skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If by "get your shit together" you mean "maintain a functioning economy and get your deficits under control", austerity is exactly the wrong approach to take.

You're assuming that Greece's spending helps to maintain a functioning economy. That's arguable.

"Get your deficits under control" requires increasing revenues and/or decreasing spending. Maintaining Greece's spending choices does not address the latter and if it addressed the former, they wouldn't have deficits.
It's ridiculous that there are no debugging / console tools included. It's difficult for me to take this browser seriously as a web developer – especially when compared to Mobile Safari in iOS6.
Sure thing. It's probably easiest to explain by comparing it with the other options. You could say that Vim is one end of a scale (Hardcore keyboard power usage), and Coda/Espresso are on the other (Very designed, and try to do pretty much everything). I really like Chocolat because it's a sweet spot in the middle for me.

I get a beautifully clean experience like in Vim, along with plenty of useful keyboard shortcuts, but still a pleasant UI, regular cursor, and convenience features like a file browser, highlighting recurrences of a word, quick jump into my recent projects etc.

It's not that it does one particular thing that other editors don't (Feature-wise, I can't think of anything that only Chocolat does). Instead, it's the combination of what it does and doesn't do that I like.
Inside Flame: You Say Shell32, I Say MSSECMGR
The mental overhead from switching between the two is too much...

Really? It's just two constants that are both easy to remember and trivial to convert between.

I don't have a horse in this race. I don't mind having two distinct constants to deal with.
How do you find all the good articles?

In all seriousness though, I think recruiting is going to be one of the biggest growth industries over the next 20 years. We're starting to see more and more online education programs offering credentials designed to be easily shared and searchable online. All this data should lead to a boom in the recruiting industry, which will hopefully lead to a positive feedback cycle with more and more people continually upskilling for free on their own time so that they can be found by these recruiters. Hopefully this will tip the balance of power away from US News & World Report, which will in turn free up colleges (and then high schools) to innovate and modernize, at least to the extent the law currently allows.

I don't think we're going to see any massive systemic changes any time soon, but I am reasonably optimistic that we will at least start seeing pockets of high quality stuff going on in the not-too-distant future.
Google launching Nexus 7 Tablet
It's not slight, area grows as a square. It has over twice the screen area of a 4.6" phone.

So it's half the size of a 10" tablet, and twice the size of the largest phones.
I honestly think that in due time (1+ years from now) someone will have figured out a way to recycle those new Apple tech toys. Glue melts, glass and aluminum has different melting points...

I honestly think that people are making a bigger deal out of it than it is. Also, the better something is designed the longer I will personally want to use it. Make stuff out of cardboard, but if it starts falling apart it will end up being thrown out sooner rather than later. My family still uses and owns the iBook G4 I purchased in 2004...
> Then they would not be able to by those nice German cars.

It's cheaper (for Germany) to simply buy those cars themselves. No, that's not sustainable either, but the multiplier is better.
RedHat announces OpenShift Pricing
Current recycling techniques cannot (supposedly) deal with this, but it's likely that new methods could be developed which could. Ideally, Apple's designers would actually work directly with recycling centers to develop a strategy for efficient recycling of their product. This could even be done later on, when the existing product is replaced with a new version.
The icon is similar to Gmail on iOS - "wide" black margins. Any idea why?

Everything else seems to be working just fine, not slow or anything. The omnibox is really nice.
Yeah that one feature is worth an extra $200-$240 alright.
Some JVMs are actually self-hosting:

http://jikesrvm.org/

A distinguishing characteristic of Jikes RVM is that it is
implemented in the Java™ programming language and is
self-hosted i.e., its Java code runs on itself without
requiring a second virtual machine. Most other virtual
machines for the Java platform are written in native code
(typically, C or C++). A Java implementation provides ease
of portability, and a seamless integration of virtual
machine and application resources such as objects, threads,
and operating-system interfaces.
This is the broken windows fallacy.

Is anyone on Earth better off today because buggy whip production has almost entirely disappeared?

Some people will lose their jobs, but there will be other jobs. Look to Japan, they automated a lot of their factories in the mid 20th century. And now look at how horrible life is there, they are merely one of the richest countries in the entire world. Just think about how life would be so much better there if only more people had entry level factory jobs.

China is modernizing, that is in no way a bad thing.
Same experience. I'm dying for a great to-do application, but I always seem to revert back to my staples: whiteboard, a moleskine and Evernote.
It's been a HN meme for quite some time.
One key factor for business adoption of new technology is the availability of technologists with skills. If I can't find (many) developers and administrators who can install and maintain a noSQL server or developers who know what to do with it, I won't let it in my shop.

Anybody with a little experience in corporate IS/IT has probably encountered that app created by a developer who wanted to use the new shiny tech, did a half-ass job and then left the company. All the other devs hide when the app needs to be maintained or updated.

Managers also like to see formal training courses for new technologies to help less inquisitive and innovative developers get up to speed.

I think NoSQL databases are great new tools and I hope they make their way inside corporate firewalls. The broader supporting ecosystem will need to exist to support them though.
I agree that Mozilla could be choosing to battle Microsoft here instead of Apple battle for the positive reputation and press.

Mozilla could be wary of a long-term Microsoft gambit. When does Windows and Windows RT just become Windows?

Apple gets to do things that Microsoft as a proven monopoly and past abuser of that monopoly. I'm as worried about the future Apple as I'm about the current Microsoft. As long as Apple continues to clearly differentiate its more open software ecosystem MacOS from its less open software ecosystem iOS, perhaps it's not as much of a worry?
It's true. Hibernate even has special support for this ("row versioning") which I should have remembered. This isn't a race condition, but it is foisting more work on the developer that the database is already prepared to do (albeit in a different manner).

The advantage to having a SQLite datatype would be that you could do the kinds of things you can do with the XML data type (extracting information in the outer layer for querying, indexing or simply ensuring validity) but you're still going to thrash the disk with every little change. And once you've committed to Postgres, you may as well use its own solution to this problem, schemas.
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For competition, there are already other services backed by large companies: MS Azure added VMs recently, HP Cloud, IBM Smart Cloud, Rackspace obviously. And there are also many other providers. So competition is there already. You can compare prices with http://www.cloudorado.com/ and you may already find AWS is quite often not so cheap. So why Google is supposed to change the picture that much?
If people recycle them, they won't be in that landfill. And many countries (at least in Europe) now recycle all garbage.
Even stuff glued together can be separated and be recycled.

Making long-lasting, more expensive products certainly decreases the amount of devices that end up in landfills.

And isn't the "glass glued to the display" simply one less piece of glass that needs to be recycled? The previous solution was a display unit with a thin piece of glass, and then a bigger protective piece of glass in front of that. (Please correct me if I'm wrong here).
I've got 16g with a 256gig SSD and it's still slow.
Thanks. Chrome doesn't show up on Appstore search. The Appstore could really use an overhaul in my opinion.
> So what good is learning C? Well, if somebody will give you a job with it, and that job is well paid, then maybe it would be worth learning seriously... not sure how common this is these days, though.

Or if you want to hack at and/or understand parts of Linux or any of countless utilities.
And perhaps even more a matter of product differentiation/market segmentation.
The ideal solution is a site or app that works well on both, like how Apple's site works no matter what type of screen you use.
Until now it has been the case that you could always sustain yourself via manual labor if you had no education and no assets to support yourself. Automation will change this, we've never encountered this before in our history (see my other comment in this thread).
Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years - Robert Martin - Ruby Midwest 2011
I am disappointed that extensions are not supported.
I have the exact same problem, s/.NET/java/. I think it's become increasingly common these days, because there are so many different interesting competing technologies. I went through a long period of dithering, trying to figure out where I wanted to invest my spare time, jumping around from IOS, django, rails, and other stuff, and eventually just bit a bullet went with ruby & rails, for better or worse. So, I still invest some time getting better at java, and then most of the rest to learning rails.

But still, I'm constantly pulled in other directions. "Oooh, Meteor??? that's shiny!" And I feel that you have to learn at least some javascript (which is really pretty cool). So yeah, it's hard to maintain focus.

Barring other ways of deciding, you could look for a vibrant community. I've been really impressed with level of passion and engagement from the ruby community.
WOW, guess somebody kept silent until they got there bonus. Wonder why.

It is hard to take anything like this too serious without hearing from others and given it is to promote a book I do find it somewhat biased.

I doubt that things were as bad as she is saying and alot of it seems to be sour grapes. Are there no female programmers at facebook? Also if a company wants it's engineers who it pays alot of money closer to work what has that to do with reception/support staff who are paid less. Nothing to do with sex at all.

I'm not a great fan of facebook, but I still find such dramatisations a little off-key and realy believe this person is making mountains out of a mole hill and claiming it as sex descrimination, YET not actualy pursuing any legal redress, though they did write a book. That in itself lends me to believe that she is a shallow, spiteful, manipulative person who happens to be a female.

Realy does alot of females a diservice and in that I shall not be labeling any of this upon any sex or gender and put it down to a greedy person who is bitter.

Anybody who works at facebook able to comment upon this novel she has written?
Last year there was a lot of news about them possibly renaming Picasa as Google Photos and Blogger as Google Blogs, though that clearly never happened.
I would just like to say that that has absolutely nothing to do with anything by Gödel or Turing. There definitely can exist machine learning algorithms which continually adapt, and I see no technical reason why you couldn't try and model human agency as well. The work by Gödel and Turing you're thinking of is about _formal_ systems such as logic or computer programs, and while it is very common for people to turn (i.e., abuse) their results into a metaphor with seemingly broader implications, this is actually a mistake; their proofs simply don't hold under those more general circumstances.
Formalisms and learning materials available, but not for major languages that could benefit greatly from them.
Search in general on the Appstore isn't very good; not just for this.
God says...
emptinesses spider's endured fleeing outer abstract assured
One feature that i really enjoy is booting my system from GRUB using an ISO in the root directory of any partition on the local (USB attached, etc), or other disk.
I put down my iphone and opened my laptop just to respond to this.

I've been using AWS for a couple years and never really needed support, so never tried to contact them. Recently I was assigned an Account Exec who reached out to make sure everything was cool, introduce himself, and recommend buying into at least the cheapest support tier (which was much cheaper than I had remembered). He then qualified that with great advice: "actually, you can just wait until you need it and sign up right then. No reason to pay before that".

That impressed me.

In addition, Jeff Barr personally emailed me both times I commented on his blog posts about AWS. At random hours of the day. I'm beginning to suspect that "Jeff Barr" is a non de plume fronting a group of people, like Franklin W. Dixon.
That's hard to believe since we don't even know what the Surface is yet. Microsoft's tablet history is full over over-promising and under-delivering.
Great post, a few of the incubators/accelerators we looked at had very few mentors that could help us get to market, and in our discussions we discovered that none of them knew our space like we did.

The flipside is that if you're not already in a tech hub, you face a grim prospect for attracting tech savvy, forward thinking angel investors. The local incubator may be the best shot you have at rubbing elbows or warm intros.

In an era where barriers to entry are crumbling, too many people see incubators as a path of least resistance to success or funding, but the real acceleration will usually be found by networking with your customers and users instead.
Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It’s Supergrep
Not to pick on you in particular, but I think it's a bit disingenuous to try to say "something is priced to be worth about X amount of time" - it entirely depends on the person and their financial situation.

I've used Sublime Text 2 for a year without actually buying it, but I've also been unemployed college student for the same amount of time, so I can't justify dropping $60 on something optional when I could be stocking up on ramen or paying rent.
+1. Many thanks.
What do you mean by dissipatively?

My dictionary hasn't caught up with your vocabulary yet ;)
No, in the pilot round you got RVA points for hiring locals but they dropped that in later rounds so it is not even explicitly encouraged right now.
hullo there! thank you
I still find it hard to see any practical, hard benefits of switching to tau. Perhaps you could argue that many things become "more natural" but at this point, pi is ingrained in mathematics, and it works perfectly well. I just can't imagine that switching to tau would allow us to reap any benefits that were previously inaccessible.
I don't think there's any reason to fix what ain't broke.
A Hypermedia API is essentially what a by-the-book REST API is. Most "REST" APIs don't meet the hypermedia requirement outlined in the original dissertation. But because the term REST has been generalized beyond what it actually was defined as, some purists have taken to calling truly RESTful APIs "Hypermedia APIs"
I'd agree that he seems to be guilty of civil copyright violation and that, if that's true, he deserves to have all his ill-gotten wealth sued away by the big media company's. But those weren't the charges the FBI brought against, him. He's being charged with criminal copyright infringement, and its likely that even MegaUpload's token compliance with the DMCA will be enough to avoid conviction on that charge. The criminal version requires mens rea, and if the owners of Mega Upload seriously intended to comply with the DMCA that's enough for a defense, unlike in a civil case where they would have actually have had to follow all the rules.
Ordered one. This will be interesting to play around with.
There's some themes for ST2 that make it much more palatable on OSX, if you're concerned about aesthetics. My favorite is Soda:

https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/
Did not know that... It's been a while since I've really read up on my electronics info. Right now I have the EMPTek E55Ti towers (50-200W recommended) and the Onkyo TX-NR818 (135W per channel).
I have a "todo" email in my drafts folder in GMail, I've been using this method for years, and it has always synched up across all of my devices. I used to do it with my regular IMAP email, which worked on my Sidekick, so this process goes back nearly a decade. I've tried using stuff like Remember The Milk, because people love it so much, but it just doesn't give me any benefit and I have to internalize a new process, setup all my machines, etc.

The same is true of Evernote. Email drafts are searchable and available on all my devices, so I just keep my notes there, too.

If I wanted to get fancy, I could make a folder just for todo lists and one for notes. But, I rarely have more than one active list at a time, and notes being searchable makes it easy to find the one I need when I need it.
Ask HN: What's wrong with Ebay?
I'm completely serious. One of Y Combinator's startup ideas they'd like to fund is something that will be better than Ebay, because "[a]uctions seem boring now because EBay is doing a bad job". I also hear many people complain about this site, and how things could be done much better.

My question is simple: why? I've never experienced any problems with Ebay, and (IMO) it works quite well. I'm curious what people's reasons are for thinking Ebay is doing a bad job.
Actually Google's new pricing page explicitly says which of their prices are promotional ones and will increase.

http://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine.html
RIM announces $518 million loss, 5,000 job cuts, delays BB10 to 2013
App Engine Wish List – Updates From Google IO 2012
Curious to know why you decided on a free plan and a $45 plan?
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As countries get richer there is more and more affordable education. In other words, higher job productivity from those who can get jobs means higher contributions to help those who can't.

And even if one doesn't have a high-level education, being "poor" in a developed country affords a better lifestyle than being "middle class" in that very same country a few decades ago. In other words, the same minimum wage dollar buys many times more goods. The cost savings spread everywhere - hence post-scarcity.
The point was more than the caloric intake should be balanced across carbs, fats, and proteins (the exact ratios would vary depending on need). In other words, low-carb or low-fat were worse overall than a diet which did not artificially deflate consumption of fat or carbs.
I have seen former employers get the FBI to come after ex employees who used lists, data, etc. expropriated from the company. All it takes is a phone call. Really, its not the company's choice anyway... if the law has been broken, the authorities pursue it at their own perogative.
Indeed, as they snipe from the safety of their SaaS towers.
>And if we were limited to choosing between reducing, reusing or recycling, then perhaps we would want to scrap recycling all together. But we're not.

We're not "limited" to doing any of those three things. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is all about choices. What we "should" be doing. What's "best". We should "aim" to reuse rather than recycle.

> Besides recycling is just another form of reusing, is it not?

Recycling uses exponentially more energy, especially when you're talking about glass and aluminum.
Next time you write some code, try this:

#define ONE 1
#define TWO 2
#define THREE 3
...
etc.

Then use the words in place of integers wherever you need them. Hell, mix and match. And tell me if you are just as productive as you would be sticking with the regular integers you know and love.
That's not how these things work. Governments don't give up. Next time they will not make same mistake or get laws passed so this is no longer mistake/illegal or just do it again the same and gamble they get a more cooperative judge.
While currently interning for a Chicago startup in an incubator, I completely agree that true acceleration is through networking with customers and sers. Even if incubators aren't necessarily helpful, if you use your time in one well you can succeed. It takes a lot of hard work, patience, and networking but I believe it can be done.
An inside look at how we use Basecamp
Amateur hour is truly over: RIM delays BB10 to Q1 2013
Alan Watts is a great resource on this subject, particularly in translating eastern philosophy for the western world. That is to say, he "sums it up" and puts into context the concepts of Tao/Zen Buddhism/etc, which would be tricky if analyzed based on English translation of the literature alone.

With regards to meditation, his 'How to Meditate' video is an excellent place to start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Qkgmm5qQM

A good quote from that video: "The essence of the whole art is to feel, to experience what is, what happens, without saying anything to yourself about it."
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I believe this is also one of the goals of Lift.do, one of the current in-development projects from Obvious Corp (Evan Williams, Biz Stone).
What experience are you basing this on, exactly?

(I've often said around here that things would've worked out better if there wasn't such a barrier between stuff happening in Smalltalk and outside in the OS -- community wise. But if you're willing to play just in the Smalltalk sandbox, it's a pretty awesome experience.)
I think the strongest argument is pedagogical. If tau makes the underlying concepts clearer (and I believe it does), then it makes sense to use it when teaching beginners.
Unintended consequences are a fact of life. What the "company's algorithms cannot anticipate" is simply a specific instance of the more general problem that we cannot predict the future, nor can we run a simulation of the universe to see what the consequences of something will be. This is not at all specific to facebook, designing and adjusting systems like this will probably remain a task for humans for the foreseeable future.
Africa won't become a major manufacturing hub until companies can be relatively confident that violence and political turmoil won't destroy their investments.
I get the next worst result - the $200 tablet would be £130 at current exchange rates but in the age old tech rate-of-exchange it's £200. An apparent ~50% markup is a turn off.
Actually it's more like because the "Bill of Rights" is an inanimate piece of paper that has no bearing on the present-day government. In fact, it does more harm by letting people think that USG is bound by logical rules. Run through its amendments and see how many could possibly be considered effectual. I count three.
The best more concise description of what the problem is, from the article:

“Essentially, JPMorgan has been operating a hedge fund with federal insured deposits within a bank,” said Mark Williams, a professor of finance at Boston University, who also served as a Federal Reserve bank examiner.