skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the extreme case, I'd trust a vim or emacs or eclipse user with my next big project far more than I'd trust a user who willingly uses notepad.
Supposedly it's for load-balancing purposes. (Most people spin up their machines in 1a.)
ran into this graphic while installing some modeling software awhile back, shows thermal stress on the blades

http://www.comsol.com/products/multiphysics/
Yes, we could have done glass. We considered grabbing recycled shower doors. Ultimately this solution felt better so we went with it. Still might try the shower door idea in the future.
If you tell me to blame someone every time there is an issue, and you don't let me find out why, I'm going to blame you. Because it's your fault as the boss of the department till you let us prove specifically otherwise. That's what responsibility is.
> For example: the specific areas of code that the DOD uses will become public.

How?
No. That's like saying that an "hour" is extravagantly long, because we could use 30-minute hours instead. We certainly could use 30-minute hours, but it wouldn't change anything. You're just playing games with the units.
2600hz launches Kazoo, an Open-Source, distributed API based telephony platform.
So, too bad RIM couldn't have bought Palm?
Humans are predictable - it wouldn't spread the load across zones very well.
Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
Hello HN. I like this community a lot and want to see if there's anything I can do to make you a little more successful. No strings. To give you an idea of what I might be able to help you with, let me tell you a few things I've done to help others recently...

- I'm an early-adopter and enjoy seeing new technology and ideas being put into action. If only to get access sooner, I'd be more than happy to critique and share my opinion on all things design, customer development, software, entrepreneurship, family, creativity, or productivity.

- I'm participating with a team of other students in the Stanford Technology Entrepreneurship online course and helping people learn to apply the Business Model Canvas along with lean startup methodologies as well as attempt to bring our own product to market. (On the side, our team published an ebook that helped other groups in the course to effectively brainstorm toward creating a viable business idea.) (This course is also the reason why I didn't do last month's "No strings" thread.)

- I organize the South Florida Hack and Tell, which is a group for geeks (and those interested in hanging out with geeks) to do interesting events here in South Florida (like learn Arduino, grab a beer, participate as a team in a Hack-a-thon, etc),

- I advise a few local single founders who are without technical expertise and guide them toward good long-term technical decisions for their startup,

- I write (moderately maintainable) software for a living,

- I understand good design from bad design and can push pixels with the best of them (I got a perfect on this color test: http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?pageid=77&lang=en),

- I have a family and juggle a mediocre work-life balance that's gradually improving.

If there's something I can help you with, just ask here or @mikegreenberg on Twitter. Be specific about what you're trying to fix/solve/accomplish. The more details you provide, the better I can help you out. :)

I also hope this inspires other people to help out even if you don't think you have anything useful to offer. Actions like this will only improve our community (locally and across the net).

Cheers! Mike

PS: I'll typically reciprocate the amount of effort/consideration that you've shown in your request. If you show me that you're thoughtful about the feedback you want from me, I'll be more apt to give you something useful. I'll accept any requests made before the end of today and will attempt to respond by the end of the weekend.

PPS: You can check out my previous submissions if you want to see the sort of feedback I can provide.
RIM chiefs best quotes
I really hated the namespace separator and I ranted against it pretty heavily before PHP 5.3 was released. But I've been using PHP 5.3 pretty heavily for a new project and now I don't mind the backslash at all.

I also understand the technical need for a new character (which doesn't exist for static languages or some other dynamic languages) and once you need a new character then the backslash is a reasonable choice.
I expect them to "maintain their own fork of Linux" in exactly the same way they "maintained their own fork of Windows". It seems very likely they're just porting over pure userspace-stuff. If Windows worked for them at all I doubt kernel-space stuff is necessary.
Some of us like to write good code in a good language too.

Maybe you should be the one to stop being so arrogant as to tell other people what they should feel.
{"success":true,"message":"Thanks for playing! In the meanwhile, why don't you share your achievement on FB + Twitter and help us spread the good word? Head over to the 'url' parameter.","url":"http://ecommercehackday.com/share,totalTime:260 seconds"}

Eating pizza makes coding double hard for me, I should have had less then 3 mins for that puzzle, but I just don't think this was even remotely hard enough of a puzzle to weed out people for serious eCommerce development/hacking? Submit a few HTTP requests and you pass the tests? Besides filtering out people who don't know jQuery and console.log, I don't think this was a very good test/quiz for what they are looking for. I think they should be looking for the people who can create these simple puzzles from scratch in X time instead of the people who can solve them.
14 minute video? Why? On the homepage have a video that is 30-60 seconds. here is an example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcZjtGS1CE

Otherwise looks good.
The Phat Startup Interviews Leo Widrich, Co-founder of Buffer
This is a really short-sighted perspective.

Proper support of threading inherently allows more performance and flexibility than multiprocessing. On top of them, you can build powerful, Pythonic abstractions like concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor.map and STM, and on top of those, even more powerful abstractions that help the developer avoid concurrency bugs.

I'm really excited for PyPy. That is a project full of people who are not afraid to quickly iterate on powerful ideas that can make Python a high performance language that it deserves to be, instead of resorting to calling MT programming a "fringe case" and ad hominem attacks.
probably to prevent folks from all stacking up in a single AZ.

Just think if someone posted a blog post saying "I've noticed that EBS performance is far better in 1d vs. 1a"
Digital Diary: Talking About Death Online
Well, we all need to eat, and if you want to do web dev, and 90% of web dev jobs in your area are PHP...

So yes, PHP may put food on the table, but if it's the only tool you get to use professionally (without having to start your own company) then you are pretty much forced to use it. Hence the hate. Now I get to use other tools, I just don't care.
Interesting. That reminded me of this book "Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle" which says their military runs the same procedure in a similar way after missions.
Yes recall people comenting that PRESTEL did amazing things back in the day when BT was still efectivly a civil service organisation.

PRESTEL was designed in an era where if the female employes got married they had to leave the company. And there where strict rules about how senior you had to be before you got a chair with arms
A few years ago nobody criticized an author for calling his work a book if it didn't have an electronic version. We are now clearly in a transition phase [1], but it is plain that soon it will be acceptable and in fact expected to forgo the print edition when publishing "a book". A significant threat to content preservation, but that's another story.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/technology/20amazon.html
I am willing to bet that the reason facebook uses PHP is to remain backwards compatible.
A company can likely be 10x (or more) productive if they're shooting for 99% of code being "good enough". It's understood that sometimes mistakes will happen, but you get a lot more done when you know 99% bug-free is OK. What happens with the blame game is that many employees now start to focus on hitting that 100% level, which significantly slows things down, and probably still doesn't result in hitting that 100% bug-free mark. It's just a really bad idea, and is probably instituted by non-technical management.
I find the default browser on iPad very limiting. First of all you can only a have limited number of tabs open and if you open more tabs it closes the earliest opened tab. Another drawback is that you can't search from the address bar. In fact, the pop-up keyboard hides the space bar key. I have been spoiled by the Chrome omnibox.
How to re-invent a startup within a startup?
I believe it's also a security measure.
Hey,

I'm Josh, I run Biz Dev for 2600hz. We've built a carrier application switch in Erlang, and we have two sets of APIs (REST and direct AMQP) to allow you to do big things.

This isn't Twilio because it's open-source, massively scalable and does handset registration via API.

This isn't just another boring PBX.

This is a set of powerful APIs backed up by lots of built-in software redundancy.

If you'd like to deploy this to your servers, it's really as simple as creating an account, clicking on the cluster manager and pointing the cluster manager to your servers. Our platform handles all the setup for you.

In short, if you want to build big things in Telecom, we can help, or you can use our tools to deliver this service.

Do what makes you happy :).
An API would just allow YC startups to come in and strip away Craigslist's business category by category, as AirBNB did.

It's a wonderful idea for people who want to strip away categories from Craigslist, but it's a really silly suggestion for Craigslist.
He/she said it's a stamp of approval of the Chrome brand - not the iOS app itself. As a brand, Chrome dwarfs Safari and hence the high curiosity.
> I don't have a choice in the matter

Yes, you do. Thoreau certainly made the choice; but, then, he was a hated American.
The zones map differently per account, but if you've launched instances in different zones for your same account you are for sure in different AZ's.
Volunteer Programmer wanted to help Combat Child Sex Trafficking
I suppose you use only "the good parts" of Scala, but if one considers the entirety of it, it feels like a kitchen sink, "Perl for the JVM : can you read it one week later?", to put it in one way. For example, can you comprehend a program written using Scalaz. (I remain aware that this could be MY issue, i.e., I may be too dumb to grok advanced stuff. I deeply regret that I do not understand Scalaz Promises enough to use it, for example, because it solves a very real problem that has bugged the design of my systems from many years (non-composability of asynchronously executing tasks)).
Or he said it because he does prefer Python.

Thought of that, Sherlock? Or should I say Bekas?
Can you elaborate on you math here? I am also always skeptical with deals like the ones mentioned in this article, but the claim that he only saved $50 on airfare makes no sense to me without further justification. He specifically mentioned that the first year annual fee is waived. I am not sure what limits you refer to. And of course there are redemption restrictions which usually require you to purchase such flights a few months in advance.

A further reason I don't believe your comment is that I just returned from a fantastic holiday to the Caribbean whose flight was paid for entirely in United miles acquired exclusively through opening and using once a United Explorer Card. This, incidentally, is a neat trick to know: Flights to the Caribbean are considered domestic flights in the United system which means they only cost 30k miles, same as a flight from Boston to New York for example.
I'm running in us-east-1 and my EC2 instances and EBS volumes are still responding ok for the moment...

Fingers crossed (just deployed to AWS less than 2 weeks ago).
Contact sales for enterprise level support?
http://cloud.google.com/contact.html

That is now at the top of the page. Not sure if it was there when you posted your comment.
I also found his claim that the non big win YC companies were either acquired, failed, or in a zombie state.

The first two make sense, but I have no idea what a zombie startup is. The only real example of something like that would be Color. Those in Palo Alto have seen their giant office space with nobody in it, but whenever I walk by I get the feeling its a bit more like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory than a ghost town. These startups are churning away in a quasi stealth mode and who knows what they might produce.
This isn't necessarily an AJAX puzzle.. You can solve this by using CURL, WGET, or simply pointing your browser to the endpoints...
Same here. For me the Omnibox is the biggest "lock-in" feature that keeps me on Chrome - not that I've had any reason to switch to something else, or anything. The 2nd biggest one would probably be the pre-rendering of webpages.
The really interesting question is, how did that happen?

A lot of Apple's enormous and well-deserved success could be attributed to iTunes, I think. The iPod was a huge success, pulling people to use and start to get locked into the iTunes universe. Around the time of the release of the iPhone, iTunes was the benchmark and it was the massive differentiator of what made the iPhone the device to have (it's all very curious now. I keep no music on my device, using online sources like Rdio). The iPhone begat the iPad, etc.
>the first question that comes up is what to use instead, and they’re met with a barrage of difficult choices and wildly different opinions and recommendations.

The real answer is "it doesn't matter". Of course python people will try to convince you to use python, and ruby people will try to convince you to use ruby. But both groups will agree that either language is far better than PHP. And as someone who likes neither of those languages, I would agree with both of them, just pick one. There's no "wrong choice" to worry about.
i have been a PHP programmer from college. Switching to python was the best decision i made.i'm just in love with python.
If Alice takes a GPL program, modifies it, and sells it to Bob, nobody but Bob can demand Alice share the source. If Bob does nothing, nobody but Alice ever sees the source.

Bob is the Navy. Alice is the contractor.

Alternately, Bob is me and Alice is you.

Either way, the GPL allows it.
Richard O'Dwyer petition hits 160,000 signatures
Reminds me of a consulting story.

I was sitting down with a team getting started on Agile/Lean, and I was trying to lighten things up.

"Well, the first thing to do is pick somebody to blame when it all goes south," I paused for effect, "and that's usually me, the consultant."

It was dead silent. Everyone in the room was looking at me seriously.

Tough crowd.
Or those providing valuable exits for companies that don't make money should stop doing so.
Exactly. If it replaces anything, it's because it is more efficient at it. This is all anecdotal, I know...

Since Facebook, my email inbox is almost devoid of "RE:RE:FW:FW" broadcast messages.

I still get plenty of email from family and friends, but they are more selective in what they send. Things that are personal, or detailed, or very specific to me.

I still use my phone a lot, but spend less time telling people how great (or not) my weekend was. If they want to know, they can look. If they want details, they call and ask.
i like this one:

http://www.ideaswatch.com
I have an unrelated question: is redis still monothreaded?
Ahh. Now that you mention it, I think I recall reading that before. It struck me as weird though because 1a was obviously the first one and 1e was recently added. So, would they rebalance my labels in that case?
I totally agree. Everything in iOS Chrome works amazingly well and all of its features feel very natural to me. I primarily use Chrome across my other machines so it's nice to have all of the same information on my phone now.
Solving Embarrassingly Obvious Problems In Erlang
I wonder what will happen if Google and a few other big hitters publicly encourage people to jailbreak their iOS devices in order to get the best experience (by avoiding Apple's lame restrictions).

Like suppose Larry Page goes up on stage at Google IO and saying "here's the next version of Chrome for iOS and btw, we suggest you jailbreak you iPhone to get the one with our awesome V8 engine".

I wonder if Apple can take any action against Google after that (other than kicking out current Google apps).
Nice quote: Graham Linehan, the writer of sitcoms The IT Crowd, Black Books and Father Ted, also signed the petition. He said: "It just seems to me that people like Richard are being punished for being able to navigate the modern world. The internet has changed everything. They're doing what comes naturally in these new uncharted waters and suddenly they're getting their collars felt by people who still have Hotmail addresses."
Tell me more about mindless robots who don’t listen to each other but merely regurgitate canned answers?
Rdio redesigns their app post Wilson Miner leaving for Facebook
The Final Version (FV) time management system
I don't think that's a fair comparison though. Metro as a design language is very new. Compare iOS 5 with iOS 1. Or Android 4 with the pre-iPhone version. Or Mac OS X Lion with that pinstriped abomination that OS X used to be.

I think Metro has a lot of growing to do, but it seems like a language that could be very interesting down the road.
Waited in line for it the day it was released and still carry a first-gen in my pocket everyday. An amazingly solid piece of hardware. I know I'm missing out on new features, but I can't help wondering just how long it will go for.
Sad and disheartening. As someone who also hacks together the occasional twitter app/hybrid, I wonder if this sentiment is widespread/growing?
> Don't use the same type for escaped and unespaced strings.

And if you can't extend your type system to make this work, do it in your head, mutating the names of variables to help you keep it straight. For example, esStr and unStr are not of the same type, and moving data from one to the other without conversion is always an error.
Well, they also return errors if a zone is out of capacity. That seems like it would guard against the issue a bit. But maybe they just don't want to have to field loads of questions about that.
I think it's pretty clear. The definitions have been made ambiguous by the permanent state of military action across the world. We're desensitised to it.
Magic Whiteboard is pretty cool too:

http://www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk/

It's basically a roll of big white sheets that stick to walls without adhesive. They're also erasable/reusable.

Took off after appearing on Dragon's Den (a TV show where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to investors):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QvguJJNilA
You can really solve this in a number of different ways... jQuery is just the easiest way because I've included a basic snippet there...

The puzzle part was merely a way to weave out people who can't even figure out basic documentation, and disrupt the workflow of those who can during hackathons...
Look, the 2882020 # is not special... That's the main AT&T customer service number.

You're wrong. If you call AT&T, inside of their systems, they can only group dsl orders based on phone numbers. So even if they tell you you're not getting dial tone, in their system, you are getting dial tone.

This has to do with very interesting regulations from the FCC which I don't care to dive into now.

The special rate you got is the same rate you'd get by walking into an AT&T store...
Yes, I forgot about that clause. What do you think would happen when the US Navy gave code to the US Airforce. Would that constitute 'distribution'? US --> Allied govt? Soldier --> soldier?
I wish you’d read the article before making your accusations.
Yes, that's true. The brand of marker, and even the color of marker makes a big difference. Expo blue and green seem safest, with red distinctly unsafe. And burn in is real, though you can often get stuff clean with a decent vinegar based solution...but who wants to do that?

That's why the whiteboard repair fluid stuff sounds interesting. The only good options I've found for eraseability are a good expensive whiteboard (and even then you takes your chances) or glass (which you can paint the flip side of or put over wood, etc for aesthetics -- but it gets heavy and expensive, and I guess sort of dangerous, at large sizes).
Should machines that are used to create weapons part of that clause? Is a scout drone a weapon? Is the control software for that drone a weapon? What if it's a scout drone? What if this scout drone is used for reconnaissance by the coast guard to find criminals? What if it's used to find ships in peril and provide fast assistance? There are some black and white extremes, but there's also a lot of grey in between. I'd rather prefer my license to stay out of that mess. The GPL stipulates that apart from the restrictions in the GPL, no further restrictions can be applied to a software. But you're certainly free to license your code under a "no-weapons" clause, I just don't think that the GPL is the right place to do that.
Exactly! And let's not stop there. The fact that the military uses steel is a big negative for steel in my eyes. If you work in steel production, you're indirectly supporting the U.S. military and by extension murder, aggression, and terrorism.

That's why I use flint knives and ride a bicycle made of bamboo.
I see someone changed the title?

The article is titled "HP said to dump Microsoft over Surface" which was the original title posted here.

Now the link title has been changed to "HP said to dump Microsoft ARM tablets over Surface."

So it was edited to try to make this look like a less inflammatory title? (As someone pointed out, who is breathlessly waiting for HP ARM tablets with Windows 8?)

Interesting.
I actually very recently searched HN for "hacker commune", I'm definitely open to it. Unfortunately I don't have many friends who I think would be interested, though it sounds pretty affordable even alone.

One of my major concerns is finding apartments. How do you manage to find short term leases, especially when you don't speak the language? I'm also curious about how you handle health insurance and cell phone usage. Could you point me in the right direction with these things? Any links would be great, my email is in my profile if you don't want to keep going on this thread.