skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The follwoing is her first Cisco post - a tad too rabid for a CTO.

It is an exciting time to join Cisco.

Cisco is the company whose leadership legacy defines “The Network” in many ways. Today, it is a company driving many new paradigms in communications and information technology. In the future, it will be a company poised to lead the industry to the next phase of Internet evolution.

What are some of the characteristics of solutions driving the next wave of Internet evolution? We already see many precursors for this such as, Collaboration, Web 2.0, and Always-on Demand. Cisco has been at the forefront of this shift, where the network becomes the platform to deliver the next wave of applications and services.

Throughout its history, Cisco has demonstrated the ability to anticipate changes with a proven record of accomplishments for capturing market transitions. The company’s customer centric culture, unwavering commitment to technology, and passion for innovation, mark the platform for leadership. Leveraging the reality of globalization, integrating outside and inside ideation through well-executed acquisitions, a relentless focus on financials and flawless delivery of results, delineate Cisco’s platform for talent.
The new features look great, but I'm surprised no one has discussed that screencast. That was the slickest and sexiest product demonstration I've ever seen; I watched the entire thing, and I dont even own a tumblog
I've never tried it on anything but linux, but it looks like it's common:

FreeBSD: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-freebsd-reset-recover-ro...

OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd101.com/tipstricks.html#tt1

Solaris: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/solaris-boot-system-into-singl...
I said that? That's a good observation... I'm kinda of shocked. :-)
I recall very, very old news footage of raptor eye like structures being attached to jet engines.

I guess those didn't work.

What about doing a good job of keeping the airports and areas around them free or large flocks?

How much would it cost to have trained hawks patrol the area.

NY already has wild raptors living in the city.
Most importantly, back in the day 1998/1999 there was not much around that could match up to the functionality of PHP. Java servlets were not supported widely, Netscape had their serverside javascript wich required you to buy into their servers... Going with PHP was a no-brainer for any small web-shop/startup.
With all the web stacks that are available today, it wouldn't have been that clear.
After 85 years in business, San Francisco Bookstore Stacey's is Closing
Date Range Picker using jQuery UI 1.6 and jQuery UI CSS Framework
I disagree. When we have whitehouse emails "disappearing", we need someone we can have resign to perpetuate the dog and pony show of accountability.
Whenever I start to feel old, I get a good laugh by expressing my age in an alternate radix :)
Agree with your additions completely and would amend your #3 to say that PHP was big on re-use in the small, as well. I've known folks starting out with PHP who cobble a script together by copy-pasting snippets of code from here and there. Inelegant, yes, but when you are working on a small project it was usually effective.

This leads me to one point about PHP's documentation that I was surprised not to see. Their documentation has always (as long as I can remember, at least) had public comments. On many occasions questions I have had or example code I needed was crowdsourced by the public and located in-line below the function reference. I have been surprised other platforms don't make more extensive use of this.

Finally, in response to your "I guess I'm looking for something else." Understand your discontent - I've felt it myself over the past couple years and have found myself toying with Djagno, et. al. This fall I found myself returning to PHP with a mission to create a framework that I could use and not feel shamed to be in PHP. It's still early in development (4 months) but I believe it is looking good and getting exciting. It's called Recess, check it out sometime: http://www.recessframework.org/
Good call on Make Magazine! I suggest that daniel_ start a project that he will probably need help with, and meet new people through the project. Tons of fun to be had from that magazine, I wish I had time to pursue all the DIY projects I could, oh well.
The key to a friendship is to be useful to the other person. Always pay more attention to them than you do to yourself. Figure out things they like/need but don't have, and buy gifts for them.

So have you actually met any people yet? This sounds like you're just trying to kiss someone's ass. That's not how real friendships are forged.
So you're saying everyone has the potential to be great? That's just not true. Yes, most people never come near their full potential, but not everyone is born equal, and not everyone can do anything, if they just try hard enough.

On second read, maybe that's not what you're saying, and I missunderstood. Forgive me--I haven't slept in 40 hours. :-)
I believe there is a protocol to ask a mail server an address is real, it's slow but works without sending an email.

Obviously anti spam measure make all of this void.
I can't see it because I don't have flash on this machine, but am opposed in general to screencasts, videos and co. Unless you actually have a spectacle to show, just tell me wtf is new, please.

I can read a paragraph of text before the loading icon on yr goddamn video has even begun to spin.
Morten Lund provides an update on life
Ok, maybe I'm a bit biased, but I always vote up TC articles about YC Companies - good or bad.
http://www.islandreefjob.com/

Feb. 22nd deadline. 60-second video clip application required. Unprecedented global reponse to this PR gambit. Good luck! Ta
Or the Lisp, OCaml, or early music clubs...
I think the point is that PHP grabs people when they're on cheap shared hosting and they continue using it as they build more complicated stuff.
I love Morten, and I love what he wrote here. He is one of those people who understands there's a thin line between having everything and having nothing at all (as so many are learning in this financial crisis). A truly talented person will always enjoy the ability to build back the empire from scratch, and society will benefit from the process.
So like Posterous, but the opposite?
"Interestingly, the Smithsonian Institution's Feather Identification Laboratory has worked out which species causes the most costly birdstrike damage. It's the turkey vulture - the bird that originally inspired the Wright brothers."

Irony strikes again!
Citigroup Reports $8.3 Billion Loss, Splits Into Two
One of the articles I perused mentioned that the pilot was a glider pilot as well. I wonder if he acquired some transferable skills!
Killing Dodgeball Saves Google $50,000 Per Year
just curious, why is that?
Sorry I left you with that impression, I certainly didn't mean to. I only mentioned those as great ways to shoot yourself in the foot when you don't have the patience/skill to do the Right Thing.

Sounds like you're better prepared to write that followup than me, but I'll ponder it. Maybe "Database Anti-patterns". Actually, just typing the name makes me think it likely someone's done this sort of thing, but I don't have time to check.
Sorry, but this post is nonsense. Mac's font rending not in the same league as Linux/Freetype?? Nope, it's far above it.
No support for Linux? :(
This is a study in persistence! Good luck to you, Jonathan.
Nice I enjoyed doing some AI at CU,good to see there is still some interesting AI work being done there. I worked a lot on text categorization with SVMs and LSA/i while there. I did some NN stuff, but I always wished I got to do more of it.
I'm not sure why I'm so eager to post something sarcastic, possibly including words like "sshfs" and "already" mixed up with nasty stuff like "many years ago".

Am I a bad person or what?

P.S. And seeing another person asking for "linux support" doesn't help me to fight my sarcasm.
Give http://translationcreation.com a try. I worked for this startup a couple years ago, I saw recently that it was finally launched, looking good.
Why don't we just outfit aircraft with a miniature Phalanx system that calculates the trajectory of an incoming bird and the probability of an engine strike and then fires up a Gatling gun to neutralize the threat :)

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

In all seriousness, I wonder if some kind of laser-based defense system could be used as a last resort.
Cool, I was wondering that exact thing yesterday: why no jet engine grill? Not all engineering problems are solvable! (Or should be solved.)
Up should work. If you want it to persist across sessions you'll have to enable readline history.

You might find my pythonrc useful: [link redacted] - be sure to run export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc.py.

My script does the following:

1. Enables readline tab completion.
2. Makes tab insert four spaces.
3. Persists command history (~/.pyhistory). You can disable it by running NOHIST= python.
4. Changes the print hook on functions to include their signature, as well as their documentation.
5. Changes the print hook to use pprint for everything else, also taking into account the terminal width.
6. Colorizes exceptions if Pygments is available.
7. Adds a source() function that shows you the source code of a function, class, or module in your pager. Code is syntax highlighted if Pygments is available. This function works on zipped eggs as well.

Also, enabling readline means all your ~/.inputrc bindings will work. So for example you can hit ^R to search back in history for a snippet you wrote.
I see so much other stuff make the front page that I am not interested in, but I am interested in seeing YC Companies succeed. For better or worse at TC write up is still probably the best way to reach people who keep up with startup/entrepreneur/vc news, so when one of them makes it onto TC, I like it - and I vote them up =)
Gotta love it.
"Unlimited storage!", they say. "Access your stuff anywhere!"

Of course, you better not have TOO MUCH STUFF, or you'll run afoul of this tasty provision.

General Conditions, 8. If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Company) of other customers of the Service, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.
hmmm... up arrow gets the last command for me on ubuntu with putty and python 2.5.1

what other frustrating things are you finding?
though this was not statistically significant

That modifier is dangling. Here is a rephrasing:

but richer countries saw a smaller decline (though this difference in decline rates was not statistically significant) in deaths of about a third."
What do you mean?

I still prefer Tumblr to Posterous. Themes are big. The user interface is big. Posterous has neither, and it suffers for it.

It's more that Tumblr's not perfect anymore. With v4, I couldn't think of anything I wanted added. It could have stayed like that for a decade and I'd still use it. It was fast, concise, beautiful, uncluttered. v5 is a step back. It adds clutter where there was none before.

I'm hoping it's temporary, because Tumblr's staff is incredible and they listen to users. (I hope more than just me complains about this.) But for now, it's pretty irritating, which is to say less than perfect. It's still the best on the market.
Jive software made $8mm in a qtr for social network software
Haha, I was up until 6 in the morning when this thread opened, I know the feeling. (You should get some sleep!)

What I said in the other branch of this thread is that you'll never know if you can be great unless you spend your life trying, and that so few people do try that almost all of the people who really strive for it end up succeeding, to at least some degree.
As usual, we won't care until it's too late.

That will be the history of our human civilization, too obsessed about today, never being truly serious about our future generations.
Camstudio is great and completely free. http://camstudio.org/
not me. They sound like broken record player, repeating the same stuff over and over. And Dowd is a misandrist, but that's ok, as it is trendy nowdays.
It's the old worse is better thing all over again:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

Maybe all the "better" languages are a case of misdirected optimization, where the critical resource is developer time?
Hey Daniel. I know exactly what you need. I just moved to an area where I don't know anyone, so I have been experimenting with different ways of meeting new people.

In short, in any situation, if you see someone who might be interesting, just go up and say hi, don't hesitate, you have nothing to loose.

I have to go to work soon, so I will give you the long version later.

How old are you? Where are you?
Yeah. David gave a great presentation, and it was animated something incredible.

It pales before Charles Forman's presentation from Iminlikewithyou, though: he's part of the NY Tumblr crowd. This was easily the most over-the-top thing I've ever seen, and it's hilarious:

http://www.vimeo.com/1925542
Well, Tumblr v5 launched, so you could just go on the site and see what's new. I did that before watching the vidcast.

But a launch should be about spectacle. It's completely fine to have fun if you're not getting in people's ways.
Where do Zumodrive and Dropbox have their storage cloud? S3 or own boxes in colo?
I just put the first one my reading list.

Judging by what I see on amazon.com, Storr analyzes the life of some famous people that apparently managed to be happy through work despite 'inferior relationships'.

The one I've read is 'Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection' by John T. Cacioppo and William Patrick. It quotes a lot of studies that statistically link feeling disconnected with all sorts of things you want to avoid, including health problems.

Of course, instead of having friends, you can try to avoid loneliness by getting rid of your social needs, in a kind of ascetism. I never managed to do that. On the other hand I read that Alexander Selkirk, the stranded sailor who inspired Robinson Crusoe, suffered terribly from loneliness the first one and a half years, but then got over it completely. Later, back in Scotland, he even regretted his time on the island. I was wondering if this story was true, and if there were other examples.
Also, don't forget the nice support for php (using fastcgi) on iis 7/6
http://www.iis.net/php
how about jaiku, notebook and other service...?
To summarize it, I would say PHP is the "get shit done" language. It allows people who are just starting out with programming or people who aren't very technical to focus on what they need to have, rather than on the best way to do something. This is why so many websites (Flickr) and OS pieces of software are in PHP - they focused heavily on what users would be seeing, rather than what developers would be seeing and won out.

Of course, PHP doesn't preclude good design either. Once you have a working product that is excellent on the outside but ugly on the inside, you can start spending more time refactoring your code, or even slowly migrating your system piece-by-piece to another platform.
Morphing gel display puts images at your fingertips
How Unit Testing Could Have Saved Lives
Lol, you're so transparent and open online it's probably hard to keep track.

http://calacanis.com/2008/11/06/the-future-of-startups/

#7 stole my heart, I come from advertising. ;)
Plug the hell away. Mibbit offers some of the best functionality of any site I've used, ever. I thought it was so cool to find out about Mibbit elsewhere and then to find out that you'd made it.
Irony is coincidentally the name of the turkey vulture.
I had v. minor "surgery" before Christmas and I got asked that many questions I started to think they were taking the piss. Based on that, it surprises me that they don't already have this checklist thing in place!
I can't wait for the NYT to go out of business. No more of these paywall/registerwall articles.
I wonder if anyone has looked at doing a cone-shaped grill that extends forward some distance beyond the front of the engine. It would look goofy as hell, but it would only have to be strong enough to survive a glancing impact, rather than a direct hit like a flat grill. Air resistance might be an issue though...
I've worked with Vivek Kundra a bit with his very revolutionary "Apps for Democracy" contest. The guy really gets it. He's smart and understands the power of openness and involving the outside for helping Government.

An interesting thing about him: when coming into power here in DC one of his first mandates was "District Government will operate off of the same data we make available to the public."

As such, remarkably, public data feeds coming out of the district got significantly better, more organized and more available.

Sounds obvious, but it was a big step for even a municipal Government to take.
Run a WSGI compliant python web framework in a J2EE container (using jython)
Online Farmers Market
I think that could better be represented as <plug type="shameless" />
I don't think the problem are flocks of large geese living in the area, it's them migrating through. Hawks probably couldn't solve that problem, and if you have any ideas as to how to keep Canada Geese away, you should consider doing it as a startup. They're a common pest in my area of the country.
You are correct, I should have read more carefully.
I wonder if selectable inertial separator would work on turbofans. (They are installed on single-engine PT-6 turboprops.) Imagine a system that requires air to make a sharp turn, but anything with significant mass (water, ice, birds) would pass through, or get ground up against something other fan blades. I couldn't find a good diagram online.

You would want them to be selectable (engaged during low-altitude flight, stowed during cruise flight) so as to hopefully not unduly hurt range, other than via the increased weight.

The problem though is that there are significant one-engine-out climb performance targets that must be met for Part 21 certification, and inertial separators have power penalties on top of the weight penalty. Taking performance away from a one-engine-out scenario would further restrict max take-off weights, increase balanced field lengths (meaning some airports would need to make improvements to serve some aircraft, etc), increase the time from roll to V1 (the takeoff commit speed) and at the end of the day, taking performance away may represent a higher risk than birds currently represent.

In 700 hours or so of single-engine piston flight, I've struck two (small) birds, and had close calls with half-dozen more. I've never had a close call with a bird over 2000 feet AGL, so cruise flight could surely be done without brid protection.
Logan has a staff of people with shotguns to scare away flocks/birds. All bird sightings are reported to the tower and to pilots of incoming aircraft.
Its feel like my ass is itching and my arms are to short to do anything about it… But I will invent a mechanism to itch back.

Well put.
Care to recommend a good USB mic?
Sexy video, and the fact that they mostly iterated on their previous features is probably a good choice.

This is going to be an interesting year for tumble & microblogs, can't wait to see what's next :)
Obama in 3D: Photosynth to Crowdsource Synth of the 44th Presidential Inauguration
If Twitter lacks a business plan, then Briteny Spears is a virgin and she does not have a twitter account. (@britneyspears)

With the number of enterprises/companies/marketers/PR/CR/etc. using the service, if Twitter hasn't found a viable business model then it deserves to die. Maybe I'm oversimplifying the task here but from this armchair — it seems to be pretty simple, and a matter of flicking the switch when the time is right.

I suppose you could say the same thing about Facebook, but I think they got too caught up in global growth, relied heavily on ad revenue, overextended themselves, and now face the challenge of reaching profitability with a heavy burn (700+ employees) on their back.
Heh. It reminds me of a MetaFilter hack, where somebody figured out you could register usernames with Unicode characters in them. Enough to say that there are some characters in some alphabets that look exactly like normal letters.

To save you the effort - you cannot do the same on HN :).
I didn't realize that the game was over, and PHP won. Guess I should pack up and go home.
I would much rather see a Gmail-esque size limit that continually increases with capacity than a false claim of 'unlimited' personally.
Miniurl is pointing to http://smashingfeeds.com/tweet.php

Which doesn't appear to be doing anything.
It just depends where you are in terms of experience. It's not that one is good or bad. PHP is easy to understand, and you can jump right into it with no experience. However over time if you have any potential as a serious programmer you will find the pain points and repetitive tasks.

In many ways, experienced programmers and language elitists are a lot like corporations. They are risk-averse. The reason best practices are what they are is to avoid known problems (sort of like bureaucracy). This will make you a better programmer to a certain point, but it's also so easy to overestimate risk. The painful truth is that a 20-year-old hacker figuring out things as he goes may be able to plow through the naive problems he inevitably creates and arrive at a finished, valuable product faster than a seasoned developer who writes uber-maintainable code with a comprehensive test suite and every best practice he can lay his hands on.
"potential" is a dangerous word. What I was trying to say is that what holds most people back isn't IQ. There are huge numbers of people with high IQs who accomplish little. The really rare people who accomplish amazing things are distinguished, I think, more by their passion, interests, and work habits. The threshold to be a Woz is obviously, very high. I just don't think that threshold is mostly measured in terms of "smart".
>C succeeded, because it mirrors Unix so well

Actually, Unix succeeded after it was rewritten in C. (Not counting the very first Unix version which was done in assembler. See http://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_c.htm )
Clearly the root of the problem is that you're old. You also forgot to say "get off my lawn".
And it's only recently with the rise of virtualization that we have any options besides cheap shared hosting and horrifically expensive dedicated server/colo.
David with ZumoDrive here. I hate bandwidth caps as much as you do. But without this provision, we won't have a way to stop the guy that's distributing pirated ISOs via the service. This is really so that we, and indirectly our users, don't have to continue to pay for that. Other than that, we have no intention from you using the service, so feel free to stream away :)
Meh, canceling it was probably more about employee time/focus than it was about out-of-pocket expenses.

I'd bet the monetary value of the combined time of everyone in that room (e.g. Eric Schmidt!) probably exceeded $50,000 for that one meeting alone.
That's actually a good idea.

I bet even migrating flocks would scatter if a raptor buzzes them.

So perhaps I should get into falconry and charge airports to have my falcon fly through any migrating flocks.

It would be almost like being a super villain.
Prejudice has an incredible half-life
So put in some kind of limits. I am EXTREMELY wary of using anything that doesn't define limits. As I can have the rug pulled out from under me.
"We've all thought of cool things and then seen somebody else making a fortune of that cool thing."

Stop! Stop! Now I feel less special!