skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
British Library warns of 'black hole' in history if websites & files not preserved
Tom Cruise Is A Cockblock: Part 3
It's a very exciting day here at Hollywood Fail because we're thrilled to bring you Comedy.com's brand new installment of the Tom Cruise Is A Cock-Block video series! In case you haven't seen the first two episodes, you can watch them here and then watch the hilarious conclusion to this epic saga above.
Ruby on Rails is not a CMS. It’s a framework. While it’s true that the line of demarcation between a framework and a CMS continues to blur, it’s still important to be able to tell one from the other. Conceptually, the two are discrete entities.

A framework is unified set of tools that make it easier to implement repetitive tasks. It’s not intended to be an end-product. Instead, it’s meant to be a foundation upon which you build your application. A framework, by definition, is a generic system. CMS, on the other hand is, an application that is supposed to solve a specific problem: managing the content. The problem with Drupal is that it tries to be the both a framework and a CMS and introduces a maze of abstractions.

The content itself as well as the kind of content management practiced tend to vary from one organization to the other. The whole concept of an ‘definitive CMS’, therefore, is ridiculously delusory.

A CMS, in my opinion, can approach this problem in either of two ways. Since a core set of common features could still be identified in each kind of CMS, a CMS can be generic system which different category of users can build upon to meet their respective requirements. Secondly, a CMS can zero in on a particular niche and provide all content management features applicable to that segment. This, of course, would render it, and rightfully so, unusable for other niches.
How Many Engineers Does It Take To Make Hotmail Work In Google Chrome?
Can Civil War soldiers help economists put a value on friendship?
Prototyping with Malo CSS Library
It's not a techie/non-techie distinction, it is about level of exposure to wikis and similar things that people have. Ten years ago techies didn't get wikis either.
I'm curious -- is it "okay" for Mozilla to bundle their video player in Firefox? Isn't this abusing their large user base to push technologie _they_ endorse?

or does it not matter if it's FOSS?
if all the classes in the classloader are no longer referenced, and there are no references to the classloader itself, then they will all be GCed (but often there is a ref to the classloader that causes the PermGen issue).
I found this article interesting because my parents just moved to a new house after 20 years. The move unearthed photos that hadn't been seen in decades and prompted hours of fun memories and discussions about good times past.

Those discussions happened because the pictures were there in huge boxes and in our faces as we sorted through their stuff. It's hard to imagine that same thing happening if the pictures had been locked away on a DVD or hard drive somewhere.

I know archive.org is doing a good job of cataloging the history of web sites, but what about all the un-archived pictures that people take and leave on their hard drives until they crash? This article makes an interesting point.
Iplotz - balsmiq alternative
Microsoft Performance Point Server: Dead
Giving Back to the Givers in Tough Times
Teachers, Fire Fighters, Police Officers and Social Workers are all worthy of our appreciation and praise.. It would be great to show our appreciation beyond words, but these days giving gifts is getting tougher. Following are some suggestions of items you can give to these humble community heroes, made affordable by using the group gifting concept.
Improve Mashup security with sandboxed cross domain JSONP
Analyzing URLs as Links to the resource using a PHP function.
This is PHP function split_url_fuction() writter for twitter like application that i am developing, useful to split URL from the updated sentence(posted message), then URL changing like tinyurl and link to the resource.
My personal website was .info

Luckily I've since been able to get a decent .com (and .co.uk)
Maybe just make the quality of camera phone pictures so crappy that no one will want to look at them. Oh wait.
Cloud Computing's Other Achilles' Heel: Software Licensing
I seem to remember reading a study (cannot find it at the moment) hypothesizing a lower food intake triggers an evolutionary response. Basically: hungry->must find food->more alert
I'm in a similar position working as a Navision ERP consultant/developer (MS Dynamics-NAV), doing it for 6 years now. But my advice is different.

I think it really boils down to one question: are you American (or Japanese, as your nick seems to suggest) or not?

Americans and Japanese have this cultural thing that your job should be your life, your major form of satisfaction, it should be something you are really motivated to do. In this case do switch, because if you lose your motivation you fall behind those who do have it. And besides, if your job doesn't make you happy, you'll always feel you are losing something from your life. The real reason behind it is that Americans (and Japanese) IDENTIFY with their jobs: they say "I AM an programmer/salesman/whatever". So how good you feel about your job is how good you feel about yourself. In this case best thing is to move to the edges of SAP - get involved in writing other software that communicate with SAP.

But if you are, say, European or British or something, it's differnt. We "oldworlders" tend to think this way: it's just a fucking job. It's just to pay your bills. You don't have to love it, it's not supposed to be your major source of happiness, you don't have to be very motivated, just do it OK. If it's bearable and pays the bills, OK. Reason is that we don't identify with out jobs, we just do programming or sales or whatever for a living and don't think we "are" programmers or salesmen. I'm not "am a Navision developer", it's just something I do. In this case, just stick to SAP, and not just for the money. No, not for the money at all. For the respect. That's the important thing. After 6 years with Navision I'm starting to become something sort of an expert. People praise me all the time, I solve hard problems fast and they think it's magic, all that. Not that I'm very smart or anything, it's just experience. And boy, it feels good, that you are not a beginner anymore whom everybody looks down on, but you are starting to become an authority in your field. Slowly you progress to the situation where nobody cares if you come late in the office and leave the suit at home, because you are the "wizard", and everybody knows "wizards" are different, but yet they are very useful. Man, that feels good, this kind of respect you receive after a certain amount of experience, the self-esteem you can take out of it, it's really great. This is what makes it worth doing it.

There are two kinds of excellence. That of the hacker, the discoverer: who keeps solving new problems. And that of the Zen archer, who solves the SAME problem year by year, decade by decade, but in a more and more perfect way. I think the second one buys more self-esteem because after a while you are simply incapable of making any errors in your narrow field and thus never get chewed out. So I chose the later.
Apple patents a general touch-screen interface
What you are facing is a standard problem in adaptation of technology. What most techies think usable might not be that much usable by non-techie user. As far as wiki is concerned, I find it challenging to use a wiki even being a techie. The obnoxious syntax of wiki is sufficient to scare away several users.
As you mentioned, people like to send email, I would suggest creating a separate mailbox for leave applications and then writing bunch of scripts to parse the email and put the email in wiki, db or whatever you want to. Second option is to use a CMS and create web form, as most CMS have support for forms and reporting built in. I have done this with drupal couple of times and the solution has been received well by non-techies.
In the end, what ever comments you receive on this thread will turn out to be useless if you are not willing to understand the reason why non-techies are not using the wiki ? Few minutes spent with the end user will save you several hours of developing and deploying a solution that will not be used by non-technies...
"Your client does not have permission to get URL /p/clicktoflash/ from this server."

looks like the author made it private? too bad.
Um, I'm techie enough, but I don't get it myself. I mean, if you are already using some sort of knowledge base then yes, it should be a wiki, I get that. (Wiki is the closest thing of the original idea of what HTML browsers were created for: cross-referenced knowledge bases.) But if you don't, then not, because in my experience maintaining a knowledge base never really works.

The basic thing is the following: you can only trust data from those software where users have no way of avoiding entering the data. Example: ERP. The truck is waiting there, you need to print a shipment note because the damn truck won't take the goods without it, and the system won't let you print a shipment note before you put in all the data that lets the system amend the stock levels, mark the sales order as shipped etc. Such as system can enforce data entry, you find the data you need in such a system.

Similarly, e-mails are reliable, because if you want to communicate something to another person that's too long for a phone call, you have to send an e-mail. So you will find the information in your e-mails.

But what enforces entering data into a wiki? Just rules won't work.
Metabolically humans alternate between anabolic and catabolic modes: sleep and eat more, then work more with less sleep and food. Human metabolism is a sophisticated system for smoothing out highly variable energy intake. Always eating the same three squares a day isn't synergistic. I have found skipping meals when busy to be a very good idea. There's a reason all cultures have traditional fast and feast cycles.

The idea of sustained caloric restriction, however, is probably stupid. You just want variable intake, not low intake. First of all, the studies are only of rats and worms. Secondly, the studies fail to control for the fact that the starved animals get more exercise whereas the well fed animals languidly sit around.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/11439198/Scribd-job-posting
Scribd job posting (using scribd)
Caching With Apache's mod_cache On Debian Etch
The extension's text (displayed in FF's Add-ons tab) says that it enables the browser to report information about which .NET Framework installations are present
The US gives you citizenship if you marry a citizen as well. All we do is investigate a little to make sure the marriage is real.
You forgot the print & photograph part!

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Web_0_0x2e_1.aspx
Long-Distance Teleportation Between Two Atoms Achieved
The PHP community is dead. The number of recent innovative libraries/components/technologies implemented in PHP (0) confirms it. The Dead Sea Effect (http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...) only made it worse.
Registration to try a demo, no thanks.

I'm really interested in using something like balsamic that is not as "sluggish." I've noticed that this Power PC doesn't do very well with Flash, but I find it Balsamic especially slow and therefore frustrating to use.
Hi pistoriusp, Peldi here from Balsamiq. I'd love it if you could send me an email (peldi@balsamiq.com) with more details about the sluggishness you have found with Mockups. Preformance tuning is a way of life and I constantly make little improvements, but having a set of files or steps that are still slow even in the latest version http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/desktop#download would greatly help me in finding and fixing the bottle-necks.

Thanks!
I've tried it a bit, and had already saved. Then I tried to upload on the server and during upload I tried to view another page. And everything dissaapeared.

Now when I refresh I get a dialog box "server reporter error"
I don't think Balsamiq is sluggish. Maybe it's about how the UI is organized.
Something about when giving a new interface layout makes somes users feel uncomfortable. Therefore you could experiment giving more UI layout choices.

e.g. I would prefer the toolbar to chooce elements to be on the left.
I was watching a documentary today titled 'How To Live To 101 Without Trying'. It explores the towns where people live the longest: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7250675.stm

In Okinawa (Japan), the residents actually age more slowly than almost anyone else on earth.

It's what they don't eat that may be at the heart of their exceptionally long lives. The Okinawan's most significant cultural tradition is known as hara hachi bu, which translated means eat until you're only 80% full.

Scientists call it caloric restriction, but don't entirely understand why it works. They think it sends a signal to the body that there is going to be a impending famine, sending it into a protective, self-preservation mode.

Eating less (and healthy) does have its merits.
Maybe you should be talking to your users more.
Release of HTC Touch Cruise | Probably Biggest iPod Community in Europe
you should have displayed it in book mode -- then its a real job posting!
Dunno if "most significant cultural tradition" is an appropriate appelative when the Okinawans invented Karate, and hara hachi bu was independently developed in Western civilization ("Eat not to satiety," Benjamin Franklin).
The author doesn't grok what higher education is currently for. The current methods are suitable for the current goals. I think you should first thing about chaning the goals, not the methods.
I think the problem is in the details. It's far too easy to get a patent. And on trivial 'inventions'.

Yeah I agree - I want to dig deeper when people say "patents are evil".... By this they could mean the current system needs to be tweaked, right through to totally abandoning the concept.
Is it a bug that when I click the big "try it now" button on your homepage it plays me a video of your app, rather than letting me try it?
Stop calling it a Wiki. Call it a knowledge base and watch activity boom.

It works.
Passion for the idea is important - but lets not forget execution as well. Ideas + passion alone does not necessarily guarantee success. Add excellent execution to it, and probability for success increases
Inside Out Design
Man in Jail for Accepting 120 Speeding Tickets... That Weren't His
Abdul Musa, a garage owner from Blackburn, Lancashire, today begins a 16 month stretch in jail after police discovered he was getting paid to take the blame for other people’s speeding offences.
so hackers use facebook these days do they?

oh how things have changed
I'm not sure what you're referring to. The different "try it now" links on balsamiq.com should all open http://www.balsamiq.com/demos/mockups/Mockups.html - if you found anything different then yes, it's certainly a bug.
Truck-mounted laser shoots down spy drone
well then install it
To create pills that enable old men to have sex or to solve today's energy problems?

This is more of a moral judgement than one around the efficacy of patents. Are you arguing that patents shouldn't be available at all, or they should only be granted to those that are a suitable fit for society?

This sounds dangerous as I can't really think of anyone suitable to make such a judgement. Even in the later case, you still need an enconomic basis for the patent - or more correctly, the R&D required to gain the patent.

Even if you're capable to invent a new kind of car, do you have the money to advertise it properly?

I don't need to invent a new kind of car - if I came up with a valve arrangement that increased efficiency by x% that would be patentable, and I would profit from it.

If this invention, say, could be retrofitted to existing vehicles and reduce emissions - then governments might mandate it's use - and I'd profit from that.

I don't think a body such as the government should be guiding research. It's a slippery slope to bureaucracy. What you can do is put in place the right framework - e.g. all cars must comply with an emission standard by X - then you create the economic basis for the right inventions to follow.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1518202
oh yes, thats right then :)

I assumed try it now gave me a demo (as in, I use your webapp) rather than a tour.
"Two words may not seem like much, but it's more than the difference between people under 30 and above 50."

So you lose less than 16% of your memory capacity in 20+ years. Interesting. I was afraid it was worse.

Though I don't think it was really "short term memory" they tested [1]. Even normal adults can recall just 7±2 chunks stored in the short term memory, so 10.5/12.5 for elderly would be extraordinary.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_term_memory
It does give you a demo...that link _is_ my webapp...not sure why you think it's a tour?
It says I have to download some program called Adobe Flash to view this.
I don't want to register to use something I can find hassle-free elsewhere.
strange - you're right. Maybe I was being daft. Works fine now I've whitelisted your domain in FlashBlock
Scribd is great because rather than using PDF like most browsers, it uses flash
I see the opposite problem - Customers want "wikis" and "blogs", but don't really know what they are, or don't fully understand the implications (e.g. "on our corporate wiki anyone can write anything they want? what if they write something bad!?").
While Flash looks pretty good, the feeling just does not feel right. I have not yet used a full Flash application where I have said, wow, this is really better than DHTML+JavaScript. The experience just feels sluggish, plus it's hard to scroll, copy paste and that like.

I hope in the future that JS + Canvas becomes a serious player so things like Iplotz and balsamic can be implemented with ease.
No, the US does a lot more than just investigate, and does not give you citizenship just for marrying someone (few places do that - most give you the right to live in the same place as your spouse, though). Going through the whole process involves something like 2 or 3 trips to whatever town has the US consulate you need to go to (a 5 hour trip for me), and in the end, and involves a lot of fees, and requires things like doctor visits, which is kind of degrading.

Bureaucracy in the US isn't all that bad for many things, but from the point of view of a potential immigrant, it can be pretty ugly. Anyone remember when they were stringing along Linus Torvalds and people raised a fuss about it?
It doesn't seem like a balsamiq alternative to me, really. More like an alternative to Protoshare
Motorola C168i ( AT&T Locked M BOX) 
The great-looking Motorola C168i for GoPhone is a stylish performer at a great price! With design and detail fitting a much more expensive phone, the Motorola C168i fits easily into a pocket, purse or pack, and offers style in spades.
If you'll recall PG made his money writing what became Yahoo Shops, one of the largest retailers for individual vendors before Amazon and Ebay. He knows how to program.

The server is dealing with increasing pageloads and processing as it calculates karma and ranking of stories.

I think it is unlikely an issue with Arc rather than an issue due to server load. Were it an issue with the coding we would have seen this issue in the past year, perhaps not as frequently but it still would have been noticed.
The world is still awaiting a good use for Flash.

I am, I suspect, much older than most HN readers (early 30s) and I remember a thing called RTF. It amuses me to see it constantly reinvented. And not improved.
Creativity and stretching the sweatshirt
I honestly don't get it. I have the same feeling when I (inadvertently) click on a scribd link as I do when I click on expertsexchange: "Uh, oh, here's the content I want, shielded by a vast armor of horrible design."
I've dropped you a mail. I hope it's helpful.
To speed up browsing on a slow connection and for added security.

But it's OK, I have it enabled for mibbit. ;)
I seem to find the Zone better when I haven't eaten all day. I wonder if the principles are the same.

This works fine for me, but I've seen counter-examples too - I've had colleagues that are absolutely braindead/grumpy/etc unless they eat.
...and shows documents in a 400px-wide box, so there's space for advertisement on the side.
I usually love Seth's stuff, but I think the only thing getting stretched here is the analogy. I'm not following the sweatshirt thing at all.

I understand the point about the edges changing all the time, but I have a hard time visualizing that in terms of an aging sweatshirt.
Wikis are like commenting code. They both require you to write some stuff down now in case someone else needs it in the future.

Think of how long it took you to learn the value of good commenting... That's about how long it will take to teach people why they should document their business practices on a wiki.
Why on earth are you trying to use a Wiki as a calendaring app whn there are so many good calendaring apps out there. I'm fairly techie - but if someone told me to edit a Wiki to put my holidays in, I would not be amused.

You'll be getting them to use vi to enter expenses claims next.
ah-men...
I agree. And make one pedantic exception: On Gentoo recompiling everything and "Just works" are not opposites.

(But reconfiguring everything is.)
I just noticed, and I can't believe i never noticed before, the Experts Exchange concatenated can easily become Expert Sex Change.
Microsoft: H-1B workers among those losing jobs
This is absolutely true - currently enterprise licensing is often (almost always) braindead.

I've often been forced to put in a new J2EE cluster (for example), because licenses are CPU based -- if the license is expensive it doesn't add up to run at 10% utility on a large, shared cluster. To get bang-for-license-buck you're forced to run on only dedicated hardware.

Really annoying because it destroys economies of scale - you have all this bity infrastructure. Not only is this a pain to maintain, but it also means that you generally end up with more infrastructure, and use more energy, can't virtualize, etc, etc.
I think YouTube is the best use of Flash.

Do you mean Rich Text Format? It's used by OS X a fair amount. Didn't know Microsoft invented it, neat.
I am the OP, and here is the HN discussion on the article where the Iowa senator asked Microsoft about H1-B workers - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450486
BTW, what is Microsoft Performance Point Server?
Did you get that out of Crossing the Chasm, or think of it yourself from experience? Or is it just obvious to people with a good head for business?
microsoft also came up with XMLHttpRequest!
The world is still awaiting a good use for Flash.

annoy everyone?
Noovo: Tumblr on Steroids
You should be a VC.
You generally can't throw a rock in a crowded room of programming nerds and not hit someone who has built their own CMS these days. I've basically built my freelance career out of building and selling a set of CMS software and I'm sure others here could say the same.

For a simple term like Content Management System, it seems like everyone has a different interpretation of what that means. I think that alone answers you question about whether or not this is a solved problem. There's always going to be some target market with a need that can't be solved with current CMS software.
This sort of thing can really slow an entire company down.

Work on getting it mentioned in performance reviews. If 'non-techies' start to have their bosses poking around asking questions about "so why do I keep hearing that you refuse to use the wiki?", that'll help.

I mean, really. A wiki is about as technical as a whiteboard... they're just being lazy. No one's asking them to make beautifully formatted pages, just get the stuff in there because _that's how we track it_... it's part of their job. They need to realize it.