skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? A join requires all of your data to be in memory? I've sure as hell seen databases that executed queries with joins and the data was not entirely in memory...
Original K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider up for auction
That is a hell of a list. I found some categories of items on there that I did not even know I needed!
Publicly held corporations are greedy by definition. The objective of such a corporation is simply to make as much money for its owners as possible.

Our laws create an environment where intellectual property abuse has proven to be a profitable venture.

The solution is not to redefine corporations as non-greedy entities.
A Game Studio Cultural Dictionary
of course not! as long as there is internet censorship!
Human Stem Cells Created Using Cloning Technique
I'm sick of all you hippies who want free access to a timezone database

Seriously. Who came up with the moronic idea that people somehow "deserve" to know what time it is?
Reminded me more of the Jane Eyre 'silhouette' book cover: http://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/4722840-jane-eyre
I read the leaked press and it seemed to be mostly driven by HBGary who was presenting a proposal to implement Palantir tech. While not completely innocent I got the impression that Palantir was very peripheral to the whole thing. Otherwise you may as well implicate Microsoft for providing the PowerPoint app that the deck was composed with.
The whole "pull request" model seems like a really brilliant way to distribute content generation like this. I would hope to see it work.
What Steve Jobs Understood That Our Politicians Don’t
I read somewhere that this was because of concerns with talent getting poached by other companies (which was especially a concern in the early days of OS X, when Apple was still "beleagured". Still, point taken; there are lot of unsung heroes within Apple's ranks.
You can definitely monetize tours/excursions/attractions via services like Viator. We haven't had huge amounts of luck with it but the option definitely exists. Contact me directly: lackner@gmail.com
I wrote HN about 6 months before I launched it. Reddit was getting bought when I wrote HN, and I didn't want to mess up the acquisition for them, so I postponed launching till after the deal had closed.
Dear Steve ...
In the end, this is Astrolabe, Inc.

http://alabe.com/photogal.html

I don't think they are going to take the computerized world into the timezone dark ages. I suspect this will all be resolved reasonably, especially if companies who ship this data get involved (e.g. every *nix vendor, Oracle (Java), etc).
I agree.

At the very least I would like to see GDocs enable the ability to approve modifications prior to them being published. (Maybe they do - but I couldn't find it anywhere.)
What? HN can't take a joke?
Interesting. Well, you've built up a lot of authority over the years. That they trust you more, has been well earned.

I'm baffled by the 'pre-interview' concept.

Would love to see a candid 'behind-the-scenes' (video) peek at your process, without giving too much away. Maybe tiny interviews with your team even. Passion multiplied!
Apologies for the digression, but this subject matters to me. The Gettysburg Address is perhaps the greatest example of writing that's stunning without being difficult to interpret. For that matter of War & Peace is clear and generally free of embellishment.

I agree with scott_s that the whole article is written more in the style of linkbait than a challenging poem.
Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs
Thanks! Great interview.
I had the same distaste for awhile until I realized that the HBGary guy actually edited the slides with Palantir's logo on them himself while making a pitch. Pretty sure Palantir canned the employee who let him get away with that a long time ago.
NSS Labs offers Bounties for exploits
Despite reading about that back when it was news, I had completely forgotten about that. At the forefront of my mind when I heard "Palantir" and "2.5 billion", was "wtf". How can a company that simply makes data visualization software be worth that much?
Steve Jobs inheritance
Not necessarily. Generally, the purpose of a corporation is, in fact, to maximize shareholder wealth, but all a corporation is supposed to do is to represent the interests of the shareholders, which do not have to be financially motivated.

In theory, corporations are not solely profit-seeking. In practice, they tend to be.
GAS FIREPLACE INSERTS SEATTLE
Here's my medicine. Buy a Netflix subscription. Watch Breaking Bad. You'll feel better.
Eric Schmidt was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man, I think, although I haven't read the book (by Steven Levy, not Levey). Certainly Schmidt must have been a candidate at some point, since he got the job, and he had certainly been to Burning Man.
Rdio goes freemium
Steve Jobs lives on
Well, as a company making its living from peddling Astrology, taking the world into the dark ages would arguably be in their self interest...
Right on! It is about time that computer users buck up and take some personal responsibility. It's not like you can just look up at the sky and figure out what time it is! The hard work of innovators who figure out complex issues like the time need to be compensated!
I was able to read it without being logged in to any Google account. May I recommend that you only log in to Google accounts in a separate browser, or in an Incognito window in Chrome?
Stephen Fry: Steve Jobs
Thanks for the suggestion. I've added this under Publishing. If you'd like, email me or send an edit request. That way you can update the listing if your prices change, etc.
http://nationalatlas.gov/mapmaker

If my artist misbehaved bring me to court.

God says...
C:\TEXT\WEALTH.TXT

in order to force these
projectors by degrees to have recourse, either to other bankers, or to
other methods of raising money: so as that he himself might, as soon as
possible, get out of the circle. The difficulties, accordingly, which
the Bank of England, which the principal bankers in London, and which
even the more prudent Scotch banks began, after a certain time, and when
all of them had already gone too far, to make about discounting, not
only alarmed, but enraged, in the highest degree, thos

You do know the Bible says "By the standard you judge, you will be judged."

God says...
persistence joy hate peace you_see_the_light hey_Mikey_he_likes_it
pet astounding job hymns duck_the_shoe Burp That's_my_favorite
Russia employee not_too_shabby whatcha_talkin'_'bout no_you_cant
you_hoser I_didn't_do_it that's_your_opinion ba_ha oh_come_on
thats_right news_to_me boss poor man tree_hugger insane
stunning I_love_you rich meh repent in_theory That's_gonna_leave_a_mark
yep could_it_be___Satan you_see_the_light that_time_of_the_month
middle_class I'm_bored watch_it_buddy taxes how_about
fortitude just_lovely middle_class ghastly I'll_be_back
What Hasta woot I_donno If_had_my_druthers
Oh, yeah. Facebook would definitely have happened the same way without the Macintosh.

Seriously, do you guys not know who we're talking about here?
Yeah the first page is a list of images, for the intro/review pages. The rest are PDF files for each chapter/section, with each page basically an image...Tufte is kind of a stickler about layout and format and there was probably not much desire in him to make a web-friendly format. You can read about his decision to graciously put the book online for an interested reader here:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

One of the best revelations I got from a Tufte lecture was that Flash graphics...more specifically, the tendency to hide data with fancy rollover/popup interaction, was dumb.

His philosophy was to lay it all out as much as you can without requiring a click...and that restraint causes you to rethink how to display the data and to be more clever in visual symbolism, rather than requiring the user to click a button to reveal a block of descriptive text.

However, I think overall, he is not someone who has spent much time thinking over web-formatting and display. Most of his work on his site is plain text or images of text.
Thanks. Fixed. I missed the small print under their main pricing options when I created this.
maintenance is spelled wrong
Jobs: “Focus Is About Saying, No”
Steve Jobs effect
That's the problem I ran into when creating it. I started with a small set of tools that I use personally, but as I continued researching the list grew exponentially.
Hmmm, no HipChat (http://hipchat.com)?

Great list, thanks for compiling it.
Thanks, I missed the reserved instances somehow.
Facebook facing class action lawsuit from Kansas lawyer over tracking cookies
It seems pretty doubtful you would be able to use this to access the hosted data remotely.
Does it matter? The FTP site is gone.

Legal attacks don't have to have merit to be successful.
> Gotta love the ways you can CHOOSE to give away your data to any third-party service provider.

Fixed
It is difficult to determine how substantiated a valuation is without access to the books of a company and a sense for its future revenue and cashflows. Being a private company, these books are not publicly available.

Given that, it would make sense to withhold judgment pending further data.
His startup MBA Polymers http://www.mbapolymers.com/home/selling-plastics-to-us has a research plant in Richmond, CA but has only built production facilities in other countries so far. Does anyone know why?
I wonder if Jobs' main gift wasn't so much figuring out what people want/love (obviously everyone would love unicorn rainbows and time travel using their phone), but figuring out what was just beyond the possible at a given point in that direction, and then pushing his team until they achieved that "next leap."
Given that it takes years for a big thing to pass through the dev cycle and come to market, you're still going to see some things that were up his sleeve.
Yea yea, keep defending yourself Arn.

You guys have done great work in the past. But you've taken things a bit far this time. You win some you lose some, but you helped set expectations way too high and that resulted in some serious disappointment for a lot of people.

Between your terrible moderators, insanely stupid forum readers, and this, I have no desire to really read your site anymore.
Works for me in the latest Chrome, except the shortcut is Ctrl+Cmd+D (I think it always has been?). For a long time it didn't work, though.
As an alternative to the zipWith method of calculating the Fibonacci series, you can use scanl, resulting in (in my opinion) an even more elegant version:

fibs = fix $ (1 :) . scanl (+) 1
BlackBerry Security Guide by Incident Response Team (BBSIRT)
Oracle to pay US almost $200M to resolve false claims lawsuit
WebGL developer is credit to team!
This is huge for allowing corps to migrate apps onto Google's cloud. Many open source web frameworks can be used on GAE (albeit with limitations), but de-SQLing an existing app is probably a non-starter for most corporate dev groups. Even if scale-up is an issue past some threshold, the long tail of most mid-sized companies' in-house apps includes a bunch of semi-legacy ones which don't have very high usage levels. Think about stuff like the environmental regulation compliance database -- important, but probably not used by more than 10's of people.
Ask HN: Best terminal & RDP apps for iPad2
I'm going to be travelling a little during the next few months and would rather take my iPad2 & wireless keyboard with me than lug my heavy laptop around, BUT I still need a really decent terminal for SSH access (for shell & Emacs) and RDP to my stuff back home.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding the best available terminal & RDP apps for iPad2? I'm curious to know what others have found useful.
My First Computer (what was yours?)
Neo4j releases embedded Python graph database
Test your fantasy football intellect with Football Verdict's new leaderboard
I will argue that ORMs are not useful to the majority of good developers.

The PHP app I am currently saddled with generates anywhere from 100 (absolute minimum) to 40,000 MySQL queries on every single page view thanks to a developer who didn't know what ORMs are for and was clearly behind the curve when it came to architecting scalable applications.

I have never seen a PHP application abuse a database connection so thoroughly in my life. If he had just stuck to a nice, lightweight PDO wrapper and been able to craft some decent SQL statements, we wouldn't be rewriting this thing right now.
It'd be funnier if it weren't so, so true.
Even if everything he says in this blog is true, I still think Steve designed products. There are many aspects of design, and I don't think anyone is suggesting that Steve did them all on any product, but he did some of them on many products throughout his entire career.
1. Team execution
2. Transparency within groups
3. Alignment of motivation

Here is a post on the benefits within high execution teams.

http://webcollaboration.zendesk.com/entries/20400157-real-te...
If any other country even thought of doing such a thing the USA would be claiming it was an attack on its sovereignty and declare war.
Who cares what DB it is when you don't have to manage it?

Django's data access layer is abstracted so it's actually pretty easy to migrate between.
Killer-tool! We have built some integrations to it to make our communication asynchronous (humans vs. humans, devs vs. servers, etc.), and got plans for even more. I know people been doing this for looong for IRC, but I find HipChat more usable for non-hackers (the biz folks "get it") and it's more tweakable (visually via HTML-formatting). Lovely.
I'd like to see the Scandinavian countries dealing with the mafia... no, not the one you see in movies that cuts horses' heads, but the one that blows up motorways.
Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola
Only the President can send him home...
Peoria Locksmith
Wow... 100% of HN links about the same topic
Sure, I've just send it.
Right.

All you guys (not targeted specifically at you here) that say 'He tried it in a clear way': Call one of the lesser technical inclined people in your family/among your friends. Tell them you've just read about a security vulnerability and wonder if they could describe what that is to one (possibly less technical inclined) people in their family/among their friends.

That's essentially what you're looking at if you throw these words at a corporate marketing (with some links to support) drone that needs to fill in his/her supervisors to make anything special happen.
Can somebody explain what benefits we have from having time zones _at all_? They are an absolute mess: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/World_Tim... Wouldnt it be easier to have one time for the whole planet, like we have one date for the whole planet? Is there some reasoning behind it or is it just another case of historical baggage? There seems to be no other rationale behind it than allies and trading partners wanting to have the same or comparable time display.
I always wonder about this argument. Wouldn't it be more about the VALUE of the minimum wage, and not the number associated with it? I mean, the minimum wage was far higher in value in 1968.

And don't some nations reevaluate the value of their minimum wage annually, adjusting for de/inflation? That seems reasonable to me. And stops the arguments over when/if to increase it. (Though of course many obviously believe we shouldn't have it, but that's a different conversation.)
napkin calculation i did back then shown that the gravitational time dilation effects (according to GR as we know it) are several orders of magnitude less than required. The more probable explanation would be this (as they seems to measure distance and time in flight thus it is perfectly possible to come up with speed higher than "c" (there is a Russian saying for such a measurement style - "average patients' temperature across the hospital")) :

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3027409
A naming convention, if it were eligible for IP protection, would be in the realm of patent or trade secrets. It would not be under copyright. Here copyright is claimed.
Future Capital to open doors to new Melbourne start-up incubator
Why the GOP and big telecom both hate you
Steve Jobs in his own words: 20 of his best quotes
> Isn't that exactly what they're doing?

Okay, yes. In a way. But they're taking responsibility to try to get other people to do something for them. You're right, I do have an individualistic perspective on this. I don't think it works well. The only control they will get over the situation will be the control they're given by the government/big industry.

> But believe me, if you think those people are all shouting for somebody else to fix everything for them, you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.

I'll take the bait. What are they doing other than protesting for a government response/solution to their woes?
What a life; legacy left. Thank you and rest in peace!
Very nice. I hope political/public policy groups pay attention to the lesson Tufte pushes throughout the rest of his other books which is to avoid presenting the data in way which mislead or obfuscate what the data is.

Political/public policy groups are among the worst offenders of misusing/abusing numbers and statistics to support a conclusion they have already reached rather than as an honest tool.
Agree, but maybe we should just outsource it to normal people: the kind of people that haven't got their tentacles around everything that happened in the last 50 years! Like these http://www.beppegrillo.it/movimento/ although the outsourcing idea isn't half bad as long as they're not all former bankers! :)
Privacy 1 : Vanity 50?

It's a start I suppose.
This is like saying Google simply implements "find" for the web. How can it be worth so much?
Right now it's tomorrow in Australia. I find it convenient to talk about things I did "on Thursday" at work, rather than the things I did on the local day that spanned Thursday night to Friday morning.
Debt800
I'll refer you to this Slashdot discussion on the matter: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1819203/ask-slashdot-...
Added it.

For every tool I have on the list there are probably equally 3 good tools I don't have listed yet.
Yeah, I came straight home and took my daughter to the park. Perspective.
There's UTC as the universal time for the whole planet. Just need to get everyone start using it day to day.
Omg this is big-fing-news!!!!! Unlimited sleep mode. Instant resume. No energy wasted sleeping for computers. Huge SSD drives with a fraction of the circuitry. Excitement!
I mentioned this earlier, nobody cared. Can we call for a Clojure post spree? Pleeeeeeease? Haskel & Erlang are out and Clojure is in!
Ah thanks for sharing. I was sent that the other day too and was wondering what was going on. Luckily I was on my phone and didn't input any information on the phishing page.
Why I Moved My Start-up From Tokyo
Kindly lay off sarcasm. I understand the temptation, but succumbing to it will cause HN to become a place for wenting anger. I mean just look at the thread of comments below yours. Is that what you want HN to be?

Let's make it a place for civilized discourse instead... shall we?
I'd love this as well. I dont think it exists, unfortunately.

if you represented the possibilities of business tax as a flowchart, it'd be way too big (especially for me, as I'm Canadian dealing with Americans) to be easily handled. I think. I hope I'm wrong.
Triumph Of The Nerds (Documentary)
Make sure you read the anecdote about Tim Berners-Lee at the bottom.
Gluster Fills a Critical Storage Gap for Red Hat
And Raskin is quoted there, and Raskin was the guy who wanted the Mac without mouse. I think it's obvious that Jobs in fact designed Mac, in a sense -- realized his vision. It's also very clear that Jobs even cared a lot about every detail of his products.

See also the last link in the article which leads to:

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

"ultimately, if any single individual deserves the honor, I would have to cast my vote for the obvious choice, Steve Jobs, because the Macintosh never would have happened without him, in anything like the form it did. Other individuals are responsible for the actual creative work, but Steve's vision, passion for excellence and sheer strength of will, not to mention his awesome powers of persuasion, drove the team to meet or exceed the impossible standards that we set for ourselves. Steve already gets a lot of credit for being the driving force behind the Macintosh, but in my opinion, it's very well deserved."
Not Your Parent’s Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones
Classic symptom of what Nassim Taleb call the "Fat Tony" problem. You deflected a 40% drop but your users aren't coming back to your service. Gosh.

When I thought about using your service for my business, I was so disgusted with the disingenuity of not showing your prices on the homepage (I had to email support, who sounded annoyed -- and not at all apologetic -- to query the price points), I decided to not even give you guys a shot.
One can certainly understand why. It is a very big deal and has a big impact on the technology world.

I did have the side thought of, "what a karma-fest".
It's awesome getting onto Hacker News and saying, "Hey I know that guy!" (I interned with them last fall, amazing place! :)
The historical context is that most of the world wants the time to correlate to the sun. Noon is when the sun is (about) overhead, and midnight is when the sun is on the opposite side of the planet. We also have unique daylight savings practices, even within time zones. There is a lot of political discussion that causes this. China, for example, has one single time zone even though geographically it spans about 3 "real" time zones.

We do have a "world time" as well, if you would like to live by it. It's called UTC.

Personally, time zones help me to relate to others in a different part of the world. If I say I got up at 5am, someone on the other side of the world could say "Why did you sleep in so late? I eat lunch at 6am". With a single time, we would need to translate the numbers for local interpretation, otherwise they have no meaning.
Unreal Engine runs in Flash
I would worry about the interaction between employees at the corporation and the hustlers and hackers at the startup. Seems like a lot of possible jocking going on if you put it into practice.
I fail to understand how this connects to the very real problem. The issue is a fact, you talk fiction.

Going down that route though: You are right, that this stuff is completely arbitrary and probably a heritage of some sorts. But it's deeply ingrained.

Imo:

The world would be a better place if everyone would drive on the right (haha!) side. Why don't we fix it overnight?

The world would be a better place with only one (and simple) calendar. Go ahead, propose one.

The world would be a better place without discussions about date and time _formats_. You know how much these cost?

The world would be a better place without different units, depending on country. Can we please drop feet and whatever other body parts were used? It's "historical baggage".

The world would be a better place if we had just one country with one legislation and one global set of rights.

(Obligatory link: http://worldtimebuddy.com - which I found through this site - is regularly the most awesome utility the web has to offer for me)
See, I don't really disagree with you. But you're a dreamer if you discuss about whether we really should depend on time zones. And in my book a couple of issues are more important to fix before we tackle that problem and introduce a stardate of some sorts.
Also great this time of year and in the same vein as Curtis Orchard is Robert Allerton park. It's about 45 minutes out of town just outside of Monticello.

My grandparents took me as a kid, and it made an incredibly lasting impression.