skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition)
Radia Perlman
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201634481/

This book explains how conventions in data networking were established, how words became used as the terms for particular obvious but slightly ambiguous concepts, e.g. 'names' vs 'addresses', bridging vs routing. It also puts IP in to context viz. other LAN protocols before it became dominant. Recommended.
You can set individual gifts to zero. They're collected together on your profile page:

https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html

You can also turn off gifts entirely without actually forgetting them by deleting your credit card:

https://www.gittip.com/credit-card.html

Is that satisfactory?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoMhMZZjbGg
Nice, that's a little less confusing. :-)

Just as a heads-up: Google "gittip minimum raised from" or search Twitter for the same (http://twitter.com/#!/search/gittip%20minimum%20raised%20fro...) ... there's a collective audience of tens of thousands of people, any of whom could be seeing Gittip for the first time from this submission. Linking to a blog post, even a very brief one, might be better for picking up new interest in the future.

I feel like I'm being a pain in the ass between this and yesterday's grousing over needing a Github account. Sorry about that.
This might be a bit of a nit, but it happens enough: the quote that begins that article is misattributed. It's from Daniel J. Boorstin. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#Misattributed
The same concept has been argued in details some 2100 years ago by Lucretius in "On the nature of things."
What about research showing things like intermediate traces exist, we parse sentences in accordance with binding principles, we don't postulate gaps for fillers in sentences in island contexts unless there'll later be a potential filler gap? All of these are facts we know from abstract work in Chomskyan syntax, and yet they've been replicated in laboratories. So, your claim that there's no fruits is just simply empirically false
Exec also takes administrative costs out of that $100. Either way, the charity will have to train the person. But the person the charities hires is likely to come back, so that time is not wasted. The Exec worker may never come back, rendering all of the time spent training them wasted.
the HDCP complaint he lists seems like a feature, not a bug.
The main problem with Chomsky's approach is that it is quite likely that human intelligence mechanics are just incomprehensible for a human intelligence, and not because of some crazy construction tricks but simply plain old brute size and complexity it imposes.
Judging from much simpler (thus deeper investigated) biological systems like some bacteria metabolisms we can see that there is no grand design there, only trivial primitive core and numerous layers of less or more subtle modifiers of modifiers. IMO there is no reason why the same can't work for the brain and thus the "transition to sentience" is way more continuous than we would like to expect.
How did warranty claims / returns work for you?

Did the seller honor them properly?
The Bitches of Guyland
Just don't put it on your development workstation yet; XCode 4.4 is blocking the install of Command Line Tools for some developers. This means Homebrew doesn't work, VIM doesn't work (no /usr/include for pyconfig.h), and things are generally horked unless you want to play end-user in the app store.

Welcome to release day, Apple style. :)
Where does the article say "computer science" theory?
> Now, Lion seems to have slowed down my 2010 Macbook Air- at times it absolutely crawls when I'm positive it never used to

That's not Lion (same system, OS, identical performance to day 1). I'd fire up Activity Monitor and see what's active when it's slow - there's probably something causing a ton of background I/O.
Thanks. So it seems that if a person wanted to just give once, there is a series of steps involved that would allow them to do that in a roundabout way. Maybe that is using Gittip in a way not intended, but it would satisfy the OP's need of a one time gift option.
And it's a catastrophe for users if third party markets like Steam don't fit seamlessly into the future of Windows.
Startups vs. Academic Research Groups: FIGHT
Women are shapely. They are easier to dissect into sum of parts. Men, however, are rather square in form, discounting obesity. This is more a reflection of how we memorize shapes rather than a commentary of evolutionary objectification.
also, suPHP/suexec/mod_ruid2 is a must for multi-user environment. no more dealing w/ IMO, the worst web application practice ever for giving apache write access to files/folders, chmod 777/chown.
There are plenty of counter-examples proving that to be untrue (eg the CSIRO WiFi patents)
Am I the only one who likes having a gorgeous desktop wallpaper, with icons arranged in clusters according to usability? Or to have overlapping windows?

Everything I've heard about Metro suggests limited customisation of the desktop and apps that insist on being full-screen or some guaranteed fraction. All of this feels like evolution in reverse to me.

I've never used Windows 8, but the stories coming out make me never want to.

http://kotaku.com/5929067/gabe-newell-wants-to-support-linux...
probably only ones that had no choice.
Ask HN: First YC IPO: Airbnb or Dropbox or Other
As far as I know, all the successful YC companies are either private or have been acquired. So, my question is when will YC have its first IPO success? Will it be Airbnb, Dropbox, or some other YC startup?
the alpha geeks who use C

Wow. That just made me feel old and sad. Wasn't it just a few years ago that everyone had to know C and C++?
How to get more clients
well.. technically it is possible. The mobile phone network works like this without a problem. You turn off your phone, go to the other half of the planet, turn it on, it updates it's "location" and you are back "online". The reason to use IPs is that you don't have to update and maintain all those "locations".

IPs mark the end of a cable.
MACs mark an equipment.

Equipments can migrate easily (you need updates), "end of cables" less so.
Thanks! I am very pleased you liked it.

We certainly will try some of the tech blogs, but we are going to start with some music ones first, as that is more of our crowd than the tech audience (we think).
Bezeq launches national wifi network using customer's home wifi networks
That's a great book for new programmers, but if you already know you like Lisp and have the experience to be able to dive into PCL or PAIP or whatever, LoL is unnecessary. The books in the OP are valuable for any programmer.
These people is a fairly neutral substitute pronoun for "people with curly hair". I don't think why you hear any hostility in the term.

I'm not interested in debating the validity of whether there is market for this group of people. Just that the article in question does little to support the claim. It argues that a lot of people have curly hair and buy curly-hair products. It says nothing about why these people want to congregate online in a specific social network.

In fact, your 2-sentence paragraph said more than the entire article.
Note that the usually the OOP system heavily promotes short-lived memory allocations and the standard library is build around it.
Zynga Contributed 15% of Facebook’s Revenue In Q1

http://www.techcrunch.com/2012/04/23/zynga-made-up-15-of-fac...
Yeah, that was pretty lame. The author is clearly being paid by the word and/or page view, and the quality of the review suffered substantially because of it.

Hastur is being hasty with his FUD, all right, but it's not as if the article was much better.
I'm not sure of his reasoning, but he is not saying that Windows 8 is a catastrophe for users directly.

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

Sounds more like all it is a problem for all of the many players in the Windows space. Now of course Microsoft can do what they want with their ball (subject to DOJ purview), but so can everyone else, including companies like Valve who have been a major influence in keeping the PC relevant for an entire market.

If Steam and 2,500 games were available on Linux, that would make a huge case for that platform in the home.
You intentionally disabled a chunk of your web browser, and are now complaining that some websites don't look right?
>>Remember when everyone was playing Farmville? Like, everyone.

I must be really out of touch. Don't know anybody who plays or has played Farmville.
If you're a pain in the ass then I'm sittin' on sunshine.

Definitely could do a better job of converting traffic. Don't feel like I have that nailed yet. :-/
"being argumentative": I felt I was misrepresented and thought I had a right to point that out. I replied to someone who put words in my mouth and claimed I took a position that in fact seems ridiculous to me.

"calling people names": Where in this thread did I do that?

"assuming the worst possible motivations": I'm puzzled by this; can you be specific?

"blowing off a - in my eyes - honest criticism": You actually read my piece and think that I said that Baio deserved to be sued because I don't like his music? Really? Because if you think the criticism is "honest" you must agree with this reading, which is off the wall. Since I never came close to saying that, how is the criticism "honest"?

"spamming your site here": I include a link to something I wrote instead of repeating it here to make my point. Is this against some kind of HN guideline? Is everyone who does this "spamming", or just me?

"derailing the conversation": I didn't mean to. I did not introduce these topics, but was replying to a thread started by others with something that I thought, in context, was relevant and interesting. But I can understand if it doesn't seem exactly on topic - neither was the thread, not started by me.

"reality check": Apparently your term for your opinion, in the form of a series of baseless accusations.
Obligatory:

http://imgur.com/7yyJC
Correct. Thanks for pointing that out.
As a counter-opinion, I prefer the way Gittip is set up so far. Small-but-recurring donations seem to be a better long-term model than larger-donations-in-bursts. (For examples of the latter struggling, there's Wikipedia and OpenBSD, both of which have to spend significant resources on collecting money on a regular basis, which is a distraction from what they would rather be doing.)

I'm a member of the Long Now Foundation, which charges a small amount to me every month. I've almost certainly donated more to them in this way than I would have in a one-time payment, and yet it still feels less painful to me. Win-win.

Gittip looks to me like it's trying to be more than just a reward system ... it's trying to be another way to sustain active contributors to open source.

Keeping the donations anonymous helps keep people from expecting to have leverage over open source contributors, which I think is a good idea.
Some of these are also extremely barebones setups. On one of the models I've read about there's no on screen display, and only 1 input. There's sometimes buttons on the frame but they don't do anything besides power.
The title should be: "Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe' [for steam]".

Steam is, from a user perspective, a video game marketplace on PC. In Win8, they will have to compete with the built-in windows marketplace, where most games will published directly. In other words, Win8 is a catastrophe for them as it's endangering their business.
I've recently enrolled in Coursera's SaaS class online. Its extremely intense compared to Udacity. I've got a few other books I want to read and some projects to start, I'm super excited!
Measure it: there's no problem with the base Lion so you'll need to use Activity Monitor or dtrace to track down the process responsible
This is bullshit, in a lot of ways.

1) This isn't a file system. It's a file structure.

2) Presumably I can still make directories inside of other directories if I want to, right? Given that this isn't an actual "new file system", they can't stop me, right? This was totally unanswered by the article.

3) If they actually prevent heirarchical file structure, can OSX still be called Unix? I think you need root, /usr, /dev, /etc, et cetera.

4) In all my years of dealing with noobs, I've never seen anyone flummoxed by a heirarchical file setup. Yeah, when they first start out, many people open files by clicking the program and choosing "open". But it usually isn't long before they want to start transfering files between devices, folders and programs. And if you need to do anything like that, you need a file browser and heirarchical structure.

I guess I've read it enough to believe it, but I can't. How can computer professionals actually suggest it should be like this? For everyone and not just some training wheels I can take off?
This is bullshit. Chinese language does not rely on "were" to make CF structure, but that doesn't mean it can't make CF statements. if you replace "were" with "am", the sentence still means the same thing.
From the article:
"Shares slumped as much as 42 percent in extended trading, dragging Facebook’s stock down as much as 9.7 percent."

The title seems pretty accurate to me.
I like the speed that you're implementing feedback and new features.

I was curious about your payment processor since you're working as a marketstyle service. For reference on a project I'm working on, were there any hurdles to getting such an account? Also, how do you plan to handle chargebacks?
"Why don't we use social security numbers to deliver mail"
You can't compare the entire fund to returns on a single deal. The investment in dropbox, conservatively assuming a 20k investment with dilution to 1% and sticking to the $4B valuation, is already a 2000x return. The actual return will probably be much higher, as DropBox's value will continue increasing.
There's certainly some self-promotion near the end but I think that technology is pretty damn cool. You can upload a screenshot of your website and eyequant will give you a heatmap of where a visitor's attention will be with 90% accuracy.

I'm both excited and scared to think of what technology (and marketing!!) will be like in a decade or two from now...
10 Common Mistakes in B2B Paid Search
We still need to know C to do well with Objective-C for our fancy newfangled iOS apps.
.NET Just Got Some Iron Behind It
But what if you have an infinite number of cards (or close to it) in each deck?
My gut feeling is they have more compelling reasons to port Steam to Linux. Look at the growth in the number of relatively powerful personal computing devices (smartphones, tablets, etc) that don't run Windows. It's also been suggested that Valve is looking at developing their own game console. It is reasonable to spend some effort making their system less tied to the Windows API.
I think the main takeaway is never ever do business with lawyers. That guy is not fit to run a lawyer firm imo and he should have his license/privileges/diploma/whatever revoked. What an asshat ... it's surreal.

But some good tips to look out for for people considering this business professionally.

Also, I wonder what FroKnowsPhoto would have to say about this ;o
People submit URLs for songs that they like, others can then listen to them and rate them in a HN like fashion.

There is also a play queue that lets you stack up songs and listen while you browse and comment etc. This supports multiple sources seamlessly (so you could be listening to something from Soundcloud and then Youtube - it all seems the same to the user).

You can search for multiple tags at once and a combined chart will be generated and ranked (tagA OR tagB). We plan to support a full set of other operators in the future like AND and NOT. So if you like trance and house but disliked songs that verged on dubstep you could search something along the lines of '(trance ^ house) - dubstep'.

There are lots of other cool little things, but they should be fairly obvious.
Learning C is a pretty simple way to learn about pointers, low-level memory management, and so on. It's not the only way, but it's one of the better ways. You also learn a fairly popular programming language as part of the package; not a bad deal!
Ever since C++ got switched out by the major universities (in the US) for Java (circa 2001), there have been fewer and fewer people who learn/know C/C++ and who can then also understand pointers and other C related knowledge. It's not completely unused but for the most part it has been relegated to game programming and systems based work where speed is important.

I am sure there are exceptions or other reasons to this, but I feel that once the universities switched over to Java, C/C++ went on a big decline.
It's not impossible, just untenable; it would be the equivalent of advertising every IP address today as a /32 prefix.
Other users made good points that for a company like Zynga advertising is a significant expense. There is another thing causing losses though -- depreciation of goodwill and other intangibles.

It is an issue for companies that do a lot of buyouts, especially if those buyouts are at high prices and the purchased assets do not perform as well as expected. I do not have time to explain in depth, but to put it simply -- when you buy a company you initially get to pretend that it is worth the purchase price for accounting purposes. But, later on, accountants have to evaluate how the purchased assets perform and record a loss if they are not as valuable as initially recorded.

This is often a reason losses appear for companies with positive cash flow (I believe Zynga has a positive cash flow). The issue appeared in the recent Microsoft earnings as well.
Right, but those are single deals. You could show similarly silly numbers for YC/Heroku, etc... How did Benchmark and Accel do in aggregate is the question? I don't think that data is public, is it?
That is just one of the problems right there, patent holder isn't necessarily the Inventor. It just gets worse from that point.
It's more of two slopes rather than two spikes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
However steam will continue to work just like it does now on the desktop.

It's disingenuous for Gabe to talk about how much of a 'Catastrophe' Windows 8 is going to be or how touch screens are "Short-term" but leave out the fact that these fears stem from it's possible impact on Steam's bottom line
This cant be suprising to anyone in the tech world but it seems that many in the finance sector are amazed at how this could happen. Is there really that much of a disconnect when it comes to valuations?
"Last week, Zynga expanded its board as it named former Yahoo! Inc. executive Ellen Siminoff its first female director."
If you go full screen, the app in full screen mode gets to use all your monitors. It gains control over every last pixel available to you. The other monitors are not unavailable, they are greyed out because the app you are using doesn’t take advantage of them. It could if it wanted to.

That’s the decision Apple took. It makes sense† but it’s also utterly stupid. For some reason they stick to it. I don’t think it’s a big deal. Fullscreen apps suck anyway and there is no reason whatsoever to use them on a big screen, much less when you have more than one screen available to you. They might make sense on the 11" Air but certainly on no other computer or screen Apple sells.

Just use apps like you always did (before Apple introduced their stupid fullscreen mode) and they will work fine. Like before, like nothing changed. I have the sneaking suspicion that only maximize-crazy Windows converts run into this problem. On the Mac you don’t maximize. Apple only implemented fullscreen mode the really stupid way to make that abundantly clear to everyone.

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† More than Apple just disabling other monitors, anyway.
Which model did you buy? (make, etc)
> "Remember when everyone was playing Farmville? Like, everyone. Now, it's completely dropped off the mainstream consciousness."

There's always another hot game trend. It's Zynga's job to catch it.
Would you care to elaborate? C is a worthwhile thing to learn, though I admit, it's probably not that relevant to job interviews.
New York Times drops BlackBerry app
I wrote "FALLING" not "FAILING". The title is accurate.

Falling is due to the fact that it's 26.99 after hours now:

http://cl.ly/image/1F3b1f3x3W1q
Yeah, well, I didn't read the review even now and I don't plan to. And the reason is simple:

If something looks waaay too good to be true, it usually is.

$337 for 27'' H-IPS doesn't exist in the real world. They must have cut corners on something - and pretty badly.

...First example already provided in the Disqus guy comment: 30% failure rate in 3 months. I rest my case.
I'd be very surprised if you could tell the difference between a high end GPU processor (for example) which could do all the processing you could imagine without raising a sweat and a DIP AVR package that would have trouble multiplying two floats by weight. Even with those, the majority of the weight is in the ceramic packaging, and not the silicon.

Add in a massive amount of packaging in terms of LCD panel, plastic around it, wiring, screws, and any weight difference you could attribute to electronics horsepower (if there was one to begin with) will be lost in the noise.

These aren't transformers or power supplies, where you want large capacitors and heavy lumps of iron to smooth out ripples in an AC to DC conversion.
that read far more like a press release than anything substantial or convincing.
Now that safari has unified the search and url bar, I'm copacetic with either.
Geek Poll: Upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion
I think the headline of the article is pretty misleading as he means that Windows 8 is a catastrophe for Steam because of the Windows 8 app store. Looks like everyone's upvoting the article because they seem to think that Gabe meant that Windows 8 will be a failure.

Instead of having to go through Steam's distribution, games will have the option of going directly to the Windows 8 app store and get featured there, not to mention XBox Live coming to Windows.

Anyone know what Steam's cut for game devs is? Microsoft is charging between 20 to 30%, so Steam seems to be very worried about their revenue stream and thus supporting Linux as a hedge.

Of course the regular desktop Steam client will keep working, but not on Windows RT ARM devices. Also, doesn't the WinRT support full DirectX?

Ref. http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/07/randy-pitchford-on-steam-v...

Says Pitchford, "It would be much better if Steam was its own business." If Valve spun off the content delivery system, it would also remove the perceived conflict of interest Pitchford takes umbrage with. "Steam helps us as customers, but it's also a money grab, and Valve is exploiting a lot of people in a way that's not totally fair," Pitchford says. "Valve is taking a larger share than it should for the service it's providing. It's exploiting a lot of small guys."
and saying he thinks the future of interaction will be through computerized wristbands

How far off are computerised wristbands?
>If you don't like Metro, launch the desktop and forget it even exists.

Been using W8 on my desktop at work for about a month now. If only it were that easy.

The big problem is that W8 is insanely inconsistent. Trying to change system settings can result in having to navigate a byzantine maze guiding you through new Metro interfaces with old-school control panel applets interspersed throughout.

The Control Panel still exists, but there's also a Metro PC settings interface, and trying to search will give you some mix of the two. It's just a nightmare to navigate.

It's more that the entire user experience sucks than it has anything to do with any single application.