skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do I think of sun-bathing as an alternative to the wasteful water-based shower?

What do I think of roofless habitat, living in nature as God/FSM intended and having sunflowers for a pillow?

What do I think of human-fur as an alternative to soul constraining fabrics that bind me in slavery to my own comforts.

Also, when dipped in animal fat, your nails can be strengthened to sharp claws for defense and excellent hunting tools.
Windows XP, released to consumers in 2001, was also granted a lifeline to ensure that it could be used on so-called netbooks - cut-down net-capable laptops that are proving very popular.

What amazes me is how good XP really was. When I look back at what I was using as "Desktop Linux" in 2001...

Aside from a few security enhancements along the way, XP seems to be evolution apogee for the MS Windows line. Don't get me wrong, the Windows 7 beta looks good, but my first thought seeing it after Vista was "ahh finally, it works as well as XP!"
Have you been forgetting Sharepoint? It is my belief that Microsoft-centric businesses will eventually move towards Sharepoint for document storage.

My suspicion is that Sharepoint and Infopath will become more popular with business users. Like the way that many companies have home-grown apps that started as Access and Excel things, and grew into "mission critical" stuff as time goes by, I suspect that SP and IP will do similar in the next decade.
I built a firefox/ubuntu point of sale once, and all it did was launch to firefox which was quite hard to get out of, and went to one url. Something like that could work.
Data Centers Work to Reduce Their Enormous Water Use
Seems fine to me. If you want the captured variable to be different each time, you need to create a new environment each time. How about this?

>>> fs = [(lambda x: (lambda n: x + n))(i) for i in range(10)]
>>> [f(4) for f in fs]
[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
>>>
Thanks for the fast replies.

Google code / github definitely make sense for open source projects. But what if the project I'm working on is not open-source ?

Any recommendations for personal hosting ?
I would call this locality rather than latency, and it's hardly hidden. In the pre-cloud world you probably wouldn't build an app that straddles two random data centers, so don't try to do the same thing in the cloud. There is an opportunity to make cloud migration easier and faster, though. For example, incremental migration (rather than bulk copying) would be a great feature.

As for "Amazon charging less to put data in than to take it out", that's a legitimate consequence of symmetric pipes with asymmetric demand.

I think the first instance of cloud peering was the link between Joyent and Facebook; hopefully we'll see more of this in the future (especially between specialized clouds).
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The future isn't predicted, it's invented.
Summary: Twitter changed their API, we didn't check properly for duplicate tweets and screwed up our database.
As a follow-on, do you have an SVN service (server provider) you recommend? Something like Google Code, but for non-open-source projects?
Kevin Rose interviews Trent Reznor
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
What's Blekko? The name not only doesn't mean anything but sounds like the sound of disgust "Blech", and blekko.com doesn't point to anything interesting.

That said, their server setup is pretty nifty.
Impromptu doesn't run on a REPL, though. It detects and evaluates whatever statement you're inside of.

Python would probably make this possible as well (if things like Reinteract are any indication).
Good example of peering! I'd missed that.

There's a difference with the pre-cloud world. When you ran your own datacenter and some new tech came along, you could buy it from many vendors and make it work (compatibility issues aside).

If all of your operations are in cloud A but only cloud B has some new thing, you cannot use it until your vendor decides to build their own. The time and cost to send data around is too high.

Amazon's pricing is justifiable but they are very aware of the implications.
Can anyone think of another operating system that has users pining for the ability to trade the new version in for the old?
http://svnrepository.com/ is pretty good.
I would guess that most of the machines that pg runs across are machines used by software producers rather than software consumers (and more specifically web software producers in young companies), and that few of these run Windows is not at all surprising
It's clear this has a market.

I did want to point out that my own grandparents are 75-ish, and use gmail just fine, and have a blog that they update regularly.

So I'm not sure if this market will be increasing, or decreasing. Over a long enough time frame, I think it probably will be decreasing, as more tech-savvy users get older.
I completely agreed with your original point. The fact that we went from your comment to people actually bitching about join made me really sad.

I shouldn't have said that the join argument was "purely aesthetic", I should have said that it was "purely aesthetic and trivial", because you're right, aesthetics are important, and (imo) are reason enough to disallow multiline lambdas. How do you cross the line from trivial to not? I don't know exactly, but I do know that swapping the position of the involved nouns and taking up the same number of characters for a good technical reason doesn't.
Just what I was looking for, thank-you!
Well, you can read about that here :
http://www.skrenta.com/2008/01/why_search.html
and here :
http://www.skrenta.com/2008/01/about_the_name_blekko.html
An estimated time to boil a liter of room temperature water and cook a sunny side up egg would have been helpful.
I should mention that growing up in North Carolina my grandfather was always known as Pawpaw to me and my family. (Or should I say kin?) My other grandfather was Papa. Made it easy to keep track of who was who :)

I've never met anyone outside the American South who could pronounce it properly.

As soon as I heard the name "PawPawMail" I knew exactly what the product was for. Excellent naming.
I knew I remembered the name blekko from somewhere.

It was a popular telnet destination in the late 90s. Not sure if it is related to this.

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2000/12/01.10.shtml
beanstalkapp.com & svnX
Good observations.

General downward trending: That's been the case with us. If I went back and corrected the first few weeks of points, I would probably assign more points to the individual tasks, moving up the first few weeks of values. Yet I tend to correct the number of points assigned to each item before I mark it as "finished", thus somewhat normalizing the value of each point.

Large spike in point values: Nah, what actually happened is that we filed many more small (1-point) bugs, rather than overestimating values of new bugs and features. Thus, after showing off the new versions and handing out alphas, we'd have more work items at smaller valuations.
Something to keep an eye on in general - a raw food diet is used and promoted in anorexia circles and can be cover for an underlying eating disorder. It can be hard on this diet to eat enough calories to be healthy. The "legitimacy" of the diet can be a way to hide an eating disorder from family and friends (when it is in fact being used to restrict calorie intake).
I think you memory is a bit selective. XP is good now after 3 service packs, and MB of upgrades. Actually it's not really good, just mature. Everyone seemed to hated it before SP2 came out. Before then security was really, really bad. If you were to put a pre-SP2 copy directly on the internet, it would probably compromised within the hour. And then Vista came out, your apps/hardware couldn't run (which is much better now BTW), and suddenly XP is the greatest thing in the world outside of OS X.
Actually, we had 24 hours to change our code to adapt to the API change, and we were able to handle it quickly before it became a problem, we didn't end up with any duplicate tweets. The point of the article is that anybody who didn't see the announcement in time didn't really have a chance. It's a public API, there's a reasonable expectation here that a bit more notice would be given to such a change.
Groan.

It's the RepRap.

AGAIN.

Google's got 93 hits on RepRap being mentioned here at news.yc.

As I've said before ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295880 )

I am dramatically underwhelmed.

The construction is shoddy, the technique (basically hot-glue extrusion of thermoplastics) is hackish and has poor tolerances, the concept of "self replication" is grossly dumbed down (a very very large number of parts are not constructed, even from high quality inputs, but just store bought), etc., etc.

In short, I was fairly embarrassed for the RepRap folks.

Their toy is somewhat cool (although nowhere near as cool as, say, the Gingery lathe that is cast from aluminum melted in a cast iron cookpot, and machines itself as construction progresses), but to claim that it represents any important step forward in self replication ...
Try this search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=comparison+"project+hosting"+...

These look good:

http://unfuddle.com

http://cvsdude.com

https://www.freepository.com
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/14/portugal/

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080
Make it run on the Wii and you have a hit.
Surely she's a developer who works on the Innards of Erlang?
Better diets = ?
Domestically... I think you're right. But what about internationally? I know lots of Indian immigrants that would love to have their elderly parents back in India using this. Is the number of computer inept grandparents with internet access shrinking or growing, globally?
I'm not going to answer all of this question, but I think Matasano is pretty representative of high-end security research firms, and we're slammed. High multiples of that 20-hours-a-week quote.

Again, I'm sure there are other fields that get similar premiums and are in similar demand.
There are also intangiable (non-physical) products you can sell.

For example, my product is a web based RPG. We use a points system, where users can purchase Brownie Points in various increments. Then they can redeem those points for various products (all of which web-site only features.)

It's an alternative to subscriptions (like Lighthouse). Where your users pay a monthly or yearly fee.
SMBs aware of security risks; still not protecting information
Michael Peachey On Open Sourcing TIBCO General Interface
The latest big news to come out of the open source world is the announcement by Tibco that they are open sourcing their award winning Ajax engine and rich web application building framework General Interface. OpenSource Release Feed spoke with Michael Peachey product manager and director of engineering at Tibco about this move.
Design is beneficially relating elements
Think of it as an opportunity. Most people probably have no idea how things are manufactured (or shipped or whatever). If you're the first one to explain something, you can get a lot of credit.
I would package this as a "desktop app" that is really just a thin shell around WebKit or System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.

Grandpa thinks it's a desktop app and has a single icon to click on, but from a development and maintenance perspective you get all the benefits of the web.
Sheryl Sandberg on Facebook's Future
I think this is an awesome idea! I am a big fan! and for those who commennted on its international appeal - as i know it, it will be available in a various languages!
A Golf Masters Rookie Lives His Dream at 39
So... what do you think of it?
28 papers on real-time and embedded Linux
You can't straighten an act that was, by design, crooked. Their whole business model was problematic.
Picwing is something like this.
since you are targeting the elderly, you should use bigger fonts
The interview is a bit long (around 45 minutes) with some fluff (what are your favorite gadgets?) but Reznor clearly recognizes in what direction the music industry and online content are going, which I found very interesting. Here's a quick summary of some of the more interesting bits:

- Reznor explains that since music is essentially free due to downloads, he doesn't feel it's necessary to require payment.

- When they offered the option to pay, only 18% of people did so. But, offering limited edition physical products worked out well.

- His feeling is that it's more beneficial for a greater number people to hear his music, even if it's for free, because the result is more ticket sales / merchandise purchases.

- They're looking to build a platform for artists to distribute their music which will give power to the artists. They're still playing with potential business models that are fair for the artist and fan.

- NIN is developing an iPhone app to connect fans by location, and will hopefully create a "live blog" of concerts for those who can't physically be there.

- They're continuing to work on Year Zero with either a serial TV show or graphic novel, which will integrate the album and ARG [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(alternate_reality_ga... ] that they produced.

- He has had some interest in live-streaming concerts, and is pushing for venues to have an open-camera policy so that fans all over the world can enjoy the experience, even if they can't physically be there.

I'm not a NIN fan personally, but it's nice to see a prominent figure in the music industry with their head on straight.
One of these projects might help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser#Software
fs = map(lambda i: lambda n: i + n, range(10))

I actually don't think this is all that difficult to explain to newcomers. It may not be the expected behavior the first time they run into it, but it's an instructive example about python scopes and name spaces.
IPhone sweeps IGF’s Mobile Games Awards
That is fascinating. Other than with solar panels, I was unaware of any other non-mechanical* method for generating electricity. I wonder what the efficiency of this would be compared to a conventional hydroelectric generator.

*Solar panels I suppose are technically mechanical because they rely on a photon striking a surface.
I think saying "Ruby is a freedom language" is a cop-out for foregoing good design.

I think some people could use that designation as a cop-out, but I don't think I'm doing that above. The point I was trying to make is that Ruby, by design, is not strictly typed and allows you to do things like metaprogramming easily. I'm certainly not trying to be an apologist for poor design.
We got this objection a lot. My father's generation has another 20 or 30 years of life expectancy given current technology. I think it's a little silly to write off a huge, underserved market because you only have two or three decades to sell to it. By that time, one ought to be able to move on to their second product.

Also, my father's generation is more used to paying for things of value compared to my generation. It could be a good market.
As my colleague Michael Hickins points out, Apple has a big order in for flash memory.

Well, yeah. Rotational storage's lifetime is pretty much over, and it is time to move on.
April Fools day was a week ago...
Ask HN: YouTube's storage system
Does anyone know how YouTube stores all their videos? Do they use a distributed file system spread across clusters? Or do they just use MySQL and store them as long blobs (< 4.2GB per blob)?
You forgot xulrunner. Firefox is just a thin shell around xulrunner, after all.
The Startup MBA
that order sounds pretty good to me. also, "employees" ought to be a subset of "shareholders", simplifying the prioritization a bit.
I seem to remember a lot of large institutions and techies kept using Windows 2000 for years after Windows XP came out.
When you ran your own datacenter and some new tech came along, you could buy it from many vendors and make it work. If all of your operations are in cloud A but only cloud B has some new thing, you cannot use it

Ah yes, this bundling is a big pain and will probably get bigger as different cloud platforms diverge. That's why I prefer as-low-level-as-possible IaaS where most of the interesting functionality is in software; this will probably never be as granular and easy to use as PaaS though.
You're misreading the article. The problem has to do with uncoordinated breaking changes to a public API. There were no problems for our apps.

Let me draw an analogy: imagine that one day before release MySQL (or pick your favorite DB) decided to deprecate and ignore the the greater than > operator on queries. No errors - it would just pretend that query clause didn't exist and return all rows for queries that used a >. How would that affect your application?

The point is that when you expose a public API it becomes a contract with your developer community. If you make a breaking change to the API you have a fundamental responsibility to effectively communicate the change and ensure that it doesn't create massive and unpredictable results for clients. In this case Twitter didn't do either.
I understand downvoting the useless and malicious, but this was a /joke,/ people. 0 is fine if you don't want it in the discussion; Negative numbers are just gratuitous.
ThinkBalm to find out the business value of immersive technologies
The Business of Golf
I was in a large up-to-date teaching hospital the other day, and all their networked PC stations were running Win 2000 with some third-party specialized hospital information systems software.
> Then create a single government-owned company that will be the only entity legally allowed to sell marijuana.

Just in case you've never been to Pennsylvania, we still have to buy wine and liquor from the single government-owned entity legally allowed to sell them that was set up at the end of (alcohol) Prohibition. These monsters have a habit of taking on lives of their own.
But I don't think standard business apps are more purposeful then porn, they are both commercial enterprises and don't have any great spiritually transcending qualities.

Well exactly. I work in online gambling, have done for 3 years now. At my interview they asked me, do you have any problem with working here? I just laughed and told them I'd been working in foreign exchange for 5 years.

Should I ever want to go back to the City, I would have no problem at all listing my present employer on my CV, indeed, I would fully expect any potential employers to be impressed (particularly since our transactions/sec dwarf most stock exchanges!)
I understand the operational difference between using $_ and $i; it's the last two examples which confuse me, because one set of closures ends up using the very last value for $i (as I would expect for an $i scoped outside the loop), and the other uses the very first (as I would not expect at all).
C++ Pitfalls
A little late... Conficker Wakes Up?
having a job is so last year.
I was going to make a similar comment. My grandparents are mid-80s and have been using email for at least 14 years. My grandmother would be insulted if someone suggested she switched to the simplified elderly email service. However, she experienced a drastic decline in vision last year and now has someone read her email to her.

The market for older people who need a different mail client because they don't know how to use email is probably on the decline. But, the market for older people who need a different mail client because their eyes are going bad or they can't type well anymore is probably on the rise.

One other comment is that PawPawMail sounds like you are marketing to grandfathers. In my limited experience, the grandmothers (and aunts, moms, daughters) send far more email.
So they changed the license because some twit deleted the LICENSE file from the repo? I don't get it.

What are the advantages to them using the MIT license over the AGPL?
The sad state of markdown processors
Digg Releases New Search Capabilities
Steve has a giant Obama button at the top right of his site. One of Obama's core platform issues is universal health coverage in the United States.

Which do you think is easier: Ceasing to incarcerate marijuana users, or running a giant new universal entitlement? This post reads less like a serious inquiry into the complications of legalization and more like an apology for the administration's maintenance of the status quo.
This is pretty cool looking - I love stuff like this. Wish there was some more examples
More likely a way to get around the social stigma attached to quoting yourself.

If he put the same quote up, and attributed it to himself, people would pay less attention to the message and spend more time dealing with their feelings regarding this stigma.

Thankfully now we have Twitter, which is an acceptable medium to post witty things you come up with, and these witticisms are by default attributed to you.
Which one is the "third" movie?
It turns out if you want to write one-sentence essays, you have to attribute them to someone else.

At the risk of exposing myself as a fool, I have to ask-- why?
It's just a friken, unsubstantiated and abnormal fad. Just like Polyphasic sleep, the master cleanse all liquid diet, and James Bond life-style advocated in the 4 Hour Work Week.

These are extremist ways to alter one's lifestyle, and it's usually done by people who want MORE than they already have, not people who are forced by circumstances to eat raw foods, or sleep 2 hours a day, or work 4 hours a week or only consume liquid diets.

And from my experience, people susceptible to these fads make for awful companions and hangout buddies. Sure, Voltaire might have advocated for the Noble Savage who lived in harmony with nature, but the SOB was writing praises to nature and animal-like living when he was himself collecting royalties, living in castles and rubbing shoulders with European nobility.
Do you play "spot the difference" puzzles? Are they too easy for you? How about sudoku?

Sorry... I'm adding on more questions! Hope they aren't too cumbersome:

are normal anagram puzzles all trivial for you?

is "where's waldo" equally easy?
Really!!

Up till now I'm the only one I know who was like that. But mine only works for proofreading -- and it seems to be declining with age :-( I used to be able to glance at a page and immediately get a feeling that "something is wrong." Then when looking more carefully I can see the misspelled words.
I don't think this is bike-shedding. That applies when people argue over two functionally equivalent options, often to the detriment of more important issues.

In this case, their objection is that it violates their intuition, but the placement of join is a natural result of how Python's types are defined. Defining join on all sequences would have real (annoying) implications.