skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former employee of GS I can say that getting sued is nothing new and may in fact be a good thing for them in a wierd and twisted way. The reason being is that sometimes (this was the case with EMI atleast) the labels use a lawsuit to begin negotiations. Getting sued is almost like a stamp of approval. Obviously I don't know anything about this lawsuit but if they can outlast the legal costs and emerge with a stronger subscriber base from their redesign, they'll be ok.
A second read makes me believe it solves no problem except disk space usage. The fact it's binary and signed protects against nothing - whoever has control of the machine also controls the signing keys of the log and can generate whatever log they want, with whatever event they want.

Are we doomed to repeat every stupid mistake Microsoft made? Is the "if you don't know Windows you are doomed to reimplement its bugs" the new thing?
The No New Gifts Holiday Challenge
I'm not sure if you're asking me or Legion, but I'm happy to share mine: https://github.com/telemachus/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/vimrc.

Looking at it now, I can already see a handful of places I want to update it. Dotfiles are non-stop yak shaving.
It makes me smile sadly when one of the problems cited is "Syslog is only one of many logging systems on a Linux machine", and the solution proposed is the addition of another logging system.
Why Aren’t More Wealthy People Funding Aging Research?
This is a bit premature; there is no official build yet of ICS for the Nexus S, and so explaining that it's choppy when running a custom, hacked-together build doesn't really mean anything at all to probably 90% of Nexus S owners.

I'm very interested to see how ICS runs on my Nexus S, but the only real way to see it is to have it come from Google; why else would I have a Nexus S, if it weren't to get updates directly from Google? Running a custom, unsupported ROM is completely awesome but makes for a very poor OS/product review.

And then to suggest that it should run fine 'cause Windows can is ridiculous! You've never seen regular ICS actually run on a Nexus S yet, so stop making statements like "It's slow".
Planning on doing a post about the O-1 visa at all, Alex? If not, you should. There's not a great deal of info about them from a developer's perspective (I know DHH got one back in the day) and it'd be interesting to hear how the process works.
It is one of those stories that should be instructive to anyone designing process. It also gives a bit of a warning when people assume your doing something new to group of customers for reasons demographic as opposed to logistical.
Universal doesn't want a settlement or share of ad revenue. They want Grooveshark gone. A Universal insider was quoted as saying the label has declared 'legal jihad' against the startup.[1] This was 1 year ago. So they've had plenty of time to build their war strategy.

Besides, even if Grooveshark wanted to make a deal (I'm sure they do), they couldn't afford Universal. The vast majority of grooveshark users don't pay, but just get ads. For the ones that do pay, their monthly fee still pales in comparison to the value of the hundreds or thousands of songs they've stored in their account. I've got 300 songs in my GrooveShark. Even if were paying the $6 per month, it would take 50 months to cover the costs of those songs at $0.99 each. And during those 50 months, I would have probably added another 300 songs.

The only end game I see here is GrooveShark going out of business. And I say this with great sadness, because I'm a regular user and love the service.

1. http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/090310groovesharkumg
The following little piece of news is also interesting. Brad Burgess (chief architect of Bobcat) is now at Samsung (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brad-burgess/26/aa9/93).

From what little I've read about AMD's recent processors, the low power line is kicking butt (Bobcat, etc) while the high end (Bulldozer) is not.
I had a similar amount of traffic from 2 HN posts. My IE percentage was 3.12% and chrome was 55.08% - pretty close to your numbers.
Obviously, HN's browser stats will be way different than the general population, still very interestng.
My analysis: http://onepix.me/blogs/10-HN-Traffic-Analysis-2-Posts-1-Week
The Humble Introversion Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)
Years ago my employer was given a much larger grant from NASA to throw a few web pages on a Windows tablet computer and use Dragon Naturally Speaking to navigate between them. We received this grant because of political connections.
I was considering doing this in Germany next year. Where did you stay? Any tips?
1 year old Vim user here, too.

If you don't mind my curiosity, at line 167/8, you have

" make filename and status always visible
set modeline

but that's unrelated to the statusline, modelines are special comments containing file-specific settings you put at the top of a file. This line just activates support for the feature.

i don't think there is such a thing as a pathetic .vimrc.
Some people have 2 000 lines of custom mappings in their .vimrc, others have 10 lines. That's Vim.
I tried searching for local Ruby guys, and some of the top Django/Python people I know showed up at the top of the list.

It might need some tweaking.
This has to be some of the worst advice I've read, work harder and develop money making skills. If only it were so easy given that they are already short on resources (not only money but time) and may be responsible for more than just themselves.

And your comment about homeless is equally ridiculous.

"The recession will force 1.5 million more people into homelessness over the next two years, according to estimates by The National Alliance to End Homelessness. In a 2008 report, the U.S. Conference of Mayors cited a major increase in the number of homeless in 19 out of the 25 cities surveyed. On average, cities reported a 12 percent increase of homelessness since 2007."

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/526/homeless-facts.html

Are those people suddenly crazy? Maybe they should just work harder. Right?

Your whole comment speaks to never having actually met or worked with anyone who was really struggling financially. There isn't an easy solution to solve this issue, this myth of just working harder is bullshit. Some of those people are the people doing the jobs nobody else would dream of doing but they work really fucking hard at it and get next to nothing in return. Perhaps even working two of those jobs. Now throw in a kid or two that they are responsible for, just working harder solves nothing.
Snark aside, that is the correct NWS formula for Heat Index given temperature in farenheight and percent humidity. Sure it's un ugly regression, but it's accurate within +- 1.3˚F

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/ffc/pdf/ta_htindx.PDF
via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index reference 8
Should swearing be against the law?
History in the Erlang shell
That is a poor example since you should not normally have to code like this when handling user input on the web.

You must escape all user input you send to the database, and this is normally done by your database driver by using parametrized queries (be they prepared or not). And when the data is retrieved from the database you generally do not have to unescape anything, especially not since the returned data is not SQL strings but in whatever binary protocol is used and is unescaped (if necessary) by your driver.

So what your code should look like is something like:

db.execute("INSERT INTO foo (a, b) VALUES ($1, $2)", a, b)

So for the database you just have two types. Queries and data. Data should always be treated as unsafe while queries is the special class that could help out if you do a lot of manual query building.
Building the perfect Ultrabook and where PC makers are wrong
Are you a doomer or a cornucopian?
I'd like to know, which of these two categories you fall into. Hope you like my talk!
"I really don't understand any of this comment"

That's a put down and dismissive. "Any" is a pretty absolute word. Perhaps "some" would have been better. Let me know if there is anything you would like clarification on.

"You make several good points, but let's not trivialize mental illness"

To me that statement is saying that Ed is trivializing mental illness.
How to encourage diversity in tech?
If you're already somewhat familiar with programming, my book Modern Perl has free electronic versions available:

http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html
Soundproof Your Apartment With a Bit of Weatherproofing Tape
I don't know the details of this specific system, but I have seen some systems that would break (utter and complete failure) upon password change. Some vendors would go so far as to threaten that support contracts would not be honored if passwords were changed. That was 12 years ago, but I imagine that some vendors still hard-code passwords and rely on them not changing. It'll take lawyers and contracts and court battles to sort those vendors out.
You are staying away from iOS and Android because the government overpays for low quality software?
In what country? If it's the USA, probably not, for many reasons. It's likely against the DMCA, and you'd be using their copyrights & trademarks.
Actually a little bit of Python/PHP is fine..... even if you need to learn more depends on what kind of facilities you want at backend.
I'd suggest you to get hold of learning some Web-App framework (as Django, or WebPy for Python) which would ease up most of basic setup for you and keep you in design level constraints required for a web-app.
The methodology espoused in this article presents a good case for composing programs from discrete pieces of behavior with referential transparency (pure, or at least deterministic functions).

"Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function."

- John Carmack (Twitter)
http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/53512300451201024

Not "sometimes", "mosttimes"!
Hmm I haven't seen them "plunge". I saw
Them spike out the gate and gradually tail down. Which is pretty much what I expected.
I'm not sure. It seems that the route is:

HN -> Twitter -> A swarm of bots sitting on Twitter

When I re-posted my app on Sunday to get extra stats I saw the same thing. The Terminator Judgment Day happened but just on Twitter.
OP says apps (plural). Your whole argument is based on the probability that one single app was a an outlier.
Como darse de Alta en Buscadores en Pocos Minutos
The solution to integrity, IMO, is distributing the log (multiple independent logservers). You can hash individual line items if you want, or sign them, or do any number of other things to make it easier to find discrepancies. There's the problem of log lossieness in general, which is a tough nut to crack. Some form of log entry UUID might also be useful (though hostname + millisecond/jiffy timestamp comes close).

And count me in among those who find the bug-for-bug reimplementation of Microsoft's fatal errors just a tad annoying.
Is it just me? Or do They want to make un*x more windoze-like?
Will a self-balancing two-wheeled car change US transit?
Ask HN:  Will FaceBook Credits Become a Universal Currency?
FaceBook is apparently set to launch their 'FaceBook Credits' some time next year - is this going to become a Universal Currency? Anyone have any updates or info, comments, on this?
Kotlin also seems to be addressing the issue of modules (http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Modules+and+C...)
http://www.economist.com/node/21534760 Also, Carl Malamud of resource.org.

We should still have coffee!
Yes, it would be legal. You should be very clear with purchasers about the value-add so that there's no trademark issue, where people think they're buying a generic "Foo Brand Router" but they're actually getting Foo hardware with Bar firmware that acts totally different than standard Foo hardware.
video of the prototypes here: http://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen#p/u/2/vd2ztw4bXI4
That's the curious thing about syslogging to a network log server, it is append only (assuming the log server isn't compromised.)

It is an existing solution that simple.
Timestamps were chosen over vector clocks intentionally.

"...the primary use case for classic vector clocks of merging non-conflicting updates to different fields w/in a value is already handled by cassandra breaking a row into columns."

See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-580
>but maybe it's because they have 50,000 other ways to determine temperature and humidity at their current location. Like, say, existing in a conscious state at their current location.

Most of us can say "it's cold" or "it's humid" -- but we rely on more mature data services so we can know exactly how cold or how humid it might be...

You've essentially just argued that NOAA stat tracking is pointless because "you can stick your head out of a window".
Tell HN: I want to teach you web development. In 8 weeks. For free (sort of)
Want to become a web developer?
Are you based in the Bay Area?
Can you take next February and March off?

I want to teach 6 people Ruby on Rails from scratch. Hands on. In person. 5 days a week, for 8 weeks. No computer science background required.

There is such high demand for good ruby devs right now. I'm willing to invest my time, money and energy upfront to get you in good enough shape to land a job as a Junior Rails Developer.

I will line up several companies that would be very interested in interviewing you. If you get a job with any of them, they'll pay me your tuition, so you get the training for free.

What do you think?
I just built something you might like called listplusplus.com, please check it out and give me some feedback.
It really depends on what you are doing, and what your goal is.
For my web app, I track the number of free and paid accounts in the last 1,7,30,60,90 days. I also track how many users have signed in in the same timeframe, as well as how 'much' they are using the product.
Of course, this is on top of the standard google analytics stuff, including conversion ratio.
Piper Jaffray: Android app revenue is 7% of iPhone's
Crew Critique: Breville Wise Grinder
If I remember correctly from the talk (I was one of the lucky attendees), Rick claimed basically it is not an issue. Standard time synchronization methods are sufficient for the problem domains Cassandra is meant to address.
Actually, the reason for not evolving/rewriting TeX is so that old documents can be typeset and produce the same results. I find that an appealing goal.
For me [1] and [3] sound more like WP7 is on par with IOS and Android and even [2] only refers to user who haven't used a smartphone before.

Besides these articles did not take ICS into account which has received stellar reviews so far. The Verge for example rated the software (not the phone) for the Lumia 800 (WP7 - Mango) 8/10 and ICS on the Nexus Galaxy 10/10.
Predicting the future is harder than it looks
Displays for iPad 3 In Production
Looks to me like there's room for someone to come in and make a buck off "AIs" that can handle the regulations, reports and meetings efficiently.
HTML5 Canvas-2D Orbital Simulation, Discussion Welcome (Updated with Blog Post)
One wonders how Spotify is succeeding where Grooveshark is failing.
Awesome - thanks for this! Are you in the Bay Area?
Ichigo destroys Mr. Pork. Bleach 349 at TailedFox
Unique Kitchen Lighting Styles
If you're mobile, carrying around a keyboard negates the value of the iPad. If you're stationary, a real computer gives you far more flexibility. Then you have the issue of unbearably long compiles, as the article stated. The iPad is not the right tool for the job of TeX editing.
I'm more interested to see how well ICS runs on a Kindle Fire. We already know the Nexus S is getting ICS, it still has decent specs compared to the newest phones, and there's really no reason why it shouldn't run well.
They have legal agreements (deals) and equity incentive for the labels.
Cheapest plan: $200/month. That seems a bit high... what competes with this?
It made sense for intelligent people to leave the U.S. since 2003 (when I moved my family of 5 to Vienna Austria), so it's already too late (not so easy to renounce US Citizenship now, new draconian financial reporting laws for expats and new laws which prevent taking assets out of the country kick in 2013).

In 2013 I will renounce my US Citizenship to gain Austrian Citizenship. I have thought long and hard about this. I am proud of the principles the US was founded on, which are trampled on each and every day in Congress, by the President, and in the Supreme Court. I am proud of those who sacrificed for the good of our country, who sacrificed to preserve those rights and to bestow them on me upon my birth. Those sacrifices are dishonored and spit upon daily by our politicians, and their kleptocrat corporate owners.

I will always love the United States, and the majority of it's honorable, kind, and caring people. However I have no love of this totalitarian nightmare which is our government.

Our government is illegitimate, despicable, and dishonorable.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security."

People don't talk that way anymore.

Beautiful, huh?

- No idea what you said. - It means, if there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action. "

National Treasure - 2004

"Because you are the president of USA, sir. Whether it is to your character ...
Of the oath that you have taken To the Constitution to protect.
Of the weight of history That rests on your shoulders.
I believe you Are an honorable man, sir.

Gates, that sort of thing People do not believe anymore.

They want to believe in it."

National Treasure Book of Secrets - 2007

Getting a VISA in Austria is straightforward, and Vienna is the best city in the world for quality of life (Mercer 2010, 2011).

http://www.migration.gv.at/en/types-of-immigration/permanent...
What are a few examples of other "old *nix tools" that are showing their age and have "known deficiencies?"
A fringe benefit is that some of them will support students they don't absolutely need to support when the opportunity arise.
Why so much of a drop today? Has any news come out recently besides the fuzzy numbers and growing competition?
Is the Party Already Over at Turntable.fm?
> Wondering why I'm not able to post replies to comments.

I think this was a switch designed to stop flame-wars or overly nested discussions. (I remember I used to be able to comment on comments.)

Still, it makes it very hard to have conversations.
I'm really flattered - apparently I am Linus! http://www.githire.com/user/i386
Wow, new low for Javascript non-fallbacks. That page has no scrollbar in my default setting (Opera with Javascript disabled) so the text is cut off mid way through the post.
Does Your Office Serve You Free Beer? This One Does Using RFID.
MVPs: Build a kick-ass half (not a half-assed whole)
No. Unfortunately audio/video recording equipment seems to be sparse in the Memphis user group communities. As far as I know we only have one group that does it regularly. http://www.justin.tv/launchmemphis

If anyone has a good, cheap solution for recording/streaming user group presentations, please share.
13-14% drop today. That's quite a bit.
Syslog is definitely not on its way out. It's been in use for 30 years because it works. Perhaps this is rather Redhat trying its hand at the embrace & extend game by introducing proprietary tools? Forcing staff to train on such technologies (with pretty yet dysfunctional guis) will make migrating to other systems harder.

As for the free-form text "problem" this solution claims to address: Different daemons produce logs in different format simply because one's data won't fit in another's schema. And you can actually live with postfix and qmail producing logs in different formats about the same event because you have strictly one of them installed in your server. And in my experience, switching from one to another is a huge undertaking where rewriting your regexp hacks is a drop in a bucket.
Sending raw data and _receiving_ raw data are NOT the same thing. It's been clear that the iPhone 4S sends raw data to the cloud, based on people sniffing the network shortly after release.
add an incentive to minimize expenses?
Shouldn't that be as simple as

func bar() [10]foo

with

var a [8]foo = bar

giving an error like

cannot use bar() (type [10]foo) as type [8]foo in assignment

Is it necessary to use Peano arithmetic to specify a simple type in a general purpose programming language?
Over the summer I worked at a company with so little institutional knowledge that an argument broke out about whether to use NTP or not, and what to replace it with (in a webapp, natch) to ensure a good timebase. I was so flustered by this line of discussion that I had trouble participating.
There are environments where ephemeral DH keys violate policy (those sessions can't be passively monitored; some sessions must be), which could militate against PFS suites becoming the default.

DHE is good, but I'm not sure forward secrecy is as pressing a security issue as simple adoption of TLS is. I admire Google's continued efforts to set the standard for its secure deployment, though.
Marshall's has been doing this in San Jose for some time now. One line feeds multiple registers complete with a sign, a computerized voice, and blinking lights.
When you think about all the setup, SysAdmin stuff, backups, scaling, etc you'll avoid, $200 a month ($2.4k) is pretty cheap to be able to just switch a scalable db on at a moments notice.
Same here.... http://www.githire.com/user/aantix
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Saw this coming. I am a GS subscriber, but it's quite obviously a streaming version of napster.

It is really poorly organized like napster was as well - every user who has renamed a song or used alternate spelling comes up, names that make no sense, poor quality rips, etc.
Sure it would. If OSHA wants a new operating system, putting out an open call for a deliverable would be retarded. Absolutely nobody would be able to deliver such a thing on spec, and those that would be willing would be obvious scam artists.

At best, it would cost someone a few weeks of time evaluating these bullshit submissions and realizing that they're a waste of time. At worst, they would be accepted, another $100k would be paid out, and we'd be worse off than when we began.
Figured out how to comment. Just visit a comment's page drectly and you'll find a reply box there. So I had to use that "link" link in your comment and then use the box on that page.
Big data for R (May 2010)
They recently opened up this program again. $100k for 2 years of leaving school/college. Not sure if it holds up to the likes of YC (lots of the recipients have no tech backgrounds in the first batch), but a few of the recipients from the first class are pretty stellar (the Yale kids and Andrew Hsu for example).
Auxillary Power Unit: small electric thrusters near the pivot point of a ship used in emergencies or certain close quarters situations, such as docking.

Ambulatory Procedure Unit: where surgeons do same-day procedures.

Navy, medicine, computers: inside my head, acronym reuse is a real problem.
For the record, I have no interest in running a TeX rendering process on an iPad.

What I would like to run on the iPad, on the other hand, is a TeX-syntax-aware, document-validating editor that knows how to consume a rendering web service that runs on a Real Computer.