skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have been saying this for a while about music, its been happening but slowly.

The main reason it's not moved significantly to lower-budget is because the major labels have so much influence on the marketing channels. Its incredibly cheap to make an album now and autotune a good single. But labels can make or break an artist purely through marketing.

Most people rely on radio, music videos and reviews from big publications to find music. Its the same with magazines, review sites and events for gaming.

As long as one company can manufacture PR and buzz on a huge scale then the Blockbuster model will still exist. Most people simply don't put the effort in and casually buy what sounds popular - and that's completely reasonable.
Tipjoy is filled up via PayPal, but not tied to your account. You can't pull more money than you already put in there.

Tipjoy could be compromised by phishing of either your Twitter or your Tipjoy password. This is equivalent to PayPal.

We allow a 3rd party to create a link to sign in a Tipjoy user, which requires a Twitter username & password, and eventually will work with OAuth:
http://tipjoy.com/api/#create_login_link

This isn't a big deal considering you can just tweet a payment with those same credentials.
http://tipjoy.com/api/#creating_twitter_payment

We'll eventually become an OAuth provider, instead of using Twitter credentials.
Telecom can create 25 mn jobs
I own a copy and I use the free Flash Develop. It's not any one thing in particular, it's just that it has inherited that big and Enterprisey clutter from Eclipse without any of the powerful tools (the exception is the profiler, which is very good and the reason why I own a copy, but that only comes out for a day at the end of a game development cycle). I'd rather command line compile than use Flex Builder for day to day tasks.
Unlocked Nokia N85 at keepontalking
Nokia N85, introduced by Nokia with more features and more attractive look. Here it gives you all the features and functions which every multimedia phone must have in this wireless world technology. Nokia N85, the most up-to-date Nokia multimedia mobile finished toward locate new principles used for cell phone entertainment, betting and distribution.
I agree, it's amazing. I found some awesome domains with it.
Yes but what's the rationale for doing it now in scala?
Not to be "that guy", but the word character class includes underscores, which is not valid in a domain name. What you would really want is

^nano[a-z0-9-]+[a-z0-9]+.com$

The first character class includes the hyphen, the second does not, because you can't start or end a domain with a hyphen.
thepiratebay has been doing this for years
You've missed my point: those benchmarks confirm how underpowered the iPhone was/is, and provides support for the hypothesis for omitting Flash and Java. This relates to the article's suggestion of starting with the minimal feature set, and iterating. And your own point of "paring down" the feature set.

It might sound like I'm criticizing the iPhone, but I'm not: it's how Apple managed to create a cool experience for users in an incredibly compact size (they are tiny.)

The result is that when Moore's law does enable reasonable processing power in a device that small, Apple will be in the best position to exploit it, in market position, in design tradeoffs, and in engineering knowhow.
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Well, at least in my country (and I bet in most), unemployed people get a "salary" from the government (according to how much they've worked previously) and they have access to free courses and some benefits to help them while they are looking for their next job. The courses are meant to help them learn or refresh skills they might need for future jobs.

How is this different? :)
I haven't seen the original document from Credit Suisse but from how it was quoted in Newteevee it seems that there is a strong emphasis on the heavy bandwidth costs. First of all the ~30Tbps value is ridiculously large.

Even then the report just assumes Google pays $1/mbit, which is the cost of cheap transit. However, Google only uses transit for certain indexing routes. Google peers very heavily at pretty much every major internet exchange. It's reasonable to assume they're using 10GigE and GiGE ports for public and private peering. (This is direct, usually payment free interconnection between ISPs; though there are services like PacketExchange which are a sort of hybrid between peering and transit). So on a per megabit basis they're probably paying 5-10 cents or so per megabit, maybe less though Google does have the cost of maintaining its backbone.
As one senior developer put it to me once: "legacy is the stuff that already works."

One question though, why silicon? I understand why you'd consider all the other ones obsolete, but what modern alternative is there to silicon based integrated circuits?
from gapingvoid:
"10. The more talented somebody is, the less they need the props.

Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece on the back of a deli menu would not surprise me. Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece with a silver Cartier fountain pen on an antique writing table in an airy SoHo loft would SERIOUSLY surprise me."

i guess the same thing can be said for those who use aeron, multi monitor, big screens, etc

the true hacker will just shut up and code, even using crappy computer / resources
I feel like a "human compiler" (in fact, exactly that which the job title "programmer" actually meant in practice before the invention of actual compilers.)

[citation needed]
It doesn't matter if you are paying for a billable hour and getting half-an-hour or hour or ten hours of actual work. What does matter is that you get appropriate value for what you are paying. If you work with the outsourced team in an agile manner and set of frequent deliveries, it should be easy for you to determine whether or not you are getting enough value for your money.
Most high school seniors think that college is about education. It is, just not the kind of education you think. College is about learning to be an adult, I got infinitely more experience and knowledge participating in campus groups and events than I ever did from class. You'll learn almost everything you need to know for your career on the job. So, I just can't see how Berkeley is worth the extra money.

Regardless of which school you go to, I highly highly recommend that you consider joining a fraternity. It is honestly one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. There are certainly going to be houses that are full of douche bags, but if you find the right house (and there is one for everyone) you'll have an amazing experience. You'll learn so much about yourself and so much about dealing and interacting with people. And good interaction skills are a force multiplier, they'll make you a much more effective (and pay worthy) businessman/engineer/hacker.

At least go through Fall Rush, there is never an obligation to join and worst case scenario you've wasted a few hours, best case scenario you have 100 new friends for life.
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It's not the government, it's a company. The government wants to help you get back on your feet, Adobe wants you addicted to their product.

Maybe this is different for me because I think of flash and flex as fun and not a job-related technology.
The only way they can do this (legally) without presenting a warrant involves a "National Security Letter", but even those need to go up before a secret court.

Another win for redundancy in your hosting! Especially across jurisdictional boundaries. Hopefully the affected customers and service provider will be able to recover damages from business continuity insurance.

(Shooting it out with federal agents who have arrived to perform and illegal search/seizure is a bad idea...)
if current java/python/perl/ruby and their goodies were used instead back then ... could Rover in moon be REPL-debugged miles away from earth? ... given the limitations of very low memory

i'm particularly curious about that one year learning from google
"It's the same with magazines, review sites and events for gaming."

If a game isn't fun, people won't play it for long. Spore is an example. Googling for 'spore fun' reveals quotes from people along these lines:

Yeah, its a pointless game, but still fun at the same time. Sure, you have goals, but they’re just there to get your creations moving. And really, they’re boring as hell and wouldn’t last if it weren’t for the creation aspect. The only redeeming gameplay modes are the cell stage and the space stage. The other ones are short, easy, and a chore.

And another:

I played the game for maybe 10 hours. For the first 30min its pretty cool.. i mean being a cell is kinda fun... simple eating and running away. When you get to different stages like creture, tribal, civ, and space.. first few minutes is not too bad when you get to try the new stuff.. but soon after you know how the stage works, its gets repetitive and boring. The concept is pretty sweet that you get to evolve and design your own creature and buildings and vehicles.. but the game gets repetitive and boring. It gonna take a lot of time and trust me youll just get bored of it.

Spore had an insane amount of hype and PR surrounding its launch. They even had a public demo of Robin Williams creating a character before much was known about the character creator. And yet, Spore appears to have fizzled out, and rightly so. Consumers might put up with DRM if the gameplay is good, but DRM + boring gameplay = 1 1/2 stars on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Spore-Pc/dp/B000FKBCX4/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1...

So the PC/Console gaming scene isn't very similar to the music scene, mostly because games have to keep people's attention for more than 4 minutes (or ~1 hour for an album).

However, casual gaming is an entirely different beast, and does share a lot of similarities with the music industry. But all I'm saying is, if a game is bad, people are going to find out.
The difference is that a fancy pen and a fancy writing table are functionally the same as a cheap pen and a cheap writing table. One is just a more expensive version of the other.

On the other hand, an aeron chair can be appreciably more comfortable than a cheap alternative, and multiple monitors can reduce the amount of friction a developer experiences (e.g., code in one window, documentation in another). While it's true that good people can make good with little, they can do better with more. If, of course, that "more" is something of actual productive value.
Why would you even bother doing this in the first place. Erlang's VM is one the things that makes it interesting, Not the syntax.

The only reason I can see is the OTP libraries, but then again, why not just use the Erlang VM as you get so much great stuff for Actor based concurrency out of it.
Man, now I want to move to Europe. At least for a couple years.
Yah process scheduling is trivially easy...
Indeed, as an American living in Holland I can say that the "freedom" I have here versus the "freedom" I have in the US are different in structure but equal in implementation.

Freedom, of course, is an ideology which we strive towards but can never truly attain because it will always mean different things to each individual. Some group of colonists a long time ago picked some attributes that they thought were important to their circumstances (British rule) and drew a clear line in the sand (guns, speech, religion, etc).

The Netherlands were formed under different circumstances, and maybe for them an individual's right to say whatever the fuck he wants to - no matter how bad it is - is important, but is superseded by a desire to preserve other 'freedoms' in a highly fragmented, multicultural environment historically prone towards minority persecution. Gun ownership is another good example: 'freedom' from the government, or 'freedom' to live in a society with a lower risk of being shot. There's no right answer, of course.

Personally, I feel just as free here as I do in the US. I can live in a similar fashion with no real restrictions that affect me or my friends, and feel that (should I disagree with the government) I can be politically active and not suffer from unfair retaliation. I can even vote here as a foreigner (try that in the US). Are there theoretical things I can't do here but can in the US? Of course, but that works both ways.
Yes, take a look at the list: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cis?q=erann+gat+or+e+gat&sub...

He implemented something at NASA, then wrote a paper about it.

(And oddly enough, I just realized he got his PhD from the same department I'm in.)
I believe they call that the "not invented here" phenomenon.
If there's a warrant, the warrant has to explain what the search was for. Somehow in this post the author fails to mention the details of the warrant, instead going off on a tirade about the loss of freedom.

In general, nobody is coming into your data center and seizing anything unless its part of a criminal investigation. As such, a judge has to sign the warrant and the petitioner has to explicitly describe what is being searched for.

I can understand the writer being upset about his datacenter, but either he is not fully aware of the situation or is being purposefully misleading. My opinion is that he wrote this before he became fully aware of all of the facts.
Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. Most users of E suffer from a few bugs because the developer likes to get release early and release often, so bugs often creep in, but they have mostly been fixed very quickly. I'm not sure why you should have had such problems. I've used E for a couple of years now and have only been troubled a couple of times; generally it's been very stable.
APL/J/K/Q fit the bill. The Larrabee instruction set is like a pipedream for old APL(and similar)-ers.

Edit: for the unfamiliar, http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/APL-hist.html .

Edit: and for the other side: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_APL_programmin...
Analysis: Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use?
While complain Ruby, why not make some language level contribution? Or is it very cheap for Twitter to rewrite the whole stack? I am wondering...
How to Improve Typography In Your Designs
A Guide to Better Web-Working From Your iPhone
Hmm can I do both?
I believe Facebook is trying to emulate http://www.killerstartups.com/Site-Reviews/mjr-in-endorsemen...
I don't know about you, but I can't look in more than one direction at once. I have never really needed multiple monitors, and when I've tried them, I find them a hindrance. I find it frustrating when monitors have different resolutions and things don't line up. I also lose the "edges" of desktops when I have multiple monitors. For example: I can't easily click something on the top right of the screen because if I move too far right, I'm on the other monitor. And not to mention the constant managing of windows and setting things up to open on the right monitor. I much prefer virtual desktops on my 1280x800 screen.

Some tools might reduce the "friction" but reduce functionality and usability in ways that you don't think of. As another example, I frequently see people creating huge hierarchies of folders in their home folders such as "/home/user/projects/school/year/class01/week_number/assignment_number/revision/". They think they're being organized, when really, they're just slowing themselves down. It makes it easier to classify things, but it makes it harder to actually get things done.
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FBI raids dallas ISP and shuts down entire colo facility
that google sites link is down...
see google's cached version (do you also think that that doesn't make a whole lot of sense?)

http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:vxqYQFKjExEJ:sites.goog...
Is Amazon S3 too big to fail? Would it need a bailout?
That's interesting, I didn't know that about America. I'm in Australia and currently applying for graduate jobs, and every large company I've applied for has made me do one or more pattern completion and/or mathematical and verbal reasoning tests online before even getting to the phone interview stage.
Sure I do, but it's a bit old and I'm not sure it's still working .. hang on, let me just te
Report Shows Alleged Fraud Against AT&T, Verizon
[http://cbs11tv.com/technology/Core.IP.Networks.2.975776.html]
I sort of agree, Craigslist is written in Perl, and it has to be a perfect example of a spartan get-the-job done sort of site.

That said, the analogy made me smile. Perl really is one of those languages, that by learning, you only learn Perl. And maybe regular expressions, but I learned about those in theory of computation class. When I learned C I learned about the tenets of the OS: the call stack, virtual memory, system calls, interrupts, all the ugly stuff. Same with Java, it gave me good appreciation of OO, because it's so fundamentally OO. Basically, these languages were educational beyond themselves.

Perl, on the other hand, lets you get things done real fast in its problem domain. It also encourages some of the worst programming practices and an obsession with obscure brevity, code golf. More and more I'd just rather write everything in Python. Even though it may require 10 more lines of code, I can think about the problem in pretty much the same way I would in Perl. Plus, I can read the script afterwards, which really really helps.

A deep fryer is also super-utilitarian. Can you imagine McDonalds, or any burger chain, without fries? But it really is the nutritional equivalent of Perl.
Laws against religious symbols in public places such as schools are what kept France from turning into a muslim country. But, this is the past. Even if those laws are still there, they are not upheld enough by far. Most muslims and teachers go against the law and let the muslim female wear their symbol of submission to muslim males domination.

You DO know there are countries in the world where women are KILLED because they didn't wear their Hijab or Burqa ?
This isn't a religious symbol I want allowed in France.
Freedom doesn't work if freedom allows stuff that go against freedom, like hate speech and hateful religions.
When I first saw the headline, I thought the "heroic women" meme had crossed over to HN.
April Fools was 3 days ago.
Having evaluated oss message queues for high volume web services I can see exactly how twitter might make this decision.
- activemq: high resource usage, not super stable at high loads
- rabbitmq: messages must ALL fit into memory. Your message queue should be a "rescue me" button - if all your dbs go down, just queue crap to disk. You do not want to worry about memory overflow in that situation.
- memcacheq: super stable, low resource consumption but fixed message size (padding for smaller messages).

We ended up using memcacheq but it's hardly what you would call full featured, so we'll have to do prioritization, etc in our code.
That was the least substantive link I have ever followed on HN. I wish there was a way to down vote.
The gist of the article is this: "Documents say AT&T and Verizon told investigators they believe they were being defrauded out of $6 million in a three to four month period by a group of investors working together, including Faulkner, Simpson, and three others.

The documents say those individuals profited more than $1 million."

$6 million in fraud .... now that's a reason for raiding a data center that makes sense. As much as people may despise the RIAA and MPAA, the leak of the X-Men movie is not a reason to take down a data center.
Does he explain what is "heroic coding" in the article anywhere ?!
what happens when the FBI or some other agency decides to shut down an aws or gae data center? How many of the toys we play with everyday just stop working. Our apps migrate to a backup datacenter, right? Maybe. And if they do, that means data is replicating in realtime all over the world. So in that regard it's better to work with the datacenter owners and shut stuff down systematically. Unless the datacenter operator isn't cooperating or is the subject of the investigation. Brave new world of cloud computing we will all be living in to greater degrees in the not so distant future.
I don't use multiple monitors, but I know several people who use them, and feel they are more productive with them. Their reasons seem reasonable to me.
Well it's an integral part of Adobe AIR and that's a viable job-related technology.
Identifying the perpetrator of cyber-attacks can be impossible
Cyberwarfare
A Chinese ghost in the machine?
You can grab the latest builds from here:

http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/?C=M;O=D
I have used twice monitors once, in a different office setup than mine, and I found it incredibly useful. After that experience, I wouldn't stop before, say, five monitors no less. But I keep using only one as I don't really care that much.
My current box is a Core 2 Duo (wolfdale) running at 3.8 GHz.

That's interesting, as the Core 2 line only goes up to 3.33GHz.
True, 70X as fast as in benchmarks doesn't mean that much in the real world, because in real world apps, you are bound by memory use, network, DB backends, disk access, etc.

The real gain for Ruby, once there are reliable VMs that have good JIT capabilities is the following:

A dynamic web page can then be compiled into a JIT-ed method, with static HTML as data in arrays interspersed function/procedure calls. At this point, you can increase the JIT memory cache so that it can contain your entire web site, and at that point your web pages are machine language routines!

VisualWorks has a framework that does this. It's called Smalltalk Server Pages.

ST is kosher.
I said: he beat out far superior products in the early stages for no other reason than starting at Harvard, and having a couple journalists in his pocket.

He got the talented people to work for him after the superior but less fortunate competitors had dropped away, and it was clear that Facebook was going to be the one left standing.
Correct. "It is a demand letter issued to a particular entity or organization to turn over various record and data pertaining to individuals. They require no probable cause or judicial oversight." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

Anyone who wants to watch a documentary largely about these letters should watch Spying On The Homefront by PBS Frontline (you can watch it online):

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/