skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Translate suggested Spanish: http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/Qvyjt
And the United States people search have a lot of European first names with that last name: http://usidentify.com/l/qvyjt
with names likje Yvonne, Salvador, and the given name: Fernando that you posted. So best guess is Spanish.
It is currently priced at $1.00 a minute of execution time. It is setup using cron scheduling. Any valid .NET code can run.
Astronomers Detect Dark Matter Near The Sun
Stopped reading at "I've been tempted, but have never been able to put form over function…."
What's with the random words and phrases italicized? It didn't even look like it was for emphasis.
Take a look at the smartphone and tablet markets and tell me with a straight face that Apple did not turn them upside down. I don't care who was first to enter a market, I just care for the first one to get it right.
This is not entirely true. Even my non-techie friends know of the rumored iPhone 5 announcement coming up and are expecting something great.
Native JVM rather than via JNI so you get the sandboxing and safety guarantees of the JVM. Standardized...
And the article I had in mind to post:

Juliusz Chroboczek: A few observations about systemd
http://lwn.net/Articles/453004/

Editorial / discussion at LWN:
http://lwn.net/Articles/452865/

And for the record: I'm not particularly much a fan of upstart, but it annoys me somewhat less than systemd.
You don't think opensourcing it was a good step?

It hasn't been pretty to watch at all, but they seem to be trying to undo some of the damage and let the features of webOS that were/are the cutting edge still find life elsewhere.

Maybe I haven't read much about on this in a while.
Mobile Hacker? Change how thousands of businesses communicate
SendHub (YC W12) is looking for a Mobile Hacker.

We're looking for a talented and determined dev to push our mobile efforts.

Skills:
Objective C and the iOS SDK | Git

Nice to have:
Javascript (we use Backbone) | HTML/CSS | Heroku experience

About us:
We're building simple tools for business to communicate internally and with their customers. We have over 10k users, real revenue, we’re sending hundreds of thousands of messages a month and we’re growing fast - 60%/month across users, usage and monetization.

What you’ll be doing:
Working closely, and at speed, with our small team to make best in class mobile communication apps. Due to our small size, you’ll be involved in almost every part of the software life cycle from specs discussion to implementation to testing and pushing to production. We push multiple times a day and you’ll likely push to production within 24 hours of starting.

Our Philosophy:
We believe in building a wonderful product and taking care of our people. To ensure our team executes - you’ll get autonomy, recognition and regular feedback. We expect a lot of each other but we wouldn't want it any other way. We're hungry and we need you to be too.

Benefits:
Health, dental, meals and smart colleagues who will challenge you everyday.

We're based in downtown Menlo Park, CA (very close to the caltrain station) and while we're flexible on remote working, you'll need to be around the office.

If you're interested, please drop us a line: jobs [at] sendhub [dot] com
That's why my profile pic is a EULA that forbids copying. Anyone who reshares my profile violates my license and owes me damages.
Everyblock founder adrianholovaty leaving acquirer MSNBC
Chinese man makes his own bionic hands
But the government is just another "tribalist grouping"; one that's been given reach that extends beyond what would otherwise be its natural limitations. I don't understand the common mindset of the government being somehow 'special', and not shaped by the same influences and subject to the same failure modalities as every other institution in society.

Human society itself is a "network effect", and the ability to form connections within that network without artificial constraint is the definition of freedom.

Society is defined by what you're calling "boundaries and entanglements", or what less cynical people might call "well-defined communities and relationships"; there's never room for completely unencumbered individual decision-making: individuals are always constrained by the laws of nature and the existence of those other people with whom they share a common social space. Maximizing individual liberty means maximizing individuals' ability to choose whether to participate in a particular social context, whether to opt out and go it alone, or whether to attempt to forge their own new social context. Flattening down all of the boundaries and subjecting all social contexts to monopolistic rules only reduces choice and makes one social context dominate over all others - this is hardly a path to freedom.

I admit, though, that I've got no idea what a "burbclave" is - I understand it's a concept from Snow Crash, which, regrettably, I have yet to read. Could you elaborate on this?
> all the whitebox parts makers started making "bondi blue" knockoffs after the iMac came out.

Yeah, and how long did that "trend" last?

USB was fairly mainstream before the iMac. I don't think I ever saw an iMac in the wild that didn't have an external floppy drive sitting next to it. I've seen computer labs with banks of iMacs and external floppy drives sitting next to them.
My computer still looks like it did back in 1995.

I think you're not looking very closely. Sure, it's all about small details, but a quick and highly unscientific Google image search shows precisely what computers used to look like at the turn of the century:

https://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=&...
Bill Gates looks to new toilets to improve world sanitation
As well, Apple's own financial data shows that many "normal" people care. They said they had material a drop in iPhone sales because of people anticipating the iPhone 5.
Or it's because an ever growing fraction of those commits are bugs and fixes.
Show HN: cisimple - CI for mobile (iOS and Android)
No youtube video is worth that amount of time and energy.

EDIT: That's probably why I can't convince myself to put Linux on my desktop as the primary OS. I just don't want to take the time to compile github scripts or scour the Internet for drivers/workarounds/fixes to make all of the basic computing functions I take for granted on Win7 work.
An unscientific show and tell for you:

Dell laptops c. 2000:

https://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=&...

Dell c. 2012:

https://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=&...
maybe a laser video or keyboard?
Comparing Bada to WP is apples to oranges. Bada is not a smartphone OS and many (most?) Bada handsets are sold at a fraction of the price of any WP handset. Symbian is a better comparison for Bada and it probably still dwarfs it in terms of market share.

As for App devs, native development for Bada is a massive headache that bears no comparison to WP, iOS or even android. From SDK bugs to Store bugs. And even when using web technologies (phonegap or pure web app), their webkit based browser isn't up to Safari/Chrome standards. Plus the low end devices have (had?) slow processors which make a lot of the fancier CSS stuff unusable.

On top of that, how many people will even know and use the bada app store?

Oh and nowhere in that mini-article is it mentioned that Bada will probably-maybe be replaced by another OS, Tizen.
Yeah, my daughter (13) was explaining something to her friend like:

D: there's this thing on Android too
F: what's Android??
D: your phone!

Still way more of Android users know that they have an Android phone than Symbian/Bada. Actually most likely no less than iPhone users knowing the word iOS (doesn't matter that much in iOS ecosystem though).
methodologies attract cringeworthy acronyms, lets dub this gtfowidd, get the fuck on with it driven development, and lets all just go back to however we were doing it already ;)
Comparing the free Web Dyno on Heroku vs free Cartridge on OpenShift, the latter starts up faster for me. On the other hand, the client tools for OpenShift are of slightly lesser quality.
And one more thing, with OpenShift you get Node.js 0.6 while with Heroku you can specify the engine version.
I think they already are: http://scipy.github.com/faq.html#do-numpy-and-scipy-support-...

Also, Python 3 will be shipped with the next ubuntu version https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Alp...
Oh yeah. I'd totally managed to repress my memories of the systemd journal:

http://linuxkommando.com/2011/11/systemd-journal-will-revolu...

#whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
UTorrent Makes Ads Optional Following User ‘Revolt’
Plus I think they will really have to play catch-up to get to the level of slickness that Unity3D already provides.
Not sure if that is a factor, but being in the UK I got way too many 404s in the free tier. In comparison (the same app), Heroku or OpenShift work like a charm.
I sat my 5-year-old daughter down in front of the first drawing tutorial today (Introduction to Drawing). I let her watch the video, then asked her some questions to test her comprehension. Before I could too many questions out she blurted "I want to build a house," and off we went.

I learned a few things:

1. We seriously need to work on her typing skills. We practice typing once a week but I think I need to increase that.

2. I need to go out and buy a smaller mouse to fit her hand.

3. She immediately understood functions and parameters, which, honestly, was all I really wanted her to get out of this.

4. The sliders are critical. She has never seen a coordinate system, but the sliders allow her to play around with location without completely understanding what the numbers represent.

5. At this age, she was engaged because she could draw things (she had a house worked out in about 15 minutes, which was also the limit of her attention span). I'm not always a fan of gaming things up to make them more palatable, but it definitely worked here.
Standard coauthored by AMD/ATI.
Targeting iPhone is like supporting a cable company's set top box, so highly prized because it's straightforward; whereas targeting Android is like supporting a myriad of smart TVs.

That's certainly true for supportability. It's easy to test and confirm that it works on the 2 or 3 iphone models, less so for all the Android devices. That's potentially bad from a PR point of view.

For drm-esque security it makes little difference though. The 'attack' in this case was from people running a script and pretending to be an iPhone, not from people running unauthorised software on iPhones themselves.
You can see the difference. The end-goal for display resolution is that the pixels are so small you can't see them or, more importantly, the effect they have on rendering curves. Fonts have been designed just for the screen because the curves of normal good-looking fonts didn't fit into the pixel grid and didn't look good. With very-high resolution displays we can start using good fonts on the screen.
Did we really arrive at a point where we are ready to condemn a well working product ecosystem just because there's nothing new and flashy to look at?

That was my thought as well. I'm no fanboy, and actively avoided the iPad mania some of my friends were going through. That is until a friend came to stay, along with his iPad, and my wife and I suddenly discovered ourselves actively choosing to borrow his iPad over loading up something on our laptops, just because it worked so well.

A huge shame to discount such success. I put it down to the "It's 2012, where's my flying car?" train of thought.
OK, we listened. About the price thing.
How to Evaluate E-Signature Apps
There's some of us out there who enjoy coding for its own sake. Coding is a pure form of problem-solving. It doesn't necessarily matter what the problem is you're solving, just that you get a certain intellectual satisfaction out of the process. I must be one of the few that coded linked-lists and string containers in high school instead of silly text games :)
Has anyone downloaded yet? Thoughts?
Writing an interpreter, CESK-style
Generally these things would have to be done in hardware, bumping up the price by a non-negligible amount. Additionally, it would increase the input lag on the monitor, something manufacturers are trying to avoid.
Best strategy for a pre-launch, consumer ecommerce startup at TC Disrupt SF?
Sharing a booth (with another startup) in the startup alley and wondering the best strategy to maximize the experience. Not seeking funding now; the general aim is to connect with potential cofounders and advisors.<p>Are you expected to man your booth all day or only after certain events (if so when are the most crucial times)? I realize TCD is more focused on tech-centred startups, so also wondering if alley visitors will generally be interested in viewing an ecommerce site and what/how much to show as a startup in closed beta.<p>Would appreciate hearing from past attendees, including startup alley participants.
Why does SVG fill you with dread? (Honest question.)
Today I received an email with promo codes for several certifications:

71-481: Essentials of Developing Windows XXXXX style Apps using HTML5 and JavaScript
71-482: Advanced XXXXX style App Development using HTML5 and JavaScript
71-484: Essentials of Developing Windows XXXXX style Apps using C#
71-485: Advanced XXXXX style App Development using C#
Usually I write a little code, commit what it is supposed to do, then fixup all the little edge cases and bugs that come naturally. But what's important is that first commit is sets up a little problem with a clear goal, and then everything afterwards works toward that goal.

Two extremely useful aliases:

[alias]

fi = !sh -c 'git commit -m \"fixup! $(git log -1 --format='\\''%s'\\'' $@)\"' -

ri = rebase --interactive --autosquash

First alias allows me to create a commit prefixed with fixup! very easily. So workflow looks like this:

2536aw3 implementing feature foo
sfd93ja fixup! implementing feature foo
ok4jzvd fixup! implementing feature foo
k4okvxx fixup! implementing feature foo
2okoswa fixup! implementing feature foo
zxvorm3 fixup! implementing feature foo
ko2koaa fixup! implementing feature foo

And then I rebase when git log --graph --pretty goes off the screen.
I've got bash (erm, POSIX shell) interpreter on ALL my POSIX systems. I can guarantee you that.

C compiler? Not so much. Servers (security risk, more moving parts), embedded (space/power requirements).
You can't replace a complex concept with a boolean. This isn't JavaScript.
Simple extrapolation indicates every three to four years.
As far as I understand, Youtube operates the following copyright tools [1],

A. Content owners: Copyright Infringement Notification (modelled on US DMCA takedown).

- content owners fill out a form with specific pre-stated legalese expressions for specific content.

- contact: email address is preferred, no specific contact information is mandated.

- user content blocked, replaced with claim statement and Strike received on account.

B. Content owners: Copyright Verification Programme.

- this seems to be an expedited and broader version of the CIN tool for mass content removal.

- need to identify agents for your ownership. Identity process unknown.

- user content blocked, replaced with claim statement and Strike received on account.

C. Content owners: Content ID (nothing whatsoever to do with US DMCA).

- an automated or semi-automated process to flag content according to any of a number of policies that content owners decide.

- this includes deciding what is or is not "Fair Use"...

- unlike the CIN and CVP processes, accounts of matching content are not issued Strikes, which would ultimately close the account if sufficient number received, but the content is blocked.

D. Content owners: Retractions.

- process that requires specific content identification, and content owner name as signature from original claimant account.

- removes claims and restrictions of CIN and CVP. Unclear how, if at all, it interacts with Content ID.

E. Users: Copyright Counter-Notifications.

- form that, among other things, requires full address information that is always relayed to original claimant.

- note. copyright laws of user's country of residence are irrelevant. The form of allowable counter-notification is based on the "location" [2] of the original claimant.

- Youtube "may then reinstate the material in question at our discretion".

In this case, the two claimants likely used the CIN which will result in Strikes without action by the user with Copyright Counter-Notifications.

In short and in my opinion, it is clear that this process is highly asymmetrical and prone to abuse - in this case as a form of harassment, if as claimed the user had zero infringing content in her videos.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_owners

[2] Ambiguous if whether that could refer to jurisdiction of any of the registered agents under the CVP, for example.
Jobs was specifically criticizing the size and not a specific implementation. Even Apple apologists hold them as realizing it was an important market some time later.
Understanding the Nginx Configuration Inheritance Model
The AMD Radeon HD 7950 BIOS issue, take two
Anand, congrats on the milestone!
I'm torn on this. There's a lot of code in here that most sites will never need. I hate bloat, especially on the frontend which is responsible for 90% of site speed. On the other hand, using this as your starting point for a new project will probably save you a fair amount of time. Perhaps start with this then rip out the stuff you don't end up using?
>> Yeah, and how long did that "trend" last?

That trend lasted for a while, until case manufacturers started copying the G-whatever tower, and then eventually the Mac pro tower. The Shuttle small-form-factor PC I bought in the early 2000's had a Mac-like "candy" design.

>> USB was fairly mainstream before the iMac.

I was Windows 9x user (I left Macs right before Jobs came back) when the iMac came out, and most of the peripherals I was buying were still parallel devices. It wasn't until a lot of peripheral makers realized that one hardware version could sell to multiple platforms that USB really took off.

>> I don't think I ever saw an iMac in the wild that didn't have an external floppy drive

That's not the point. I didn't say that the need for a floppy was obviated by the iMac design, because you always have legacy users. Apple has a history of dropping legacy features in their hardware (VGA, mini-DVI, optical drives, the soon-to-be EOL'ed dock connector) before PC vendors do.
A useful discussion of the conversion and its motivation in the GCC Wiki:

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cxx-conversion
I'm on my company "windows 8 early adopters" list. Yes? No?
Current environment: I'm currently running windows 7, MSSQL 2008, oracle 11, developing in java, using InelliJ idea as IDE and office 2010.

Please, no "switch to Linux" comments. I'm quite happy with the windows setup.

So - Yes? No? Why?
I'd love to see a live-collaborative LyX... I'd like to see a live-collaborative everything, but most open-source codebases make so many assumptions about a single editor per buffer/document, or a single cursor per buffer/document, that adding collaborative functionality is a gargantuan and very application-specific task. I don't think it's even possible to find a general strategy for making the necessary modifications, but if someone were to figure out how, they'd be the most in-demand consultant in tech, that's for sure.
What does your video card/monitor do when it's asked to display a frame that can't be compressed?
The sad robot has notified the admins :(
Behind the scenes: Designing the look and feel of BidKat
They don't owe your jaw anything. They don't care if your jaw drops. They're on top of the game and working to stay up there.

You people are getting so spoiled. The excitement and flurry over new Apple products makes everyone completely forget how insane it is that phones already do what they do. Step outside and take a breath for god's sake.
>> more in-line hopefully with the Google Glass Project

I'll go out on a limb and say that Apple is indeed working on products that are 3-7 years out, but that they will not be in-line with the Google Glass Project. Instead, they will be:

- available for purchase soon after announcement

- address mass market needs/wants

- something a salesperson at Bebe would use

- likely to be composed of small tweaks to popular products in the marketplace. Taken together, those tweaks will make the products feel revolutionary.

Google Glass is none of those, but this is pretty much the template for Apple's resurgence over the last 10+ years.
I agree that he should have asked first - just because something is on github does not make it open source. Seems like an oversight, no harm, no foul.

But I'm curios, why would you prefer he change it? It is a very barebones stylesheet, nice typographical choices but at the end of the day this is hardly a unique design.

And thank you for Flask and other goodies. :)
Debian (and other apt-based systems) are the Lego blocks systems of the Linux world. If you install a service, the assumption is that you want it to run (if you don't want it to run, you can either uninstall it or deactivate it). Bootable / live versions tend to have more comprehensive lists of installed packages to allow for greater utility/flexibility -- though some (Knoppix) actually allow you to install additional packages (yes, booted RAM-only) into the booted system.

The is not the case on BSD systems (generally an integrated whole, though they've got package management) or RPM (poorer package management leading very frequently to a "kitchen sink" installation paradigm).

Yeah. RHEL's even got a package you can install to enable/disable postfix vs ... oh, whatever the default MTA is, I can't keep track (smail still? I know they've moved off of sendmail, right? Right?).
www.usesthis.com has a nice format that answers this sort of question. Ex: http://lou.montulli.usesthis.com/
A Google-Fiberish gigabit playground for developers
I think the best approach is whatever feels like the best.
>1) What's not hackable about C?

Several tens of thousands of Lines of C code are a lot less hackable than a few lines of shellscript

>2)When was the last time you hacked on an init script?

A few months ago, writing an intelligent battery monitor for my notebook.

NCD looks great btw. but it is not an init system.
Sure, but why does that happen? Because nerds or the news tell them that something newer is coming out, so they should wait.

Avoiding buyer's remorse is normal consumer behaviour.

People do the exact same every summer/fall for cars when the new model years start trickling out.
Legal "gotchas" in software sales (some leading to jail time)
The easy solution to this is to simply delete your account - and not engage in this little game, and then move your videos to Vimeo or some other video hosting site.
We're doing our best to put the sad robot out of a job.
Thanks for that usidentify.com link btw. I typically use other sites but I like the look of the way they do that.

http://www.usa-people-search.com/Results.aspx?find=qvyjt

Oh, actually it looks like they are auto generating common first names to get hits. Interesting, which is why the site I use didn't bring anything up other than two possibilities. Click on some of the links and you will see.
> Add to that the fuel for the launch vehicle; and fuel for the the cruise stage.

What you've just said is the equivalent of someone witnessing a Ferrari crash into a tree and destroy itself, and saying 'Ouch, that's an expensive tank of fuel he's just wasted'.

In fact the costs of fuel for these things are trivially small, basically inconsequential, compared to the cost of the things that are using the fuel - the rocket and the cruise stage. You don't get them back, they're single use, expended as part of the mission, and they're expensive.
I don't understand why people need color monitors.
LandlordMax ISV Revenue graph update
It would be good to be able to search on mobile (with the search box on the bottom), but you can't hit Enter and have to go over to hnsearch. Unless there is another way?