skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to note that this isn't a budget issue. The CS dept was cut by $1.7M, but the athletic department had their funding raised by $2M (total athletic budget is $99M).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/04/22/univer...

Interestingly, the state government seems very supportive of STEM and has thrown $49M at the creation of Florida Polytechnic University. It seems it's merely the university administration that wants to cut it.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/scott-approves-state...
Show HN: 5in5NYC - 5 NYC startups, 5 minutes each.
What causes brain freeze?
Why shouldn't the kernel be using as much memory as possible? It's not like big disk caches or what have you cause your memory to go bad? As long as you get it back when you need it, who cares?
It was originally, but I don't think it's controversial to say it wouldn't be in its current state as a 1-man project.
Major downtime at the Toronto Sun
I have been playing with scraping for quite some time now and have my own scripts and stuff, but I found that video informing and there were a few useful snippets I had missed.

Keep meaning to check out more of the Pycon vids
Show HN: ChartBRAIN - Video playlists from the top music charts.
I always wonder, will what works for pg and other famous people work for me, a relative zero entity?

It's great that they have these ideals now that they are esteemed critical thinkers, businessmen, and artists. "Would they have been more or less successful if they had had these ideals back then?" is the question that I would like answered.
Mmm...so this was a test that compared a production server that is presumedly under load against a test server that is seeing no load other than the testing?
The Apache Tika™ toolkit detects and extracts metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries. You can find the latest release on the download page. See the Getting Started guide for instructions on how to start using Tika.

I read that and I still don't get it, but I can't find any other information on the site. Can someone provide a specific example of what problem this project solves?
That's what I expected given the title of the submission.

Am I missing the reason for your comment?
Oh, that's just a typo. My bad.
Edit: there, corrected.
MU is a term frequently used in Health IT field. I'm not sure if the actual customers (physicians/doctors) will know about the term. Unless of course, there is an internal "IT evaluation team" evaluating the product and then I don't think design/UX matters anymore.
Personally, I wouldn't be focused too much on university and your age doesn't matter a whole lot. While a degree in CS is a nice feather in your cap, I've interviewed (and unfortunately had to work with) people who had the right credentials on paper, but couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag. IMHO, there's only two things you need: passion and aptitude. If you lack either or both, perhaps being a programmer isn't the right career choice for you.
Nope, but that doesn't make the words, or the obvious impact they had on the artist, any less important.
I suppose if you think about things in general, all design is just words, shapes, and pictures organized in an aesthetically pleasing and functionally efficient way. This is a wallpaper, so there's less of the latter. :P
One way to get into operations (albeit not a pleasant one) is through helpdesk jobs. These are typically repetitive and low paid but if you can get in with the right company and prove aptitude there is often a concrete career path.

It is important to get in with the right company though as many helpdesks are basically outsourced to the lowest bidder and end up being dead end script reading jobs (done those myself, do not recommend).

One company that might be worth looking at would be Rackspace (they host the website for the British Army so I would assume they are not anti-military) they are also a pretty large and growing company.

Another option would be to work with a small web dev shop. Usually they are not looking for uber-coders but for people who can produce consistent work on time.
Also Linux knowledge (if you also know your way around Apache) tends to be very useful to these guys as they may be so small that they don't have a full time sysadmin on staff and are constantly being frustrated by the slow response times of their hosting providers support staff.
It seems like you read to the third line but missed the fourth and fifth.
Linus Torvalds receives 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
It's hard to reliably infer causation from the correlation, but from the statistics I can find, even holders of "useless" degrees have significantly lower unemployment rates and higher wages than people who hold no degree at all.

In fact from what I can find the employment/wage gap between degreed and non-degreed people is actually larger in non-STEM fields. You can get work as a no-degree-having programmer or statistics guru, but if you're not technical, having no degree is a much bigger problem. Among miscellaneous jobs that often advertise that you need a degree: store manager, social worker, high-school teacher, most white-collar clerical positions in large companies, etc.

Sometimes any degree will do. It's not like IBM hiring an office assistant with "B.A./B.S. strongly preferred" is deeply interested in the content of a university literature curriculum, but they use it as a generic screen for some minimum threshold of literacy and maybe diligence. Companies seem to have no way of doing that screening themselves, so they outsource the job to universities, hoping that universities screen out the worst candidates.
Dropbox has pretty harsh bandwidth limits for files that are hosted publicly, mainly to avoid becoming a cheap & lazy webserver for everyone to use. They additionally have the difficulty that the photo could change at any moment -- so photo URLs from their CDN have all this complicated versioning:

https://photos-1.dropbox.com/pi/2048x1536/UoBdS4hHgypeXF5Ge8...

I guess my point is that it would be great, but you can have imgur or Dropbox -- not both.
While Microsoft is making a tidy profit from these patents, keep in mind that they have a +- 3% stake in Facebook. I'm sure they would love these Yahoo! lawsuits to go favorably for Facebook.
Skilled troll, or unintentionally funny?
Really useful app, and so so simple. Who did you use to power your SMS?
You pay the $99 to Apple, then you can associate XCode with a local phone and develop/test your app. You can also get the UDID number from another person's phone, and distribute the app to them to beta test. I believe there is a limit of 25 beta testers + the developer's phone.

You can also use testflightapp.com which has its own SDK and will notify people on updates and has a pretty good customer experience manager built in, allowing you to get feedback from within the app. Apps can be deployed through them for beta or production and you can collect a number of metrics. I've not actually worked with it yet - I'm at roughly the same stage you are and am buying an IPhone today to test my app.
I just watched the first half of it and thought the acting was just slightly better than the acting in Act of Valor ("real Navy SEALs!" in a movie about Navy SEALs).
Sun's Tim Bray on Java under GPL: 'There will be lots of forks and I approve'
Actually using this as my desktop. Works beautifully; serene, subtly invigorating.
Nice work: the hand-painted lettering and well-chosen vista add power to a message one can never really hear too often.
Very interesting. I was agonizing over the weekend about which stack to use for a new project. I know Rails really well, but Express/Node.js is so hard to ignore these days. This solution seems like the best of both worlds, but I'm still not sure how it works:

In the described scenario, Django loads to initial page with the Backbone.js/Socket.IO code and Django continues to handle all post/put/deletes while Socket.IO delivers all the "get" requests via web sockets?
App Review: ScoreMobile
Wow, are you wrong.

First off, at any decent school the CS curriculum focuses on theory and other things that are relatively slow changing. Big O theory, language parsing, etc are absolutely just as relevant now as they were 10 years ago.

Second, it is asinine to suggest that people with CS degrees don't get interesting jobs. In the end, people with good degrees just have access to a superset of the jobs available to someone who skipped school. Both can be hackers who make cool web apps, or iPhone apps, etc. But only one has the ability to go to Google or Facebook and work with machine learning algorithms. Or go to Apple and work on the iOS platform. Or go to Pixar and build the guts of their rendering engine. That's the value of a degree - there are a lot of really awesome jobs that are very likely out of reach for you having never gone to school for CS.
I read another comment from comet that had a quote on a post that just left the front page about Feynman burning out that I think might answer your question. You can do it all, be successful, happy, driven, and have what others might think are unobtainable ideals all at the same time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877084
This reminds me of a Zen Buddhist text that goes like this - “The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in everything he does, leaving others to determine whether he is at work or at play. To him, he is always doing both.”
I doubt many 40+ programmers are going to come out in support of this article. In cases of discrimination, you are labeled a crybaby so it's better to just stay quite. HN is mostly young and the only 40+ ones here are the type who like puzzles or in top 1 percentile of programming (e.g. patio11). For a vast majority of 40+ programmers, the reality is as grim as painted in this article.

If you are not in top 1 percentile of programming abilities, you better move to management. This is hard for someone who isn't verbally aggressive. Positions for management require X years of managing Y employees so if didn't make the move early on, you are doomed. Given that there isn't a puzzle/test type of way to rank managers, the management positions get doled out as opposed to competed for. You have to be in the shoes of a 40+ programmer who is not in top 1 percentile to know this :-(
Yes, exactly. I was noting the amusing fact that Dropbox uses S3, but using S3 alone already offered exactly the functionality they're launching today for less money. Dropbox is adding is a brand name and an easier-to-use GUI.
It was a billion in nominal value, but most of that was Facebook stock (at a valuation of $75B, thus all the stories last week about whether the IPO would cover that or not).
IPhone 4/4s Vans case, to buy or not to buy?
They do build those for you after you pay the $99 developer fee.

XCode allows you to develop for the emulator for free, but, to deploy on any phone - including yours, it requires membership in their developer program.
If you're interested in how little programming languages change over 40 years check out The Next 700 Programming Languages[1], from 1966. Sure, it's easy to point out advances like ATP or modern concurrent, generational GC, but the underlying ideas are relatively constant.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf
Thanks! I'm using Nexmo.com.
Time travel (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.3/static/c0503.htm) was deprecated in 6.2.

> There are several reasons for this: performance impact, storage size, and a pg_time file which grows toward infinite size in a short period of time.
> I'd been a typical HN-reading, Ayn Rand-quoting, John Galt aspiring-libertarian. Slowly, I began to realize the role of luck and circumstance. I used to look down on the poor, writing them all off as lazy and not willing to work. "How dare they be poor and have a TV!", I used to think.

Wow. I've come to expect a certain level of hypocrisy from a lot of libertarians, but this is a pretty stark example of it. By all rights, you qualified as one of the "moochers," yet you were perfectly happy to denounce those like you.

Thanks for sharing your story.
Glad to hear it. Signup and you'll get an invite before long. The craftsmanship shows even better in the product than in the blog posts. ;-)
Inside the Oracle vs. Google courtroom: questions, code, and a file cabinet
Cloud storage for Windows available anywhere
So, rather than update themselves and make up all that lost ground from getting too comfortable, they'll try to keep in place the old legacy systems only they can maintain.

The flip side of that problem is dealing with the bright young things of all ages who thinks it'll be a couple of weeks work to rewrite that COBOL legacy app in in Clojure/MongoDB. Y'know - the one that's been correctly doing the interest payments for the last twenty years. How hard could it be?....

Guess what's not fixed one year and £200k later... :-)
/r 1920x1080 please
Because he's not getting it back when he needs it?
Health tech trends mobile with $10m 'tricorder' prize
"Most people in their forties who are still cutting code have been through three or four 'fashionable' languages"

I'm not sure where you're located, but in my experience even in Silicon Valley this is very rare. Most of the older engineers are either all about C++ or Java. A few may tinker a little with a new language, but they rarely take a risk to do more serious work with them. Moreover, many of them just transition to managerial positions. This is even more pronounced in less progressive metros like the South Eastern US.

I feel that one main reason I've been able (and will continue) to avoid this trap of comfort is because I'm a neophile.
I dunno. I look at those same numbers and read "They've just blown through 25% of their cash on hand within a week." Something's weird. Could be they know the IPO is going to be huge, or they have a new revenue source, or they're desperate the IPO is going to tank and need to look wealthier than they are. But that's a high burn rate even for Apple or MS.
Feeling a pressure from Cubby I take.

Sharing anything with a link has always been LogMeIn's thing, and their Dropbox clone (called Cubby and released into beta last week) also has it. But you know what else LogMeIn's stuff has that Dropbox doesn't? Client-side encryption. I wish Dropbox reacted to that.

[0] http://b.logme.in/2012/04/18/introducing-cubby/
In the vast majority of Chicago, buildings are generally no more than 4 stories tall. Usually just 2 or 3. And yet when I lived there, I found it to be infinitely livable and walkable.

The trick is strong community areas. Chicago reached its current level of density 100 years ago, when walking was a common mode of transportation. So the city naturally organized such that every neighborhood has its own "downtown" area, and every residence is within walking distance of such an area.

The primary function of the bus and trains system is to move people among these community areas. For example, I worked downtown in the Loop, so I took the train. But grocery shopping, going to the library, post office, hardware store, etc. were all easily done on foot. All this in an area where everyone lived in beautiful, historic 2-3 floor buildings.

And no, we weren't rich. It was largely a blue collar immigrant neighborhood.
Incredible JavaScript-based Data Grid
Slight fact check here:

Apple had nothing to do with ARM until it was well established.

It was designed and built independently and was on the market for years first as a coprocessor add-on for the BBC and as a standalone workstation (Archimedes).

I have my original Archimedes (310) in my loft. It's still the most productive and powerful machine I ever owned.
Increase Conversions with a Mobile-friendly Website
Think of it as trying to pull text out of PDF / Office Docs / etc into a form (text, usually) that can be fed to a search engine, catalog, or whatever else you'd like to do with it.
not true. the poster doesn't work for this startup http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bane
Phil Zimmerman launches new encryption company
This is the Greatest Response EVER!
This sounds more like "The Hidden Dangers of Having Apache Configured to Use More Memory Than I Have Installed".

It looks like the new theme caused each mod_php process to increase some amount, and that wasn't taken into consideration. Once the requests started piling up Apache started swapping, killing the server.

W3 Total Cache could've been installed to serve up cached static files direct from Apache, without spinning up PHP. All of the images could've been off loaded to cloud front or S3 or any other supported CDN to relieve that stress and W3 Total Cache also has a feature to combine all of your CSS and JS files into 1 to cut down on those requests as well.

You're running on a VPS, you should have some idea of how the system is setup and how memory is used. You've taken the time to setup the VPS and your rails apps, take 5 minutes to properly setup Apache and WordPress caching.
Silent Circle
https://silentcircle.com/
No, Google/Facebook can NOT get by with self-taught programmers. Much of what they do is the realm of highly educated people with a PhD or Masters in CS. Look at one of Google's highest visibility projects - the self driving car. I highly doubt you're going to find anyone associated with that project that doesn't have a degree, and rightly so. There's more to CS than making fun jQuery hacks.
MU = Meaningful Use

The person making the purchasing decision will almost certainly know about this. A provider must meet certain "meaningful use" criteria to be eligible for tax credits, and so this designation indicates that DrChrono meets some of these requirements.

I think it's fair to say that most organizations currently looking to buy an EHR are doing so because they want to take advantage of these tax incentives.
Then again, Yahoo search is powered by Bing. Microsoft has a stake in both aspects of the fight. I expect they'll be playing mediator, doing their best to make sure no one loses.
Google's Computerized Glasses Can Actually Run A Web Browser
Followed by the Black Dog (of depression)
It's… awkwardly sycophantic.
But if given some set of tasks and a program A which performs them one can show that there exists a program B which performs the same tasks and is 100x smaller than program A (taking into account language/framework implementations) doesn't that show that at least 99% of the complexity of program A was not essential ?
Yes, the non-uniformity of identical letters adds a really nice layer to the aesthetic
Anyone have a radar number? This entire discussion is incredibly vague.
I do that too sometimes. Wtb separate save button.
This is going to sound more dramatic than it was, but here's one way of summarizing the last five years of my life:

I was 35, working at a great job as a physicist. Amazing team (I was usually the dumbest guy in the room), amazing project, but I was bored. I knew that if this didn't make me happy, I needed to get out. I read a few PG essays, caught the startup bug, and started coding in the evenings.

Within 8 months, with a brand-new daughter and another that was two, I was gone from that job, working on my own. In that 8 months I had taught myself web-dev from scratch.

I knew nothing of Ruby, HTML, CSS or JavaScript. I had a smattering of Unix knowledge and had been coding data-analysis in Python and C for a while, but the amount I had to learn was staggering. I bought tons of books, learned tons, and (luckily) had no idea how much I still had to learn.

The first startup idea (online graphing software for physicists -- I didn't exactly reach far for the idea) was a complete flop. That's okay, though. I turned to consulting for a while. Gave some talks. Wrote part of a book. Met my co-founder by consulting for him for a while.

Now, things are good. Leanpub is growing steadily, and I couldn't be happier.

The point is, that you can and should teach yourself some new skills. You're way closer to being employable than I was, that's for sure. It may take some evenings and weekends, but they'll be some of the most fun evening and weekends you ever have. Find something that you want to do and build it. Fall in love with the idea, but be ready to dump it for something better.

The market for people with even a smattering of Rails knowledge is huge. iPhone dev is bigger. or Erlang. or fancy JavaScript using Socket.IO.

Location doesn't matter. Age doesn't matter (I'm 40 now, in Vancouver, not in SV, and I bet I could find 10 jobs at the drop of a hat). My blog isn't huge. My startup hasn't had "an exit".

There are excuses, and there is getting out there and having a blast learning and making your life better.

Seems like an easy choice. Go kick some ass.
> The thing is, Lion runs like crap without an SSD or insane amounts of RAM for many people.

YES. I have a MacBook Pro Core i7 from a little while back with an old style spinning rust drive and a 11" MacBook Air Core 2 Duo.

For purely CPU bound things, sure, the Core i7 kicks the pants out of the Core 2. Same for videogames. For day to day use, though, switching between Eclipse, Xcode, Chrome, etc. the Air provides a much more uniform experience. At its best it's far slower than the Pro at its best, but at its worst it's much faster and more responsive. I rarely see beachballs on the Air. I used to see them all the time on the Pro (the Pro has been sitting on a shelf for the past eight months as I switched to working exclusively on my Air, partially for this reason).

So my experience is that something may not be broken, but something definitely isn't set up optimally for users with poor disk performance and high memory/CPU performance.
Stay Hungry
This. Memory that is not used is wasted. If you spend a bunch of money on a high-memory setup, you should be furious if the OS doesn't use it all.
maybe I don't get it because I use Rapportive.

IMO there's not much that can be 'fixed' in Gmail, but I see a lot of room for tweaks & customizing in G+, maybe you could try to enter this field (like there was that Facebook extension to kill annoying elements in GUI)?