skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, there's nothing special about Lisp. He could have been talking about the future of scripting languages, or the future of statically-typed languages, or anything. However, one thing is clear: The future of languages is definitely VMs. There's just too many advantages to them. I'm hard-pressed to think of a significant language in the past fifteen years that isn't VM based.

Once that's taken as a given, why reinvent the wheel? It seems like there's numerous advantages to using established VMs like the JVM or the CLR. In order to justify the engineering effort of building and maintaining a new VM, you'd have to have a compelling reason and I'm not sure that the reason is always there.
Ask HN: Which chat widget to embed for a small community site?
My wife is looking to add chat to a small website she runs(< 500 members), which will enable users visiting the site at the same time to chat with each other.
Preferences in that order
- free or low cost
- no or less intrusive ads
- can be skinned
>May be it exists in their coding guidelines?

I think the question would be why would this exist in their coding guidelines.

>Although tablename.tablename_columnname sounds repetitive and verbose, it might in some cases be of help when one deals with too many tables and too many keys with the same name across tables.

tablename.tablename_columnname is not likely what's being done for their queries... in many RDBMS's, you can omit the "tablename." part if columnname is unique in the DB, so it will actually reduce repitition and verbosity, even if you hate typing "_" as much as I do.

It also makes dealing with "duplicate" names easier, because there will be no dupes: you won't have any columns or keys across tables that have the same name, because the prefix will differ, and in your queries and various etceras you won't ever have to think "which 'from' is this?"

With all of this, it also eliminates the need for (other, explicit) aliases, if you're doing it right.

Or at least that's the story: some people consider this equivalent to using Hungarian notation in Python ... I'm not one of those people, for the reasons above.
Apple Reports Strong Quarter Despite Economy
The Long Term Performance of InnoDB
Am I the only one put off by the talking heads on TV proclaiming that their network or show is on twitter and then proceed to have only a vague notion of what the service actually is?
What if their idea of fun is taking slime samples from ancient damp caves in Northern California and graphing the mold contents compared with other similar caves in Oregon?I am just joking.

I think any employee that you hire should be questioned regarding what project they have been inspired by. I would ask something like: "Talk about the last 2 or 3 projects you worked on ( personal or work-related ) where you felt 'extremely' to 'incredibly' inspired"
California still has seasons I'd say. Here in Hawaii it is extremely easy to lose sense of time; you blink and pow! three years have been passed.

But once you learn to see changes in subtle things such as the color tone of Diamond Head (it's greener in winter), and also not to forget checking calenders, you can even work here.
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Ebay is going to be the perfect illustration of what happens when suit values take over a company.

Years ago, I used Ebay all the time. Now I won't go near it. It's beset by fraud, lack of care or concern for its customers, it no longer allows small players to stand on equal footing with large ones, and in disputes usually sides with the wrong party.

Ebay will meet Circuit City's fate within a decade, and more likely in five years.
The frat boy ships out
I'm not sure where payment fits in but I read a while back that craigslist uses http://www.reducefraud.com to validate users via a telephone call. Google App Engine signup does something similar with SMS messaging.

Would a telephone number work for what you are doing?
And the power doesn't stop there, with XSLT you have a powerful macro system too!
MIT Student's Recollection of the Plane Crash (Imaginary)
Obviously fictional. A real MIT student would have posted on news.yc not reddit. ;)
I wouldnt say so. Even with that one user and thousands of failed users you might be on the verge of evolving your product to better suit market needs and gain usage.

The biggest truth about entrepreneurship is that no-one knows. There is no authority - not your current users, not the 3-times successful serial entrepreneur not even Bill Gates.

The only one who knows best is the entrepreneur himself - and that might not be much to bet your future on.
I don't know about Canadian ISPs, but most so-called bandwidth caps in the US -- such as the one Comcast implemented -- are designed to ensure future profits for the ISP as internet usage increases and more and more folks use online video services.

It will, of course, lead Comcast into "suggesting" they use their own for-pay video-download service in the future.

But no one will ever tell you about the $200 billion fraud cable companies perpetrated against taxpayers:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...

Given that, we should all have unlimited bandwidth and fiber to the door.

It's funny how people will flagellate themselves about how bandwidth is so expensive and those poor ISPs shouldn't even, you know, provide what they advertise, when I can sign up for a hosting company for $12 a month and get one TB (yep, terabyte) of data transfer.

The corporations have framed the debate. I am amazed how many people actually swallow it all, hook, line and sinker.
Josef Mengele created a town of twins in Brazil
That reminds of this article about why Unix is inherently made for a programmer's style of thought: http://igor-nav.livejournal.com/12843.html
I can say this as someone who has "failed spectacularly." Until you've tried and gotten a taste, you will never understand why people would even bother when the chance of success is only 1%. I can also say I fully intend to do it again.

As far as support from spouses etc., my wife doesn't like the fact that we owe close to 7 digits right now, but she also understands that to me, this is "living."
Having been responsible for a team of developers I can honestly say I don’t agree with this. At least, not entirely.

Every team needs a few "Rock Star" programmers (to use the author’s terminology). When hiring those folks I think his advice is spot on. But the reality of programming a project is that there will be some tedious work that the "Rock Stars" will find boring. In my experience those types of developers actually do pretty mediocre work when forced to write no-brainer code.

So I’ve found the best mix is to have a few of these rock star developers mixed in with folks who enjoy development and are hard workers but who are at a point in their life where they don’t have time for side projects. These are the guys who were probably rock stars in their younger years but now have spouses, kids and all the trappings of that (soccer practice, dance recitals, et al). Since they aren’t looking to work for the majority of their fulfillment they tend to be ok with the tedious stuff and since they are still decent developers they turn in solid code.
Indeed, and though you were voted down, the one major media article I read on this explained clearly that that was the case. However, the lede took great care to suggest the blame was the CJ's, before the article went on to clarify.

It makes zero difference, but it's an embarrassing illustration of the continuing non-existence of a dominant independent media, that they are so sensitive to protecting Obama against even the slightest image damage. Obviously, if this had happened during Bush's inauguration, the chortles would have been unceasing.
They say "These are are broadly applicable solutions for general problems that arise in enterprise software and productivity web app design. They are not web site patterns, which have already been cataloged and explored quite thoroughly*."

You say desktop and web apps are not the same. Sure, but the question is whether their logical UI differences are determined more by their webiness/desktopness or by the fact that most desktop apps are enterprise/productivity apps whilst the majority of web apps is not.
The mention of Memphis and FedEx makes me think of a problem set I did in college, I think for an AI class.

It involved calculating different types of distance, such as Euclidean distance, Manhattan distance, and Memphis distance, where the Memphis distance was calculated by routing everything traveling through a single hub. We were told that it was called this because it used to be that all FedEx packages, no matter where they were going, were sent through Memphis. Googling for "Memphis distance" didn't seem to turn up anyone else using the term the same way though, so I'm beginning to wonder if I imagined it... I don't suppose anyone else has ever heard of it?
Now, the Archivist acting with the approval of the current
President can ignore a former President's wishes.

Actually, it's a bit more dramatic than that. Section 4(b) says "the Archivist shall abide by any instructions given him by the incumbent President or his designee unless otherwise directed by a final court order."

Under this executive order, the Archivst acts under the instruction of the current President. That same section gives the former President 30 days notice before his records get released. If the former President wants to assert executive privilege (and the current President disagrees) the former President has to get a court to help him out. This will make it fairly expensive to assert executive privilege, but it also provides judicial oversight over claims of executive privilege by former Presidents.

Checks and balances, baby!
desert eh? I settled down with ir_black. It's pretty light on the eyes. I love it.
I found a way by getting a property then on settings go back in time and you will have a lot of negative money I put this in the bank and by some glitch I. Ould buy loads more property with negative money. So when I put the date back to normal I had loads more money from the income.
Obama is my lobbyist. He just happens to also be president.

CTO in the cabinet, open government, search for all public archives, more online services and efficiency.

Once people taste clean water, will they drink dirty water again?

Day 2 and seems real so far.
XML was meant for structured data. A picture is not structured.
Outlets, Grounding and the story of the third prong.
I would say this is the magic sentence.

"either you're hands-off and pay only for results, or you have a collaborative environment in which you call the shots"

Many thanks for both your feedback. Realy helpfull!
I'm sure many visitors to Memphis have not been happy to be there. There is no reason to expect everyone to like your city. Imagine how many people (now including me) have spent time investigating the simple fact that one person landed in Memphis and wasn't impressed. Who cares!!! Its not a PR problem. Its just one guy from Atlanta saying what he really thinks. Or is FedEx sending the message that they don't want to hear what people really think?

Look at this part:
"FedEx Corporation pays Ketchum annually for the valuable and important work your company does for us around the globe. We are confident however, it is enough to expect a greater level of respect and awareness from someone in your position as a vice president at a major global player in your industry".

In other words, a PR firm is only supposed to spread sunshine, and money equals respect. FedEx needs to wake up to the realities of the Internet. Instead of punishing people that are not impressed with your home town, try to fix the real problem.
And again, I am not trying to take away your freedom to live that way. My objection was to the statement that 99% of entrepreneurs have to fail so that the success of the 1% who succeed is sweeter.
'Literally all of Sun is Open Source now...this has beaten down their revenues a bit (OK, maybe a lot) in the short term.'

Why do you think that? All the Solaris (most of Sun's revenue) Sun's former customers actually use is Solaris, not OpenSolaris. No Sun customers I know would go without a support plan if they use Sun's OSS work. Right now they already pay Red Hat for their support plans.
Tech Workers Get a Raise
Hot to Enable Hotmail POP3 access in Your Country
Hotmail POP3 technology is now available to Hotmail users in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. If you country is not in the list and want to access the Hotmail POP3 Access. Than you have to do some simple changes in your Hotmail Account to Access the POP3.
In this case, the password field doesn't hold just a password, or a rot13 of a password, or even a digest of a password.

user_password is a concatenated md5 hash of user_id, a hyphen (-), and md5 hash of current password. ie. MD5(CONCAT(user_id, "-", MD5("PASSWORD")))

The reason for this is security, obviously.

The tinyblob then, is used for convenience/efficiency; it's a good way to store a hash. They might also do some tricks on the data (ie. convert to base 64 before it's stored, or something like that), but that's the general idea.
Took a while for all the magical redaction.
Stanford Students Release A Cool Batch Of iPhone Apps
Many comments, not a misleading tile - must be interesting for quite some folks.
'Red Hat have a luxury Sun have denied themselves: breaking stuff between versions.'

No longer true since RHEL 4 was released about four years ago.

They didn't support it for 2.1 -> RHEL 3.
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-4082

Now they support it since RHEL 3-> RHEL 4. It's still not the recommended option.
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-7946
What "existing popular VMs" are you talking about? Was there a widely spread VM before JVM? Perl and Python are older than Java, Ruby should be around the same age.
HOTorNOT makes an iPhone Application
In style, anyway. We'll see what happens when people want to look into his affairs, or when they want a detailed accounting of the proposed $1 trillion Obama bailout.

edit: okay, those changes have some (mostly symbolic) substance to them. But there is not enough light in the world to illuminate all the caves in Mordor. I am not going to bet the house on the age of secrecy being over in Washington

edit edit: This is priceless. Rules without teeth, now that is change you can believe in!

"The Republican National Committee criticized that requirement and said the new administration was already violating it. Mr. Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of defense, William Lynn, has been a lobbyist for the defense contractor Raytheon, and his nominee for deputy secretary of health and human services, William V. Corr, lobbied for stricter tobacco regulations as an official with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

A senior White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, conceded the two nominees did not adhere to the new rules. But he said that Mr. Lynn had the support of Republicans and Democrats, and would receive a waiver under the policy, and that Mr.Corr did not need a waiver because he had agreed to recuse himself from tobacco issues.

“When you set very tough rules, you need to have a mechanism for the occasional exception,” this official said, adding, “We wanted to be really tough, but at the same time we didn’t want to hamstring the new administration or turn the town upside down.”"
You can grep for regular expressions? I think my mind just got blown. For the last ten years I've been finding them with awk.

awk '(/putithere/) {print $0}'
It would be cool if Weebly had this as a feature.
IPhone Devlopment Web versus SDK
It's clever but what's really the point?
Just like photons, "Rock Stars" emit light but don't have substance. I'd rather have a look at a programmers code samples to see if it's elegant, clean and efficient.
Good post Anders!
Stop pretending..
But in a early stage startup you better off with few of the rockerstars types, then a lot of average coders.

You can really do more, with less.

In a early stage there is probably a lot of stuff to do, lots of features to keep the smart people engaged, and with fewer more productive people you have less overhead, less meetings, less political bs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep

grep is a command line text search utility originally written for Unix. The name is taken from the first letters in global / regular expression / print, a series of instructions for the ed text editor.

grep -rHnE 'my [r]eg+ex' /path/to/folder/ : look for files with this regular expression recursively and print out their name and the line number, as well as the matching line itself.

Awk might do it, or you can -exec it with find, but I've read several times that grep is generally faster, even faster than a simple search with a custom and non-optimized C program.
Congrats. How soon are you gonna teach your kid programming?
Could you please point out the link between intershipin and raking in cash? Thank you.
useful, thanks.
No. Not just in style. A day after inauguration he has already issued substantive decisions that are in keeping with his rhetoric (not to mention a total repudiation of the un-American nightmare the country can hopefully now move beyond).

Besides, Obama's style goes far beyond what politicians who are merely posing are capable of. It indicates a cast of mind and is not so easy to fake. Compare it to Clinton who was obviously faking, but who did it so well that people liked him.

I don't expect that Obama can or will fix everything. But I stand by what I said: he thinks like I do. On nearly every topic in his speech yesterday, he said what I hoped he would say. I never imagined such a thing could happen.

Edit: by the way, though your first proposed test is pretty vague, your second -- a detailed accounting of spending -- is one that I feel pretty confident about. I'd be very surprised if that didn't happen, and happen in a way that is clearly new. (Especially since Obama already championed it as a senator.)

Edit 2: people come up with all sorts of straw men. You'd have to be an idiot to think that Obama is going to usher in a kingdom of light, or do anything that goes against human nature. What we're talking about here is incremental improvement. That happens to matter. If you disagree, I give you the past 8 years.
Wow, congratulations on the baby. Ours has been a huge change in our lives, but is really a source of joy (and worry:-) Any ideas about a name, or will it only be revealed at the last moment?
Yet another attempt by Brian X. Chen to unseat John C. Dvorak from the throne of technology journalism trolls. This is not news, this is not criticism, this is baiting for page views.

Last week it was "Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple", before that he was claiming Apple sued Wired over his hackintosh video (they didn't), etc.
the former President has to get a court to help him out

How delightfully appropriate for a former President who held the rule of law in such contempt.
That is a non sequitur. We all know who stood for the latter idea, and there is no equivalence here.
In analysis class we used a similar metric. The "British Rail metric" is the distance between any two points when you travel via London!
Wonderful news. Congratulations!
"When life gives you lemons, invest in a lemon cannon"
A colleague happened to make the above statement. My English is good but I cannot really make out the meaning...can someone explain please :)
PR firms are supposed to spread sunshine. That's the market they're working to make money in. I think FedEx's message was don't hurt our image when you work for us. You should know that when you are the vice president of a PR company. A corporations base of operations is an important part of it's image and an important aspect for hiring and retaining employees, which is probably a big problem for them since they cut everyone's pay there within the last month.
Well, if the original euphemism (when life gives you lemons, make lemonade) is a way of saying take what you've got and run with it, perhaps this is away of saying 'take what you've got, and pass it on'.
What are good names for identifiers in code?
The people that make the machines in the How It's Made show
I haven't herad of that phrase, but that is how FedEx operated for the first several years of its existence. FedEx a package from Boston to Cambridge and it would go through Memphis.
On the other hand, now @keyinfluencer got really well known, by means of a single tweet. I bet he even got a couple of hundred of even thousands of followers more now. Copy that...

Also not sure what the solution is, except having different twitter accounts for professional and private life, and in general training a positive attitude.
> I don't expect that Obama can or will fix everything. But I stand by what I said: he thinks like I do. On nearly every topic in his speech yesterday, he said what I hoped he would say. I never imagined such a thing could happen.

Lucky you. Not all of us are so fortunate.
The hiring process is definitely unique.. we often ended up with people who would instead make quirky lifestyle stipulations that were more important to them than money or security. Like being able to work from noon until whenever. Or not wearing shoes, ever. Or bringing their dogs to work.

Oddly enough, because we started in a falling apart mansion the fact that we had a full kitchen and a washer and dryer was enough to convince a bunch of people.

"You mean I can do laundry at work?"

"yep"

"wow!"
What you claim is obvious is not obvious.
As someone also in the Philippines and looking to do a little freelance work, how do you negotiate your prices and look for prospective clients? My main problem is that I never really know what to charge, and don't know what the "local" vs. "international" rates should be.
Mac OS X's Terminal.app does not support 256 colors. Submit a feature request to Apple if you would wish it did -- I do. Apple Bug Reporter: http://developer.apple.com/BugReporter/
RFID Helps Field-Workers Inspect and Maintain Valves
Inspectors and maintenance personnel for valve company Score Eastern Canada Ltd. (SECL) work in remote locations—including off-shore oil rigs—inspecting and maintaining the valves and seals the business supplies to its oil- and gas-drilling clients in northeastern Canada. With a paper-based system, Score's employees needed to make sure they carried the right maintenance and inspection records with them. If they forgot any documents, or if a valve's serial number plate had fallen off, they were forced to call office personnel to gain maintenance and inspection data regarding the valves in front of them, assuming a cell phone connection was available at that site.
Heh. It did occur to me that it is luck, or at least the law of averages (I've gone a long time without seeing anyone in office I could admire). Be patient, I guess, and your turn will come :)
VMware developers release GUI debugging tool for GTK+
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