skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012...
A smartphone probably could handle his workload, but a CPU/motherboard design that was less constricted by size would be able to do it faster.

Also would your brother want to dock/undock his phone with his laptop all the time? I generally just leave my phone in my jacket pocket most of the time so if I want to go out of the door I don't have to hunt it down. Under this system your going to have to go find your laptop and unplug it before you can leave.

Under this logic it would have made sense for Apple to launch the iPad as simply a "big screen" dock for the iPhone. Instead they launched it as a separate device with faster hardware.

I predict that tablets will start to become far more powerful than smartphones in the long run as demand for high end graphics will increase whereas smartphones will become more optimized to reduce power usage.
There's a category of homeowners like that: vacation home owners who DO explocitly want people coming in and out and paying.
Probably not well.

Because the entire smartphone industry seems to have been whittled down to a meaningless hardware spec race by ignorant fools. Doesn't have quad core ? Crap phone. No 5 inch screen ? Old hat.
Not all landlords have leases, credit checks, or references. What about those cases?
We have already factories in China. China is already cheaper than Germany. Much. Still we have the factories in Germany.

Check out VW some time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_China
I don't know about you, but if they don't start talking in first 5 seconds, I mute every single video presentation I have ever seen!
Nice startup hiring post - A typical day at the job
I really flipping "hate" C. It's used for everything in Linux it seems like. Things that really ought to be high level turn out to be a libfoo.so, requiring a C compiler.

It's not a gui programming language. It's not a text-handling programming language. It's not a symbolic programming language.

But it's used as those, constantly.

Pointer-based errors are endemic to C; they ought to be an expected part of the language usage by now. There are reasons why static analysis tools such as Klocwork are out there, and are very expensive... and keep being bought. Because C is bad for an incredibly large range of tasks that it keeps getting used for. I've done some of that, and using C (or C++) made things harder and more error-prone.

It's also very good at other tasks... like writing OS kernels or drivers. I've done some of that, and C made it possible.

Although at this point, I'd be interested to give writing an OS in D a spin to see how it works.
> (as have been documented elsewhere)

I don't think that really has been documented elsewhere. There have been lawsuits and allegations, but no proof, as far as I know, that Yelp has offered to compromise their reviews for cash. Yes, they give business owners willing to advertise some editorial control over their listing, but the extent of that control is fairly well-understood and not much more nefarious than Google's text ads. Correct me if there's documented evidence otherwise.

Instead, we get article after article of business owners complaining because their Yelp reviews suck and their obvious attempts to game them have been thwarted. But that's exactly what Yelp should be doing. They're useless if they can be gamed. They're also useless if it becomes well-known that they're pay-to-play, but again, I don't think there's actual evidence of that. They'd have to be pretty stupid to take that course.
Well well well... I've long liked the look of gdb 7 and its python scripting, and now it is looking better and better! I like it when I can retire a longstanding problem. (Luckily there's never any shortage of further problems to replace it with, so I won't run out of things to talk about.)

Now seems doubly annoying that Apple make you use lldb or crappy old gdb 6 for iOS.
NPR - A Party On The Rise, Germany's Pirates Come Ashore
"Meeting with local community leaders and the public to discuss the issues surrounding their service? That doesn't scale very well and is again ... messy, boring and hard."

In other words, a fantastic way to build barriers to entry and really lock up a new industry.
AirDroid is a pretty good start: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdr....
It lets you manage most of the phone functionality from your desktop.
Motorola will be filing for patent infringement shortly....
I would think this would be more appropriate to add to an existing skill set in another field.
Ugh. Just today I've had to clean up a problem where a function was called without enough parameters, but because the compile-and-link step included just the right components, there was neither a warning nor an error. Not only that, but because of a coincidence on the stack (the missing parameter was a NULL, which just so happened to be lying around), the relevant unit tests actually passed.

The problem with C is that, for all its simplicity, there's a ton of voodoo which you've got to "just know", and the best practices are not at all clear from what the language makes easy. In fact, the language makes it easy to make mistakes and difficult to find them.

I wish Go had made GC optional, I really do.
Nobody buys a Porsche because it is cheap.
As someone who went from pre-ICS Android -> WP7 -> ICS Android, I have to say that a lot of the new Android UI conventions seem to borrow WP's "horizontal pane" concept.
The classifieds don't provide comprehensive listings of short-term vacation rentals.

But I'm not saying Airbnb "needs" to deal with it. I'm saying they "should" decline listings from people who don't own their property absent some documentation of consent from the landlord of that property.
I looked at that link and am interested.

8 hours lecture online per week + whatever offline work, for 4 semesters. That format, at minimum passes the "sniff test". I think four semesters at that rate is long enough to legitimately teach the content.

My only question now is how well received is it by the world at large? Has anyone hands on experience with ITB?
It isn't accidental, Facebook chooses defaults that work for facebook ... not for the user. This causes people not to trust facebook, and because of that they're going to find it more and more difficult to monetize user behavior on the site.

They've been trying to sell users on sharing everything, but people want to share things on their own terms. Google understood (hopefully they still do) this, facebook doesn't.

How can they do really great things with user data when the default attitude of their users is "I don't trust them with my data"? ... its a trick question ... they can't.

There's a reason why they say "You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin it once".

Will be fun to watch them try though.
> Other relatively strong euro-area nations, such as the Netherlands, would probably pause before following Germany’s lead.

This would probably be true for most of these countries; however, the Netherlands would probably just adopt the new Deutschmark. The Dutch guilder used to be practically tied to the Mark for several decades before the Euro was introduced.
For the curious, this was resolved in a new Dropbox SDK that didn't include any links to the Dropbox website
"how many homeowners really want strangers coming in and out of their home regularly?"

Everyone who runs a Bed and Breakfast business from their home? (In the UK this sector is huge).
That's one person whose "no" I'll accept without further explanations. Thanks for clarifying.
To my mind, it already is creepy. In fact, I wonder why anyone continues to use Facebook with all its potential for leaking sensitive personal information? It seems like every day I hear another story of someone embarrassing himself on Facebook when it reveals, unbeknownst to him, that he's been watching Arabic dance party videos for 2 hours, etc.
The interesting thing about black/gray markets is that they crop up when demand isn't otherwise being met. So yeah, the Avengers gets pirated for one of two reasons:

1) It's not available where people want to watch it

2) It's not available for a price they want to pay

It's a fascinating problem, really. I doubt movie studios will ever be able to meet the "free" demand, but piracy in general has put all sorts of pressure on them to get movies into peoples' hands quicker. The Hunger Games was a huge hit and will be on BluRay within about 5 months of its theatrical release. It'll be out on iTunes at the same time.

Historically, this is a vast improvement. Titanic took about 10 months to go from theater to VHS. This was back in the day when places like Blockbuster had exclusive rental windows for a while too, so it was more like a year before non-pirates could purchase it for home use.

If people could reliably pirate high fidelity copies of movies between the theater and DVD releases, I suspect that timing would shrink even further.
Do any of those links actually document bad behavior or just allege bad behavior?
I didn't pick up on her business being "shady" -- what exactly indicates that?
But then you need a somewhere sunny, with low land prices on a coast with a large demand for fresh water.
Otherwise you have to pipe the fresh water uphill to the inland cities - much easier to pipe it downhill from the mountains.

Apart from Australia, agricultural bits of california and some parts of the middle east there aren't many places that fit.
The article has one other howler: "But others, encouraged by lax oversight and lucrative payoffs, use the rental sites to run ad-hoc hotels, which besides annoying neighbors, takes long-term rentals off a market that desperately needs them. . ."

San Francisco has also made it virtually impossible to build new housing units (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face...). If the city needs more housing stock, there's an advanced, information-age technology called the "elevator" that can allow it to build a very large number of housing units on a very small amount of land.
The central government was. But historically as now the relatively weak central government wasn't the problem - the regional governments ran up (and some continue to run up) exorbitant deficits. This is in exclusion of private Spanish debts, which are very large.
I'll just leave the following here. Maybe you can figure out from it what my point was:

You: Attackers should never, ever be able to connect directly to your MySQL database directly

Me: "Never" ... You are aware of the existence and mass use of shared web hosting systems right?
I do agree :-) but IMO, the video was sexist. The point being made by jsprinkles is that all forms of offensiveness appear to being called "sexist" - he said "I hate that the definition of the word 'sexist' is starting to evolve to mean 'offensive'." which is what I'm responding to!
A lot of folks don't want to acknowledge this fact but many businesses operate this way.

Most internet startups have low or no barriers to entry, so they can get an idea off the ground really quickly.
Battlefield for my 7DFPS game including video
This is my game I am writing for the 7DFPS. My first time making a 3D game and working with Unity.
Subprime college educations
Wilson suggests contacting references not provided by the candidate. That can be a major breach of privacy.

When people are looking for jobs -- particularly while employed elsewhere -- they are entitled to do so discreetly. If employer-directed reference checks are a requirement, candidates should be made completely aware of that and be given an opportunity to opt out. If that halts the hiring process, that's fine. At least the applicant retains control of his or her privacy.
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+1. Also, I find this comment to be #2 the most ridiculous after "your business idea needs to be your passion":

"One Million page views on movies.io. In a bit more than a week. We gotta be touching something right? But what?"

This sounds so stupid. Well, giving another example, I assure you if you start selling heavy drugs on the street, you will find people willing to buy. You will find a lot of them. That does not mean you are doing something "right".
Pretty recently I saw a job listing that looked pretty interesting, exactly along the lines of what I do.

When I saw they used Taleo.net, I thought two or three times if I wanted to apply at all. I've put a lot of work into formatting my resume in a way that's distinctive and helps people understand the value I bring.

Taleo just wipes that all out.

I feel the same way about it that Superman feels about Kryptonite. Add to that the real possibility that Taleo won't work with my web browser or I might lose 25 minutes of work because my session timed out (oddly, session timeouts don't happen to the kind of apps built by 'hacker news' people) -- in fact, I've seen Taleo and other online applications screw up enough that I'm amazed they haven't been sued.

I bit the bullet and applied. They liked what they saw enough that I got a call from them the next day. (A pleasant of surprise, since I've sent great applications into Taleo before that just disappeared)

The opportunity wasn't what I was looking for, but I'm sure that there are good applicants out there that don't want to deal with BS in the application process who just won't apply when they are treated like cattle.
"I really think smart phones will become the magical little chip you place inside a cyborg to operate a larger, more powerful creature."

Why though? To save the screen having a processor behind it?
Exception: Greece. It defrauded investors by producing false accounts.
Don't give up! Maybe your differentiation should be your good taste, not your website. Or maybe it is your website and creating more custom experiences for specific types of visitors than our generic one-size-fits all profile page (although fair warning that will probably improve too).

Some people will come to Referly and buy your recommendations off your profile page, and some will come to your site, but you are going to get the same rewards either way. AND we will make every effort to drive traffic to both. Sorry you are disappointed - public profiles was a feature we absolutely had to add. I'd still love to blog about what you've built.

-danielle (CEO Referly)
First came the noisy upstairs neighbors who said they were just "renting the place for a couple of nights" but refused to tone it down.
You can also compile the book into a PDF if you'd like. Zed made the code available so all it takes is the effort involved to install the right LaTeX modules.

Took part of an afternoon to figure out how to build it.
Public-key cryptography should replace text passwords
I like Airbnb, and while I think they should own up to their users real tax liability (if you're listing your place for the majority of the year, you're a hotel), I don't want to see them smote by regulations.

But that doesn't mean I'm shrugging my shoulders and saying "eh, that's what disruption looks like!" when renters in apartment buildings convert their spaces into mini-hotels. That's abusive. Fortunately, it's also unlawful, and there's a clear chain of responsibility to resolve it.

Cotenants in buildings experiencing Airbnb abuse shouldn't bother talking to Airbnb or their neighbors. They should report the conversion to their landlord, and then have a notice-and-cure drafted. In most circumstances, landlords probably cannot allow their buildings to be partially converted into hotels under the terms of their existing tenants leases.
we are talking about homeowners who own a 2nd home and in many cases, have bought it expecting to rent it out at least part of the time. they went into that purchase with the mindset of sharing with strangers. i would be very interested in using airbnb if i owned a vacation home.
BigDataUniversity (http://bigdatauniversity.com/) also has free courses and cover hadoop and some other stuff.

The site appears to be push sponsor products and don't really talk about alternatives. Expect to see lots of endorsements of IBM products.
Developer Selling Ownership of Firefox Add-Ons - Frightening or Vital?
Collection of Android GUI Stencils, Kits and Templates
To be fair, CSV is a relatively complex format with all kinds of edge cases and gotchas. In a test like situation, I'm sure 80% of the people would probably fail the test if done in any language.
Any war-related worries one might have if Germany leaves the currency union or the EU should also apply to Norway [edited] and Switzerland (not in the EU at all), as well as the UK, the Czech Republic and Hungary (in the EU, but not Euro nations).

So is a war between the Czech Republic and Hungary, or Finland and Sweden a reasonable worry over your 20 year timeframe?

[edit: confused Finland with Norway.]
Apple’s patent claim against the Galaxy S III: Search.
The difference is RMS is a fanatic with tons of accomplishments in his bag.

Blog Noise to work ratio is too high in ESR's case. I don't know what his contributions to software are. Or when was the last time I heard some major contribution from him. He always seems to find something to bad mouth.

I would consider RMS a super achiever compared to ESR.
I think you're having trouble with the intended target of the word "you" in my comment. I'm not writing to people hosting Minecraft forums on Dreamhost.
"Everyone who runs a Bed and Breakfast business from their home? (In the UK this sector is huge)."

"everyone" and "huge" - can you put some #s or %s behind this statement? is it 5% of the homeowner population?
"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."
-Mahatma Gandhi

Copied and pasted from stallman.org. I understand the rationale of ESR and many others, but RMS is trying to move the centrepoint of the discussion as far as he can, and to do that he must "resist with his whole soul". Compromise is for others.
You just knew someone was going to come in here pointing out that they knew of a landlord that drafted their lease on the back of a used Kleenex. Well. I stand corrected, then.
Dribbble, Behance Network, Coroflot, Fiftytwo, Cargo Collective, Zerply, the list goes on.
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One-stop shop for creating a subscription-based business.
Some areas where open source software is the norm:

1) Web servers

2) compilers for UNIX and embedded application development

3) ISP infrastructure

I am sure there are plenty of others. My business is trying to bring LedgerSMB to this area regarding mid-range accounting and ERP.

Open source can be effectively monatized in more ways than proprietary software. As LedgerSMB 1.4 comes along we'll be shifting from consulting company to start-up offering subscription services to do things that open source economics doesn't pay for very well. The software will still be open source but it will be monatized through subscriptions (think RHEL) which come with value added components updated in a timely manner. However the fact that it is open source also allows for me to off-set some of the development costs via consulting services (those aren't going away, but they are being de-emphasized a bit).

No I don't mind sharing the plans here. There are reasons why the revenue for these solutions, even if people know what the problems and solutions are, cannot be stolen from me. Open source is just a different game and you have to figure out what the rules are.

For the record the major areas we are going to focus on will be payroll and electronic submission to government agencies. These areas are frequently updated and the issue is that you don';t want to be the first one to ask for the feature and thus pay for everyone else's use. A subscription model lets us spread the cost around. People could try to jump in but I have a head start and a place of great privilege in the market. It would take a long time for someone to be able to challenge me.

In open source the way you get to a point where you can monetize the user base is by maximizing your downstream market (that's those who use your services and your customers' services). The closer you are to the center, the larger that base is. If anyone here says "oh that's a great idea" and tries to do this in LedgerSMB, you'll be starting near the outside, while I have the entire community as a potential user base. And if you go out and find lots of new customers, those are also potential customers for me. I win there too.

The real reason for proprietary software is that it is one way of spreading around the cost of development. You have to do it differently in open source software, but there are actually a larger number of ways of doing it than are possible in the standard COTS world.
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I totally took my ball home -- cancelled my account and everything.
Yet another brand-new Android 2.3 device.

Is there something about Android 4.0 that makes it difficult to work with from a hardware perspective?
+1 I run valgrind on all my test cases.
Agree with the message of the article, but I feel as though it's a little out of date. Frictionless sharing isn't new, Facebook isn't "entering" this issue.
Right.

In Portugal its the US banks, too. In Ireland its the UK banks. In Greece its the French and US banks.

That the German banks were largely responsible now is falsified with the numbers you linked to.
That's the old economy definition, anyway.
I have to say, although I can only appreciate at a distance the level of skill needed to pull something like this off, reading articles about it blows my frickin' mind. It is both fascinating and terrifying that there are people out there who can do these kinds of things. This, imo, is the stuff that really separates the wheat from the chaff when it comes to hackers. And just look how the media frenzied over the likes of LulzSec. I hope they never have to grasp, first hand, just how deep that rabbit hole can go. Really, money and political whim aside, a large portion of our freedom can be attributed to these individuals. That is damn scary. I hope they're kept on a very tight leash, anyway.
If your friend has any interest at all in farming/agriculture, tell him to stick with it, for a variety of reasons.

1) Farmers aren't considered tool old and unemployable when they hit 38-40.

2) If his parents own the farm, it's a family business, and one he can learn and take over. It is entrepreneurship at its finest. You do it right, you can make a really good living.

3) Like any small business, it can be a tough life. But it is rewarding and satisfying beyond measure.

4) At harvest time (whether grain harvest or livestock sales), you KNOW you're making a real difference in someone's life--they'll eat and live.

Of course, creating the ability to post inane comments and photos to Facebook, Twitter, HN, etc has meaning too. I guess. In some warped parallel universe.

5) The problems encountered by farmers are more varied across domains and complexities.

6) Farming/ag is becoming far more technical. There is absolutely no reason your friend couldn't also get involved in ag technology at the same time. He's already in the domain. And technology as a hobby in the domain you're in keeps it fun.

7) I grew up on a farm, had the chance to go into farming after college with my dad over ~25 years ago. As I look back over my life and career, I've come to the conclusion that was one of the worst decisions I've ever made.

But what can you tell a 22 year old college graduate who now (or then) knows everything?

Your friend has been dealt a really good hand. He needs to stop and look at it, and what it will be like 10-20-30-40 years down the road.