skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'd care more about the language if this was just some random blog... But these guys are a bit different. There's always some data and process explanation behind each of their posts. They might not be great programmers and OS contributors, but they're doing something really important anyway and are doing it in a pretty transparent way. There were many situations where I learned something from Phoronix or found a performance-related answer there. They're also a bit different from other blogs in that they follow up on a story. While others report "this is broken, whaaa!" and find a new topic the next day, Phoronix will write up posts about ongoing progress to fix the thing (typically).

For the effort they put into it, I can completely ignore the language they're using. And if they blame a specific thing/group... as long as they're correct - I don't mind :)
donated a 3D printer worth several hundred dollars for him to use at school.

Can a 3D printer really be acquired at this price level now? Does anyone have any model recommendations in this range?
Tumblr does the same thing. I've assumed it's a way to give users "ownership" of their pins, they can look at their pin as theirs and not just a +1 (like Facebook like button is)
hey - we didn't fail! We are "pivoting".
It's a cool looking device, and nice for them to offer them for free. We'll see if the community can invent some interesting uses for it. I couldn't begin to guess what you could do with such hardware
This is actually possible in Eclipse.
But I would prefer more upstream solution.
Could you post a screenshot? I'm with fferen, don't see any difference.
I believe that they have been running (and refining) this process since at least early 2011. It is surprising that they didn't do it from earlier than that, though.
Here are my problems with Affirmative Action.

1. Academic Mismatch - Those who benefited from AA often can't keep up. They often fall behind or transfer to an easier major.

2. Cascading Academic Mismatch - This mismatch is replicated everywhere because the top academic tier recruits the top 'racial balancing' students from the tier below it.

3. Academic Mismatch Semiotics - This mismatch encourages judging people by their race on campus. It breeds racial conflict(no matter how low level it may be) and reduces solidarity between peoples on campus.

Racial balancing and academic standards are at odds with each other. Schools that value racial diversity should set their academic standards appropriately.
Thanks ... we have bug tracking software, I was just asking about handling changing requirements
Aren't frameworks explicitly banned by the iOS App Store EULA ?
INoobs: Google AdWords – What it Takes and What it Means
How do you measure success in life?

I'd bet P[At Google | Caltech degree] is greater than P[At Google | Princeton degree], but it's mostly explained by P[interested in CS | Caltech degree] >> P[interested in CS | Princeton Degree].
a different way to represent esrauch's point: time is the dependent variable, not the independent.
McFriends: McDonalds Reimagined
Ditto. I grimace when I receive an invitation that has obviously been mass-sent. What happened to the personal touch? Seems like everyone just wants attention.
Screwdriver - quick, cheap, easy to use, intuitive. Can be learned once and carried around with you.

Car assembly line - lots of initial capital, specific to one kind of car, lots of time to learn.

Seems like a valid comparison.
I bump up against this problem myself all the time and it's so infuriating (doubly so when most of the domains you want are registered but not even being used).

Finding a domain name that is available, memorable, easy to spell, snappy AND which quickly gets the idea behind your product/service across is HARD but my advice is to persevere with it. A good domain name makes a big difference when it comes to user traction and seo (and, for me, just feels better than inventing some random name that bears no relation to the site).

A lot of the time I find the .com is taken (but not being used) and the .net is free. So I register the .net and then try and pounce on the .com when it comes up for renewal (this is an art in itself). If the .com gets renewed I occasionally (depending on how badly I want it) approach the owner and ask if they'll sell it (be warned some people have ridiculous ideas of how much a domain is worth).

An alternative is to try extensions other than .com (examples: .io .in .is .to). This is what pinboard.in did and I think it works (pinboard is easy to spell, memorable, snappy and does a good job of explaining what the site does). I use www.eurodns.com when searching for weird domain extensions (as you can check virtually all of them in one go).

Failing all of that, get a thesaurus, dictionary and a few bottles of wine and just lock yourself in a room until something clicks!
The curse of "Don't be evil."
First question: Who is Bob Dorf...
I think what Kickstarter is doing is awesome, it shows how new models for creation can emerge and empower people.

The only hiccup I see in this model is what happens with a bunch of the movies funded by Kickstarter that don't get distribution and such an exposure? Self-distribution is viable?
Isn't the name of the issuing CA inserted into the the blob of ASN.1 that the CA signs?

I'm sure there have been various proposals over the years to allow it, but I don't think current X509 PKI in browsers accepts multiple signers on certs (except for odd cases like countersigned timestamps for Microsoft Authenticode code signing).
Funding for an Innovative Arts Incubator
This article fails to mention that college admission is not based solely on test scores. Many Asians are almost solely test-driven and tend to ignore the other aspects of a "well-rounded" eduction.

I am sure if you looked at race-based stats on who played sports in high school (as opposed to test scores like in the article), you would see that Asians are way behind in that particular metric.

And while some may not think sports matter, colleges do. And it appears that there is good reason for this, as sports teach leadership, teamwork, how to perform under pressure, etc.

I would hope this lawsuit is thrown out, as this country really should not be encouraging "tiger mom" behavior as the right thing to do. Instead, if you want your son to get into Harvard, stop making him study 15 hours a day and get him into extracurricular activities.
I don't think anyone's assuming anything of the kind -- or if they are, they're both wrong and offensive.

Go up a couple of posts, and the question was whether a gap in average test scores is sufficient to determine that there is bias. If there are other non-quantitative criteria such as being "well-rounded", then the answer is no -- we can't make any sort of statement about bias from test scores alone.

Whether the subset of Asian students that applies to a particular school is more or less rounded and displays a more or less diverse array of talents than the subset of students of another ethnicity that applies to that school is an empirical question that I don't think any of us should hazard any guesses on without seeing some actual data. If there is data available on the topic, I would love to be able to review it.
Of course, somewhat ironically, JavaFX 2 runtime is available for Windows only.

And it is unlikely that WP8 will have a JVM.
Was anyone able to get fractional exponents to work? I tried several different ways of writing it and had no success.
Fail, pivot... what's the difference? Our failed technology just won the most prestigious nomination in the mobile industry

http://www.peek.ly/blog/buzz/gsma-best-technology-award/

Amol from Peek
Oh wow. This would make my iPad math game so much better. I already have handwriting, just no handwriting recognition...
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math-battle/id476344792?mt=8
Very interesting. Can you build an app (Android or other) that will read RFID data from a chip in a name tag and dump that data into the an IPTC field?
Honest question to the downvoters: All the libraries available at the time I was coding required a day or two of getting lost in documentation before I could use them. Has this changed in the past couple of years?
I dislike FB for the same reason I dislike Apple. They created yet another platform for me to worry about (creating FB Connect login and share functionalities).

Apple gave us the iPhone, which makes consumers happy, but now I gotta create an iPhone and iPad app in addition to a web app! I want the days back when all we had to do was create a simple website!
Chelsea (Manhattan), NY, full-time, H1B

Noom Inc. www.noom.com

We’re a 15-person startup with 10+ million users on a mission to help people all over the world lead healthier lives through the use of scalable mobile technology.

We need amazing engineers who want to make the world a better place, write elegantly readable and high-performance code, and get things done.

If you love tackling hard problems, want to work in an environment where you know exactly how critical your contribution is to the company, and you get a little high from finishing things better and faster than anyone else, we want you!

Here are some technologies that we work with on a daily basis (they’re not pre-requisites, just fun things we use right now, and the list will likely change as we grow): Android, iOS, MySQL, Hadoop, git, Java, Python and GWT. If you’ve never worked with some of them, that’s totally cool--you can learn them here. The most important thing is a love of creating great software and making a real, quantifiable impact.

If you’d like to hear more, please email us at: noom-software-guru@noom.com
> RepRap was the first of the low-cost 3D printers, and the RepRap Project started the open-source 3D printer revolution.

(from http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap)

I believe this is one, but you'll have to build it yourself after sourcing parts.
Has the Internet actually saved democracy?
I walked out of my math class to go upstairs to the computer lab and buy a postage label to email them. I'm really hoping to get one. It will be fun to play around with.
One could argue that among the most widespread OS's Windows offers the closest integration between language and OS via Powershell.
I wonder if data is kept to check who is downvoting what. Then pg could tell you.
At long last, malware scanning comes to Google's Android Market
How does VS2010 compare to vi when making a change to a config file on a remote machine?

He keeps banging on about fingers staying on the home row, but I don't really notice moving to the arrow keys, perhaps it's cognitively similar to switching to/from insert mode.

It's slower. I still move to the arrow keys in vi for some reason, and it noticeable slows me down when I do so. The physical movement of your arm there and back takes time, plus you can't run any other "right-hand commands" while your right hand is out of place. In terms of workflow there's no difference, but in terms of speed there definitely is.

I've not seen an emacs master at work, but I've seen a vi master at work and they are simply stunningly fast at manipulating the text. I've never seen a gui editor master come anywhere close.
That is my belief, although it is based on anecdotal evidence. Some (most?) hackers enjoy descending into and inhabiting continuously a low-entropy mind-state. There are others that would rather maintain some sort of fluidity between states, as inhabiting that low-entropy mind-state tends to come at the cost of human connectivity.
They also neglected to mention http://www.thingiverse.com/
Codecademy vs Bloc
yeah, it's only their recommendation it doesn't really matter what tag as long as you have the class here is the selector

[class^="icon-"]
I feel same way. FB gives you opportunities to make more connections, but not deeper ones. It's as if people turned friending ppl into collecting Pokemon. You're just a number - you gotta collect them all!
I'm enjoying the series so far. In part 3 I'd love to see something about the mechanics of executing the deals without getting burned. Stuff like finding contracts, escrow, etc.
Hey thanks.

I was thinking in general as well as things like partnerships and what not.
...yeah, it's got its warts (see wtfjs.com), but it's built on a very solid foundation. It does get a bad rap because of the poor (and inconsistent) design of the DOM, but if you play within its rules it can be very expressive and powerful.
I don't know the specifics of this case, but Google did start charging for Maps last year for commercial users, at least in the US. That may be enough to prove intent?
Why should startups offer live chat day one?
Why shouldn't there be affirmative action for Asians in sports? Why are jock parents better than tiger moms?

I really wish college sports were segregated by academics and were not just glorified development leagues for the professionals. Most of these college athletes have absolutely no business representing their schools. I didn't go to Stanford(I went to the UofI), but they are one of my favorite teams because at least I know those athletes belong in a college.
That's fine, but ending on a disrespectful tone is generally a bad idea.
Failing is falling on your face; Pivoting is turning right before you walk into a wall. :)
> Your future soda bottle will become a toy will become part of your shoes will become...

Our current and past soda bottles have become the great pacific garbage patch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

I think the future of recycling is going to be more largely affected by a reduction in consumption.
As someone who runs physical servers for hosting, you really get what you pay for.

I've had non-ECC RAM systems destroy database tables leading to data loss.

Systems with ECC are either able to correct the error (and log it), or throw the alarm bells. Even discounting RAM bit flips, simple bad RAM can destroy your data. Having an ECC aware system (including getting Linux to check the EDAC or have the baseband monitor do so) has saved me many times from failing hardware.
Certain markets have high barriers to entry.

If the local sandwich shops start charging ridiculous rates, it's not very difficult for someone to move in and do it for cheaper.

When Google owns all the cartographic data, how exactly do you intend to compete as a newcomer? Where are you going to get the 8-figure investment to even begin to make the smallest dent against the massive dataset you need to collect?

This is the problem with the perfectly laissez-faire view: it discounts the fact that there is, in many cases, a huge barrier to entry for all new entrants once someone has the market locked down.
I like being able to walk up to someone's computer and just use it or help them with their issue.

vi exists on pretty much every *nix machine out there. The only way this makes sense is if you mean "Windows computer", and even then extremely few of them have a text editor more complex than Wordpad, which has so few commands that yes, anyone can use them if they know ctrl+c/v and a couple of other things.
>"iCloud, Chromebook, and Kindle Fire/Silk Browser"

What do you do when the storm takes down your cable provider?

Or when you are beyond your cell phone carrier's signal?

And you have a project to get out the door.
So does this thing only have a mail application?
You can be all the IKEA you want....selecting tools that I love

Beautiful analogy, expect that it doesn't work here. You could be a craftsman and build an extremely solid and well designed backend. In the end consumers cannot appreciate your backend. A good example is I have no freaking clue what HN is built on. PHP? LISP? RUBBY?
the value of racial and economic diversity in the student population of a college is often underrated.

Then why are colleges fighting for the right to discriminate on race alone (I've seen nothing suggesting that they're looking for economic diversity)?

The claim is that a multiracial student body enriches the educational experience, and there's truth to that. But having representatives of many races actually does little. Having a wife of a different race, I think I'm qualified to claim that racial differences make up the smallest of differences between people. Far more important, in real life as well as outlook on the world, are factors such as religion, urban/rural living, size of family, and more.

I don't see schools concerned about the portion of the student population of Buddhists relative to Catholics, or that there are enough kids who grew up on farms. So long as they are pursuing only racial diversity, I think that their claims about the value of diversity are a sham.
> It is bad form on HN to complain about down

I was trying to make a meta-point. There are root posts complaining every article criticizing Google and Apple is flagged into oblivion while the same happens to comments that are Microsoft-unfriendly.

In this case, it could be the sarcasm too. Anyway, it could be more productive to point me why my sarcastic assessment is wrong.
Second, I wouldn't say AWS is unreliable.

First, I've emailed the Netflix team before. I emailed a whole bunch of different people on the team about some technical ideas and issues I had with the service. Without a single reply.
It's Q&A as well as notes, which are basically blog posts. We think that both will provide a nice structure for increasing relevance over time.
Ristrutturazioni
The most expensive calls you can make on Google Voice
SEEKING FREELANCER - Houston, TX - Remote OK

PHP / MySQL / Javascript / Jquery

Email: jobs@ontimetelecom.com
ZBrush is fairly intuitive. You paint the mesh into empty space. http://www.pixologic.com/home.php
It's got nothing. The mail application was a (relatively) thin client to a service that ran on AWS, and that service was shut down in January. The idea is that you'd write your own embedded code to make the device cool.

I posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3544436 with a bit more info on the hardware.
Facebook IPO: The Numbers Behind the World’s Most Valuable Social Network
Ask HN: Review my site - Infogr.am - easy infographic tool
Hi, my startup just launched it's first public beta - www.infogr.am It's a web-based software for super-easy data visualization and infographics. Interactive, non-flash animated infographics can be made in minutes.
We're launching Charts app today (for super-simplem charts) and Infographics app for more complex visualizations is coming soon. We'll be adding a more great functionality in next weeks. I'd be really happy to hear your feedback:) Tnx
fluid dynamics is anything but easy. current sandbox games (minecraft, dwarf fortress, terraria) implement water flows as cellular state machines. this is clearly wrong, because pressure is non-local, but computational expense of doing water correctly is prohibitive.
Failure To Launch: Lessons from the launch of Wahooly
"The Hacker Way" according to Zuckerberg:

> We think the world’s information infrastructure should resemble the social graph — a network built from the bottom up or peer-to-peer, rather than the monolithic, top-down structure that has existed to date.

How is Facebook not top-down? However it tries it can not be anything but top-down. Bottom up or peer-to-peer is bittorrent, RSS and SMTP. Protocols designed for distributed control. We need more of this, and less of corporate control.
Ask them to name a price, then double if not triple it. When I make an offer, I usually offer 1/3 of what I really am willing to pay for it. And don't back down.. they inquired for a reason - they want it badly.
getaddrinfo() edge case behavior on Windows, Linux and OS X
Definitely the dumbest article I've ever read on HN. I especially disliked the little math exercise at the end where the first 18-20 years of your life "spent learning" are removed from your total of possible happy time.

Don't waste .000041% of your life by reading this post.
What do you do when the storm takes out the road, and you have a project to get out the door?

If the "fat cache" still lets you work in a disconnected state (such as iCloud would let you), I don't see this as a problem.
Exactly.

The part that bugs me the most about the post is when it says "that's what we PHP guys do well: fail fast, fail cheap". Basically what he is stating is:

1) PHP developers are going to hit a wall earlier than other developers
2) PHP developers are cheap in general. How is that a positive statement, I don't know.

There's this stupid belief that by paying less for someone who does "a quick job" you can test a feature and then "build from there". It's bullshit.

From my own experience, I've regretted time and again hiring a cowboy (the fact that he was a PHP dev is not unrelated) developer just because we needed something "quick". What was supposed to be a 10-day deliverable turned into a 4-month mess of a codebase that I couldn't wait to rewrite. We ended up being hostage to our own code.
For the lazy http://Infogr.am
EFF ready to sue if "innocent customers" can't get Megaupload data back
A very comprehensive FAQ on "race" and "ethnicity" as those categories apply to college admission in the United States can be found at

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/12282...

The FAQ links to the relevant federal regulations defining the categories, and to guides to admission professionals on how to apply the categories, and to admissions statistics from a variety of colleges. Some colleges admit a substantial percentage of students who decline to self-report race or ethnicity, as is the right of every United States college applicant. Harvard, for example, has 12 percent of its currently enrolled undergraduates reported to the federal government as "race/ethnicity unknown"

http://members.ucan-network.org/harvard

(even though Harvard personally interviews essentially all of its undergraduate applicants) and another 10 percent of its enrolled undergraduates are international students, for whom race and ethnicity are not reported as a matter of federal regulation.

It will be interesting to see how this latest case turns out. As the submitted article notes, "While the Office for Civil Rights has the power to terminate federal financial aid to colleges, it almost always negotiates agreements with schools on steps required for compliance, rather than taking enforcement action, the Education Department spokesman said."
UPS? Fedex? Those work
Worlds first Desktop 3D printer for 300 USD
This is one of a hell of amazing product. Its the worlds first 3D Desktop printer developed by a 2 person Team
Bitwise operations in PHP including examples
You work on it locally, with your Fat Cache copy and your offline app. You sync up when the 'net comes back online. Should I ask you how you get your coding done when the power goes out? Either you don't get it done at all, or you write down ideas on paper. There's not much else you can do, and that's the way it is.

Frankly, I've only had about 10 minutes of total, unexpected and unavoidable network downtime in the last few years of my life. With a home internet connection and a smartphone in my pocket, if my power goes out I can work away online for hours and hours. Power outages and network outages happen so infrequently that if we have reasonably good offline apps and Fat Caches, we're good to go. And not only that, but we're approaching a place where can continue working almost uninterrupted if both the main power and the network go down.
Sure; will do.
This is true, but you would expect that "hacker employees" would make their products compatible with "hacker users."

My thoughts when reading Zuckerberg's letter (and I admit I only scanned it) were:
1. "Wow, this surprises me, but I actually agree with what he is saying." followed immediately by
2. "Waaaaaaait just one minute. Facebook -- externally at least -- embodies none of this!"

They have closed down what could be open. They are helping to ruin the internet by making walled gardens acceptable and the norm.