skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Even the article that you linked to below specifically mentions Farmville's game loop! Even though you don't find the game particularly interesting (neither do I), it doesn't mean that it isn't fun for a certain section of the population. Farmville and games like this are a different type of game so you can't compare them. But it doesn't mean that it's gambling!

If you read the following presentation from the Farmville developer, the reason why Farmville was so popular was because it was designed to be simple with a very easy reward system. It was made for the single moms who have spent an entire day taking care of their kids, and they want to sit back and relax to something fun that isn't particularly challenging.

http://www.slideshare.net/ctrottier1/designing-games-for-the...
Z5xx series Atoms ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocess... ) had PowerVR GPUs (they call it GMA 500, but they have nothing in common with Intel's own GMA's!), the ones that are normally used with ARM CPUs. Sony Made ultra-portable Vaio P-Series with them ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_VAIO_P_series )

Unfortunately, it looks like it all was a fluke. I haven't heard of any notebooks with Atom Z6xx series, presumably because Windows won't run on them because they don't have a PCI bus. With the architecture consisting of a single model (Vaio P-Series) the possibility of running Linux is vanishing: there was a special build[sic!] of Ubuntu that should run on it, but that's it.
vimeo sucks...i can't tell you how many embedded videos have forced me back to vimeo.com to watch an hd version. oh yeah, i usually turn the sound off and wait for the video to fully load before trying to watch it.
Without disagreeing with you about their overall similarity, your claim that "descendants of Perl and javascript ... include Python, Ruby, and PHP" is obviously mistaken. Maybe you meant "descendents of Perl and Python include JavaScript, Ruby, and PHP". Just a question of historical accuracy.

Either way, this nit-picking doesn't affect your main claim that most revolutionary technologies came from closed companies, and that languages seem to be the main exception.

In response to that main point, it seems to me that in a lot of cases, the amazing closed-source technologies are actually rooted in technologies developed in the open, before FLOSS had a name (indeed, before AT&T's crackdown pushed RMS to coin Free Software). Consider the success of Unix: initial development by a closed not-for-profit lab, and elaborated by an informal open process. Consider the open and collaborative processes that gave us all sorts of networking technologies, including TCP/IP, including hypertext, etc. And Javascript would have died in a ghetto if it had been limited to one company's browser.
Not if the cloud you're running your workload on is large enough. The Amazon Web Services cloud could absorb many Reddit sized sites without any other customers experiencing an impact. AWS is _enormous_.
Why I'm Learning to Code. In a Class.
Microsoft’s vision of the mobile future is astounding
Where does the term “Red/Black Tree” come from?
VIrtualized doesn't mean VMs. It means you access some computing service, where the backend is abstracted away - effectively, virtualized.
I suppose that's true these days; I haven't used a TV as anything but a dumb monitor for about 7 years, so I guess I haven't kept up.

But TV is something that people already know that they want, so they're more willing to jump through hoops; they'll fiddle with it until it works, or call up the cable company and say "make it play HBO and sports". RSS, on the other hand, is something people won't want until they've used it and integrated it into their lives. This is a microcosm of adoption of the internet itself, which only took off once (a) browsers were part of the OS, and (b) AOL disks were everywhere, combined with social forces turning it into a de facto "default client".
No, I stand by it. If a company doesn't include time for process improvement they have failed. Maybe they haven't tanked yet but the first bend in the road will finish them.

This doesn't mean they have to stop and fix every non-problem, but if there's no time budgeted to fix what comes up the first real problem will ruin everything.
Why I'm Starting a Blog
I'd be interested if they were only using EBS storage. I wouldn't use EBS for anything that was latency sensitive. I've found instance-only storage to be much faster and consistent.
The quality of service and network is also widely different and varied. Hetzner are awesome for the cost, don't get me wrong. But at times their network is terrible and their service seems to vary hugely.

You don't get these problems with Softlayer, you pay significantly more and get significantly better almost-guaranteed service.
No way to login with the profile that I had created before Google banned Apps users. I'm still looking at my own profile as an anonymous visitor and only thing I can do is to create a new profile!
Seriously DARPA? 50K? That's no Netflix prize.
If you don't mind giving the information, what kind of conferences? Industry, academic or both?
7 billion people and you: What's your number?
Woman finds lost iPhone- police kick down her door
>>>It pains me to see so many people, who quite likely rely on emacs, Xcode with gcc, gnu coreutils, or an operating system that would've never been possible without the Free software movement, sit around and ridicule RMS because he eats toe jam or really, really likes parrots.

He made some quite important things twenty or thirthy years ago that are still useful or relevant nowadays. So what? It doesn't entitle him to be a pretentious, hypocritical "I know what's best for you" moron.

I'm sorry for the rudeness, but enough with the cult of personality, please.
It talks about "the country" - is that the US?
OpenPhoto's approach to semi-automated software upgrades
webOS doesn't have a steve jobs, or else it might still be around.
New Bill: ISP Companies Suppose To Ban Copyright Infringing Websites
Someone taking X as Y doesn't mean that X is Y. There is real sexism in the world, but Rariel's example isn't it.
RestoreCached - Restore the Google cached button
Sorry...my bad :(. The cost of having bad name/face recognition. I think there was also a second person with blue/purple hair there as well.

Anyway, I'm going to shut up before I mix up more people :-P.
Answer from Professor Guidas who co-authored the paper that coined the term: "we had red and black pens for drawing the trees."

I wonder how many other terms now well know in Computer Science arose from similarly coincidental (is this the right word?) reasons.
This one is huge too https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=TupMP3Zjq...
We're actually working on this, really early stage but you can register your interest @ http://getchirp.com
This is more along the lines of, what if all cars had locks on their hoods, but there was an 'open' car with no locks, but it was only a Pinto.

Then people point to the Pinto and say, "See no one is buying it! No one cares about openness!" The real conclusion is the there are relatively few people that are willing to go extremely out of their way to remain on the side of open-ness. If there were two products that could compete at the same level, people may skew towards the open one.
I just whipped up a a simple extension for Chrome users to put the Cached button back in the right place, and avoid all the BS preview windows Google has implemented. Enjoy!
As always, the devil is in the details. Everything looks so smooth and fluid, but achieving that is definitely not easy and probably impossible.
Finally! A balanced explanation of the differences
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Trafficwave prices:
I immediately wanted to fork this and have it just return "Allan!" instead of "Hello World".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaPepCVepCg
Right because after a year or so you're supposed to recycle them and buy a new one...
"it is too nebulous and non-descriptive"

Agree but wouldn't you say that sole use of physical hardware (whether or not you own or lease that hardware and regardless of physical location) is really the issue that separates cloud from non cloud?

Example:

We have servers that we own in our offices.

We have servers that we own in colocation.

We have some dedicated virtual servers at MT http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/dv/

I consider the MT servers cloud since the hardware is shared. And what we are paying for is simply memory, transfer and disk space. I don't even know what hardware we are running on there and I don't know anyone else that is running on that hardware either.

But I would also consider the servers in the office and the colocated servers non-cloud even if they were leased (which they are not).
Probably because is much slower than nginx, C++ adds extra "fat" that nginx (writen in C) doesn't have.
You should not be #include-ing headers inside of an extern "C" block. It is up to those headers to:

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
I see. I haven't tried them personally, my friend has been using them for a year now and so far so good. He did complain about their support though.
>Every bank should natively support the same features as PayPal, and more.

We have different services, though. Interac Email transfers are fantastic: Just send an email to someone, they click a link in it, and money is deposited instantly in the account of their choice. It's brilliant.

I agree that competition is sorely lacking here, but it's not like we're being kept in a backwards tech ghetto.
It depends on what you're applying for.

For undergrad transfers or a terminal masters applicant, industry recs are generally OK.

For a Ph.D. student, not much more than one industry rec would be commonly permissible, unless they're from an industrial research lab.

For a Ph.D. student, a good industry rec will focus on character, strong work ethic and specific examples of problem-solving ability. Industrial assessment of research potential tends to be mentally damped by the reviewer unless the recommender has a Ph.D.
I'd argue that the best way to learn anything in vim is to read the docs. When I first started with vim, I was just jumping in, trying to figure it out as I go. All that really yielded was frustration. Though I guess that frustration is what led me to actually read the help, so in a roundabout way, maybe I agree!
Sprint says iPhone most network-efficient smartphone and "worth every penny"
For some reason snippyhollow's comment was `dead`ed:

> For the use of Bayesian models in StarCraft AI, see my last 3 papers http://emotion.inrialpes.fr/people/synnaeve/index.html#publi... :)
I'm reminded of Netflix's Chaos Monkey:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-u...
Beware the "same config everywhere" approach. It works up to a point, then it turns into a disaster. All you need is one totally broken change like "chmod -x /usr" to really make life interesting. You start bleeding machines and pretty soon you have nowhere left to host your tasks.

It's interesting, right? At first, you can handle a couple of totally mixed-up machines. Then it stops scaling and you have to start doing the whole "golden + syncer" approach.

Then you go too far and get into a monoculture. When the machines do break, it's impossible for humans to go around and fix them in any reasonable amount of time because there are too many. It's amusing when this happens and the solution put forth is "more administrative controls".
Not sure that matters much.. the code style is very C/C++. (e.g. using stdio instead of iostreams, malloc/free instead of new/delete, no STL)
If its faster than nginx, Igor just removes some sleep() calls.
"Realtime" is unfortunately an overloaded term, as even the Wikipedia article shows.

Realtime in the context of the web applications is closest to what is considered a "soft" realtime application. Wikipedia defines this as: The usefulness of a result degrades after its deadline, thereby degrading the system's quality of service.

In the context of the web, it refers to some type of data (text, voice or video) broadcasting/synchronization. Chatrooms and multiplayer gaming are some examples of this type of software.

A lot of people include newsfeeds and notifications in this definition but those can be delayed arbitrarily without much degradation of QoS.
yeah same problem.
Paying $30 a month for 5 hours of use is really stupid.
As the recent jailbreak exception shows, you are not legally forbidden from doing anything you want with the device you own.
It don't disagree with the rest of your comment but it's not true that there are no margins if you're selling commodity. An awful lot of money can be made by selling commodity. Just ooh at Lakshmi Mittal.
> I wonder if its cheaper (and/or better) for a hosting provider to spend less on reliability and instead build in multiple redundancy. Thoughts?

Wouldn't it look the same from my end?
Some of those open source organisations who participate in Google Summer of Code have put together interesting projects they would like to see implemented. You have to be 18 to enter the program, but i dont see anyone having a problem with you choosing to run with an idea on your own.

There is also the "Google Code In" aimed at the 13 - 17 age group coming up this November, which involves completing smaller tasks with the help and guidance of mentors again for open source projects. See http://www.google-melange.com/
So what? Don't use it.
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Come for startup school, stay for the interview at inPulse (YC W11)
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Help us design and build intuitive & hackable wearable electronics. Our first product is inPulse, a $149 smartwatch. inPulse connects via Bluetooth to our smartphone (BB + Android) apps which acts as a conduit for watchapps, notifications and alerts.

We're looking for talented generalists. Two main roles are open right now:

- Backend web developer. HTML/CSS/Design experience is plus

- Lead Android developer

Why Work on inPulse?

Almost everything is done in-house: architecture design, schematic/PCB layout, embedded drivers/firmware, Android and Blackberry app dev, industrial design. Everyone works on feature design for all aspects of the product.
We push updates out over the air, flinging code to watches worldwide.

You'd be our 3rd employee which comes with multi-% stock options and a competitive salary. Flex work schedules, constant BBQs and food/beer come with the territory.

To apply, please send examples of apps/sites you've worked on and your role on those projects to eric AT getinpulse.com

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"RSS without full-text is little better than no RSS."

I totally agree. I use Reeder on both my phone and computer, because it's able to take those annoying excerpts, and use readability to turn it into the full text right in the feed reader.
Ozone is exceptionally unstable, hence carcinogenic. However it's put in after the factory run. You get your car at best 2 weeks after that, unless it's imported and then its months.

There's unlikely to be any ozone left after 12 hours anyway, but cars aren't air tight so volatile or not within the weeks it takes to get to you the level should be down to zero.
The advice here is good but it really varies by journo/outlet

I was a mag technology writer at Forbes, then a dot com guy, and now help run the website. If anyone wants to talk about how to approach journalists (no pitches please) just email me w/your HN username and I'm happy to help talk through your ideas: taylor.buley@gmail.com
One thing I love about ec2 is that I can easily test/debug/modify my provisioning recipes (written in chef) from a blank slate.

With fog (http://fog.io/1.0.0/index.html), I can start up a new ec2 instance in less than a minute and tell it to run the chef process. If it doesn't work properly, I shut it down and try it again.

How does that work on a dedicated machine at, say, SoftLayer?
Could you try not loading a hover box on first page load? It looks like you're doing something neat, but I hate having to have 'no' as my first response.

Good work though.
Not sure about C++ overhead there. C++ often edges out C in the alioth benchmarks. More to the point, I highly doubt the author's parser ("parser") in http.cpp is faster than the one in nginx, which really is a thing of beauty.

http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/browser/nginx/trunk/src/http/ngx...
I know I (as someone in charge of a campus) and others I know in the same position are really considering a migration to Mac

The problem with Windows 8 and Metro is Microsoft's upending things to the point where Windows doesn't resemble its own standard anymore. Windows 8 is as much a culture shift as the Mac would be.

Beyond that just about every corporate app has gone web based at this point. Only the oldest code bases are still Windows (and it's so old that it runs perfectly fine in a virtual box). So there are no apps to keep us on Windows.

So now that the question isn't "should we change" it becomes "which platform is superior" and I think most would choose the Mac in that comparison. I know (as the article says) most users feel that way.

As crazy as it seems we might finally be at the end of the Windows era.
Yes, my experience with the problems of performance on virtual servers is disk related. That's great that you get guaranteed CPU, memory, bandwidth etc... if you're getting 3 MB/s disk throughput, it doesn't matter, your site will slow to a crawl. I moved away from Slicehost for this reason, and have never had such issues with Linode.
Here's a concrete one: Firefox Mobile exists for Android devices, but iOS users have to settle for "Firefox Home", an app which provides access to your Firefox bookmarks and lets you open them with Safari.
Amusing story: I applied to Homeland security and some defense contractors for an infosec job. I had all the qualifications, but they dropped me after they heard I have dual-citizenship. So, they're desperate for hackers, many of whom are foreign born or 2nd generation immigrants from another country, but they don't want to drop the stupid dual-citizenship requirement? I have friends and relatives(none whom are citizens) administering networks full of classified info, but god forbid they actually work on that info unless they are citizens. Such an idiotic attitude...

Good luck filling those spaces.
According to the app description in Android market: "Currently only working at specific locations: San Francisco, Portland, Austin, San Luis Obispo, Fullerton and San Diego."
Banner ads piss me off more than a commercial break. I'm used to advert breaks in movies around the holidays when every network runs old movies so I'm sure it wouldn't be a huge leap.

Perhaps cut the breaks to every 30 minutes or so. An advert break every 10 minutes in Titanic would likely induce suicide.
I'm not really sure how you can compare someone who promotes Free/Open Source software to a murderer of millions, but anyways...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Vimeo is going for a different market. It's like YouTube except for artists and creative people (not that YouTube can't be used for this.) And they seem to be doing just fine with that.
Google Plans to Charge Maps Developers
I like how they created an anonymous account just to make derogatory comments. Who are you, and what is your credibility?
Android == "Dude, you're gettin' a Dell!"
So, she took it home instead of returning it to the lost and found, and then ignored incoming calls - which you do not have to unlock the phone in order to answer - and ignored the police when they knocked on her door.

Yeah, I'm sure she and her son were going to track down the owner and return it.
Though that's how it may look, I don't think that was the strategy from the beginning.

I worked as the support engineer for the Google Maps API starting in 2007, in the early days of the API. We didn't think about monetization then. But then the GFC happened, and all over Google, there was a bigger emphasis on monetization -- basically every product had to eventually monetize. We experimented with different types of ads, but as it turns out, map-based advertising is difficult -- it's hard to know why a user is looking at a particular map, it's hard to get advertisers to geo-locate their ads accurately, it's hard to squish ads on a map without adding clutter, etc. While we continued to experiment with ads, we started talking about "ala carte" pricing, letting developers pay-per-view, per-geocode, etc, as a form of monetization.

That was about the time I left Google, when the monetization strategy was still unclear. It looks like they managed to implement ala carte from the technical perspective and decided to introduce it. Though it is a harsh reality check for developers who are already using the Maps API on popular free websites, I think its probably for the best. If I was given the choice between no Maps API at all, a Maps API with (not-so-relevant) ads, and a Maps API with incremental pricing, I'd personally opt for the latter. And who knows, maybe map-based ads will become an option in the future for those who prefer that option.

And if the pricing doesn't work for your site, there are multiple open-source mapping libraries that could use some love to bring them up to par with the Google Maps API (both from the developer & user usability perspective).
I mentioned some in this talk: http://www.slideshare.net/wuzziwug/open-maps-or-close-enough... ...but there have been a few new entries in the space since then.

(Note: As I no longer work for them, nothing I say should be taken as official word from Google.)
This is so verbose, it must have been rewritten for performance so many times :)
Is that because multiple instances will be running with the same disk? As far as I know virtualization doesn't have a big overhead in itself, or does it?
Allegations of past and present Internet crime haunt Airbnb co-founder
I agree with Mr. Gruber on this:

"This video encapsulates everything wrong with Microsoft. Their coolest products are imaginary futuristic bullshit. Guess what, we’ve all seen Minority Report already. Imagine if they instead spent the effort that went into this movie on making something, you know, real, that you could actually go out and buy and use today."
One of the two main cited reasons people prefer Macs was this:

> Many of today's corporate PCs are saddled with management, backup, and security agents that can bog down a PC. Employees want their PCs to boot in 10 seconds, not 10 minutes...They're drawn to uncluttered Macs...

I don't see how this shows superiority of Mac over PC; presumably if the Mac were running this software it would have these problems too.
Similar actions don't have the same force or effect systematically when they are applied to groups who have different levels of power in society.
"I'm Getting Arrested" App created for OWS protestors.
Developers can write apps that are backwards compatible, yet still support new OS or hardware features when available.

Also, some developers will write dedicated apps that make full use of new OS or hardware features (like fancy camera apps).
Visual candy for the world that people didn't know they wanted - but want. +1
Hm. We haven't had the same experience. In the last 3+ years, I recall 1 unplanned outage that could be blamed on "the data center"
At $work we signed for the Premier agreement. We're paying more than $10k/year but it's still reasonable for the benefits it gives us. There are ways to keep your map views down when they aren't essential to the page. :)
And, if those headers do not already wrap themselves in their own extern "C" block, wrapping around the #include is sometimes a quick fix (e.g. until the upstream authors merge your pull request).
> The voice of Windows in the enterprise discovers that Mac users are more productive

Because the standard-issue corporate Windows laptops are locked down, running Windows XP with IE6.