skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know about download but you can read it online using Amazon Cloudreader.
Many are actively developed, but simply do not share GNUs enthusiasm for adding new features. BSD userlands get plenty of love, but they are something I have little interest in using myself. Busybox also gets lots of development, but has much different objective than GNU. Both BSD userlands and Busybox are great.. in their niche; just like GNU is great in its.
Textmate cobol bundle
Would it be possible to have this Cobol bundle placed in the subversion repository
http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Bundles/
It would be great and one could help improve it.
Regards.
Pinterest seems like the best example. I don't have any numbers but explosive growth and fanatical users seem to be good circumstantial evidence for infinite scrolling. Prismatic also uses it and personally I love it on that site.
dna.
True, but the main public status.net implementation so far (identi.ca) already has users, and was surprisingly popular back when twitter was having all the fail whale issues.
Twitter would go down, and a minority of the people I followed would start posting on identi.ca
>and not many people would be flushing $15 down the drain to go see a 90 minute movie instead of buying a month's membership to World of Warcraft and getting tens or even 100+ hours of enjoyment out of it.

So, playing some shitty game for 100+ hours instead of watching a movie would be the result of "rational comparison" of time spending? Who would have thought...
I'm not sure what perspective you're writing from, but I think many people in the legal profession would disagree with you.

Firstly, the UK has several distint judicial systems. I suspect in this case you're referring to the English legal system (Scotland having its own, entirely separate, process). There's then the civil and criminal courts. The former are held in high regard around the world - the English courts are often the venue of choice for impartially resolving international disputes and litigation.

You can argue it is a discrepancy that private prosecutions are still allowed - at some point in the past they did actually serve a purpose - however, under the English system it is up to the government, rather than the judiciary, to correct that.

I am not pretending it is a perfect system: far from it. I think in this case the judge behaved inappropriately, and the logic being used to force a copyright claim (which is a tort, i.e, purely a civil matter) into a criminal one (conspiracy to defraud) is potentially very spurious. However, this is also why an appeals system exists.

What I'm basically trying to say in a round-about way is that I don't think the English courts are 'spectacularly weak' - they have their problems, but what judicial system doesn't?
With rather few exceptions, you only need to learn C if hacking on your userland is your idea of fun. Check out Busybox for a particularly easy one to start hacking.
Incredible. The one time I've been into an Apple store there wasn't anyone available to talk to about a Macbook Air I was seriously considering buying, and eventually after drooling for a while I got cold feet and wandered out of the shop...

No wonder they reversed the decision!
Interesting. I hadn't considered that people would move to another country to take advantage of the cost of living difference like that.
never underestimate the power of government regulations
Pussy Riot members jailed for two years for hooliganism
$200 for a Fake Security System
What I will say, however, is that luck still has something to do with it. The top tiers of actors have the money to purchase additional coaching, can attend more auditions because they aren't holding down another job, and can generally devote more of their life to the craft.

Take two actors competing for the same part in an audition for an independent role. They are nearly equal down to a flip of a coin, but one just happens to catch the director's eye a hair more that day. That film ends up successful, and ends up catapulting them into the big leagues -- one, if skillful and motivated, can parlay that first success into the next because they were able to work with a great director, which increased their skill; and are able to acquire more time to dedicate to acting. Thus, for the next audition, the two people once distinguishable by a better performance on that particular day now have a skill gap as well.

That luck was involved does not mean that one doesn't need to have skill, or that one doesn't need to make the most of an opportunity; rather, luck means that a coin flip happened that allowed someone to make the most of that chance.
"their intention was to spread information and pictures of their acts through blogs and other internet means" - the judge
I agree that ZFS is a killer feature. But nowadays you can get a native Linux Kernel Module for ZFS (http://zfsonlinux.org/).

I disagree about ports being as reliable as package management on Ubuntu. For me, it was always super hairy, even with years of Portage/emerge experience on Gentoo.

Apt is just buttery smooth.

Also, part of the reason I switched was performance. Our LAMP-ish stack on the same hardware was able to serve like 25-30% more requests per second on Ubuntu vs. FreeBSD. But this is a non-issue for a homeserver.
You describe exactly what that sentence says...
Yes. I was subscribed to LKML around the time the Bitkeeper sage was in progress.

One thing that I do remember was just how arrogant Larry McVoy was about whether a replacement SCM could be developed and have feature parity with Bitkeeper. He kept on talking about how he/Bitkeeper is at least a decade ahead of the rest of the community and it would be very difficult to come up with an alternative.

Thankfully, the open source community proved him wrong!
I forgot Browett came from Dixons. Everyone then said he would probably be disastrous for Apple. Looks like we were correct. I can't imagine him not being shown the door imminently after such a huge PR gaffe.

Asymco just posted figures on staffing levels: http://www.asymco.com/2012/08/17/are-apple-stores-overstaffe...
Wow. Not long ago I was trying to test whether an idea for a certain kind of online interaction would work out the way I hoped. I built a simulation with agents that evolved their strategies, trying to optimize their own outcomes.

Maybe that's not such a good test after all.
I would use twitter web or the official apps if they clearly displayed the @username instead of the "real name". The latter is pretty much an useless field that only adds confusion.

I just hope that the new display guidelines don't enforce displaying the real name over the username.
Ads are the problem, because they turn you from the customer into the product. When the site starts tuning itself to produce more clicks for the advertisers, rather than for a better user experience, that is a problem.
I think the fact that FB was over-priced and criminally IPO'd at ridiculous valuations that aren't living up to the hype (in the near run) are more to blame than anything MZ is doing in particular. As has been said, FB is a fantastic 5 billion dollar company. The sooner they painfully get there, the sooner they can start building...
10 Keys to Maximizing Personal Gain From a Startup
Yes I know, I was referring to Facebook and Twitter.

These companies improved upon open protocols, but their business models and motivations are now standing in the way.
Thanks buro9!

I'm curious what other resources would be good for Distributed Computing. I'll try to go over these.

Thanks again!
i don't get the reference but the domain is a winner for sure.
They have a product they're charging $50 for and they have 1000 customers. Whether you see a problem being solved or not, there's clearly $50 of value in the eyes of these 1000 people, and that's what a business is.

People can pay $25 to adopt a star, which is just a certificate saying you spent $25 on a certificate. That's a legitimate business (or charity) even though it's idiotic. Lots of businesses are about solving the problem of too much thickness in your wallet and your head.
I think SAP is referring to an external entity having an influence on a government's judicial process, not necessarily strictly private. Whether it's the US Government or a special interest group. Assange's case included.
For one thing, they're not in the U.S. Their surgical centers are in the U.K. and Belgium: http://www.exstent.com/exovasc-centres.html
If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer. You’re the product being sold.

This saying applies to management teams/financial markets as well.
The CEO supposed to be making money for the shareholders, not for himself. Maybe someone forgot to tell him, but the level of success of a public company is reflected in the share price.
add -i to edit a file in place

$ perl -p -i -e 's/\r\n/\n/' file1 file2 file3
They need to focus on opening even more stores here in the Mid-Atlantic region (US).

There are 3 Apple stores within a 40 mile radius here in MD and each one is always mobbed; hour wait or more to have your issue fixed.

Their customer service at the Apple stores is a huge reason I haven't yet jumped off their bandwagon. Have a issue with your iDevice, just take it to the Apple store for an immediate fix; many times at no charge. I don't think other platforms offer this level of service no?
English law has only partly transitioned to public prosecutions. Private prosecutions are still legally the norm, but CPS prosecuting a case is de-facto the norm, as they have the right to take over a private prosecution. In most cases, CPS either takes over a case and prosecutes it, or takes over a case and drops the charges (if evidence is wholly insufficient, or continuing prosecution is against public policy). But this leaves the awkward vestigial category: cases that CPS chooses neither to intervene to prosecute nor to intervene to drop, which can go forward at a private party's own expense.

(Note: Only true of English/Welsh law; Scots law makes it much harder to bring a private prosecution.)
Scientists described the brain as not dissimilar from one found pickled in a local pub.
Aion: Ascension, New patch with a lot of content for this spectacular MMO
Perhaps you missed the part of my comment where I SPECIFICALLY addressed that issue.

That is, the part where I wrote:

my argument was not about a "specific" language. It was about C-capability language gaining and Lisp-capability language losing ground at that era. That the C-capability language was C itself, well, that be more or less random.

Either the languages competing were close to what was needed for the machines of the era and the dynamics of the marker (in which case they were more or less similar and which one won was random) or the languages had very different characteristics (in which case which "style" of languages won can be explained).

Languages close together (e.g C and Pascal) won or lost for less significant and more random reasons than the ones that led whole language families to win or lose.
Thanks for HN Post! Could you please add (YCS12) to the title?
Once every six months something inspires me to put a book on the Kindle that I received as a Christmas present two years ago. Then the frustrations begin. In this case, after finding the table of contents I try to use the up-down-joystick-button to navigate the TOC. It's just painfully slow and it's displaying definitions for every word I happen to be on (it starts off showing me the definition for "Table" in Table of Contents). The lag between pressing the button and the cursor actually moving is too frustrating for me to even use the damn device.

Perhaps the "two years old" is my problem and I just need a newer device but, boy, I just can't get myself to use this thing with any consistency.
I assure you that - virtually always - layoffs are a last resort.

Furloughs, pay cuts, and reducing headcount through attrition have become almost ubiquitous on the state and local level over the past few years.
Officially, you need to use the Kindle app.

Unofficially, it's easy to use Calibre to convert them to epub. (DRM add a few minutes of extra work.)
>It shows that there are tools enabling him to do what he would have previously needed a programmer to help him with.

That does not make sense. It only enabled him to not have to learn a new language. It still required a programmer.
Facebook No Bargain Compared To Google At IPO (May 2012)
Hope so.. even if they have a high follower count
Dumb question, how to you load the terabytes of data?
I have obtained 50% refund from the support desk by replying to the sunset email and asking for it.

This morning I found this Jason Hoffman post about the EOL and a possible refund here and added to my response email:
http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=240955#p240955

In my case and theirs, I consider this partial refund ok because I have been using his service 8 years and now I will move my small sites to a cheaper host.
the camera guy has a sandwich
tl;dr - Google was growing fast, and had a P/E of 80 at valuation.

Facebook had peaked, and had a P/E of 91.
nerdtalk!
I think it's closer to 12,000 users. From join.app.net:

"We eventually raised $803,000 from over 12,000 backers during the campaign."
Are these microbes limited to the stomach or to be found over the entire body and brain?
TIL stands for Today I Learned.

They were attempting to use a meme acronym sarcastically -- an example of content-free commenting that works well for karma elsewhere but hopefully doesn't gain a foothold here.

On topic, I agree with your amplification of your point.
The Toothpaste Puzzle
Maybe I'm wrong, but IRC was never mainstream.. I don't see how Twitter could replace a service that only geeks and a very specific demographic used.
Is that really all there is to it? Are all apps equal provided they have CRUD?
You could try the kindle app for your computer/phone/tablet. I like reading books on my iPhone on my daily commute and it's quite nice (except for some technical books where the source code formatting is obviously quite bad with the small screen).
What if Twitter let us pay? Let's do some Twitter maths.
He's got a controlling share; he'd have to push himself out.
I've submitted a Forbes article a couple of days before the IPO - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396500

Basically, if you bought a company with a P/E of 90 and decreasing revenue (it had dropped 6% in the quarter) then you shouldn't be playing with other people's money. Everyone knew it was a massive risk.
Right, so why did it fizzle out? It takes a lot of energy and resources to make something like this work. Dalton and his team clearly have enough to at least kindle a small fire.

Github didn't invent git. But, it became the first really good aggregator of git repos, which has turned it into a massive social network. There's nothing stopping you and me from hosting our repos on our own servers and pushing and pulling code from each other. That protocol is established. Github gives us an easy way to connect with lots of other people like us, without having to bother with hosting our own repos.
I know... like televangelists.. I was merely wondering if there is more to it.

I mean, people DO (intend to) develop apps for it.. how many of them are solving actual problems, and how many just make them in the hope that people will use them? You know, the latter would kinda make app.net meta-kool-aid for kool-aid brewers, but that's snarky, and also premature. So I'm really, honestly asking, and willing to consider answers.

Yes, I am skeptical, but I'm trying to not be too much of a bigot. After all, asking doesn't cost anything :D
I have the current Kindle with joystick-button and although moving the cursor about isn't exactly smooth it moves quickly. The definition thing can be annoying.
And Amazon ES.
She's actually an excellent example. She is a Canadian performer who placed third on a season of Canadian Idol, and it happened that Justin Bieber was listening to the radio, heard "Call Me Maybe," and tweeted about it. Perhaps the song would have spread later on its own, but Canadians can probably point to five or six other well-played pop songs that never really crossed the border.
A Torrent file's hash is representative of the movie or music's binary data, much like a synopsis or summary is representative of the plot line. You can't recreate a movie 100% from a summary, and it's even more difficult to recreate a movie from a hash.

The only infringement would come from downloading the movie itself (as a separate action) and comparing it to the hash or summary to ensure you have the correct movie.
"His behavior is what I would expect of someone his age — the hoodies and everything else," said Chris Whalen, senior managing director at Tangent Capital Partners in New York.

Those crazy 28-year olds with their hoodies are wrecking society! Has he heard of Google?

Whatever Facebook does, they certainly shouldn't go pandering to ignorant bankers like this guy NYT quoted. Being obsessed with quarterly financials is the reason we had to wait for Apple to make a decent phone. Every other company had to keep rolling out their incrementally polished turds in time for Christmas sales.
No, I'm not. And yes, the clients want specific performance, but do they have the right to get it? Seems like at most, the clients would be entitled to a refund plus whatever damages they could show (e.g. the cost of switching to a different service, plus any losses they take from other arrangements they made based on the promise of lifetime service). Could a court really order Joyent to keep providing this service against their will? Seems like restitution would be it.
Daily Mail On-Line meets the Avon Lady
I agree. Think of the way Reddit Gold works. It doesn't really take anything away from the Reddit experience, but it does give folks some additional value that those that feel like paying for it, do. If Twitter just adds features for the premium side, and doesn't strip current features from free users, it should be easy to make that transition.
CoffeeFilter: Prevent sneaky little CoffeeScript modules from ruining your day
There is no requirement to maximize short-term stock prices, though. He may genuinely believe that his strategy is long-term the correct one, in which case he'd be correct to pursue it. After all, the stock price has widely swung in its evaluation of Facebook's value in a space of mere months, first pricing FB very high and then pricing it much lower, with little intervening change of fundamentals, so its credibility as an indicator of company performance is not strong.
Rather, many of us want to live in another country to live in another country, and are willing to take pay cuts in absolute dollars to do so, if the relative lifestyle and savings don't suffer too much.

I'm in Turkey because of reasons other than saving money, but it's not a bad way to save money doing a startup while still living in a city as vibrant as Istanbul is.
Working at Rocket Internet: My rocket-speed Rocket Internet experience
Girl Talk goes Gumroad: a web payment startup woos pop stars
The environment in a bog is still pretty destructive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body

It just happens to preserve certain organic tissues fairly well compared to other environments.
This Could Be The Samsung Galaxy Note 2
It has been out for awhile, but it seems like a lot of people weren't aware of the feature. One additional usage - introduce non-programmers/web designers to what is really behind what they see on a webpage. Most people find the 3D view pretty cool, no matter if they're a technical person or not. It's also been great to see the FF developer tools improve so much recently.
According to Google Finance, 14% of FB's outstanding shares are institutionally owned. I think the vast majority of the pension funds got the message.
I have no interest in judging a public company by its stock price over such a short period of time.

Markets are fickle - on the short term they tend to react to emotion. Give it a few years, though, and we'll have a much more reliable measure of whether Zuck is creating real value.
The large swath of discussion seems to be focusing on App Development, which is probably the hardest hit.

However, there's another area that has gotten me wondering, non-app, non-client based websites using the API, in reference to the Display Guidelines..er Rules.

This is the bit specifically.

"Users must have a consistent experience wherever they interact with Tweets, whether on Twitter.com, a mobile client, website, or in an application developed with the Twitter API"

So lets say that I go to GitHub and grab a little jQuery plugin to pull in my tweets on my personal portfolio. Does that also mean I have to make sure I include my own avatar, my username, Tweet actions, and twitter branding, among other things? What if those elements are unnecessary to the design or intention of what I'm doing on the site?

And then there's the fact that all of these jQuery plugins are going to have to start implementing authenticated access (if they weren't already, which many seem to not be.) I don't have access to data on the matter, but I would surmise that there's a significant number of personal and portfolio sites out there pulling in tweets that are either not authenticated, or are modifying the tweet display in some way. All the ones I've interacted with have settings for turning avatar display on or off, or unlinking hash tags or links, etc.

Thoughts?
Maybe not quality of the code base per se, but Forbes had an article a while ago that called out ColdFusion as one of the contributing causes of their demise: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenwunker/2011/07/25/4-moral...

I don't know to what extent that is fair, but I can only imagine that at the very least highering the best and the brightest to work on a coldfusion project could be.. tough.
Good book.. but for those new to VIM :-/
From the title, i thought it would have some pro tips and tricks.
To me, this is useful for making testable prototypes, or sites that need to be thrown together on very short order with a short lifespan.

But unless they're able to generate responsive layouts and markup that's not semantic & clean, it's not useful beyond that.
Beautiful, simple charts
The 'even if the consumer experience suffers' was added by the journalist based on their source's views, it was not sourced to Browett or Apple.

Nonetheless, this was a stupid move by Browett and judging by the pace with which Apple moved to rescind it I'd guess his remaining time isn't long.
I have obtained 50% refund also (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396503)
J2c successfully converts most of OpenJDK 6 and SWT 3.7 to C++
Why do you think Twitter won't even make the option available for users to pay for the service?
Part of the reason not to let users pay is it could decrease the value of the ads they do show. The 8% or so of people who would pay for twitter are probably also the more influential, heavy twitter users. Thus, the 92% of people getting ads might be the lower-value users. That means their current ad revenue might drop drastically. But they could still make a few hundred million dollars from that 8%...
> WHY someone felt compelled to create the spoof is still a mystery to some of us.

Because it's starting to have a bit of success among people with blogs and we can't have that! Anything John Gruber or Robert Scoble likes must be bad and stupid.

You know how in rap music they never shut up about "haters"? The person who made this is a hater.
Former NASA Flight Engineer blogs about Columbia Disaster
Any particular threads worth digging up?
Learn to Code a Book Landing Page in HTML & CSS (Video)