skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not so much arguing that it is cheaper, but that there is still rationale for choosing it even though it's more expensive.

Of course it gets more expensive the more you use it - but so does doing it yourself. And not on a nice smooth scale, either.
Hotel Termag
Hotel Termag nalazi se na 1550 metara nadmorske visine. Smješten je u neposrednoj blizini staze i žičare. Moglo bi se reći da se nalazi u samom jezgru Jahorine. Malo je hotela na olimpijskoj Jahorini koji imaju tako dobru poziciju kao hotel Termag. Prilaz hotelu Termag sa glavnog puta je krajnje jednostavan.

Hotel Termag raspolaže sa 18 komfornih soba i 13 moderno opremljenih apartmana. Svaka soba ima sef, mini bar, direktnu telefonsku liniji sa internet konekcijom i satelitsku televiziju. Hotel je klimatizovan, ima lift, sopstveni informacioni kao i Sinevoice sistem ozvuženja.Za svaku sobu je obezbjeđeno parking mjesto u podzemnoj garaži
On Google Disallowing Crawling of Their LIFE Hosting
I absolutely love smugmug! You guys rock and its architecture, focus on me, and killer features that will keep me renewing every year.

I also love the way you guys built your business. True pioneers.
Or just upgrade to digital. (DVB-T) The Crystal Palace transmitter even transmits BBC HD (1080i).
Fast bootup and recovery from sleep using HyperSpace (pretty impressive video!)
Even if they lost a little money on every person who maxes out their account they'd make plenty of excess on the vast majority of people who barely use their account. The same way ISPs rely on oversubscribing their connections.
MacSnooze 2009
I just solved it in 1,5 hour without using pen and paper at all!
But then, I didn't prove it was unique and was kind of lucky the solution was small...
Twitter Hacker Says Admin Password Was 'Happiness'
The other shoe...
YouTube on the Big Screen. What a Wonderful Idea
Such limits are a HUGE source of annoyance to users who want to become deeply involved in an online community. I've been in communities with such limits, and in many communities without, and those without thrive better.

I will note that as long as karma is what the site rewards, and as long as it takes submissions and comments to get karma, there are considerable incentives here to submit and (especially) comment. Exactly how to adjust karma rules so that quality is rewarded along with quantity (as for example by downvoting comments) is an ongoing area of investigation here and on other sites with karma systems.
Shout out to Loc and Ben too. How are you three doing?
I can't imagine regular people using this.
Since HTML will be around for a long time, the author says, we need a mechanism for adding new semantics to the language over time. Well, the W3C already has a nice mechanism for doing that called "adding new elements". This system works just fine, and there is no reason to define a monstrosity like <div structure="header"> when defining a new <header> element would accomplish the same goal. The only valid complaint against adding new elements is that IE doesn't apply CSS to elements it doesn't recognize. Fortunately, a simple workaround exists: http://xopus.com/devblog/2008/style-unknown-elements.html
Ask HN: Any successful entrepreneurs out there with a business degree?
I had a long discussion with a friend of mine who teaches business at a local university. I argued that it really makes no sense to me to have teachers - without real life business experience - educate students about running a successful business. The discussion heated up and at one point I said I thought people with a business degree were actually at a disadvantage compared to people without a business education when it comes to creating a new business. My argument was that those without a conventional business education were less likely to hold on to taught conventions, will get all the knowledge they use to make decisions from real life experience and will spend less time trying to apply conventional business principles to their business and more time working on stuff that simply needs to be done (who the hell needs a business plan to get started, seriously).

He challenged me to come up with some examples to back up my argument; so are there successful entrepreneurs here on HN who have a business degree? And what about the other side, have you been successful without business education? By successful I simply mean being able to achieve the goals you set for yourself.

Thanks much!
Recession-friendly Macworld booth babes = roving bumble bees
I, a guy who cannot eat due to health problems, am going to write a grumpy article on how to eat for health and happiness.

Colour me unconvinced.
Besides all the other points in favour of S3, I'd like to add one small note: in any business, you want to shift your fixed costs over to variable costs.
Net Generation: spoiled, narcissistic layabouts?
This is simple copyright infringement, which is distinct from plagiarism.

However, I have another complaint. Why a plain text file? I don't want to have to download some bloated reader just to read this thing. Can someone print to pdf and upload it to something sensible like scribd?
"... JobSyndicate is our way of getting jobs in front great candidates where they already live online. We can get targeted distribution for jobs by combining our ad widget technology with contingency recruiting “bounties. ..."

Read this line out loud. Needs a bit of editing.
Meet the Freebase bots
speaking of gentoo... creating an ebuild would be a great idea, if the ebuild tests and works you can give it to us over on #funtoo or try to get it into gentoo on gentoo's bugzilla...
Not every rise and subsequent fall in the price of a commodity is a bubble. For one thing, there was not much speculation involved. You didn't have fools buying copper expecting to sell it later at a higher price to a greater fool; rather, you had people buying copper to use it to make stuff, like plumbing and wiring for houses in the first world (which was a bubble). Houses, together with cars, account for the bulk of the end consumer's use of copper. Lots of people wanted copper. Chilean, Peruvian, American and Indonesian producers happily sold people what they wanted. Later, the housing bubble burst and the demand for commodities fell substantially. Another factor that contributed to the fall in price was the increase in supply that took place during the time in which high prices prevailed.

So it's just supply and demand. It's a natural cycle that holds for most commodities. Insiders considered it a supercycle in that it lasted much longer than other high-price cycles in copper's history. Good times.
I would disagree with this. I'm not an expert in this field at all, but from what I've read, the software they write is tested to the point where every single possible input is tested for its assumed output on every subsystem. They write software that is mathematically proven to not fail.
Yea they are, don't know what this guy is thinking... maybe he doesn't count companies on the east coast?
I take it on faith that there are people who are much smarter than I am, but I'm still waiting for conclusive proof. I'm taking physics and math this quarter, so this may change.
Ask HN: Getting accepted into a top level CS program.
Hi everyone,

I'm about to receive my BA in Mathematics from a lowly state university. Eventually, I'd like to continue on and work towards a masters and PhD at a top school like Stanford or MIT. However, I'm not interested in applying to one of these school at the moment. I'd like to wait at least 5 years.

Here are my questions:

1. How long should I wait? And does the length of time I wait to apply matter?

2. During this time that I'm in the workforce, what should be my focus? Publications, open source contributions, industry experience? I'm obviously going to continue the work that I enjoy doing. However, if there is a benefit to adding focus to a particular outlet, I'll do so.

3. Code monkey jobs are plentiful. I can get a high paying job in the finance industry maintaining a Java/C++ code base. But I doubt I'll be happy in this type of position. Should I take the time to find a research based position at a company like IBM or HP?

4. Does status in the software community affect acceptance into a CS program?

Thank you for taking the time to answer.

Nick
Interesting - I guess a major issue is that any comment that's not terrible won't get downvoted, which encourages people to make more comments than less if they want karma.
So what's wrong with the existing rating system?
Internet Dating Conference 2009 - January 22nd & 23rd
I have my facts wrong, then. I don't know which vaccines they are working on, but I imagine they are ones that are commonly given out.

The company has not, to my knowledge, claimed to have a vaccine for malaria. Malaria just sounded to me like the kind of disease they'd try to fight.
Thanks for the tip. I just added Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs to the open licensed textbook listing and added How to Design Programs to the copyrighted, non-open listing. Know of any other open textbooks that need to be added?
Very cool Google App Engine app, SAASi
New 17-inch MacBook Pro unveiled with integrated battery
Most people already have a digital TV receiver, either via terrestrial (Freeview) or satellite (Sky). There's also cable in some areas.

The old analogue terrestrial signals are being turned off region-by-region. Part of the Scottish Borders is already off, with the next switchovers being in August and November in Wales and "Granada", the anachronistic name for the TV region roughly covering the North West of England. Everywhere will be changed over by 2012.

Our system is quite different to that in the US; the four main channels (BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4) are carried universally by every transmitter, even on relays covering tiny villages of a few tens of people. Rather than getting multiple independent TV stations to change over by a certain date, we just need to go round each region and upgrade all the transmitters to carry four digital multiplexes rather than four analogue channels. (Of course, it's more complicated than this, but that's the gist of what's happening.)

There's a lot of information here: http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/when_do_i_switch
Ordinarily this is true. What is happening now is that financial institutions are trying to deleverage, so that will soak up a huge amount of deposits without any extra lending at all.
yeah, that is the first text I looked for too. Looks as if all lisp/scheme books aren't there (On Lisp, etc) - maybe since they aren't text books?
WebEx Brings Online Meetings to the iPhone
List of Hacker Spaces: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

You'll find mostly everybody from last week 25c3 conf there
How does your model account for the large long-term growth in worldwide programming over the past few decades?
Google Claims That Google Checkout Increases Conversion By 40% & Clicks By 10%
it does exclude the # of people who give up looking for jobs though.
I'm upvoting you and offering this scenario for thought: At some point, there's 10x as many users here as now. How important is signal:noise? I really enjoy the points I learn here, but after being present on the site for a touch less than half a year (lurking before starting an account), I've seen how the site growing is affecting the quality and it looks dangerously like something that happened slowly somewhere else I used to enjoy greatly.

I think the end result is that you will miss good comments, because they're never made if the noise gets too loud.

That someplace else I used to greatly enjoy:

Compare "Facing Losses, German Billionaire Takes Own Life" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=422284 to "German mogul kills self over financial meltdown" http://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/7nrxi/german_mogul...

I picked that quickly as the first thread I saw on both Reddit and HN, but the comments on that Reddit thread are actually many times better than average Reddit comments, perhaps because of the serious subject matter.

And - Old Reddit was close to as good as current Hacker News. Really. If you weren't there back then, it seems strange to imagine such a great place becoming what it did, but that's the reality. I don't want it to happen here, or we'll lose good comments - not to arbitrary thresholds, but to good posters leaving.

Really, how many times do people write more than five excellent comments per day? There's some cases of two people having intelligent discussion, or an author replying to questions in a thread. Not sure how we'd address those cases. But I'm theorizing if there was a limit, people would adjust to stop making wisecracks, argue less, and make less "fluff" posts instead of not making inspired points.
Pandora 2.0 lands on iPhone tonight
Cool but I don't know if it's a net positive.

I'd be concerned that by making it so easy for users to respond that actual discussion will be stifled because you won't be forced to actually scroll past all the comments to post something.

Read Joel Spolsky's essay on community software design (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswi...)
He also realized he hadn't used a proxy to hide his IP address, potentially making him traceable. He didn't think the intrusion was important draw for law-enforcement attention, and "didn't think it would make headlines.

I don't understand how he thought hi-jacking Obama, Britney and Fox News twitter accounts wouldn't make headlines.
Steve Jobs is rich and smart and gets things done. When he says he makes something his number one priority, that means he's doing something serious about it. When he sees a doctor, it's not going to be the same sort of doctor who does liposuction with a trowel in a warehouse. When he has tests, they wont be a $2.50 chemistry set.

He will see real experts. They will expertly advise him. Professionals will say things like the two people at the end of the linked article - "I have no knowledge of his condition and will not comment" and "Asked whether armchair diagnoses are reasonable or productive, Skarulis replied, 'Unfortunately, no'" and "agreed with Lustig's assessment of Jobs' statement as insufficiently detailed to merit speculation"

Real experts will not take a deliberately vague brief announcement to the general public, with no medical history or test results, and start second guessing the doctor(s) involved and implicitly accusing the CEO of a very successful company of telling untruths, and 'real' journalists would not take this rumourmongering gossipy timewasting wordflood and submit it as news, and 'real' reputable news company editors would not approve it for worldwide publication under their once good name.
There are certainly many cases for using S3 even though it is more expensive. There is nothing wrong with that.

It's just that I have met way too many people who after describing my situation, one of the first things they say is "have you tried S3? shouldn't it be cheaper?"
What a pleasant find - there are still wikis that can be edited without creating an account first!
Baby Boomers: stodgy, ponderous dinosaurs?

Haberdashers: mad as hatters?

Ducks: bent on world domination?
Ayn Rand it and just allow private ownership of the roads everywhere. Totally ad-hoc, with non-standard markings, conventions, and traffic "laws" that would show up in your road contract. You would have to read the road contract everytime you drove through a new area with roads operated by a different company. That is until a savior road monopolist finally took over all the markets by getting the largest established base and then using his network effect advantage to lock out other roads until they all caved in. Said monopolist could just eliminate the congestion by fiat.
I'd compare Livejournal to Tumblr more than any other contemporary tool. They both recognize public/private on a per-post basis (other software makes you all in or all out w/public-ness).
I thought they used mercurial?
No offense but hypothetically if we had private ownership they would agree with a standard marking. Its naive to assume otherwise. I don't agree with ayn rand on all things but corporations have standards....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-range_eggs
I think that the situation would end up better in the end if, rather than the W3C trying to define new element after new element after new element, especially if we're going to take the viewpoint that the language will be around after 100 years, we instead simply said:

* Use whatever elements you want, subject to some name limitations.

* Style those elements using stylesheets however you want. (CSS 3.0 finally, AFAIK, completes the set of CSS elements you need to finish emulating/implementing all HTML elements
that exist up to this point, including table.)

* Let an entirely separate layer argue about semantics. Use the <link> tag to link in those semantics or something. (The ideal would be XML namespaces but this is HTML, not XHTML.) Define a semantic set that matches today's semantics, let the future define what it needs. Let this be the default if no semantic is chosen. Let a thousand flowers bloom, let the winners win.

Ultimately, the whole W3C process is flawed at its very core. It's some small, essentially self-selected group of people/organizatiosn trying to decide how the Web Will Be for the Next Ten Years. That's just stupid, and inimical to the way of the web itself.

But this is just too darned simple an idea to get "standardized"...

More seriously, one way I know I differ from the HTML and Semantic Web folk is that I fundamentally disagree about the nature of semantics. Semantics are not something a document possesses, it is something that you apply to a document. Marking up text is a way to make it easier to apply semantics, but a sufficiently sophisticated (AI-complete) algorithm could apply semantics to flat text just fine. Indicating what semantics you are using in the document somehow (like an XML namespace) makes it easier for the producer and consumer to agree about their semantics, but the consumer may still ignore it and may still extract or apply their own semantics to the document without contradiction. Think about it this way and my proposal is simply the only natural way to proceed. Believe that "Today is <date>January 20, 2008</date>" is actually any different than "Today is <menu>January 20, 2008</menu>" in some "real" way and this W3C exercise of trying to define THE tag set makes sense. But it's all just tags. Just numbers applied to other numbers. Meaning is brought by the reader in collaboration with the writer, there is no intrinsic meaning.
I don't see the words "except for pollution" anywhere in your post.
The "older" generation always complains about the younger ones. And that has gone on since the days of Plato and Aristotle. Why! Back in my day, we walked 15 miles to school, and it was uphill both ways! Don't worry, in 10-20 years, the "facebooker generation" will be whining about the new kids of that era.

And perhaps one of the best satires of this eternal trend is a skit called The Four Yorkshiremen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch

Why! Back in my day, we didn't have any of those new fangled programming languages like C and assembly, we programmed in ones and zeros. And we were too poor to have zeros so we carved them out of potatoes. And we liked it!

People slowly get more ethical/moral as they age - slowly enough that the change isn't noticable - instead they think that they were always "this way." If your older self could meet your younger self, your older self would probably complain about the lazy good-for-nothing younger self as well. People grow up. Our civilization won't burst into flames because the young punks are here - in 20 years, those young punks will be "the establishment" and complaining about the newer punks.
Microsoft was ruthless when they were early stage; that is how they got to where they are.
heh... why bother? "Believers" won't stop believing because of a bus and atheists already don't.
IMO it depends on what you're securing. If you have a line of business that is particularly susceptible to espionage and the expected loss would be fatal to the business you obviously shouldn't trust anyone you don't have to. However, be realistic about it: many companies don't have anything of substantial enough value to merit infiltrating Amazon to break in to your server to analyze, and while it's of course possible to statically analyze a filesystem the effort bar is higher than the "I'll just snoop in this user's mailbox" level.

On the other hand, if you're doing anything that is either illegal now or could become unpopular with a government that Amazon could be pressured by, you should consider your data confiscated now. I'm not saying I've heard of Amazon doing it, but there are already enough service provider wiretap and warrant laws out there that you'd never know what hit you if it happened.
These departments are not interested in your coding skill. All they care about is your research ability in the area you're applying for. Software you've written or worked on might be relevant, but only if you're doing something hard and/or novel. It's easier to imagine this for some areas (graphics) than others (complexity theory). Overall, I imagine that very few programming jobs would be valuable on your application.

Also, note that the top-tier programs generally don't have academic Master's programs. Stanford offers one but it's career-oriented.
WebEx brings web meetings to your iPhone
Countries have private ownership of their roads with respect to other countries, and they all have their own markings, traffic laws, etc.
Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R
There's nothing strange about the headline, as an increase in savings relates to the spending multiplier,

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

...the reason people like Krugman want the government to increase the deficit (the opposite of savings) is to plug the gap. Japan's extra-high savings rate is one reason why it's had 20 years of near-recession.

By saving money, people are (in an indirect way) buying government debt.
Not strictly true. Livejournal supports OpenID for this purpose.

(The average user will just join).
Yet another perpetual motion machine company with 60M in funding
I agree. The world of documents is going to evolve and since W3C is a committee type beast, there is a reasonable probability that as the years go by we are going to end up with a horrible number of elements. HTML is going to look like the Java API. Perhaps this proposal could open up "structure" plugins that could be developed independently of the browsers themselves and certainly independent of W3C.
I believe the goal is to make people that are already non-believers feel more comfortable.
A separate layer for semantics is a really excellent idea; something like "cascading semantics sheets"* -- instead of cluttering your markup with tons of extra semantic information, frequently duplicated, just use existing CLASS and ID and attributes, plus CSS selectors, to specify elements and define roles for them within the linked document. Thus if the browser understands this extra semantic information it can use it efficiently, and if it doesn't then you've not made your markup crazily crowded for no reason.

* except those would also be CSS, so maybe "cascading semantics documents", or CSD
Well, I just "applied" my blog but I'll repeat the part of that email that matters the most: I'm a big believer in the concept.

Job boards are, by far, the best way to monetize professional traffic to a particular niche blog. (Well, the second best way. The best way is to push the product you also happening to be selling.) And the cursory research I did in this area a while back showed a glaring hole in distributed job board networks.

I think you guys have found a real sweet spot. I wish you guys the best.