skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there is no rule of law in France. You just open your business and hope for the best?
As someone who knows Raymond personally and his body of work at Microsoft, I can attest to the genius part. His exploits in the Win95 days ( as one example), is part of MSFT mythology.
This is nothing but wild speculation.
You guys have got to integrate this with teachontablo or something similar. That would be simply awesome.
not to mention the services who depend on the availability of a free maps API
Yeah, I've tried it. I think it's unfortunate that they try to emulate Vim so closely. I love modal editing, but there are features of Vim (like VimL and the hacky combination of VimL and ex mode) that deserve to be re-thought, rather than re-implemented.
Reverse engineering the Nokia Maps 3D WebGL tiles
Network Link Conditioner - Simulate 3G connection with package loss
Craigslist does that with phone verification. You have to take a call or SMS with a code to enter on the website before you can post in a high-spam-risk category. That ties accounts to phone numbers which creates a much higher barrier to re-registration than just e-mail addresses or Facebook profiles, and makes the account traceable if authorities need to get involved.

That's part of the reason I created http://www.dialshield.com, a widget/API that lets anyone add phone verification to their website the same way Craigslist does.
Details on DataScope, JHU's new Big Data instrument
Maybe not 9x, but how about 3x?

You can rent 3 Hetzner servers to deal with 300% load spikes or improve reliability. And you're still 3 times cheaper then EC2.
I wasn't much of a Facebook user before joining the company, and using the site more frequently definitely made it obvious that a) I had been missing out on some useful news and b) I was wasting a lot of time on "friends" I didn't really care much about (not only reading time, but being angry that those people were behaving in a way that would lead me to leave in real life). Once the new subscription and friends list stuff was in internal testing, I spent 30ish minutes cleaning things up (including just unfriending people), and now my news feed sucks a lot less. Well, it did before I subscribed to tech journalists. Another cleanup awaits...
>the basic principle is part and parcel of every free market economy.

Is this a theoretical or empirical claim?
97% of US schools cannot afford Elsevier journals
Do these sites use a prebuilt CMS? Most have a cache plugin, and if you're not doing any caching of mostly-static pages, that'll probably fix all your problems instantly.
nice work nick and dave. looking forward to participating in batch[2].
I feel like I got the bait and switch. Glomar is (supposedly) deliberately used in situations where they actually have no records in order to maintain the non-revelatory nature of the Glomar response, so your conclusion is not entirely accurate.

That having been said, I am not aware of any specific cases where that behavior has been confirmed (i.e. a request which received a Glomar response was later answered with a lack of records), only the eventual release of records. Not sure if this is selection bias or confirmation of intuition, which is that the only reason to say "We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of X" is because X exists.
Terrorism, initially, described acts performed by a government. Interesting that people consider this to be absurd nowadays.
A file system for generic purpose has only one primary feature: "Don't lose data. Ever." If I pop the SATA cable off my drive while writing, the filesystem should later remount in 100% uncorrupted condition with whatever data it had time to write to the disk. I don't want to run fsck or use debugfs to recover from a hairy state. Backups or RAID-1 take care of physical failures of the disk.

Beyond avoiding data loss, anything else is ultimately secondary. Speed is nice but near-average filesystem performance is all right for a HDD. SSD gives you more speed. Totally abysmal speed might be a reason to switch filesystems—though, I'd still take the abysmal speed if it saved me my data and the faster filesystem wouldn't.

Due to this conservative approach, switching filesystems is really hard. I've been using ReiserFS since 2000 or so because it hasn't failed me once. I've had HDDs going slowly broken and lost some individual files until I cloned the old disk to a new one. But I've never had to fsck, defrag, recover, or anything my ReiserFS partitions. Never. It's getting harder and harder to switch. A conservative alternative would be ext3 but ext3 has lost me data on another computer.

I have some interest in btrfs but I probably won't switch until I have to. XFS would be very interesting but not just worth the risk because ReiserFS is good enough.
They are well known in Germany, they've been one of the biggest, if not the biggest, provider of VPS and colo services over here since the mid 90s.

The recent buzz is the first time I see them mentioned on US-centric sites though, if memory serves.

As for your question, it appears that many people find the price/performance ratio of the EX 4S compelling.
> It sounds to me like they wouldn't be against accepting patches that makes Wayland work on other platforms, just that they aren't going to do that work themselves. At least that's what I get from this quote,

As far as I can tell, they are not willing to add abstraction layers to accommodate other operating systems. (Or even GFX drivers that don't implement the KMS interface). If you wanted to port Wayland to BSD or OSX, you'd effectively have to implement most of the modern Linux graphics stack on them.
New pocket projector for your iOS devices
Amazon.com buys TeachStreet
Looks like it knows it's supposed to print "sin" and "cos" in non-italic text, but not the 'd' in \int x d x.

Extremely neat in any case.
It's imprudent to decouple popularity from price. Would you invest in Facebook a $200b valuation? $500b? Popularity is already priced in by the market.

To invest, you need to have a fundamental belief about the long term prospects of the company above that of the market. I think better answers would be "I think Facebook is a $150b company, so yes" or "I am 50% more bullish on Facebook than the market" or "I think I will be able to sell to people in the future who will be 50% more bullish on Facebook at that time."
I know of a guy who changes his birthday every month on FB just to see who wishes him a happy birthday. Every single month the same people fall for it.
Don't click on that link. It could create a black hole.
Actually it's a really fair comparison, for the price of the AWS service you can buy 9 hetzner instances. So you don't need to spin anything up, just buy it.

A long term contract is the perfect comparison because it's a similar service, you know you'll be using the capacity so you pay up front to have it 'reserved' and in exchange receive reduced prices. Normally with EC2 you'd buy 1 instance and then spin up 8 more on demand, with hetzner you just buy 9 machines and pay the same price you'd pay for 1 AWS machine. When your load spikes you've got 8 extra machines to handle the load. Voila, "auto scaling".

I don't know very many businesses that need to scale beyond 8X capacity for an afternoon. If you really think you need the EC2 API to add and remove machines on demand just install UEC.

It may be comparing apples to oranges but I can tell you that when I need fruit if apples are a $1/lb and oranges are $9/lb I buy apples.

Personally, I think the XS29 @ $299 per month would have been a much better comparison, with 15 drives you could push through some serious IO which would make it suitable for running a database on.
35 years in prison would be a pretty bad ending, and he's still being prosecuted for that.
It's the classic linking problem - if you write a plugin in $LANGUAGE, the end-user has to have a Vim compiled with $LANGUAGE support.

My favorite example is Command-T. In order to link VimL to C, he had to write a Ruby extension and use the Ruby interface. Which is a total pain.
Show HN: Finch.js - Powerfully Simple Javascript Routing
Ask HN: Best server solution for file storage/sharing
I've been looking at various solutions for a file sharing site - what solution seems most logical for file sharing? Amazon? Hetzner? Something else? Looking forward to responses!
SAM ( http://www.brighteroption.com ); we were in the closed API program and have been running for about a year and a half now.

Don't let the marketing talk of the homepage fool you into thinking we are all social-mediay-businesslike, we run on smart code and awesome client servicing.
" It has only been about a year since I even realized that Task Manager is available as a right click on the Taskbar - and I still tend to use the three fingered salute in the heat of the moment caused by something going amok."

I also didn't know this. I've been ctrl+shift+ESC for the longest time instead.
This seems like an error; I'm pretty sure that song is long out of copyright. (GMEA can claim copyright on a particular performance of that work, but how does it know?)

Anyway, the transcript is the only important part; the sound is a computerized British voice reading the transcript with some classical music in the background.
What's stopping a startup from disrupting the academic publishing industry?
With the boycotting of Elsevier and the numerous other complaints about the industry I've seen over the last half year here, I wonder: Why doesn't a startup nonprofit completely demolish the pay-to-play publishing industry overnight?

The technology is painfully simple. What non-tech hurdles exist that make this a hard industry to own?
I am a bit surprised that you say courier services are poor in India. I think they are fantastic! They are extremely cheap, very fast within cities (my corporate package guarantees 24 hours within the greater bombay area and most packages from the morning make it by the afternoon), reasonable within the country. Insuring packages is cheap, you can arrange cash-on-delivery, signatures, etc.
Facebook won't be in the same shoes as MySpace because it was not sold at a "quasi-dipshit" price after less than three years to a massive media conglomerate [see also AOL].

Instead, Facebook has focused on growth and Zuckerberg has maintained a huge ownership stake.

Indeed, MySpace was vulnerable to such a sale because it was a division of a larger company and its founders did not have the sort of control over its destiny that Facebook's founders have.
My dad owns a tool and die design/engineering shop, they generally make fairly small, specialized parts for automotive design. When I was young, I went to work with him to see what he does, and noticed a wax model of the project they were working on. He said they model the project by hand to get a good vision of what they were designing (this was before 3D CAD came around). When they were nearing completion, they'd present the wax model to the customer to make sure all the specifications were right. If they were, my dad would complete the design and send it out to the die makers. The die makers loved having a handmade physical model of what they had asked for before they paid for the completed design (which could have had unseen errors).

Fast forward a few years, and my dad acquired a competitor who happened to have a 3D printer. Now my dad's company would make the design, print it out, and show it to the customer. One customer did not like this at all, so much in fact that they sued my dad's company. If the engineers could make these parts themselves, how long until they could make them with metal? How long before the die makers were turned redundant? The die makers have a lot of money invested in very expensive equipment to make these parts, and now 3D printers can make plastic replicas of them much cheaper (though there are obvious downsides in terms of scale and tolerance).

When the company filed suit, they dropped the contract with my dad's firm (which happened to be the die maker's only design shop) and spent all their contingency funds on the suit. The company was bankrupt before it ever saw court. So yeah, this technology has a lot of important industries very concerned.
PHP for Android adds a new Dimension to app development
They got past that in 2008 and the SEC said it was ok since most of the shareholders were employees.
> If I can only be fluent in a highly specialized
> environment, in a sense, my skills become less
> portable. I like being able to walk up to someone's
> computer and just use it or help them with their issue

This is a non-issue. There are no versions of Windows, Linux or OSX that allow all text boxes to use Vi keybindings. The idea that if you started using Vi or Emacs bindings in an 'enlightened' editor, that you would lose the ability to edit textboxes on other computers is a straw man.

You could similarly say that you don't want to use VisualStudio because it would affect your ability to help out Eclipse users or vice versa.
WebKit isn't the first with the new today. In terms of features Firefox and Chrome (not WebKit generally, specifically Chrome) are pretty much neck and neck. They each have their priorities which reflects which "beats" the other in specific features. Chrome has already released Web RTC and Web Intents, Firefox has already released calc() and (current) IndexedDB.

I think you're referring to Firefox from a couple of years ago, their pace has ramped up since they moved to rolling releases.
Visualize Facebook's IPO prospectus
> But I guess they'll be forced to add some layers sooner or later. Having too few of those can be just as bad as having too many.

The main thesis of Wayland is that they won't add abstraction layers. If you want to support the Wayland protocol on another os without Linux facilities, or if there is new hardware or changes in the drivers that don't fit the Wayland model, Wayland will not expand to those needs, but instead a new display server should be built to serve them.

Small projects to specifically fit the needs of the users, instead of one large one that expands to serve all badly.
Voted down eh - obviously some one doesn know how the real world works. The 35 hours story is direct from a senior player.
They’re not free. Just enabling SSL costs 500$ for setup and then 100$/mo (compare to 20$/mo for Cloudflare). And they charge for bandwidth and requests.
I'd rather install a browser plugin than run a Java applet.
I researched this article for 3 days before writing it and was unable to find a single instance where documents were Glomared in a case where they actually had no records, nor even a reference to this notion, so I don't know where you're drawing that conclusion from.

The truth table should illustrate this point, and the conclusion should put it in a critical light, so I don't know if 'bait and switch' is really a fair assessment. I think this was pretty honest.
I loaded the page in IE8 and it's barely readable. Almost nothing shows up. I guess that's the score itself.
How come we assume that Google is going to start charging as soon as competitors died?

Google are already charging for Google Maps access.
I read this as "new pocket protector" which would be a really awesome case. I'm disappointed.
Husband-Wife Designed Eye3 Hexacopter Flying Robot
I didn't know that CTL-SHIFT-ESC would bring it up until now.
Ask HN: Common mistakes for filing a trademark for an Internet startup?
I have the domain name for the company we're trying to startup. I've done some brief research on uspto.gov (Word and/or Design Mark Search Free Form) and didn't see anything that seems conflicting, so we've filled out a trademark application form.<p>Before we file it, are there any common pitfalls for filing for a trademark for an internet startup, either on the application or elsewhere?<p>Thanks in advance.
PHP and the Lean Startup
It'd be great if this supported BrowserID.

Edit: Oh, hey, there's a bug filed for that: https://github.com/omab/django-social-auth/issues/228
> PS: MathML seems to get little attention, why is it so?

MathML is hard to write and harder to read. The only time I pay any attention to MathML is when sites do not have TeX as an option. Others may feel differently, but this is my reason.
Can anyone who is more familiar with European politics give their impression of how successful these country-specific anti-ACTA protests are likely to be? I don't dare to hope that we'd actually manage to totally derail yet another of these bills, but my spirits would be bolstered if at least one leading European country failed to ratify it.
> If your website can only handle 25 hit/s because you're killing MySQL with SELECT* FROM ALL type commands the CDN is not going to do you much good.

It will, if you set proper caching headers.
Your Brain on Scrum
> Without facebook, I'd have no idea cousin X is having a baby

Maybe I'm taking this a little too literally but I find this statement disturbing.

How can someone not know that one of the biggest life events happened, one that takes 9 months at that, to a family member without being on facebook?
They did that as a response to those lawsuit (in France and elsewhere) It's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.
Social video sharing app ShowYou goes deep with v3.0
Is "the critic" necessarily an anti-pattern? I felt a bit like this when I was a CTO, but I didn't have a choice - my CEO wasn't technical enough to understand how complex the things he wanted to do were.
ARM CEO believes Windows 8 will beat Android in tablets
Microsoft makes fun of Google with Gmail Man video, again
> So, if they threaten it, it can lower it's prices for a while to compete, until it destroys them.

Thanks, this argument for antitrust laws is new to me. Is this a standard argument in economics, and do proponents of the free market have some standard answer to it?
https://greenhouse.lotus.com/ghouse.nav/header.js

Their javascript writes javascript which writes HTML/XML? For their sanity, I hope that's generated somehow.
One of Unicode's goals is that you can convert any character set to it without losing information. When you have multiple forms proprietary character sets used by cellphones that have emoji you need to be able to represent all of them.

That is how you end up with snowmen and this character.
Yup, spot on. You'll notice that the massive, visually appealing sites and apps (Flipboard, Instagram, for example) cater to a different audience and are arguably more suited for monetization: your "sponsored pins" idea - subtle additions to the natural eye flow down the page, BUT using the data that Pinterest has on your profile to show sponsored pins that you would actually WANT to see.
Well, I am referring to the image the (slightly techish) public has of Firefox as an outdated, slow competitor to Chrome. As I follow it's development closely, however, I am aware they are getting better again and this I why still use it as my primary browser.
There's a couple of discussions on Reddit related to this particular video which offer some interesting criticism:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/nrxme/minecraft_g...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/p7lyz/minecraft_p...
This isn't a new project -- I first discovered and used it on a social video app I helped build for a startup last summer. That said, it's well-written and the de facto standard for integrating facebook authentication (though it supports many other backends) in Django apps. Recommended!
This is the piece we (Khan Academy) need to create a compelling math exercise experience on tablets. Playing around for a few minutes, this product seems to be way ahead of anything else out there.

If you're the creator, should I go through the contact us stuff on your website, or is there a better way of discussing possibilities with you?

(edited: @gpakosz contacted me on twitter)
Lexus Rolls Out App That Mimics Facebok Timeline
> What makes the planes into the world trade center more evil than the hundreds of thousands of bombs used to blow up suspected enemy hideouts in iraq, Iran and Afghanistan?

What makes targeting civilians more evil than targeting militants?
I've almost never seen an upright 'd' in mathematical literature, though it seems to be somewhat more common in engineering texts. Ditto for the imaginary unit 'i' and the constant 'e'. Matter of taste.
I used to hook up auto completion to my tab key in vim, worked fine in c/c++ at the time. It would pop up a window of the options, but I stopped using that feature at some point.
How Apple Can Win Enterprise
> There are also weird words that Indians use that are Latin rooted words, but uncommon, like "lacuna". I have never met an American that uses that word, nor an Indian that doesn't know what it means.

I am an Indian and I have never heard of the word "lacuna" used in the two Indian languages that am proficient in (you do know that there is not one "Indian" language, but many many of them, don't you?)
BI/Analytics on NoSQL: Review of Architectures Part 1
Five Things to Do Instead of Protesting the Research Works Act
Pinewood Derby Instant Replay System
It is too early to tell which countries will ratify it and which won't. From what I know it hasn't passed through the EU parliament either.

Also, I'm pretty sure that many governments simply signed blindly, either not fully grasping the effects of ACTA or simply responding to pressure from the U.S. which I'm sure highlighted the upcoming SOPA/PIPA and how ACTA is an international treaty that aligns everybody with SOPA/PIPA and the DMCA.

If SOPA/PIPA fail it will be like a cold shower to many. I'm also sure that opposition wasn't expected, like the protest of Pols which took it to the streets (I have a newfound respect for Pols btw).
The protests in Poland are actually creating more of a storm than I ever expected them to. We will see what will come out of it, but at least the government is now very aware that this is a controversial treaty that can't be signed just "because everyone else did".

Also, it seems that at least the prime minister and his aides simply did not realize how far-reaching and controversial ACTA is. They certainly do realize that now.
I would second this, start a niche interest in a hobby or passion of yours. Try to grow it to create a phased transition out of your current situation. Having a secondary interest can also help avoid burn out, which you may be experiencing the first phases of. If you have hardware and embedded experience you have an advantage. Most developers are pure software technologist. There is a lot of money out there looking for hardware/software innovations. Embedded can be lucrative as a side venture.
I agree, and I am not aware of any cases of this having come forward (although, to be fair, they cannot declassify a non-record).

The notion comes from the fact that the response is supposed to be fundamentally different from saying, "those records are classified," which is totally allowed by FOIA. The very reason for the existence (and general acceptance) of Glomar responses is that they do not confirm the existence of the records. So what that means is that a Glomar response could be made to a request for which the records do not exist.
I think it's about time a startup is used by women in majority.

The fairer half are a grossly underserved audience, there are lots of opportunities and I hope Pinterest is the first of many to build on it.
Before doing anything clever/expensive, why don't you try CloudFlare?
With FB's IPO imminent, they should take some of that cash and buy Pinterest (Andreeson is invested in both anyway).
2) Will you do movies? I'd like to know what shirt Daniel
Craig is wearing in several scenes from "The girl with
the dragon tatoo" -- I'd like to know what shoes and suit
Ryan gosling was wearing in "Crazy Stupid Love" etc...

I wouldn't be surprised if there were women who were interested in dressing up their boyfriends, fiancés, and husbands as Ryan Gosling, too.
Ask Matz: why the id of nil is 4?
Celebrating Relative Accomplishments with Facebook