skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You remember when most things "just worked"? When exactly was that?

I remember when you would buy a new mouse and sometimes it just wouldn't work and then you actually had to take it back to the store because you had something slightly different about your computer and there wasn't a released driver yet.

I remember when Blue Screen of Death was more than just a joke, and it was an actual thing that happened on a fairly regular basis.

You know how everyone thinks IE6 is teh devil? I remember when it came out and was awesome and it actually killed off the competitors for good with all its sweet features.

That's the world I grew up in, and the current state of things is MUCH better.
Just build stuff. I'm a student taking a semester off to work with a startup, and that's all they cared about when talking about hiring me. I'd stay that's how it is for the majority of companies too - just build things.
Has anyone actually held one in their hands and made a decent video review of it?
Way too depressing to play right now as it hits too close to home (or used to). Good game
I am curious to know how he avoided using his college education and the attendant cultural support. Did he take on an affected "low" accent, alter his skin color, give himself a few scars indicative of an unhealthy upbringing or a tour of duty in Iraq, deprive himself of sleep to simulate average intelligence, and invite some folks to play hanger-on friends and family?
That page is an unmitigated disaster on a mobile device. Round fill-ins to obstruct my fairly small screen, weird auto-snap to ensure I can't get a look at the content I want.

I think this has inspired me to start a wall of shame for mobile device sites!
So you concede Antrix's point that mutlithreading is not slower?

I'd just like to confirm that you are even able to determine when your argument has been refuted, as you seem to think that that the proper response is to just pretend it didn't happen and come up with a new reason instead. That is to say, are you a reason factory supporting of an internally held belief despite evidence to the contrary, or are you a rational sentient who is in a discourse for the purpose of determining a common truth.
Yes, and it was hilarious. It stunned me that Intel couldn't figure out that AMD was going to eat their lunch when they figured out a way to extend the x86 architecture to 64 bits while retaining software portability. For years Intel had beaten challenger after challenger based on the juggernaut of their software base (680x0, MIPS, NS32032, SPARC, PowerPC, Etc) and yet their brash attempt to push Itanium by not extending x86 was counter to all those previous victories. Kind of like a general taking a battle plan known to work and ignoring it.

As we move into an era of 'I don't see why I should get a new machine' of growth minimization there is a window for folks like ARM to get in with 'all day computing.' But it will take someone extraordinary to make that happen. Look at the state of Linux on ARM to understand the power of a legacy architecture.
This is true. Here, the deposit is usually a months rent. I lived in a house for a while and when we moved out the landlord didn't want to return the deposit (about €1200 I think it was) even though there was no real reason for it. There is some kind of government run agency here to deal with disputes with landlords and they got the deposit back for us, but it took a long time. In the end the landlord had a choice of going to court or paying up and he paid up.
What to Expect at the iPhone Event
I find I work best at the hours of 12am-4am because (i) I'm naturally a night owl and (ii) everyone else is sleeping so no one breaks my concentration. It does make for some drowsy mornings...
Global Resorts Network Complaints
New Voxatron trailer shows off voxels, level editor, joy
My point wasn't about grammar, it was that the stated hypothesis is false, and the story is pointless. This reporter did not find his target or even shed any light on the subject.
"At Skillshare, we believe that an entrepreneur working with us for 6 months will provide us more value than an employee working with us for 6 years."

I understand that there can be a 10x difference between the worst and best coders, so a company should absolutely hire the very best people it can. However, there's real value to longevity and loyalty. Even very talented, very driven people perform better in their second or third year in an organization than in their first as they build domain knowledge and relationships. It seems like many startups have a kind of institutional ADHD which keeps them from understanding this.
Don't waste your time taking courses. You'll learn good things in those courses you listed and you should take them, but they won't help you get a product out the door - you can get started way earlier.

Just define your MVP and at each point along the way ask yourself "what do I need to learn to complete feature X?" and then dig that information out online and implement!
Yes, there absolutely are policies that encourage people to climb to a perch from which it is incredibly easy to fall: social pressure against out-of-wedlock births; ineffective sexual education; social stigma against and a lack of services providing female reproductive health in general, contraceptives, emergency contraceptives and abortion; the structure of our health system disincentivizing preventative medical care in general; bankruptcy 'reform'; predatory lending practices; social stigma against the trades; corporate abuse of the safety net to depress wages; college grants and their unregulated effect on tuition; the college loan system in general; regressive taxation; child tax credits; safety net rewards based on family size; the jarring transition between qualifying for social safety net programs and not qualifying; military rewards based on family size; subsidized sprawl and a lack of public transportation; zero-tolerance laws and policies; substandard school districts; etc.
"Businesses, including startups and businesses outside of the software-dev industry, are largely reluctant to hire trainees."

I don't know what this is based on. I'm at a fortune 100 company and my last employer was also a fortune 100 company. I hired a lot of people fresh out of college with no experience for both companies.

In fact, I've found that it's much easier to find good people coming straight out of school than it is to attract good people that likely already have good jobs. And, I've hired a number of people that have no college or majored in something like music rather than comp sci.

Bottom line, if you can show that you know how to code, you'll get a job. Something as simple as writing your own blog software which you can then talk about intelligently.

I disagree with localhost3000 too, all people can't be programmers/tech people. That's not a solution.
Best Buy certainly does. I believe they are also available at Target.
The math on this article (taking pre-order rate from the first few days of availability and extending it to the ship date) is silly, as much as I'm an Amazon and Kindle fan. Journalists need to stick to reporting the facts and not making silly projections of the future based on questionable math.

It's similarly ridiculous to expect that orders will "ramp up" as the launch date gets closer. The closer you get to the release date, the less incentive there is to pre-order (because you will be way back in the line anyway) and the more incentive there is to wait a little longer and see the early reviews / user reports. I may be wrong about that but it's not like the reporter provides any support for the assertion that orders will climb as the release date gets close.
I'm not sure how temporary this is. If I were releasing a desktop app that used Growl, I'd be rolling my own replacement right now ;(

It's easy enough functionality, when you're only supporting one app, and I don't want functionality for my-users to depend on a paid app they may not have.

Adium was a big driver for Growl adoption. It'll be interesting to see what they do.
Yes, there's also akka which is being incorporated as scala standard lib, and F# MailboxProcessor. The thing is that erlang/OTP and its behaviors have many people pounding on heavily loaded apps in production and improving its toolchain, whereas GHC and akka have recently (last couple years I think) been working ot get the stack working: dispatchers and load balancing (like erland reds), and bring GC up to snuff
I'm curious - do they check the user agent? Or something more complex?
Party button. If you pressed it, a disco ball would drop down and the latest disco hits would play.
Yes.

A quick search confirms Best Buy list them for instore sale only: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcat17071&typ...

I believe others are getting them too. Can't recall exactly where I read it.

I doubt that the figures are included in the leaked report, as that speaks of fulfilment centers, which I would understand to be customer fulfilment centers. They're more likely to get X boxes shipped to Best Buy (and whoever) direct from manufacturer to avoid additional shipping costs.
I would expect them to receive shipments directly from the manufacturer, not via amazon retail warehouses...
Resale of these is going to be crazy. Pick one up on the flipside for $100 after xmas.

Bluetooth? No
HDMI? No
Camera? No
Microphone? No
micro/SD slot? No
GPS? No
3G? No
Android Market? No (only Amazon Market)
Gush, in Canada, lots of full-timers (Scala, Win, Mac, iOS, JS, design).

See http://getgush.com/jobs
Agree. Not a fan of Whitman either, but many other successful executives have hosted political dinners this past year (Sheryl Sandberg, John Doerr, etc), with little to no consequence to their business.
Reading this brings up a lot of uneasy feelings for me. I am a designer, and recent graduate with a job right out of school. I love what I do, and wouldn't want to be doing anything different, but recently I've been hearing more and more stories like this. It generally goes: the young, inspired designer/hacker works his/her ass off for 3-4 years, then (poof!) "burns out."

I can't help but feel worried for myself. On average I happily work around 60 hours/week, and would probably do more if I didn't stop myself (I do need some sleep, after all). Am I in that "3-4 years" stage? I want to do design the rest of my life, but maybe I'm just shooting myself in the foot.
Scrapbook Ideas From The Experts
Every morning when I get in my car for the morning commute my Android device automatically connects to it via Bluetooth. From the steering wheel I press play and my personal music collection on Google Music's cloud starts streaming through the internet, to the 4G cell network, to my device in a car traveling 70mph, to the car via Bluetooth, and I hear the music through my car speakers.

"Everything is amazing and nobody is happy" - Louis CK
I honestly don't understand the need. It is the driver's responsibility to be aware of pedestrians, and the pedestrian's responsibility to not jaywalk. Look both ways and all that.

We need less noise pollution.
This is the only one I've seen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-oUrzy0Lvw
Low Cost Business Ideas That Create True Wealth
I appreciate your response, and I agree that upon reflection this pretty much is the standard man-up answer. That being said the only other way I know to get stuff accomplished is throw money at the problem, not typically an option for devs straight out of college.

I understand what you're saying when you say it's daunting, but this doesn't have to be a big deal. I'm not advocating someone run right out and start cutting kernel patches straight out of school. The Open Source space is enormous and it should be possible to pick a project that's in line with your abilities. Example: there are at least three CMS projects I know of that are well documented and very accessible to new developers looking to help out.
Node.js has jumped the shark
The post mentions that heartbeats timeout when the load spikes momentarily. I have a few questions, would love to hear answers if it's okay to share :-)

1. What load spiked? Is it the network/CPU load?

2. By spiked (be it network or CPU), do you mean
the load went all the way to 100%? Or was it
some threshold like say 90% of the available
capacity?

3. What's the heartbeat time interval?

Thanks,
(EDIT: spacing)
GLusterFS 3.3 even supports the HDFS API.

http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/3.3...
why did i -- as a person with no marketable job skills -- start with 7300 in credit card debt? and why didn't i get a roommate for my apartment i can't afford?
Any minute they'll all be goose stepping.
I would not be surprised if every employee that did this query recently is getting a nice chat from corporate security.
Privacy is important
Except adequate healthcare, housing, living in good school districts...

It's cheaper to have a mobile phone nowadays than it is to have a land line. That's why mobile has really taken off in places like, say, Africa. Just because someone has a cell phone doesn't mean they're not struggling.

Given a choice between living as a corporate CEO (or even upper middle class professional) in the 1950s versus part of the welfare underclass today, I would almost certainly choose the former. Even sans cell phones.
The Battle Between Private and Public Clouds
Meh. I got to day 25, but there were so many dumb economic choices it forced me to make that it was essentially impossible to win the game scenario. There were a great number of future benefit choices to make, but the game forces you to think only for the moment, which is the prime reason why poor people remain poor.

Like, whoa! Suddenly $225 in utilities bills ($225? Seriously??? It doesn't even cost that much in Tokyo!) that I somehow didn't know about to be able to plan for.

And whoa! my car starts acting up, and I can't even think to park it and take the bus for awhile until I can afford to fix it (you know, rather than running it into the ground and wasting even MORE money).

And whoa! that leak in my sink has become a huge nightmare because I didn't handle it when it was a small issue and it was obvious the landlord wouldn't do anything about it.

And why the hell do I remain unemployed for so long instead of taking some part time work to keep my savings up while I look for a real job?

Seriously, a little planning ahead goes a LONG way.
They also measure how fast you can use word, excel, etc.

Like the parent, I also spend my days in front of the computer developing software and doing general business-running activities. But I'm almost certain I would fail this test. I think I used Word once in high school and that is about where my experience ends.

I have never found a use-case for an Office suite. There are always better tools for any job that it might be able to tackle. For it to be a prerequisite for finding a job outside of the software industry is kind of frightening and sad.
Write Optimization: Myths, Comparison, Clarifications, Part 2
This guy just sounds like you run-of-the-mill crappy programmer.

"I can't get things to work! It's the fault of The World - it couldn't possibly be me! I've had a game in the App Store!"

As a rule, the worse the programmer, the more convoluted his solutions to problems. Maybe instead of writing huge rants on his blog, he should re-evaluate the way he does things so the world doesn't seem so horrible. Or get a new job.
Without the proxy:

$ curl -v http://news.ycombinator.com/
* About to connect() to news.ycombinator.com port 80 (#0)
* Trying 174.132.225.106... connected
* Connected to news.ycombinator.com (174.132.225.106) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.3
> Host: news.ycombinator.com
> Accept: /
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Cache-Control: private
< Connection: close
< Cache-Control: max-age=0
<
-- snipped out the expected content --

$ curl -v -x localhost:8010 http://news.ycombinator.com/
* About to connect() to proxy localhost port 8010 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8010 (#0)
> GET http://news.ycombinator.com/ HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.3
> Host: news.ycombinator.com
> Accept: /
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< cache-control: private
< connection: close
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<
* Closing connection #0

Even more strange is in Safari and Chrome, the HN returns the string "Unknown.", but with curl, it doesn't seem to even return that.
It's not so much that pretty designs don't sell, or that ugly designs sell really well. It's that experienced online and direct marketers understand the crucial elements for a high converting page (i.e. the call to action, the bold headline, the right copy, the legible font, the right contrasting colors, etc. etc.), and they A/B test these elements till they feel the page is optimized. The result is often a hodgepodge of a page that looks disjointed, but converts really well.

What these online and direct marketers tend to over look is the final step in which you keep these important marketing elements but work with a quality designer to smooth out the edges and iterate on the broader design, without losing conversions (the result if often an even better converting page). But there are four reasons that online and direct marketers tend to overlook this part: 1. It requires a little more effort/time and money (why go through the trouble if the page converts well as it is?); 2. They tend to overlook the long-term value of branding (Why care if we’re making a ton of money right now? This is even more the case among affiliate marketers who don’t even own the brands.); 3. Like Mr. Green, they think the page converts well BECAUSE it's ugly (Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke, right?); and 4) These marketers tend to copy other marketers a lot as ethics isn't the highest priority for them, at least not more than making money. (If they're doing x, it must be working) Hence, they further reiterate the ugly design mindset.
In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles
To repeat history: No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
>It does, but when you rely on a subset of the market that will never pay for your stuff anyway, the value is more than just a little skewed.

No, it means you have no market. Find a new one.

>Good. I don't like paying taxes because they are just too expensive..so I don't.

You - as a supplier - are not the government, and you don't have any inherent right to be in the particular business you are in.

>It's funny because when businesses do the same thing with workers (the american programmer is too expensive, so we just decided to hire from India), people get all upset.

Some people do, yes. Usually it is the same group that fail to understand the idea that the consumer - not the supplier - that defines the worth of a product. The American programmer is too expensive - in some definitions. That is why first world programmers add a hell of a lot of value over spec following developing world labour these days.

This is basic economics.
I believe Staples and/or Office Max also sell Kindles, although I don't know about the newest models.
I agree that there is an overwhelming sense of lack of direction. Combined with a generally increasing spirit of revolt, it's a very dangerous mix.

It's made even more dangerous by the fact that commentators quite consistently miss the really dangerous problems, which are unemployment and (to a somewhat lesser degree) stagnant real wages, and the huge inequality with which people are affected by them. Those are the real reasons that really drive people into to the streets, because they actually affect their lives.

Even you managed to miss those problems - though I don't blame you. It's easy to become distracted by all the reporting about everything else.

All those other things: stagnant stock market, ineffective fed, high government debt levels? They don't affect people's lives. They're not the reason why people are taking to the streets.

But the fact that there is such a huge disconnect between what the media is talking about and what the people who are protesting ultimately care about, the discussion isn't moving forward. As a result, people are unable to articulate well-focused demands, and that's what really worries me.

Revolts and revolutions are always dangerous, but unfocused revolutions? Those are really scary.
The BKL is gone.

https://lwn.net/Articles/424657/
Awwww, it ate the newlines.

Without the proxy:

$ curl -v http://news.ycombinator.com/
* About to connect() to news.ycombinator.com port 80 (#0)
* Trying 174.132.225.106... connected
* Connected to news.ycombinator.com (174.132.225.106) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.3
> Host: news.ycombinator.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Cache-Control: private
< Connection: close
< Cache-Control: max-age=0
<

-- snipped out the expected content --

$ curl -v -x localhost:8010 http://news.ycombinator.com/
* About to connect() to proxy localhost port 8010 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8010 (#0)
> GET http://news.ycombinator.com/ HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.3
> Host: news.ycombinator.com
> Accept: */*
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< cache-control: private
< connection: close
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<
* Closing connection #0

Even more strange is in Safari and Chrome, the HN returns the string "Unknown.", but with curl, it doesn't seem to even return that.
Android Payments: Challenges faced by a Paid App Developer
I cannot understand the irrational hatred I feel when someone says 'click' when talking about interaction with a touchscreen.

Where's the click Mr. Peter Demo Man?
How about illustrating the whole process? Cartoons are easy to understand.
Uses the same textures, but the second one you linked to seems to be much quicker.
When you’re a one man show you have to focus on the most important thing to get done today.

- Noah Everett (@noaheverett)

http://startupquote.com/post/11023220356
I absolutely agree. They have a notification system infrastructure on iOS, and leaving that to a third party on OSX seems sloppy.

I imagine they would argue that per-app notifications (badge icons, etc) don't require system-level integration, but as I think they've learned from iOS5 apps, there's more you can do, and it's really nice to have this in one central place.

Maybe Lynx, or whatever they call 10.7, will have them.
It's harder to crack in-app content because authentication of the purchase happens server-side, and because the task of cracking in-app content is different for each app.
CloudStack 2.2.12 released
If you haven't watched this video about reverse engineering the 6502 (and how the decoder works, etc.), find the time. It's well worth the ~50 minutes. Mind blowing stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reIYvmuWHhk&amp;sns=tw
Who cares? It'sAllText* anyway...

* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
Sort of, at least. IIRC, program code could not execute across bank boundaries, although you could do long jumps to any 24-bit address.
Which software was it exactly that was so great and just worked? MS-DOS? Windows 3.1? Windows Me? Some specifics would be nice, because across the board it seems everything is MUCH better now. It used to be that you would buy a computer game and 75% of the time it would not work out of the box.
I think Apple is coming out with it next month, it's called iDrink.
I have seen this feature "chart" pasted into HN posts before. Didn't folks slam the original iPhone the same way?

Not to say that the Fire is a guaranteed hit, but I think that as a consumption device aimed at consumers it needs very little of those features.