skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the time, by looking at a backtrace (I primarly debug C stuff, by the way), I already have a good idea what the problem might be. Tracking that down in a debugger is horribly inefficient, especially if optimisations are involved (how may times did you try to print a local variable, or a parameter, only to be greeted with <this value has been optimized out>?), so another way to see the program flow is required.

printf() does wonders in this area, if you can put them at the right places. Over the years, I found and fixed far more issues with printf() than with a debugger.

Granted, sometimes a debugger is neccessary, at least until I understand the problem, and become able to reproduce it. Then printfs it is again. If I can't reproduce it, and only have a core file to work with, then, obviously, a debugger is one's only choice. If I need to extract information from a core dump, a debugger is the way to go again.

But when trying to examine running code, printfs are - in my experience - more straightforward to work with.
Forex bonus
I was expecting that to be a list of really, really expensive rates.

That's actually pretty cheap.
I have to agree. Not long ago, the biggest advantage of CouchDB for those new to NoSQL were its simplicity and "relax". Lately it really has disappeared into IBM-esque product combination offerings.

I truly hope they sort it out though, since CouchDB itself is great technology.
Exactly right. I am going to state the obvious here. UI's should be designed around their input methods. If the input on a tablet and a desktop are different (mouse vs fingers) then use a different UI. Plain and simple.

Gnome 2.3 was a very, very good UI aimed at desktops. 3.0 is another kinda sorta tablet UI that only kinda sorta works on desktops (I am playing around with Gnome 3.0, XFCE, and a few others). The fundamental problem is that what works well with one in one input environment breaks badly in another. This was Apple's great contribution with the iPhone and the iPad.

Attempts to merge environments will get you with something that kinda sorta works everywhere and does not work anywhere well.
هل المغرب يهتم بالتنمية البشرية
Love your work Jacob. Looks great, easy as hell to use and well executed. Respect. :-)
As a black founder in Technology, I have writeen what I think are two good posts on this issue. Like Michael said hewas advised, people rather not discuss this or instead argue on a tangential.

If there is a problem, talk about it and fix it. If not it will persist. Like I always say discussions about race ishould not be equated to racism.

In case you are interested, here are my 2 posts on the issue

Race andTechnology: Are There Renowned Internet Startups With Black Founders? http://oonwoye.com/2010/04/05/black-founders/

Hackernews And The ‘dirty’ Black Founder Question. http://oonwoye.com/2011/03/21/hackernews-and-the-dirty-black...

It is hard not to notice that the usual top commenters avoid ths topic like a plague.

If you can though, I'd like feedback on my posts. If you wish you can email me your comments, It will be kept private.

It is rather ironic that Mike says he is open to discussing about Race issues but has closed comments on this post and the previous one. I understand he might be avoiding mudslinging. But sadly, the race topic is a really difficult one to moderate. However, if it is to be solved, it MUST, be discussed. I cannot think of any other way around
Oversold is the wrong word -- college is overpriced. Oversold implies that not going to college is a good option, and it isn't. Overpriced on the other hand implies that there's way too much money being charged today for the same quality of education that was much cheaper years ago.
Road Accident Claims
Do you know If you have been involved in an accident which was not your fault you may be entitled to receive compensation for any injury sustained. If you are involved in any accident and it was not your fault, I recommend you to speak to any specialist personal injury solicitor asap as early you get in touch it's better for you.
I think Arrington is right to worry that the interview actually won't air, but only the out of context sound bites that confirms CNN's version of reality. And he is right to pre-empt that situation by posting that assumption in public. Because then he can use the age old defense "I told you this would happen" which, perhaps contrary to common belief, actually is effective despite its banality.
Some objections:

"Or the coverage wasn’t good enough.
[ http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2011/10/arrington-race-and-... ]"

Hank said nothing of the sort. He said there is no proof that Arrington goes out of his way to cover black founders as he had claimed. Hank didn't say Arrington should go out of his way, nor did he call Arrington a racist. Hank just said that Arrington's claim was incorrect, and from where I'm sitting, he's right.

"There are very few minorities here. When they are here, they get hired much more easily than their white or asian counterparts."

First of all, making claims of employment bias without evidence is generally a bad idea. Secondly, Arrington is implying that underrepresented minorities in the Valley are less qualified than their white and Asian colleagues, which, if untrue, is a dangerous implication to make.

"And the list of mentors at his TechStars accelerator program – well let’s just say they did manage to get a token black man and a token black women on to that list of hundreds of mentors, but it sure doesn’t look like “take action” to me."

Referring to people as "tokens" implies that their presence is just for show. I'm sure those mentors don't appreciate that sort of attack on their professional accomplishments, and to assume that they're there just for show is—dare I say it—racist. Consider replacing "token" with "single" in that sentence if that's not what you mean.

Few reasonable people think Arrington has a conscious bias against black folks, but he's not really helping his case here.
The digital one really lacks the fun factor!
Nope, unless you want to integrate with a receipt printer manufacturer, and now all of a sudden you're beholden to that - there's many technical issues because now you need a preferred router manufacturer too, so the iPad can talk to the printer.

Sure, I've been hearing forever that they must be going to, eventually, etc etc. hasn't panned out and it's been literally years
On the other hand it's a serious feature of their iAd business.
Simple and effective. This is awesome!

Was wondering if it is possible to change the URL of the resume page?
Promoting Your Business Without Spending A Lot Of Money
Jeane Arneau profile - Blurtit
> Not sure if it is possible to share documents with non-GMail email addresses on GDocs, which would be a must.

This is possible. You can set a document to be visible to anyone with the link, so sign-in isn't requred. More info here:

https://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
We have a thriving VC community in Aus, with lots of awesome people and stupid amounts of money.

It's for Mining/Agribusiness.

Now trying to get a Tech VC community bootstrapped is going to be interesting, mainly because we seem to be stuck in a: Vcs are an oligopoly -> Nobody wants to go through them -> No new companies are formed -> No new VCs start here -> .... Cycle. The influx of a whole new environment to nurture startups recently seems interesting. Things like Fishburners, Silicon Beach, etc. Are doing good things incubating new startups adn getting them networked, but it stands to time if this recent upswing will get us out of the cycle.
Simple Trick to Open Multiple Gmail Accounts in the Same Browser 
It is quite common to have multiple Gmail accounts as most of us don’t use just one account and handle our official, business, and personal mails separately for which it becomes quite essential to have different accounts.
It's not a whole separate distribution. It's akin to Fedora's "spins": an ISO with a different default set of packages. Nothing prevents you from installing Ubuntu proper and then "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop" on it.

I agree, though, that this distinction is not clear enough by reading Xubuntu (or Kubuntu, Edubuntu, etc) websites.
The point is that to use this feature (which is potentially a great feature) requires you to do shit work.

Yes it's an optional feature and people can not use it but frankly the whole product is optional and people can not use it.

If you're going to put a feature in your product then you should do so in a way that makes it as good as it can possibly be - and that includes reducing the associated shit work.
SOCOM Game
Welcome to the SOCOM Game Forum. Come and Join the Shooter Game SOCOM Forum for SOCOM Downloads, Gears and Online Reviews.
Trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes; employers, customers, investors etc is only ever a stupid idea longterm.
I think it's been typed in Word!
> Let's assume for a while that Arrington was really racist

Even if that were true, the last thing you should do is call him one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJiXc

If someone makes a racist comment, attack the comment, not the person.
You can add all the make-up you wish on Vim's face, it will still be Vim, like your screenshot show plentifully. And Vim was not designed with aesthetics in mind. It is not the product of a designer or a "industrial design is kind" company. On the contrary, I would say. Vim is a very nice piece of software done by a hacker for mostly hackers, and the highest concern was probably extensibility, consistency of the commands, orthogonality, etc. (The doc was obviously a primary concern too.)

So, my first point still hold, where Textmate is a ease, Vim is a kind of an intruder in a Mac / Ruby / Designer-first set-up.
Another one reason to buy a kindle reader + kindle fire for your family.
Nice looking DSL, but .. how could I do things like SELECT TOP 10 (MSSQL) or SELECT DISTINCT (just trying to use it for queries I need at work) ? Haven't found any clues on this in the docs (nice site BTW).

Also, it would be nice to allow some raw SQL in where clause - so one won't have to wrestle with DSL just to occasionally use proprietary features or db-specific functions.
I've found out thanks to other comments here that id don't plan to license their top-end engine outside their own publisher any more. I think that means this argument is moot.
Women Who Stayed With Cheating Husbands
Download Corel Draw X5 Software [Portable]
http://www.forexbonusbay.com/free-forex/
free forex
Defending Android’s Hardware Buttons
> So a company comes along and says: Listenting to you guys isn't working, so we're going to try something else.

Sure, that's a valid way to work. He should have started off by saying that, rather than building a large, vocal, community and then ignoring them.
Personally I like to play a little game that goes: the first person to call someone else something is probably that thing. So if A calls B e.g. a racist, I will make the initial assumption that A is a racist. It's amazing how often this little game gets the truth of it.
For buying MAFIAA products, a much greater barrier than already having a copy of that film or music album is not having seen or heard it before. Given the amount of utter crap that is being sold as dvds or cds, the realistic price of buying something to merely check if it's good is negligible, if not zero. So, I only ever buy anything if I already know what I'll be getting.

Hence piracy: by obtaining a copy informally it's easy to check out if something's worth something. Another reason for piracy is better convenience. And given the "convenience" of hunting a good torrent, the convenience of buying the same film legally in some sensible format is abysmal.

I'm waiting for the said *AA to give up on the distribution and starting to sell plain rights instead.

I maybe alone but I can't count the number of times I've found some good music or a good film and wondered: I've got the product already but where can I just pay for it without getting a damn cd or dvd. Often I buy it digitally afterwards (even if I never download it) but that also implicitly supports a random eletronic music/film store that had nothing to offer and nothing to do with me acquiring the piece in the first place. It also often forces me to support a bad format or DRM crap even if some cents of my money eventually end up to those who created the film or music.
"There are very few minorities here. When they are here, they get hired much more easily than their white or asian counterparts."

This does not imply that underrepresented minorities are less qualified, only that they're more likely to be hired. If you swapped "minorities" for "Cambridge Math grads", you would probably infer that they were more qualified.

The statement speaks to the likelihood of hiring, the implication of lower quality you see is your own inference.
Project management dictionary
It's coming sooner than you may think..

That's what I hear too (I work in an area fairly closely related) - although some think it might be just a CDN node.
I have been using Linux since 1993 and GNOME since the end of 1998. Over that time I have had less than a handful of GNOME crashes that weren't caused by X driver / hardware problems. Restarting the GUI on Linux is normally much easier that on other machines, it rarely requires full reboot; the only exception again is of course really bad graphics drivers / hardware.
Regarding #1, it's not necessarily a kernel problem. One bloated program running in the background could be using a bit too much CPU and disk. "Modern" desktop environments love those programs, for some reason.

It could be a lack of support for a specific advanced power-saving feature at kernel level, but that wouldn't be my first guess..
How long did you spend staring at your screen in slackjawed disbelief after selecting the zoom tool and finding that instead of zooming out, right-clicking does nothing?
Better communication would probably have solved many problems for them.

A canned FAQ with, as you say, details of why they're doing stuff would have helped. More importantly, links to instructions for removing Unity and installing other environments would have been good.

But that would have opened another problem: Installing Gnome 2.x is only going to be viable short term. Dependencies will start to break more and more stuff until users are forced to upgrade.

Really, Gnome should have forked and had a stable 2.x release with gentle bug fixing, and a renamed 3 release with fun new features.
I see what you're saying, but that still doesn't mean it's so difficult to get right, it just means you have to think about lock ordering (or just avoid taking > 1 lock at the same time).
Make some easy cash before Christmas
COMPARISON: Onkyo TX-SR309/TX-NR609/TX-NR809/TX-NR1009 (Part 1)
This morning I did what I should have done a long time ago: configure gnus to do all my RSS reading. It took me an hour but it was an hour well spent.

Until recently Google Reader was just good enough but with the recent changes, it became just too painful. I'm not talking about the "social" features; I never used them. It was the poor layout and design, wasted real estate and especially the broken key shortcuts that did it.

So now Google has lost access to all my RSS habits.

It has also been a lesson to me in SaaS solutions (Software as a Service). When the provider can make substantial changes in their service at a whim, they can leave you high and dry. You're no better off than when you put yourself in the hands of a commercial software vendor or, dare I say it, Ubuntu :-)

Now happily reading the HN feed and others through gnus...
For instance we have developed a fully distributed block storage platform on Infiniband that does away with the scaling and performance issues of EBS, traditional SANs like HDS/Netapp etc. It is also a fraction of the cost to build and maintain, along with having a ton of other benefits.

Do you sell this tech?
Shop Online and Compare Prices, Smart Shopping Anytime WooCompare UK
Online shopping for the latest selection of products, check the prices of comparable products, find best deals on smart online shopping @WooCompare UK.
You are correct, but assuming similar distributions in talent among underrepresented minorities in the Valley and among everyone else, my claim holds. I don't think there's any evidence of differing distributions, and I don't think Arrington had that distinction in mind.
This may seem like sarcasm but in reality the USA funded this, albeit indirectly, no?

Insane irony considering what has happened to NASA.
Nah, don't use screen. Have a look at tmux -> http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
No, no. DST is for idiots
Politics is the mind-killer. As a Russian person living in Switzerland, I would enjoy HN more if I didn't have to look at articles about racism, gender, US foreign policy, US finance, etc. If that's just my personal preference, it could be implemented as some sort of personal filter. But if enough HN users think the same, I think mentioning any political topic in a post or comment should merit a ban.
Thomas Sabo Leaf Pendant T0220-007-6,thomas sabo charm club
Exactly the Mac App Store is tiny. Make it the only way to install apps and it suddenly becomes more popular.
Great stuff! I haven't really kept up with the Ruby world, and didn't realise there was a solution on 1.9.
Another one http://www.hl2.com/who-we-are/meet-the-team/
This is precisely how it looks from this "microallocating" perspective.
Singapore sucks for Australian connectivity. Best case is ~50ms round trip to Sydney (which is half to West Coast US), but some ISPs route to Singapore via the US because the bandwidth is cheaper[1][2] (yes, this is insane).

[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=45867

[2] http://akb.id.au/2011/amazon-ec2-latency-australian-soil
Supercharge WordPress, Part 2
Yes, and '5000 books' is a pretty low number, all things considered.
Great, now I have the Brady Bunch theme stuck in my head.
Oh come on, your originally comment was a nasty little dig at someone for writing up their experiences and a suggestion that they don't count because they're "just a college student". You made that comment from a new account so you either are new here (in which case, what's with the complaining about the discussion going down hill?) or you where not prepared to stand behind your comment so used a throw-away account.

I have no idea why you consider the Indian internet rail booking system a subject above criticism, it just seems bizarre.
Similar to http://www.plasticscm.com/company/team.aspx
Braces or extraction for two front teeth?
Why the Mac App Sandbox makes me sad
MF Global IT staff and systems on the block
And in America (I believe - last I heard it was rolled out in some American cities but not others, nothing here in the UK) the iPhone/Android/Blackberry(?) apps let you manage your account balance, and you hold up your phone for the cashier to scan the barcode off your screen.
A little love for Linux Mint
Introducing the Kindle Owner's Lending Library (for Amazon Prime customers)
Taking Care Of Skin As We Age
Ha don't we all wish to be able to raise capital and get ideas going as much as a geologist with a promising patch of dirt.

Like I said - I think one big breakthrough startup would change everything. It would bring it to the attention of investors, employees, press, everyone.
You've missed the entire topic of this article - it's about a new Square system that detects when you are in the store because your phone is on you. Not just Square's basic card reader device/software.
Not really sure what problem this solves.

I could imagine something like this from college students, but with the resources Yahoo has I expect bigger, game changing technologies.

The only Yahoo technology I use for web development is the YSlow Firebug plugin...which is itself infinately less useful than Firebug!
Many chips will have the manufacturing date on the package in the format YYWW: two digit year and week within the year.
Does Software Availability Dictate the Best Distro?
It happens all the time with credit cards, the practice is known as "skimming"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud#Skimming
I was expecting it to be more
I need to charge people more for customisation and integration work.

I suck at charging people money for hourly work.
Pinguy OS - A Fully loaded Ubuntu respin which should suit new Linux users
What happens when your arch nemesis has hacked your favourite coffee shop's PoS system right now and proceeds to steal all the credit card numbers that go through it... how is the new scenario any worse?
"/etc/hosts. Substituting for will power since 1985."
It's designed as an additional way to pay, not a replacement for cards. So in your scenario you still take your Dad's card, you don't take his mobile phone, and hey presto you can pay like you always could.
this is false economy. saving money is not the objective in testing an idea. The objective is to launch the best product you can in the smallest amount of time. mvp. time trumps money - always.

It's like this. I want to fit a new bathroom in my house. I could do it, but it would take me a week, it won't cost me any money. If I hire a plumber, he'll do it in 2 days and charge $500.

Damn, $500? Well my freelance day rate is $250, so I'll just freelance for a couple of days. Net result is I just saved myself 5 days.
The quote from Adria Richards is breathtaking [1]: "The guy he had on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, he’s known for several years…and he basically called him a clown. Clarence Wooten sold his company, ImageCafe, for $23 million to Network Solutions in 1999, that’s over 10 years before Arrington sold TechCrunch to AOL for the same amount.

I’ve now likened it to Southern White male slave owner saying he has no idea why there are mixed babies cropping up on this plantation even though he damn well knows he’s been creeping down to the sheds at night.".

So Arrington being clueless about the structural causes of racial differences in the valley is just like rape? No one has accused him of being personally discriminatory. There must be some other way to interpret her statement because Violet included it as well without comment...

[1] http://butyoureagirl.com/12611/arrington-and-cnn-problem-or-...
Amazon launches Kindle Owner’s Lending Library with 5000 books
Ask HN: Twitter users - is this useful?
I hacked together a real time visual representation of which of twitter's topics are trending the most. Is this useful/interesting?

www.twndy.com
5 Tips Para Conseguir Mas Seguidores En Twitter
You and the other reply missed the part where even the iOS AppStore doesn't make as much money to warrant them running a whole ecosystem and shutting off musicians/producers/video editors/developers/hackers/enterprise users/people using Java stuff.

Apple has backed off on harsh decisions for much less than that. Remember Final Cut X? I bet the video editing community is much smaller than the developer community. Google, as an example, uses a lot of Apple laptops. They'd instantly stop buying them if that happened.

Until there's any sign of Apple wanting to close OS X, this is purely FUD.
Credit cards are stupidly insecure. Last I heard, a few years ago you could buy blocks of thousands of valid, tested credit card with CVV2 values for about the cost of a coffee. Credit cards works because the banks are willing to stretch far to block fraudulent transactions or take them off the bill because having you trust the card makes them lots of money.

The same will be the case here: Unless the fraud takes on truly endemic proportions, far higher than for credit cards, they'll just eat the cost.
wow, this is really awesome!
Experience of launching at the TC Disrupt Battlefield, Beijing