skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar issue when building a JSON API for a company in the UK. The lead developer insisted that all API end-points, internal variables, classes etc, should use the British English spelling of "favourites" among other things, cause "we're in the UK".

At least we stuck to US English spelling of our custom HTTP "authorization" headers... lol
They are not in computer museums?
My brain just asploded. Thank you!
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The truth is that only the illuminati care about inter-compatibility and data freedom. Most people (myself included) value more something that works, not a hodgepodge of solutions from 15 different vendors where nothing integrates with nothing.

Provide both inter-compatibility and a good user experience and you win everybody. Android promised that, but failed.
Proposed: Everyone specifies their data model. No need to standardize.
Facebook can't throw you in jail is one big difference.
How about "leverage"?
It shows weakness in character to hold a public post as powerful as his.
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While that's true, you have to bare in mind that the project barely made it past alpha stage and was anything but stable. So it's not really fair to compare OpenMoko to the matured interfaces we enjoy today.

Plus if you look at how long the iPhone was in development and compare that against the development time of OpenMoko, then I think you'll agree that what they achieved was impressive project given the lack of resources they had compared to businesses such as Apple and Google.

"Looked more like a replacement to early versions of Windows mobile."

Given that we're talking pre-iOS and Android, it's not really all that surprising. Back then, most smart phone OSs were pretty crap. Regardless of whether you believe that Apple innovated the mobile industry, there was a huge leap forward in OS design around then; and Openmoko pre-dates that leap.
Why should all of the children who are in school voluntarily have their entire learning experience disrupted by the kid who keeps being forced back into school by a truant officer?
Then they just suspend you for that.
Understood that Amazon needs to make a profit, but these are still dollars that I need to pay for, that I could be feasibly be using for something else (hiring great developers perhaps.)

I think the advantage of EC2 is exactly fast scaling, and an easy sell to management (no big upfront.) But as we started using it at size and consistently, it is just cheaper to run our own hardware as the blog attests to.

We do all the racking and cabling using "remote hands" directed from our SAs in India, and so far for us this has not been the complex part. Getting the Hadoop configured and our software running efficiently if several orders of magnitude harder, and EC2 doesn't I think help here. If anything it hinders as we are dealing with virtual hardware. There have been several posts about "lemon" EC2 instances and how you should test your instance before using it.
Blow for Nokia as imaging chief Dinning quits
Would be interested to hear more about what you mean here?
The Power of Social Technologies: Putting the Oomph Back in Your Business
It's not a box of 20, it's listed as lot 20.
I think you might be kidding yourself if you think that gives you any meaningful protection against government agencies. As the article said, one of the dangers of taking some protections is being lulled into a false sense of security.
Screenshot: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3086081/tilt%20-%20Recherche%20Goog...
In the end, aren't coal and oil biofuel? Just fuels that take millions of years to make. That seems to be proof by counterexample that not <i>all</i> biofuels are useless. But at doublerebel says, the headline should really be "we should not grow plants for biofuel production". Which is not the same thing at all.
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The World Bank, Climate Change and De-Structural Adjustment Policies
I must say, I'm extremely worried about the USA, and this article demonstrates why.

Should we really commend someone for being unable to tell the difference between an electronic component & radio transmission system, and the magical 'mark of the beast'?

I'm also pretty sure that forcing people to wear tags is going to be overturned by a judge on the point of religious freedom, not based on a common sense decision.

And so we're overturning a practical cost saving practicality because:

1) One person believes in magical symbols, and can't tell an electronic component from magic.

2) Some people (commenters in this article) believe we're all magical special snowflakes that should never be treated as a 'group', despite the practicalities of dealing with a large group of people at the same time.

Now all we need is for a bunch of nudists to decide that clothes are the mark of the beast. Or concert goers to say that tickets are a mark of the beast. Or flight-attendents to decide that passports are a mark of the beast. Or Hacker News commenters to decide that login details are the mark of the beast.

Where does the insanity stop?
Thinking that maybe the vague & snarky reply was both more enjoyable and quicker to write.
I am really curious what Stallman thinks for the Don't Be Evil license.
Nexus 4 LTE enabled using simple hack
Employment is voluntary, and in most contexts minors aren't capable of consent to contracts.
Yep; tape was the cheapest, easiest thing there was. You didn't have to buy any extra stuff. Like sd cards are now for music/pics/vids/computers. It was slow but I had fun.

Waiting for things also makes it more special/valuable; instant gratification is definitely not what it's cracked up to be in most cases; buying games is definitely one of those things. When I buy some instant games for my Android devices is one of them; they appear instantly, you try them and discard mostly. When you have to wait 15 min and have a good chance your computer will crash during the ordeal so you'll have to wait another 15 min you'll feel it has more value for your money for some reason. You would play games which suck for weeks/months because they take effort to load and get going. Not sure if that's different now with Linux; when you cannot get something going because you have to build it and ./configure; make; make install has errors; if, after a week of messing around, you get it going, you'll bloody play/use it, no matter what it turns out to be.
Using VimWiki as a distributed, encrypted lab notebook for programming
Protesting Black Friday, Everlane Shuts Down For Day
Who [or what] decides whether scarcity is true or false?
Ada in Europe? Interesting, where did you encounter that?

As for quality libraries, I'd almost say that we had too much of them. For every platform and every different C++ methodology/subset (from "C with Classes, ocassionally Structs" to "Post-Modern Template Abuse") had its own set of supporting libraries. Often good enough, but most of the time not the ideal source for your particular project, and very hard to integrate, if every code paragraph follows a different paradigm, depending on what library your calling.

Still don't see a good solution to that. Quite likely that your GUI library won't quite mesh with your collections, data parsing or network support.
See, this I'm not getting about tablets. What am I missing out on? Basically just when Laptops had hit a critical milestone of being thinner than ever, light(weight)er than ever -- MBA and Ultrabooks and so on -- at that crucial point tablets "happen" (iPads first, sure) and everybody is totally into them.

It's been a few years and their value proposition is the same as as a few years back: yay, vastly less power/performance, lower resolution, crappier sound, no keyboard, and just about equally painless in terms of weight or form-factor. Sure they're a bit smaller and lighter but just at a point in time where the weight and size of current-gen netbooks/ultrabooks/notebooks simply isn't an issue anymore anyway.

Smartphones, I get them. Neat to have a Maps app with a phone attached in your pocket. And commuters can play Sudoku on them, fine.

But tablets? What's the big appeal about them? Why have they become such a popular gadget for all their shortcomings compared to same-generation net/ultrabooks? I don't think I'll ever get it...

But since we're on Hacker News... what exactly is a Hacker Newser missing out on by forgoing a tablet?
> It's a complete reference to the language and I've never seen a reference that isn't huge.

Lua's reference is 112 pages. Just sayin'. (Also, online at http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/ .)
You can type "r:xx" in your query to set the region, in any case. (e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bonjour+r%3Afr )
> we could say that the "trades" are things like "writing webapps" or "writing control software or airplanes"

People don't usually __die__ as the result of a bug in a webapp, but they can as the result of a bug in airplane software. I claim that a NomadicProgrammer™ (armed with "Learn Ada in 24 hours!", of course) would be __dangerous__ if tasked with work in this "trade".
Be thankful for turkey cooking patents
Defending Dragons: APT, aPT or business as usual?
I don't think package management is a solved problem. Most distributions fail at the simple task of installing multiple versions of the same package alongside each other. Also, lackluster dependency management (you install library X, it wants to install mail server Y and database Z).

There are many approaches that one would mistake as being "reinventing the wheel":

1. FreeBSD ports system is barebones, but incredibly simple and transparent.

2. Arch Linux's PKGBUILD recipes are also simple and, at times, a much better alternative to binary packages.

3. Gobo Linux (http://www.gobolinux.org) solved binary packaging the right way by having each package in it's own tree. It's approach is similar to OS X, which also gets this right.
Am I the only one who thought technology was awesome while I was growing up but now it's just getting scary and creepy?
You certainly have more of an "impact", but that might be just that everyone hates you.

However I'll go with the nugget of wisdom in your post: Some coding involves lots of hard work to small parts of a program, so you don't have much overall impact on the product.

This is typically because you're doing it wrong. You're either using the wrong language (eg. C for a GUI product), or you're reimplementing wheels when you should be using a library, or you're not able to inspire others to join the project and help out on some details.

Or, very very rarely, what you're doing is ground-breaking and highly skilled. You can only write one line of code each day because it needs so much thought. This is not something that one often associates with "architect" and "program manager" in an organization.
I was confused about the part where he mentions a rack full of 1Us was generating too much heat and the solution was to put less servers in a rack. I can't think of a situation where there is nothing at fault besides the servers. The chillers should be able to keep up with 1Us like that, and it's likely there was something else going on.

The situation we're running into at my job is with double density servers (i.e. Dell C6105's). The problem we're having with heating double density servers. Maybe somebody with more experience than me can explain why cooling 1Us would ever be a legitimate problem?
If someone could roll common image functions into one, with webpage screenshots and a way to optimize images for high resolution displays (smartly handling quality and compression) - that would be nice. Haven't come across a good service that does either of these yet.

related: Photon for WordPress adds a bunch of basic image manipulation functions as well as a cdn for images.
It's even free for commercial use, too! Just... wow!
That's sort of my point in that the "disruptive" products that really move the needle in terms of expectations seem to be produced as proprietary products first.

This means they get hype and first mover advantage which in turn means they get a chance to tie up the best deals for content etc and get lock-in.
It is just like HN posting at strangers.
This really boggles my mind. Facebook's stack is intriguing.
Quote from the link in the parent post: "The current vendor has offered to set up, install and put it into operation anywhere in the world in exchange of his expenses."

The link also has a series of relatively detailed images.
I suspect it's the military ethical code violation that really did it. People in the military take that seriously, the higher up you are, the more serious it is. I thought the blackmail/office politics thing at first myself.
Dealing with the many scenarios that could break replays was problematic, but being able to run several instances of the same game at the same time and compare them occasionally for desyncs can help alleviate that. For example, using a pointer value (address) as a hash table or sort key means that depending on allocation order, iteration of game entities may be different from one run to another.
Running your own mail server changes everything.

At the end of the day Men With Guns(TM) may still come to your colo facility and just take the equipment, but even in that edge scenario, you would know something was up in a way you wouldn't with gmail.

In non edge cases, you are the provider and the owner of the equipment, and it is you who will be given the court order - you'll see what is going on and have the opportunity to respond as YOU see fit, not as google sees fit. Furthermore, depending on your practices and countermeasures, you may have actions available to you with your own assets that, of course, you wouldn't have with gmail.

In fact, the advantages of running your own mail server are so great, that over the past few years I've decided it's probably time to start self-providing my own dialtone and voicemail the same way I self-provide my own email. For all of the same reasons.
If I open a store and someone comes in and robs the register for my changemaking cash, is that negative revenue?
Well, Google dropped it's own Ingress email as spam the other day. I find myself more frequently venturing into the SPAM folder.
Depends on the datacenter. Any modern datacenter won't have an issue. However, if you didn't do your research and wound up in something that wasn't built to current specs, I can easily imagine a 42U rack overloading.

Similar example: there's a tier 1 network provider with a solid datacenter business; I had servers in one of their facilities during the period in which blade servers were becoming common. They literally ran out of power; we had some empty racks with a contract allowing us to turn on power for them at any point and they couldn't fulfill it.

Looking back on the specs for 80s and 90s datacenters can be really amusing in retrospect.
I, and about fifty percent of people I know, would be happy to pay a small monthly sum (say, up to nine euro) to be able to listen to and download any music we want, at any time, without risk of persecution. Ideally, this money would go to support the musicians, but that's not necessarily a requirement. Unfortunately, no such service exists right now - most of the music streaming services only work for the US, streaming's useless to many of us anyway because we listen to music in the car and need it on CD, spotify doesn't have half the musicians we like...

There's lots of grey area between "doesn't ever pay for any media, ever" and "I refuse to pay $ 12 for a single DVD with unskippable ads and warnings if I can get the movie off pirate bay in seven minutes, wtf".
The issue is (highlighted on Charlie Rose show) that CIA employees have a code of conduct that requires disclosing any compromising situations immediately to their supervisors, colleagues, etc., and DP did not do that.

So it would be a double standard for management, etc., and he would have been known to have broken the code of conduct. Not broken it with the affair, but broken it by not disclosing a compromising situation.
The "susceptible to blackmail" argument is a justification and easy excuse. That is the exact same argument people used to keep gays out of the military for years.

Not to mention, it was leaked to the media, everyone already knows about it. How exactly could that be used to blackmail someone if the entire world already knows about it?
Also, you can broadcast programs over normal FM radio and have people record it on their cassette players.
You can opt out of Facebook/Google/Foursquare/etc, you can't opt out from your government.
Not having affairs is a condition for keeping high level security clearances. Without a clearance, the director of the CIA cannot properly do his job, so he had to resign.
Any comments on the infrastructure for capturing the replays? Did everything get recorded? I'm used to recording all actions, ability uses, etc. but recording movement isn't something I've seen done all that often and it seems like it'd be another order of magnitude of data.
He was no longer in the military. He retired from the army a week before being sworn in as CIA director.
If we can find records of how that machine worked, then we should be able to build a program to break the encryption.
When I was 6 years old, my goal in life was to move to Japan and work for Nintendo. Possibly the idea of marrying Princess Toadstool was somewhere in there, but that was the idea.

When I was 20, I actually had a chance to work on MechWarrior 3. After the interview process, I decided to run very, very far away and to never consider it.

I'm 30 now, and actually have been working on a game for the better part of 8 months. My mindset is that it's a hobby that has a small chance of making enough money to live on, but I've set things up to ensure I can actually dedicate real amounts of time to it periodically. Rather that quit my day job, I moved into the consulting business (thanks to folks like patio11) to provide a financial runway for what I would prefer doing (making video games). Right now the balance is 7 months full-time consulting, 5 months making video games. However, (again, thanks to patio) I know I'm undercharging and as I'm able to raise my rate that will shift more to 5/7 or 4/8 over the next 18 months. I already have customers waiting in the pipeline that are willing to pay the new rate as soon as I'm available.

Oddly enough, my current customer is a AAA video game studio, and I've a few friends in the industry as well (also mostly at AAA studios). Personally I couldn't deal with the idea of surrendering so much creative input. There's also the fact that they literally can't pay me enough to work there. I will say that by and large the industry is filled with a tremendously nice group of passionate folks, but I "wouldn't want to live there".

It's a fickle market though, which is why I decided to mitigate the financial risk of financially unsuccessful projects by funding it with a consulting day job. The consulting affords the video game making. For me, the financial risk would've been real. I'm developing on a platform that's not taken seriously, with an art style that might put off hardcores, but with hardcore gameplay and a simple monetization strategy (you buy the app. There'll be some expansion packs, but that's it) and no IAP currency nonsense. Things a normal studio would never dare try.
This is beyond scary, we all basically live in a police state now and their is nothing we can do about it. Schneier's last line just about sums it up...
That Wikipedia page was simulateously hilarious (for the terrible advertising copy at the bottom), and enlightening. Sony could probably have created many new markets, if they hadn't gotten so hung up on options. The page lists a completely opaque set, mechanical shutters and LCD shutters. Didn't anyone think about how these would be used? What is the target audience? It's like they just threw things at the wall, and then rapidly iterated.
Technology is amoral, its uses are not.
Pat's speaking for himself here, of course, as evidenced by the fact that bots were crucial for load testing GW2 (they ran on Amazon EC2, even, so that they could scale dramatically high.)
Running science as a Ponzi scheme
Here's an even harsher assessment of plant-derived ethanols from Dr. Tad Patzek, chairman of the Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin:

Basically, [corn] ethanol is obtained from burning methane, coal, diesel fuel, gasoline, corn kernels, soil and environment. We destroy perhaps as many as 7 units of free energy in the environment and human economy to produce 1 unit of free energy as corn ethanol, and make a few clueless environmentalists happier and a few super rich corporations richer. The story is even worse for switchgrass ethanol.

(As quoted from http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9619 )
I absolutely agree.. My overall interest is how can the waiting room experience be improved for people. I was just trying to think of ways to justify the investment for private practices, aside from the obvious better customer experience (which for some may be enough).
You are underestimating the WTF factor of the iTunes store. Apple stopped renting series (not selling them - that I would have understood!) - and movies are often only available for either renting or selling.

And you are overestimating the availability of unlimited internet (I guess). Buying DRM free music off iTunes is the absolutely most painless way for me to have my favorite songs on my laptop.
This would explain why the AOAKN is at the start and end.

BOGWT - BOMBER ON GROUND WITH TROOPS

Because it is important.
Studying the Reddit Effect (aka the Hacker News effect, or digg effect, or ....)
That's amazing marketing
Um most other places were pretty oppressive too as far back as recorded history goes. Democracy and human rights for all citizens are pretty recent developments.
This sounds quite reasonable. If left to their own devices, plants don't optimize for energy content, they optimize for spreading.

However, we humans already managed to genetically modify them (using simple selection of seeds over the millenia) to optimize plants for nutritional content instead.

It would be interesting to know to what extent human selection and other forms of genetic manipulation could improve the efficiency of photosynthesis in plants to make them viable for biofuels.

After all, large scale agriculture is still much simpler to pull off than the kind of industrial process needed to build solar cells on a large scale.
Ultimately, our energy is almost all solar (nuclear fission being the big exception, geothermal being another).
Thanks for the link. It has some good tips but I guess it's indicative of how hard it can be to give direct negative feedback that even your book on the subject doesn't provide one example of how to give negative feedback. I'm not sure if talking with that person is an option. My picture of him is a narcissistic person that is not susceptible to criticism.
My friend will try to get a recording ("for the minutes") of the next meeting. Without proof, talking to the manager could also back-fire.
We’re getting on it :D https://github.com/csswizardry/inuit.css/issues/67
> Use JSON (as someone else suggested) and be beholden to the Javascript/JSON community (outsiders! oh and that awful JSON license!) etc.

JSON is just a file format. A simple one too. There are plenty of parsers available, with various licenses.
He is absolutely correct that biofuels are not efficient use of land. But the market would quickly sort that out if it were not for biofuel subsidies. That is what needs to be stopped.