skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome, Good job man, keep this up i like it when people put up projects like this on HN.
It might help if you tell us where you're geographically located.
Everything has a price. Which is why I think we tend to be friends with people around our income level. Can you imagine the awkwardness of 'I'll get this lunch' with a millionaire friend?

I have a couple friends who work in the world of donors and charitable giving. Want to be "Chair" of the big society event? Even though its not explicitly stated, that comes hand-in-hand with a sizable donation. 5 figures usually. Sometimes the New Money doesn't understand that protocol - Old Money knows the dance steps.
BTW, callmeed do you have contact info like email for yourself?
For some reason, I find it comforting that there will always be some sources (e.g. Wikipedia) where issues will be presented neutrally.
You make a good point. Open (loosely used) enterprise software leads to committees and committees lead to kitchen sink specifications. CORBA, from a previous generation, had exactly that kind of bloat, W3C specifications likewise. The Java libraries show that in spectacular fashion. Maybe Sun thinks we need umpteen hash table implementations, but I think we would be better off with one well done.

Frameworks done by committee are even worse. God save us from W3C and the Apache Foundation.

Counterpoint: software from dictators: Python and Django.
It's possible to state (b) so that it sounds somewhat like (c): "I will never have time to think about your issue because it's quite unimportant and I'm an important person."
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where are you guys located?
Ubuntu now has 'cloud computing inside'
and pills..../s
... and makes it possible to hide some pretty bad code/design among the abstractions.
Sort of. The big question with dividends is "Can the company's shareholders invest that cash more profitably than the company itself can?" If the company is just going to sit on its cash and earn 3% in a money-market fund, and yet its shareholders could invest in other companies that get 20% returns, then the company should pay a dividend.

In Google's case right now, though, I don't think they should be paying dividends. The financial system is basically frozen, which means if they need cash for operations, they need to generate it internally. And Google's value as a going concern is significantly higher than the returns available in the rest of the stock market, or even bond interest rates. It makes sense to keep that cash inside the company, where it can be employed profitably, than to pay it out as dividends that'll be reinvested in other companies that are much less profitable.
Another reason for RH to make sure Linux rocks is off course increasing the total mind share for Linux, for the more installations and applications there are, the better the prospectives.
On Hacking - Richard Stallman
I've been using Ubuntu for 2 years as my primary environment and I miss it a lot despite terrible performance of Firefox and flash. Everything else pretty much rocked.

I don't have room for a desk with a workstation PC to run it and all PC laptops are so lame these days that I'm stuck with Macbook Pro but keep toying with a double boot idea.
Or Digg, Reddit, Propeller, StumbleUpon, Furl, Blinklist, Bluedot, Newsvine, Mister-wong, Mixx, Buddymarks, Jumptags, Google/Yahoo bookmarks, or 100s of others. Here's a big list: http://www.socialposter.com

For some reason, magnolia always resonated with me as: "Hey! Look at me! I'm sooooo easy to use! And I look sooooo good! Hey! (bats eyelashes) I'm pretty, right? Your life should revolve around bookmarking! Just go to mag.nol.ia .. no, wait, mag.nolia.com ? No, it's ma.gnol.ia. Ah, here it is: ma.gnolia.com. Anyway, bookmark it!"
Congratulations on that. Can I ask, how did you get that article written? From a PR standpoint, it's really an outstanding feature - almost gushing with praise for hoodies in general and HoodiesPeople.com in particular. I'm sure you'll get both sales and brand awareness from it. Did you work through a PR firm? Any suggestions for my company (don't worry, not a competitor :)
...and, according to the article, finally get rid of the skin toned theme.
Hm. I guess I haven't really noticed. I admit, I don't read the comments much. I was mainly speaking about the headlines, which is all I really use that site for.

I confess I'm a little confused as to what an "extreme" atheist even is. I mean, a normal atheist believes that there is no God. How do you go past "does not exist"?

Anyway I'd like to say one thing: pointing out others' ridiculous, harmful beliefs is good and necessary. Of course, it's most effective if done politely and constructively but anything is better than nothing. I'd probably be pretty extreme towards someone trying to claim something demonstrably, obviously wrong in pretty much any field you care to name. And they'd complain how I was "incapable" of seeing their ludicrous point of view, no doubt.

I think I'm kind of a classical nerd when it comes to such things. If you assert something, you better be able to back it up. If you can't, I'll call you an idiot. No free pass because it's religion or because the Catholic Church did this or that.

Anyway, not really trying to start an argument or anything. My point: Some things deserve ridicule. Reddit commenters, though, I never read them, sorry for erroneously implying otherwise.
completely unrelated but still frustrating.

i get this message whenever i try and submit something to HN, what is that mean besides the obvious i'm not even submitting fast.

"You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."
link:
http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=EQ89mTm1oN
So You Think You Are a Darwinian?
True, with current software you don't want to save tentative changes but the only reason for that is that your "undo" history is lost the instant you close a program. If you could undo changes through the entire history of the document explicitly saving becomes pointless.
Essentially, an extremely talented person starts out with $1,000,000; however, if they never practice it never becomes worth more than it is. Yet a relatively untalented person may start out with like $1,000, but if they practice for hours a day every day for years they'll be worth a lot more than a million dollars.

When I was about 6 my teacher told my parents that she suspected I was dyslexic. At 17 I got hired as a video game and movie reviewer. At about 19 I got a couple of short stories published and currently I'm working on a novel I hope to get published.

I don't believe I was ever particularly talented at writing, I'm a creative person, but it's never been one of those 'click' things, I've just wanted it all my life. Give me a hammer or a saw and I'll build you anything, I even worked as an electrician for a couple of years. I've put in stairs, I can plaster a wall as well as drywall, I can wire your house, plumb it and give you a gas line. When it comes to hands on work I can do virtually anything, but I've never had this ability with words or writing and I believe this lack of ability always made me try harder with it. Now I don't want to do anything other than write for a living; although I wouldn't mind taking Electrical Engineering, either for work purposes or for building a giant robot army to take over the world... you know which ever pays more.
Heh, you expect to get details like that from a Salon journalist?
The most prominent change, in my opinion, seems to be the idea of bringing suspend/resume to servers. I'd imagine this would only be implemented in multi-server clusters, with extra hosts powering down but never totally interrupting service. Is there a reason this hasn't been implemented in other distros?
He's actually pricing himself pretty low here. Can you imagine the publicity a band would get if they actually hired him to tour for 5 months?
As a counterpoint, my son and two of his buddies started a company to create a specialized chip. After 6 months they hired a CEO who had founded his own company and sold it for 9 figures (I believe). The CEO got no salary and got stock only if he raised the necessary funding. Six months later he raised mid 7 figures from angels and the founders still had control. They have since raised another similar round from angels.

Interestingly, they used VC's to recruit the CEO, but not for the money.
It's actually changing the color temperature, not the gamma.
Is Hulu Driving People Back to Piracy?
I went to school with the author - he's sharp as hell. He also founded Picasa.
Poll: you play games on your iphone/ipod touch mostly where?
school/university
What is a "darwinian"? I have never heard anyone describe themselves as such.
Yes, and GHFigs is pointing out that the article said:

font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

which is self-defeating.
we are located in State College, PA although I think we could work remotely.
Yes. Yes. Patterns are an educational tool. Read the book(s) then put them away. Adhering to patterns because they are SUPERIOR leads to code bloat and unwieldy design. The article has a case where EJBs were used when a simple servlet would have sufficed. My rant-topic-of-the-day is using beans where a hash would do.

From a comment by Russ Olsen, "People who write this stuff just seem to miss that the size of the infrastructure needs to be in proportion to the size of the actual work being done. If the infrastructure is four times the size of the code that actually does something, then you can rewrite the real code 4 times for the price of the infrastructure."
Theodore Ts'o: Aligning filesystems to an SSD’s erase block size
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/090225.html

This talk addresses the technical infrastructures, political institutions, and social practices that shape the contemporary electoral process in the United States. I provide a theoretical overview of the role of artifacts in shaping the practices of citizenship and detail the history of networked technologies in campaigning over the last twenty years as they have become incorporated into a repertoire of electoral practices among political consultants. Through consideration of the 2003-2004 Howard Dean campaign and 2007-2008 Obama campaign I demonstrate how peer networks supported by social media are structured by formal campaign organizations. I conclude by assessing the implications of these technical practices for democratic citizenship.
bad move from the online community. Hulu represents a tenuous olive branch between online content watchers and the big media interests. If this gets screwed up it will be another 5 years before tv gets into the 21st century.
I'm really looking forward to this release. Ive been using Ubuntu for a couple of years now, and really enjoy devloping on it. I don't have to restart my machine that often - usually only when I have to do some Windows stuff, but the faster boot time will be a welcome improvement.

When you consider just how many features are available in Ubuntu, and the general feel, it's amazing that you can get it for free.

I even like the current brown/skin theme - I must be a fan boy. The one big improvement I would like to see though is a fast Firefox port.
How does a lack of "critical built-in data structures" (as opposted to libraries) lead to poor design?

C has a ridiculously small set of built-in data structures, but the unix core tools written in C are very elegantly designed.
A journal article will be more legitimate, but if spreading the word is the point (I'm just guess it is one of the aim) then twittering is better. Like someone else commented, the good doctor could have done both.

Back to your example, at the very least, I would be reminded to seek a second opinion, assuming I believe what I had read to a minimal extent.
The article says pricing should start out nearly free and increase per user as the penetration into the the enterprise rises. The concept is certainly worth discussion, because it addresses the conflict between ease of customer acquisition and making a profit.
OOP has had several phases. The first phase conflated encapsulation into objects with generic reuse. It also advocated complex object diagrams, deep inheritance trees and a variety of over-elaborate approaches.

The second phase was more closely related to patterns and agile methologies. Here, the illusion of OOP creating generic reuse was abandoned, the idea of "containment over inheritance" was broached, and the paradigm became closer to "the right tool for the job".

I am actually amazed that methodologies were able to improve but I can't argue with what I've seen.
http://subvertandprofit.com/

Reddit isn't on there.
If you just glance at the numbers it looks like they're being screwed. But at each round (while they still had control) the founders got to decide if taking funding would be better for the company and themselves.

There's no rule that says founders get to keep large percentages of their companies.
I'd also imagine that if he really sells these deals he'll find it extremely fun. I mean, if these sales get completed he'll get to spend a few months doing a ton of crazy weird things.
"A lawsuit between Unix copyright holder AT&T and University of California at Berkeley was also partly to blame."

As I recall this was a big hangup to adoption and/or commercial release. All the hardware vendors were using AT&T licenses and there were $500 licenses for PCs so the market for FreeBSD wasn't so compelling as that for Linux became.
My commiserations. Sounds really horrible. But I still think it's more a matter of "enterprise" culture than of Java's deficiencies, even though I agree that Java's lack of expressiveness does contribute to these problems.

However, it's not unimaginable that a posting like yours could be submitted here 7 years down the road with Java replaced by Ruby/Rails or Python/Django. Piling on libraries is widespread in other communities as well. Attempting to avoid any knowledge of the DBMS even counts as cool in Ruby/Python circles.

At least many Java libraries are reasonably high quality. The same cannot be said about something like Django's ORM for example. I looked at the code the other day. They have no optimistic locking, and there is one completely useless existence check before each and every update. It's completely beyond me how anyone could use an ORM that doesn't support optimistic locking. But nobody seems to care. There are even postings in the archives with people claiming it's not necessary for web apps. That's just plain incompetence.

The whole idea of abolishing the separation between the database and the application is a huge disaster in the making. Up until now we could at least throw away legacy applications and still have a reasonably well designed database schema. Not any longer. In my view, that's the main contribution of Rails and it's rip-offs to software design.

So basically what I'm saying is that incompetence is is widespread and coolness trumps competence for extended periods of time, leaving behind a whole lot of crap like that one you're working with right now. The next generation of crap is piled on as we speak and it's written in today's fashion languages.

I'm all in favor of better programming languages because they improve the productivity of good programmers. But they don't make bad or even average programmers any better.
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Boot-up times are rapidly approaching the stage where the OS isn't the bottleneck - it's the BIOS. I often wonder what the hell it's doing for those 10-30 seconds. (depending on the motherboard) EFI in Macs is definitely snappier, at least until you start booting into Linux or Windows and the BIOS emulation kicks in and waits around for a couple seconds.

Interestingly, you used to be able to get a decent speedup with hibernating (suspend to disk) but nowadays, with the bootup improvements and larger amounts of RAM (my workstation has 8GB; 4GB is pretty normal these days) it only helps if you've got lots of stuff open in your session. OSX's resume is a lot faster than Linux' though, so there's plenty scope for improvement. I suspect the problem is once again initialising the hardware - controlling the platform sure helps.
Dead since last year, by the looks of things.
How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook
Have you considered just outsourcing the design part of your app to freelancers?
I voted for 'other' as most of my game play is done whilst using a restroom.
Amazing visualization. Taught me something even though I thought I understood what was happening!
What do you mean, "back to"?
Could anyone give me some more info on what the author is referring to when he says: "Why does ancient Egypt, which had good records on many other matters, lack any records of Jews having ever been there?"
A more in-depth article with a matrix of available font types:

http://24ways.org/2007/increase-your-font-stacks-with-font-m...
Extremely important update if you care about your IE users. In 1.3.1, ready() was broke in IE so it only ran on window.load instead of DOM ready. I'd recommend upgrading asap.
For companies that need significant teams and years to get traction this is a reasonable model that has worked for years. The VC’s are optimized for plays that have 10’s of millions in and 100’s out.

There is a new breed of companies that are far more nimble and don’t need 10’s of millions in. The main issue for these companies is how do they extend the team and get the (limited) capital they need to execute the business beyond the product.

At Tandem Entrepreneurs we have a model that works for such companies (there are probably others models out there as well).

We serve as the extended team for founders. The result is that the founders get to keep a much larger chunk of the company as the extended team doesn’t add burn. We also serve as the investors so there is no time wasted raising money or hiring.
I wonder if it was to allow section-specific commenting? It's not like boingboing needs the extra pageviews, they're all rolling in it already.
Even further dilution. How important is a 5 million cashout when you only have 7% left of the company you slaved on for three years?
I never plan on taking VC money if it is at all possible to avoid.
I wouldn't take it that seriously. Most pirates want access to high quality material, when they want it. Sure, if Hulu screws up, it will probably take a while for big media to try something like it again. But I think pirates would accept something new pretty quickly.

It's incredibly easy to get something off bittorrent, so there's no risk in trying a new website. Hulu seems to value their user's trust a lot. It's really nice, and shows intent. But I don't need to have a lot of trust to use Hulu. If I don't like how they let me access a tv show, I can just use some frictionless means to get it a couple hours later.
Agreed. I wrote some of my thoughts down recently here: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2009/02/does-capital-efficien...

Essentially, while running a grossly underfunded company is definitely bad, that's not to be confused with a "raise insane amounts of money and spend it indiscriminately" attitude.

Doing the most with the least amount of money is still the best way to maintain maximum ownership, but it should definitely be balanced against the risks of not being properly capitalized, where "properly" is certainly open to interpretation.
that's quite the troll post there.

intel, ibm, hp, and sun contribute to linux because it is the popular thing to do now, and it is in their interest to support it as an operating system because they all sell hardware, not (necessarily) because they like linux or use it. sun has its own competing, commercial operating system and yet they contribute to a rival one. why? because they can sell sun servers that run linux.

companies contribute patches, drivers, money, donations, and other resources to many of the free non-gpl projects because they use them internally and it is in their interest to keep those projects going.

bsd licensed code and operating systems have been around for decades. where are your examples of companies taking that code and "closing it up", making significant money off of that work, and without giving anything back?
Well, yes: arguably, that very fact is one of the major wins you get from good abstractions.
This wasn't published on Boing Boing. It's published on a small site that publishes deep articles such as "Are You a Conficker Zombie?".
Very cool, but the Bomb visualization fails to explain an important fact. The investment bankers aren't receiving cash from the homeowners, but those assets (houses) are not worthless.

Given time (in this case a bailout) those houses should return to normal value via demand once they've gone low enough for people to want to buy them again. At least that's the hope.
CAPTCHA-beating algorithm works 90% of the time
Funny. Me too.

Technically, it's only at work, in the restroom. Should I have voted for that?
Implementing DEALLOCATE/TRIM in the SSD's firmware seems like a good solution. It's weired that an Intel engineer would say (in an article refered to by this article http://www.behardware.com/articles/731-6/ssd-product-review-...) that Today, there is no ATA protocol available to tell the SSDs that the LBAs from deleted files are no longer valid data. As far as I can tell, protocol extensions regarding trim/deallocate were specified by T13 (http://t13.org) as proposals as early as 2005. (http://t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/e07154r1...):

Deallocate(Trim)

Deallocate shall be set to one to indicate the data set no longer needs to be maintained. The
host expects to write this data set before it reads it again. If a read occurs to any part of the data
set before it is written, the device may return the data stored from its previous write or it may
return all 0s.
Here's a one page version, courtesy of the devouring/transforming/destroying internet:

http://jottit.com/7xb2z
Polaris Surveys Founders on Dilution
1) Qualified dividends are taxed at long-term capital gains rates. At the moment there is no differential.

2) There is no economic difference in retaining the earnings because although undistributed earnings defer shareholder-level tax, the income from those earnings will remain subject to current corporate-level tax and will still eventually be subject to shareholder-level tax. On a net present value basis, the result is the same. I agree it's counterintuitive.
One thing people have to realize is that this wasn't so much a Hulu decision as it was a Network decision.

The networks want to control where you view the hulu content (at your computer). If you're watching it on TV you may as well be paying for cable (in their minds).
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"Google has said time and again it’s not inclined to do any special favors for investors, but that’s not true, at least not strictly speaking. The company reset the price of stock options for employees after declines late last year left many under water. As Reuters pointed out, Google investors are unhappy about the double standard."

In this case I completely agree with Google's behavior. Coddle your employees, not your investors. The latter will do very little to benefit your company.
Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

That's one reasonable definition of hacking, but the examples he gives are trite. Changing a single letter on the sign of a school that no one has heard of is not interesting or notable. It's not even amusing. ("Customer Training College" to "Customer Draining College".)

He also contradicts that definition with:

I realized that if I could come up with a way [to eat with 6 chopsticks], it would be a hack. -- That train of thought is not playful, it's pretentious.

He had topped my hack. Was his action, too, a hack? I think so. Is he therefore a hacker? That depends on how much he likes to hack. -- So playful or not, if you're outdoing Richard Stallman, it's not hacking.
Sorry AJ - I had already tried to load test trailbehind earlier ;-)