skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
La Defense is important (though not "technically" in Paris, but it's Paris Area)

Let me add (compared to Berlin):

Good connectivity to: London, Brussels (train) and other cities (CDG one of the biggest air hubs)

Major companies are there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Paris#Fortune_Global...

(Most of the big companies are there: fashion, banks, defense/big contractors (some), etc)
> The only technical problem where I've seen node be a unique solution is dealing with third party apis concurrently.

Use a library like Async, it makes this really easy.

https://github.com/caolan/async

(assume redis, mongo, facebook, and callback are all functions)

async.parallel([ redis, mongo, facebook], callback);

callback is called when all of the others are complete. If you have dependencies, like facebook needs the output of redis and mongo then use async.auto which will automatically run things in parallel and in the order you need them.
What does the 50k refer to ? Money or downloads? How long did it take to achieve this? Thanks for the post btw
All Nokia 6120c Problems Repairing Solutions
Not quite. From the original bug report:

"Today I installed Debian google-chrome-unstable and it also exhibits this issue."

One commenter (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128339#c3) also claimed to have the issue on OS X specifically.
The link title will attract developers anxious to see what Google is offering or Googlers are using to edit code, but this is just an online editor designed for Apps Script editing. It's been around a long time and is less interesting than the link-bait title suggests.

Google Apps Script is very useful in conjunction with Google's online apps and their rich libraries. JavaScript makes for a good customization language.

One non-obvious irritation, however, is that scripts cannot be shared. So, for example, one has to duplicate code between multiple spreadsheets rather than being able to import it as one would expect. There's an issue open, but even with a high priority, it's two years old:

http://code.google.com/p/google-apps-script-issues/issues/de...
The "subject matter" for copyright is defined in 17 U.S.C. section 102. Part (a) of the statute defines what can be copyrighted (essentially, original works of authorship) and part (b) defines what cannot. For policy reasons, the (b) part says, in effect, that even if something is an original work of authorship (meaning it is expressive and creative and otherwise eligible for copyright), nonetheless certain things cannot be copyrighted because this would not further the goal of copyright law (to further the progress of science and the arts) and would otherwise potentially harm society.

Section 102(b) reads as follows: "In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."

The idea here is not to give anyone a monopoly via copyright over such fundamental concepts as ideas, etc. Things that are purely functional within systems and the like fall within 102(b) and cannot be copyrighted even if they are otherwise expressive. That is what Google is arguing about the 37 Java API packages in this case.
If you're on the east coast like I am, the timing of this article is perfect.

notes to cook pork a little beyond the recommended temperature in future
Video of Sparefoot.com's codebase evolving over time [video]
They guys that built OKCupid are now building StatHat using Go, and seem quite happy with it.
This is my favorite stack too. I usually use supervisord to handle uwsgi processes but this looks much more debian/ubuntu-like. Thanks for the write up. I like to think I am pretty experienced with Django/Python but it's ALWAYS fun to learn new things. Especially when sometimes it feels like a lot of the innovation and new stuff is occurring elsewhere (cough node)
Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings
Filim Malena
Why do security and development teams find it so difficult to collaborate?
Okay sounds good, I appreciate the help!
Samsung's Market Cap Takes $10B Hit on Apple DRAM Deal with another vendor
The Problem With Computer Science Education
I wanted to use Graphite+statsd, but the docs were really sparse.

I sticked to Munin for the time being.
Money. $50,000 in 1 year. Edited title to reflect that it is $
Cool, looks very good. I appreciate the help!
I am planning on adding a scoring system, I haven't figured out how I want to do that yet though, time or what have you. Thanks for the input, I appreciate it
Coding the Digg v4 Layout with HTML5 and CSS3
The social news community Digg has been online since 2004 and rapidly grew in popularity leading up to the 2008 elections. Come 2011 the Digg team performed an overhaul on the system and completely revamped the site layout. This also broke the friends system, allowing big-name publishers to game the front page. This upset many powerhouse users who were furious with the major changes.
JavaScript is already supported by the browsers, it seems like the obvious choice for me. Especially since it's supposed to be for manipulating google docs, which live on the browser. The alternative would be to run the code server side which seems silly when you have a js interpreter right there already.
At least these pages are working... T-Ventures website (VC company of Deutsche Telekom) was offline almost the whole last week.
Mail Forwarding 
ShipsUS.com is a package and mail forwarding company that allows you to shop in USA with your own US address and save your money on your shipping costs.
And more importantly you don't need to eat pork to get them.
Please collaborate to the conversation, you're obviously allowed to not like it but please explain why. "Yuck" just doesn't cut it.
They certainly aren't mom and pop but it doesn't mean they are up to date

They may keep an old agency just for the sake of it, who may not be specialized in modern medias

And they can hire the best people for internet marketing just to end with their campaigns not approved by GMs marketing department, having to get something conservative (hence, ineffective)
"Schools are spending way too much resources that they don't even have on iPads that will soon be obsolete."

My God, the hubris. My fiancée works in education; I can say with absolutely certainty that "root access" is the very last thing anyone in the education system gives a shit about. They want stability, security, and longevity. The original iPad is still going strong after 2 years; are there any Android tablets released in 2010 that aren't obsolete?

Save the jabs for when after you've shipped on a tablet that can keep up.
Using Haskell for prototyping has its uses!...prototyping for the formal verification of an operating system, for example... :P [1]

[1] http://www.ssrg.nicta.com.au/publications/papers/Klein_EHACD...
It wouldn't. It was more of a realization that I had while I was reading through the kickstarter.
Making the online communications situation worse is the proliferation of "short" communication methods (ex: IM, Twitter, FB Status messages, etc.).

Written communication is naturally more challenging than face to face verbal communication. These "short" communication modes make things worse, opening up all sorts of possibilities for misinterpretation and miscommunication.

I felt so shackled by IM conversations, that I disabled GChat earlier this year. I've rediscovered the telephone and how superior it is when I really want to understand the other person. The only modes of only written communication I employ now are blog posts, forum posts, and emails. They all give me the opportunity to thoroughly review my words before setting them free.
Paralyzed individuals control robotic arms to reach & grasp w/ brain interface
Agreed an offline editor is very important, in my keyboard setup for some reason I can't use the character "}". Needless to say, hard to code without it. I'm sure they will fix it so, but it's a big no no for me at least.

Edit, it is not due to my keyboard language, i simply cant use the "}" character, the AltGr combination with the third button after the "L" is not working (My keybard has "ñ").
It's been almost 15 years since my linguistics courses, but I'm pretty sure the spoken word (along with the grammars that bounded it) existed long before writing.

I also believe you drawing correlations between human languages and computer languages that don't exist. Computer language designers define syntax and grammar initially. Human language develops far more organically (to put it another way, where's the spec for American English?). Certainly, human language gets bounded by rules, but not in the same way as code does.
Like I said, people have different expectations. You can also see when people are logged into Facebook because they are available to chat with. How would you react if they were logged in but you didn't have a read receipt? Or there was a receipt but they didn't respond?

Anyhow, this is all just proving the point. Read receipts introduce a piece of "evidence" that is bound to be misinterpreted. So I don't like them and they're yet another feature hostile to some customers in Facebook.
Can Rails count? Seems sometimes not.
You are right that I don't fully understand the implications, all I know is that such products are extremely dangerous unless you compose them carefully (iron butterfly, straddle, collar! - whatever that implies). Truth to be told it's not something I'm actively considering.

I just thought that there ought to be a bear fund/product which is positioned against companies like Facebook and Groupon - the question is how easy it's to be a part of it if you don't have 10M+ cash and have regular contact with GS or what have you.
> Leaving memory management to the operating is nice idea - in reality it does not scale and does not play very well.

This is why I think that Linus's tirade against O_DIRECT is misguided: https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/10/233

Here's the thing: the kernel is a library. It took me a long time to fully understand this deep idea. The kernel is just a library that has a different and more expensive calling convention (syscalls) and runs at a higher privilege level.

It's also much less flexible than user-space libraries. Its interface is an unholy mix of syscalls, ioctl(), /proc, vdso, etc. There is a high bar to adding new interfaces. Removing or changing existing interfaces is basically not allowed.

The resources that the kernel uses are much harder to account for or predict. How can you ensure that a process always gets at least X MB of page cache, and that some enormous "cp" that some sysadmin is running won't evict all your MongoDB pages that are caching your database? Sure you could mlock() your pages, but now you're basically side-stepping all of this smart kernel cache management that was supposed to be helping you so much in the first place.

User-space management of buffers and caches is more flexible, easier to account to its owner, and more predictable. It can't handle page faults with Linux's current interfaces, but the L4 guys have figured out how to let pagers run in user-space and handle page faults. I hope that someday this work becomes mainstream. Our 20-year-old OS design is showing its age.
Japanese researchers transmit 3Gbps using terahertz frequencies
This all depends... were you paying for a managed server that they were supposed to be backing up? If so, massive fail by rackspace. But if you were supposed to be in charge of the backups, then don't blame rackspace.
> No real way to hide from those you want to ignore now.

Then, umm, don't add them as friends.

Extreme point missing: "ignore now" is different than "ignore always"

Mild point missing: Sometimes it is socially expedient to "not see" a message from someone while you are busy doing other things, even though you read and saw it. Much better than going through explanations of how, "gee, I'm busy, its not that i don't like you, just got other stuff right now, and no matter how important this is to you, my stuff is more important at the moment, ill get to you when i can", as opposed to "oh hey, just saw this, what's up?"

I'm sure you'll advocate for the former method, because of some crazy strict truth thing, and people should be less emotionally sensitive and blah blah, but the fact remains: people can be pretty sensitive. This little white lie makes interactions much smoother and avoids unnecessarily hurt feelings.
Google shakes up search with new Wikipedia-like feature
We've got a fairly robust Mail Merge script with attachments (either the same for all or per-user), but distribution and maintenance is tricky given the lack of support for a centralised library of code.

Ideal would be allowing any publicly accesible URL (with some security measure to avoid blatant security holes) like Github raw master (always up-to-date).

The closest I've found is using eval (which is clearly NOT the best approach).
There would need to be a format to specify which services you want to use (as currently it derives these from the source you write in the editor).

I would LOVE to be able to load in 'authorised' libraries to avoid redundant code.
I think you make a strong argument. Here's a question: What happens when the smart anarchist turns in the snitch to the local police department with full documentation of conspiracy to commit a terrorist act?
stackoverflow and the whole network was written in C# from the very start, and still is.
6+ experience financial software development (derivatives): 125k salary + variable bonus (20-50% of base) + benefits (dental/health/vision/insurance/various discounts).

BS in Computer Information Science from City College (2 yrs at Ivy League prior)
Currently employed in finance as Senior Lead Developer + Manager in top 10 firm. Averaging 65hrs a week (no overtime) but have gone as high as 110hrs avg for a few months straight.

It was incredibly difficult to get where I am the way I went about it but not impossible. Get in the door, develop relationships with senior developers who will teach you more than any book or class, work the hardest and become the "best in class" and you will be rewarded handsomely. Took 200 resume sub missions, 50 call backs, 15 in person interviews (avg 8hrs per) before I got my foot in the door as a junior developer analyst for 50k + benefits in an excellent economy. Only the relentlessly tenacious who are willing to adapt will survive.
The best advertising I have seen yet on FB was from a burger company in West Covina, SoCal called Islands. They made really good burgers but they didnt have many customers, so they gave out free hamburgers on some random Saturday. You just had to print out a picture from their fb page (or just show it on your smart phone).

I went with my gf and the burgers were great. We went back the next week and paid full price. I'm sure we will go back again.
I've tried both, and for coding-related stuff, I really dislike phone (or Skype), ranking it just about the worst possible option. I'd much rather IRC or IM, where at least we can exchange code and links and there's a bit of a scrollback buffer.

Twitter and FB status messages I put in a different category, because it's difficult to have a proper conversation with them. It's pretty easy to have a proper conversation on IRC, though, at least if all parties are text-chat-fluent.
Just because you don't use it that way, doesn't change that FB as a dating site is and always has been a major use case. The GP never said "exclusively a dating site".

Much like stating "linux has always been a workstation os" doesn't invalidate the people who only have used it as a server os.
Have this book, and couldn't agree more.
You do realize the ideas you're pushing are here essentially indistinguishable from a conspiracy theory, right? Not only do multiple sources show similar results, but everyone here says, "Yep, that seems about right in my experience." But because your experience is different, you think everybody must be lying or totally hoodwinked, and you're the only one who knows the real truth. The more likely conclusion is that your experience is below average, not that everybody else is falsely reporting the same above-average working conditions.
New HTML5 ‘Prometheus’ Training Center Shows Off Power of the Web
I learned to improve my writing quite a bit by using outlines that let me shift through levels of abstraction at will. I write long e-mails and blog posts using mind-mapping software. Being able to re-order my paragraphs & sentences, include or change examples, and step up and down different levels of detail has made it much easier for me to communicate the points I want to make. I've found that this helps even when I'm writing short e-mails or HN comments.

Admittedly my writing doesn't sound pretty. I'm okay with this. My e-mail chains end up much shorter than any other programmer/analyst I know and result in significantly fewer misunderstandings. That's what I call success.
One of the best pieces of advice I received for my career was from my university's computer science counselor.

I asked him what I needed to do/study to be better than other programmers. I started asking, "should I study C, Java (it had just come out), etc. He said study something to improve your communication. He said in the real world business just look at you as a computer person. They don't know the difference between a programmer, network engineer, PC support person, etc.

He said anyone can code and the ones that are way better will not be recognized enough by management to make a difference in their careers. Since computer people are sort of known as introverts, just being able to speak well and communicate with everyone will go further than being the expert at language X.
Google's semantic search is going live now
This post has the feel of a well-written article but then succumbs to the unscientific process of telling the reader not to eat X,Y, and Z like every other diet book. That's pretty much the pattern for the modern diet book. First, bash other books in the industry. Then put forward your own approach as unique.

Rice isn't bad for you. Healthy people around the world have been eating it for hundreds of years!
The funny thing is we live in an era where more people write more than ever - between Facebook, forums, online dating profiles etc. Twenty years ago the average high school graduate stopped writing anything longer than a shopping list, or maybe a letter, after age 18,
It's an excellent mirror of Bug #1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
Maybe I'm expecting too much of these advertisers, like knowing the medium they plan to advertise on.

In my experience, you are. Most just want to pay money and have customers walk though the door. They don't care about marketing, media, or the intricacies of intent, social proof or anything else.

AdWords almost works this way. Facebook very much doesn't.

The bottom line is that the advertisers don't know or care how it all works. I've witnessed this at tiny mom and pops all the way to Fortune 500 companies. Frankly, I'm shocked that GM noticed that they weren't making money off Facebook ads - that puts them ahead of their peers in a substantial way. You'd be shocked by how much money is wasted - straight up thrown away - by big companies on Facebook.
That's a myth, anyways. Projects like Linux, LLVM, and Ruby on Rails succeed because companies devote paid staff to working on them, usually because they sell a complementary product or service.
Get On Your Feet: The Essential Steve Ballmer Videos
This links to a mobile-specific story. It seems like you meant to link to http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-knowledge...

which has a submission here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3982887
It was a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

Namely -- Frank Rubin published a criticism of Dijkstra's letter in the March 1987 CACM where it appeared under the title 'GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful. The May 1987 CACM printed further replies, both for and against, under the title '"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful?. Dijkstra's own response to this controversy was titled On a Somewhat Disappointing Correspondence.

:-)
2 Days Left To Comment to FCC About Ham Radio Usage In Emergency Communications
At least they're aware of it and are going to do something about it:
https://twitter.com/#!/lightspeedvp/status/20281354853405491...
The most crucial part is expressing your idea clearly. Being concise. Not wasting the reader's time.

If you have great content in your writing, the reader will treat "syntax errors" as "warnings."
Why wouldn't the blood-brain barrier prevent this?
The Knowledge Graph for mobile and tablet search - Inside Search
And I am pretty sure that it is the initial reason why some religions are not allowed to eat pork

In anthropology class, we were told that bone records showed the domestication of pigs, a subsequent explosion in pig population, then a sudden disappearance. The most likely explanation, we were told, was that pigs competed with humans for resources.
Geoengineering experiment cancelled amid patent row
That's in my Best VC Sites list. Congrats, great job!
The Best New Features of Illustrator CS6
Size Doesn’t Matter. Or Does It? A Rant on Big Data Terms
It's all about the apps, stupid.

While I applaud the EUbuntu project's goals and think they're very worthy indeed, I also think they're deluding themselves if they are targeting the Apple iPad as competition.

I realize that's likely to be an unpopular view here, because hating on Apple is geekdom's new favorite past time, but to my mind it's fairly clear cut.

What's my point in all this? I think folks should focus on building great educational apps, and the platform will follow.
"This content requires the Flash Plugin" is something I NEVER want to see on my VC's website.
I'm doing something similar in Portland and it's about ~$500/month with roommates. So I figure the same: my $12k will be a 12 month window.

Our winters are lovely, as long as you don't mind a little wet.
Who said anything about root access? No one is arguing that schools should use Ubuntu today instead of iPads. The whole point of the bug is that Ubuntu cannot compete with iPads, and this should be fixed.
They stated they would never do that though. Because that will allow you to export emails from Facebook to Gmail. Facebook said they are protecting you by not letting you export them to Google. Never mind the fact you can do that to Yahoo with the click of a button.

The sync worked before because Google allowed them to use a special API to allow them to show contacts on your phone without actually syncing them to your account (removing the Facebook app removed the contacts)
The Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack
I couldn't find the "epidemic" part of this article. Is there one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic

In epidemiology, an epidemic (επί (epi)- meaning "upon or above" and δήμος (demos)- meaning "people"), occurs when new cases of a certain disease, in a given human population, and during a given period, substantially exceed what is expected based on recent experience.
use search on Polaris Ventures website for: '

Error Type:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (0x80040E14)
Unclosed quotation mark before the character string ' and IsPortfolio=1 order by CompanyName'.
/Search.asp, line 72

-- feels like 2003 again :)
Oracle Drops New Documents in Itanium Trial
Show HN: Strava Segment Time Gaps Plotted Every Second, ie: where you won
Does this mean Verizon and Sprint will never get another Nexus? I don't know if the concept of "unlocked" means anything on their SIM-less networks.
Also true -- but FBI is not part of DHS, it's part of the DoJ.
Easier atomic commits in Git
From their pricing page:
"Capacity is deﬁned as the total uncompressed user data found in TokuDB tables on each MySQL server. (Note that the capacity calculation does not include indexes.)"

http://www.tokutek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tokudb-pri...