skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make sure to check out "South" which is Shackelton's own telling of the journey.
Now GoDaddy requires written authorization to transfer domains
Windows 7 license key
Namecheap to Donate $1 to EFF for Every Domain Transfer on December 29th
I'd have to recommend "Holy War" by Nigel Cliff.

Great read about how one little tiny country (Portugal)in Europe ended being the first colonial power through their dominance of the seas, spice trade and their desire to see Islam vanquished.
I don't believe that's true. It's dated October 17, 2011.

(I agree about the gender of the author, though.)
The violence we see here in Mexico is mostly a "war between drug cartels".
A stack is a data structure that grows and can be accessed from one end.

The stack usually means the call stack, or c stack, where one of the registers of the cpu is always pointed to the top of a stack structure in memory. That way it can be used to quickly allocate and free memory for function calls and function-scoped temporaries, and it has no trouble handling (limited) recursion.

Heap refers to the part of the memory that is fundamentally just a flat address space asked for from the OS. On top of that lives the heap allocator, whose job is to portion that into usable chunks and try to be able to reuse returned space. In C that is malloc/free, in c++ new and delete.

In the olden days heap and stack actually referred to the same area of memory, the heap growing upwards from the bottom and the stack growing down from the top. Luckily, today there is enough address space that we don't have to do this anymore.
I question the value of all vice laws.

My brother is wasting his life as an alcoholic. Our current drug policy didn't help him or my family.

I have no interest in gambling, drinking, using currently illicit drugs, or prostitution. My drug use consists of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals to treat minor symptoms.

I am interested in laws that protect people from others. Some believe vice laws fall into that category. I do not.

If an adult chooses to hurt himself, that is his choice. The threat of force should not be used to stop him from doing so. We should ask the question why would an adult choose to hurt himself.
Atlas Shrugged is a must read for any entrepreneur.
I was thinking the same thing. If it's as effective as their robocalls to me are, then they will have zero impact.

On the other hand, at the very least, it will give them a sense of the volume of those willing to do something like this in opposition to SOPA, even if they don't listen to it completely.
It's a Google Translate link because I can't find any article in English. If someone finds it, please submit.
Yes, the Chilean entrepreneurial ecosystem has significant issues, but that is not really an excuse for what appears to be uninformed expectations.

Some of the issues cited are obvious even from researching at a distance, so it makes one wonder if he moved over without conducting basic research, just trusting that the govt invitation would make it rain? Where on earth can you expect to enter as a foreigner to raise a $40 million fund within 6 months with NO solid connections within the community or with capital providers? In a conservative environment to boot?

Now he says he wants to "help Chilean companies to invest in Asia" although he couldn't get Chileans to invest in Chile? 0_o

Other sides of the debate that I came across:
Sarah Lacy http://www.sarahlacy.com/sarahlacy/2011/12/attention-world-d...

Nathan Lustig http://www.nathanlustig.com/2011/12/26/arnon-kohavi-chilean-...

Rich Yang http://thenextweb.com/la/2011/12/27/start-up-chile-entrepren...
Virtual servers (I consider them as "physical servers" as long as they aren't run on demand like at Amazon&Co), because they are cheaper for services which have to run 24/7 and some cloud hosting for "pay per use" services ...
> They also don't type on computers during interviews

One of my engineering interviewers took notes on a computer instead of on paper. Clearly your mileage may vary.
In the UK, with some professions it can hurt your career to be arrested, too, such as medical or teaching.
You can buy an unlocked phone directly from Apple now. It still won't do 3G on T-Mobile though due to the different frequencies used.
You are wrong. I used to work for a very senior Member of Congress. First of all, as the politician, you never pick up the phone. Your interns or Staff Assistants do so.

Second, staff talks to each other all the time (they work in a bullpen like setting) so they are always aware of the issues that are reaching the office, especially if it happens in volumes. Interns report these calls to their managers, especially since they have to ask for instructions on how to deal with them.

Finally, any staff member worth her salt will write a memo to the principal to inform them of such campaigns.
Perfectly valid question with a simple answer. I wasn't born with the ability to read, so between the time I was born and the time I could read and comprehend a translation of the Koran, I was a muslim who hadn't read the Koran.
Show HN:My Christmas project v0t.es : show of hands polls
Over the Christmas, I developed this little web app which gathers the counts of Facebook likes and Twitter shares for the options of a poll and displays the results with a pie chart.

I was interested in to see how quick I can do this with current OSS tools and frameworks. So nothing cutting edge, ground breaking or world changing.

I used CakePhp for the server side, JQuery, Raphael.js and Bootstrap.js on the client side. I am impressed by Bootstrap.js the most. Even I, an aesthetically challenged developer, can come up with something decent looking. If you are in the same boat, I can't recommend it enough.

Could you guys and girls have a look and tell me what you think? Thanks in advance.
> I haven't personally seen "heap" the data structure talked about (or used) much in the wild.

Maybe not, but the concept of computing with addresses is reasonably common.

That's why programming interviews often have some variation on heap sort or radix sort.
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Wheelan, Charles

Economics explained in the most intuitive way.

On a related note I started an account at goodreads.com at the start of this year. It is great for keeping track of what you read and to find books for future reading.
From the looks of it, Paul Christoforo = Ocean Marketing.

The website [1] lists "Paul@OceanMarketingInc.com" as the only email address, and the bio for the Twitter account "oceanmarketting" has his name and picture as avatar.

[1] http://oceanmarketinginc.com/Contact-Us.php
"The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin. It really challenged many of my beliefs about the underpinnings of society. Quite relevant in the year of Occupy Wall Street as well. Feminist Science Fiction for the win.
Joe Wilcox started his post by saying: "My idiots of the year award almost certainly will go to Netflix and Go Daddy, which tarnished their brands through nothing more than sheer stupidity (there are still five days in the month for your organization to royally screw up and claim the honor)." It seems Ocean Marketing rose to the occasion. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395411
Good point. There is a simple formula to measure it, but there is no easy formula to get.
I am sure that his customers will love being told, "Just go finish the map and then our product will work well in your area!"
Airtight Is Airplay For Your Google TV
Should the TSA have done this? No.

Should the author have expected to have the glamor of martyrdom without the inconveniences attached? This question is left as an exercise for the reader.
That seems improbable. The Jordan river is mentioned only once in the Bible (Mark 1:5) and it has nothing to do with sound. Nowhere in the Bible do the words "sound" and "river" occur in the same verse. "Sound" and "Jordan" likewise are never found together in the same verse.
She didn't accomplish anything besides making herself look like a lunatic. As I stated, I really hate the TSA and all of the abuses that have occurred, but this isn't going to help.

The TSA has been guilty on numerous occasions of violating a person's constitutional rights. They have endangered the lives of some passengers and outright assaulted others. I really do hope that they are taken to task for the things that they have done, but I don't believe they were wrong to call the police. When you aren't sure what to do in a situation, it is best to defer things to a higher authority. If the police decided she should be arrested, they are the ones responsible for the decision, not the TSA. Whether or not what she did constituted a crime, I don't know, but she was disrupting the process.

When I was pulling guard duty in the desert, anyone who acted in an unusual manner would have been detained. I am aware that this event took place in the United States, but the bottom line is you don't mess around with safety. Until the day that the TSA is no longer in charge of airport security, they are responsible for making sure their job gets done. How easy would it be for you to remain focused on your work while someone is standing in front of you yelling out the words to the 4th amendment?

If we don't like the TSA, we need to go through the proper channels every time they do something that violates the law. Don't let them get away with anything. I know that it is extremely difficult to get the government to change anything, but the only way to get rid of the TSA is to put people in office that will side with the American people on this issue.
His insistence on putting a space in front of punctuation marks alone makes me cringe.
I've been trying to get a hold of this book for a while in the UK, but it seems very tough to get a copy of without paying through the teeth for international shipping. Anyone have any tips?
His "Art and Illusion" is very good too.
IOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak Hits the Web
Clickable: http://v0t.es
I really hope an idea like this will make an impact. But I have a hard time thinking the politicians won't simply ignore the robocalls like we do and then think it still makes sense to robocall us.
One thing Fred missed to say is, while getting mocked and misunderstood may be the pattern (pattern derived from twitter alone (I kid you not, twitter was the only example in the article)), it doesn't mean all mocked and misunderstood companies will be successful.
Where did you get the idea that the the Fire is a top of the line type device?

The Cessna costs a fraction of the price of the DC-10. The Fire is a fraction of the cost of an iPad...

Even if you have no idea how to compare tech specs, or if you are brain-dead to marketing tactics, anyone should be able to look at the price tag and think to themselves, Well, the Fire costs a lot less than the competition. It's probably not going to have all the bells and whistles, but it is going to get the job done.
"Sir we're getting all these calls about this sopa thing. They're automatic but there's a lot of them and they're all different. Its starting to tie up our phones."

...is a hell of a lot better than "no mention at all about that entertainment lobbyist's bill I rubber-stamped and then never heard anything about. Must not have been important."
http://cydia.saurik.com/package/com.crashx.unrestrictor3g
Why You Should Put a GPS Tracker on Your Turtle
"The God Delusion" - Dawkins

Very blunt and mean. But also convincing...
Rene Guenon's Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta

Bhagavad Gita - Recension by William Quan Judge
Republic Wireless Decides to Put the Unlimited Back in Unlimited
Top most bizarre tech stories of 2011
So, token ring networking with a data-carrying physical token. Neat.
App download stats show Kindle Fire popularity at Christmas
"Microsoft...the least evil"

How times have changed, eh.
Agree that he should have figured out his commitment to Chile. Since funds usually run on 10 years, doesn't that imply a 10+ year commitment from him?

As I commented on the other thread discussing his interview, I don't get how a foreigner with NO solid local business connections expected to raise $40 million within 6 months in a conservative environment. The govt inviting you does not mean keys to the banks/the wealthy's pockets.
I'm surprised at how few here are understanding what Fred is saying. He's saying if it's so far out of people's context that they have a hard time understanding it, that you might be changing the context to something completely new. You might have a whole new ballpark.
> Less than half of electricity in the US is from coal.

And the rest is from Canada :)
Somewhat like saying that there is a growing divide of one side of the Grand Canyon versus the other---
The sooner you deal with this, the better. Dev's being cut out of the loop -- particularly combined with his cluelessness and lack of real contribution -- is a big warning sign. In this, you can see that things are already getting worse. Expect that to continue, unless the situation is rectified.

As for responsibility: He's the one who, frankly, started acting like a douche (or, finally started showing his true colors). He's the one who, fundamentally, needs to change. Yeah, you may be willing to work with him in an honest effort. But don't start thinking that this is your problem. It's your problem to deal with -- meaning him -- but it's not your problem to adapt to his self-serving douchiness.

Get together with the team, break out the clippers, and sheer down those points. ;-)

P.S. If things don't change, it's going to come down to "he goes, or I go", sooner or later. (Whether to a different firm, or -- in a larger organization -- to a different team that has no interaction with him.) Otherwise, prolonged misery.

Also, right now, his credibility -- unreal as it may apparent to your knowing eyes -- is limited. The longer things continue, the more valuable he may end up looking to management. And the harder your argument becomes to make. This is why living with the status quo is a losing proposition for you.

Finally, this is just my personal opinion. I may be wrong. But I've put up with some douches, and it mostly always only seemed to keep getting worse. Until I got out.
This is huge. I don't use an iOS product, but I can say that having this ability on my rooted Android over the last year has gotten me (and various other parties) out of several pinches.

Recently while traveling, we ended up at a hotel with almost useless wi-fi, no jailbroken iPhones and thus almost no connectivity. Break out the Android, turn on the hotspot, hand out passwords, and now my entire team is back up and running at decentish speeds. Probably helped us land a contract in the meeting the next day.

It wasn't perfect, the phone would drop connection every so often (hey, it's not really supposed to be doing this), and would run rather hot. But it worked and got us out of a bind.

I'm letting the rest of my team know about this so that they might jailbreak their phones and be able to use this when they are running around without an Android user. Awesome!
brave of them to let it be know that there company's margins are so low - I looked at the cost of Google maps for my employer and a company wide license is not that much.
MC Hammer launching his own search engine
Productivity Trends for Small Businesses in 2012
I hesitated to start. Partly because I found the original Harry Potter kind of boring/frustrating. And partly because it's fanfiction, a sort of writing I do not normally enjoy.

Still, I found it enjoyable and worth my time. Even though I thought Harry's portrayal was pretty uneven (swinging between "scientist/genius in an irrational world" and "arrogant prick demigod").

I liked Drako's additional depth far better than Rowling's one dimensional jerk.

http://www.elsewhere.org/rationality/

(rehash of my previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231266 )
There are scammers just like on ebay or any other site where money is exchanged, and in a way the nature of the site sort of implies risk because you're essentially investing in the development of a product, it's like a crowdsource VC, but you can filter through the noise and find interesting ideas with inventors who demonstrate their knowledge of the engineering with high quality videos, previous experience and prototypes.
Anyone know about the performance of this stack vs Apache + mod_wsgi?
But you cannot ignore the fire in a crowded theater portion when it comes to politics. Unlike many other avenues in politics money = power. By having a consecrated few such as corporations or the RIAA against the populace you have a huge power imbalance. This allows those with the cash to effectively gag the competition preventing their speech which cannot be considered fair. Perhaps individuals should be allowed to do what they wish with their money but the individual rights granted to corporations has gone to far.
I just finished Logicomix (got it as a Christmas gift), in French though. It's a great read for anyone looking for a refreshing take on the history of mathematics in the early 20th century.
Ask HN: How did you learn web design?
My biggest obstacle to finishing a web app is by far the design. Everything I design looks extremely unprofessional, and because of that I lose motivation to actually finish it.

I'd like to know how you learned to design an app that's pleasing to the eye.
The sarcasm makes no sense. I point out that he didn't start working on the really cool projects right away and that's supposed to support the notion that life ends at 30? I don't get it. The guy's clearly at the top of his game and he's 40.

The people who are revered here (justly or not) are people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Richard Branson. All in their 40s and 50s.

And yes, if you're going to do a startup you might as well do it in your 20s (all of the people above did!) because you have fewer responsibilities when you're young, and when you're older you often can't afford to put your life on hold.
What logical person buys a low-end tablet when they already have what is arguably the best tablet ever made?

Perhaps one that just needs a smaller form factor to toss in their coat pocket when heading out to the coffee shop.
Minicraft for android
I wonder why they chose a pay-as-you-go system depending on how much energy they use.

I think this would be much better as a rent-to-own program with a flat monthly fee.
Yes, but interesting anyway.

The title of the article should be "What the US House bittorrents the most"
I remember reading from Instagram blog that they found Gunicorn to be less CPU-intensive:

We use http://gunicorn.org/ as our WSGI server;
we used to use mod_wsgi and Apache, but found
Gunicorn was much easier to configure, and less
CPU-intensive.

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha...
Good for starters but there are quite a few bad practices used in this tutorial such as declaring your apps templates directory when by default Django searches all apps for a templates directory. Also running nearly everything as root.

This will get you up and running but just be aware that some of the items may not be the "correct way" of doing it.
If you loved the book Selfish Gene, I recommend listening to the story of George Price. http://www.radiolab.org/2010/dec/14/

It is both depressing and enlightening.
Hm, though to argue against myself
for a minute, it occurs to me that my unhappiness with e.g. Amazon Kindle books might be poetically summarized as "Kindle is like buying books from an airline's sales department." Non-refundable, non-tradable, locked to me.

So maybe there's more mileage in the idea of "airlinification" than I initially thought. Though Amazon gets away with it (to the extent that they do) mainly because their "convenience" argument is pretty strong for virtual goods: You don't have to warehouse the books, tote them around, re-buy them if your house burns down, etc. These selling points do not apply so well to airline tickets (though airlines will certainly try to sell you on the awesome convenience of non-tradable non-refundable e-tickets), let alone my metaphorical socks.

Still, though. More and more things can be virtualized or time-shared. It is not at all hard to imagine carshares like Zipcar going the way of airline pricing, for example. Yikes.
How to Reload iFrame – Works in FF, Crome, IE, Safari
This Carl Sagan[1] quote is apt ...

"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

[1] Apparently he really did say it too:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Sourced
Erasing A CD With Electrical Current
In short - faster, easier on ram usage and easier to configure.
Day in the Life: Twilio Sales Engineer
Asynchronous loading is beyond mandatory for anything requiring Facebook avatars. We would use lazy loading, like we do for everything else, except that Facebook is lazy enough for all of us.
Use a css framework, at least to begin with.
I used bootstrap.js at my latest project: http://v0t.es It's not going to win any design awards but it's better than anything I could have come up with by myself.
How can SOPA or Protect IP hurt a small social networking site?
These aren't just 2 random strangers having a discussion, one of them paid the other money and is a customer of the other, that changes the equation. Even if you happen to have the worst, most annoying customer in the world the responsible course of action is to maintain composure. Worst case scenario you provide a refund and refuse to do business with someone.

In this case the "customer service" is non-existent and devolves into a string of personal insults. Granted, the customer responded poorly to that but should customers be expected to respond well in such situations?

Edit: There really aren't any situations where the correct customer service response involves typo riddled malformed sentences packed with personal insults.
High load when converting between filetypes on Ubuntu
I have a PHP script that uses the command line "convert" utility in Ubuntu to create a thumbnail of a PDF..When a user logs in to the web app they see about 10-15 PDF files in their folder, and on hovering over the file they see a preview of the file. This hover calls the command line to generate the thumbnail and store it in the database for that file, but if the user hovers quickly over all of them in a row one-after-another, I notice the load on the server goes sky-high.. a single user can cause the load reading to spike to over 1.5, is this the only way of creating thumbnails of PDFs, anyone have any other ideas, or is there a way of fine-tuning the convert process, by maybe somehow limiting the resources the convert utility uses?

The problem is that generating a thumbnail on an 8MB-10MB PDF already takes about 5-6 seconds to generate and my boss thinks it's too slow, so slowing it down even more would probably not go over to well, is there a better/faster way of doing this conversion? The thing I like about convert is that it works on a lot of different formats, and I think you can install extensions for even more.

I was thinking maybe the webkit package (forgot the name of it though), I used it once before to take screenshots of websites, but I don't think it would work on different file types, the majority of the files will be PDF/HTML, and eventually picture filetypes and video file types

Any suggestions?
Given the standard by which they're now defining super computers, the reality is Google has the world's most powerful super compute system. If you spin up all of Amazon's compute power it would also be beyond 10 petaflops.
Gunicorn generally takes up less ram and less CPU than Apache + mod_wsgi. I've also had some major mem leaks with apache that have never occurred while using Gunicorn, I believe it restarts a thread when it gets out of control.