skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grow a pair and fork it. You could even /GASP/ write your own!

You're not Jeff Atwood, you haven't built up a persona of being a proud idiot that can't code his way out of a paper bag without getting a blessed library from on high. You can do it yourself. You are a big boy with real tools. Do it.

It is just not difficult to poke a webserver over HTTP, especially when you have a documented and widely used interface provided to you on a silver platter.
This blog seems polemical in nature. I've read Singer's Practical Ethics, and he isn't trivializing the hunger issue inadvertently; it is on purpose. When there is a serious situation involving a split-second decision of whether someone lives or dies, you don't debate and argue.

The argument is also condescending to those being helped as though they are just taking up resources and not capable of expressing their gratitude in the form of work after receiving nourishment.
Three words: Worse is better.

Inelegant imperfect but simple design meant that Linux was more accessible to contributors and progressed quickly and hence succeeded in building a community where more complex designs have largely failed.

Perhaps products such as Xen provide a "worse is better" version of microkernels.
While the programmer is the first obvious target, I realized that the Windows framework was probably to blame.

It's not the Windows framework, it's wxWidgets, an open-source cross-platform framework.

To be fair, though, it's been designed to be like MFC.
This is handy.
How Linux killed SGI (and is poised to kill Sun)
Good point, but only employees must be paid the minimum wage. If you founded the company, you are not an employee because you direct your work. The IRS says an employee is "anyone who performs services for an organization is an employee if the organization can control what will be done and how it will be done" (http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=131137,00.html).
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Analyst: YouTube Will Lose Almost $500 Million This Year
I can't think of a single one that would justify taking down an entire datacenter like that.

It'd be like evacuating a city block because of a single resident's alleged wrongdoings.
South Korea does have the power to regulate youtube.kr. This is because .kr is a country code top-level domain and the registry for .kr domains is the National Internet Development Agency of Korea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Internet_Development_A...). There are restrictions placed on .kr domains (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kr) such as a requirement to have a local presence in South Korea, etc.

This gives South Korea power to affect youtube.kr. South Korea has no direct power to regulate youtube.com, although it would have indirect power to regulate youtube.com in South Korea via its power to threaten Google that it can take away the youtube.kr domain.
"adornment" is less confusing than "annotation"?

Oh, my alma mater is so cute.
You spent too much money. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S79831622 is $34 and requires no tools to assemble it. I believe the legs come in different heights also. I have one with an unpainted top.
Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional for unemployed developers
This site sounds pretty interesting, but every other "buy DRM-free music" site I've seen has crippling geographic restrictions (crippling to me at least, I'm in Australia). I can't find statements one way or the other on the site - does anybody know what the deal is?
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I got great press with mefeedia in the videoblogging years (2004, 2005). The press was all over it (NYT, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone etc...), and I had a service that could provide them with some numbers. That and being available (my phone nr. was on the homepage).
I haven't read the Hawking paper in question specifically, but the idea of towing a worm hole around is that you move one end of a worm hole for some period of time at relativistic speeds. Since as you approach c, time slows down, so the stationary end of the worm hole is further in the future than the one that was moved around. It's a pretty stock layman's example of how time travel could be possible and I'm sure Hawking has torn a, er, hole in it some how.
I can believe you (by your userid)! And I have been there and tried to do that - but got back to hacking, as it is way easier than filmmaking. Filmmaking is freaking difficult - its good to be creative, but making films (real films, not the youtube ones) is not for the faint of the art!
I decided to use my (art, music, film) inclination and combine my CS background to create a venture. Whether I succeed or not, is yet to be seen...
Contact me (from my profile) if you want to learn more...
Innovative marketing ...
Linux is "finished" in the sense that it works at least on some computers, in a stable enough way to let you do serious work.

There is no computer in the world you could throw at the Hurd and expect your work to not get eaten by a grue. The HURD is an unstable POS and if it wasn't enough they change their mind every few years and switch their choice of microkernel to the fashionable kernel-du-jour. From GNU Mach to L4 to debate about Coyotos to someone who's working on Viengoos.

In comparison, NeXT took the Mach microkernel, turned it into a somewhat monolithic architecture and made a commercially available OS, that was bought by Apple and is now on 10% of the consumer computers of the world. OS X is not the perfect academic OS but people are using it to do real work on it. Musicians, photographers and so on are productive with it.

I expect that in 2020 people will still talk about the HURD as the Duke Nukem Forever of operating systems.
Free drug samples for small guys. Too bad the drug quality is poor.
Great stuff man... having worked on SAP back in 1857, and now working on Ruby/Rails, it feels good even SAP is waking up. So what if they have skipped a century, I will still get a kick to see a dinosaur walking San Francisco streets!
Frankly the only reason I use it is because I don't know any better player. Not because it is that great. Any tips for good windows players?
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"Underemployed developers or ones who had to take a lousy job for whatever reason: you won't get any help from us."
Consider Nokia's WRT (Web RunTime) .. they have a JS based SDK (prototype, JQuery).
Join Forum Nokia to learn more about their offering, and their app store is releasing in May. LBS awareness, bground processing, JS/CSS based SDK makes it easier to develop on it. Though Nokia isn't that big in US, but has a bigger reach worldwide than iPhone/Android.
Our app is a rails app too, and I am considering writing my app for Nokia WRT. Apart from WRT, you can also write Symbian OS (C++) native apps, or Java, or Flash (our choice) apps.
I think it's not as bad here as in the US, but we're getting there soon with the government spying on all communcation (to conquer terrorism, as if terrorists don't know how to use a proxy...).
I think this is a brilliant move. Use up people's time, and give them an activity that benefits both your company and themselves. I see a big oportunity here for startups too!
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Sorry that sounded as snarky as it obviously did. I thought I was just drawing an analogy. Anyways...

The semantics of javascript are so different to Java (javascript functions are not like java functions everything is dynamic etc.) that you can't really expect the performance of javascript code to be comparable to Java just because it's hosted on the JVM, even if it did compile to Java byte code.

The Javascript equivalent would have to do so much more work than the Java version to support all the crazy crap you can do in javascript (ad hoc adding of properties to almost any object at any time).
The unsettling feeling I get when doing a domainname search with any of these folks is: they keep a log of domainnames that are being searched. If something is being searched upon a lot, they themselves prolly will go and buy it. And later sell it to you for a premium price!
I would rather do a whois search from Mac/Linux/Unix) commandline.
I prefered Media Player Classic in combination with the Combined Community Codec Pack on Windows (Download: http://www.cccp-project.net/)
i still much prefer mplayer. it's more powerful, very cli & keyboard friendly

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

needless to say, i have less issues playing movies & audios as compared to vlc
I use GOM player, the good the thing about GOM is that it supports external codecs along with it internal ones too, unlike VLC. So you can use the CCP with this too, although they provide most of the codecs.

The external codec thing is a benefit for me because I use the CoreAVC codecs to play H.264 encoded files which have huge resolution (1080p) on my old PC. Methinks VLC should also allow external codecs.
Amitabh releases 'Limca Book of Records' 20th edition
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Great point there ...
Suddenly this urge of the whole world to express themselves has made any Reddit too noisy. HN is still nice & clean, and thank God, is not perceived as a social platform. (love PG'c ommment there).
Reading HN is a productive part of my day, I am here to learn something useful and not care about how are you 'feeling' now or what's on your mind!
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They initially ran this promotion for students and teachers, now for unemployed developers. Why not just run this same promotion for non-commercial use (i.e. us developers that like to learn new things on our own time but that are still employed)? It would get further market penetration for flex builder which this is obviously intended to accomplish.

Even though I'm gainfully employed I'm not going to go out of my way to buy a $300 (last time I looked) tool to learn how to program ActionScript if it's not part of my daily job already. I'd like to learn it mostly for curiosity but then if it works out well maybe I'd push for it at work which is where Adobe would then make real money.

I suppose I could just lie on the form also but would rather just see them do a personal developer license promotion.
Well, that is quite obvious that Java VM is good nowadays - as Clojure creator pointed out - no matter how goofy Java The Language is the JRE and JVM are just awesome. .NET less popular but I am sure it is of comparable quality.
It's alright as an idea, might not be too great as a business depending on the demand.

You'd need decent customer service when things went wrong or if people had questions about jobs / billing, so I imagine you'd need pretty high and reasonably consistent demand to cover that, especially since the markup would probably be tiny.

If anyone once to give it a try I'd like to see how it turns out for them.
New to-do list for setting up data centers:

- Raised Floors
- Sufficient Power
- Sufficient Cooling
- Defensive Perimeters
- Tripwires and Claymores
- Attack Dogs
But since you are not deploying today, you might want to check out the current 3.0 beta provides a workaround.
So screw South Korea.

I mean, China we can understand. That's a sixth of the world's population so even if their policies are absolutely retarded; there's some sense to Google listening to them in so much as it affects the rest of the world.

But South Korea?
I love scala, as a language, and love rails, as a framework which doesn't make me thing to much - I can see how twitter would like the combo too. Even with the toolchain annoyances I think scala is pretty productive, at least it is for me.
Unfortunately it's absolute crap on OS X.

0.9.8 was more stable w/ hi-def 1080p AC3 MKV containers, 0.9.9 crashes so often that I've switched to NicePlayer for hi-def content.

0.9.8 didn't handle RM files properly (extreme skipping) however; 0.9.9 does.
"Whenever I worry about losing my personal freedoms in the US, I just look to Europe where they never even had them. Then I don't feel so bad."

I guess this is flamebait, but Europe is a diverse place of two dozen countries with their own legal systems. This diversity may well be an advantage over the US. If Belgium makes my life difficult, I can move my life and business 15 miles north to Holland, or 75 miles east to Germany or Luxembourg, across the Channel to the UK, or even 75 miles south to France, where they offer generous subsidies and tax breaks for the business that I am in. This is not a theoretical possibility - I have done it before, several times.

As to the personal freedoms you have in the US and we never had - I cannot even begin to imagine what those might be, though that could be a sign of me having grown up as a caged animal, never having tasted REAL freedom.
I am confused - his "productivity" is being able to churn out academic papers of quality - but I am not sure what that has to do with a programming language (are the papers about some concrete application?).
No need to refer to someone more successful than you as an "idiot".
Windows Media Player + KLite Codec Pack is great.

Yes, I know. WMP. It's really not that bad - what really matters are the codecs & AV processors in the background.
Sometimes all it takes is a little push
So, if I get this right, the post on a "destroyed career" was pure fiction? Marketing to push a point of view?

It seems a bit dishonest to me.
This isn't a big deal, it will just force encryption to become ubiquitous. Then the police won't be able to spy on anyone.
"Whenever I worry about losing my personal freedoms in the US, I just look to Europe where they never even had them. Then I don't feel so bad."

Not intended as flamebait. Think of all the CCTV cameras in the UK, laws against certain religious symbols in France and Turkey, and bans on board games in Germany. That stuff just doesn't happen in the US (except maybe the cameras... but speed / red-light cameras don't hold up in court very well).
This is known as destructive cost-cutting. I'd hate to work with a CEO who thinks it's better to spend hours building your own desk out of cheap materials than spend the extra $60 and have it built much more quickly, with no hassle.

What's next? "How I saved money by not buying a photocopier and copying everything by hand instead?"
What we need is a open standard for URL shorteners - where the shortener can publish the time-to-live of the URL, and other stuff (that I really don't know about, but I'm sure some netOS guys can come up with). This way they are transparent, and systems like archive.org and search engines can simply remove the layer of indirection in their systems. Of course, shorteners may not want that to happen, but there needs to be a way to gracefully transition to the direct link in long-term archives. Perhaps the system could even negotiate that time before removing the middleman.

Of course, services like Twitter could allow <a href> tags (I do not know if they do; I do not use Twitter), which would help a lot in allowing users to save space while posting links.
Wow, libxml2 workarounds! I am going to download a new version immediately! I'm so glad that there was an article about this!

</sarcasm>
The Security Implications of URL Shortening Services
REIA language designer on Twitter/Ruby/Scala discussion
I am using 2 cheap thick plastic tables (they're meant for inside sheds etc) from a local hardware store for $25 and $15 AUD respectively (one is longer than the other) and they sit in a very rough L shaped formation in one corner of my office.

It really doesn't bother me that they're foldaway equipment etc, it hold's stuff at a certain height, it's flat, it works.

I'd suggest I have twice the desk space as that door, for less than half the cost when you do currency conversions, and it took me literally about half an hour to get it all set up, which included the trip to and from the hardware store.

(they look roughly like this http://www.foldingchairs-foldingtables.com/Products/Folding_...)

People often overlook the obvious.
While I tend to agree lately twitter has been amazing. If anyone has a chance to capitalize on a userbase it's them.
Great point about Twitter never explaining why it didn't just use one of the many awesome open source message queues already in existence.
Tech consumers frustrated by Canadian roadblocks
Come now. I can go to Reddit and copy any number of headlines from there about outrageous stuff happening in the US. Perhaps something about trigger-happy taser cops, the TSA, or ever-growing prison population. Besides, as I said before, what applies to the countries you mention does not apply to all European nations.
How about this: I have two gay couples in my direct family that got married some years ago. Not 'civil union' or any of that stuff, but full on marriage, with the same rights as male-female couples. Or this: my ageing mother has determined she will want to have euthanasia under certain circumstances, and she will be able to, as it's been legal for years. Difficult for me to swallow, but it is her freedom to choose this. Another one: cannabis use - decriminalized. Have you got those freedoms in the US?

Let me be more explicit about my point: I posit that no nation on earth has the perfect legal system (not even the one with the constitution they are so proud of). Europe, with its right of free movement between nations for all European citizens, offers a unique advantage in that it allows citizens to shop around for the place that fits them best. Competition works - it made life on Earth possible, it makes capitalism work, and it keeps the nations of Europe in check.
Signs are accumulating that the industry is going to shift towards lower-budget projects because the blockbuster-centric model has become unsustainable on multiple levels - cost+time risks, a uncertain future consumer market, technology hitting a plateau of diminishing returns, and, of course, growth in online+downloadable. With lower budgets, the projects are less sexy, but also have less room for catastrophes, crunch included.

I believe that this kind of future environment is more likely to encourage sustainable practices. Studios working consoles and retail are traditionally forced towards heavy turnover because the market economics dictate it. But in a low budget and predominantly online market, a small studio suddenly has a lot of room to make an impact on their own, without leverage.

Most studios really do want to hang on to their people, and this coming decade may be when that becomes the norm.
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I Happen to Like Heroic Coding
probably not. Where he worked, programming was a tool more than a topic in itself i think.
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Any specific reason why you think Eclipse based Flex Builder is of poor quality?
I think it's brilliant, too, but it seems kind of unscrupulous... kind of a double standard, you know? I'm a working person, so I have to shell out the money, while some schmuck that lost his job can have fun without paying. But I guess that's what you get when you sell "software". You can price it and license it however you want because it costs nothing to copy.
Just so no one else has to waste time clicking through, it's just another lame April Fools joke.

Actually, I think I might have found this one funny if it hadn't been now when I'm so sick of them :p
Hell Freezes Over as Big ECM Vendors Suddenly Embrace Interoperability
What does "technical merit" even mean, without a context like the problem to be solved and the ressources available to solve it?
He suggests the following message queues:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/ - first version 8th February 2007, but the first version not to have "alpha" or "beta" status was 1.5.1 released 21st January 2009

http://memcachedb.org/memcacheq/ - version 0.1.1 released 26th November 2008

http://www.ejabberd.im/ - not really a message queue

http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/ - first public release 11th December 2007, hit 1.0 28th May 2008

http://activemq.apache.org/ - not sure when it was first released but the mailing list goes back to December 2005

The first public release of Starling (Twitter's first custom message queue) was 10th January 2008. Presumably they had it running internally for a while before they released it.

From this, we can see that when they built their own pretty much the only realistic open source option was ActiveMQ, which can hardly be described as a light-weight solution (not to mention it still doesn't have a stellar reputation under high loads). When the alternatives aren't rock solid yet, rolling your own (where at least you understand all of the code and how it works) seems like a perfectly practical alternative.
I dont think these are current.
Disagree.

You don't need frameworks. You can still use CGI.pm if you want to. But doing so will make your web app look and behave like a 1998 dinosaur, and using a framework is just so much easier, more comfortable and less error-prone.

While frameworks add complexity as far as the computer is concerned, they remove complexity as far as the human developer is concerned. I can write a web app in Ruby on Rails much faster than I could ever have with mod_perl, and the result is better-looking and easier to maintain.
Aiding is Abetting
Twitter could have, and really should have, nipped this issue in the bud when they launched by releasing an internal url shortener service + API.

Twitter should expand (or sanely expand to tiny descriptive url) when tinyurls are sent.
No crank, but you can (very easily) assemble this one at any height you want (e.g. mine is setup as a standing desk for a tall guy), and the price isn't far off from his door desk:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00115992

Plus it includes shelves, a nice cable + power strip management (hiding) system, cute hanger things for the sides for a few bucks, optional $20 drawers. They offer a wider one also if you want.
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The only DSL provider in my area is a cable company (AT&T); I think that is pretty common as the bigger companies buy up their competition.
Message queues are something the financial industry has been getting right for years (even down to custom hardware-based implementations), so the author brings a good point that it's stupid to reinvent yourself if you don't have an experience.
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I have seen Mike Arrington link to stories on HN through Twitter, so I would say that your final feeling is quite true.
Tinyurls are more than just tinyurls