skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the other expenses in that budget, 120k gross expenditures sounds more like a 60k salary for him.

Obviously it's trickier to develop a multiplayer game, but the economics seem so compelling; in a 15 year career, he's never broken out into multiplayer? Or is there something I'm missing about those economics?
Just because it is legal and should be legal doesn't mean it isn't morally reprehensible.
In that case look at the major inde friendly platforms. Most of the current consoles offer a market place for downloadable games, maybe the iPhone, green house, steam. I can't think of any other distribution channels off the top of my head but then I don't follow indie game development that much.
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I think it's funny that we do all these things to increase our productivity, and then some people use a text editor that hangs on loading files :P.

I would honest-to-god rather be using Notepad then Aptana. Being slow loading text files is just unacceptable.
That gets you hydrogen at ambient pressure. To get the hydrogen into the balloon you have to compress it at least a little bit. Running hydrogen through a compressor can be extremely dangerous if you don't have the proper equipment.
If the guy had mentioned the two links on that page he could hope for being on HN front page :D .
Purely a function of cost. You can get a Dell Vostro laptop for $400. The entry level Apple is double that. Even the Mac Mini, Apple's cheapest computer, is somewhat expensive based on raw specs when compared to say a Dell Inspiron desktop.
Yes, this will put an end to the absurdity of the Sun/IBM Java fights. I predict that NetBeans will die and SWT will win out over Swing.

What about Websphere vs. Glassfish?
PC sales rise.. they need to breakdown just what is rising there. I bet PC desktops are dead and that PC netbooks are the cause of sales rising. And why wouldn't they at $300 a pop.

Apple meanwhile is realizing the AIR is not a netbook and cursing every moment of it despite it being a slick machine. They need to get into the netbook offer and they may or may not do that, its not as if they are strapped for cash, but they don't like missing out on the limelight because that sparks trends, and the more people that get cheap netbooks and install osx on them the more they crinkle inside with anger.

iMac sales are stalling, hence the price reduction. Laptop sales are flat. The mini doesn't even count.

The only thing making Apple hotter than Jesus right now is the iPhone and App Store.
No, this happens to me too. I think it's cause it has no built in RSS reading support yet
If there was ever a time to blame your performance on the economy, this would be it. "We're expensive. Deal with it." is one of the core tenets of Apple's brand image and business strategy.
On the high end, I'd use Xen, like all the major large-scale hosting providers do. On the low end, I wouldn't bother trying to do fine grained resource control.

It's not exactly insightful to point out my bias against Zones in a response to a comment where I basically say "I'm biased against Zones". I am indeed biased. And I can defend my argument that, as a technological approach, trying to compartmentalize all the kernel namespaces and building ad hoc group-level rlimits is a dead end.

For what it's worth, just as your bias in favor of Zones (which I don't fault you for) is based on professional experience, so too is my bias against them.
Poor would be minimum wage or below. So food stamps, free school lunches, 3 pairs of pants.

Incredible credentials would be 2400 SAT, 780-800 on 3 or more SAT IIs and straight A's.

And yes, the top schools are flush with cash, though they took a beating this past year, and they are using it to bring in kids from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. It's one of the big trends in the Ivies over the last 10 years.
No, I'm not. Microsoft does have consultants and certification and probably always will. However, every release of every one of their products is designed to reduce the need for those people. For example, the ultimate goal of SharePoint is to remove and/or substantially reduce the need for custom website development.
But because of the GPL he'll have to Open Source his brain.

</sarcasm>
From city-data.com's data on Detroit:

All numbers are per 100,000 residents, anually:
Murders: 46
Rapes: 40
Robberies: 763
Assaults: 1440
Burglaries: 2060
Thefts: 2430
Auto Thefts: 2280
Arson: 88

Aggregating "stealing" crimes, gets you 8,970 or about 9% chance per year. Adjust this for being "those rich dudes from out of town with all that electronic stuff" coupled with the $100 houses not being in the better parts of Detroit and I recommend good offsite backups and a personal philosophy that does not form attachments to material possessions.
"Perhaps they didn't set the right limits, kept them too small. Because we failed to get it right once doesn't mean we should stop trying and just accept being ripped off as a cost of doing business."

Ah yes, the classic "I know I'm right and we just need to try harder and better and it'll work next time" argument.

The problem with that argument is that it is too powerful. It applies to everything, equally. Consequently, it's a null argument.

If you want to argue about this, you need to be more specific and not just wave this magical "Staples Easy button (TM)" at the problem.
I understand your considerations, but the article has nothing to do with software-as-a-service type 'clouds'. This is purely on the infrastructure-on-demand and platform layers, and as such actually new, as you also agreed with. Sorry if I am getting a bit technical but Clouds and REST happen to be very close to my research subject. I am one happy bunny today seeing their combination put forward by a major player.

Another thing to keep in mind that this is Tim Bray we are talking about. He can hardly be considered a peddler of hype.
Agreed. Remember, IBM already has quite a few different hardware platforms: x86 based servers (running Linux or Windows), System p (formerly RS/6000) servers running AIX, System i (formerly AS/400) servers, System x (formerly system/390) mainframes. Adding Solaris Sparc to that would be just be adding one more to a long list. I don't think IBM would have trouble supporting Solaris for a very long time so long as customers still want it.

For me, IBM has looked likely to buy Sun for many years, because doing so would give IBM two things that would be very valuable to it

1) Java
2) Sun's Solaris customers.
I wonder what sort of impact losing part of a finger like that has on typing. I guess you'd probably adapt pretty quickly (I was wondering if the prosthetic was useful for things like typing, or a hinderance).
Thanks, steam was my first thought too (as well as the XBox store).

I haven't heard of green house and a quick google doesn't seem to bring up anything about the right type of green houses ;)

Do you have a link handy?
Much of bank regulation consists of defining what constitutes an asset and how it is to be valued. (The US uses "mark to market", which is how many banks became technically insolvent even though their assets were throwing off cash.)

That article says that foreign regulators let their banks treat AIG insurance policies as assets.....

To be fair, US regulators did the same, but since the claim was that foreign regulators were better, we're back to looking for a difference that demonstrates said superiority.
I blame the recession and rise of netbooks. Apple does not have any netbooks out in the market. Also with a recession going on people are not going to be forking out big bucks for a mac when they can get a PC much cheaper even if they do like the mac better. I wouldn't say its marketing MS new ads might be cute but they are not making me want a PC.
In Sun's case I think it's simpler than that: SPARC hardware carries a steep premium over commodity x86, a good chunk of that premium is actually intended to pay for Sun's software stack, and Sun simply hasn't executed well enough on the software side to merit the premium.

Sun did a lot of engineering stuff "right" in the late '90s, and again over the past couple years: they were first to market with a mainstream-grade MP kernel and first to market with a mainstream 64 bit OS, and recently they have ZFS and DTrace to talk about.

On the other hand, I think you could have predicted probably starting in 2001 that nobody was going to pay that much for large-scale MP, 64 bits, and advanced filesystems; the entire server market swung to web stacks, which scale horizontally and move most of the systems management burden into a DBMS and out of the Adrian Cockroft and Chris Drake systems engineering realm where Sun has excelled.

I really think that if you compare the systems-level innovation at Apple to the systems-level innovation at Sun, Apple comes out ahead. And systems-level innovation isn't even their core competancy.
I'm still trying to get used to TextMate (Started using it 2 weeks ago).

It's a good enough editor, but I wish it'd just stop trying to do things for me (Inserting closing brackets/quotes, auto-indenting, etc etc). It's taken a long time to disable all these irritations and I'm not sure I have them all yet.
TextMate has a steep learning curve? I can't wait till the author reviews Emacs and vi, the other two big(ger) boys in the eternal editor holy war.
so, basically, bonuses are good when they're bonuses, not written-in-stone parts of your salary.
I suspect that we're talking about some old people here.. legislators who have literally no idea what they are attempting to regulate, or it's potential consequences.
Macbooks aren't that much more expensive than their pc counterparts. The white one is more expensive, but the macbook pro is fairly on par with similar offerings from pc manufacturers.
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The banks went down because of structured products, not exchange-traded options. Not all derivatives are created equal.
What he should do is install a USB security device on his door. So to get in, he sticks his finger in, and then a voice says: "Welcome home, Dave", and the door swings open.
It looks to me like it spent the entire time in ground effect.
I do. I come here to read stories that are authentic. When or if I figure out that someone "paid" to get their post or article to the front page of a site like this, I'll start to lose something that I consider the best part of HN: honesty and respect. [1]

[1] Maybe with the exception of a few people I read on Tumblr each morning, HN is the most authentic community of like-minded folks who seem to either (a) care about the viewpoints of other members or (b) act civilized rather than become trolls.
I'm totally of the opposite mindset. I think auto-complete is a terrible way to introduce someone to a new language.

Agreed. Back in college I remember reading a book about effects of various computer aids on our cognitive development [the users in question were mostly teenagers/students]. Programmers were mentioned too. Relying on compilers to catch syntax errors or auto-completing IDEs to suggest method names we're basically refusing to pay attention/memorize things, which ultimately leads to a much poorer skill quality. Ever since then I've been training myself to expect my code to compile at 1st try, i.e. I would do a quick reviews before hitting the "build" hotkey.

From my experience: I think most Microsoft developers will feel completely lost if left with a command line compiler and notepad.exe Even if you take coding out of the equation, many don't have a good understanding of what makes an executable, i.e. they wont' be able to build a project without an IDE.
Leave it to the trade press to construct a trend story out of a single data point.
Interestingly, the "assessed" value in Michigan appears to be 50% of the "fair market value" of the house. So that would be an effective tax rate of 2.25%, not 5.5%. (This still seems to be higher than other midwestern areas.)

http://www.lansingmi.gov/finance/assessor/faqs.jsp#6
Would love to see sales numbers broken down by platform for a cross-platform game that's available for GNU/Linux.
I agree, seeing all of the documentation on the same page helps you learn other functions that you might otherwise not look at. Also, the higher level the language the less the programmer has to rely on autocompletion.
Being a true professional in some area gives you special insight in that particular area.

You don't have to repeat all experiments from Galileo's era till nowadays to make scientifically sound statements but it doesn't mean that anything one says should be regarded as such.

Moral is poor guidance for scientist. One doesn't not tell the Universe what it should be. One hope to find out what it is.
Ah yes, I forgot that hydrogen is actually H2 (molecule of two hydrogens), so two nucleons per gas particle, compared to 4 for helium.

(And it is atomic mass that matters, but you have to count the mass of each gas particle. In an ideal gas, gas density is the same for most any gas.)

I wonder if it will make much difference though, I think air pressure falls off exponentially, so a doubling of buoyancy won't go far.
I won't disagree with you on that.
Almost sounds like you need a compound, with double razor wire fences with an electrical charge somewhere in between.
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Dropping SPARC completely would be foolish

There are other SPARC vendors (e.g. Fujitsu) that they could sell off to and focus on their own lines (probably with a provision to use the IP they see useful).

Edit: Btw, the ecosystem around SPARC is slowly eroding. Fin Svcs are going x86 more and more. The problem with SPARC is they aren't growing in new markets - it's becoming marginalised.
Somebody should bid $10 on it just to see who's behind it.
Do you think their HPC and server hardware will go, too? I'm guessing they'll stay in whatever hardware business is not commoditized, which means a lot of Sun's hardware fits into IBM's portfolio.
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Hey np. I probably shouldn't have commented on this particular one. I think it was a combination of articles and this one just pushed me over the edge today. The last few were far less worthy.

I agree there is good work going on. "infrastructure-on-demand" or "elastic-infrastructure" sounds so much nicer (to me) than 'cloud' though.
Well, they could disguise their content as an Erlang story...
Apple isn't a computer company. They're an mp3 player company that also makes computers as a side business.
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I've never liked this paper.

First, I quibble that the metrics are off: the "code ratio" ignores intrinsic factors that alter the numbers, such as the overhead in a "scripting" language for driving the interpreter and managing its resources.

Second, and more importantly, it posits that the role of a scripting language is to automate and glue together systems code. History hasn't borne that argument out. You can assert that every Python or Ruby extension is an example of systems code offered by the interpreter for glueing, but architecturally I can make the same claim about every kernel interface, device driver, and chipset feature. The fact is that in 2009 high-level languages are the principal programming environment; lots of apps get built without even considering a "systems programming" environment.

Finally, what makes Osterhout's argument even more incoherent is the fact that there's no real line of division between systems programming languages and scripting languages. Feature for feature, Common Lisp and Python are both "scripting" languages in Osterhout's definition. But Common Lisp is a fine systems programming language (people build operating systems in it). He really just seems to be building walls around the immaturity of specific interpreters --- Tcl, in particular, which has always had one of the most primitive execution environments.

There's no such thing as a "scripting language". They're all just programming languages.
Well you could always simply make it _inside_ the balloon. And it couldn't be that hard to buy a canister of compressed hydrogen.

But, it's probably much much more expensive (I'm guessing 10x more), so probably not practical for students.
I wonder if you could strap a large rocket to it and have it launch once the balloon pops. How feasible is that?

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockoon
"47 lines into 1" invokes for me the idea of very specialised scripting languages, that have been tooled for a specific task. You can do "start http server", but can't parse a cookie for yourself.

Nothing wrong with this for sure - But, what I think is the holy grail is taking 47 lines into 3 - with a language has the capability to let you do that again, and again - (i.e. exponentially increasing the semantic power of the language).
How would you explain to a non-technie writer (with no knowledge of HTML or web hosting) how to share their word or pdf files? Seems whatever solution you come up would probably be similar to Scribd.
According to Reddit, this guy: http://tamournkhan.com/Qualifications.php
I imagine it's probably not that difficult to game HN. The community's not that big, the big gaming boys work elsewhere on much larger sites so scaling down to HN won't be hard. If the article doesn't fit HN though, that's a different question.
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you can get to the top with 2-3 upvotes, hardly impossible
Just look up his username on Google...

Based off his twitter account I'm guessing he runs the website:
http://www.androidster.com
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Just googling around, looks like the guy is Tamour Khan, from Pembroke Pnes, FL

Tamour? You out there dude? Care to explain? What do you need to promote so badly you don't trust the board to vote you up or down?
:-)

Since the separation of Parrot from the development of Perl 6, I do think it's fair to say that progress has been good.
If it's a lame article/spam/offtopic it'd usually get killed pretty quickly though. I'm not sure that's the case on digg/reddit.
What? You think the average individual has heard of a 'netbook' or wants one?
I think there was another big sea-change caused by AMD.

Before this, architecture and ISA were absolutely key - RISC was the way of the future. RISC architectures were theoretically running loops around CISC ones.

AMD bolted a CISC onto a RISC core and effectively made this architecture point moot. This approach let AMD and Intel use their momentum and market to catch up and overtake their workstation friends.
And this is why I use emacs. The fact that it is even possible to write a video editor that runs in it means that I will be able to edit files as I please, as efficiently as I please.
Propaganda. Move along.
Won't those netbook buyers wake up in a couple of weeks and realize that they need a real PC?
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For anyone willing to experience, I would like to suggest Komodo edit, it’s the free version of Komodo IDE. There is great autocomplete for ruby, php and html/css. There is also a thing that does textmate bundle that Komodo calls it Abbreviatons but I never could get it working right with ruby/rails.
For me yeah - I get friends/family of all ages asking about them all the time.
Apple's cheapest computer

Yeah, but they're clever with that too. Arguably their cheapest computer is the iPhone (depending where you are naturally).
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As you mentioned, part of the reason you didn't have this skill initially was in part because of how you were raised. It didn't have anything to do with how smart or how good a student you were.

What I didn't realize until well after graduation was how the non-academic side of the Princeton experience can shape one's career, e.g., the socialization that happens at "the Street" or the during spring breaks. These were just training grounds for later life. Personally, I found the academic side fascinating but didn't care much at all for the social scene there, but in retrospect, I probably wasn't sophisticated enough to appreciate it (and maybe still am not :) )

Being from a middle class background, after graduation I expected to go grad school, get some more education and get a job as an engineer. Somehow most of my classmates viewed engineering as a stepping stone to something else: mgmt consulting, business, etc. I wondered where I missed this info, and I think it was at the eating clubs (I had done Stevenson Hall). Not to say that I regret my choices -- they simply never appeared on my radar and so I didn't make a conscious choice.
What language do you think would be best for them/someone to move to Parrot as their base platform?

Given Parrot's very dynamic nature, a dynamic language seems like a good idea. Io would be quite interesting but it's too esoteric at this point so perhaps a more popular prototype-based language like JavaScript? What about dumping the old, crappy C-based implementation of Ruby for Parrot?
Here they go for 100€ if you sign up for a mobile internet connection. They are advertised in all phone shops, so most likely everybody has heard about them. And yeah, probably the sales increase comes basically from these devices.

About needing a real PC... Does the "average individual" really need one? :)
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An average computer-illiterate individual might not know what a 'netbook' is but he/she can see a price tag ["I can buy a computer for $300" /think bubble].
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to most paying customers, the word micropayment carries a connotation of being slowly and imperceptibly bled to death by vampires

"Most paying customers" are unlikely to have even heard the term "micropayment", let alone to have strong views on the subject.
there's a lot of criticism of the GRE. people basically point out that its only good at determining who is good at taking standardized tests, since it isn't a very good predictor of graduate school success.

its just one of those things, though. not all programs weigh it heavily.
Ask HN: What's Your Vote Worth?
What with one story about hackers trying to spoof the HN voting system through CSRF and another story today about some guy wanting to pay to get on the front page, I was wondering: what's your vote worth?

Everybody has a price. If I were to offer you a dollar to vote for my story -- let's say it's completely off-topic and anathema to HN -- would you upvote it for a dollar? Five dollars? Ten?

How about a hundred bucks? At what point does your interest in making HN a good site cease and your interest in making a buck begin?

I think my price is around a hundred bucks. Not sure though. It might depend on the topic. I'd have a hard time upvoting "Britney Spears goes panty-less in visit to Queen!"

This is an interesting question (to me) because it drives at the question "What's your reputation on a social site worth?"