skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, this is not public. Traffic server ( and the stuff it lead to) is built by a peer group under the same VP I report to.
Tech news owes a lot to Arrington, conflicts and all
Big fan of Firefox nightly here. It's only 5% slower than Chrome dev channel on Kracken, has a better garbage collector (fewer pauses, less overhead), is more configurable (UI, better extensions), about the same compositing, scales to any number of open tabs.
I've been deeply weirded out at how the costs of feeding myself from the grocery store have approached the prices of cheap restaurant food (mexican and chinese food places primarily). Not that it's actually cheaper, but the marginal cost of buying, preparing, and cleaning up outweighs the price savings in the case of complicated meals far far more than it used to.
seems like the real takeaway from this is that groceries are more sensitive than restaurants to raw food costs because they have less ancillary overhead (rent, labor etc.)
Does this apply to federal agents? In other words, if an officer says something false in a statement that is later read by another officer can they be charged?
You are probably thinking of Jef Raskin's ideas for zoomable interfaces, as described in "The Humane Interface" and seen in various demos he produced.

A lot of people (chief among them, Microsoft with projects like Seadragon) have been rediscovering this as a useful idea.
One reason for this is that food prices are only one component of restaurant prices. You're also paying for the wait staff, brand, surroundings and a lot more.
Looks practical, but I would like to see support for java, including building tools and such. The deployment is only part of the problem.
Coming from someone who's specifically used both Slackware and Arch for a similar amount of time, I can say that Arch is more forgiving than Slackware, especially because of Pacman and their wiki. That said, though, if you /really/ know what you're doing in both Arch and Slackware, the experience should not be too different...aside from maybe the non-support of GNOME on Slackware.
that piece is the less difficult i think - you could always use existing VM infrastructure and do (1) restore (2) apply changes and (3) save back - I wouldn't mess with disk formats and so on - no need
How many videos will your ideal and/or average customer have on their website?
TechCrunch: I don't read it much but Arrington and Co. did seem like a bunch with good things to say.

Has it now been defanged or?
holy *&%$ it looks JUST like a movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aAs-vZ4rZE
thanks for the tip! i'll get that done soon :)

... for anyone else seeing this: modelbinding allows your backbone models to be updated by form inputs, and vice-versa, as well as allows other html elements to be updated by backbone models, with little to no configuration or code
I marked "I only use free tools", but what I really wanted was an option like "This isn't worth paying for".

We do pay for tools we find useful.
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> I'll bite: in arrays, front deletion (like back deletion) can be done in O(1) time. Keep a pointer to the first element, and just increment it upon front deletion (and free the element if necessary). Obviously, you may want to be smart to avoid memory use getting out of hand.

Actually that's how they often do array-based queues and deques. To help with memory use they let the tail pointer overflow through the end (so you could have tail at index 2 and head at index 8).
It's something I've wondered in the past as well. There are pretty good odds that every single person has broken at least one law in their lives, and as surveillance and storage capacities increase, it's only going to get easier to dragnet them if you need some leverage on a person.

There seem to be at least a couple of companies that offer legal services insurance[1][2], but it's difficult to tell from their sites if they cover criminal/potential criminal interview services under the circumstances described in the article.

I also have no idea what sort of price you'd expect to pay.
The ARAG Legal Calculator suggests ~$5k for a misdemeanor, but they've got something of a conflict of interest in quoting prices. Their stat of $283/hr average seems to be sourced though.[4]

I think there are some free(ish) options, the UK has Legal Aid[3], and I think in the US there's some Public Defender provisions (although you might have to be already under arrest for that to apply).

I'd imagine there's definitely some sort of market opportunity for connecting people to competent legal advisors quickly. Ideally something usable with your "one phonecall".

[1] http://www.das.co.uk/

[2] http://www.araggroup.com/

[3] http://www.legalservices.gov.uk/

[4] "Average attorney rate in the United States of $284 per hour for attorneys with 11 to 15 years of experience, Survey of Law Firm Economics, Incisive Legal Intelligence, July, 2009."
Getting sick of this melodrama.

Where can I find tech news?
> You do realize that this site used to be called "Startup News", right?

Did it? I've been here for over 1300 days and I don't remember it ever being called Startup News.

I guess my memory isn't what it used to be:)
Will all the old writers leave to form another site, like the Engadget team did?
So after you delete the last element, how do you get the new before-tail pointer?

If you recalculate it right there, you've actually done nothing in terms of the algorithmic complexity. If you defer it either until it's needed or until you next enumerate the list, then you get to O(1) in the case of individual removes at the end (as long as they're interspersed with other operations), but you're still O(n^2) for removing the entire list starting at the tail.
I think I am going to have to give Arch a try.

One thing that has kept me on Ubuntu family distros is font rendering. Ubuntu's patches for freetype, cairo, xft, etc are quite simply requirements for me for a desktop Linux.

Some distros have these by way of some guy maintaining his own set of patched packages. I have always been reluctant to rely on these.

I was thrilled when Linux Mint came out with Linux Mint Debian Edition, which is Debian + these font patches + some other Mint-y friendliness (but still mostly Debian).

The fact that Arch maintains the *-ubuntu family of patched packages means I just might consider using it, too.
Java is definitely on the roadmap. We have been out of touch with the java universe for a few years, but we'd like to provide a great experience.
IANALOAJ, but yes, technically that would be a crime in those circumstances. It seems unlikely you'd be prosecuted of course but who can say?
We haven't seen a phenomenon like this since, my God, 2007 through 2009. And then earlier from 2003 through 2004. But, ignoring those anomalies, this hasn't happened even once since, let's see, 2002. Truly amazing stuff here.
It is unlikely you would be convicted, but yes, you have violated that law in the circumstance you describe.
That's exactly what Cloudlets does. http://github.com/dotcloud/cloudlets
Not really. This is about being able to access the specific papers written; it is not about being able to read an aggregate of the research without necessarily being able to look at the original source (which is what Wikipedia is).

(EDIT: grammar)
Pastebin'd in case of redaction [1]

[1] - http://pastebin.com/qhuHiCzh
Node development for the lazy (using CoffeeScript)
No information about pricing, though?
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Programmers who are still learning the basics should not be employed as programmers.
I came here to say the same thing, and I'm sorry that you're being downvoted. This article is not Hacker News material. It's useful information, yes, but that does not automatically mean it's Hacker Newsworthy.

Hacker News is not a funnel for good Reddit submissions. It has a different focus. This article is US-specific, transient, and not intellectually stimulating. It does not belong here, so I flagged it.
Agreed, it's incredibly disappointing. But I've seen it firsthand, so, thank you but I'll be contacting my attorney before continuing to speak.
Hundreds, possibly thousands. Most retailers won't want videos for all their SKUs - only the ones for which a video can help the shopper decide whether to buy.
I don't have any personal vindication towards any of these journalists, but I don't understand why it's a big deal that the editor of TechCrunch resides in New York.
Didn't Arrington himself move to Seattle before the sale?
This guy Paul is good for writing sensational hollywood stories. "Sneaky editor conspires with Lady Evil to overthrow St. Arrington". His TC column was always sub-par self-promotion. His Guardian column was better. You 'd think writers get better with time.
> There's certainly no legal obligation to give a month of severance when it comes to an "at will" employee.

I see, this is news to me.

I'm Canadian so I guess the laws can certainly be different, but I was under the impression that 2 weeks was a minimum severance required by law.

I've never seen less than a month, I guess this could be enforced by employment contracts. I know it's been in every one I've signed:)
Here's the solution. You need at least one good lawyer in your life that you trust. You must have an attorney that has set up your investments, your estate, perhaps a family attorney that helped your parents. A competent, honest attorney. These are hard to find so like with a good car mechanic when you find one you hold on to them and treat them well.

Now when you need a specialty attorney at short notice because you've been arrested for murder or are being sued for patent infringement you ask your trusted attorney for a recommendation. The recommendation will go to a good attorney and not the fly by night shyster that advertises at 2AM on the local TV station. This attorney may be extremely expensive of course, but this is how I have found specialty lawyers at short notice. It is critical you have a trusted attorney that you have a relationship with though, otherwise you risk ending up flipping through the phone book at the jail some day.
They have Constitutional immunity for anything they say in either house of Congress: "for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place" (Art. I, Section 6).
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You failed once so you knew what failure was like. Then you wanted to succeed once (as you defined it) so you took the shortest path possible to reach success. Now you know what thats like.

Seems like you were merely doing what we all do in uncharted territory: Calibrating oureslves by testing the extremes then using that as a foundation to refine our future.

Good luck, no reason to be down on yourself.
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"shallow mental model (...) It really does take time if you want to understand Arch deeply"

You made me curious. Those sound like they are the opposite of each other.

On the article... the same old. Not for me. I like learning, but not just anything. Learning how to use the configuration of dozens of software pieces is NOT on my to do list, specially when it's pretty obvious I won't have room on my mental memory for all of it.
As the article says, it's not for everyone.
Yup. A for loop's index should be completely controlled by the control clause. Modifying that control variable in loop should trigger air raid sirens. It wouldn't surprise me if static analyzers triggered an error on that.
> if you are for example an ISP or provide messaging, as you grow big enough it's probably a matter of time before you'll end up getting a subscriber who's being investigated

That is not what Hacker News is for. If your company is that big, you should have counsel on retainer, and they should be advising you of the proper behavior in the face of potential federal investigation. Moreover, it's our job as American citizens to be aware of our legal exposure and to know the proper way to proceed. It's a shame that this is not taught in our high school Government courses.

It is not the role of Hacker News to educate us on these issues. There are other sites for that. You can tell by the quality of the comment thread that it's not something that appeals to "our inner hacker." An article is not HN material simply by appealing to some (or even a majority) of the members here; it must satisfy other criteria, and this one does not.
It's good etiquette to post the results page with the poll so that it benefits the entire community, not just yourself.
Was FlightCaster acquired mostly because of its user base or because of its technology?
I agree that Question #6, the keystone, is poorly designed.

It should also include the option "I don't know, depends on how useful it is".

I just chose a random answer since that option wasn't there (and the question was required).
You have the right to ask for your attorney. If you don't say anything, that might be used against you.
Sigh... I had so much respect for Erick but I am not too sure anymore...
The problem with all these tipping services is always traction. There is no pain point for the consumers of content that is going to drive them to install a bookmarklet like the one he suggests. This especially applies since all of these services are unknown.

I would love to see an already established player like Disqus attempt something like this.
Have you seen the dotcloud "build files" for specifying services? I wonder if trying to encourage standardization among cloud/app hosts on a service specification file like this would be beneficial, similar to Gemfile/Procfile/etc.

service 'redis', '~> 2.2.2'

http://docs.dotcloud.com/guides/build-file/
The morale boost you’ll get will be incredible. After months of toiling away, the feeling you get from seeing real-world people actually start using your product is the best feeling you will ever get as a software programmer in your professional life. These are the great moments that make it all worthwhile. We made something. People used it. It matters.

Ain't that the truth. I shipped some code last week, and then spent some time at a customer's site demoing the new features and doing one-on-one training. It's a real buzz to see people use the stuff you made. It's easy to lose sight of that feeling when sitting in your air-conditioned beige office, divorced and detached from the realities that your users face, but when someone hugs you because of all the time and energy the code you just wrote will save them, it really validates what we do.
Just like with childcare options, as you increase the number of [dependents,eaters] in-house options become more economical.

A family of 3 (w/ 1 kid) with two working couples finds daycare centers and eating out much more economical than say a family of 5 (w/ 3 kids) in the same boat... in fact, in the latter case, it makes sense to have one parent stay at home just to feed/care for the kids (usu. the wife).
Totally agreed about yearning for a directory of JavaScript frameworks.

I use a little jQuery, and I'm getting to the point where I'm ready to add a little more structure. But should I be using Backbone.js? Spine claims to be cleaner, but how do the communities/plug-ins compare? How does KnockoutJS compare? BatmanJS? Should I be abandoning jQuery for something more extensive like SproutCore or Sencha?

I'm also totally unclear on how compatible things are. A lot of the frameworks don't even seem to agree on basic things like how to do inheritance or whether they should use JavaScript or CoffeeScript. (Though I suppose they mostly don't break each others' namespaces any more.)

Is there some over-arching list of features that covers all of the existing frameworks, and that could be put into a table? If so, does such a table exist? If things are just a popularity contest, who is winning the popularity contest?
To compete with free alternatives, you need ease of use, social proof or loyalty. These can be monetized.

Perhaps a site where readers subscribe to info ahead of time and pay, and then rate articles. People who write great articles get paid more.
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Same objection to question 6 that other people have mentioned: I wouldn't pay for a service that tells me about open source software updates (because I keep up with them myself already as part of my usual process of staying informed), but that doesn't mean I don't pay for services in general.
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree - my experience was bad too.
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Mike, thanks a lot for the detailed feedback.

Minifying and caching stuff is on my checklist. I purposely put the site to test in its unoptimised state to see how it performs and get some numbers based on my current hardware configuration.

The next update makes it easier to browse laptops, so you won't have to scroll much or at all.

You're right about the search bar on the top. I intend this to be a general shopping site, and will add other product categories sooner than later.

It's interesting to know that you don't see any value. I'd spell out the value proposition, but I'd rather people recognise it on their own.

Specialising along some vector is probably going to be crucial to get traction initially. In addition to product category and customer profile, I have couple of other options in mind. I'll choose one or two of them.

Can you say what you think are the specific buying experiences people go to Newegg and Bestbuy for? Any other examples would also be useful.

Once again, thanks a lot.
Yup. That is the plan. Once we collect the data, I will post the results.
Great, thanks for the reply - I'll take a look at those. I realised I didn't give a lot of information. We'd be 3-5 people, we'd need private offices and it would initially at least be for 3-4 months. Thanks for the links, I'll check them out.
That is a good point. Thanks. I wil implement that answer in future surveys.
I have a better grasp of the English language than the average college graduate, but I still make stupid errors even in the comfortable environment of a text editor. I might leave an article out, or I might miss a period, or I might write a homophone even though I know the correct spelling. As an editor, I've worked with a lot of professional writers — to a man, they all made mistakes as well. This is why I proofread anything important.

And that's under ideal conditions! Writing code on a whiteboard is so far from ideal for most people that keeping your variable names consistent is a challenge — balancing parentheses and brackets and keeping track of little dots is outright grueling, and doing all this during a job interview is enough to make even very competent programmers choke.
Facebook.

They already have a credits platform, traction is obviously not an issue, and their stupid "like" button is ubiquitous. It seems to me that they are poised to solve the micropayments problem that so many others have failed on (Beanz, etc).
- First thing I noticed was a sluggish scroll. Not sure why it's like this on your site, but take a look at LivingSocial or similar to see how they get their page scroll smooth. (http://livingsocial.com/deals/123805-20-to-spend-on-grocerie...)

- I think the layout is lacking. There no isolation of different parts of the page. There's no way for me to subconsciously divide the content. Look at Groupon for a good example on how they "divide" content.

- There's not much else to the layout here, but with deal sites going like crazy, ever effort you can take to differentiate your look will help you out. (Since there's not much else you can do, aside from...)

- Your business model! I actually like the idea of reinvesting part of your profits back in the company. However, I'm not clear how this works. The merchant handles sales and you ask for a 15% cut from the merchant? Then use 7.5% of that for a promotion at their place? Do business need help building their business in this way? Do they want promotional events? I think this has potential, but I'm not clear how this works from what you described.
Ruby on rails on shared hosting?
I know that is not reccomended, but i wanna know your opinion and experience with this. Also, which framework work best on shared hosting? (CakePhp, CodeIgniter, Django, etc)
There are positive frugal actions and negative frugal actions.

Negative actions include not spending as much money on the car, or the house, and skipping the starbucks. Negative actions are half the battle.
If you have to rely on any conference to gain traction you are in deep trouble. Make sure you have a solid business that can execute with as little external dependencies as possible. Launch on your results and accomplishments, not just stories and promises. People who attend these conferences are suffering from information overload. Prove something and you'll get a chance to stand out from the crowd. Generally you'll get way better treatment if you make them want to be part of your success, rather than be a supplicant desperate for a lifeline.
That's nice. seems to be the infrastructure required for building such system. question is how do you come about building the manifests? Users need to do that???
I don't think it's just a Java thing. It's entirely possible to do this in pretty much any language. For one thing, I saw this kind of approach quite regularly from some programmers many years before Java even existed.

Also,I'm currently teaching myself Haskell as a hobby, and I'm quite regularly going through the "jiggling things round until they work, and then discovering a far more elegant way of doing the same thing" process. I don't feel bad about this - my professional programming days are many years behind me now, and I find that knocking something up and then revisiting it when you've understood more is a great way to learn a language (just not a particularly good way to develop professional applications).
Given that I've been back in C++ mode for the last week, this is exactly what I was considering (using next_permutation). ;)
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"The only people who are obsessed with food are the anorexic and the morbidly obese" - Stephen Fry

Likewise, it seems to me that misers and spendthrifts are both defined by their obsession with money. This sort of 'frugality' seems a particularly unpleasant fixation.
Not really. What is going to help you get rich is to focus on increasing your top-line income. Doubling and tripling and more of your income is going to make whatever bottom line improvements described in this article irrelevant.

Not to mention that you should be enjoying the money you make, not constantly worrying about whether you should brown bag it or eat $5 crappy street meat.
Our servers are in the same data center as theirs, and it's always weird to see their stuff in the rack. I just imagine all the LOLCats surging through their servers and giggle.
hackers are curious about the world around them. this gives a data point on how the world works with regards to the most popular search engine

hacking is not about getting better at something -
it's a state of mind
Very useful product. How did you get your first few customers?
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And Tim Devane, superstar bit.ly sales/bizdev phenom is a recent Wesleyan grad too!
I can't wait until the new download manager lands, the current download window feels archaic.
dotCloud team here. If there's interest, we'll happily contribute our specs and code to get things started.
> Or has Hacker News turned into some tech version of LOLCatz?

You mean digg? Hopefully not, but this headline does tell a different story :( . Yet many of us still comment on this topic.
Not when knowledge is impossible.
It's tech news news. In contrast to your melodramatic comment, Paul Carr actually reported some interesting facts.

Update: I apologize for this comment. It was unnecessarily inflammatory.
Thanks. Cold 'walking'. We walked into local stores and pitched. It often took a bit of time to get to the decision maker, but once we did they were very enthusiastic.