skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I had to look it up, to save others my effort:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology

Looks pretty good. Bookmarked for whenever I need a good remote desktop.
I hope you've read Vinge's _A_Deepness_In_The_Sky_? :)

I wonder if anyone has written an essay of the significance of wood as a medium of value in science fiction. I first noticed it with the burl in Niven's the _Integral_Trees_, but it also shows up in Cherryh and lots of other authors.
I loved the 3rd bullet point: "Software doesn't get bored and start wondering how to automate itself."

I'm not sure if this will ever be applied to non-data driven fields but this is still extremely cool.
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Why would somebody downvote my question? Is it inappropriate to ask someone what they meant?
Having dealt with CPAN, I'll take python and pip _any day_. CPAN is practically the definition of dependency hell. For developers it may be good (I don't write Perl, so I dunno), but for end users it's a real clusterfrak.
I think this is going to be a case of every writer needing a brand and following. People aren't going to be hired as much for their ability to churn out automatable articles, but by the audience they can bring with them due to their style and skills. An example would be if Jason Fried's or Joel Spolskey's column in Inc. I will go to the Inc site just to read their articles because I respect their opinion, they have expertise and write about subjects that I care about. If their columns moved somewhere else, I'd read them there and maybe read other stories that catch my eye. They are valuable because of their audience.
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I went through a very similar stage like this over the past summer. I was trying to boot strap a number of startups that ultimately didnt pan out, and I was finally working on one that was making some income (but still ramen status). Around June, I was offered a job working with a VC firm, which I ultimately took. So far, I think I have made the right decision. While this is also an "all-in" position, I have found that the few free moments I have can be used to think clearly on my next ventures I plan to build. Dont underestimate the stress that will evaporate when you have steady income.
Well I can tell it's purposely done because the background hover has a lorem ipsum background and if you read the bio he has done major stuff in the content strategy realm.
I wonder if the barrel roll effect was intended for a Google Image search on "do a barrel roll" as well. The effect is much more prominent -- and annoying since you see the effect every time you navigate back. (I hadn't seen the meme, so I was browsing for images on it.)
It's also an hedge against someone deciding they want a 4G Android phone, a BlackBerry, a Kindle Fire, a Windows 8 tablet or whatever comes along next week in addition to their other Apple devices. This provides another incentive not to mix and match.

Or an incentive to stick with Dropbox if you think you might want a heterodox solution.
Should elected officials be earning $250k (or more)?
HN:

I've recently read in the voter info pamphlet that the mayor in SF stands to make a salary of over $250k next year, which is almost 5 times the average household income in this country.

This has me infuriated, because I don't think public jobs compete with private sector jobs based on pay. Being mayor is hard work, but I think people take on this work for reasons other than compensation, and therefore we needn't offer them high pay. In fact, I think no candidate should make more than the average salary in their jurisdiction, and I need help understanding why this shouldn't be so.

Arguments I've heard:

-The job is hard, they deserve higher pay.
-Higher pay gets us better candidates.

Those two are really the same statement, and apart from saying the job is hard (no argument there), are they really true? They presume there aren't enough candidates at an average salary, and without evidence, that doesn't persuade me. I've never seen evidence (and I don't think it would be appropriate) that someone who was or could be a great politician has looked at the position of mayor (or President, or Congressman) and thought, "I want/don't want that job because of the pay."

Paying the average salary in the jurisdiction governed would deter no one: by definition, it's not poor. If you have a middle-class family of 4 and it feels like average is struggling, then that's good: now you know how your voters feel. You'll make better policies as a result, and you should take the job (and the sacrifice) because of the prestige, the respect, the nobility of serving the public. Poor people could still run and would in fact get a pay raise, and rich people may not have to make a sacrifice at all (nothing unusual there; rich people have all sorts of other advantages, which is a separate issue).

As a short end to a long point, I think leaders should be rewarded for the results they create. In the private sector, we use salaries as a reward, because companies are created to generate profit. It makes sense that we choose money as the reward for for-profit leaders (I may be in favor of offering bonuses to politicians who run surpluses…would have to be careful there).

I don't think we need the same reward in the public sector, because cities (and the country) aren't run for profit. Results are a better administration and policies in the eyes of the voters. Reward is re-election and several non-measurable great things like respect, admiration, congratulations, etc.

Folks who want to earn those things instead of money are the candidates we should want to run, aren't they? So doesn't reducing pay (but not below average salary, so that anyone can run) actually get us better candidates?

Would love to hear thoughts.

Thanks,
Russ
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Very cool.

The only hazard in this experiment is that there was no real sense of risk, which likely would affect the results tremendously. If they could have simulated loss of life somehow, that might give a more realistic view of how the confinement, and the isolation would have affected the astronauts.

Nonetheless, a great experiment!
Sorry, you're right that the default amazon security policies only allow your nodes to access each other. However, the slideshare I linked to goes to a post about cache _mining_ of EC2 nodes, where open Memcached instances were found on big sites such as Bit.ly, Gowalla, and PBS.

The point I meant to make was: Yes, you can use SGs to make your network secure on EC2, but its very easy to shoot yourself in the foot, which is evident if even larger companies on EC2 are making the mistake. VPC on the other hand provides a secure-unless-you-try-really-hard environment.

NOTE: Modified the post to hopefully make this more clear.
Doesn't for me in 5.1.1 (6534.51.22) or the latest WebKit nightly.
oh yes and it is completely broken on Google Images, at least on my browser (Chrome): a few elements are misplaced during the animation, and it looks like the center of rotation is not the center of the page.
Amazon seems to delay the confirmations on some of their digital purchases; definitely MP3s and maybe video (IIRC). Believe at least in those cases, it's to make the CC processors happy (batching lots of small single purchases). Apple does the same thing for the iTunes/App store, though it seems to be on the scale of days instead of hours there.

edit: to be clear, by "delay the confirmations" I meant to say "delay the actual purchase"; the purchase(s) doesn't actually get charged until their time threshold hits.
Yes, and society at large has moved on from that shit.

People used to accept racism and spousal rape in the "old days" but we don't anymore. No reason we should accept half-baked apps on half-baked devices.
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I think that google is losing sight of what made them popular to begin with.

[within reason] Every workshop on the planet has a hammer in it. This is because hammers are very simple, they never break, they never behave unexpectedly, they're highly useful, and they do exactly what they're supposed to do as perfectly as anybody can imagine. Hammers are the perfect tools; something that should have been idolized in Brave New World.

Google was a hammer for a long time. It wasn't even a question that google would be the default search engine for everybody who knew anything about anything. Google did search really well, behaved exactly as advertised, rarely broke.

It was perfect. It was a hammer.

It feels like google (overall, I don't just mean search) is losing their grasp on this.

Stuff like charts API. Maybe it's just me, but the new version of this is annoying. It's some javascripty nonsense that feels complicated. It's a laser-guided, nuclear-powered gryoscopically stabilized, diamond-tipped screwdriver that can also make coffee and fold your laundry. You could build a submarine with it.

But it's also got an instruction manual that is a foot thick.

The old api was just: <img src='https://charts.google.com/?cht=pie&chd=foo,bar,etc>;

or something similar.

And now I can't +term, they took away the links to "cached" versions of the pages, things autocomplete (incorrectly), it assumes I meant something that I didn't, it wants to integrate into a social network, etc. etc.

Google...you're starting to feel a little microsofty. Are you okay?
I suspect that even the ISS would still pose some significant logistical hurdles for such a long experiment involving so many people. I don't know anything about the physical setup of the on-Earth "shuttle", but I would hope it is larger than the crew quarters onboard the ISS (for sanity's sake).

The trade-off, I guess, is that the simulation becomes more real when one incorporates the very real dangers of space.
If your theory holds true, then why was Apple Corp able to win $500 million from Apple Inc? Do you really think there was anyone confusing the owners of the Beatle's Record Holdings?
And equally available for quality hardware producers to use on their quality products. iOS and Blackberry OS are available for Apple's and RIM's use only.
Okay, I'm interested. In what way is this elimiting some risk for Apple? Is the restaurant going to start selling android tablets?
> People, mostly women in my experience, loved that "shit work" the same way they loved putting on makeup or shopping for uncomfortable clothes.

Really?
TL,DR; According to the author, VPC offers better security because your nodes live inside a non-publicly facing VPN. This also simplifies pre-and-post-deployment processes.

My take from the blog post: VPC is a transition not worth doing, if you are a startup (we are on HN after all), since, and I quote: [it] requires a substantial amount of domain knowledge [and] VPC is far more complicated than EC2. Keep things simple, and stay focused. EC2 is perfectly adequate for most endeavors.
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But there's no such thing as "Android hardware". There's hardware that runs Android. This hardware is of varying quality. It's not meaningful to lump all of that hardware together.

But if you're talking about software OS marketshare, it is meaningful to talk about Android as a whole.
While that's accurate, it's a truism that adds little to this discussion. Perhaps someone can explain the specific, concrete reasons why this solves a problem existing implementations do not.
I think it depends on the nature of the business, but above all the person's values. For example, I've been an independent web developer for a few years. I can choose how many projects I take on and how busy I am. I have more work coming in than I can handle, so I could hire an employee and build up the business but instead I turn it down. I could work 80 hours per week (lots of my independent colleagues do), but I choose to work 30-40 instead. I make a comfortable living and make plenty of time for my wife and family. It would seem that none of the "characteristics that apply to all entrepreneurs" apply to me. But I do have a business, so how is this possible?
I don't at all, and find it incredibly distracting to have movement on the entire right half o the page when I'm just trying to scan the search result text.
If you really just think about what you're sharing, it's likely going to fall into one of three categories.

1. I want to share this with my friends and family, it's ephemeral, will interest them, and expresses more about who I am.

2. I want to share this with my coworkers and colleagues, it is relevant to our professional interests. This category also happens to be the "Public" category for me in a lot of cases, because anything I share professionally, doesn't need to remain private.

3. Anything off topic here. Something that lands in this category (while interesting and relevant to you) is, for the most part, uninteresting to the audiences you've made yourself available to.
(Not sure if this is a troll or not, but I'll bite)

"Is the app store really going to debug apps for everyone?"

No, but obvious problems will be detected, and sandboxing will significantly control the damage a poorly-debugged app can do.

"How do over a billion PCs run Windows when there's no app store doing this for them??"

The perception (and in the pre-Vista era, the reality) of running Windows is that you need to be extremely careful about what you download (or even which websites you visit) or you risk data loss, your system becoming unstable, or involuntarily joining a someone's distributed computing experiment.

What Apple was trying to achieve with their app stores (and to a very large degree has achieved) is to allow unsophisticated users to fearlessly experiment with third-party software.
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If we want to know what terms Apple would apply to ebook readers and sell books under, we don't need to reason by analogy from the restrictions on smartphone app loading and the terms they use to sell apps for smartphones. They already sell ebooks and make ebook readers, which allow sideloading.
Personally, I dislike LISP odd syntax, the widespread use of side effects in
a functional language and the poor abstraction that lists represent over RAM,
from a performance point of view — indeed LISP variants often add additional
data structures, somehow negating the “LIS” part of the language. In the
specific case of Clojure, the fact that a compiled language is compiled into
an interpreted one, JVM bytecode, combining a slow dev cycle with suboptimal
performance, makes me think Clojure users must be glutton for punishment.

Clojure has sophisticated state management. So much for widespread use of side effects.

Clojure has high performance data structure implementations tuned for modern hardware. So much for performance.

Clojure is compiled on the fly at the REPL and the JVM is one the fastest runtimes out there. So much for slow dev cycle.

You may not like the syntax, but boy is that Hadoop query short and sweet.
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Since I can't edit after this long: I'm wrong, iOS 5 lets you dismiss the soft keyboard if you have a keyboard attached.
The Mac and Linux client is coming soon so. This should solve that problem. We do not plan to introduce Flash on our site.
This made me choke on my coffee.
That is awesome. Nice work.
http://www.google.com/search?q=askew

search for "askew" does the same thing as "tilt"
Do you have a co-founder? I love the idea, but I think it could really use some good design work/better templates to get to the next level. Drop me a line if you want to get some dialogue going.
> if this is the one server used to serve the .cz. root domain, I suppose it is part of the implicit features.

From the README:

> Here is a list of the most notable features that are not supported in the current version of Knot.

> * Root zone support
I'm watching this thread and I can answer any questions you have about how CSEdWeek works and what volunteering entails.

The time commitment isn't huge and we try our best to make it fun for everyone.
Apple is loving the huge revenue share in the App Store on iOS.

Do you really think that they will not try to use the app store as a tollgate for everything? 30% of Adobe sales == big number.
it's because of what he has done... probably thats what they call him in office... "aaye lorem... where's my content dude"... #lol
Just to offer a counter-anecdote, I've personally worked on two mobile projects that were outsourced overseas and came back completely botched. They had to be scrapped and started from scratch.

The main issue was communication and being able to have high-bandwidth face-to-face meetings to clarify what was needed. Extensive use of iChat and Skype didn't seem to help.

Some apps have detailed specs and a lot of upfront work has been done in reducing the ambiguities. Those are probably better candidates for outsourcing. But if the design is fluid and things need to be worked out as-you-go, that seems to be where outsourced projects go pear-shaped.

I personally think there's enough work to go around all over the world, but for certain types of apps you need to have someone you can meet and have a dialog with so you can iterate the design efficiently.

Obviously, each app is different and situations vary so YMMV.
@tadfisher, looks like there are way more crappy Android phones out there than high quality ones.
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There one phone with iOS so if the context is phones, "Android competes with iOS" is exactly equivalent to "Android competes with iPhone".
No money for labs, but this...
"I have issues with the makeup of the team and the offer."

No. If you join a young team, you guys had better be the best of friends or you're just asking for trouble.
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Android is software, not hardware. This post is complaining about hardware, but somehow blaming software instead.
Alex public memcached development at Facebook seems to stopped for the last ~2 years. Is it really the case or still improving but not making it public? Also can we expect management tools for memcached in the future from Facebook?
Whether or not Android is "winning" has nothing to do with hardware reliability, which is the subject of this article. I'd personally like to see the reliability numbers broken out by OEM.
Huh?

So if I operate another marketplace/platform for delivering computer programs, say Steam, I should be out of business?

How is destroying the competitive marketplace good for competition?
This:
http://info.stylee32.net/Weapons%20and%20Military/Jets/ailer...
for those of you looking for a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLp7LXTSrfs
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> or more often they just not technical enough to judge the technical quality or the timeliness of what they are paying for.

Anecdotally, this is the case. I've heard of or worked for three 400+ person companies that outsourced. Two of these companies had metrics/standards where they could actually measure code/work quality. One of these companies did not. The two that were able to judge were not happy with outsourcing and stopped outsourcing after a 1-2 year trial period. The one that seemed to only be aware of the short-term cost savings without being aware of the long-term code debt, they were perfectly happy. Different strokes for different folks, whatever floats your boat.
He has a Kindle with Special Offers, and at one point accidentally bought one of the Special Offers that came up, said offer being $40 for a class on interior design.

His post seemed fairly straight-forward, so people appear to be downvoting you for asking a question that a cursory re-reading of it should have made clear.
Nice. That's more of an aileron roll, though. A barrel roll has an accompanying corkscrew motion of your velocity vector along with the rotation.
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I'm certainly no expert here, so take my thoughts with a large, large block of salt. By way of example, I do know that the typical action of dragging a file on to the application's icon in the dock will allow an app to open that file, just as would the open file dialog. Not allowing this would be, obviously, unworkable. Similarly, I believe (although I don't know) that a key-combo associated with that app (as is usually used to invoke screenshots) would signal that the user is acting on the application and, hence, authorizing the action. Although, I'm not sure screenshots would be inhibited by the sandboxing to begin with...
"hardware buttons"? this article isn't defending android's hardware buttons. it's defending navigation buttons. whether they are hardware buttons or onscreen buttons is irrelevant in the context.
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To the latter point-- fair enough. There are some significant differences between Mac and iOS development, for example, but it seems that experienced Mac devs generally flourish in the iOS world. Are you saying that such people are readily available in Bulgaria? As in, you are confident that with some legwork, I could hire a guy with 10 years combined of Mac/iOS programming experience for 40k? If so, that's very interesting to me (no sarcasm).

Regarding the former, I would be extremely wary of paying a demonstrably "competent engineer" to do work in a platform they were not already immersed in. Total years programming, even on seemingly similar platforms, doesn't translate into ability to deliver a high quality, robust product on the target platform in a timely manner.

To give a specific example, successful iOS development requires a combination of UX design intuition and finesse, similar to what you'd need in web development, along with the memory management and performance tuning skills more typically seen in the embedded and C++ game development world. The reason competent iOS devs are expensive in America is because it's hard to find people with these combined skills, who don't want to just make their own stuff. There are many examples of lackluster apps in the iTunes Store where the developers clearly came up short in one of those areas.
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Labs wasn't about money. It was about moving away from half baked unmaintained releases and towards producing products that the company would be willing to support properly.
After reading ebooks on my iPhone and now iPad, I couldn't go back to the kindle. The UI was just so terrible and slow. I use white on black for night time reading, and can still fall asleep.

Incidentally, this is the same reason I could only use Duck Duck Go for one day before going back to Google search. The Google search UI has just spoiled me with its responsiveness.
I have to wonder: does Apple spend more time playing with each new piece of technology internally before releasing it?

I can see in the rush to launch that you can certainly hit 100% of your feature list and still not hit the things that count.

When you see something like a ".com" key on the keyboard whenever an internet address is requested, you have to wonder if it wasn't in the original design but eventually someone played with it enough and thought it up.
This is one of those ideas which present themselves perfectly in hindsight.

Nike+ was the shoe which knew where you had been, invert that principle and you’re lead to the shoe which knows where you are going.

Certainly a valid creative catalyst is inverting existing problems.
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