skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to be late commits on public githubs account. Maybe filtered by curse word.
The default picture on the avatars seems to be the little cute octopus thing of github.
Customer must spend $500 to cover Amazon’s losses on Fire
Online Marketing Program: SEO Foundation Tasks
I believe that hyperbovine was referring to the article linked by tzs that explains the relation.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0008177v2
I dont see why not just download all and cache it for a day
SocGen: Blogging should be regulated by the government
Effervo: Kinect particle effect machine
I'm doing the 4S and not worried at all about a 5 early next year (and i do believe it is eminently possible). I actually thought long and hard about upgrading at all.

If the 5 comes, there are still so many4 and 4S (and 3GS) phones in the market, apps are still going to work really well on it for a long time.

I do much less on my phone now that I have my iPad.

The camera, one of the major reasons for the upgrade, is unlikely to get much better on the 5.

If it turns out I'm wrong, I'll sale it jail broken (or pass it down to one of my kids in the family plan :). But I would be greatly surprised if a nee one shows up before next fall. I think Apple is OK with moving the iPhones to the holiday release schedule.
Google Fails 36% Of The Time
I have been using this Chrome extensions[1] which handles footnotes the same way on most sites (including Wikipedia and Daring Fireball, the only 2 I can recall off the top of my head).

[1] http://openideas.ideon.co/2011/rehabilitate-disruptive-footn...
Reducing costs can often be accomplished through scale, efficiency, improved logistical delivery. Its not always about reducing wages.
Read It Later is a simple solution for it. I am using it a for a long time now, it is not as polished as Instapaper but is good and is very cheap (I think I paid one dollar for the Android app).
Why is Steve Jobs's face in the first pic? Sorry if this is too insensitive, but he won't be involved in the 'Great Tech War of 2012'.
I don't have a good technical walkthrough, but we're providing a high availability service, and zero-downtime upgrades are a requirement. Our setup basically consists of load balancers and application servers. When we need to upgrade, we require application version x always needs to be backwards compatible with application version x - 1, both on a protocol and data model level. Basically, our upgrade procedure is as follows:

1. distribute new package to all servers;

2. run an additional application service on all servers and run some quick tests on each of them to verify proper working;

3. add new application servers to load balancers;

4. upgrade data model to new version (we use postgresql, and this happends in a single db transaction, and remember that our new version x is compatbible with both the current and the previous data model);

5. remove old application services from load balancers;

6. upgrade successful.

If anything goes wrong, we can roll back each of these steps. Note that this whole process, perhaps needless to say, is fully automated.

By running multiple versions inside the load balancer at the same time, and having the requirement that version x + 1 is always compatible with version x, this procedure allows us to seamlessly upgrade to a new version without any downtime.
Securing PHP
https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night/blob...

that reveals this page as a way to add your repo to the logs: http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/submit.php
Remember Smalltalk?

Xerox PARC, GUI, inspired Steve Jobs, all that fun stuff.

Objective-C is a sort of nerfed Smalltalk bolted onto the side of C. Yes you can see the seams and it's clunky-looking, but it works. Smalltalk semantics means it's much easier to build robust and loosely-coupled programs than in C++, and you don't even occur that much runtime overhead.

I do all my game dev in Objective-C, and I don't even have a Mac that I use actively. In fact I defy people to write significant Objective-C programs that don't use or need the Cocoa or NS libraries. I think they will have an easier and more fun time of it than when working in C++.
>warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.

There doesn't seem to be anything in that project.
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("Hello World!\n");
return 0;
}"")}])

I refuse to reach for my cursor keys, I switched to Programmer Dvorak for a reason!

Eclipse gets this more right by overwriting inserted right bracket symbols once they are written by the programmer.
I feel like there is a good deal to be said against skepticism as defined by the author of this article. However the tone of this post borders strongly on the political and seems to be little more than a diatribe; we see Dawkins is highlighted with a quotation attacking a fellow skeptic. This section is a poorly constructed ad hominem[1] attack. If we want to criticize skepticism we don't need to rely on such easy targets and certainly can in fact actually focus on skepticism as an ideology rather than skepticism as a set of people who are self-proclaimed practitioners of it.

As such I've flagged this submission because I don't really think this kind of thing has a place on HN; we aren't here to discuss political or sociopolitical ideologies, this is intrinsically off-topic for this community. Sure, it may be interesting, and I have to admit I side with the author, but nonetheless, this is at best a rant littered with logical fallacies and is only loosely tied to the discussions of startups and hacking.

That's my two cents.

[1] "As is typical of hatemongers, Dawkins is careful not to name his target directly: instead, he works with insinuation -- though that said, calling the victim "Muslima" is particularly crass."

Addendum: let's keep politics (yes, socio-political and ideological discourse in general is meant to be included when I say "politics") off of HN, please. :)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/
C# designer
Thank you for your hard work. GNOME 3 is amazing - its very non-intrusive, responsive and very functional. I've never been happier with a desktop.
When I Write | Trifter
Curious that I'm not following any of the blogs listed below ... I suspect that there are so many that we could each read quality content and have very little overlap. Of course, there are theory blogs that would apply to the whole group, but many of the blogs are also language/domain specific and so only a subset of us would be interested.
Wow, I'm a bit perplexed by your assertion that my site is a content farm. Could you maybe provide some specifics and/or insight into what led you to that conclusion? I appreciate your candor, but personal feelings aside, my site doesn't meet the criteria for being content farm based on Wikipedia's definition (or any other definition that I'm familiar with). And I'm not sure why you keep making the assumption that people aren't visiting my site directly as I never said that. At least half my traffic is from direct / referral sources. I also have one of the more active user forums in my niche.

My site is cited by numerous museums, libraries, and reference sites as being an authoritative source for information related to my industry. And after reading your comment I looked through Wikipedia for several hours and my site is one of the most commonly referenced and cited resources for my subject matter. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_cards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Deck_Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rookie_cards

With all that said, since we cover niche news stories the length / depth of the content is dependent on the stories themselves. For instance, if a company releases an updated checklist for one of their sets, it may only give me enough information to create a 200 word article. But since its information that is both helpful and relevant to my readers, I publish it anyway. Maybe its time to cut that portion of my business out though and double down on other types of content so that I don't have news stories pulling the rest of my site's content down.
2. Actually, with respect to progressive or negative taxation, the redistribution is quite direct. The government takes more from some and distributes it to others through benefits, the EITC, welfare, tax credits, etc. The factor most correlated to income inequality is not total tax revenue and government spending, but the amount of progressivity in the tax scheme.

There are also many market models, only one of which I cited above, that describe the evolution of the income distribution in response to changes in tax schemes. The models are complicated but their basic ideas are not. The redistribution changes market incentives and capitalism does its job to modify the Pareto coefficient and income inequality.
I think the title of this submission and that of the article overstates the degree to which Google and Pearson are working together. Pearson are merely using Google's API for Docs and App integration. This integration is open to anyone, as far as I know. Google are not co-sponsoring this as their own product.
Is Amazon really selling digital content with 2-4% margins? That seems surprisingly low.
Yipit Django Blog
Not everyone live with that goal. You are assuming too much.
Silver pen has the write stuff for flexible electronics
It runs on 100% renewable energy.
Is built to run on 100% renewable energy.

Grammatically totally different cases of 'run'
Nope. Stock iOS 4.2.1. I have no idea and don't really care anymore. It is what it is.
my bad, I think that was intended but never finished. the bit in that file gets the latest stuff on github irrelevant of the submitted repository.
The Best Dual Monitor Rig Ever [photo]
Mark Cuban on OWS
There's another HN thread that says "Ruby's Marshal library is not quite as blatantly insecure as pickle..." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813306.
Maybe he's trying to stoke an academic flame war? :)
I'm British and 'runs' sounds correct to me too in this case. It looks like a typo to me.
My churn history, for what it's worth: http://i52.tinypic.com/2v3llr7.png

Bootstrapped b2b saas startup with one part time support guy, 2 technical founders and no one else, avg sub $80/month, 75% of revenue in 2011. Most customers are small business.

Most people seem to churn because they only want to use it for the 1 month free trial period.
Ubuntu 11.10 brings Ubuntu Unity closer to fine
Or may be a client simply insists that customers absolutely can't tolerate a several seconds delays during the deployment ;(
I quite enjoy these:
http://ayende.com/blog (.NET centric, writes RavenDB/NHibernate Profiler)
http://blog.headius.com/ (JRuby creator)
Yeah, that's it. Thank you for explaining it that way.

It reminds me of how I used to like movies and film, until I started noticing that money was changing hands to put product placements in them. Nothing ruins a move for me like the characters stating a brand advertising slogan or drinking from containers strategically positioned to display the label. It's more than just feeling cheated about having paid for the ticked and ending up watching advertising. It's the knowledge that the producer/director wasn't making the movie to be the best it could be.
Patent analyst accused of anti-Google stance funded by Microsoft
It's a play on Texts from Last Night, another site with regrettable communications. Every post on TFLN has comments alleging that it's fake. ;)
That's only the first couple sections of the essay, the rest of it is largely about epistemology. If anything he doesn't go far enough in the latter half, e.g. there is a compelling argument to be made that western medicine is basically a cult with a lot in common with scientology:

http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=269

Not that there isn't anything good about pharmacology, it's probably the best system we have for certain kinds of research, but at the same time these self-proclaimed skeptics have basically teamed up with big pharma to defend the worst parts of it. I think the fact that there are so many skeptics lining up to defend the epistemological one-truth world that big pharma has bought and paid for is pretty disgusting.
"reddit" -> You came here from digg
-> You of Satan's cock

"oracle" -> You uses MS Access database

"WoW" -> You are fat and sweat too much
When your vice president says stop replying to an email, you probably should
I think that's just a nameclash. The main welcome page is in Russian, which would be unexpected from a Pearson/Google collaboration.
no, I'm just saying that it's misleading to say that eating fat doesn't make you fat
The article linked to uses the title. Better would have been to link to the paper itself (which also includes the video), but the OP was following title submission rules.
You're missing the distinction he is drawing between belief and identity. He is specifically saying that, despite his beliefs lining up with those espoused by most self-professed skeptics, he no longer identifies as one himself, because he finds problems with using it as an identity.
As technology progresses, it seems like only a matter of time before all photos and videos can be perfectly modified to suit whatever purpose. At some point, perhaps movie stars will do no more than lend their likeness (airbrushed of course) to productions.
Safe, deterministic, efficient, pthread replacement [pdf]
I am that new-guy web developer (or I was a year ago, anyway, I graduated college in 2010). I am the developer working on a dev box, and I do do performance testing. I knew it then, because it's important. Web frameworks do not meaningfully abstract the underlying workings of a web server; hell, the inability to do so is why C# 5 has the await keyword (to allow for better asynchronous IO) and why Servlet 3 has its own async stuff (not to mention Play Framework, which does all manner of shenanigans under-the-hood!).

If you actually give a shit about web development beyond a paycheck, this is stuff you just gotta know. If you don't understand the system, your assumptions and assertions are so much more likely to be untenable that it becomes dangerous.

The below questions wouldn't fly at my current employer due to a lot of legacy concerns, but my own list of interview questions would include a number of stack questions in addition to programming questions:

-Explain asynchronous I/O to me.
-How do you have to structure your code to leverage asynchronous I/O? (Alternately phrased: what happens if you write code that depends on synchronous I/O operations within an asynchronous I/O web framework?)
-You've got 9 memcached servers with a cache hit rate of 80% resulting in a database load of 80%. What happens if you naively add another memcached server to your cluster? (a question our VP of engineering actually does ask, and I stole it 'cause it's great)

You don't have to be a hardcore nginx source code diver to understand your stack. You just have to understand the principles behind it well enough to make good decisions. A sysadmin's job isn't to audit your code for your terrible understanding of the model on which your stack is predicated.
That's not too bad. That's about as much as a full time professional poker player would fail, yet still come out on top with a healthy profit at the end of the month.
5by5 podcasts seem to indulge their hosts too much and Dan Benjamin needs to put a bit more structure and a bit more focus around them. There's only so far taking a smart, interesting person and letting them rant and ramble can take you before you need to ask them to focus and prepare a bit more.

Whenever I see a weekly tech podcast of this sort clocking in around the hour mark my instant reaction is "you didn't prepare enough and you didn't edit enough".

See also the StackExchange / StackOverflow podcast.
For me the problem isn't Obj-C. It's cocoa. (Unless things have changed,) if everything was consistent in cocoa from a language perspective i.e. every library / framework is accessible with Obj-C from the start as opposed to being only C. If I remember correctly the Addressbook portion is one of the culprits.
Validation is the same as aggregation, right? A valuable service, certainly.

Cover art? Sure, valuable for a paper book, but for e-books? I'm not so sure. And as a first impression? Maybe in the old world where you browse through a book store. Again, not so sure in the future, when I let others do the browsing for me. But, let's say it's still valuable.

Editing? Obviously valuable. Will continue to be.

Typesetting? Probably not as valuable in the future. Also, I don't really understand how this hasn't been automated already.

Even if all of these things are valuable on their own, do they need to be done by one entity? If I'm a writer, and I believe in my work, why would I sell my soul to a publisher instead of hiring an editor I trust, an artist whose work I like?

Maybe some people will prefer the one-stop shop of a big publishing house, but it seems to me that there's simply a lot of inefficiency there waiting for a small, decentralized players to disrupt.
Couldn't agree more.

I worked somewhere that only deployed during business hours because it was all hands on deck. We just kept the users primed with information and reminders prior to go-live, and when it happened everyone knew about it.

But there's a more fundamental point. We're dealing with IT, and for internet businesses and global enterprises the issue is the same: business is 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You cannot avoid deploying somewhere in the world that's awake.

All you have to do is plan a rollback and just get on with it.

My experience of companies who are timid about rolling out, changes is that they're state of advancement is completely unstable. They are too scared to change meaning that some technologies become out-of-sync with the current state of play. You only have to introduce a new piece of wiz-bang software and issues come pouring out, and it's a frantic race to upgrade random components in the hope you might plug the leak. This is far far worse in every way than doing regular "risky" upgrades.

Small incremental changes can be easily rolled back, because you know what you just changed.
I've always liked Ryan Flynn's blog and link collection
http://www.parseerror.com/
This was made by Abe Stanway at the most recent Penn Apps hackathon. You can see a video of his presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIf9dyxMxY

Checkout the other projects, including mine here: http://www.youtube.com/user/PennApps2011#p/u
Yup, I've never seen a designed-by-committee java API that was announced with a list of vendor implementations be anything besides disastrous. They're trying to sell containers as opposed to solve problems. Probably the last one that was any good was the Servlet API. (I guess JPA is ok but it's like take 4 on that particular problem).
If the previous statement is in need of support, surely you have a cite for that ton of non-Apple-geeks saying they're "utterly amazed" by Siri and the camera, right?
Using Message Queues Will Improve Your Life
Just because it's based on something else, it doesn't mean it can't be much more complex.

All Shakespeare writings are based on 26 English letters and a few punctuation signs.

Evolved systems are rarely obvious. On the surface they are simple, but once you dig deep, there are systems that are interconnected, systems that depend on side effects of other systems and their own side effects.

Go look up metabolic pathways diagrams. These are the diagrams for some relatively simple processes:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kgwPY74VXuc/TdJWEdCV5lI/AAAAAAAAAG...

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/img/assets/4202/MetabolicPathway...
Drop Test: iPhone 4S vs Samsung Galaxy S II (VIDEO)
Ok, I will try to break down the issue. Hope I make it clear.

- My keyboard layout is set to "US, alternative international".

- The thing with that layout, and most layouts intended for languages with accented letters, is that the quote keys are used to add accents to letters. To get the character "é", I first type the character for single quote and follow it with a regular "e". Double quote followed by "e" gets you "ë". The same thing applies for tilde and the "back accent" (Crasis). With that you are able to type pretty much everything: áãàäéëíóõöüúüöçñ.

- Because of this composability, the way to way get a quote (or tilde or crasis) is by typing the key you want and follow it with <spacebar>. If you just press the key for quote, the system will be waiting for the next key to figure out what you actually want.

- Here is the bug, I think:

1) the javascript on the "enhanced text editor" has a handler for the "key-press, code 48" event, that is fired whenever I press the "quotation" key.

2) the handler inserts/manipulates the textarea in any way, by moving the cursor or inserting text in the text area.

3) This manipulation of the text area resets the input buffer, and now there is no sign that I actually pressed the key.

4) when I try to complete my intended input (i.e, when I press <spacebar> to actually get the single-quote char), there is no sign of the previously pressed key, and all I get is a space.

I don't know if this is the exact mechanics of the bug. I just know that this is not the first time that I've tried to type single-quotes in a "web-based text-editor" and I get a space instead.
Getting Started in Rails is Insane
Do you still have to fetch the full page view before sending to Instapaper? That's the one thing that annoys me about this app/service. Readability does it all for you. I hate getting to the end of a piece in Instapaper and realizing there are more pages, but they weren't downloaded.
It means that you type stuff like

NSArray* array = [NSArray new];

And the implementation changes to suit what you're doing with the array rather than

CollectionFactory colFactory = new CollectionFactory();
ICollection array = colFactory.getArrayOptimizedFor(100);

Java: It's factories, all the way down.
git (and hg, etc) has already solved the problem of delivering reliable deltas of large, occasionally modified text files. Why not just replace the gem index download with that, and save the need for server CPU cycles?
This could go several ways:

Icelandic data center [being] run on 100 percent renewable energy

Icelandic data center [that is] run on 100 percent renewable energy

Icelandic data center [is] running on 100 percent renewable energy

Icelandic data center [that] runs on 100 percent renewable energy
I base my judgement on the information I have at my disposal. If the facts change my judgement will change accordingly. I could refuse to pass judgement until I have "the complete and true facts" (as if that's even possible). I could wisely shake my head and say "well, it's complicated", "there are always shades of gray", "people ought to be adult about these matters".

Refusal to take a side is just http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/.

Based on the post by the OP I consider the claim that he is entitled to $12.8 million ludicrous, and I stand by that.
Why Facebook Could Land You a Job Faster Than LinkedIn (And How to Do It)
There is a company which puts ads on objects in videos. Seems like a step in the right direction.
You participate in a company by owning shares, or owning a right to buy shares (for example, in an option scheme). How many shares did you own when you left? How many shares did Anakam have when they were sold to Equifax? If you own the shares you must have paperwork for it, back from the year 2004 or so; if so, what does that say? Was there a vesting period and if there was, what was it like?

Find a lawyer that can work for part of the possible winnings instead of a fee. If you have the paperwork that proves you owned part of Anakam after when you left it then, with competent lawyers, it should be just a matter of computing your share of the company's final form before it was sold to determine how much they owe you. Prepare to lose some percentage of the total to make negotiations easier and shorter, and subtract your lawyers portion off it, too.