skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java, OpenOffice and MySQL are deffensive strategies. If corporations didn't see a viable option (and Linux was no such thing 7 years ago), even more of them would have gone the Windows route and Sun would have seen its high-margin Solaris/SPARC business collapse long ago.

Workstations with x86s pretty much eroded their low-end Solaris/SPARC market because even a low-end SPARC cost twice as much as a pretty decent x86 running Windows NT. That was the largest mistake - to allow NT to take a foothold in the low-end workstation market. This caused lots of sophisticated software being developed for Windows instead of Unix.

It's probably too late to develop a minimalistic low cost, sexy, sleek box running OpenSolaris out of a T1 or T2 chip, but I would consider such an all-or-nothing strategy to put lots of very cheap, conceptually advanced computers in the hands of students and researchers so to foster development of software that runs better on Sun architectures.

It's a good kind of vendor lock-in: one achieved by excellence. Sun is uniquely positioned to do that.

I hope they do. An x86-only world is dull.
Yes! EVERYONE calls me an idiot, he gets no special privileges with his generic attacks
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/
Interracial couples can never have pure-race children naturally. So would you say that makes them different enough that they should not be eligible for marriage?
Will Office 14 eat Google Docs’ lunch? Not necessarily
New Google App Lets You Bark Orders Through IPhone
Actually, that is my point.
ThatsMyFace - Facial Analysis and FaceStatues
How? How is that an important distinction? Do you honestly think your right to be with someone of the opposite sex is somehow better than someone's desire to be with someone of the same sex, and if so, on what rational grounds?
I believe the phrase you're looking for is: Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.
Wrong headline. "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

Wikipedia has not attempted to redefine the concept of truth. There is a point buried in here -- Wikipedia thinks something else is more important than the truth -- but these headlines obscure it.
Now, that was a cheap shot.
responding to them can easily take quite a lot of time away from your real work

After writing a book about an open-source project, I get a lot of questions by e-mail. My usual answer is "Ask the mailing list."

This is much better for everyone -- the answer becomes google-able, and they can draw from the experience of the entire community, not just me.
How Old Is Your Work Computer?
Median performance in shark wrestling isn't that appealing.
i was never enamored with denton's editorial tenure at valleywag (he seemed capricious and arbitrary about what you could shit-kick and what was a sacred cow)...but as a business owner he is spot-on. he isn't waiting for the recession to force him into consolidation, he's doing it proactively, on his time. the newspapers could be doing this, but instead are going to wait for the markets to back them into a corner.

in any case the bell was tolling for valleywag...there just isn't that much dirt in the bay area to dish on...i never knew how people managed even the contrived level of interest that valleywag generated
there... in context now.
A new journalism experiment: Source blocks
Defined how?

* A nun is married to God (in some religions)

* A priest is married to God (in some religions)

* A man can be married to more than one woman (in some religions)

* A woman can be married to more than one man (maybe in darkest Africa, who's to say?)

* A man can be married to a woman

* A man can be married to a tree (in India, true)

* A man can be married to a man

* A woman can be married to a woman

Why are you so sensitive about words, anyway?

Gay was defined for a long time to mean happy.

Conservative used to mean saving and preserving and conserving, instead of spending, destroying, and squandering.

Faithful used to mean good, just, and moral, instead of vituperative, devious, dim-witted, and delusional.

Words get redefined all the time. Get over it.
European debut for '$100 laptop'
Cool! Which simulation did you create?

I couldn't agree more that it's very beneficial to thoroughly document your code. If you're curious, here's a snippet I wrote yesterday to tokenize a .X geometry file: http://pastebin.com/f74646d17 .... that type of aggressive source-code documentation is how I write all my code. My process is basically to write each function's entire algorithm in English, then to write the actual code. The result is "free" source code documentation. I also don't lose any productivity doing that. Just the opposite... I'm certain that it's more productive to write each function in that way, because I am constantly spotting bugs while writing the pseudocode that I otherwise wouldn't have caught until runtime. It's very easy to "misspeak" in C++. It's not a very good language for communicating concepts. But English is, and so by describing the same concept in both languages, you end up simplifying your ideas more than you would by just "speaking in one language". The result is usually a much simpler algorithm.

Unfortunately, the misconception that "writing comments makes you less productive" combined with the (valid) argument that "good code documents itself" makes this style of writing source code less than popular. But oh well, at least I can benefit from it, and maybe someone else will try it.
I often fold it multiple times if it's not too nasty. Take 2 squares, fold, wipe, refold, rewipe, and sometimes once more. How anal is that?

Hacker News, where you Discuss your ass wiping Strategies(tm).
And who buys Sun boxes still, exactly? I mean I know there's a market, but isn't Linux (on Intel) eating their lunch?
with a few exceptions

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4837061

Government workers classified over 15 million documents last year, more than twice the number classified in 2001
MythBusting — Merb Style
You distort things enough yourself.
Each of talent, hard work, and luck is a necessary but not a sufficient condition: achieving great success requires all three.
Review: Sleep cycle tracking watch (with xml/csv data export)
Well... I am quite unlike the community you mentioned. As much as I like Linux, I despise the PC architecture (the clunky x86 is remarkably elegant when compared to the rest of a common PC - I imagine there is even an ISA bus buried inside the chipset) my computers use. I would much rather have a MIPS or ARM or SPARC based notebook instead.

Unfortunately, those are not being made mainly because any pc-class computing device must be Windows-compatible.

There is hope. Canonical recently announced they have a complete Ubuntu stack compiled for ARM. Maybe someone can make a cheap non-x86 usable desktop or portable computer out of that.

As for Lisp machines, it would be very interesting to build one these days. Anyone wants to guess what a Lisp CPU would look like if it could have been done with, say, a 45nm process?
Well. I am.
Why not have a real video on the front page explaining what your website is?
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. You seem to be saying that investors won't fund companies that both make something people (want), and who work hard, and implying that YC also has that problem.

But, YC is almost always investing in companies that have yet to make anything. Their entire business plan is about trying to predict which founders will have these two qualities.
Understanding Phishing and Malware Protection in Google Chrome
there are quite a number of them, especially in academia. the support contracts are ludicrously expensive in some departments i work with.
The install disks that came with my MacBook (bought last August) had the ability to install iLife with the rest of the operating system, so before you get tricky with FireWire, you should check to see if the program is on the install DVDs.
"Then amend the constitution, if it is so 'trivial'"...

I should probably clarify what I mean by "trivial" - I mean this relative to the usual process of amending the constitution. In a purely political sense, it was not "trivial" for the pro prop-8 even to get a 52% majority on this issue from a political point of view - it took a tremendous amount of money and effort.

What I mean is that the difference between getting prop 8 passed as a constitutional amendment and as a standard statute seems fairly "trivial" when you consider how profoundly different these types of legislation are... one is essentially beyond the reach of the courts.

I've read something similar to what jorgeortiz85 wrote - that a true structural change in the constitution can't be enacted with the "%50 + 1" initiative process.

But what I saw here was that prop 22 was passed by the voters, struck down by the courts as unconstitutional, and then resubmitted as an amendment. If it's not much harder to submit it as an amendment, then every initiative that could be deemed unconstitutional would just automatically be submitted as an amendment - and if the courts are lenient about allowing major changes to be submitted as amendments, then it would be "trivial" to use the "%50+1" majority to put minorities at a legal disadvantage, outside constitutional review.

As for what it takes... shoot, I'm really pretty ignorant here. I think it's just a matter of getting more signatures... I think it's about 50% more, but I really don't know, and I'm not sure how to look this up... if anyone does know, please post!)
I agree, it's incredibly generous of them and very helpful for the next generation of game developers to be able to read and use "real" code like this.

And I think that more or less all their engines have been revolutionary when they were released, not just this one!
Terms of Service Changes a Wild Goose Chase
No, your statement doesn't follow my logic.

1 OP: Hopes for Copyleft license.
2 My reply: [The public video] would belong to the State [therefore to US citizens.]
3 Your smart-ass reply: [Something else owned by the state, not public] belongs to the State, so it should be public.

I think yours qualifies as refuse by converse fallacy of accident. But you don't just make a wrong generalization, you also change the reason: copyright vs. disclosure.

If you followed my logic, it would be:

The plans of American nukes were produced by the government, therefore they belong to US citizens.

In fact, my post has a question mark as I am not a US citizen and I don't fully understand state ownership, so I wasn't even making a statement.

While there, as you came full aggressive, let's review your grammar:

* After ellipsis, capitalize (perhaps it should just be a comma.)
* [It's] American, not "american."
* Again capitalize after quotation mark. [Edit: Capitalize after question mark, not after quotation mark.]

And you are not quoting me or anybody else so there is no need of quotation marks.

My disclaimer: my English is poor as I am foreign and last time I studied logic was over 15 years ago.
Really? Which reasons?
So would you also deny that other words have meanings that have evolved and or changed over the years?

You keep using the word "gay" -- are you not aware that that word has changed its meaning?
Thoughts on the x86 Solaris workstations? <$900.

IMHO, the Niagra chips are nice, but are fairly specialized vs desktop chips. They're pretty well set up for lots of threads, but I donno how they'd do on the desktop. They're still sparcs, after all.
... to be super.
I think you missed my [question] mark. Unless you thought it was [a rhetorical question.] If [you thought] so, my inexcusably poor English structure is to blame. Thanks for the link, it is very insightful and adds to the conversation.

[Edit: My first comment used the word "belong" and not "copyright." It wasn't by accident as I was thinking it could be public domain.]
The economic and technological forces behind the collapse of newspapers
Google Actually Advertising Something? Chrome Ads Appear on LinkedIn
I'm no fan of x86, but the inside of these chips have kept pretty up-to-date. Also, they're pretty fast.

PCI & the Pentium's APIC took out a lot of the old kludgey stuff of the old PC arch.

IMHO, a removal of the older 16bit instruction set & 4 more registers would make many of us happy. Maybe Open Firmware :-)

Disclaimer: I use a Sun x86 box on my desk, and a mac laptop. So while I'm in x86-land, it's a distinctly different province than many others.

Anything else?
Votes without feedback are useless in this sort of thing, so let me give you my thoughts.

1) Why is the Terms page showing the terms in a flash scroll box? My main annoyance is that when I use the wheel on my mouse the terms won't scroll. Minor, but an annoyance.
1.a) Why do you separate Privacy and Terms with Help in between? Again, a nitpick but it's something I noticed.

2) Awesome logo! The camera with envelope on the side is perfect. The site seems kind of bland in colors (compared to say Vimeo)

3) Why no flash video tour on the homepage? As a new user, I don't understand why your site is worth joining when I'm already on Youtube and Vimeo.

Even though I have nitpicks and criticisms and only one applause, I do like your site, the simplicity of it, and the system. It looks good and I'll be curious to see how you do.
Off the top of my head, and based on assorted discussions with local geeks:

* Concern over the possible direction of JavaScript such that is gets burdened with a Java-esque type system and looses some of its dynamic sweetness

* A discussion on various ways to hook into core objects to extend behavior

* Exploration of non-browser uses for JavaScript

* Current tools and techniques for testing

* Comparison of various JavaScript interpreters

* Learning how to stop writing C or Java in JavaScript; i.e. understanding dynamic, protoype-based programming
We switched to Passenger on SportSpyder.com from a mongrel + mongrelcluster + apache setup about a month ago. The installation was dead simple and it seems to work great. We do have a memory leak some where and see RAM usage go up to the point where we restart passenger once a day but its nothing that's not manageable. This is with about 150,000 page hits a day (including bots).

Also I want to say Zed was very helpful debugging problems when we were using Mongrel in the early days and I appreciate his contributions.
Clearly, jrockway needs help.
Very interesting. I still contend that Google is taking a slow methodical approach to this browser. They're not content to just be bystanders in the browser war, they've yet to begin to fight.
This is one of the most ill-informed, arrogant, and naive things I have read on here in a while. That it was modded up boggles the mind.

Let me just pick off one statement, since I don't have hours..

'If I had the money I could easily build and design a better, sleeker MP3 player than Apple'.

Wow. Amazing that the market has misjudged your value to such a high degree. What is a fellow like yourself doing wasting his time saying 'I could' on HN, when you could be fending off starry-eyed investors held in thrall by your unblemished track record for leading the development of jewel-like portable electronics?

Sarcasm aside, have you ever designed a consumer electronics device? I doubt it.

But perhaps I've misjudged. Feel free to prove me wrong with:

Detailed renderings of your design. And by design, I don't mean an Apple fanboy rumor mockup - it should be something than can be manufactured in a price-competitive way.

A UI design that works better than the iPod.

Your design for an iTunes equivalent.

Schematic for the embedded electronics, providing better battery life in a small package. Provide plots for battery characterization (charging, discharging) for your prototype.

The user input device should be more intuitive than Apples', and not infringe on existing patents.

Demonstrable ability to hire, build and manage a team that can engineer the above.

Build the back end for the music distribution service. Make sure it scales to the zillions of users you'll surely attract.

Negotiate good pricing with various labels.

Build a payment system for music.

Select and manage contract manufacturing, negotiate the contracts, and keep breathing down their necks.

Predict demand and order accordingly. Make sure to corner the market on FLASH chips so that you wield a price advantage.

Last, but certainly not even close to least, market it.

I've probably missed a bunch of stuff (shock testing for one).

Perhaps you'll respond with: 'I was just talking about the device itself, not all that other stuff'. To which I would say, the 'other stuff' is just as important as the device. Unless you define market success as having a single prototype of a shiny piece of hardware that no one wants.

Even that takes a lot of skill, talent and hard work.
Well, they DID start with a niche, say no to the outside, dominate, then use that domination to leapfrog the competition into the mainstream, exactly how crossing the chasm says to. By design or fluke, it was certainly brilliant.
It really shouldn't be all that difficult to build a so-called "flying car" if your customer is the Pentagon. Just build a helicopter and put driveable wheels on the bottom. You'd probably want to add some kind of rotor-folding mechanism to enable it to fit on a road, but that shouldn't be too tricky either.

Building a flying car only becomes difficult if you need something that isn't incredibly loud, incredibly expensive and incredibly hard to fly. The military can live with loud, expensive and hard to fly vehicles, though.
"I'd also say yes heterosexuals are sure to raise kids better. What could be better than getting both a woman and a mans point of view on the world? :/"

How about the points of view of multiple women and multiple men? You make the mistake here of assuming that there only are two fundamental points of view, delineated by gender, that people are exposed to. By that argument, it should be trivial to map gender to things like political party, religion, or any of a number of other perspectives? That we don't see this suggests your premise is wrong.
I did, and then I went to the "New" page and voted up a couple of stories I liked.
He may have gotten it wrong that they were running FCGI instead of Mongrels, but I never got the feeling he was blaming Mongrel for the ~400 restarts/day.

"But still an inconvenience, naturally. Nobody likes a memory leak. So I was happy when a patch emerged that fixed it and we could stop doing that. I believe the fix appeared some time in 2006. So even when Zed published his implosion at the end of 2007, this was already ancient history."

I assumed the patch he referred to was for Rails, not Mongrel. And why would Zed make such a big deal about this in the first place if it were his own software's fault?
What???

Look into how badly boys do at school when there teachers are female - or how badly girls do when their teachers are men. The evidence is that neither do well in those circumstances.

Women and men are very very very different thank goodness. If you're missing out on either of them, you're missing out on a complete other world.
The statement "Because that's the way it is" springs to mind.
Programming Languages and Lambda Calculi
Essentials of Programming Langauges - MIT Press.
The future of photography
by putting on a robe and wizard hat?
I get the feeling that Zed is insecure about something.

"Normally I wouldn’t give a shit. Ruby on Rails is so far from my world right now that I don’t even really care. I play guitar and write with maybe some coding to pay the bills and that’s about it."

Man, Zed's too cool for Rails. He plays guitar. He doesn't care what those Rails people think. But let him post this one long rant to "clear something up"...
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang, a nice person and a pioneer of the web, must go
Or he could have a product that people want to use. The problem with Yahoo is not middle management, it's that they are irrelevant. (Flickr is nice, though.)
Because that way you'd lose the picture of the babe...

Agreed, though: an example of your service in action is the first thing I'd want to see (after reading the nice, simple explanation of what it does).
Two things:

1. You seem to have settled on a root cause ghetto shit-holes being the lack of social and cultural bonding rituals between one member of each gender. Generally, I look at cultures like that and see things like oppressive governments, lack of stable, productive economies, and the absence of anything resembling education causing strife? I haven't seen anything to suggest that oppression comes from the lack of observing ritualistic pair-bonds. Perhaps you have data to prove me wrong?

2. Marriage is not a natural system. Nor is culture, except for the tendency for humans to form them. That they manifest at all seems to be a product of human nature; how they manifest seems much more based on environment and random variation. Otherwise, our culture would be indistinguishable from that of everyone elses. Or are you suggesting that we are still in the process of cultural selection, and ours will inevitably prevail?
Unfortunately for those of us without American citizenship, or with spouses of the same-sex who are non-citizens, at the federal level the country refuses to recognize same-sex marriages for the purposes of immigration. In other words, our families are not given the same rights to be here. People in such a situation are given no respite through Massachusetts, though they are able to move to, for example Canada (which has much simpler immigration policies for skilled workers).
Well, I think the interplay is a bit more nuanced than that -- in fact, it is the pattern of subtlety that is particularly at play here.
yes we are considering seriously about adding a video tour to our site, however, we still could not find a inexpensive way to do it.
Sun makes great x86 kit. And Solx86 is a great OS.
my work pc is a dell optiplex gx270 2.6 GHz with 1 gig ram.
Most of these Classified documents will still probably be in the public domain before the any of the bond movies.
I want one....
Not really. Like HP and IBM, they have a big professional services/consulting/systems integration operation.
What do you mean by raising kids better? Single parents and same sex couples can both raise kids extraordinarily well; better than many heterosexual couples. And if this is a statement about averages, it is already generally agreed that restricting individual rights based on the properties of a group are immoral and wrong.
I'm more a fan of PFD - Personal Flying Devices http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0093.shtml
I'd be more worried about humidity, mold, radon etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_air_quality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon#Health_Risks_and_Epidemio...
thanks for your feedback.

I will work on 1 - 2 items

About 3 item, I will add more info on why Videoly. The service is about video messaging and not video sharing. Also, we have designed the site so that users can use the product without needing to signup. Won't that suffice ?
So I have to install proprietary software (Flash) in order to participate in our society? Nice...
hmm maybe it is not apparent and I will make changes appropriately. Clicking on the button titled "Send message Now" will actually take you to the service page without asking user to login or signup. We thought it will be a better option than explaining in detail what we do on the front page.