skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth mentioning that this is a very old list, and one that's been mocked since pretty much the day it was published. Their methodology meant that popular books were placed higher than any one critic thought they deserved. Case in point for fiction: Brave New World was considered by most critics to have some value, but nobody would have considered it for a Top 10 position.

Probably the only correctly-placed book in the fiction list was Ulysses. Several mindblowing pieces were completely ignored for the sake of name recognition, both in the original and the Radcliffe list.
Right now you're espousing rampant paranoia. First you suggest that he would make up a story like this despite no precedent on his part at all. Then you say that the proof is that he didn't react violently to somebody spitting on him. Then you say that he's stupid for not doing that because the spitter might have been HIV-positive.

I live in a world where people are innocent until proven guilty, people are all generally trying to do the right thing, the average man on the street doesn't like physically hitting other people, and most people don't have deadly diseases, and that the ones that do don't spit.
I don't think that anyone is treating him as a "soulless mythical creature", I am interpreting this as people viewing Michael Arrington as a person of low morals/values.

Additionally, I dont actually see anyone blaming Arrington in this thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491784
Got a small bug with website that do not "like" to be boxed (ex : http://hardware.fr) Since they force a reload of the page, you can't access the room anymore because you get redirected each time you try to access it.
My first thought was it's (what is commonly called) a web 2.0 aesthetic.
Lying piece of tag soup. <3 Perl. Everything has its place, but Lord help me if Perl is really dead. I can only imagine the havoc that would be unleashed if all of the nightly & weekly Perl based data interfaces went down...
Ask HN: Cheapest way to buy hosted bandwidth?
Where's the cheapest place to rent a hosted server with a lot of available upload bandwidth?

Starting things off...You can get a server at linode that comes with bandwidth at $0.10/GB. You can use the Amazon EC2 service at $0.10-$0.17/GB. Is there anywhere cheaper?

I assume the best service may change based on your requirements, and whether you can take advantage of a CDN. In my case, I'm interested in streaming radio, which couldn't be cached. Thanks!
Right. That most divorces follow economic troubles does not imply most economic problems lead to divorce. It's easy to ignore this and make a converse fallacy.
Awesome comment. Wow, "scrum fanboyism" is definitely not what I was going for there - just trying to poke fun at how these teams have changed over the years.

Yes, the technical details are on the way - we're excited to share them.
yeah, thanks - we have this one on our list... Unsure if it's fixable though...
Sounds perfect lets do it.
How to build your (web) app quickly (and cheaply?) using the Cloud
Microsoft proposes radical change in browser architecture
They're proposing that the browser take over just about everything.
In breaking news, people in Europe get divorced, and HIV isn't transmitted through spitting.
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> A new Put Back option in the Finder's Action menu automatically returns a trashed item to the folder where it came from.

Meh. OS 9 and earlier had "Put Away" which did this and more. It also ejected drives, dismounted network volumes, and allowed the user the temporarily store files pulled out of folders on the desktop. You know, in line with the original metaphor of user at a desk the user manipulated documents and folders on.

(Yes, I'm still grumpy from how Apple screwed up the "spatial" nature of the original Finder.)
There's an art to it. I always found Philip Greenspun's oft-random image placement amusing and tasteful, e.g.

http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/better-living

But the image placement in this story does seem odd and awkward.
When's the next one? Website says Jan 31, which was nearly a month ago.
"Well... _Lumbergh_ fucked her!"

"Ohhh, ohh yeah, that's terrific..."
Picnik is taking over online photo editing space
An idea for open avatar exchange
What is the big deal about software patents? Why no rage over hardware patents?
"Is there anywhere cheaper?"

I think most colocation/dedicated server centers give you a lot better deals than the more dynamic Linode/EC2 setups. And it matters how much you know you'll use ahead of time. For example, check out http://www.10tb.com

10TB at .10/GB is $1000 but you get 10TB plus a 4GB RAM server for $199 at 10tb.com
> "almost every"

Compare the difference between your friends who are successfully married and unsuccessfully married (in your eyes) and determine what the difference between those guys are. I guarantee you it will be equally as insightful as comparing their wives.

I'd guess that the men who are successfully married have retained an equal share of dominance in their relationship and the unsuccessful ones are essentially pussy whipped because they never stood up to their wives for fear of ending up single.
Some guys are like that. But in my example (or I guess you could call it my model), I had guys interested in women at or below their age, and women interested in men at or above their age. In reality, it differs for each person, but average age preference is probably a right or left skewed bell curve for women and men.

And of course, women probably aren't attracted to older men simply because they are older, they're probably attracted to the life and professional accomplishment, maturity, financial resources, and so forth - sorry bruddas, but merely aging is not going to help things here.

On the flip side, the numbers really do start to look grim for single women as they approach 40. A lot of women enjoy the dating scene when they are in their early 20s, get married around 30, and stay happily married their whole lives - and never really feel any of the frustration of being on the wrong side of the dating equation. However, this means that most of the disadvantage gets concentrated onto a fairly small number of women, who basically get the full brunt of it.
Discussion of a town hall forum about "Saving Chicago Journalism"
You don’t need the ultimate Pen-testing framework
It would be nice to have a back button for navigation.
Thanks for following up. I understand where you're coming from now. Unfortunately in this instance there's not a lot of potential for interesting discussion about the "right" way to form semi-private URLs on a host that isn't doing authentication. You need enough randomness; that's obvious. Apparently it wasn't obvious to Facebook.

PS Welcome to HN.
Definitely agree that they should return to the previous packaging as since it all looks the same, it's easy to get annoyed. However, the most recent carton I bought had a cool little orange shaped cap which I hope they keep.
I'm not judging the value of what she says; merely the fact that in no way are her books 2 out of the top 3 from the last century.
I'd like to concur on that. I was a bit surprised when I got -4'd for stating that a website ad caused trouble on Opera (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491583). Perhaps I sounded harsh as well, but still, the goal was just to help...
That's very interesting... We have just published the pricing for Woobius, and would love to see that effect :-)

Do you have any links to more detailed articles on that topic?
AXIS 243SA 1-Port Video Server
The AXIS 243SA Video Server enables high resolution, full frame rate video surveillance and remote monitoring in MPEG-4 and Motion JPEG. The video server converts analog video into high quality, de-interlaced digital video.
There does seem to be a lot of people (males and females) looking for an excuse to escape a relationship. Honestly I believe many of these relationships are already failed because both parties have essentially quit but are 'going through the motions' and when the 'motions' change then it becomes easier to quit than adapt, just like it was easier to stay together than split.

This behavior just reminds me of the concept of a philosophical zombie. They seem to make the choice not through conscious thought but through unconscious programming.
Five languages in seven lines, or how not to do web development
Is it just coincidence that both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 are focusing on performance improvements?
Gap Joins the Billion-Dollar Online Sales Club
"Several factors are operating...". Also lot of men are ineligible. (Drink too much, Do not have a stable job, very unfaithful)
I heard RMS speak about patents a few years ago, and if I remember correctly (which I probably am not) it was simply that software patents were more important because more people have the means to write software than they have to build hardware. Thus, innovation is impacted more on software.

I believe he also claimed that "hardware patents" and "software patents" are in many ways the same, since one patent can cover both hardware and software. Instead there's a distinction of a software patent being, "a patent which restricts software development."
Why, when it already has Shai Agassi?

See http://www.betterplace.com/
Um...click the "Leave a comment" link at the bottom and you get a comment box with the name defaulting to "Guest". Doesn't get much easier than that.
I think he takes all the pictures himself.

This doesn't make them more relevant, but they are nicer looking than ads :)
Pylons 0.9.7 Released
Are the revisions cryptographically validated, and are there other copies of the repository to compare against? If not, it doesn't matter, you can just edit the disk blocks.

(Yes, maybe you don't care about history that much. But if history is a tool for developers rather than the legal team, you shouldn't care if the developers mutate it.)
Does anybody remember ARPA? That's where government's "venture capital" investments should go.
This is pretty neat.

The UI is pretty, but somewhat distracting. Not enough contrast, I think, and it could be more minimal.

Freeze wasn't super intuitive.

Having a history of what you've posted with thumbnails of previous things might be neat, but might just end up being distracting.

The iframe thing, I go both sides on. I feel like sometimes I just want to show a picture of it (luckily with Skitch this is a fairly trivial process).

It's really neat though, I'm enjoying it.

(oh, and, as soon as you can, I would recommend not using the twitter password anti pattern and implement oauth there)
My thoughts on Facebook Connect in code:
http://dwadwa.com/connect/test.html

Actually, I like the comment box, took all of a minute to get it to work. But like the author, I worry about the monoculture.
Until you have that, it seems like just an image of the page would potentially be more helpful, especially considering some people are logged in, some aren't, etc.
I thought AT&T and iPhone were wedded to each other with a 5 year exclusivity deal in the US market? Is this not the case?
Second hint: get the principal to tell their teachers that they are.
Mozilla demos impressive Firefox 3.1 features
I really don't think we need TC-like original content. That wouldn't be a step in the right direction.
IIRC it was last year (2008) that a judge in Italy ruled it legally acceptable for a wife to lie to the police to cover up adultery. I believe the police had to pay damages or something due to her adultery being revealed and ending her marriage.

I mean "nice european girl" is a fallacy. All the advertising on TV I see from the US uses Europe as an advertisement piece. I mean those BS high-definition sunglasses with 'modern european styling'... I'm sorry, I don't know a single European to wear anything that even looks like it and most wouldn't be seen dead in them. Then there's all the crap named 'Europe's finest', I'm sorry my fruit when I still lived in Europe came from South America!

There's this widely held perception in the US that European = Good, or at least thats what the advertisements explicitly state. It's a completely false perception.

The only problem with Americans is problems Americans caused. I mean the mere fact that Ayn Rand is universally known in the USA, and I'd never heard of her until I took a sociology course and she was highlighted in the US politics section and I believe my sociology teacher said "where america went wrong" after mentioning her politics.
There's a tendency to assume that people that aren't you are heartless and will do things you never would do yourself. That's very rarely the case. In this case, assuming Arrington would make a huge drama for nothing, claim somebody did something they didn't, and leave the scene just to get some hits is treating him like somebody who's a tad inhuman.
I wasn't aware that amateur investing is done out of benevolence.
not original content per se, but breaking of new stories. Before other sites. There's been a small amount of those before, but could always use more.
The historic argument you guys are trying to push trough to enhance your pitch is shadowing the purpose of your heroku itself because of its controversial nature.

I will advise you remove the whole history thing from your argument and take a different approach of selling your tool which I think has good potential.
Inspiring... Man Runs around world 4 times... Crosses 100,000 Miles Next Month
Could Wikipedia's Future Be as a Development Platform?
"Another Reason Friedman's Wrong: Most Startups Bomb"
He claims that Forrest Gump was based on him...

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Every hacker needs a Jobs to their Woz.
Vista didn't fit in netbooks. They had to make the improvements or support XP for more time.
Enterprise apps suck for a number of reasons. And yes, of course you can build a better UI for most of them, but that isn't really the problem in this space.

As a startup you face several problems if you want to get in on the enterprise market space. First of all, you're a start-up. You might go bankrupt tomorrow. Secondly, no-one else in the sector you're targeting is using you. Well, that's a no-go right there. This is a chicken-and-egg problem. Thirdly, you probably lack vendor support or recognition from analysts. Oops, you just failed the skimming test (as in 'skimming over basic requirements'). Can your product even execute in the major J2EE stacks? (Probably not).

If you're not 'proven' technology, then you have a hard time moving into this space.

And this space is not driven by user satisfaction or programmer happiness.

Look at how far Google has managed to move into the 'enterprise space'. Not very far.

In the Enterprise, the UI is usually just thrown on as an after-thought. Of course it's going to suck.
As has been mentioned in other comments, almost all VCS allow you to change the history in some way, shape or form that probably wouldn't satisfy strict "audit" requirements. There's usually a good reason for it, including one in post's author's own product. [The usual reason is that it allows you to correct something obscenely stupid.]

And usually it's only available as an "admin" feature (at least in the commercial tools I've used). So it's not as if it's an everyday thing developers would use or have access to.

The difference with Git is that you're the admin of your local repository and can pretty much do what you will with it.

But there's a difference between your work repository located on your laptop, workstation, etc. and the "reference" shared repository that's used by your team+. So go and set all kind of hooks to prevent history rewrites (in the form on non-fast-forward pushes and the like) on it. What happens in that case is you can mess around all you like and clean up locally but once you've decided to push up and share, your commit history isn't going to be changing.

+If there isn't a difference between the two repositories then either you're prematurely optimizing your development and shouldn't worry about this issue OR you've got larger separation of role issues to deal with beyond being able to change your repository's history.
raven is the man
New Revolutionary Search Engine
Some hosting companies charge per Mbps, which may be cheaper than paying per GB.
How to start and staff a city newspaper for less than $2 million
Are these numbers based on speculation?

Since when serious applications are written in 1 week in 2008? You could write 1-week applications since the dawn of computing. Haven't you heard? BASIC was written by B. Gates and P. Allen in 8 weeks.
I keep lists. Many different list of all sorts of things that need doing. Stuff to do in a text file, tabs in Firefox, post it notes scattered over my desk, lists in my head... So whenever I get bored with what I'm doing, I wander through them all and find something more interesting.

It works reasonably well for most stuff, but I have some hang ups:

1) I'm a relatively fresh-out-of-college programmer, so my job at work is pretty narrowly defined. I pretty much only ever have one task, so it's hard to find diverse things at work to flit to and from as interest dictate. This gets me pretty burnt out on 'programming stuff', which translates to (nearly) always skipping all the cool hacking stuff I have written down in my various notes/lists when I get home. I've yet to find a way around this... :(

2) Some things on my lists get put off a long time. Like I wanted to research some topic that caught my interest after reading an article about it, but figuring out where to start was rather difficult, so I put off starting for about a year.
I am aware that it is not an employees hiring market out there right now, but if you want to see a specific kind of resume, say so in your job advert. Please don't generalize what you want to see, to what employers want to see. The job advert or your website is the best place to put this information, not when you do a guest post on some other guys blog (unless clairvoyance is a job requirement).
Microsoft Equips Individuals With New Training Resources Needed for Jobs: Elevate America
/. thread: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/23/220227&fr...
Integrating Git with a Visual Merge Tool
California's video game law ruled unconstitutional
Flagged. A better headline would be "A Survey of jQuery UI Features - Part 1".

Though this entire article should be replaced with a simple link to the jQuery UI demo page at http://jqueryui.com/demos/ - it's complete and the examples are better.
MBA: The Letters That Spell Financial Ruin at Harvard
1. You are forgoing current wages for potential future profit. I might be willing to bootstrap a project where the first year's expectation of profit is low, but I wouldn't develop the same project for 15,000 dollars (as an example.) Are you suggesting you'd be willing to work for 30,000 dollars for 6 months? (That's for a team of 3) Oh, and that's including specs and technical documentation and test plans that many customers expect to see before deployment.

2. You are developing for someone else's design, which often changes midstream, and it has irrational requirements due to data flows from previous products. I worked with a product that had to support the public health information network logical data model (PHIN-LDM), an absolute monstrosity of a database. If we were building the system privately, we could have shaved the effort in half, if not more. Importing previous client data can be monstrous, due to poor system checking and user hacks to make a system do what it was never meant to do.

3. Deployment is more expensive. Gathering clients is more expensive. Each means traveling over to the client to gather requirements and install, and to conduct training.

Now, if you can do all this, there are a slew of contracts ready to happen. Get a team of three together, and subcontract out to integration teams and prime contractors. All you have to do is find a first and second project to gain momentum.
Perhaps, you know, it might have been intentional......
While it would definitely help the long term documentation purposes of something you don't plan on having to modify, my knee jerk response is that we, as an industry, already have problems getting comments and documentation updated properly when they are in text -- media and images are harder to update.
Citrix XenServer is now Free, as in Virtual Infrastructure
Ad Networks Are Transforming Online Advertising
Chernin to Leave News Corp.
Python: Iterators, Iterables, and Generators Oh, my
I do use my iPhone for actual web surfing, but I use my laptop about 20 times more, so I'd say that equals about 95% Flash coverage.
All we want are the facts, ma'am.
Peter Norvig's new post on reporters, fact-checking, models and data.
When you thought the university was a load of crap, that no one gave a shit about you, that textbooks were meant for professors to profit, and that professors don't care about teaching you, you were right.

It was not "youth angst" or "academic immaturity". It was just a correct assessment of the situation.

Most people who think you should go back to school do not actually dispute that, they just think that putting up with bullshit like that is somehow character building, that "paying your dues" pays off, and that it is worthwhile to prove to large commercial corporations that you can be manipulated by the large academic corporations.

They might be right, but if you love programming, you should program. You have to pay the bills too, of course, so you have to figure out how you can do both. Maybe work on a small project you can try to sell while searching for a job, or start doing contract / consulting jobs on the side ? It depends on the details of your situation.
actually, it started in Holland with the V.O.C.
Scientists Find Rare, Potent Antibody to HIV-1
I've been looking for a place to work in the South Bay also. Any chance of a news.yc rally to get some kind of hackerspace going here?
In fact, I think that more 'breaking' stories is going to have a negative effect.
You're absolutely right about the quality of internal development. Corporations should take advantage of hard economic times like these to recruit good developers (for more than corporations are accustomed to paying, but less than good developers are accustomed to making) and assimilate them into the corporate culture. After a few years, many of those developers will be comfortable and will be more interested in their wives and children than in their careers. It's natural that some of the talent that goes to startups in boom times should shift to corporations in bad times.
How AT&T Gets Your iPhone or U-verse Back Online After Disaster
for those looking for the 'next big thing', forget nanotech for the next 5 years and concentrate on Bioinformatics.
So I find this interesting in that it flies in the face of a couple common thoughts.

The common mantra is to release early, release often. Now I admittedly don't know how often FB is releasing, it seems like the crux of the complaint that they released too early... and the fix isn't to release more often (at least at the author's implication.)

Would he honestly rather they hadn't released anything at all? How would you feel if this were your app? I mean, the critiques seem well-formed, I just don't know if it's symptomatic of having waited for fixes that aren't coming or not.
> HIV isn't transmitted through spitting.

I believe you are correct. I have no clue whether vaksel is American, but I do think Americans (I'm one) have absorbed--been fed?--a fair amount of hooey about HIV transmission and how to be "safe." Keep in mind, if you're old enough, AIDS was/is "that gay disease" and something quite a small number of injecting druggies were getting--as the "need" for a War on Drugs was building. I'm sorry to report, Americans are a fearful lot.
'Twould be awesome. Please keep me informed!
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The site:

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