skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, you find none to often folks using REST to solve a wide range of problems that it isn't suited for. The point of this post is to point that fact out: just because REST exists doesn't mean you have to use it. Believe it or not, this is actually a surprise to a lot of people, especially those trying to be in some way 'Web 2.0'.

Quick EDIT: I've actually seen people try to design fundamentally stateful APIs using REST. These people admit they are stateful, and that they must be stateful, yet they continue to use REST because it's what various web companies use and promote (for totally different problems).
KDE/Linux: Kate

GNOME: Geany

Windows: Notepad++

Mac: Buy Coda
Stalingrad was just pure hell on earth, to a mind-boggling degree that matches any horror of trench warfare from WWI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad

Disease, constant stress and fear of instant death, numbing cold, malfunctioning machinery, starvation... That so much dehumanizing cruelty could be concentrated on a place for so long is mind boggling.
Yes, but that is a relatively new interpretation right? Funny how religions have a way to, at least sometimes, adapt themselves, to evolve there, sometimes, core truths, yet still claim to be based on immutable facts, long time ago revealed. From a sufficiently zoomed back time scale, they seem almost agile... like startups... As I said... funny. :)
I see your point; I misread it first time around. From a security point of view for user content, nodeValue is a much better approach.
It is if you care about the 70% of people online that use IE. I doubt IEs DOM will be speeding up any time soon.
How would an IBM supercomputer fare at Wheel of Fortune or The Match Game?
Hmm, go and read chapter five of lcamtuf's book "Silence on the Wire," part of which is incidentally available as a book sample:

http://www.nostarch.com/download/silence_ch05.pdf

wherein he gives this scenario a fair analysis (discussing signal encoding schemes, timing, and a DIY kit).
Visualizing The U.S. Electric Grid
The submitted page is a directory listing for the Chicago Better Business Bureau. The directory allows business reviews. 11 people have tagged the BBB itself as 1 star, with comments indicating that they have a variety of complaints against non-BBB businesses. The working assumption is that because this listing for the BBB was the first on a search engine when looking for "Chicago BBB" or something that people, without reading any of the page to correct their misconception, decided "Oh, this is where I go to file complaints WITH the BBB". (Note to non-Americans: the BBB is a semi-official semi-impartial semi-compliance-mandatory arbitrator between businesses and consumers, which many people know, in a vague way, will listen to any complaint you have about any business and try to resolve it for you.)
But we discussed this long ago. Old news.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581212
The most interesting thing in this article is its claim that Taylor was a self-promoting fraud, which gives a whole new meaning to his status as the founder of "scientific management". If you want to understand a thing, look at its origins.
Don't encourage job submissions. I would hate to have the dice/monster/craigslist crowd flooding HN.
I believe the media, or more accurately that subset of the media who are even aware of the idea, have labeled it the "Nerd Rapture." Which, whether you find it accurate or not, is definitely a catchier phrase than the "Singularity."
Playing Video Games and Getting Paid
UK rich threaten exodus over 50 per cent tax
I found when I cut out my TV viewing I wasn't more productive. I do read more and spend more time playing my guitar, but I don't get more done. However, the big benefit for me was that I got more sleep.

Now if it is 9pm and I'm tired I go to sleep. Hell I'll go to be at 8pm if I'm feeling run down. I've eliminated the primary reason to stay up late -- note: I do occasionally go out with friends...
> Making IE users experience worse also pushes people toward other browsers

That is simply false. The average internet user should not have to make that leap of faith. They simply will think your website/app is crap and they will stop using it, because there's probably another product out there that does the same thing but actually works for them.

If you want to gain users and keep them, you do not make their experience intentionally bad.
You know how you can buy a bachelor's degree from "university of joe schmoe" or some such made up university?

I'm sure that people have done that and it has helped them get 'some job.'

If there exists an analogous scenario for an MBA, I doubt it would've helped anyone to get the job they want.

That's the distinction in my mind.
+1.

Twitter is definitely a useful communication channel, and it stands out from the rest of the fads: email, sms, tweeter. That pretty much covers all the modalities.
Windows 7 to include 'Windows XP Mode'
Broadband as a public utility: City provides 100mbps fiber, now fighting ISPs' lobbyists
Android 1.5 is here
There's new news and development every week. Check out the RepRap blog (and, if that's not high-volume enough for you, the RepRap builders blog). I guess you didn't even bother to read the original article; the development of successfully constructing printed circuits from solder is news in the last couple of weeks.

Nothing can reproduce itself, strictly speaking; there are dozens of basic chemicals that even your own body needs and can't manufacture from raw atoms: vitamins, essential amino acids, Ω3 and Ω6 fatty acids, several heavy metals, and so on.

The RepRap Darwin has already successfully manufactured all of its custom parts except for the extruder nozzle and circuit boards, leaving only a few hundred dollars' worth of common off-the-shelf "vitamin" parts to buy to build the thing. At this point, it's a matter of optimization: improving the machine's reliability, further reducing the number of custom parts (and making them easier to make), simplifying and automating assembly, and so on.

In short, your criticism is false from beginning to end. Do you feel that that sufficiently "addresses" it? (Myself, I prefer to address human beings.)

I'm not affiliated with the project, I've never seen a RepRap in person, and I'm not engaged in trying to build one.
Please, please do not start bringing 4chan memes on to Hacker News. I go here to get away from those, as they've overtaken reddit.
Is "sex" sexist? I don't see how

Again, I run screaming from the label "feminist", but I'm sufficiently well-read to understand that the first response would be "Even the title itself contains an assumption as to what external genitalia a VC 'should' have, and this is so gobsmackingly obviously sexist that people apparently don't realize its sexist at all!"
Looks like facebook just upped their ante in it's game to squash twitter.
Folding@Home is of April 2009 sustaining over 8.1 PFLOPS [1], the first computing project of any kind to cross the four petaFLOPS milestone. This level of performance is primarily enabled by the cumulative effort of a vast array of PlayStation 3 and powerful GPU units.[2]
The entire BOINC averages over 1.5 PFLOPS as of March 15, 2009[3].
SETI@Home computes data averages more than 528 TFLOPS[4]
Einstein@Home is crunching more than 150 TFLOPS[5]
i like what you are doing, i just don't understand the commericail opp when these guys do it at the univ. for free?Folding@Home is of April 2009 sustaining over 8.1 PFLOPS [1], the first computing project of any kind to cross the four petaFLOPS milestone. This level of performance is primarily enabled by the cumulative effort of a vast array of PlayStation 3 and powerful GPU units.[2]
The entire BOINC averages over 1.5 PFLOPS as of March 15, 2009[3].
SETI@Home computes data averages more than 528 TFLOPS[4]
Einstein@Home is crunching more than 150 TFLOPS[5]
Just to mention: Recently open sourced (not just open source it's free as in freedom), featured on HN, Redcar text mate like editor.
One of the guidelines nearly every publication practices for its headlines is that each one should have a verb (one thing that the BBC also does well in the above examples). The verb enables a reader to quickly grasp the "action" in the story and gives people a better understanding of the central point of the article.

Your rewrite does little more than remove the verbs, making the headlines less clear, in my opinion.
I used to work for the a casino, and as any hotel operates, the prices fluctuate based on how full we are, if it's a holiday, etc.

I would get A LOT of calls from people that would hit up the travel.yahoo.com page for our casino/hotel, see that the price was $145, and complain to me that I wasn't quoting them the price on 'your website'. I would explain over and over that travel.yahoo.com is NOT owned or operated by us, but these people would not listen. To be fair, casino patrons are not the brightest bunch...

But why is it that people are so stupid sometimes? I mean, if I put up a website that says "Larry's Business" and post a photo of "Larry's Business" and make some sort of claim about the business, why in god's name do people think that it __must__ be official? How is this any different than my writing crap on a napkin in crayon and telling them that it's the 'real deal'.

There were quite a few people that really needed to have a hammer go through the phone and knock them in the face.
Seeing yet another "X+ URL shorterning services" I felt like making a script to automatically daisychain every single one of them, then daisychain that around another three or four times.

Basically just to make a statement about how inherently useless (and fragile) URL shortening is. Because really: It is.

Instead I was lazy and did some googling. Have fun! http://u.mavrev.com/1xk7
A lot of (product) websites routinely use fixed size div containers for the markup. So if you know your audience, it is really quite simple to manually justify the text for the target browser/OS combinations. This clearly doesn't apply to expansive blog posts, news sites, forums and such, but the improvement of the visual appearance of the smaller blocks of text is very much worth the effort.
You can extract several bits of entropy per typed character from network traffic timing information. That's plenty to bring an exhaustive password-guessing attack down into the feasible range, if you have some way to know when a particular person is typing a particular password.

As a crude countermeasure, I leave about a second between adjacent characters in a password when I am typing the password over a network.
All In One Super Twitter Desktop Application
ed - ed is the standard text editor.

Barring that, emacs.
This discussion provides great source material for investigating the things you can't say, and what happens when you say them. You fall down a rabbit hole. Or rather I do, and I get very confused when I am down there.

On the face of it, Israel is a state which controls a group of non-citizens through the use of tanks, walls, and laws (they are non-citizens with the limits on legal rights that go with that).

Yet there is a group, including brilliant people, who label objections to any of these policies as anti-semitic, even when those objections come from Jews, and indeed even when they come from Israeli Jews.

It is hard to believe hearing these responses that they are "honest," because it looks so much like exactly what you would do if you had a plan to shut up your opponents. It is enough to make me question the very nature of rational discourse.

And indeed as I read this, I wonder will this comment be downvoted? And if it is, will that be because it is too political, off-topic somehow? Or will it be because the agreed upon fantasy that dictates what can and cannot be said is on the wrong side of this comment?

I would agree that anti-Israel opinions are not anti-Semitic, I would agree that anti-Pakistan opinions are not anti-Islamic. I would agree that anti-Napoleon comments are not anti-French. I would agree that anti-Nazi comments are not anti-German. I would agree that anti-Bush comments are not anti-American. etc.
I think it's working as well.

It'd be really interesting to see numbers, but I'd bet usage on facebook has gone up massively since their redesign and new emphasis on the 'stream'.
Iron Man: Update (now includes Paper Woman)
What killed Pontiac?
Neither of the answers is quite right, though. Ignoring the rest of the mass in the solar system, the answer is that they both orbit the center of their combined masses. This happens to be located somewhere inside the sun's volume, but definitely not at it's center. So neither goes around the other.

That the earth goes around the sun is a pretty good approximation of the actual phenomenon, sure, but the approximation, in it's wrongness, loses the power of the real answer to actually explain what's happening.

Pedantry perhaps, but If we want people to have a better model, let's make it the right one.
Who Cares About Majority Ownership Anyway?
"One out of two gets a rifle.
The one without follows him!
When the one with the rifle gets killed,
the one who is following picks up the rifle and shoots!"

from "Enemy at the Gates"
I try to do most of my TV watching when I'm on the treadmill or the indoor bike.
342 should have been 60
One of the things I like about the Facebook stream is that it's only viewable by my friends by default. Does this API take posts outside the Facebook realm?
The best part about the singularity is that it's always 20 years away!
I read this and was underwhelmed.I'm not a Mac hater (I used one for over a decade), but nothing on the list seemed all that compelling. The Unix base and virtualization are the most compelling reasons, but the only reason virtualizing Macs on generic x86 boxes is problematic is OS X's license.

Macs are nice machines. But if you have some other reason for using Windows (cost, compatibility, prior experience), I don't see a compelling case for switching.
More like '5 reasons why Mac is no longer impractical for developers'. I think the only absolute benefit it offers (which is driving some people to it but curiously isn't mentioned) is being able to develop iPhone/iPod apps.

Not hating on the Mac, or anything - competition is a good thing. I just didn't care for the evangelista tone.
Deploying Multiple Environments on Heroku
Iron Man Blogging Challenge
Facebook seems like it's capable of everything that twitter does, and more, and easier. It's just a matter of making it open and accessible and making it so that people actually make use of the features. It seems like they're on the right track. Twitters massive growth has shocked them into fast action.
"There are no such things as right or wrong moralities, there is only effective and ineffective moralities."

1. You started with this as a premise, and reached it as your conclusion.

2. Distinguish "right or wrong" and "effective and ineffective."
Obama pledges 3 percent of GDP for research
Ask HN: Any way to see a dead thread?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580981 is killed but with 52 comments behind it. Am I just too much of a newbie, or is there actually no way to see a thread declared dead? Can someone email me the original mwengler at gmail.com?
You always have control over that [1], and I think the default is still friends only.

[1] http://www.facebook.com/privacy/
Just turn on showdead in your profile.
it's deontologists vs. utilitarians. good luck solving that debate on the internet!
‘To Catch a Predator’:  An Invasion of Privacy Fabricated As News
Considering the economic climate, it seems like a waste not allow users to post jobs in the jobs section. I understand that users/admin do not want this to turn into a Monster.com, but if the admin only allow users with a certain amount of karma to post specifically to News.YCombinator.com/jobs this would significantly reduce spam. That is just one suggestion.

It just seems like a waste for one of the most trusted resources on the web to not allow its users to connect for one of the most important aspects of our lives--Jobs.
There is showdead flag in your profile which does this.
Right here
nice article. I have to admit, that after Apple and Intel "teamed" up I actually spent a thought on buying one, but my wallet was clearly against it since I'm a full time CS student. perhaps sometime in the future I'll buy a mac or I'll give OSx86 (http://www.osx86project.org/) a try.
Ask HN: please review Wordics, a word cloud widget
I read it, but apart from the excellent beginning I'm not sure it's well worth it. The author wants to have it both ways: he's an insider and also an ironic critic. But he never addresses his own years of involvement in the bullshit he exposes. As a result, the article becomes increasingly evasive and self-justifying, ending in a bunch of platitudes of his own.

You can't just take a bucket of irony varnish and slather it over everything and act like that makes you different.
Google’s Schmidt and Microsoft’s Mundie Appointed as Obama Tech Advisors
It is possible to run Notepad++ under Wine on Linux, but it's not the most stable.
" I'm also certain, based on 53 years of living, that people who are happy and confident tend to spread a lot more joy around than those who are resentful."

Maybe happy, confident people have more to be joyful about, and less to be resentful of, than people with less reason to be happy and confident? (That sounds like a tautology, which is kind of my point.)

If your world view is shaped growing up in the slums of Mumbai, vs. growing up in an upper middle class American and getting an Ivy League education, are you more or less likely to be happy, confident, and joyful, or full of resentment?
This sounds like what we have been waiting for, for long long time from facebook. I can't wait to get this implemented on my aggregation site, friendbinder.
I've come to like my iBook G4 more since I've been running Debian on it. The advantage, which no fanboy can dispute is this, free upgrades. I got sick of this or that not working under 10.3 (no Java updates, for example) and so I thought "I'm just not shelling out $100+ for a new OS."

I do appreciate that OSX is now an official UNIX, more power to 'em.
Don't judge a book by its cover. The article is good, very meaty.
Yet there is a group, including brilliant people, who label objections to any of these policies as anti-semitic, even when those objections come from Jews, and indeed even when they come from Israeli Jews.

Brilliant people also have self-interests.

It's my impression that debate about Israel is much more open in Israel itself than it is in the US. Here you can't utter so much as a whisper indicating that you think their current policies may be un-optimal without being slapped with all kinds of labels.
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Thw assumptions are even stronger. To actually become singular, the development must start to accelerate to eventually become infinitely faster than exponential. Otherwise you will just get growth by a constant factor in a constant time, with no singularity ever.
The other way to get a singularity is to have a quantity you divide by go to zero, like when the price society has to pay for the next development step is an increasing function of the inverse of the remaining supplies of a finite resource (like some rare earth element required for faster semiconductors or whatever). If we just continue like we did for the last few decades, this might as well be the most probable type of singularity to expect until 2045.
But that is of course nothing to build a milleniarist movement upon.
I wonder if babies and young children can acquire language quicker simply because their brain is optimally tuned for maximum language learning

The most readily noticeable part of the adult barrier to language learning, which I have run into more than a dozen times as an adult learner of a variety of languages, is acquiring sufficient phonological proficiency to speak understandably and listen with good comprehension. That's because production of the phonemes (and perception of the phonemes) of your native language(s) is based on ARBITRARY grouping of sound distinctions that are grouped differently, or entirely ignored, in other languages. Each language has its own sound system, and generally any learner who begins study of a language after puberty (especially if male) will have a noticeable foreign accent.

http://books.google.com/books?id=r2HEqsWeQTYC&pg=PA30...

But there are also more subtle problems with second-language acquisition of vocabulary and grammar. Each language groups concepts with words in a different way from any other language, and each language has grammatical rules that are wholly arbitrary from the point of view of any other language. But usually second-language speakers and writers can bluff better as to vocabulary and grammar than they can as to pronunciation.

I've often worked as a Chinese-English interpreter. I didn't speak any Chinese until age seventeen, definitely after puberty for me, but I have acquired a decent accent, not such a thick American accent that I can't occasionally pass a Chinese person over the telephone--but mostly as a southern-Chinese second-language speaker of Mandarin to other southern-Chinese second-language speakers of Mandarin. The issue of "lexicalization" (really knowing the correct word in the acquired language) really never goes away. And there are whole thick books about Chinese grammar that few Westerners have read cover to cover.

All the time and effort needed to learn a second language has given me much incentive to encourage my children to grow up as bilingual persons--but even at that it's hard to find an adequately bilingual environment to support daily use of both Mandarin and English.
You're probably right now. I started down this road in 2006 when the JavaScript VMs weren't there yet with performance. At the time, it was a night and day difference (from don't blink to good-golly-what-are-you-doing). Also, I tend to like the declarative style of templates vs. the imperative style of code for my presentation layer.
I'm not sure even in union meetings they are questioning whether abolishing capitalism would be a good idea.

Look at the coverage of Hugo Chavez in the US. He's been elected several times (and had referenda fail) in internationally monitored elections, yet coverage often puts him in the same sentence as Castro. That's what happens if you are really thinking about alternatives to capitalism.
This was from East Texas where there is no such thing as a bad patent and there is no jury award too big. Note that the two companies are within a few miles of each other and the case could have been tried in SF Federal Court, but then the SF court might have taken a reasoned approach to the case. I hope Apple appeals.
So people on the internet can manipulate a poll that was taken on the internet. Is this a big shock? No. Still makes me smile at the thought of it happening, even if 4chan and time are both hardly "the little guys" in any sense of the phrase.
"Post-term abortion" is quite a euphemism, I think that one goes beyond simple controversy to total taboo.