skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing this is, in my opinion, missing: panic is a weird state. You might even know that what you're doing is irrational. It doesn't really help, and to make things worse, people telling you what's rational don't actually help (you know that you're not doing the right thing, you feel helpless about it already, last thing you need is people passing judgement on you).

It's a tough problem, because sometimes panic attack strikes completely out of nowhere, even a person who was previously stable, even in situations less stressful than described (there's records of people panicking while crossing a street, to the point where they couldn't move). And it isn't always completely obvious to onlookers, and it might get your co-pilot, your climbing partner, or you.
Behind the scenes of the AWS jobs page
For those who are not familiar with DPI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection

As an example, HTTP uses the "Host:" header which contains the domain name of the website in question. Deep packet inspection could work by recognizing HTTP communication, inspecting the "Host:" header and simply dropping traffic to censored websites.
The "Occupy" movement identifies the problem as "money in politics."

You will have a difficult time convincing them otherwise.
1. The Nexus One is not 2 years old yet and will not be getting ICS. So getting a Google phone is not a guarantee.

2. Having control over your phone is great. But that is not really what you paid for. So not really a solution unless you always intended to use a custom ROM in the first place.

I have to admit though, I don't think I have ever seen anything that says any smart phone, iPhone, Android or otherwise, will have software updates for at least the contract life (2yrs) of the phone. So maybe my argument has no feet to stand on and you are getting what you paid for.

So I agree with the OP. Checkout what you will actually get and look at the manufacturers track record of actually following through.
What about all the other versions of IE? Isn't everyone using IE9?
Raiding the people at the company that gets the contract might be a more ethical and effective action, especially if some of those people feel stuck working there.

The company may be able to replace those workers, but churn could really hurt them.
Nice hack. It's funny he had to write a script to hit the web server a bunch of times just to build a tsv file.

I wish more sites just gave you a dump of all their data.
"I don't understand this visceral hatred of pornography. Like it or not, it's an indisposable part of modern Western culture..."

Why specify Western culture?
I know it's hard to read my comment through the torrent of downvotes (which speaks for itself). However, in it, I've said nothing of free will. For discussion's sake, let's assume we live in a perfect society in which women do porn purely from choice. Total fiction, but let's assume that.

Now, back to my original assertion. Assuming we're all adults here, and are aware of what a modern porn scene looks and sounds like, I challenge you, or any other downvoter, to explain exactly how so is the porn industry not demeaning or not humiliating or does not objectify women.
I think your points are valid as well.

I'm not ready to take it as a given that we can't build a general purpose VM capable of running JS at or very near current speeds, but it's also not a solved problem.
I suspect the insinuation was that said betabeat writer is a New York based VC booster. From his own bio:

Brooklyn born and bred. My writing on technology has appeared in the NY Times, Slate, Atlantic and Fast Company. Currently editor of this here BetaBeat.
Hi Mike,

Although I'm nervous about asking, I'm going to bravely step out on the line and ask your thoughts about the design of our startup http://www.uencounter.me. From the look of your own artwork - you obviously have a good eye and while our site is more colorful and different in aesthetic, its clear your opinion and experience is valued. Constructive comments are always welcome.
WTF happened to software?
I am ashamed to say that this made me giggle like a girl.

I guess I'm the kind of guy that understands and learns in this way better than seeing visual cheatsheets or long-winded reference pages. Up until now I've just been remembering particular sets of vim commands but this will really make me a lot more productive I'm sure. :)
Deploy a git repository and it’s submodules without SSH keys for the submodules.
Thats why i created a github repo for this. We should probably have one for US, EMEA, ASIA so we can keep the regional ips more efficient.

https://github.com/denen99/fightsopa (shameless plug from http:/www.fightsopa.com)
Great question, probably worthy of its own post. Rather than trying to think of times you want to construct switch statements dynamically, try to think of times you'd like to specialize how a generic function call will respond to arguments it may not even know about.

In object-oriented programming, you can define a base class "Animal" with a method "makeNoise" and subclasses with a method "makeNoise" with that will return "bark" if you call a Dog's makeNoise or "meow" if you call a Cat's. When you first defined the Animal's "makeNoise" method you didn't need to know how anything about the subclasses that would eventually implement it. Your algorithms could depend on "makeNoise" returning the noise specific to the animal in question.

Multimethods are a functional approach to polymorphism without a class/prototype hierarchy. The second example in the post shows how you might implement a multimethod that calculates the area of shapes. Perhaps a separate module introduces new kinds of shapes (like new kinds of subclasses in OO). These shapes can register their area implementations with the 'area' multimethod. Other algorithms that use the 'area' multimethod will now be able to operate on these new kinds of shapes. Multimethods provide a means to polymorphism while keeping data and functionality decomposed.

Like swannodette says more beautifully and concisely, though, it's an even more generic/flexible dispatch than thinking in terms of OO polymorphism.
CA startup sees entrepreneur-ship as visa solution
They horde money for campaign (ads). The notion that they are doing a Scrooge McDuck in taxpayer money is generally false. I'm not putting the onus on the taxpayer, but attack ads and the like are extremely effective and... expensive. Their number one goal is to get (re)elected and money=>ads is the most effective way to do it. Standing on principle and making articulated arguments just polarizes.
After Stanford Drops Out Cornell Announces $350M Donation For Tech Campus
Webinar: Security Governance & Integration in a Cloud-Connected World
The best marketing is from word of mouth, do your friends want to use it, would they recommend to there friends.

Would a stranger using it will recommend it for gift giving to their friends.

On holiday season, people are looking for great gifting ideas, can you provide them with good ideas by providing a simple choice form ( no more than 3-4 objective questions).

Can you advertise in local bill board and ask your friends in other cities to get the print out and stick on bill board they can?
The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw)
Yes. However in Macs you'd want some different basic keybindings, due to the MAC key.
First of all, it's difficult to engage with your productively, as you're particularly confrontational.

That said, if you give me some example code, I'll demonstrate its use in a JavaScript/Java hybrid implementation when I have some spare moments.
"visa solution". If the problem is a lack of modern-day slavery in the tech world, then, yeah, it's probably a solution to that problem.
No by fragmented DNS he means DNS servers in Europe would route you perfectly fine to Megavideo.com but US servers wouldn't. So all you'd have to do is change your DNS address to a European one and bingo.

It's one thing to pass PATRIOT or SOPA, but try passing legislation to create a multi-billion dollar firewall to effectively block other DNS servers and block offending IP addresses.
Should just have a nationwide ban on people driving cars. Let google drive us all. As long as people are allowed to drive we'll be killing each other in droves.
It's not quite like a Professional Engineering license, but the ACM does have a Code of Ethics: http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics
What's the coding convention that gave you pain to comply with?
"Not to mention ===, etc, etc."

In that context, I read "etc, etc" as a variant of the "etc" operator.
there's no funnier distraction than being horny
The Things of Christmas Past and Future
ZeroCater is looking for foodies to fill a variety of roles
Is Apple Quietly Condoning Siri Hacking?
seems a tiny bit early to declare it "dead". the crux of the article is that some manufacturers didn't respond to their emails yet or haven't made up their minds. most of them only got the ICS source a couple of weeks ago - it doesn't seem entirely unreasonable that they are still figuring out which devices they can support.
> Enumerate all the features of the web you can think of that have enabled it to explode and thrive compared to networked applications and the popular VMs of the last 20 years.

Ubiquitous cross-platform adoption. Done.

The web grew popular (relative to the Internet population) before it got JavaScript, not after. It wasn't JavaScript that drove widespread adoption, and it wasn't applications built in JavaScript.
This is why in parliamentary systems the MPs get a wage and get campaign funding (IIRC respective to their previous campaign share, IE the incumbent gets the most).

What I don't get there is that they still get payoffs, but we're talking a private jet flight versus $2 million in cash.
This is really cool. I would also be curious to see a list of what the top 10 major advancements in computer science were for 2011.
It is really weird that the donation was anonymous. It is very rare for large college donations to be anonymous, these are the ultimate status donations.

I would not be surprised if the donor is some developer looking to profit by the deal.
There was a very long pause. He then found his words and asked how it was possible for me to finish a project (that would have normally taken 8 hours) in 30 seconds.

I had approached a previous similar project with a heavy focus on re-usability. The skeleton just needed XML added to customize it. And that could be added quicker than workers could get to that section requiring it. After that he actually asked why I had done that without permission.

Me: Because you wouldn't have been able to understand it. And because of that you would have said no.

I have an innumerable number of examples from this guy. I could start my own PHB cartoon. He kept his job because loyalty is often more valued than competence. (And in his case loyalty meant routinely fudging timesheets and not paying the grunt workers their full pay.)

I had transferred from a satellite branch to the main branch. I stayed a year under this doofus out of loyalty to the manager from the satellite branch who had recommended me. I quit at exactly 1 year. Contracted for them for 4 more months and oh was I glad to be gone.

Several months after I left I made some friends who used to have the doofus in their social group. He was ostracized and no longer welcome because he had stolen money from coats and purses piled onto a bed at a get-together.

I was also responsible for training my two replacements. I recommended that they not keep one of them. They did. After I had left this other guy managed to do a "rm -rf" on the primary SCO UNIX server that dispatched work to everyone. He also managed to improperly rebuild a RAID array on a W2k3 server and wipe everything. He also...

Wait. I feel the PTSD kicking in. Needless to say, it was a very dysfunctional work environment.
Motorola Shutting Down 280 Slides
i wrote a small python script that helps handle DNS updates like this. if anyone is interested it's at https://github.com/ghettonet/GhettoNet

it allows for dated updates, distributing in web pages, etc, but it's only a command line interface. i hoped someone might add a gui...
that is including the conference business
In PHP you can mix the types of the key, so that won't work.
I think thats really simple and excellent piece of advice. I think we as human are very good at ignoring simple things.
In my recent two-day visit to California from New York City I drove more than in the previous ten years, cumulatively.
I do enjoy generalizations.

Wall Street check. Biking check. Wine/Food check. 9AM wrong, but 8:30 is close enough. Suit wrong. Alcoholism wrong. Chain smoking dead wrong.
All civil disobedience is "just asking to get your ass legally handed to you". That's the whole point. You're intentionally breaking the law to show the injustice. Civil disobedients like Gandhi and King spent a lot of time incarcerated.

In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, King wrote: "One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
The one way to ensure that all Congressmen are millionaires is to take away their pay. Honestly, the salary is already too small, they have to maintain a second residence in DC, which is one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country. In all seriousness, $174,000 is not enough money to support a family in a middle class lifestyle in DC. A townhouse in a safe neighborhood is $5,000/month, most of the public schools are terrible and the private schools expensive, and the local taxes are extremely high.

Also lawmakers can't spend their campaign warchests on personal items.
Good call, we have record of us using it as early as June, though it's been pretty private the whole time.
The name generally is available on websites (Fb, Youtube) although the Twitter is taken and dead (something in Korean).

Thanks for your advice. We're looking into a Trademark registration and are holding out on the .com.
Ask HN: How do you get your employees to care?
I know this site is for more web entrepreneurs but for service/retail industries where the customer must spend time with your employees - how do you get your employees to care about the company just as much as you do?

I've been doing a lot of Christmas shopping lately and had to do some returns and stuff noticed something, the employees don't seem to care.

Except for a very small list of companies, what I find is most employees who work don't really care at all about the company or any profit. Retail employee doesn't care, the store manager doesn't care, the 800 Corporate number doesn't care. The higher the level I go, the more likely I am to get even madder for what should have been a small issue.
Off topic, but:

To be considered for acceptance into the program,
please print and complete the appropriate applications
and fax the forms to +1-703-421-5828.

Verisign, a company intimately involved with the Internet at every level, wants faxed forms, in the year 2011? For access to the TLD zone files, something technical enough that a sane person must have been involved at some point? I can't decide if it's funny or sad.

I've always heard that faxes may have some kind of legal status that other electronic communications don't (why?), but this is just getting silly.
"When you say": yes, I mean using the default package available on wordpress.org.

Good luck.
Are you sure that yt$ will do anything if there is not a dollar-sign character on the line? Neither that or ct$ seem to do what the post advertises.
HN's IP, just in case: 174.132.225.106
OkCandidate, find out who you should vote for in the republican primary.
Yeah, but he ended up being able to wear a suit anyway, right? Do you think the equivalent scenario of a guy wearing a Hawaiian shirt at a traditional law firm in DC would've worked out? Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I suspect our free spirited DC lawyer would have been forced into a suit at the end.
Zynga Becomes Busted IPO In First Day
Want to know why they are shady? Are you able to find their company information or do they still own that PO Box based in Hong Kong? How can you be sure where the money from Mega Companies will go? Do you think they give (or would never give) anything back to the community by paying taxes or by financing any honest no profit initiative? I doubt it. I am not standing with the corporations but a company like Mega, in my opinion, is not their best answer.
1. Google promised 18 months. They haven't broken that yet.
Just don't tell me we need to have JavaScript on the server side too, for like, consistency, man.
Demanding people give their real names to reduce behaviour deemed unacceptable. I've heard that somewhere else recently. Trolling and protesting are two sides of the same die.
Excuse my ignorance, but what browser-based non-JS VM was introduced successfully? You mentioned this was done before, and I assume you mean it was done successfully, so just curious to know which one it is?
This was posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3358544 along with existing comment thread.
30 things to stop doing to yourself
<sarcasm>
Whatever you do do not use HOSTS file.

Do not run your own recursive or authoritative DNS server.

Do not use your own cache listening on 127.0.0.1

Do not use IP addresses.

Do not create your own aliases for websites instead of using DNS.

It will not work.

And terrible things will happen.

Trust me.

I've been doing this for 30 years and I am an expert.

You don't know what you're doing.

</sarcasm>
Really? I have had 3 jobs in my 7 year career as a developer. In each job, I have always given 110%, solved every problem given to me, and been 'the guy' who can fix things quickly when they break.
I'm a PHP developer by trade, recently our iPhone developer quit. I learnt Objective C in 2 weeks and am now maintaining two large iPhone apps as well as doing my PHP duties as a senior dev.

I have never asked for a raise, in my first job I started on 30k and was on 80k in 1 year (new zealand dollars). In my second job I started on 40k pounds and was on 50k in 6 months. In my current job (been here 3 months) I'm looking at a 20% pay increase in the next month.

Never asked for a raise. I just shine and get the karma back.
We don't yet have any official pages describing our internship opportunities, but we are looking for interns for the data team and software engineering team for the summer (http://www.factual.com/jobs/software_engineer and http://www.factual.com/jobs/data_engineer are good starting points for what the internships would entail). We are also looking for an MBA Marketing/Business Ops intern for the Winter/Spring quarter. If you'd like more information, please email me at leo -at- factual.com and I can answer more questions and introduce you to our hiring manager. Thanks!
Hitchens vs Blair: Is Religion a Force For Good in the World?
In another thread, dchest points out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3360369 that Lua 5.0 allows mixed-typed keys, too, so that may work.
You find what you're looking for, in porn as in just about any market.

Besides, you do not have the right to define what is humiliating and degrading for anyone else. You can only define that for yourself.
Yes, I thought HN prevented this. Anyway, see the above discussion and keep in mind this is a first rough draft.
Basic theory of expander graphs
Doesn't the porn industry demean and humiliate and objectify men, too?
Most of the Fortune 500s have enough data to theoretically have something to throw M/R at, though whether they'd gain from any particular project is anyone's guess.

e.g. At a national bank, determine whether distance to the nearest branch or ATM correlates with deposit frequency or average customer relationship value. Your inputs are a) 10 billion timestamped transactions, b) 50 million accounts, c) 200 million addresses and dates for which they began and entered service, and d) a list of 25,000 branch/ATM locations and the dates they entered service.

This is fairly straightforward to describe as a map/reduce job. You could do it on one machine with a few nested loops and some elbow grease, too, but the mucky mucks might want an answer this quarter.

I know the feeling, though: I keep wanting to try it, but haven't been able to find a good excuse in my own business yet.
I think a really great idea !

About design
* Give feedback button is really hidden, I think in general call for action button should be clearly visible, they very mixed with other buttons in your design. Give to some stranger and see how he sees your site, the first thing he will try to find something to do and if he doesn't find the right place to click the only person at loss is you.

* The light color over white is really bad combination until you want to hide that thing.The text "Map your life experiences and rediscover your past!" is invisible. Can you good contrast ratio over here.

* Can you put a register button at top also, will be good boost not to find the register everywhere else in page, or simply make it first thing visible on page.

* The color pattern ( the transistion from blue to white where you have orange slowly fading ) doesn't look good. ( Personal Opinion )
I think he was asking about displaying ads on his site - not buying ads.

I've tested a lot of services on several different sites and Adsense has consistently performed the best.

I have a range of sites earnings anywhere from $0.50 CPM to $50 CPM using Adsense.

It really depends on the type of site you run. Sometimes it's not even worth placing ads if your traffic or quality of visitor is low. You may do better with lead generation.

A couple of other ad networks you may want to test are:

http://www.azoogleads.com - for affiliate/lead gen opportunities
http://chitika.com - product based advertising

What kind of startup are you thinking about?
Well there's this list of companies "supporting" SOPA, but I suspect the biggest donors were the Hollywood studios and the music labels:

http://www.webpronews.com/a-list-of-sopa-supporting-companie...
The problem is they did not know there airspeed and they did not understand they where stalling. The airspeed issue related to simple icing. Stalling was a little more complex than that. They had plenty of indications that they where stalling one of the pilots simply did not believe them.
Show HN: Our Christmas project / present to Grandma
We made a really simple weba pp that people can use to share photos with their grandparents, who might not have a facebook account or in general are somewhat intimidated by computers.

Would love to get some feedback from HN, so we can make it better and make our grandma smile :)

You can check it out at: http://www.nannagram.com

launched www.nannagram.com. it's still a little rough around the edged, but we would really love feedback
It should, but it's only an exact url check.

Looks like the other submission links directly to the html file, while this one just goes to the parent directory.
I get what you are saying, but Congress has had a salary longer than attack ads.
FTA: "each of the OEM’s has been asked to quickly release binaries that do not contain Carrier IQ so that over-the-air updates can be pushed to those devices as quickly as possible. The eventual plan is to remove Carrier IQ from all of the devices on Sprint’s network."
clickable: http://www.nannagram.com
Thanks on all accounts! Willing to take comments from anyone else since I stepped out and asked!
If the contract lets them request the removal of any video, I imagine they would be in the clear. If it requires a claim of copyright, then perhaps not.

As for lying to a computer, I think that counts as lying to whatever organization is running it. Try lying to a bank's computer to tell it to transfer money from somebody else's account into yours, for example....
sopashame.com?
Canonical to forcibly remove Oracle/Sun Java JDK from Ubuntu users' systems