1 (no more updates) they sort of killed my interest in buying any more of their products
Advanced Sim City SNES Strategies -or- how old games work
I really, really hope this is photoshopped.
English is not my native language and I actually meant "would be". However, I am not prepared to discuss whether this amount is justified or not. To me it looks pretty close to what board of directors _should_ pay Cook in order to keep him.
There are lots of things one can say about Collatz which would seem to affect the problem but really don't. My favorite: All natural numbers belong to a Collatz graph containing {4, 2, 1} if and only if all natural numbers not divisible by 2 or 3 belong to that Collatz graph.
But are they also giving back the OnLive coupons?
I can see the flag link. You may have tripped a mechanism.
Scientists Discover Planet Made of Diamond
Amazing. Did they geolocate each photo by travelling around the city and eyeballing it?
Will you hurt yourself by asking for a rec?
The Elements of Statistical Learning is pretty good. It's also available for free.

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
TrueReddit

Wow, thanks for that! It's like Reddit, but without all the memes, manipulators, and obvious spammers trying to pump up their karma with reposts. That's the first time in years that I've felt that I gained something in exchange for my time.
We think so : ) Do you have an app that needs this? Can you say a bit about your needs?
Self-Taught Calculus
It's one more file that you have to support and keep in sync with the rest of the code.

I absolutely hate header files. If I want to get the high view of a class I just collapse the code to definitions (eg: Alt+0 on notepad++), all decent editors are able to to do this.
Gaming laptop is for gaming.
Surely a CD/DVD dirive would have to be present for gaming. I know Steam is taking off but a lot of games are still played from discs
Facebook Kills Off Deals, Its Groupon Competitor
Using Emacs to work with R
There are several assumptions in this article. The biggest is that, at scale, the same NIC will be used for both front-end and back-end stuff. What if it's not? Then you aren't penalized for your back-end ports on the front-end because they're on different routes.

Also, why is Node special here? Did people not notice Comet, Athena, Flash, Java, etc.? We've been doing long-polling and extended socket usage for a long time, not to mention browser connection reuse. This port count problem hasn't been a problem at all yet.

Finally, scaling up to 60k useful active concurrent connections on a single box is pretty damn tricky. Usually, you'll be splitting that kind of load, and doing NAT, and all of a sudden you no longer have to worry about port exhaustion.
It's nice to see the huge if/then waterfall has been replaced with a switch statement. That was quite the code smell there.

I'm still as impressed as when I first saw it. Small, simple and elegant. Neat little project.
According to http://www.oldsf.org/about:

The geocodes are based on two sources:

1. Photo Subjects. All photographs in the “City Hall (old)” series presumably belong in the same place. We manually geocoded several hundred subjects.

2. Addresses and Cross-Streets. The photo descriptions often contain either an address, block number or set of cross-streets. These were converted to coordinates using the Google Geocoding API.
For one thing, talking to other developers is what comments are for.

I tend to dislike header files because it means the information I need to grok a piece of code is squirreled away in more places. This is less a systems problem than the fact that developers often take it as an excuse not to adequately explain what I'm looking at where I'm looking at it.

But I'll go with whatever the convention is for what I'm working with.
This is bollocks. The argument is that you can only have ~60k connections due to the limit of ephemeral ports. This applies on a per-client basis, so you can have nearly limitless connections. I wrote about this here under "The 64k connection myth":

http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/09/29/linux-kernel-tuning-...
Oldest I agree but Largest?
Show HN: Trailer for our new indie MMORPG
The court continued that while exercise of these rights do come with limits in certain circumstances, an arrest on the Boston Common, "the oldest city park in the United States and the apotheosis of a public forum," is not one of them.

This worries me. "First Amendment but only when we say it's okay" rulings always do, especially given how many courts seem to think that it's more often than not that it's not okay.
Per Wikipedia, Dr. Dobelle passed away in 2004 and donated his research, Assumption would be that a very small team of researchers are doing what they do best.

Src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_prosthesis#Dobelle_Eye

"Still in the developmental phase, upon the death of Dr. Dobelle, selling the eye for profit was ruled against in favor of donating it to a publicly funded research team."

While on topic, Also see BrainPort. A tongue display unit.
Despite the name it requires no invasive surgery.

http://vision.wicab.com/technology/
Did the C.I.A. stop an F.B.I. detective from preventing 9/11?
Although its an old article, I feel bad about the whole system.
the natural reserve price would not be the cost of powering a server, but rather the difference between the cost of an idle and active server.

For an idle slot in a partially-allocated server, I would agree, and I think that cost is near zero. But EC2 may also have more completely idle servers than are necessary for SLAs and thus can be powered down.
I actually discovered this on HN yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2924732 :-)
I find it funny that you are seriously lacking in CS knowledge but blame your downvotes on 15 year olds. In addition to being on the boards of two of the most successful technology companies in history he also has a PhD from Berkeley in EECS and co-wrote lex. God I hope you've heard of lex.
Read the blog again. This is bollocks if you are running your own server where you can be multi-homed, add loopback aliases etc and crank up the memory to support 100,000+ sockets. I'm talking PaaS where your app is an multi-tenant environment with no root access.
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I hacked away on what would eventually, months later become my startup. It wasn't on that day though, it was just a site I wanted to make that had no users, no code, and only a fraction of an idea. It had the perfect name that ended up being dumped though because it was too short sighted.
I'm not giving a value judgement I'm saying the site has changed so much in candor.
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My observation/assumption is that your app is running in a multi-tenant PaaS environment, where mysteriously you start getting bind errors because the ephemeral port space is shared with other tenants.
People waiting on long compiles.
How would one understand calculus without understanding algebra? How would one understand algebra without understanding arithmetic? This isn't a major problem, it's the nature of learning interconnected things. The "major problem" is if the teacher forces the class to the next module without ensuring the students understand the previous one fully. Since this is a book the reader follows, that problem is eliminated.
Patents and spam. Still, it's a step up from their video "product".
I won't get into the debate of whether headers are required; it feels like something that's more personal preference, like the One True Bracket Placement Method.

I will say that when it comes to well-documented code, your constraint is less the language than the people who make the code in the first place. Every non-header language I work with has at least one piece of automatic documentation parser that will grab the comment block directly above the method declaration and turn it into an easily-readable API.

(I will note that for me personally, I prefer to keep well-commented and documented code in the one file, instead of needing to do odd window splits or jumping between open files to make sure my method declarations are in sync with my implementations. Header files seem, to me, to fly in the face of idea of not copy-pasting code-- function definitions that have to be modified by hand in multiple places just feel wrong.)
AWS Start-Up Challenge
Yeah, those are for an unrelated program. See the SILP tuition, which is around $3k.
You don't need loopback aliases for > 64k sockets. You can have 64k connections to your server per ip address that connects.

EDIT: Formatting
Sweet Guerrilla Marketing Hack - TestFlight Owns Apple's WWDC
World's oldest person turns 115
GroupOn: a license to print money
http://www.tnl.net/blog/2011/07/24/how-much-is-a-user-worth/
My personal view is that chasing a legacy is a losing battle. I know some very well-known people who agree with me on that.

As for philanthropy, I'm reminded of a billionaire friend who said his fortune was more of an administrative burden than his business ever was.
Okay, we are talking past each other. If you have a server on an EC2 instance, with enough RAM you can support more than 64K inbound connections for exactly the reasons you mention. Try generating more than 64K connections outbound and this is exactly what I'm talking about.
It's an esoteric limit either way.

In just about any real-world scenario (including PaaS) you'll be hitting a whole range of other bottlenecks long before this one.
What dividends? Apple doesn't yet pay out one, though it's possible that'd eh Luke sometime in the future.
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I submitted the article and must add that the data in it is rather unbelievable.

A different article has GroupOn's Average Revenue per User at 8.6 USD http://www.tnl.net/blog/2011/07/24/how-much-is-a-user-worth/.

One more article has the average revenue/subscriber at 9$ http://www.dmnews.com/groupons-q2-revenue-rises-but-net-inco...

This is still 4 times more than LinkedIn's average Revenue per User. Where as Linked in has a valuation 47 times the Revenue/User, GroupOn has "only" a valuation of 31 times the Revenue/User.

Assuming the data is correct, I really don't understand the "GroupOn bashing" in Hacker News comments. All of the last articles about GroupOn I read where predicting that this Ponzi-scheme has no future.

Is there some fundamental metrics I am missing? Or is GroupOn really a very profitable business once they get the expenses under control?
You don't need that either. The limitation is based on a tuple like this:

(incoming ip, outgoing ip, standard port, ephemeral port)

So yes, you're limited to 64k connections to a single MySQL port, for example.
The GDP of the USA is $14.12 trillion dollars. If you're truly the kind of people who seek to move the world forward, 58 million dollars is nothing.
I like that name a lot. It's funny, memorable and a total differentiator in the recipes market.
Racket intro projects: start hacking on and with Racket
hmmm, do you suppose such a planet might be made of diamond ?
I can't even tell you what the first day of my start-up was. I suppose you could argue it was the day I sat down and started writing code on the current iteration of the project I'm working on, in which case the first thing I did was something like:

[prhodes@voyager quoddy]$ grails create-app neddick

followed by

[prhodes@voyager quoddy]$ grails create-app quoddy

and

[prhodes@voyager quoddy]$ grails create-app heceta

After that, it was just lots and lots of coding, up until I discovered Steve Blank's The Four Steps to the Epiphany at which point I stopped coding for a while and started doing Customer Development.
Apple Website hacked and defaced by HodLum
If Tim Cook and Apple without Steve Jobs can continue innovating at the same pace, shareholders will see it as a small investment in Apple's future. And it seems like this was geared to appease the markets.
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Twitter, faster than earthquakes
Twitter starting to make commercials..?
Google Brings Ultra-Fast Internet To Homes Near Stanford
There is a claim of ~$80 per "Active User", but what is an active user? The article conveniently ignores those figures.
$100k a year isn't terribly hard to net in terms of salary. You can earn it right out of school with a good offer in the right location, but even without that, it's not an unreasonable target to hit. If you're a good developer, you can hit it relatively early in life without living in NYC, Boston or the Bay area. If you're a patient developer, you can do the same but it will cost you more time. It certainly doesn't take great career aspirations to hit six-figures.

$1m a year salary, on the other hand, is going to be almost impossible. At compensation approaching that level, you're going to be earning less from your salary and more from bonuses, stock options, and other compensation incentives that don't fall under the term "salary". I don't know of anybody who makes $1m salary as a software developer. To earn that kind of money, you've got to be integral to the business in some way or get it as some kind of a bonus.
RSUs are fairly standard as a bonus inside Apple (not this many though!). Typically, they vest over four years, twice a year as long as you stay an Apple employee.